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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 278 248 233
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 12.52% 14.04% 10.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.96% 32.46% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 170 169
10th Percentile £366 £413 £411
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £653 £662 £678
90th Percentile £775 £721 £778
Central London median daily rate £543 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.36% - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £65.73 - -
25th Percentile £66.81 - -
Median hourly rate £72.25 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.75% - -
75th Percentile £76.31 - -
90th Percentile £76.58 - -
Central London median hourly rate £72.25 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -27.75% - -

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 898 764 867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.43% 43.26% 38.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 492 612
10th Percentile £350 £389 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £554 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +0.71% -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £671 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £761
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -2.27% +2.23% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 8
10th Percentile £33.72 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.53 £29.64 £17.39
Median hourly rate £48.22 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% +88.89% -72.99%
75th Percentile £63.54 £74.38 £32.81
90th Percentile £75.53 £135.00 £57.30
Central London median hourly rate £40.64 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.70% +54.78% -66.67%

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 18 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the City of London

AWS
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 (6.83%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.52%) Apache
2 7 (2.52%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.16%) Confluence
4 4 (1.44%) CICS
5 3 (1.08%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.72%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.36%) Camunda
7 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.36%) nginx
7 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.36%) Notion
1 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.08%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.72%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 123 (44.24%) Azure
2 69 (24.82%) GCP
3 48 (17.27%) Serverless
4 43 (15.47%) AWS Lambda
5 42 (15.11%) GitHub
6 40 (14.39%) Amazon S3
7 25 (8.99%) Snowflake
8 22 (7.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (7.55%) Power Platform
10 20 (7.19%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (6.47%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (5.76%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (4.68%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (4.68%) Amazon SageMaker
13 13 (4.68%) SaaS
14 11 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (3.96%) dbt
15 10 (3.60%) Amazon Kinesis
16 8 (2.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.96%) Firewall
2 9 (3.24%) Network Security
3 6 (2.16%) DNS
4 3 (1.08%) VPN
5 2 (0.72%) NAS
5 2 (0.72%) SAN
5 2 (0.72%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.36%) BGP
6 1 (0.36%) DHCP
6 1 (0.36%) IPsec
6 1 (0.36%) LAN
6 1 (0.36%) OSPF
6 1 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.36%) SSL
6 1 (0.36%) VLAN
6 1 (0.36%) WAN
6 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.27%) DynamoDB
2 21 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (6.47%) NoSQL
4 16 (5.76%) Power BI
5 14 (5.04%) Tableau
6 12 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (4.32%) Metadata
6 12 (4.32%) MongoDB
7 11 (3.96%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (3.96%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (3.96%) Relational Database
8 10 (3.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (3.60%) SQL Server
9 9 (3.24%) Data Lake
9 9 (3.24%) DB2
10 6 (2.16%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (2.16%) MySQL
11 5 (1.80%) Big Data
11 5 (1.80%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (1.44%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 34 (12.23%) Git
2 24 (8.63%) GitLab
3 18 (6.47%) Jenkins
3 18 (6.47%) JIRA
4 6 (2.16%) JUnit
5 5 (1.80%) Mockito
6 4 (1.44%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.44%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.08%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.08%) Gradle
7 3 (1.08%) Maven
7 3 (1.08%) Postman
8 2 (0.72%) Ant
8 2 (0.72%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.72%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.72%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.72%) Gatling
8 2 (0.72%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.72%) Mocha
8 2 (0.72%) webpack
General
1 91 (32.73%) Finance
2 65 (23.38%) Social Skills
3 37 (13.31%) Banking
4 30 (10.79%) Public Sector
5 20 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.32%) Financial Institution
7 11 (3.96%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.88%) Front Office
9 8 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.52%) Investment Banking
11 6 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.08%) Back Office
12 3 (1.08%) Law
12 3 (1.08%) Military
13 2 (0.72%) Advertising
13 2 (0.72%) Marketing
13 2 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.72%) Retail
13 2 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (21.22%) Architect
2 39 (14.03%) Developer
3 33 (11.87%) Senior
4 29 (10.43%) Data Engineer
5 24 (8.63%) Lead
6 19 (6.83%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (5.04%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (4.68%) Project Manager
