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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 11 15
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 266 228 200
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.76% 13.01% 9.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.45% 32.29% 23.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 160 124
10th Percentile £425 £410 £425
25th Percentile £480 £479 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £700
90th Percentile £769 £800 £834
Central London median daily rate £555 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.13% +1.74% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £56.00 - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile £74.00 - -
Central London median hourly rate £65.00 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -35.00% - -

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 935 706 851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.35% 40.27% 40.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 668 489 563
10th Percentile £363 £332 £377
25th Percentile £456 £434 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% -1.75%
75th Percentile £656 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £751 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £557
% change year-on-year - -1.17% -1.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 3
10th Percentile £18.33 £23.75 -
25th Percentile £20.25 £25.71 -
Median hourly rate £23.58 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.65% +25.93% +30.12%
75th Percentile £38.69 £61.16 £59.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £88.75 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +68.67%

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 19 September 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 22 (8.27%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.38%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.38%) Confluence
3 7 (2.63%) Apache
4 5 (1.88%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.75%) CICS
6 2 (0.75%) nginx
6 2 (0.75%) SAS
7 1 (0.38%) Camunda
7 1 (0.38%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.38%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.38%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.13%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.75%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.38%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.38%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 115 (43.23%) Azure
2 63 (23.68%) GCP
3 43 (16.17%) Serverless
4 41 (15.41%) GitHub
5 37 (13.91%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (12.78%) Amazon S3
7 31 (11.65%) Snowflake
8 24 (9.02%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (6.77%) Amazon Bedrock
9 18 (6.77%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (6.77%) dbt
10 15 (5.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (5.64%) SaaS
11 14 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
12 13 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (4.89%) Power Platform
13 12 (4.51%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (4.14%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (3.76%) OpenShift
16 9 (3.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.02%) DNS
1 16 (6.02%) Firewall
2 9 (3.38%) DHCP
2 9 (3.38%) VPN
3 6 (2.26%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.88%) BGP
5 4 (1.50%) Network Security
5 4 (1.50%) OSPF
5 4 (1.50%) VLAN
6 3 (1.13%) MPLS
6 3 (1.13%) Multicast
6 3 (1.13%) SMTP
7 2 (0.75%) Internet
7 2 (0.75%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.75%) IPsec
7 2 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.75%) SSH
7 2 (0.75%) WAN
7 2 (0.75%) Wireless
7 2 (0.75%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.77%) Amazon RDS
1 18 (6.77%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (6.02%) Amazon Athena
3 13 (4.89%) NoSQL
4 12 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (4.51%) Power BI
5 11 (4.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (4.14%) DynamoDB
6 10 (3.76%) Metadata
7 9 (3.38%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.01%) Delta Lake
9 7 (2.63%) Big Data
9 7 (2.63%) SQL Server
10 6 (2.26%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.26%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.88%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (1.88%) Pinecone
11 5 (1.88%) Tableau
12 4 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.50%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (11.28%) GitLab
2 27 (10.15%) Jenkins
3 23 (8.65%) Git
4 20 (7.52%) JIRA
5 9 (3.38%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.63%) Postman
7 6 (2.26%) JMeter
7 6 (2.26%) JUnit
7 6 (2.26%) Maven
8 5 (1.88%) Mockito
9 3 (1.13%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.13%) Gradle
9 3 (1.13%) Selenium
10 2 (0.75%) Appium
10 2 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.75%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.75%) Gatling
10 2 (0.75%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.75%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.38%) Terragrunt
General
1 94 (35.34%) Finance
2 66 (24.81%) Social Skills
3 41 (15.41%) Banking
4 36 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (10.53%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.63%) Back Office
7 7 (2.63%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.88%) Front Office
9 5 (1.88%) Military
9 5 (1.88%) Retail
10 4 (1.50%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.50%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.13%) Billing
11 3 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.13%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.13%) Marketing
11 3 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (22.18%) Architect
2 55 (20.68%) Senior
3 29 (10.90%) Data Engineer
4 27 (10.15%) Developer
5 24 (9.02%) AWS Engineer
6 23 (8.65%) Lead
7 13 (4.89%) Senior Data Engineer
7 13 (4.89%) Senior Developer
8 12 (4.51%) Analyst
8 12 (4.51%) Data Architect
