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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 14 11
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 220 206 315
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 13.11% 9.84% 11.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.52% 24.73% 27.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 127 221
10th Percentile £381 £425 £400
25th Percentile £480 £498 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year - +1.77% -8.80%
75th Percentile £688 £708 £663
90th Percentile £800 £838 £775
Central London median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
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 698 833 1,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.60% 39.80% 40.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 534 792
10th Percentile £340 £400 £357
25th Percentile £441 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £773 £778
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 8
10th Percentile £22.30 £32.05 £15.58
25th Percentile £26.75 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £56.75 £76.13 £40.69
90th Percentile £70.21 £85.95 £49.88
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

AWS
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 26 October 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 26 October 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

AWS
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 14 (6.36%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (4.09%) Apache Spark
2 9 (4.09%) Confluence
3 5 (2.27%) Apache
4 4 (1.82%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.91%) Luigi
5 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.45%) CICS
6 1 (0.45%) CMS
6 1 (0.45%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.45%) nginx
6 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.91%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.73%) Endur
2 4 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.45%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 91 (41.36%) Azure
2 46 (20.91%) GCP
3 36 (16.36%) Amazon S3
4 26 (11.82%) AWS Lambda
4 26 (11.82%) Serverless
5 19 (8.64%) GitHub
5 19 (8.64%) Snowflake
6 16 (7.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 14 (6.36%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (4.55%) SaaS
10 9 (4.09%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (4.09%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (4.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 8 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (3.64%) Power Platform
12 7 (3.18%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (3.18%) dbt
12 7 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.27%) Firewall
2 11 (5.00%) DNS
3 5 (2.27%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.27%) VPN
4 4 (1.82%) LAN
4 4 (1.82%) Network Security
4 4 (1.82%) SSL
4 4 (1.82%) WAN
5 3 (1.36%) BGP
5 3 (1.36%) OSPF
6 2 (0.91%) 4G
6 2 (0.91%) 5G
6 2 (0.91%) DHCP
6 2 (0.91%) Internet
6 2 (0.91%) NAS
6 2 (0.91%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.91%) SSH
6 2 (0.91%) VLAN
6 2 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.91%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.18%) Relational Database
2 17 (7.73%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (4.55%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.09%) DynamoDB
6 8 (3.64%) Data Lake
6 8 (3.64%) MySQL
7 7 (3.18%) Hadoop
7 7 (3.18%) Metadata
7 7 (3.18%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.18%) Power BI
8 6 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.27%) Big Data
9 5 (2.27%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.82%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (1.82%) Apache Hive
10 4 (1.82%) Tableau
11 3 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.36%) DataStage
11 3 (1.36%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (10.45%) Git
2 14 (6.36%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.91%) JIRA
4 9 (4.09%) GitLab
5 4 (1.82%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.36%) JUnit
6 3 (1.36%) MLflow
7 2 (0.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.91%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.91%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.91%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.91%) Postman
7 2 (0.91%) Selenium
7 2 (0.91%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.91%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.45%) ERwin
8 1 (0.45%) Hamcrest
8 1 (0.45%) Maven
8 1 (0.45%) Mockito
8 1 (0.45%) SoapUI
General
1 76 (34.55%) Finance
2 57 (25.91%) Social Skills
3 25 (11.36%) Banking
4 24 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.73%) Public Sector
6 14 (6.36%) Front Office
7 8 (3.64%) Legal
8 5 (2.27%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.82%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.82%) Marketing
10 3 (1.36%) Military
10 3 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.91%) Back Office
11 2 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.91%) Police
11 2 (0.91%) Retail
11 2 (0.91%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 43 (19.55%) Senior
2 42 (19.09%) Architect
3 31 (14.09%) Developer
