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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 268 246 204
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.45% 13.28% 9.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.66% 32.28% 24.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 170 129
10th Percentile £427 £400 £461
25th Percentile £475 £475 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £759 £789 £840
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £57.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - -
75th Percentile £75.88 - -
90th Percentile £76.40 - -
Central London median hourly rate £70.00 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -30.00% - -

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 935 762 842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.96% 41.14% 40.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 653 507 584
10th Percentile £363 £356 £383
25th Percentile £460 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £661 £675
90th Percentile £750 £758 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.84 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% +27.13% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £75.35 £86.43 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £36.25 £31.54 £27.00
% change year-on-year +14.95% +16.80% -28.95%

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 August 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 20 (7.46%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.61%) Confluence
3 6 (2.24%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.24%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.49%) Apache
4 4 (1.49%) CICS
5 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.75%) nginx
7 1 (0.37%) Camunda
7 1 (0.37%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.37%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.37%) SAS
7 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.87%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.75%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.37%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 109 (40.67%) Azure
2 59 (22.01%) GCP
3 46 (17.16%) Serverless
4 40 (14.93%) AWS Lambda
4 40 (14.93%) GitHub
5 37 (13.81%) Amazon S3
6 28 (10.45%) Snowflake
7 23 (8.58%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (6.72%) Power Platform
9 17 (6.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (5.97%) Amazon Bedrock
11 15 (5.60%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (5.60%) dbt
11 15 (5.60%) SaaS
12 13 (4.85%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (4.85%) Amazon Kinesis
12 13 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (4.10%) PaaS
15 10 (3.73%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.85%) DNS
1 13 (4.85%) Firewall
2 7 (2.61%) DHCP
3 6 (2.24%) VPN
4 4 (1.49%) Network Security
4 4 (1.49%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.12%) SMTP
6 2 (0.75%) NGFW
6 2 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.75%) SSH
6 2 (0.75%) VLAN
6 2 (0.75%) X.509
7 1 (0.37%) BGP
7 1 (0.37%) Internet
7 1 (0.37%) Multicast
7 1 (0.37%) NAS
7 1 (0.37%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.37%) VSAN
7 1 (0.37%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.72%) Amazon RDS
1 18 (6.72%) DynamoDB
2 16 (5.97%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (5.60%) Amazon Athena
3 15 (5.60%) Power BI
4 13 (4.85%) NoSQL
5 12 (4.48%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (3.36%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.61%) Metadata
8 7 (2.61%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (2.61%) SQL Server
8 7 (2.61%) Tableau
9 6 (2.24%) Big Data
10 5 (1.87%) Db2
10 5 (1.87%) Delta Lake
10 5 (1.87%) Pinecone
11 4 (1.49%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.49%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (11.57%) GitLab
2 27 (10.07%) Jenkins
3 26 (9.70%) Git
4 20 (7.46%) JIRA
5 9 (3.36%) Postman
6 8 (2.99%) JUnit
7 6 (2.24%) Mockito
8 5 (1.87%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.87%) JMeter
9 4 (1.49%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.49%) Maven
10 3 (1.12%) Claude Code
10 3 (1.12%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.12%) Gradle
10 3 (1.12%) Selenium
11 2 (0.75%) Appium
11 2 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.37%) Mocha
12 1 (0.37%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.37%) TestNG
General
1 89 (33.21%) Finance
2 62 (23.13%) Social Skills
3 35 (13.06%) Banking
4 29 (10.82%) Public Sector
5 28 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.36%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.87%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.49%) Back Office
10 4 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.49%) Front Office
10 4 (1.49%) Military
10 4 (1.49%) Retail
10 4 (1.49%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.12%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.75%) Marketing
12 2 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.37%) Billing
13 1 (0.37%) Police
Job Titles
1 58 (21.64%) Architect
2 48 (17.91%) Senior
3 32 (11.94%) Developer
4 26 (9.70%) Data Engineer
5 19 (7.09%) AWS Engineer
5 19 (7.09%) Lead
6 15 (5.60%) Senior Developer
7 13 (4.85%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (4.48%) Analyst
9 10 (3.73%) Java Developer
9 10 (3.73%) Senior Java Developer
10 9 (3.36%) AWS Architect
10 9 (3.36%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 9 (3.36%) Snowflake Engineer
10 9 (3.36%) Technical Architect
11 8 (2.99%) AWS Data Engineer
11 8 (2.99%) Consultant
11 8 (2.99%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (2.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (2.99%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (11.19%) Kafka
