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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 11 12
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 283 244 237
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 12.90% 14.03% 10.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.20% 32.28% 26.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 171 168
10th Percentile £369 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £666 £654 £675
90th Percentile £785 £720 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £546 £550
% change year-on-year +0.69% -0.68% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.50% - -
75th Percentile £76.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £74.50 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -25.50% - -

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 907 756 878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.34% 43.47% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 645 495 613
10th Percentile £350 £390 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% - -6.98%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £660
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £540
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 9
10th Percentile £31.88 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.44 £27.15 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £41.08 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% +82.56% -72.73%
75th Percentile £55.94 £87.19 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.53 £143.75 £54.95
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £34.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.88% +54.00% -57.14%

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 5 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the City of London

AWS
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 21 (7.42%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.53%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.12%) Apache
4 5 (1.77%) Confluence
5 3 (1.06%) CICS
6 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.71%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.35%) Camunda
7 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Notion
2 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.06%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.71%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 133 (47.00%) Azure
2 75 (26.50%) GCP
3 45 (15.90%) Serverless
4 44 (15.55%) GitHub
5 40 (14.13%) AWS Lambda
6 37 (13.07%) Amazon S3
7 27 (9.54%) Snowflake
8 23 (8.13%) Power Platform
9 21 (7.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (7.42%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (6.01%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (6.01%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (4.95%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (4.95%) dbt
12 12 (4.24%) SaaS
13 11 (3.89%) Amazon SageMaker
13 11 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (3.18%) Amazon Kinesis
16 8 (2.83%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.18%) Firewall
1 9 (3.18%) Network Security
2 5 (1.77%) DNS
3 3 (1.06%) VPN
4 2 (0.71%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.35%) 2G
5 1 (0.35%) 4G
5 1 (0.35%) 5G
5 1 (0.35%) BGP
5 1 (0.35%) DHCP
5 1 (0.35%) IPsec
5 1 (0.35%) LAN
5 1 (0.35%) NAS
5 1 (0.35%) OSPF
5 1 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.35%) SAN
5 1 (0.35%) SSL
5 1 (0.35%) VLAN
5 1 (0.35%) WAN
5 1 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.77%) DynamoDB
2 21 (7.42%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (6.36%) NoSQL
3 18 (6.36%) Power BI
4 16 (5.65%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (4.95%) Tableau
6 13 (4.59%) Relational Database
7 12 (4.24%) MongoDB
7 12 (4.24%) SQL Server
8 11 (3.89%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (3.89%) Metadata
9 9 (3.18%) Amazon Athena
9 9 (3.18%) Data Lake
10 8 (2.83%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (2.83%) DB2
10 8 (2.83%) MySQL
11 7 (2.47%) Big Data
12 6 (2.12%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (1.77%) Snowflake Schema
14 4 (1.41%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 35 (12.37%) Git
2 22 (7.77%) GitLab
3 19 (6.71%) Jenkins
4 14 (4.95%) JIRA
5 6 (2.12%) JUnit
6 5 (1.77%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.77%) Mockito
7 4 (1.41%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.06%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.06%) Gradle
8 3 (1.06%) Maven
8 3 (1.06%) Postman
9 2 (0.71%) Ant
9 2 (0.71%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.71%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.71%) Gatling
9 2 (0.71%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.71%) Mocha
9 2 (0.71%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.71%) webpack
General
1 97 (34.28%) Finance
2 67 (23.67%) Social Skills
3 39 (13.78%) Banking
4 28 (9.89%) Public Sector
5 22 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.30%) Financial Institution
7 11 (3.89%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (3.18%) Front Office
10 7 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.47%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.06%) Back Office
12 3 (1.06%) Retail
12 3 (1.06%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.71%) Advertising
13 2 (0.71%) Law
13 2 (0.71%) Legal
13 2 (0.71%) Marketing
13 2 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 60 (21.20%) Architect
2 41 (14.49%) Developer
3 35 (12.37%) Senior
4 29 (10.25%) Data Engineer
5 26 (9.19%) Lead
6 19 (6.71%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (6.36%) Solutions Architect
8 16 (5.65%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (4.59%) Project Manager
10 11 (3.89%) Java Developer
