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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 274 253 204
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.52% 13.45% 9.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.87% 32.60% 24.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 177 129
10th Percentile £425 £404 £425
25th Percentile £474 £475 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £700
90th Percentile £756 £793 £830
Central London median daily rate £550 £578 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% -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 949 776 840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.89% 41.25% 40.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 653 513 587
10th Percentile £363 £355 £383
25th Percentile £460 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £755 £765
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.93 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.42% +28.33% -22.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.57 £59.75
90th Percentile £75.35 £97.75 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £36.25 £34.33 £27.00
% change year-on-year +5.61% +27.13% -22.86%

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 10 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 15 (5.47%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.92%) Confluence
3 6 (2.19%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.46%) Apache
4 4 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.46%) CICS
5 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.73%) nginx
6 2 (0.73%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.36%) Camunda
7 1 (0.36%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.36%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.82%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.73%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.36%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.36%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.36%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 109 (39.78%) Azure
2 60 (21.90%) GCP
3 45 (16.42%) Serverless
4 41 (14.96%) GitHub
5 40 (14.60%) AWS Lambda
6 35 (12.77%) Amazon S3
7 26 (9.49%) Snowflake
8 23 (8.39%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (7.30%) Power Platform
10 17 (6.20%) Amazon Bedrock
10 17 (6.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (5.84%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (5.84%) SaaS
12 13 (4.74%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (4.74%) Amazon Kinesis
13 12 (4.38%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (4.01%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (4.01%) PaaS
15 10 (3.65%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.47%) Firewall
2 14 (5.11%) DNS
3 7 (2.55%) DHCP
3 7 (2.55%) VPN
4 5 (1.82%) Network Security
4 5 (1.82%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.09%) SMTP
6 2 (0.73%) BGP
6 2 (0.73%) NGFW
6 2 (0.73%) OSPF
6 2 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.73%) SSH
6 2 (0.73%) VLAN
6 2 (0.73%) X.509
7 1 (0.36%) Internet
7 1 (0.36%) IPsec
7 1 (0.36%) NAS
7 1 (0.36%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.36%) SAN
7 1 (0.36%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.57%) Amazon RDS
1 18 (6.57%) DynamoDB
2 17 (6.20%) Power BI
3 16 (5.84%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (5.11%) NoSQL
5 13 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (4.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (3.28%) Tableau
9 8 (2.92%) Big Data
9 8 (2.92%) Metadata
9 8 (2.92%) MongoDB
9 8 (2.92%) SQL Server
10 7 (2.55%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (1.82%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.82%) Db2
11 5 (1.82%) Pinecone
11 5 (1.82%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.46%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.46%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 31 (11.31%) GitLab
2 28 (10.22%) Jenkins
3 27 (9.85%) Git
4 21 (7.66%) JIRA
5 9 (3.28%) Postman
6 8 (2.92%) JUnit
7 6 (2.19%) Mockito
8 5 (1.82%) JMeter
9 4 (1.46%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.46%) Claude Code
9 4 (1.46%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.46%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.46%) Maven
10 3 (1.09%) Gradle
10 3 (1.09%) Selenium
11 2 (0.73%) Appium
11 2 (0.73%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.73%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.73%) Mocha
11 2 (0.73%) webpack
General
1 88 (32.12%) Finance
2 64 (23.36%) Social Skills
3 36 (13.14%) Banking
4 30 (10.95%) Public Sector
5 29 (10.58%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.28%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.55%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.19%) Front Office
9 6 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.82%) Back Office
10 5 (1.82%) Retail
11 4 (1.46%) Military
11 4 (1.46%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.09%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.73%) Advertising
13 2 (0.73%) Marketing
14 1 (0.36%) Law
Job Titles
1 59 (21.53%) Architect
2 48 (17.52%) Senior
3 33 (12.04%) Developer
4 24 (8.76%) Data Engineer
5 18 (6.57%) AWS Engineer
5 18 (6.57%) Lead
6 15 (5.47%) Senior Developer
7 13 (4.74%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (4.38%) Analyst
9 10 (3.65%) Java Developer
9 10 (3.65%) Senior Java Developer
10 9 (3.28%) Consultant
10 9 (3.28%) Data Architect
10 9 (3.28%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (3.28%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 9 (3.28%) Snowflake Engineer
