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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 13 10
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 242 204 261
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 12.87% 10.89% 10.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.27% 27.02% 27.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 142 194
10th Percentile £356 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +1.36% -14.46%
75th Percentile £669 £668 £650
90th Percentile £800 £736 £743
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -13.11%

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 774 755 942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.17% 40.29% 38.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 480 683
10th Percentile £348 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £739 £738
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 12
10th Percentile £26.66 - £13.18
25th Percentile £34.19 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.64 - £20.75
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.00%
75th Percentile £46.11 - £40.69
90th Percentile £49.83 - £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -27.23% +68.67% -11.70%

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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 31 January 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 18 (7.44%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.72%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.07%) Apache
4 4 (1.65%) Confluence
5 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.41%) Notion
3 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.41%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.41%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 106 (43.80%) Azure
2 61 (25.21%) GCP
3 42 (17.36%) Serverless
4 40 (16.53%) AWS Lambda
5 34 (14.05%) Amazon S3
6 31 (12.81%) GitHub
7 24 (9.92%) Snowflake
8 18 (7.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 18 (7.44%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (7.02%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (7.02%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (6.61%) Power Platform
11 15 (6.20%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (4.96%) dbt
13 10 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (3.31%) Apigee
14 8 (3.31%) OpenShift
14 8 (3.31%) SaaS
14 8 (3.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.55%) Firewall
2 10 (4.13%) DNS
3 7 (2.89%) Network Security
4 3 (1.24%) DHCP
5 2 (0.83%) 4G
5 2 (0.83%) 5G
5 2 (0.83%) BGP
5 2 (0.83%) LAN
5 2 (0.83%) OSPF
5 2 (0.83%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.83%) SSL
5 2 (0.83%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.83%) VPN
5 2 (0.83%) WAN
5 2 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.83%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.41%) Cisco Wireless
6 1 (0.41%) DKIM
6 1 (0.41%) NAS
6 1 (0.41%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.02%) Relational Database
2 15 (6.20%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.79%) Power BI
4 13 (5.37%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (5.37%) DynamoDB
5 11 (4.55%) MySQL
5 11 (4.55%) NoSQL
6 10 (4.13%) SQL Server
6 10 (4.13%) Tableau
7 9 (3.72%) Data Lake
8 8 (3.31%) Metadata
9 7 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (2.89%) MongoDB
10 6 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (2.07%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (2.07%) Big Data
12 4 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (1.65%) CockroachDB
13 3 (1.24%) Amazon QuickSight
13 3 (1.24%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 28 (11.57%) Git
2 18 (7.44%) GitLab
3 15 (6.20%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.13%) JIRA
5 4 (1.65%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.65%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.65%) JUnit
6 3 (1.24%) Gatling
6 3 (1.24%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.83%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.83%) ERwin
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%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.41%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.41%) Hamcrest
8 1 (0.41%) Selenium
8 1 (0.41%) Terragrunt
General
1 86 (35.54%) Finance
2 56 (23.14%) Social Skills
3 34 (14.05%) Banking
4 21 (8.68%) Public Sector
5 18 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.13%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (3.72%) Financial Institution
7 9 (3.72%) Front Office
8 6 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.48%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.65%) Marketing
11 3 (1.24%) Legal
11 3 (1.24%) Retail
12 2 (0.83%) Back Office
12 2 (0.83%) Law
12 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.83%) Military
13 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (20.66%) Architect
2 36 (14.88%) Senior
3 30 (12.40%) Developer
4 26 (10.74%) Data Engineer
4 26 (10.74%) Lead
5 20 (8.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (7.02%) AWS Engineer
6 17 (7.02%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (4.96%) Python Engineer
8 11 (4.55%) AWS Architect
9 10 (4.13%) Project Manager
10 9 (3.72%) Security Architect
10 9 (3.72%) Senior Architect
11 8 (3.31%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (3.31%) Consultant