10 11 (3.89%) Migration Manager
10 11 (3.89%) Migration Project Manager
10 11 (3.89%) Senior Developer
11 10 (3.53%) Consultant
11 10 (3.53%) Python Engineer
11 10 (3.53%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 10 (3.53%) Snowflake Engineer
12 9 (3.18%) AWS Architect
12 9 (3.18%) Data Scientist
13 8 (2.83%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (10.95%) Kafka
2 21 (7.42%) REST
2 21 (7.42%) Spring
3 20 (7.07%) React
3 20 (7.07%) RESTful
3 20 (7.07%) Spring Boot
4 16 (5.65%) Node.js
5 10 (3.53%) JSON
6 9 (3.18%) .NET
6 9 (3.18%) OpenTelemetry
6 9 (3.18%) PyTorch
6 9 (3.18%) scikit-learn
7 8 (2.83%) OAuth
7 8 (2.83%) PySpark
7 8 (2.83%) SOAP
7 8 (2.83%) TensorFlow
8 7 (2.47%) AngularJS
8 7 (2.47%) boto
8 7 (2.47%) Pandas
9 6 (2.12%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 61 (21.55%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.83%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.30%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (4.24%) Algorithms
5 10 (3.53%) Equities
6 9 (3.18%) Security Posture
7 8 (2.83%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.83%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.83%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.47%) Derivative
9 6 (2.12%) Clustering
9 6 (2.12%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.12%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.12%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.41%) LIMS
10 4 (1.41%) NHS
11 3 (1.06%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.95%) Linux
2 12 (4.24%) Windows
3 3 (1.06%) Android
3 3 (1.06%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.06%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.06%) zOS
4 2 (0.71%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (0.71%) Unix
5 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (36.75%) CI/CD
2 66 (23.32%) DevOps
3 65 (22.97%) AI
4 62 (21.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 61 (21.55%) Agile
6 49 (17.31%) Migration
7 47 (16.61%) Analytics
8 46 (16.25%) Microservices
9 45 (15.90%) Machine Learning
10 42 (14.84%) Stakeholder Management
11 40 (14.13%) Containerisation
12 38 (13.43%) Data Pipeline
13 36 (12.72%) Data Modelling
14 35 (12.37%) Data Engineering
15 34 (12.01%) Observability
15 34 (12.01%) Problem-Solving
16 33 (11.66%) Software Engineering
17 32 (11.31%) Event-Driven
17 32 (11.31%) Roadmaps
17 32 (11.31%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 112 (39.58%) Python
2 80 (28.27%) SQL
3 54 (19.08%) Java
4 13 (4.59%) JavaScript
5 11 (3.89%) TypeScript
6 8 (2.83%) C#
7 6 (2.12%) Bash
7 6 (2.12%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.12%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.77%) Ruby
8 5 (1.77%) Scala
9 4 (1.41%) Go
10 3 (1.06%) JCL
10 3 (1.06%) Korn
10 3 (1.06%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.71%) Bicep
11 2 (0.71%) C++
11 2 (0.71%) PHP
11 2 (0.71%) R
12 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 60 (21.20%) Security Cleared
2 57 (20.14%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.59%) Degree
4 11 (3.89%) PMI Certification
4 11 (3.89%) PMP
5 8 (2.83%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.12%) CISSP
6 6 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.41%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.41%) CISM
7 4 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.06%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.06%) PhD
8 3 (1.06%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.71%) CCNP
9 2 (0.71%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.60%) Data Quality
2 24 (8.48%) GDPR
3 22 (7.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (6.71%) NIST
5 11 (3.89%) QA
6 8 (2.83%) SLA
7 7 (2.47%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.06%) NCSC
9 2 (0.71%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.71%) GRC
9 2 (0.71%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.71%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.71%) PSD2
9 2 (0.71%) SEPA
10 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.35%) DICOM
10 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.35%) HL7
10 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.35%) PMO
System Software
1 53 (18.73%) Docker
2 3 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.71%) NFS
3 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.71%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.71%) vSphere
4 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 59 (20.85%) Terraform
2 50 (17.67%) Kubernetes
3 17 (6.01%) Ansible
4 13 (4.59%) Grafana
5 9 (3.18%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.06%) Argo
6 3 (1.06%) Karpenter
6 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.71%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.35%) CASB
8 1 (0.35%) Istio
8 1 (0.35%) Kibana
8 1 (0.35%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.35%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.35%) QRadar
8 1 (0.35%) SCCM
8 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.35%) vRealize
8 1 (0.35%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 27 (9.54%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.36%) Databricks
3 16 (5.65%) Oracle
4 14 (4.95%) Google
5 12 (4.24%) CyberArk
5 12 (4.24%) IBM
6 7 (2.47%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.47%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.47%) Splunk
7 6 (2.12%) Informatica
8 5 (1.77%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.77%) VMware
9 4 (1.41%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.41%) SAP
10 3 (1.06%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.06%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.06%) Charles River
10 3 (1.06%) Citrix
10 3 (1.06%) Cognos
10 3 (1.06%) Sage