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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 18 11
Rank change year-on-year +8 -7 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 240 188 290
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 13.33% 9.06% 11.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.87% 23.07% 27.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 121 216
10th Percentile £411 £425 £400
25th Percentile £486 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £551
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.45% -11.92%
75th Percentile £675 £664 £663
90th Percentile £795 £738 £753
Central London median daily rate £563 £575 £568
% change year-on-year -2.17% +1.32% -9.20%

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 753 815 1,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.81% 39.30% 41.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 516 759
10th Percentile £332 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £765 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 8
10th Percentile £32.30 £32.05 -
25th Percentile £35.88 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.78 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £52.13 £76.13 £40.69
90th Percentile £60.28 £85.95 £56.25
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%

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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 December 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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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 16 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.75%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.75%) Confluence
3 6 (2.50%) Apache
4 4 (1.67%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.42%) CICS
6 1 (0.42%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.42%) Luigi
6 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.42%) Notion
2 1 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.42%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 104 (43.33%) Azure
2 57 (23.75%) GCP
3 36 (15.00%) Amazon S3
4 33 (13.75%) AWS Lambda
4 33 (13.75%) Serverless
5 30 (12.50%) GitHub
6 25 (10.42%) Snowflake
7 20 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 18 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (5.83%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (5.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (5.42%) Power Platform
12 12 (5.00%) dbt
12 12 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (3.33%) SaaS
16 7 (2.92%) Apigee
17 6 (2.50%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.25%) Firewall
2 12 (5.00%) DNS
3 6 (2.50%) Network Security
4 5 (2.08%) VPN
5 4 (1.67%) SSL
5 4 (1.67%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.25%) DHCP
6 3 (1.25%) LAN
6 3 (1.25%) WAN
6 3 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.83%) 4G
7 2 (0.83%) 5G
7 2 (0.83%) BGP
7 2 (0.83%) NAS
7 2 (0.83%) OSPF
7 2 (0.83%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.83%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.42%) Cisco Wireless
8 1 (0.42%) DKIM
8 1 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.17%) Relational Database
2 17 (7.08%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.83%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (5.00%) Power BI
5 11 (4.58%) NoSQL
6 10 (4.17%) MySQL
7 9 (3.75%) DynamoDB
7 9 (3.75%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.33%) Data Lake
8 8 (3.33%) SQL Server
8 8 (3.33%) Tableau
9 7 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (2.50%) Big Data
11 5 (2.08%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (2.08%) Metadata
12 4 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (1.25%) DataStage
13 3 (1.25%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.25%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 29 (12.08%) Git
2 15 (6.25%) GitLab
3 14 (5.83%) Jenkins
3 14 (5.83%) JIRA
4 6 (2.50%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.67%) JUnit
6 3 (1.25%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.25%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.83%) MLflow
7 2 (0.83%) Mockito
7 2 (0.83%) Postman
7 2 (0.83%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.83%) Selenium
7 2 (0.83%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.83%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.83%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.42%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.42%) Snyk
8 1 (0.42%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.42%) Vite
General
1 86 (35.83%) Finance
2 50 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 32 (13.33%) Banking
4 24 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.50%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.58%) Front Office
7 7 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.50%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.50%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.08%) Legal
10 4 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.25%) Back Office
12 2 (0.83%) Law
12 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.83%) Marketing
12 2 (0.83%) Retail
12 2 (0.83%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.42%) Local Government
13 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 51 (21.25%) Architect
2 43 (17.92%) Senior
3 32 (13.33%) Developer
4 27 (11.25%) Data Engineer
5 24 (10.00%) Lead
6 19 (7.92%) AWS Engineer
