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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 259 227 201
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.68% 13.06% 9.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.43% 32.34% 23.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 161 122
10th Percentile £425 £413 £425
25th Percentile £481 £480 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £708 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £838
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 911 702 841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.09% 40.39% 39.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 651 497 550
10th Percentile £351 £337 £387
25th Percentile £456 £441 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% +0.67%
75th Percentile £660 £668 £675
90th Percentile £759 £754 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
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

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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 27 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 21 (8.11%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.86%) Confluence
3 9 (3.47%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.70%) Apache
5 5 (1.93%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.77%) nginx
7 2 (0.77%) 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 (1.16%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.16%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.77%) 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
1 113 (43.63%) Azure
2 60 (23.17%) GCP
3 41 (15.83%) Serverless
4 39 (15.06%) GitHub
5 35 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (12.36%) Amazon S3
7 31 (11.97%) Snowflake
8 23 (8.88%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (6.95%) Amazon Bedrock
9 18 (6.95%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (6.56%) dbt
11 14 (5.41%) SaaS
12 13 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (4.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (4.63%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (4.63%) Amazon Kinesis
13 12 (4.63%) Power Platform
14 11 (4.25%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (4.25%) OpenShift
15 9 (3.47%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.79%) DNS
1 15 (5.79%) Firewall
2 9 (3.47%) DHCP
2 9 (3.47%) VPN
3 6 (2.32%) BGP
4 5 (1.93%) OSPF
4 5 (1.93%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.54%) Network Security
5 4 (1.54%) VLAN
6 3 (1.16%) MPLS
6 3 (1.16%) Multicast
6 3 (1.16%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.16%) SMTP
6 3 (1.16%) WAN
6 3 (1.16%) Wireless
7 2 (0.77%) Internet
7 2 (0.77%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.77%) IPsec
7 2 (0.77%) NGFW
7 2 (0.77%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.56%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (6.18%) Amazon Athena
2 16 (6.18%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (4.63%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (4.25%) Power BI
5 10 (3.86%) Metadata
5 10 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (3.09%) Delta Lake
6 8 (3.09%) DynamoDB
6 8 (3.09%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.70%) Big Data
7 7 (2.70%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.32%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.93%) Pinecone
9 5 (1.93%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.54%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (1.54%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (11.20%) GitLab
2 27 (10.42%) Jenkins
3 21 (8.11%) Git
4 19 (7.34%) JIRA
5 9 (3.47%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.70%) Postman
7 6 (2.32%) JMeter
7 6 (2.32%) JUnit
8 5 (1.93%) Maven
8 5 (1.93%) Mockito
9 3 (1.16%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.16%) Selenium
10 2 (0.77%) Appium
10 2 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.77%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.77%) Gatling
10 2 (0.77%) Gradle
10 2 (0.77%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.77%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.39%) HP UFT
General
1 92 (35.52%) Finance
2 62 (23.94%) Social Skills
3 40 (15.44%) Banking
4 34 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (10.04%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.70%) Back Office
7 7 (2.70%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.70%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.93%) Front Office
9 5 (1.93%) Military
9 5 (1.93%) Retail
10 3 (1.16%) Billing
10 3 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.16%) General Ledger
10 3 (1.16%) Marketing
10 3 (1.16%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.77%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (23.94%) Architect
2 53 (20.46%) Senior
3 28 (10.81%) Data Engineer
4 24 (9.27%) AWS Engineer
5 23 (8.88%) Developer
6 22 (8.49%) Lead
7 14 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (5.02%) Data Architect
8 13 (5.02%) Senior Data Engineer
9 12 (4.63%) Senior Developer
10 11 (4.25%) Analyst
10 11 (4.25%) AWS Data Engineer
11 9 (3.47%) AWS Architect