10 11 (3.96%) Java Developer
10 11 (3.96%) Migration Manager
10 11 (3.96%) Migration Project Manager
10 11 (3.96%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 11 (3.96%) Snowflake Engineer
11 10 (3.60%) Data Scientist
12 9 (3.24%) AWS Architect
12 9 (3.24%) Consultant
12 9 (3.24%) Senior Developer
12 9 (3.24%) Software Engineer
13 8 (2.88%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (10.43%) Kafka
2 23 (8.27%) React
3 22 (7.91%) Spring
4 21 (7.55%) Spring Boot
5 20 (7.19%) REST
6 19 (6.83%) RESTful
7 16 (5.76%) Node.js
8 11 (3.96%) JSON
9 9 (3.24%) .NET
9 9 (3.24%) OpenTelemetry
9 9 (3.24%) PyTorch
10 8 (2.88%) OAuth
10 8 (2.88%) PySpark
10 8 (2.88%) scikit-learn
10 8 (2.88%) SOAP
11 7 (2.52%) AngularJS
11 7 (2.52%) boto
11 7 (2.52%) Pandas
11 7 (2.52%) TensorFlow
12 6 (2.16%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 61 (21.94%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.63%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.04%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.60%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.24%) Equities
5 9 (3.24%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.88%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.52%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.52%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.16%) Clustering
8 6 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.80%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.80%) Derivative
9 5 (1.80%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.80%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.80%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.44%) DataPower
10 4 (1.44%) LIMS
10 4 (1.44%) NHS
10 4 (1.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.76%) Linux
2 13 (4.68%) Windows
3 4 (1.44%) Android
3 4 (1.44%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.44%) zOS
4 3 (1.08%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.72%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (0.72%) Unix
6 1 (0.36%) AIX
6 1 (0.36%) CentOS
6 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.36%) Solaris
6 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (38.49%) CI/CD
2 69 (24.82%) DevOps
3 63 (22.66%) AI
3 63 (22.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (22.30%) Agile
5 48 (17.27%) Migration
6 45 (16.19%) Microservices
7 44 (15.83%) Analytics
8 41 (14.75%) Containerisation
8 41 (14.75%) Machine Learning
9 38 (13.67%) Stakeholder Management
10 35 (12.59%) Data Pipeline
10 35 (12.59%) Observability
11 33 (11.87%) Data Modelling
11 33 (11.87%) Event-Driven
12 31 (11.15%) Data Engineering
12 31 (11.15%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (11.15%) Software Engineering
13 30 (10.79%) Test Automation
14 28 (10.07%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 109 (39.21%) Python
2 72 (25.90%) SQL
3 54 (19.42%) Java
4 13 (4.68%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.32%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.24%) Bash
6 9 (3.24%) C#
7 7 (2.52%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.80%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.80%) Ruby
8 5 (1.80%) Scala
9 4 (1.44%) JCL
10 3 (1.08%) Bicep
10 3 (1.08%) Go
10 3 (1.08%) Korn
10 3 (1.08%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.72%) PHP
11 2 (0.72%) R
12 1 (0.36%) C
12 1 (0.36%) C++
Qualifications
1 65 (23.38%) Security Cleared
2 61 (21.94%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.96%) Degree
3 11 (3.96%) PMI Certification
3 11 (3.96%) PMP
4 8 (2.88%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.16%) CISSP
6 5 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.44%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.44%) CISM
7 4 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.08%) PhD
8 3 (1.08%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.72%) CCNP
9 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.72%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.35%) Data Quality
2 24 (8.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (8.27%) GDPR
4 21 (7.55%) NIST
5 8 (2.88%) QA
5 8 (2.88%) SLA
6 7 (2.52%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.80%) NCSC
8 3 (1.08%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.72%) GRC
9 2 (0.72%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.72%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.72%) PSD2
9 2 (0.72%) SEPA
10 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.36%) DICOM
10 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.36%) HL7
10 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 50 (17.99%) Docker
2 4 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.08%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.72%) NFS
4 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (20.86%) Terraform
2 49 (17.63%) Kubernetes
3 18 (6.47%) Ansible
4 14 (5.04%) Grafana
5 11 (3.96%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.08%) Argo
6 3 (1.08%) Karpenter
6 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.72%) Puppet
7 2 (0.72%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.36%) CASB
8 1 (0.36%) Consul
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%) Salt
8 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (8.63%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.12%) Databricks
3 14 (5.04%) Google
4 13 (4.68%) Oracle
5 12 (4.32%) CyberArk
6 10 (3.60%) IBM
7 7 (2.52%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.52%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.52%) Splunk
8 5 (1.80%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.80%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.80%) VMware
9 4 (1.44%) Citrix
9 4 (1.44%) Informatica
9 4 (1.44%) SAP
10 3 (1.08%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.08%) Charles River
10 3 (1.08%) Cognos
10 3 (1.08%) Confluent
10 3 (1.08%) Sage