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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 13 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS 270 243 198
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.53% 13.30% 9.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.69% 32.10% 23.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 170 124
10th Percentile £428 £400 £458
25th Percentile £475 £475 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £679 £700
90th Percentile £763 £789 £834
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
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 941 757 834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.18% 41.43% 40.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 656 505 576
10th Percentile £372 £336 £383
25th Percentile £463 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £759 £755
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.93 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +25.93% -10.74%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.75 £59.75
90th Percentile £75.35 £84.11 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £36.25 £34.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +6.62% +25.93% -10.74%

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 22 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 19 (7.04%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.59%) Confluence
3 6 (2.22%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.22%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.48%) CICS
5 3 (1.11%) Apache
5 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.74%) nginx
7 1 (0.37%) Camunda
7 1 (0.37%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.37%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.37%) SAS
7 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.85%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.74%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.37%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 110 (40.74%) Azure
2 60 (22.22%) GCP
3 46 (17.04%) Serverless
4 40 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
5 38 (14.07%) GitHub
6 36 (13.33%) Amazon S3
7 28 (10.37%) Snowflake
8 21 (7.78%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (6.30%) Power Platform
10 16 (5.93%) Amazon Bedrock
10 16 (5.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (5.93%) SaaS
11 15 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (5.56%) dbt
12 12 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (4.44%) Amazon Kinesis
12 12 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (4.07%) PaaS
14 10 (3.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.19%) DNS
1 14 (5.19%) Firewall
2 7 (2.59%) DHCP
3 6 (2.22%) VPN
4 5 (1.85%) Network Security
5 4 (1.48%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.11%) SMTP
7 2 (0.74%) BGP
7 2 (0.74%) Internet
7 2 (0.74%) Multicast
7 2 (0.74%) NGFW
7 2 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.74%) SSH
7 2 (0.74%) VLAN
7 2 (0.74%) X.509
8 1 (0.37%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.37%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.37%) VSAN
8 1 (0.37%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.30%) Amazon RDS
1 17 (6.30%) DynamoDB
2 15 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
2 15 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (5.56%) Power BI
3 13 (4.81%) NoSQL
4 12 (4.44%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (3.33%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.59%) Metadata
7 7 (2.59%) SQL Server
7 7 (2.59%) Tableau
8 6 (2.22%) Big Data
8 6 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (1.85%) Delta Lake
9 5 (1.85%) Pinecone
9 5 (1.85%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.48%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (1.48%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.48%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 31 (11.48%) GitLab
2 26 (9.63%) Jenkins
3 25 (9.26%) Git
4 20 (7.41%) JIRA
5 9 (3.33%) Postman
6 7 (2.59%) JUnit
7 6 (2.22%) Mockito
8 5 (1.85%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.85%) JMeter
9 4 (1.48%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.48%) Maven
10 3 (1.11%) Claude Code
10 3 (1.11%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.11%) Gradle
10 3 (1.11%) Selenium
11 2 (0.74%) Appium
11 2 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.37%) Mocha
12 1 (0.37%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.37%) TestNG
General
1 90 (33.33%) Finance
2 63 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 37 (13.70%) Banking
4 29 (10.74%) Public Sector
5 28 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.96%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.59%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.48%) Back Office
9 4 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.48%) Front Office
9 4 (1.48%) Military
9 4 (1.48%) Retail
9 4 (1.48%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.11%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.74%) Marketing
11 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.37%) Billing
12 1 (0.37%) Police
Job Titles
1 60 (22.22%) Architect
2 48 (17.78%) Senior
3 31 (11.48%) Developer
4 26 (9.63%) Data Engineer
5 21 (7.78%) Lead
6 20 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
7 14 (5.19%) Senior Developer
8 12 (4.44%) Analyst
8 12 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (4.07%) Technical Architect
10 9 (3.33%) AWS Architect
10 9 (3.33%) Data Architect
10 9 (3.33%) Java Developer
10 9 (3.33%) Senior Data Engineer
10 9 (3.33%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (2.96%) AWS Data Engineer
