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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 275 257 213
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.44% 13.69% 10.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.89% 32.82% 25.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 180 133
10th Percentile £427 £406 £425
25th Percentile £475 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -0.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £700
90th Percentile £759 £800 £824
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -6.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £57.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - -
75th Percentile £75.88 - -
90th Percentile £76.40 - -
Central London median hourly rate £70.00 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -30.00% - -

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 952 783 850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.62% 41.72% 41.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 512 590
10th Percentile £353 £363 £375
25th Percentile £456 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £652 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £762 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 3
10th Percentile £19.48 £24.02 -
25th Percentile £22.67 £25.18 -
Median hourly rate £33.75 £38.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.51% +42.87% -36.47%
75th Percentile £63.68 £63.37 £59.75
90th Percentile £75.18 £96.63 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £34.65 £27.00
% change year-on-year +8.23% +28.33% -22.86%

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

AWS
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 1 August 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 15 (5.45%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.91%) Confluence
3 6 (2.18%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.45%) Apache
4 4 (1.45%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.45%) CICS
5 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.73%) nginx
6 2 (0.73%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.36%) Camunda
7 1 (0.36%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.36%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.82%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.73%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.73%) Bloomberg AIM
2 2 (0.73%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.73%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.36%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 109 (39.64%) Azure
2 62 (22.55%) GCP
3 44 (16.00%) Serverless
4 41 (14.91%) GitHub
5 39 (14.18%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (12.36%) Amazon S3
7 26 (9.45%) Snowflake
8 21 (7.64%) Power Platform
9 20 (7.27%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (6.55%) Amazon Bedrock
11 16 (5.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (5.45%) SaaS
13 12 (4.36%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (4.36%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (4.36%) Amazon Kinesis
13 12 (4.36%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (4.00%) PaaS
15 10 (3.64%) Amazon SageMaker
15 10 (3.64%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.45%) Firewall
2 14 (5.09%) DNS
3 7 (2.55%) DHCP
3 7 (2.55%) Network Security
3 7 (2.55%) VPN
4 5 (1.82%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.09%) SMTP
6 2 (0.73%) BGP
6 2 (0.73%) NGFW
6 2 (0.73%) OSPF
6 2 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.73%) SSH
6 2 (0.73%) VLAN
6 2 (0.73%) X.509
7 1 (0.36%) Multicast
7 1 (0.36%) NAS
7 1 (0.36%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.36%) VSAN
7 1 (0.36%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.91%) DynamoDB
2 18 (6.55%) NoSQL
3 17 (6.18%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (6.18%) Power BI
4 15 (5.45%) Amazon Athena
4 15 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (4.36%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (4.00%) MongoDB
8 9 (3.27%) Tableau
9 8 (2.91%) Big Data
9 8 (2.91%) Db2
9 8 (2.91%) Metadata
9 8 (2.91%) SQL Server
10 7 (2.55%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (1.82%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.82%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.45%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.45%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.45%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 28 (10.18%) GitLab
2 27 (9.82%) Git
3 26 (9.45%) Jenkins
4 21 (7.64%) JIRA
5 8 (2.91%) JUnit
5 8 (2.91%) Postman
6 6 (2.18%) Mockito
7 5 (1.82%) JMeter
8 4 (1.45%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.45%) Maven
9 3 (1.09%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.09%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.09%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.09%) Gradle
10 2 (0.73%) Ant
10 2 (0.73%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.73%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.73%) Mocha
10 2 (0.73%) webpack
11 1 (0.36%) LoadRunner
General
1 89 (32.36%) Finance
2 66 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 36 (13.09%) Banking
4 29 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (10.55%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.64%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.55%) Front Office
8 7 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.55%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.82%) Retail
10 4 (1.45%) Back Office
10 4 (1.45%) Military
10 4 (1.45%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.73%) Advertising
12 2 (0.73%) Marketing
13 1 (0.36%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (21.82%) Architect
2 46 (16.73%) Senior
3 33 (12.00%) Developer
4 22 (8.00%) Data Engineer
5 19 (6.91%) Lead
6 17 (6.18%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (5.45%) Senior Developer
8 14 (5.09%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (4.00%) Analyst
9 11 (4.00%) Java Developer
10 10 (3.64%) Senior Java Developer