12 7 (2.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 7 (2.89%) Cloud Architect
12 7 (2.89%) Enterprise Architect
13 6 (2.48%) Java Developer
13 6 (2.48%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.61%) React
2 15 (6.20%) Node.js
3 14 (5.79%) Kafka
4 13 (5.37%) REST
5 11 (4.55%) .NET
5 11 (4.55%) RESTful
6 9 (3.72%) HTML
6 9 (3.72%) OAuth
6 9 (3.72%) scikit-learn
6 9 (3.72%) Spring
7 8 (3.31%) AngularJS
7 8 (3.31%) CSS
7 8 (3.31%) NumPy
7 8 (3.31%) Pandas
7 8 (3.31%) Spring Boot
8 7 (2.89%) PyTorch
9 6 (2.48%) boto
9 6 (2.48%) PySpark
9 6 (2.48%) TensorFlow
10 5 (2.07%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 47 (19.42%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.13%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.72%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.31%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.89%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.48%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.48%) Derivative
7 6 (2.48%) Equities
8 5 (2.07%) Fixed Income
8 5 (2.07%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.65%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.24%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.24%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.96%) Linux
2 11 (4.55%) Windows
3 3 (1.24%) Unix
3 3 (1.24%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.41%) Android
4 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (35.54%) CI/CD
2 53 (21.90%) DevOps
3 52 (21.49%) Agile
4 49 (20.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (18.60%) AI
6 41 (16.94%) Analytics
7 36 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (14.05%) Machine Learning
9 33 (13.64%) Microservices
9 33 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (13.22%) Migration
11 31 (12.81%) Software Engineering
12 30 (12.40%) Containerisation
12 30 (12.40%) Data Pipeline
13 29 (11.98%) Data Modelling
14 28 (11.57%) ETL
15 27 (11.16%) Roadmaps
16 24 (9.92%) Data Engineering
16 24 (9.92%) Generative AI
16 24 (9.92%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 98 (40.50%) Python
2 68 (28.10%) SQL
3 43 (17.77%) Java
4 14 (5.79%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.89%) Bash
6 6 (2.48%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.07%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.65%) C#
8 4 (1.65%) PHP
9 3 (1.24%) Korn
9 3 (1.24%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.24%) Ruby
9 3 (1.24%) Scala
10 2 (0.83%) C++
10 2 (0.83%) Go
10 2 (0.83%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.83%) Perl
10 2 (0.83%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.41%) ProC
11 1 (0.41%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 50 (20.66%) Security Cleared
2 46 (19.01%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.96%) Degree
4 10 (4.13%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.89%) PMI Certification
6 7 (2.89%) PMP
7 4 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.24%) CISSP
8 3 (1.24%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.83%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.83%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.83%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.41%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.33%) Data Quality
2 23 (9.50%) GDPR
3 15 (6.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.13%) NIST
5 8 (3.31%) QA
6 6 (2.48%) SLA
7 4 (1.65%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.24%) NCSC
9 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.83%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.83%) GRC
9 2 (0.83%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.83%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.83%) PSD2
9 2 (0.83%) SEPA
10 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.41%) DICOM
10 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.41%) HL7
10 1 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 44 (18.18%) Docker
2 4 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.83%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.83%) vSphere
4 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.41%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 54 (22.31%) Terraform
2 38 (15.70%) Kubernetes
3 17 (7.02%) Ansible
4 8 (3.31%) Grafana
5 6 (2.48%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.24%) Argo
8 3 (1.24%) Karpenter
9 2 (0.83%) Istio
9 2 (0.83%) SCCM
10 1 (0.41%) CASB
10 1 (0.41%) Kibana
10 1 (0.41%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.41%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.41%) Puppet
10 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.41%) vRealize
10 1 (0.41%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 31 (12.81%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.09%) Databricks
3 17 (7.02%) Oracle
4 12 (4.96%) Google
5 8 (3.31%) IBM
5 8 (3.31%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.89%) CyberArk
6 7 (2.89%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.07%) Splunk
8 4 (1.65%) Informatica
9 3 (1.24%) Cognos
9 3 (1.24%) Confluent
9 3 (1.24%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.24%) F5
9 3 (1.24%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.24%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.24%) Sage
9 3 (1.24%) SAP
9 3 (1.24%) VMware
10 2 (0.83%) Tenable