11 8 (2.96%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (2.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (2.96%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 8 (2.96%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (18.15%) Terraform
2 29 (10.74%) Kafka
3 26 (9.63%) Spring
4 25 (9.26%) Spring Boot
5 21 (7.78%) REST
6 19 (7.04%) RESTful
7 17 (6.30%) React
8 12 (4.44%) PySpark
8 12 (4.44%) SOAP
9 11 (4.07%) .NET
10 10 (3.70%) JSON
10 10 (3.70%) Node.js
11 9 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (2.59%) OAuth
13 6 (2.22%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (2.22%) Web Services
14 5 (1.85%) .NET Core
14 5 (1.85%) LangChain
15 4 (1.48%) GraphQL
15 4 (1.48%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 68 (25.19%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (7.78%) AI Agents
4 13 (4.81%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.70%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.59%) Clustering
6 7 (2.59%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.85%) CMDB
7 5 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.85%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.48%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.48%) DataPower
8 4 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.48%) Online Banking
8 4 (1.48%) PKI
8 4 (1.48%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.11%) Equities
9 3 (1.11%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.81%) Linux
1 13 (4.81%) Windows
2 9 (3.33%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.48%) Unix
3 4 (1.48%) zOS
4 2 (0.74%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.37%) AIX
5 1 (0.37%) Android
5 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.37%) CentOS
5 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.37%) Solaris
5 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.37%) VMS
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (41.85%) CI/CD
2 76 (28.15%) DevOps
3 64 (23.70%) AI
4 59 (21.85%) Agile
5 56 (20.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 45 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 45 (16.67%) Microservices
7 44 (16.30%) Migration
8 39 (14.44%) Stakeholder Management
9 38 (14.07%) Analytics
9 38 (14.07%) Data Modelling
9 38 (14.07%) Test Automation
10 37 (13.70%) Data Engineering
11 36 (13.33%) Event-Driven
12 32 (11.85%) Machine Learning
12 32 (11.85%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (11.11%) Software Engineering
14 29 (10.74%) Observability
15 28 (10.37%) Data Pipeline
16 25 (9.26%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 101 (37.41%) Python
2 56 (20.74%) SQL
3 50 (18.52%) Java
4 19 (7.04%) C#
5 18 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 17 (6.30%) TypeScript
7 15 (5.56%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.07%) Bash
9 6 (2.22%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.85%) Ruby
11 4 (1.48%) Bicep
11 4 (1.48%) JCL
11 4 (1.48%) Korn
12 3 (1.11%) Scala
13 2 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.74%) Go
13 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.37%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.37%) Rust
14 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (21.85%) Security Cleared
2 48 (17.78%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.96%) Degree
3 8 (2.96%) DV Cleared
4 5 (1.85%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.85%) PMI Certification
4 5 (1.85%) PMP
5 3 (1.11%) CCNP
5 3 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.11%) CISM
5 3 (1.11%) CISSP
5 3 (1.11%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.11%) SnowPro
5 3 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.74%) CREST Certified
6 2 (0.74%) OSCP
7 1 (0.37%) CCIE
7 1 (0.37%) CCNA
7 1 (0.37%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.04%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (4.81%) QA
4 12 (4.44%) GDPR
4 12 (4.44%) NIST
5 8 (2.96%) EU AI Act
6 5 (1.85%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.48%) NCSC
8 3 (1.11%) SLA
9 2 (0.74%) EMIR
9 2 (0.74%) MiFID
9 2 (0.74%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.74%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.37%) GRC
10 1 (0.37%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 19770
10 1 (0.37%) PMO
10 1 (0.37%) SEPA
System Software
1 45 (16.67%) Docker
2 10 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.33%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.48%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.11%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.11%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.11%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.74%) NFS
7 1 (0.37%) Firmware
7 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (20.37%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.78%) Ansible
3 13 (4.81%) Grafana
3 13 (4.81%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.85%) Puppet
5 4 (1.48%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.11%) Nagios
6 3 (1.11%) vMotion
7 2 (0.74%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.37%) Argo
8 1 (0.37%) Bosun
8 1 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.37%) Consul
8 1 (0.37%) Packer
8 1 (0.37%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.37%) Salt
8 1 (0.37%) SELinux
8 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.41%) Databricks
3 17 (6.30%) Google
4 15 (5.56%) Oracle
5 11 (4.07%) ServiceNow
5 11 (4.07%) VMware
6 10 (3.70%) Citrix
7 8 (2.96%) CyberArk
7 8 (2.96%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.22%) Cisco
8 6 (2.22%) SAP
9 5 (1.85%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.48%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.48%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.48%) Splunk
11 3 (1.11%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.11%) HP
11 3 (1.11%) IBM
11 3 (1.11%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.11%) Workday