8 12 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (4.14%) AWS Data Engineer
10 8 (3.01%) AWS Architect
10 8 (3.01%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (3.01%) Consultant
10 8 (3.01%) Data Analyst
10 8 (3.01%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (3.01%) Java Developer
10 8 (3.01%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (3.01%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (20.68%) Terraform
2 29 (10.90%) Kafka
3 26 (9.77%) REST
4 25 (9.40%) Spring
5 24 (9.02%) Spring Boot
6 14 (5.26%) RESTful
7 12 (4.51%) .NET
7 12 (4.51%) PySpark
7 12 (4.51%) React
7 12 (4.51%) SOAP
8 10 (3.76%) RabbitMQ
9 9 (3.38%) Node.js
10 8 (3.01%) ActiveMQ
11 7 (2.63%) .NET Core
11 7 (2.63%) JSON
12 6 (2.26%) LangChain
12 6 (2.26%) OAuth
12 6 (2.26%) OpenTelemetry
12 6 (2.26%) Web Services
13 5 (1.88%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 72 (27.07%) Cloud Native
2 24 (9.02%) AI Agents
3 21 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (6.02%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.14%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.26%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.88%) Clustering
7 5 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.50%) CMDB
8 4 (1.50%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.50%) PKI
8 4 (1.50%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.50%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 3 (1.13%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.13%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.26%) Linux
2 12 (4.51%) Windows
3 9 (3.38%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.50%) Unix
5 2 (0.75%) zOS
6 1 (0.38%) AIX
6 1 (0.38%) Android
6 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.38%) CentOS
6 1 (0.38%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.38%) Solaris
6 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.38%) VMS
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (45.11%) CI/CD
2 76 (28.57%) DevOps
3 66 (24.81%) AI
4 59 (22.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 53 (19.92%) Agile
6 47 (17.67%) Containerisation
7 45 (16.92%) Microservices
8 44 (16.54%) Data Engineering
8 44 (16.54%) Migration
8 44 (16.54%) Stakeholder Management
9 43 (16.17%) Analytics
10 41 (15.41%) Event-Driven
11 39 (14.66%) Data Modelling
12 33 (12.41%) Data Pipeline
12 33 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (12.41%) Test Automation
13 32 (12.03%) Observability
14 31 (11.65%) Software Engineering
15 30 (11.28%) Machine Learning
16 28 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 98 (36.84%) Python
2 57 (21.43%) SQL
3 48 (18.05%) Java
4 18 (6.77%) C#
5 16 (6.02%) PowerShell
6 15 (5.64%) TypeScript
7 14 (5.26%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.51%) Bash
9 4 (1.50%) Bicep
9 4 (1.50%) Korn
9 4 (1.50%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.13%) Ruby
10 3 (1.13%) Scala
11 2 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.75%) Go
11 2 (0.75%) JCL
11 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.38%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 53 (19.92%) Security Cleared
2 40 (15.04%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.38%) AWS Certification
3 9 (3.38%) Degree
3 9 (3.38%) DV Cleared
4 5 (1.88%) TOGAF Certification
5 4 (1.50%) PMI Certification
5 4 (1.50%) PMP
6 3 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.13%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.13%) CCNP
6 3 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.13%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.13%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.75%) CISM
7 2 (0.75%) CISSP
7 2 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.75%) CREST Certified
7 2 (0.75%) OSCP
7 2 (0.75%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.90%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.89%) QA
3 10 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.38%) NIST
5 8 (3.01%) EU AI Act
6 7 (2.63%) GDPR
7 5 (1.88%) NCSC
8 3 (1.13%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.13%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.13%) SEPA
9 2 (0.75%) EMIR
9 2 (0.75%) MiFID
9 2 (0.75%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.75%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.38%) GRC
10 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 19770
10 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.38%) PMO
10 1 (0.38%) PSD2
System Software
1 45 (16.92%) Docker
2 9 (3.38%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.13%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.13%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.13%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.13%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.38%) Firmware
5 1 (0.38%) NFS
5 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 60 (22.56%) Kubernetes
2 24 (9.02%) Ansible
3 15 (5.64%) Grafana
4 14 (5.26%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.88%) Puppet
6 4 (1.50%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.13%) Nagios
7 3 (1.13%) vMotion
8 1 (0.38%) Argo
8 1 (0.38%) Bosun
8 1 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.38%) Consul
8 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.38%) Packer
8 1 (0.38%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.38%) Salt
8 1 (0.38%) SELinux
8 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.38%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 29 (10.90%) Microsoft
2 28 (10.53%) Databricks
3 19 (7.14%) Google
4 16 (6.02%) Oracle
5 10 (3.76%) Citrix
5 10 (3.76%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.76%) VMware
6 8 (3.01%) Cisco
7 7 (2.63%) Palo Alto
7 7 (2.63%) SAP
8 6 (2.26%) Fortinet
8 6 (2.26%) IBM
9 5 (1.88%) CyberArk
9 5 (1.88%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.88%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.50%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.13%) HP
11 3 (1.13%) Splunk
11 3 (1.13%) Symantec
11 3 (1.13%) Workday