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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 11 15
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 264 228 200
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.75% 13.01% 9.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.45% 32.29% 23.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 160 124
10th Percentile £425 £410 £425
25th Percentile £481 £479 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £697 £688 £700
90th Percentile £771 £800 £834
Central London median daily rate £553 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.56% +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 928 706 851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.30% 40.27% 40.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 663 489 563
10th Percentile £363 £332 £377
25th Percentile £456 £434 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% -1.75%
75th Percentile £656 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £751 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £557
% change year-on-year - -1.17% -1.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.75 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.71 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +25.93% +30.12%
75th Percentile £41.25 £61.16 £59.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £88.75 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% +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

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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 18 September 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 22 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.41%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.41%) Confluence
3 7 (2.65%) Apache
4 5 (1.89%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.76%) CICS
6 2 (0.76%) nginx
6 2 (0.76%) SAS
7 1 (0.38%) Camunda
7 1 (0.38%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.38%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.38%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.76%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.38%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.38%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 113 (42.80%) Azure
2 61 (23.11%) GCP
3 41 (15.53%) Serverless
4 39 (14.77%) GitHub
5 37 (14.02%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (12.88%) Amazon S3
7 30 (11.36%) Snowflake
8 24 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (6.82%) dbt
10 17 (6.44%) Amazon Bedrock
11 15 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (5.68%) SaaS
12 14 (5.30%) Amazon Kinesis
13 13 (4.92%) Power Platform
14 12 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (3.79%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (3.79%) OpenShift
16 9 (3.41%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.06%) DNS
1 16 (6.06%) Firewall
2 9 (3.41%) DHCP
2 9 (3.41%) VPN
3 6 (2.27%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.89%) BGP
5 4 (1.52%) Network Security
5 4 (1.52%) OSPF
5 4 (1.52%) VLAN
6 3 (1.14%) MPLS
6 3 (1.14%) Multicast
6 3 (1.14%) SMTP
7 2 (0.76%) Internet
7 2 (0.76%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.76%) IPsec
7 2 (0.76%) SSH
7 2 (0.76%) WAN
7 2 (0.76%) Wireless
7 2 (0.76%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.76%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
1 18 (6.82%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (6.06%) Amazon Athena
3 13 (4.92%) NoSQL
4 12 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (4.55%) Power BI
5 11 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (4.17%) DynamoDB
6 10 (3.79%) Metadata
7 8 (3.03%) Delta Lake
7 8 (3.03%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.65%) Big Data
8 7 (2.65%) SQL Server
9 6 (2.27%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.27%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.89%) Amazon QuickSight
10 5 (1.89%) Pinecone
10 5 (1.89%) Tableau
11 4 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (11.36%) GitLab
2 27 (10.23%) Jenkins
3 23 (8.71%) Git
4 19 (7.20%) JIRA
5 9 (3.41%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.65%) Postman
7 6 (2.27%) JMeter
7 6 (2.27%) JUnit
7 6 (2.27%) Maven
8 5 (1.89%) Mockito
9 3 (1.14%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.14%) Gradle
9 3 (1.14%) Selenium
10 2 (0.76%) Appium
10 2 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.76%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.76%) Gatling
10 2 (0.76%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.76%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.38%) HP UFT
General
1 94 (35.61%) Finance
2 66 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 41 (15.53%) Banking
4 35 (13.26%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (10.61%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.65%) Back Office
7 7 (2.65%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.89%) Front Office
9 5 (1.89%) Military
9 5 (1.89%) Retail
10 4 (1.52%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.52%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.14%) Billing
11 3 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.14%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.14%) Marketing
11 3 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (22.35%) Architect
2 54 (20.45%) Senior
3 29 (10.98%) Data Engineer
4 27 (10.23%) Developer
5 24 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
6 23 (8.71%) Lead
7 13 (4.92%) Senior Data Engineer
7 13 (4.92%) Senior Developer
8 12 (4.55%) Analyst
8 12 (4.55%) Data Architect
8 12 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (4.17%) AWS Data Engineer
10 8 (3.03%) AWS Architect
10 8 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (3.03%) Consultant
10 8 (3.03%) Data Analyst
