AWS Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 11 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 275 234 240
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 13.04% 13.17% 10.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.36% 31.03% 26.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 166 171
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £546 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -0.68% -12.28%
75th Percentile £657 £655 £675
90th Percentile £795 £731 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £76.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £74.50 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of London

AWS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 877 754 902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.58% 42.43% 38.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 489 634
10th Percentile £343 £399 £358
25th Percentile £437 £463 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £660
90th Percentile £750 £738 £749
Central London median daily rate £541 £550 £539
% change year-on-year -1.59% +2.04% -6.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 9
10th Percentile £31.88 £27.65 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.44 £32.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £41.08 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% +82.56% -72.73%
75th Percentile £55.94 £83.44 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.53 £145.88 £54.95
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.30% +54.78% -57.14%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

AWS job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AWS

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the City of London over the 6 months to 23 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AWS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AWS

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 19 (6.91%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.64%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.18%) Confluence
4 5 (1.82%) Apache
5 2 (0.73%) CICS
5 2 (0.73%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.73%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.36%) Notion
2 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.09%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 124 (45.09%) Azure
2 72 (26.18%) GCP
3 44 (16.00%) Serverless
4 43 (15.64%) GitHub
5 40 (14.55%) AWS Lambda
6 37 (13.45%) Amazon S3
7 27 (9.82%) Snowflake
8 24 (8.73%) Power Platform
9 21 (7.64%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (7.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (6.55%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (6.18%) Amazon ECS
13 15 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
14 14 (5.09%) dbt
15 11 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
16 10 (3.64%) SaaS
17 9 (3.27%) Amazon SageMaker
17 9 (3.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 8 (2.91%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.27%) Network Security
2 8 (2.91%) Firewall
3 6 (2.18%) DNS
4 2 (0.73%) DHCP
4 2 (0.73%) SSL
4 2 (0.73%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.73%) VPN
5 1 (0.36%) 2G
5 1 (0.36%) 4G
5 1 (0.36%) BGP
5 1 (0.36%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.36%) Internet
5 1 (0.36%) IPsec
5 1 (0.36%) LAN
5 1 (0.36%) NAS
5 1 (0.36%) OSPF
5 1 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.36%) SAN
5 1 (0.36%) WAN
5 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (6.91%) DynamoDB
2 19 (6.91%) Power BI
3 15 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (5.45%) NoSQL
3 15 (5.45%) Relational Database
3 15 (5.45%) Tableau
4 11 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (4.00%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.00%) MySQL
4 11 (4.00%) SQL Server
5 10 (3.64%) Metadata
6 9 (3.27%) Amazon Athena
7 8 (2.91%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (2.91%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.55%) Big Data
8 7 (2.55%) DB2
9 5 (1.82%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (1.45%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (1.45%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 36 (13.09%) Git
2 22 (8.00%) GitLab
3 20 (7.27%) Jenkins
4 15 (5.45%) JIRA
5 6 (2.18%) JUnit
6 5 (1.82%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.82%) Mockito
7 4 (1.45%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.45%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.09%) Postman
9 2 (0.73%) Ant
9 2 (0.73%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.73%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.73%) Gatling
9 2 (0.73%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.73%) Mocha
9 2 (0.73%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.73%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.73%) webpack
10 1 (0.36%) ERwin
General
1 95 (34.55%) Finance
2 64 (23.27%) Social Skills
3 42 (15.27%) Banking
4 25 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 24 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.09%) Financial Institution
7 12 (4.36%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (4.00%) Front Office
9 10 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.91%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.09%) Back Office
12 3 (1.09%) Retail
13 2 (0.73%) Advertising
13 2 (0.73%) Law
13 2 (0.73%) Legal
13 2 (0.73%) Marketing
13 2 (0.73%) Military
13 2 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (21.45%) Architect
2 40 (14.55%) Developer
3 37 (13.45%) Senior
4 26 (9.45%) Data Engineer
4 26 (9.45%) Lead
5 20 (7.27%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (6.18%) AWS Engineer
6 17 (6.18%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (4.36%) Project Manager
7 12 (4.36%) Python Engineer