4 26 (11.82%) Data Engineer
5 21 (9.55%) Lead
6 14 (6.36%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (5.45%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (4.55%) AWS Architect
9 10 (4.55%) Python Engineer
10 9 (4.09%) Consultant
10 9 (4.09%) Security Architect
10 9 (4.09%) Senior Architect
10 9 (4.09%) Software Engineer
11 7 (3.18%) Cloud Architect
11 7 (3.18%) Data Architect
11 7 (3.18%) Security Engineer
11 7 (3.18%) Technical Architect
12 6 (2.73%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 6 (2.73%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.09%) Kafka
2 19 (8.64%) React
3 14 (6.36%) REST
4 13 (5.91%) AngularJS
4 13 (5.91%) RESTful
5 12 (5.45%) GraphQL
6 11 (5.00%) Spring
7 10 (4.55%) Node.js
7 10 (4.55%) Spring Boot
8 8 (3.64%) CSS
8 8 (3.64%) HTML
9 7 (3.18%) .NET
10 6 (2.73%) OAuth
10 6 (2.73%) PySpark
11 5 (2.27%) Svelte
11 5 (2.27%) XML
12 4 (1.82%) OAuth2
12 4 (1.82%) scikit-learn
12 4 (1.82%) SQLAlchemy
12 4 (1.82%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 31 (14.09%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.55%) Virtual Team
3 7 (3.18%) Data Centre
3 7 (3.18%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.73%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.27%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.27%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.82%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.82%) Web Conferencing
7 3 (1.36%) Derivative
7 3 (1.36%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.36%) Equities
7 3 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.91%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.91%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.00%) Linux
2 10 (4.55%) Windows
3 6 (2.73%) Unix
4 2 (0.91%) Android
4 2 (0.91%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.45%) AIX
5 1 (0.45%) Solaris
5 1 (0.45%) VMS
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 57 (25.91%) Agile
3 55 (25.00%) DevOps
4 40 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (17.73%) Analytics
6 33 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 31 (14.09%) Microservices
8 26 (11.82%) Software Engineering
9 25 (11.36%) AI
9 25 (11.36%) Roadmaps
10 23 (10.45%) Data Modelling
10 23 (10.45%) Machine Learning
11 22 (10.00%) Data Engineering
11 22 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
12 21 (9.55%) Containerisation
12 21 (9.55%) Stakeholder Management
13 20 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
13 20 (9.09%) Mentoring
13 20 (9.09%) Migration
14 19 (8.64%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 92 (41.82%) Python
2 47 (21.36%) SQL
3 45 (20.45%) Java
4 17 (7.73%) JavaScript
5 16 (7.27%) TypeScript
6 8 (3.64%) Bash
7 6 (2.73%) Go
8 4 (1.82%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.82%) Scala
9 3 (1.36%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.91%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.91%) C#
10 2 (0.91%) C++
10 2 (0.91%) COBOL
10 2 (0.91%) Perl
10 2 (0.91%) PHP
10 2 (0.91%) PromQL
10 2 (0.91%) R
10 2 (0.91%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.45%) RPG
Qualifications
1 33 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 28 (12.73%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.18%) Degree
4 13 (5.91%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.27%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.82%) CISSP
7 4 (1.82%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.36%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.45%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.55%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.00%) QA
3 10 (4.55%) GDPR
4 7 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.18%) NIST
5 3 (1.36%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.91%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.45%) NCSC
7 1 (0.45%) PMO
7 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.45%) SLA
7 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (12.27%) Docker
2 7 (3.18%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.45%) vSphere
3 1 (0.45%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 36 (16.36%) Terraform
2 27 (12.27%) Kubernetes
3 10 (4.55%) Ansible
4 8 (3.64%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.73%) ITRS Geneos
5 6 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.82%) Grafana
7 3 (1.36%) Puppet
8 2 (0.91%) Argo
8 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.91%) Packer
8 2 (0.91%) SCCM
9 1 (0.45%) CASB
9 1 (0.45%) Cilium
9 1 (0.45%) Istio
9 1 (0.45%) Observium
9 1 (0.45%) QRadar
9 1 (0.45%) Trend Micro Deep Security
9 1 (0.45%) vRealize
9 1 (0.45%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 32 (14.55%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.36%) Databricks
3 10 (4.55%) Salesforce
4 9 (4.09%) Google
5 8 (3.64%) Oracle
5 8 (3.64%) Splunk
6 6 (2.73%) IBM
6 6 (2.73%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.27%) F5
7 5 (2.27%) Informatica
8 4 (1.82%) Adobe
8 4 (1.82%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.36%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.36%) Cisco
9 3 (1.36%) Tenable
10 2 (0.91%) Citrix
10 2 (0.91%) Dell
10 2 (0.91%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.91%) Okta
10 2 (0.91%) Sparx