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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 11 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 270 236 242
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 13.08% 13.05% 10.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.58% 31.01% 26.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 167 170
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £653 £667 £673
90th Percentile £800 £743 £753
Central London median daily rate £550 £541 £550
% change year-on-year +1.62% -1.59% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £76.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £74.50 - -

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 855 761 901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.42% 42.07% 38.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 496 634
10th Percentile £338 £397 £363
25th Percentile £436 £463 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £745
Central London median daily rate £532 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -3.23% +1.85% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 10
10th Percentile £31.88 £28.98 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.44 £35.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +128.92% -60.48%
75th Percentile £55.94 £118.13 £42.50
90th Percentile £66.53 £159.75 £52.60
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year +15.71% +68.67% -40.71%

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 15 March 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 10 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.59%) Confluence
4 5 (1.85%) Apache
5 2 (0.74%) CICS
5 2 (0.74%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.74%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.37%) Notion
2 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.11%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 119 (44.07%) Azure
2 70 (25.93%) GCP
3 43 (15.93%) Serverless
4 42 (15.56%) GitHub
5 39 (14.44%) AWS Lambda
6 36 (13.33%) Amazon S3
7 26 (9.63%) Snowflake
8 23 (8.52%) Power Platform
9 21 (7.78%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (7.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (6.30%) Amazon ECS
13 15 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (4.81%) dbt
15 11 (4.07%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
16 10 (3.70%) SaaS
17 9 (3.33%) Amazon SageMaker
17 9 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 8 (2.96%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.33%) Network Security
2 8 (2.96%) Firewall
3 6 (2.22%) DNS
4 2 (0.74%) DHCP
4 2 (0.74%) SSL
4 2 (0.74%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.74%) VPN
5 1 (0.37%) 2G
5 1 (0.37%) 4G
5 1 (0.37%) BGP
5 1 (0.37%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.37%) Internet
5 1 (0.37%) IPsec
5 1 (0.37%) LAN
5 1 (0.37%) NAS
5 1 (0.37%) OSPF
5 1 (0.37%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.37%) SAN
5 1 (0.37%) WAN
5 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (6.67%) Power BI
3 17 (6.30%) DynamoDB
4 16 (5.93%) Relational Database
5 15 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (5.19%) NoSQL
6 14 (5.19%) Tableau
7 11 (4.07%) MySQL
7 11 (4.07%) SQL Server
8 10 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (3.70%) Metadata
8 10 (3.70%) MongoDB
9 9 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
9 9 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (2.96%) Data Lake
11 7 (2.59%) Big Data
11 7 (2.59%) DB2
12 4 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (1.48%) CockroachDB
12 4 (1.48%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (12.59%) Git
2 23 (8.52%) GitLab
3 21 (7.78%) Jenkins
4 14 (5.19%) JIRA
5 7 (2.59%) JUnit
6 6 (2.22%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.85%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.85%) Mockito
8 4 (1.48%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.48%) Postman
9 3 (1.11%) Gatling
10 2 (0.74%) Ant
10 2 (0.74%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.74%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.74%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.74%) Mocha
10 2 (0.74%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.74%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.74%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.74%) webpack
General
1 92 (34.07%) Finance
2 64 (23.70%) Social Skills
3 42 (15.56%) Banking
4 24 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 22 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.81%) Financial Institution
7 12 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (4.07%) Front Office
9 10 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.96%) Investment Banking
11 7 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.48%) Retail
13 3 (1.11%) Back Office
14 2 (0.74%) Advertising
14 2 (0.74%) Law
14 2 (0.74%) Legal
14 2 (0.74%) Marketing
14 2 (0.74%) Military
14 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (21.48%) Architect
2 37 (13.70%) Developer
2 37 (13.70%) Senior
3 27 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 26 (9.63%) Lead
5 21 (7.78%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (6.30%) AWS Engineer
6 17 (6.30%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (4.07%) Project Manager
7 11 (4.07%) Python Engineer
8 10 (3.70%) AWS Architect
9 9 (3.33%) Data Scientist
9 9 (3.33%) Migration Manager
9 9 (3.33%) Migration Project Manager
9 9 (3.33%) Security Architect
