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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 15 10
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 241 201 297
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 13.49% 9.34% 10.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.05% 23.99% 26.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 127 217
10th Percentile £389 £459 £400
25th Percentile £475 £502 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -11.08%
75th Percentile £678 £675 £650
90th Percentile £800 £807 £768
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £569
% change year-on-year - +1.05% -8.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Cloud 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 752 838 1,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.08% 38.94% 40.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 538 779
10th Percentile £343 £400 £356
25th Percentile £425 £481 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £770 £775
Central London median daily rate £543 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -5.65% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 9
10th Percentile £25.73 £32.05 -
25th Percentile £32.13 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.64 £56.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.43% +148.89% +9.76%
75th Percentile £54.44 £76.13 £48.75
90th Percentile £67.89 £85.95 £56.75
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%

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 23 November 2025.

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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Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the City of London region over the 6 months to 23 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Moorgate - 1 £390 -
AWS
Central London

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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 (6.22%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (4.56%) Apache Spark
3 9 (3.73%) Confluence
4 7 (2.90%) Apache
5 4 (1.66%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.41%) CICS
7 1 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.41%) CMS
7 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.41%) Luigi
7 1 (0.41%) nginx
7 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.83%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.83%) Endur
2 1 (0.41%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 108 (44.81%) Azure
2 53 (21.99%) GCP
3 40 (16.60%) Amazon S3
4 32 (13.28%) AWS Lambda
4 32 (13.28%) Serverless
5 28 (11.62%) GitHub
6 24 (9.96%) Snowflake
7 20 (8.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 17 (7.05%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (5.81%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (4.98%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (4.98%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (4.98%) dbt
10 12 (4.98%) Power Platform
11 11 (4.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 10 (4.15%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (3.73%) SaaS
14 7 (2.90%) Apigee
14 7 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.05%) Firewall
2 11 (4.56%) DNS
3 6 (2.49%) Network Security
4 5 (2.07%) LAN
4 5 (2.07%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.07%) VPN
4 5 (2.07%) WAN
5 4 (1.66%) SSL
6 3 (1.24%) BGP
6 3 (1.24%) DHCP
6 3 (1.24%) NAS
6 3 (1.24%) OSPF
6 3 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.83%) 4G
7 2 (0.83%) 5G
7 2 (0.83%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.83%) SAN
7 2 (0.83%) SSH
7 2 (0.83%) VLAN
7 2 (0.83%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.13%) Relational Database
2 18 (7.47%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (7.05%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (4.56%) DynamoDB
4 11 (4.56%) Power BI
5 10 (4.15%) Data Lake
5 10 (4.15%) MongoDB
5 10 (4.15%) MySQL
5 10 (4.15%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (2.90%) Hadoop
6 7 (2.90%) SQL Server
7 6 (2.49%) Big Data
7 6 (2.49%) Metadata
7 6 (2.49%) Tableau
8 5 (2.07%) Amazon QuickSight
8 5 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (1.66%) Apache Hive
9 4 (1.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.24%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 29 (12.03%) Git
2 15 (6.22%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.39%) JIRA
4 12 (4.98%) GitLab
5 5 (2.07%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.66%) JUnit
7 3 (1.24%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.24%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.24%) MLflow
8 2 (0.83%) Mockito
8 2 (0.83%) Postman
8 2 (0.83%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.83%) Selenium
8 2 (0.83%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.83%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.83%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.41%) ERwin
9 1 (0.41%) Hamcrest
9 1 (0.41%) Maven
9 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 87 (36.10%) Finance
2 59 (24.48%) Social Skills
3 29 (12.03%) Banking
4 24 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.64%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.39%) Front Office
7 8 (3.32%) Legal
8 7 (2.90%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.66%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.83%) Back Office
12 2 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.83%) Law
12 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.83%) Marketing
12 2 (0.83%) Retail
12 2 (0.83%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 49 (20.33%) Architect
2 46 (19.09%) Senior
3 33 (13.69%) Developer
