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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 10 13
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 266 262 233
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.59% 15.06% 10.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.72% 34.61% 27.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 179 165
10th Percentile £371 £407 £413
25th Percentile £463 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% -10.40%
75th Percentile £653 £653 £688
90th Percentile £764 £721 £795
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £65.73 - -
25th Percentile £66.81 - -
Median hourly rate £72.25 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.75% - -
75th Percentile £76.31 - -
90th Percentile £76.58 - -
Central London median hourly rate £72.25 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -27.75% - -

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 895 757 852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.00% 43.51% 39.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 478 595
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £458 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year - +1.38% -8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £668
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 6
10th Percentile £20.67 £24.39 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.81 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £40.64 £38.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.35% +71.44% -73.24%
75th Percentile £57.83 £61.56 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.18 £126.25 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £40.64 £34.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +17.29% +54.00% -72.99%

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 15 May 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 17 (6.39%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.26%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.26%) Confluence
3 5 (1.88%) Apache
4 4 (1.50%) CICS
5 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.75%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.38%) Camunda
6 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.38%) nginx
6 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.38%) Notion
2 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.13%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.13%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.13%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.75%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 108 (40.60%) Azure
2 58 (21.80%) GCP
3 47 (17.67%) Serverless
4 41 (15.41%) AWS Lambda
4 41 (15.41%) GitHub
5 34 (12.78%) Amazon S3
6 25 (9.40%) Snowflake
7 21 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (7.14%) Power Platform
9 18 (6.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (6.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (5.26%) SaaS
12 13 (4.89%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (4.51%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (4.51%) Amazon SageMaker
13 12 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (3.76%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (3.38%) Amazon Bedrock
15 9 (3.38%) Amazon Kinesis
15 9 (3.38%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.38%) Network Security
2 8 (3.01%) Firewall
3 5 (1.88%) DNS
4 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.75%) VPN
5 1 (0.38%) BGP
5 1 (0.38%) IPsec
5 1 (0.38%) NAS
5 1 (0.38%) NGFW
5 1 (0.38%) OSPF
5 1 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.38%) SAN
5 1 (0.38%) SSL
5 1 (0.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.89%) DynamoDB
2 17 (6.39%) NoSQL
2 17 (6.39%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.26%) Power BI
4 13 (4.89%) Tableau
5 12 (4.51%) Metadata
6 11 (4.14%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (3.76%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (3.76%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (3.01%) DB2
8 8 (3.01%) SQL Server
9 7 (2.63%) Data Lake
9 7 (2.63%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.63%) Snowflake Schema
10 6 (2.26%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.88%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.50%) Big Data
12 4 (1.50%) CockroachDB
12 4 (1.50%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 27 (10.15%) Git
2 22 (8.27%) GitLab
2 22 (8.27%) Jenkins
3 21 (7.89%) JIRA
4 7 (2.63%) Postman
5 5 (1.88%) JUnit
6 4 (1.50%) JMeter
6 4 (1.50%) Mockito
7 3 (1.13%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.13%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.13%) Gradle
7 3 (1.13%) Maven
8 2 (0.75%) Ant
8 2 (0.75%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.75%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.75%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.75%) Gatling
8 2 (0.75%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.75%) Mocha
8 2 (0.75%) webpack
General
1 87 (32.71%) Finance
2 57 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 36 (13.53%) Banking
4 28 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 20 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.51%) Financial Institution
7 10 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.63%) Front Office
9 7 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.63%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.13%) Back Office
10 3 (1.13%) Marketing
10 3 (1.13%) Military
10 3 (1.13%) Retail
11 2 (0.75%) Advertising
11 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.38%) Law
12 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (22.56%) Architect
2 37 (13.91%) Developer
3 31 (11.65%) Senior
4 25 (9.40%) Data Engineer
5 20 (7.52%) Lead