12 8 (3.09%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (3.09%) Consultant
12 8 (3.09%) Technical Architect
13 7 (2.70%) Cloud Architect
13 7 (2.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (2.70%) Senior Architect
13 7 (2.70%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (20.85%) Terraform
2 26 (10.04%) REST
3 25 (9.65%) Kafka
4 22 (8.49%) Spring
5 21 (8.11%) Spring Boot
6 12 (4.63%) .NET
6 12 (4.63%) RESTful
7 11 (4.25%) PySpark
7 11 (4.25%) React
7 11 (4.25%) SOAP
8 8 (3.09%) ActiveMQ
8 8 (3.09%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (2.70%) .NET Core
9 7 (2.70%) Node.js
9 7 (2.70%) Web Services
10 6 (2.32%) JSON
10 6 (2.32%) LangChain
10 6 (2.32%) Middleware
10 6 (2.32%) OAuth
10 6 (2.32%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 69 (26.64%) Cloud Native
2 24 (9.27%) AI Agents
3 19 (7.34%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.79%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.25%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.70%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.93%) CMDB
8 5 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.54%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.54%) PKI
9 4 (1.54%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.54%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (1.16%) Clustering
10 3 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.79%) Linux
2 13 (5.02%) Windows
3 10 (3.86%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.54%) Unix
5 2 (0.77%) 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
1 115 (44.40%) CI/CD
2 73 (28.19%) DevOps
3 63 (24.32%) AI
4 59 (22.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 49 (18.92%) Agile
6 46 (17.76%) Migration
7 42 (16.22%) Containerisation
7 42 (16.22%) Data Engineering
7 42 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 40 (15.44%) Microservices
9 39 (15.06%) Analytics
10 37 (14.29%) Data Modelling
10 37 (14.29%) Event-Driven
11 34 (13.13%) Observability
12 33 (12.74%) Test Automation
13 31 (11.97%) Software Engineering
14 30 (11.58%) Data Pipeline
14 30 (11.58%) Machine Learning
15 29 (11.20%) Problem-Solving
15 29 (11.20%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 91 (35.14%) Python
2 54 (20.85%) SQL
3 44 (16.99%) Java
4 19 (7.34%) PowerShell
5 17 (6.56%) C#
6 15 (5.79%) JavaScript
7 13 (5.02%) TypeScript
8 12 (4.63%) Bash
9 5 (1.93%) Korn
10 4 (1.54%) Bicep
11 3 (1.16%) Ruby
11 3 (1.16%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.77%) Go
12 2 (0.77%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.77%) Scala
13 1 (0.39%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.39%) JCL
13 1 (0.39%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (19.69%) Security Cleared
2 38 (14.67%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.47%) AWS Certification
3 9 (3.47%) Degree
3 9 (3.47%) DV Cleared
4 5 (1.93%) TOGAF Certification
5 4 (1.54%) PMI Certification
5 4 (1.54%) PMP
6 3 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.16%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.16%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.16%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.77%) CCNP
7 2 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.77%) CISM
7 2 (0.77%) CISSP
7 2 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.77%) CREST Certified
7 2 (0.77%) OSCP
8 1 (0.39%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.42%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (4.25%) QA
3 8 (3.09%) EU AI Act
3 8 (3.09%) NIST
4 7 (2.70%) GDPR
5 5 (1.93%) NCSC
6 3 (1.16%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.16%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.16%) SEPA
7 2 (0.77%) EMIR
7 2 (0.77%) MiFID
7 2 (0.77%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.77%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.39%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.39%) GRC
8 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 19770
8 1 (0.39%) PSD2
System Software
1 39 (15.06%) Docker
2 9 (3.47%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.54%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.16%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.16%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.16%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.39%) Firmware
5 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (22.39%) Kubernetes
2 26 (10.04%) Ansible
3 14 (5.41%) Grafana
4 13 (5.02%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.93%) Puppet
6 4 (1.54%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.16%) Nagios
7 3 (1.16%) vMotion
8 2 (0.77%) 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 30 (11.58%) Microsoft
2 28 (10.81%) Databricks
3 17 (6.56%) Google
4 16 (6.18%) Oracle
5 11 (4.25%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.86%) Citrix
6 10 (3.86%) VMware
7 9 (3.47%) Cisco
8 7 (2.70%) Fortinet
8 7 (2.70%) Palo Alto
8 7 (2.70%) SAP
9 6 (2.32%) CyberArk
9 6 (2.32%) IBM
10 5 (1.93%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.93%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.93%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.16%) F5
11 3 (1.16%) HP
11 3 (1.16%) Symantec
11 3 (1.16%) Workday