2 27 (10.07%) Spring
3 26 (9.70%) Spring Boot
4 21 (7.84%) REST
5 20 (7.46%) RESTful
6 17 (6.34%) React
7 12 (4.48%) SOAP
8 11 (4.10%) .NET
8 11 (4.10%) PySpark
9 10 (3.73%) JSON
9 10 (3.73%) Node.js
10 9 (3.36%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (2.61%) OAuth
12 6 (2.24%) OpenTelemetry
12 6 (2.24%) Web Services
13 5 (1.87%) .NET Core
13 5 (1.87%) LangChain
14 4 (1.49%) GraphQL
14 4 (1.49%) Swagger
14 4 (1.49%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 69 (25.75%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.96%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (7.09%) AI Agents
4 13 (4.85%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.73%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.99%) Clustering
7 7 (2.61%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.87%) CMDB
8 5 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.87%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.49%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.49%) DataPower
9 4 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.49%) Online Banking
9 4 (1.49%) PKI
9 4 (1.49%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.12%) Equities
10 3 (1.12%) Reinsurance
10 3 (1.12%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.85%) Linux
2 12 (4.48%) Windows
3 8 (2.99%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.49%) Unix
4 4 (1.49%) zOS
5 2 (0.75%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.37%) AIX
6 1 (0.37%) Android
6 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.37%) CentOS
6 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.37%) Solaris
6 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.37%) VMS
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (42.16%) CI/CD
2 74 (27.61%) DevOps
3 62 (23.13%) AI
4 58 (21.64%) Agile
5 56 (20.90%) Infrastructure as Code
6 47 (17.54%) Containerisation
7 46 (17.16%) Microservices
8 43 (16.04%) Migration
9 39 (14.55%) Analytics
9 39 (14.55%) Data Modelling
9 39 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
10 38 (14.18%) Test Automation
11 37 (13.81%) Data Engineering
12 36 (13.43%) Event-Driven
13 32 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (11.57%) Machine Learning
14 31 (11.57%) Observability
15 30 (11.19%) Software Engineering
16 28 (10.45%) Data Pipeline
17 25 (9.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 98 (36.57%) Python
2 57 (21.27%) SQL
3 51 (19.03%) Java
4 19 (7.09%) C#
5 17 (6.34%) JavaScript
6 16 (5.97%) TypeScript
7 15 (5.60%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.10%) Bash
9 6 (2.24%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.87%) Ruby
11 4 (1.49%) Bicep
11 4 (1.49%) JCL
11 4 (1.49%) Korn
12 3 (1.12%) Scala
13 2 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.75%) Go
13 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.37%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.37%) Rust
14 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (22.01%) Security Cleared
2 48 (17.91%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.99%) Degree
3 8 (2.99%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.24%) AWS Certification
4 6 (2.24%) PMI Certification
4 6 (2.24%) PMP
5 3 (1.12%) CCNP
5 3 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.12%) CISM
5 3 (1.12%) CISSP
5 3 (1.12%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.12%) SnowPro
5 3 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.75%) CREST Certified
6 2 (0.75%) OSCP
7 1 (0.37%) CCNA
7 1 (0.37%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.09%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (4.85%) GDPR
3 13 (4.85%) NIST
3 13 (4.85%) QA
4 8 (2.99%) EU AI Act
5 5 (1.87%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.49%) NCSC
7 3 (1.12%) SLA
8 2 (0.75%) EMIR
8 2 (0.75%) MiFID
8 2 (0.75%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.75%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.37%) GRC
9 1 (0.37%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 19770
9 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.37%) PMO
9 1 (0.37%) SEPA
System Software
1 47 (17.54%) Docker
2 10 (3.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.99%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.12%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.12%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.12%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.12%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.75%) NFS
7 1 (0.37%) Firmware
7 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (20.90%) Kubernetes
2 49 (18.28%) Terraform
3 20 (7.46%) Ansible
4 13 (4.85%) Grafana
4 13 (4.85%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.87%) Puppet
6 4 (1.49%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.12%) Nagios
7 3 (1.12%) vMotion
8 2 (0.75%) SnapMirror
9 1 (0.37%) Argo
9 1 (0.37%) Bosun
9 1 (0.37%) Consul
9 1 (0.37%) Packer
9 1 (0.37%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.37%) Salt
9 1 (0.37%) SELinux
9 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (10.82%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.72%) Databricks
2 18 (6.72%) Google
3 14 (5.22%) Oracle
4 12 (4.48%) ServiceNow
5 11 (4.10%) VMware
6 10 (3.73%) Citrix
7 9 (3.36%) CyberArk
7 9 (3.36%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.61%) SAP
9 5 (1.87%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.49%) Cisco
10 4 (1.49%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.49%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.49%) Splunk
11 3 (1.12%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.12%) HP
11 3 (1.12%) IBM
11 3 (1.12%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.12%) Workday