6 17 (6.39%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (5.64%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (4.89%) Senior Developer
9 12 (4.51%) Project Manager
9 12 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (4.14%) Migration Manager
10 11 (4.14%) Migration Project Manager
10 11 (4.14%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 11 (4.14%) Snowflake Engineer
11 10 (3.76%) AWS Architect
11 10 (3.76%) Consultant
11 10 (3.76%) Java Developer
12 9 (3.38%) Cloud Architect
12 9 (3.38%) Data Scientist
13 8 (3.01%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (12.03%) Kafka
2 26 (9.77%) Spring
3 25 (9.40%) Spring Boot
4 22 (8.27%) REST
5 21 (7.89%) React
6 17 (6.39%) RESTful
7 12 (4.51%) Node.js
8 11 (4.14%) .NET
8 11 (4.14%) JSON
8 11 (4.14%) PySpark
9 10 (3.76%) PyTorch
10 8 (3.01%) OpenTelemetry
10 8 (3.01%) SOAP
10 8 (3.01%) TensorFlow
11 7 (2.63%) boto
12 6 (2.26%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.26%) OAuth
12 6 (2.26%) Pandas
12 6 (2.26%) scikit-learn
12 6 (2.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 68 (25.56%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.65%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.51%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.38%) Equities
4 9 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.01%) AI Agents
5 8 (3.01%) Algorithms
5 8 (3.01%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.26%) Clustering
6 6 (2.26%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.88%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.88%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.88%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.50%) DataPower
8 4 (1.50%) Derivative
8 4 (1.50%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.50%) LIMS
8 4 (1.50%) NHS
8 4 (1.50%) Online Banking
8 4 (1.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.89%) Linux
2 9 (3.38%) Windows
3 4 (1.50%) Android
3 4 (1.50%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.50%) zOS
4 2 (0.75%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.38%) AIX
5 1 (0.38%) CentOS
5 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.38%) Solaris
5 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.38%) Unix
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (38.72%) CI/CD
2 72 (27.07%) DevOps
3 65 (24.44%) AI
4 63 (23.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (21.80%) Agile
6 48 (18.05%) Migration
7 47 (17.67%) Containerisation
8 39 (14.66%) Analytics
8 39 (14.66%) Machine Learning
8 39 (14.66%) Microservices
8 39 (14.66%) Observability
9 37 (13.91%) Stakeholder Management
10 35 (13.16%) Event-Driven
11 33 (12.41%) Data Engineering
12 32 (12.03%) Data Pipeline
12 32 (12.03%) Test Automation
13 29 (10.90%) Data Modelling
14 28 (10.53%) Roadmaps
15 27 (10.15%) Software Engineering
15 27 (10.15%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 105 (39.47%) Python
2 63 (23.68%) SQL
3 52 (19.55%) Java
4 15 (5.64%) JavaScript
5 13 (4.89%) TypeScript
6 11 (4.14%) C#
7 10 (3.76%) Bash
8 7 (2.63%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.26%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.88%) Ruby
10 5 (1.88%) Scala
11 4 (1.50%) JCL
12 3 (1.13%) Bicep
12 3 (1.13%) Go
12 3 (1.13%) Korn
12 3 (1.13%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.38%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.38%) C
14 1 (0.38%) R
Qualifications
1 67 (25.19%) Security Cleared
2 63 (23.68%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.51%) PMI Certification
3 12 (4.51%) PMP
4 9 (3.38%) Degree
5 8 (3.01%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.26%) CISSP
7 4 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.50%) CISM
7 4 (1.50%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.13%) PhD
9 2 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.75%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.75%) CCNP
9 2 (0.75%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.75%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.27%) Data Quality
2 21 (7.89%) GDPR
2 21 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (7.52%) NIST
4 8 (3.01%) SLA
5 7 (2.63%) QA
6 6 (2.26%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.88%) NCSC
8 3 (1.13%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.13%) NIST 800
8 3 (1.13%) SEPA
9 2 (0.75%) EMIR
9 2 (0.75%) GRC
9 2 (0.75%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.75%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.75%) MiFID
9 2 (0.75%) PSD2
10 1 (0.38%) DICOM
10 1 (0.38%) HL7
10 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 47 (17.67%) Docker
2 3 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.75%) NFS
4 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (19.17%) Kubernetes
2 49 (18.42%) Terraform
3 16 (6.02%) Ansible
3 16 (6.02%) Grafana
4 14 (5.26%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.13%) Argo
5 3 (1.13%) Karpenter
6 2 (0.75%) Puppet
6 2 (0.75%) SnapMirror
7 1 (0.38%) Consul
7 1 (0.38%) Kibana
7 1 (0.38%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.38%) QRadar
7 1 (0.38%) Salt
7 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (7.52%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.26%) Databricks
3 11 (4.14%) CyberArk
3 11 (4.14%) Google
4 9 (3.38%) Oracle
5 8 (3.01%) IBM
5 8 (3.01%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.01%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.63%) Citrix
6 7 (2.63%) Splunk
7 5 (1.88%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.88%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.88%) SAP
8 4 (1.50%) VMware
9 3 (1.13%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.13%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.13%) Charles River
9 3 (1.13%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.13%) Informatica
9 3 (1.13%) Palo Alto