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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 12 15
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 257 228 204
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.77% 13.10% 9.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.52% 32.43% 24.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 161 127
10th Percentile £433 £363 £425
25th Percentile £481 £480 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +1.74% -3.36%
75th Percentile £712 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £843
Central London median daily rate £575 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -1.71% +1.74% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £56.00 - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile £74.00 - -
Central London median hourly rate £65.00 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -35.00% - -

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 901 703 833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.27% 40.40% 39.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 500 546
10th Percentile £350 £340 £392
25th Percentile £456 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +0.45%
75th Percentile £660 £668 £675
90th Percentile £763 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £560
% change year-on-year - -1.79% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 3
10th Percentile £18.33 £23.03 -
25th Percentile £20.25 £28.06 -
Median hourly rate £23.58 £38.25 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.35% +41.67% +30.12%
75th Percentile £38.69 £63.37 £59.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £89.88 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £38.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.57% +9.29% +68.67%

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 4 October 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 20 (7.78%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.89%) Confluence
3 9 (3.50%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.33%) Apache
5 5 (1.95%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.78%) nginx
7 2 (0.78%) SAS
8 1 (0.39%) CICS
8 1 (0.39%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.39%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.39%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.78%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.39%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 112 (43.58%) Azure
2 60 (23.35%) GCP
3 40 (15.56%) Serverless
4 37 (14.40%) GitHub
5 34 (13.23%) AWS Lambda
6 31 (12.06%) Amazon S3
7 30 (11.67%) Snowflake
8 23 (8.95%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (7.00%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (6.61%) Amazon Bedrock
10 17 (6.61%) dbt
11 14 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (5.06%) Power Platform
12 13 (5.06%) SaaS
13 12 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (4.28%) OpenShift
15 10 (3.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (3.89%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (3.50%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (3.50%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.23%) DNS
2 15 (5.84%) Firewall
3 10 (3.89%) VPN
4 9 (3.50%) DHCP
5 6 (2.33%) BGP
6 5 (1.95%) Network Security
6 5 (1.95%) OSPF
6 5 (1.95%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.56%) VLAN
8 3 (1.17%) MPLS
8 3 (1.17%) Multicast
8 3 (1.17%) NGFW
8 3 (1.17%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.17%) SMTP
8 3 (1.17%) WAN
8 3 (1.17%) Wireless
9 2 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.78%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.78%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.78%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.61%) Amazon RDS
1 17 (6.61%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (6.23%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.67%) Power BI
4 10 (3.89%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (3.89%) Metadata
5 9 (3.50%) NoSQL
6 8 (3.11%) Delta Lake
6 8 (3.11%) SQL Server
7 7 (2.72%) Big Data
7 7 (2.72%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.72%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.33%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.95%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.95%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.56%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (1.56%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (11.28%) GitLab
2 28 (10.89%) Jenkins
3 22 (8.56%) Git
4 20 (7.78%) JIRA
5 9 (3.50%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.72%) Postman
7 6 (2.33%) JMeter
7 6 (2.33%) JUnit
8 5 (1.95%) Mockito
9 4 (1.56%) Maven
10 3 (1.17%) Claude Code
10 3 (1.17%) Selenium
11 2 (0.78%) Appium
11 2 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.78%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.78%) Gatling
11 2 (0.78%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.78%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.39%) HP UFT
General
1 95 (36.96%) Finance
2 63 (24.51%) Social Skills
3 42 (16.34%) Banking
4 35 (13.62%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (9.34%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.50%) Back Office
6 9 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.50%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.33%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.33%) Front Office
7 6 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.95%) Military
8 5 (1.95%) Retail
9 4 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.17%) Billing
10 3 (1.17%) General Ledger
10 3 (1.17%) Marketing
10 3 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.17%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 65 (25.29%) Architect
2 52 (20.23%) Senior
3 26 (10.12%) Data Engineer