9 9 (3.33%) Senior Developer
10 8 (2.96%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (2.96%) Cloud Architect
10 8 (2.96%) Enterprise Architect
10 8 (2.96%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (9.63%) Kafka
2 21 (7.78%) React
3 19 (7.04%) REST
4 16 (5.93%) RESTful
5 15 (5.56%) Node.js
6 13 (4.81%) Spring
7 12 (4.44%) .NET
7 12 (4.44%) Spring Boot
8 10 (3.70%) PyTorch
8 10 (3.70%) scikit-learn
9 9 (3.33%) AngularJS
9 9 (3.33%) TensorFlow
10 8 (2.96%) JSON
10 8 (2.96%) OAuth
10 8 (2.96%) Pandas
10 8 (2.96%) PySpark
11 7 (2.59%) boto
11 7 (2.59%) HTML
11 7 (2.59%) NumPy
11 7 (2.59%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 54 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.30%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (4.81%) Algorithms
5 10 (3.70%) Equities
5 10 (3.70%) Security Posture
6 8 (2.96%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.59%) Derivative
7 7 (2.59%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.59%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.59%) Virtual Team
8 6 (2.22%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.85%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.48%) Clustering
10 4 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.48%) LIMS
11 3 (1.11%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.19%) Linux
2 13 (4.81%) Windows
3 3 (1.11%) Android
3 3 (1.11%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.11%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.74%) Unix
4 2 (0.74%) zOS
5 1 (0.37%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (35.56%) CI/CD
2 60 (22.22%) DevOps
3 59 (21.85%) Agile
3 59 (21.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (20.74%) AI
5 42 (15.56%) Migration
6 40 (14.81%) Analytics
6 40 (14.81%) Machine Learning
7 38 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (13.70%) Microservices
8 37 (13.70%) Stakeholder Management
9 36 (13.33%) Containerisation
10 33 (12.22%) Data Pipeline
10 33 (12.22%) Roadmaps
11 32 (11.85%) Data Modelling
11 32 (11.85%) Test Automation
12 31 (11.48%) Software Engineering
13 29 (10.74%) Data Engineering
13 29 (10.74%) ETL
13 29 (10.74%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 109 (40.37%) Python
2 79 (29.26%) SQL
3 50 (18.52%) Java
4 15 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 10 (3.70%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.59%) C#
7 6 (2.22%) Bash
7 6 (2.22%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.48%) Go
8 4 (1.48%) PHP
8 4 (1.48%) Ruby
8 4 (1.48%) Scala
8 4 (1.48%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.11%) Korn
9 3 (1.11%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.74%) C++
10 2 (0.74%) JCL
10 2 (0.74%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.37%) Perl
11 1 (0.37%) ProC
Qualifications
1 59 (21.85%) Security Cleared
2 56 (20.74%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.19%) Degree
4 11 (4.07%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.33%) PMI Certification
5 9 (3.33%) PMP
6 7 (2.59%) CISSP
6 7 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.48%) CISM
8 4 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.11%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.11%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.11%) PhD
10 2 (0.74%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.74%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.37%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 22 (8.15%) GDPR
3 20 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (5.93%) NIST
5 8 (2.96%) SLA
6 7 (2.59%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.59%) QA
7 2 (0.74%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.74%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.74%) GRC
7 2 (0.74%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.74%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.74%) NCSC
7 2 (0.74%) PSD2
7 2 (0.74%) SEPA
8 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.37%) DICOM
8 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.37%) HL7
8 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
System Software
1 51 (18.89%) Docker
2 2 (0.74%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.74%) VMware NSX
2 2 (0.74%) vSphere
3 1 (0.37%) NFS
3 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 59 (21.85%) Terraform
2 46 (17.04%) Kubernetes
3 19 (7.04%) Ansible
4 10 (3.70%) Grafana
5 6 (2.22%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.11%) Argo
6 3 (1.11%) Karpenter
6 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.37%) CASB
8 1 (0.37%) Istio
8 1 (0.37%) Kibana
8 1 (0.37%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.37%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.37%) QRadar
8 1 (0.37%) SCCM
8 1 (0.37%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.37%) vRealize
8 1 (0.37%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 28 (10.37%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.30%) Databricks
2 17 (6.30%) Oracle
3 12 (4.44%) Google
4 11 (4.07%) IBM
5 10 (3.70%) CyberArk
6 9 (3.33%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.96%) Splunk
8 7 (2.59%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.85%) Informatica
10 4 (1.48%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.48%) SAP
10 4 (1.48%) VMware
11 3 (1.11%) AppDynamics
11 3 (1.11%) Bloomberg
11 3 (1.11%) Charles River
11 3 (1.11%) Cognos
11 3 (1.11%) Confluent
11 3 (1.11%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.11%) Sage