8 11 (4.00%) Senior Developer
9 10 (3.64%) AWS Architect
9 10 (3.64%) Java Developer
9 10 (3.64%) Migration Manager
9 10 (3.64%) Migration Project Manager
10 9 (3.27%) Data Scientist
10 9 (3.27%) Security Architect
11 8 (2.91%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (2.91%) Enterprise Architect
11 8 (2.91%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (10.55%) Kafka
2 21 (7.64%) React
3 20 (7.27%) REST
4 17 (6.18%) RESTful
5 16 (5.82%) Node.js
6 15 (5.45%) Spring
7 14 (5.09%) Spring Boot
8 12 (4.36%) .NET
9 10 (3.64%) PyTorch
9 10 (3.64%) scikit-learn
10 9 (3.27%) AngularJS
10 9 (3.27%) TensorFlow
11 8 (2.91%) JSON
11 8 (2.91%) OAuth
11 8 (2.91%) Pandas
12 7 (2.55%) boto
12 7 (2.55%) HTML
12 7 (2.55%) NumPy
12 7 (2.55%) OpenTelemetry
12 7 (2.55%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 56 (20.36%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.09%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (4.73%) Algorithms
5 10 (3.64%) Equities
5 10 (3.64%) Security Posture
6 8 (2.91%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.91%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.91%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.55%) Derivative
7 7 (2.55%) Virtual Team
8 6 (2.18%) Clustering
8 6 (2.18%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.82%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.45%) LIMS
11 3 (1.09%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.09%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.73%) Linux
1 13 (4.73%) Windows
2 3 (1.09%) Android
2 3 (1.09%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.09%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.73%) Data ONTAP
3 2 (0.73%) Unix
3 2 (0.73%) zOS
4 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 63 (22.91%) DevOps
3 60 (21.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 59 (21.45%) Agile
4 59 (21.45%) AI
5 42 (15.27%) Analytics
5 42 (15.27%) Migration
6 41 (14.91%) Microservices
7 40 (14.55%) Machine Learning
8 39 (14.18%) Containerisation
9 38 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (13.82%) Stakeholder Management
10 35 (12.73%) Data Pipeline
11 34 (12.36%) Data Modelling
12 32 (11.64%) Roadmaps
12 32 (11.64%) Test Automation
13 31 (11.27%) Data Engineering
13 31 (11.27%) Observability
13 31 (11.27%) Software Engineering
14 29 (10.55%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 112 (40.73%) Python
2 80 (29.09%) SQL
3 52 (18.91%) Java
4 15 (5.45%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.36%) TypeScript
6 8 (2.91%) C#
7 6 (2.18%) Bash
7 6 (2.18%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.82%) Ruby
8 5 (1.82%) Scala
9 4 (1.45%) Go
9 4 (1.45%) PHP
9 4 (1.45%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.09%) Korn
10 3 (1.09%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.73%) C++
11 2 (0.73%) JCL
11 2 (0.73%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.73%) R
12 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 57 (20.73%) Security Cleared
2 54 (19.64%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.09%) Degree
4 10 (3.64%) AWS Certification
4 10 (3.64%) PMI Certification
4 10 (3.64%) PMP
5 7 (2.55%) CISSP
5 7 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.45%) CISM
7 4 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.09%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.09%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.09%) PhD
8 3 (1.09%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.73%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.36%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.82%) Data Quality
2 23 (8.36%) GDPR
3 21 (7.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (6.18%) NIST
5 9 (3.27%) QA
6 8 (2.91%) SLA
7 7 (2.55%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.73%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.73%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.73%) GRC
8 2 (0.73%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.73%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.73%) NCSC
8 2 (0.73%) PSD2
8 2 (0.73%) SEPA
9 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.36%) DICOM
9 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.36%) HL7
9 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
System Software
1 52 (18.91%) Docker
2 3 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.73%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.73%) NFS
3 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.73%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.73%) vSphere
4 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 60 (21.82%) Terraform
2 46 (16.73%) Kubernetes
3 19 (6.91%) Ansible
4 11 (4.00%) Grafana
5 7 (2.55%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.09%) Argo
6 3 (1.09%) Karpenter
6 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.73%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.36%) CASB
8 1 (0.36%) Istio
8 1 (0.36%) Kibana
8 1 (0.36%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.36%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.36%) QRadar
8 1 (0.36%) SCCM
8 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.36%) vRealize
8 1 (0.36%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 29 (10.55%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.55%) Oracle
3 17 (6.18%) Databricks
4 13 (4.73%) Google
5 11 (4.00%) CyberArk
5 11 (4.00%) IBM
6 8 (2.91%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.55%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.55%) Splunk
8 6 (2.18%) Informatica
9 5 (1.82%) VMware
10 4 (1.45%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.45%) SAP
11 3 (1.09%) AppDynamics
11 3 (1.09%) Bloomberg
11 3 (1.09%) Charles River
11 3 (1.09%) Cognos
11 3 (1.09%) Confluent
11 3 (1.09%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.09%) Sage