4 24 (9.34%) AWS Engineer
5 23 (8.95%) Lead
6 22 (8.56%) Developer
7 16 (6.23%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (5.06%) Senior Data Engineer
9 12 (4.67%) Data Architect
10 11 (4.28%) Analyst
10 11 (4.28%) AWS Data Engineer
10 11 (4.28%) Senior Developer
11 10 (3.89%) AWS Architect
12 9 (3.50%) Cloud Architect
13 7 (2.72%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (2.72%) Data Analyst
13 7 (2.72%) Java Developer
13 7 (2.72%) Senior Architect
13 7 (2.72%) Technical Architect
13 7 (2.72%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (21.01%) Terraform
2 26 (10.12%) REST
3 23 (8.95%) Kafka
4 20 (7.78%) Spring
5 19 (7.39%) Spring Boot
6 12 (4.67%) .NET
7 11 (4.28%) PySpark
7 11 (4.28%) RESTful
7 11 (4.28%) SOAP
8 10 (3.89%) React
9 9 (3.50%) ActiveMQ
10 8 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (3.11%) Web Services
11 7 (2.72%) .NET Core
11 7 (2.72%) JSON
11 7 (2.72%) OAuth
12 6 (2.33%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.33%) LangChain
12 6 (2.33%) Middleware
12 6 (2.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 66 (25.68%) Cloud Native
2 26 (10.12%) AI Agents
3 19 (7.39%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.84%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.28%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.72%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.95%) CMDB
8 5 (1.95%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.95%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.56%) PKI
9 4 (1.56%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.56%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (1.17%) Clustering
10 3 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.84%) Linux
2 14 (5.45%) Windows
3 10 (3.89%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.95%) Unix
5 2 (0.78%) CentOS
6 1 (0.39%) AIX
6 1 (0.39%) Android
6 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.39%) Solaris
6 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.39%) VMS
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (43.58%) CI/CD
2 69 (26.85%) DevOps
3 65 (25.29%) AI
4 59 (22.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 49 (19.07%) Agile
6 47 (18.29%) Migration
7 44 (17.12%) Stakeholder Management
8 40 (15.56%) Containerisation
8 40 (15.56%) Data Engineering
9 38 (14.79%) Analytics
10 37 (14.40%) Data Modelling
11 36 (14.01%) Microservices
12 34 (13.23%) Observability
13 33 (12.84%) Event-Driven
13 33 (12.84%) Test Automation
14 30 (11.67%) Software Engineering
15 29 (11.28%) Machine Learning
15 29 (11.28%) Roadmaps
16 28 (10.89%) Data Pipeline
16 28 (10.89%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 90 (35.02%) Python
2 56 (21.79%) SQL
3 42 (16.34%) Java
4 20 (7.78%) PowerShell
5 16 (6.23%) C#
6 15 (5.84%) JavaScript
7 13 (5.06%) TypeScript
8 12 (4.67%) Bash
9 5 (1.95%) Korn
10 3 (1.17%) Bicep
10 3 (1.17%) Ruby
10 3 (1.17%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.78%) Go
11 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.78%) Scala
12 1 (0.39%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.39%) JCL
12 1 (0.39%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (19.46%) Security Cleared
2 36 (14.01%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.50%) AWS Certification
3 9 (3.50%) Degree
3 9 (3.50%) DV Cleared
4 5 (1.95%) TOGAF Certification
5 4 (1.56%) PMI Certification
5 4 (1.56%) PMP
6 3 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.17%) CCNP
6 3 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.17%) CISSP
6 3 (1.17%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.17%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.78%) CCIE
7 2 (0.78%) CISM
7 2 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.78%) CREST Certified
7 2 (0.78%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.12%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.50%) QA
4 8 (3.11%) EU AI Act
5 7 (2.72%) NIST
6 6 (2.33%) GDPR
7 4 (1.56%) NCSC
7 4 (1.56%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.17%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.17%) SEPA
9 2 (0.78%) EMIR
9 2 (0.78%) MiFID
9 2 (0.78%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.78%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.39%) GRC
10 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.39%) PSD2
10 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (14.40%) Docker
2 9 (3.50%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.56%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.17%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.17%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.17%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.39%) Firmware
5 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (21.01%) Kubernetes
2 26 (10.12%) Ansible
3 12 (4.67%) Grafana
4 11 (4.28%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.95%) Puppet
6 4 (1.56%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.17%) Nagios
7 3 (1.17%) vMotion
8 2 (0.78%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.39%) Bosun
9 1 (0.39%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.39%) Netcool
9 1 (0.39%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.39%) Salt
9 1 (0.39%) SCCM
9 1 (0.39%) SELinux
9 1 (0.39%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.39%) Tivoli Monitoring
9 1 (0.39%) WSUS
Vendors
1 33 (12.84%) Microsoft
2 28 (10.89%) Databricks
3 18 (7.00%) Google
4 16 (6.23%) Oracle
5 11 (4.28%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.89%) Cisco
6 10 (3.89%) VMware
7 8 (3.11%) Citrix
7 8 (3.11%) Fortinet
7 8 (3.11%) Palo Alto
8 7 (2.72%) SAP
9 6 (2.33%) IBM
10 5 (1.95%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.95%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.95%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.56%) OpenAI
12 3 (1.17%) F5
12 3 (1.17%) HP
12 3 (1.17%) Splunk
12 3 (1.17%) Workday