10 9 (3.28%) Technical Architect
11 8 (2.92%) AWS Architect
11 8 (2.92%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (2.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (10.58%) Kafka
2 27 (9.85%) Spring
3 26 (9.49%) Spring Boot
4 22 (8.03%) REST
5 20 (7.30%) RESTful
6 18 (6.57%) React
7 12 (4.38%) .NET
7 12 (4.38%) SOAP
8 11 (4.01%) Node.js
8 11 (4.01%) PySpark
9 10 (3.65%) JSON
10 9 (3.28%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (2.19%) OAuth
11 6 (2.19%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (2.19%) PyTorch
11 6 (2.19%) Web Services
12 5 (1.82%) GraphQL
12 5 (1.82%) LangChain
12 5 (1.82%) Middleware
12 5 (1.82%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 68 (24.82%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.76%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.30%) AI Agents
4 13 (4.74%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.92%) Clustering
6 8 (2.92%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.92%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.82%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.82%) Equities
7 5 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.82%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.46%) DataPower
8 4 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.46%) LIMS
8 4 (1.46%) Online Banking
8 4 (1.46%) PKI
8 4 (1.46%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.09%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.74%) Linux
2 11 (4.01%) Windows
3 8 (2.92%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.46%) zOS
5 3 (1.09%) Unix
6 2 (0.73%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.36%) AIX
7 1 (0.36%) Android
7 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.36%) CentOS
7 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.36%) Solaris
7 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.36%) VMS
7 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (39.78%) CI/CD
2 72 (26.28%) DevOps
3 62 (22.63%) AI
4 56 (20.44%) Agile
5 55 (20.07%) Infrastructure as Code
6 47 (17.15%) Containerisation
6 47 (17.15%) Microservices
7 43 (15.69%) Migration
8 40 (14.60%) Analytics
9 38 (13.87%) Data Modelling
9 38 (13.87%) Test Automation
10 37 (13.50%) Event-Driven
11 35 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
12 34 (12.41%) Data Engineering
13 33 (12.04%) Observability
14 32 (11.68%) Machine Learning
15 30 (10.95%) Problem-Solving
16 29 (10.58%) Software Engineering
17 26 (9.49%) Data Pipeline
18 25 (9.12%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 98 (35.77%) Python
2 57 (20.80%) SQL
3 51 (18.61%) Java
4 20 (7.30%) C#
5 18 (6.57%) JavaScript
6 17 (6.20%) TypeScript
7 15 (5.47%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.38%) Bash
9 6 (2.19%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.82%) Ruby
11 4 (1.46%) Bicep
11 4 (1.46%) Go
11 4 (1.46%) JCL
11 4 (1.46%) Korn
12 3 (1.09%) Scala
13 2 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.36%) R
14 1 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 63 (22.99%) Security Cleared
2 54 (19.71%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.92%) Degree
4 7 (2.55%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.19%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.19%) PMI Certification
5 6 (2.19%) PMP
6 5 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.82%) CISSP
7 4 (1.46%) CCNP
7 4 (1.46%) CISM
8 3 (1.09%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.73%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.73%) OSCP
9 2 (0.73%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.20%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (4.74%) GDPR
3 13 (4.74%) NIST
3 13 (4.74%) QA
4 8 (2.92%) EU AI Act
5 5 (1.82%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.46%) NCSC
7 3 (1.09%) NIST 800
7 3 (1.09%) SLA
8 2 (0.73%) EMIR
8 2 (0.73%) MiFID
8 2 (0.73%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.36%) GRC
9 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.36%) PMO
9 1 (0.36%) SEPA
System Software
1 50 (18.25%) Docker
2 9 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.92%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.09%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.09%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.09%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.09%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.73%) NFS
7 1 (0.36%) Firmware
7 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (20.80%) Kubernetes
2 51 (18.61%) Terraform
3 23 (8.39%) Ansible
4 14 (5.11%) Grafana
5 13 (4.74%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.82%) Puppet
7 4 (1.46%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.09%) Nagios
8 3 (1.09%) vMotion
9 2 (0.73%) SnapMirror
10 1 (0.36%) Argo
10 1 (0.36%) Bosun
10 1 (0.36%) Consul
10 1 (0.36%) Packer
10 1 (0.36%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.36%) QRadar
10 1 (0.36%) Salt
10 1 (0.36%) SELinux
10 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (9.85%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.20%) Google
3 15 (5.47%) Databricks
4 11 (4.01%) Oracle
4 11 (4.01%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.65%) Citrix
6 9 (3.28%) CyberArk
6 9 (3.28%) Salesforce
6 9 (3.28%) VMware
7 6 (2.19%) SAP
7 6 (2.19%) Splunk
8 5 (1.82%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.82%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.82%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.46%) Cisco
10 3 (1.09%) HP
10 3 (1.09%) IBM
10 3 (1.09%) Informatica
10 3 (1.09%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.09%) Symantec