4 30 (12.45%) Data Engineer
5 23 (9.54%) Lead
6 18 (7.47%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (6.22%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (6.22%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (5.81%) AWS Architect
9 12 (4.98%) Python Engineer
10 10 (4.15%) Security Architect
10 10 (4.15%) Senior Architect
11 9 (3.73%) Consultant
12 8 (3.32%) Senior Data Engineer
12 8 (3.32%) Software Engineer
13 7 (2.90%) AWS Security Architect
13 7 (2.90%) Java Developer
13 7 (2.90%) Security Engineer
14 6 (2.49%) Cloud Architect
14 6 (2.49%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.47%) React
2 16 (6.64%) Kafka
2 16 (6.64%) RESTful
3 15 (6.22%) Node.js
4 13 (5.39%) REST
5 11 (4.56%) Spring
6 10 (4.15%) AngularJS
6 10 (4.15%) CSS
6 10 (4.15%) HTML
6 10 (4.15%) OAuth
7 9 (3.73%) .NET
7 9 (3.73%) Spring Boot
8 8 (3.32%) GraphQL
9 6 (2.49%) JWT
9 6 (2.49%) PySpark
9 6 (2.49%) scikit-learn
9 6 (2.49%) XML
10 5 (2.07%) PyTorch
10 5 (2.07%) TensorFlow
11 4 (1.66%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 38 (15.77%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.56%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.15%) Data Centre
4 9 (3.73%) Virtual Team
5 8 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.90%) Algorithms
6 7 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.07%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.07%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.07%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.66%) Derivative
8 4 (1.66%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.66%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.24%) Equities
9 3 (1.24%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.98%) Linux
1 12 (4.98%) Windows
2 5 (2.07%) Unix
3 3 (1.24%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.83%) Android
4 2 (0.83%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.83%) VMS
5 1 (0.41%) AIX
5 1 (0.41%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (33.20%) CI/CD
2 60 (24.90%) Agile
3 55 (22.82%) DevOps
4 47 (19.50%) Analytics
5 43 (17.84%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (16.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 35 (14.52%) Microservices
8 31 (12.86%) AI
8 31 (12.86%) Software Engineering
9 28 (11.62%) Machine Learning
10 27 (11.20%) Data Modelling
10 27 (11.20%) Migration
10 27 (11.20%) Roadmaps
11 26 (10.79%) Stakeholder Management
12 25 (10.37%) Containerisation
12 25 (10.37%) Data Pipeline
13 24 (9.96%) ETL
14 22 (9.13%) Data Engineering
15 20 (8.30%) Cloud Security
16 19 (7.88%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 100 (41.49%) Python
2 60 (24.90%) SQL
3 47 (19.50%) Java
4 19 (7.88%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.98%) TypeScript
6 11 (4.56%) Bash
7 6 (2.49%) Go
7 6 (2.49%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.66%) C#
9 3 (1.24%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.24%) PHP
9 3 (1.24%) Scala
10 2 (0.83%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.83%) C++
10 2 (0.83%) Perl
10 2 (0.83%) PromQL
10 2 (0.83%) R
10 2 (0.83%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.41%) COBOL
11 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (17.43%) Security Cleared
2 36 (14.94%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.47%) Degree
4 15 (6.22%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.07%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.66%) CISSP
7 4 (1.66%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.24%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.83%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.83%) PMP
9 2 (0.83%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.41%) OSCP
10 1 (0.41%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.71%) Data Quality
2 17 (7.05%) GDPR
3 13 (5.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.15%) QA
5 9 (3.73%) NIST
6 6 (2.49%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.83%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.83%) NCSC
8 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.41%) GRC
8 1 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.41%) PMO
8 1 (0.41%) SLA
8 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (14.94%) Docker
2 8 (3.32%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.83%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.83%) vSphere
4 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.41%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 48 (19.92%) Terraform
2 32 (13.28%) Kubernetes
3 17 (7.05%) Ansible
4 6 (2.49%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.49%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (2.07%) Grafana
6 4 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.83%) Istio
7 2 (0.83%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.83%) Packer
7 2 (0.83%) Puppet
7 2 (0.83%) SCCM
8 1 (0.41%) Argo
8 1 (0.41%) CASB
8 1 (0.41%) Icinga
8 1 (0.41%) Nagios
8 1 (0.41%) Observium
8 1 (0.41%) QRadar
8 1 (0.41%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 1 (0.41%) yum
Vendors
1 32 (13.28%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.71%) Databricks
3 11 (4.56%) Oracle
4 10 (4.15%) Google
5 8 (3.32%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.49%) IBM
6 6 (2.49%) Palo Alto
6 6 (2.49%) Splunk
7 5 (2.07%) F5
8 4 (1.66%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.66%) Informatica
8 4 (1.66%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.24%) Cisco
9 3 (1.24%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.24%) Tenable
9 3 (1.24%) VMware
10 2 (0.83%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.83%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.83%) Okta
10 2 (0.83%) Sparx