10 8 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (3.03%) Java Developer
10 8 (3.03%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (3.03%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (20.45%) Terraform
2 29 (10.98%) Kafka
3 25 (9.47%) REST
3 25 (9.47%) Spring
4 24 (9.09%) Spring Boot
5 14 (5.30%) RESTful
6 12 (4.55%) .NET
6 12 (4.55%) PySpark
6 12 (4.55%) React
6 12 (4.55%) SOAP
7 10 (3.79%) RabbitMQ
8 9 (3.41%) Node.js
9 8 (3.03%) ActiveMQ
10 7 (2.65%) .NET Core
10 7 (2.65%) JSON
11 6 (2.27%) LangChain
11 6 (2.27%) OAuth
11 6 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (2.27%) Web Services
12 5 (1.89%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 72 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.71%) AI Agents
3 21 (7.95%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (6.06%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.17%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.27%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.89%) Clustering
7 5 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.52%) CMDB
8 4 (1.52%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.52%) PKI
8 4 (1.52%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.52%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 3 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.30%) Linux
2 12 (4.55%) Windows
3 9 (3.41%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.52%) Unix
5 2 (0.76%) zOS
6 1 (0.38%) AIX
6 1 (0.38%) Android
6 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.38%) CentOS
6 1 (0.38%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.38%) Solaris
6 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.38%) VMS
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (45.08%) CI/CD
2 75 (28.41%) DevOps
3 65 (24.62%) AI
4 59 (22.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 53 (20.08%) Agile
6 47 (17.80%) Containerisation
7 45 (17.05%) Microservices
8 44 (16.67%) Data Engineering
8 44 (16.67%) Migration
9 43 (16.29%) Analytics
9 43 (16.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 40 (15.15%) Event-Driven
11 39 (14.77%) Data Modelling
12 33 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
12 33 (12.50%) Test Automation
13 32 (12.12%) Observability
13 32 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (11.74%) Software Engineering
15 30 (11.36%) Machine Learning
16 28 (10.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 97 (36.74%) Python
2 57 (21.59%) SQL
3 48 (18.18%) Java
4 18 (6.82%) C#
5 16 (6.06%) PowerShell
6 15 (5.68%) TypeScript
7 14 (5.30%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.55%) Bash
9 4 (1.52%) Bicep
9 4 (1.52%) Korn
9 4 (1.52%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.14%) Ruby
10 3 (1.14%) Scala
11 2 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.76%) Go
11 2 (0.76%) JCL
11 2 (0.76%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.38%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.38%) R
12 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (20.08%) Security Cleared
2 40 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.41%) Degree
3 9 (3.41%) DV Cleared
4 8 (3.03%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (1.52%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.52%) PMP
7 3 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.14%) CCNP
7 3 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.14%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.14%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.76%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.76%) CISM
8 2 (0.76%) CISSP
8 2 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.76%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.76%) OSCP
8 2 (0.76%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.98%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.92%) QA
3 10 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.41%) NIST
5 8 (3.03%) EU AI Act
6 7 (2.65%) GDPR
7 5 (1.89%) NCSC
8 3 (1.14%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.14%) SEPA
9 2 (0.76%) EMIR
9 2 (0.76%) MiFID
9 2 (0.76%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.76%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.38%) GRC
10 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.38%) PMO
10 1 (0.38%) PSD2
System Software
1 44 (16.67%) Docker
2 9 (3.41%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.14%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.14%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.14%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.14%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.38%) Firmware
5 1 (0.38%) NFS
5 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 59 (22.35%) Kubernetes
2 24 (9.09%) Ansible
3 15 (5.68%) Grafana
4 14 (5.30%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.89%) Puppet
6 4 (1.52%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.14%) Nagios
7 3 (1.14%) vMotion
8 1 (0.38%) Argo
8 1 (0.38%) Bosun
8 1 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.38%) Consul
8 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.38%) Packer
8 1 (0.38%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.38%) Salt
8 1 (0.38%) SELinux
8 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.38%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 27 (10.23%) Databricks
1 27 (10.23%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.82%) Google
3 16 (6.06%) Oracle
4 10 (3.79%) Citrix
4 10 (3.79%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.79%) VMware
5 8 (3.03%) Cisco
6 7 (2.65%) Palo Alto
6 7 (2.65%) SAP
7 6 (2.27%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.89%) CyberArk
8 5 (1.89%) IBM
8 5 (1.89%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.52%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.52%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.14%) HP
10 3 (1.14%) Informatica
10 3 (1.14%) Symantec
10 3 (1.14%) Workday