11 9 (3.27%) Consultant
11 9 (3.27%) Data Architect
11 9 (3.27%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.27%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (3.27%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 9 (3.27%) Snowflake Engineer
11 9 (3.27%) Technical Architect
12 8 (2.91%) AWS Architect
12 8 (2.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.00%) Kafka
2 28 (10.18%) Spring
3 27 (9.82%) Spring Boot
4 24 (8.73%) REST
5 22 (8.00%) React
6 20 (7.27%) RESTful
7 12 (4.36%) Node.js
7 12 (4.36%) SOAP
8 11 (4.00%) .NET
9 10 (3.64%) JSON
9 10 (3.64%) PySpark
10 9 (3.27%) PyTorch
11 8 (2.91%) OpenTelemetry
11 8 (2.91%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (2.91%) TensorFlow
12 7 (2.55%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.18%) Middleware
13 6 (2.18%) OAuth
13 6 (2.18%) Web Services
14 5 (1.82%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 66 (24.00%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.45%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.91%) AI Agents
4 12 (4.36%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.91%) Clustering
6 8 (2.91%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.55%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.18%) Equities
8 6 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.18%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.82%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.45%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.45%) DataPower
10 4 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.45%) LIMS
10 4 (1.45%) Online Banking
10 4 (1.45%) PKI
10 4 (1.45%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.09%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.82%) Linux
2 14 (5.09%) Windows
3 8 (2.91%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.45%) Android
4 4 (1.45%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.45%) zOS
5 3 (1.09%) Unix
6 2 (0.73%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.36%) AIX
7 1 (0.36%) CentOS
7 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.36%) Solaris
7 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.36%) VMS
7 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (38.55%) CI/CD
2 68 (24.73%) DevOps
3 67 (24.36%) AI
4 55 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 53 (19.27%) Agile
6 48 (17.45%) Containerisation
7 46 (16.73%) Microservices
8 42 (15.27%) Analytics
9 38 (13.82%) Event-Driven
9 38 (13.82%) Migration
10 37 (13.45%) Test Automation
11 36 (13.09%) Machine Learning
11 36 (13.09%) Stakeholder Management
12 35 (12.73%) Data Engineering
12 35 (12.73%) Data Modelling
13 34 (12.36%) Observability
14 31 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
15 30 (10.91%) Software Engineering
16 27 (9.82%) Data Pipeline
17 26 (9.45%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 101 (36.73%) Python
2 58 (21.09%) SQL
3 54 (19.64%) Java
4 16 (5.82%) TypeScript
5 15 (5.45%) C#
5 15 (5.45%) JavaScript
6 14 (5.09%) PowerShell
7 12 (4.36%) Bash
8 6 (2.18%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.82%) Ruby
10 4 (1.45%) Bicep
10 4 (1.45%) Go
10 4 (1.45%) JCL
10 4 (1.45%) Korn
11 3 (1.09%) Scala
12 2 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.36%) R
13 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (22.18%) Security Cleared
2 53 (19.27%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.00%) Degree
4 7 (2.55%) AWS Certification
4 7 (2.55%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.18%) CISSP
5 6 (2.18%) PMI Certification
5 6 (2.18%) PMP
6 5 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.82%) CISM
7 4 (1.45%) CCNP
8 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.09%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.09%) PhD
8 3 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.73%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.73%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.73%) OSCP
9 2 (0.73%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.82%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (5.45%) NIST
3 13 (4.73%) GDPR
4 11 (4.00%) QA
5 8 (2.91%) EU AI Act
6 5 (1.82%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.45%) NCSC
8 3 (1.09%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.73%) EMIR
9 2 (0.73%) MiFID
9 2 (0.73%) SLA
9 2 (0.73%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.36%) GRC
10 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.36%) PMO
10 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 48 (17.45%) Docker
2 9 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.91%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.09%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.09%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.09%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.09%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.73%) NFS
7 1 (0.36%) Firmware
7 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (20.73%) Kubernetes
2 48 (17.45%) Terraform
3 23 (8.36%) Ansible
4 15 (5.45%) Grafana
5 13 (4.73%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.82%) Puppet
7 4 (1.45%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.09%) Nagios
8 3 (1.09%) vMotion
9 2 (0.73%) SnapMirror
10 1 (0.36%) Argo
10 1 (0.36%) Bosun
10 1 (0.36%) Consul
10 1 (0.36%) Packer
10 1 (0.36%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.36%) QRadar
10 1 (0.36%) Salt
10 1 (0.36%) SELinux
10 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (9.82%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.82%) Google
3 13 (4.73%) Databricks
4 11 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.64%) Citrix
5 10 (3.64%) Oracle
6 9 (3.27%) CyberArk
6 9 (3.27%) Salesforce
6 9 (3.27%) VMware
7 7 (2.55%) Splunk
8 5 (1.82%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.82%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.45%) Cisco
9 4 (1.45%) IBM
9 4 (1.45%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.45%) SAP
10 3 (1.09%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.09%) HP
10 3 (1.09%) Informatica
10 3 (1.09%) Symantec