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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 11 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 271 238 242
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 13.00% 13.41% 10.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.44% 31.69% 26.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 167 171
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 £662 £667 £671
90th Percentile £800 £743 £750
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 862 751 899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.36% 42.31% 38.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 487 634
10th Percentile £342 £400 £363
25th Percentile £437 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £745
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -2.27% +1.85% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 9
10th Percentile £31.88 £27.65 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.44 £32.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £41.08 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% +82.56% -66.67%
75th Percentile £55.94 £83.44 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.53 £145.88 £54.95
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.30% +54.78% -48.57%

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 19 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 (7.01%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.69%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.21%) 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
1 3 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 121 (44.65%) Azure
2 71 (26.20%) GCP
3 43 (15.87%) Serverless
4 42 (15.50%) GitHub
5 39 (14.39%) AWS Lambda
6 35 (12.92%) Amazon S3
7 26 (9.59%) Snowflake
8 23 (8.49%) Power Platform
9 21 (7.75%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (6.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (6.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (6.27%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (5.54%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (4.80%) dbt
14 11 (4.06%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (3.69%) SaaS
16 9 (3.32%) Amazon SageMaker
16 9 (3.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 8 (2.95%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.32%) Network Security
2 8 (2.95%) Firewall
3 6 (2.21%) 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 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (6.64%) Power BI
3 17 (6.27%) DynamoDB
4 15 (5.54%) Relational Database
5 14 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (5.17%) NoSQL
5 14 (5.17%) Tableau
6 11 (4.06%) MySQL
6 11 (4.06%) SQL Server
7 10 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (3.69%) Metadata
7 10 (3.69%) MongoDB
8 9 (3.32%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (2.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (2.95%) Data Lake
10 7 (2.58%) Big Data
10 7 (2.58%) DB2
11 4 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.48%) CockroachDB
11 4 (1.48%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 35 (12.92%) Git
2 22 (8.12%) GitLab
3 20 (7.38%) Jenkins
4 14 (5.17%) JIRA
5 6 (2.21%) JUnit
6 5 (1.85%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.85%) Mockito
7 4 (1.48%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.48%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.11%) Postman
9 2 (0.74%) Ant
9 2 (0.74%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.74%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.74%) Gatling
9 2 (0.74%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.74%) Mocha
9 2 (0.74%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.74%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.74%) webpack
10 1 (0.37%) ERwin
General
1 94 (34.69%) Finance
2 63 (23.25%) Social Skills
3 42 (15.50%) Banking
4 25 (9.23%) Public Sector
5 23 (8.49%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.17%) Financial Institution
7 12 (4.43%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (4.06%) Front Office
9 10 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.95%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.48%) Retail
12 3 (1.11%) Back Office
13 2 (0.74%) Advertising
13 2 (0.74%) Law
13 2 (0.74%) Legal
13 2 (0.74%) Marketing
13 2 (0.74%) Military
13 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (21.77%) Architect
2 38 (14.02%) Developer
3 36 (13.28%) Senior
4 26 (9.59%) Data Engineer
4 26 (9.59%) Lead
5 21 (7.75%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (6.27%) AWS Engineer
6 17 (6.27%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (4.43%) Project Manager
8 11 (4.06%) Python Engineer
9 10 (3.69%) AWS Architect
9 10 (3.69%) Migration Manager
9 10 (3.69%) Migration Project Manager
9 10 (3.69%) Senior Developer
10 9 (3.32%) Data Scientist
10 9 (3.32%) Java Developer
10 9 (3.32%) Security Architect
11 8 (2.95%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (2.95%) Enterprise Architect
11 8 (2.95%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (9.59%) Kafka
2 21 (7.75%) React
3 19 (7.01%) REST
4 16 (5.90%) RESTful
5 15 (5.54%) Node.js
6 14 (5.17%) Spring
7 13 (4.80%) Spring Boot
8 12 (4.43%) .NET
9 10 (3.69%) PyTorch
9 10 (3.69%) scikit-learn
10 9 (3.32%) AngularJS
10 9 (3.32%) TensorFlow
11 8 (2.95%) JSON
11 8 (2.95%) OAuth
11 8 (2.95%) Pandas
11 8 (2.95%) PySpark
12 7 (2.58%) boto
12 7 (2.58%) HTML
12 7 (2.58%) NumPy
12 7 (2.58%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 55 (20.30%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.01%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (4.80%) Algorithms
5 10 (3.69%) Equities
5 10 (3.69%) Security Posture
6 8 (2.95%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.95%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.58%) Derivative
7 7 (2.58%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.21%) Fixed Income
8 6 (2.21%) Virtual Team
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 13 (4.80%) Linux
1 13 (4.80%) Windows
2 3 (1.11%) Android
2 3 (1.11%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.11%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.74%) Unix
3 2 (0.74%) zOS
4 1 (0.37%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (35.79%) CI/CD
2 61 (22.51%) DevOps
3 60 (22.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 59 (21.77%) Agile
5 57 (21.03%) AI
6 42 (15.50%) Migration
7 41 (15.13%) Analytics
7 41 (15.13%) Machine Learning
8 39 (14.39%) Microservices
9 38 (14.02%) Stakeholder Management
10 37 (13.65%) Containerisation
11 36 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (12.55%) Data Pipeline
13 33 (12.18%) Data Modelling
14 32 (11.81%) Roadmaps
15 31 (11.44%) Software Engineering
15 31 (11.44%) Test Automation
16 30 (11.07%) Data Engineering
16 30 (11.07%) Observability
17 28 (10.33%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 110 (40.59%) Python
2 79 (29.15%) SQL
3 50 (18.45%) Java
4 15 (5.54%) JavaScript
5 10 (3.69%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.58%) C#
7 6 (2.21%) Bash
7 6 (2.21%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.85%) Ruby
9 4 (1.48%) Go
9 4 (1.48%) PHP
9 4 (1.48%) Scala
9 4 (1.48%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.11%) Korn
10 3 (1.11%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.74%) C++
11 2 (0.74%) JCL
11 2 (0.74%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.37%) Perl
12 1 (0.37%) ProC
Qualifications
1 58 (21.40%) Security Cleared
2 55 (20.30%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.17%) Degree
4 10 (3.69%) AWS Certification
4 10 (3.69%) PMI Certification
4 10 (3.69%) PMP
5 7 (2.58%) CISSP
5 7 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.48%) CISM
7 4 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.11%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.11%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.11%) PhD
9 2 (0.74%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.74%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.37%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.59%) Data Quality
2 23 (8.49%) GDPR
3 21 (7.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (6.27%) NIST
5 8 (2.95%) SLA
6 7 (2.58%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.58%) 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 50 (18.45%) 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 (21.77%) Terraform
2 45 (16.61%) Kubernetes
3 19 (7.01%) Ansible
4 10 (3.69%) Grafana
5 6 (2.21%) 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 (10.33%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.64%) Oracle
3 17 (6.27%) Databricks
4 12 (4.43%) Google
5 11 (4.06%) CyberArk
5 11 (4.06%) IBM
6 8 (2.95%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.58%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.58%) Splunk
8 5 (1.85%) Informatica
9 4 (1.48%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.48%) SAP
9 4 (1.48%) VMware
10 3 (1.11%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.11%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.11%) Charles River
10 3 (1.11%) Cognos
10 3 (1.11%) Confluent
10 3 (1.11%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.11%) Sage