7 16 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
9 14 (5.83%) AWS Architect
10 12 (5.00%) Python Engineer
11 11 (4.58%) Consultant
12 10 (4.17%) Security Architect
13 9 (3.75%) Senior Architect
14 7 (2.92%) AWS Security Architect
14 7 (2.92%) Data Architect
14 7 (2.92%) Java Developer
14 7 (2.92%) Security Engineer
14 7 (2.92%) Senior Data Engineer
15 6 (2.50%) AWS Data Engineer
15 6 (2.50%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.67%) React
2 15 (6.25%) Node.js
2 15 (6.25%) RESTful
3 13 (5.42%) Kafka
4 11 (4.58%) Spring
5 10 (4.17%) REST
6 9 (3.75%) .NET
6 9 (3.75%) OAuth
6 9 (3.75%) Spring Boot
7 8 (3.33%) AngularJS
7 8 (3.33%) CSS
7 8 (3.33%) HTML
7 8 (3.33%) scikit-learn
8 6 (2.50%) JWT
8 6 (2.50%) PyTorch
8 6 (2.50%) TensorFlow
8 6 (2.50%) XML
9 5 (2.08%) Pandas
9 5 (2.08%) PySpark
10 4 (1.67%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 38 (15.83%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 9 (3.75%) Algorithms
3 9 (3.75%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.75%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.92%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.50%) Derivative
7 5 (2.08%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.67%) Equities
8 4 (1.67%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.25%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.25%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.00%) Windows
2 10 (4.17%) Linux
3 4 (1.67%) Unix
3 4 (1.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.83%) Android
4 2 (0.83%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.83%) VMS
5 1 (0.42%) AIX
5 1 (0.42%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (32.08%) CI/CD
2 53 (22.08%) DevOps
3 51 (21.25%) Agile
4 44 (18.33%) Analytics
5 40 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (15.42%) Infrastructure as Code
7 33 (13.75%) Microservices
8 32 (13.33%) AI
9 30 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
10 29 (12.08%) Roadmaps
10 29 (12.08%) Software Engineering
11 28 (11.67%) Machine Learning
12 27 (11.25%) Containerisation
13 26 (10.83%) Migration
14 24 (10.00%) ETL
15 22 (9.17%) Data Engineering
15 22 (9.17%) Data Modelling
15 22 (9.17%) Data Pipeline
16 21 (8.75%) Cloud Security
17 19 (7.92%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 96 (40.00%) Python
2 65 (27.08%) SQL
3 46 (19.17%) Java
4 16 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 10 (4.17%) Bash
5 10 (4.17%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.50%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.08%) Go
8 3 (1.25%) C#
8 3 (1.25%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.25%) PHP
8 3 (1.25%) Scala
8 3 (1.25%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.83%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.83%) C++
9 2 (0.83%) Perl
9 2 (0.83%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.83%) PromQL
9 2 (0.83%) R
10 1 (0.42%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 43 (17.92%) Security Cleared
2 37 (15.42%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.83%) AWS Certification
3 14 (5.83%) Degree
4 6 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.67%) CISSP
5 4 (1.67%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.67%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.83%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.83%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.83%) PMP
7 2 (0.83%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.17%) Data Quality
2 17 (7.08%) GDPR
3 13 (5.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.75%) NIST
5 8 (3.33%) QA
6 6 (2.50%) PCI DSS
7 5 (2.08%) SLA
8 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.83%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.83%) NCSC
9 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.42%) DICOM
9 1 (0.42%) GRC
9 1 (0.42%) HL7
9 1 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.42%) PMO
9 1 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (16.25%) Docker
2 8 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.83%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.83%) vSphere
4 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.42%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 50 (20.83%) Terraform
2 32 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 16 (6.67%) Ansible
4 5 (2.08%) Grafana
4 5 (2.08%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.83%) Istio
6 2 (0.83%) Puppet
6 2 (0.83%) SCCM
7 1 (0.42%) CASB
7 1 (0.42%) Karpenter
7 1 (0.42%) Kibana
7 1 (0.42%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.42%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.42%) QRadar
7 1 (0.42%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 1 (0.42%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.42%) vRealize
7 1 (0.42%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 31 (12.92%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.33%) Databricks
3 15 (6.25%) Oracle
4 11 (4.58%) Google
5 9 (3.75%) IBM
5 9 (3.75%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.33%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.50%) Splunk
8 5 (2.08%) F5
8 5 (2.08%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.67%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.67%) Informatica
9 4 (1.67%) VMware
10 3 (1.25%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.25%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.25%) Tenable
11 2 (0.83%) Adobe
11 2 (0.83%) Cisco
11 2 (0.83%) Okta
11 2 (0.83%) Sage