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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 271 255 229
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.78% 14.51% 10.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.98% 33.51% 26.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 175 165
10th Percentile £371 £413 £414
25th Percentile £463 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -9.60%
75th Percentile £653 £664 £688
90th Percentile £774 £723 £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 904 761 854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.30% 43.31% 39.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 488 606
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £450 £462 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £674
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £533
% change year-on-year - +3.29% -7.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 6
10th Percentile £20.67 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.81 £29.64 £14.88
Median hourly rate £40.64 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +88.89% -73.24%
75th Percentile £57.83 £74.38 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.18 £135.00 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £39.00 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +11.99% +54.78% -72.73%

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 6 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 16 (5.90%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.32%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.21%) Apache
3 6 (2.21%) Confluence
4 4 (1.48%) CICS
5 2 (0.74%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.74%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.37%) Camunda
6 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.37%) nginx
6 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.37%) Notion
1 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.11%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.74%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 118 (43.54%) Azure
2 66 (24.35%) GCP
3 43 (15.87%) Serverless
4 42 (15.50%) GitHub
5 38 (14.02%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (12.55%) Amazon S3
7 23 (8.49%) Snowflake
8 21 (7.75%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (7.75%) Power Platform
9 18 (6.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (6.27%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (4.80%) Amazon SageMaker
12 12 (4.43%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (4.43%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (4.43%) SaaS
13 11 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (3.69%) Amazon Kinesis
15 9 (3.32%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (3.32%) dbt
16 8 (2.95%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.69%) Firewall
2 8 (2.95%) Network Security
3 6 (2.21%) DNS
4 3 (1.11%) VPN
5 2 (0.74%) NAS
5 2 (0.74%) SAN
5 2 (0.74%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.37%) BGP
6 1 (0.37%) DHCP
6 1 (0.37%) IPsec
6 1 (0.37%) LAN
6 1 (0.37%) NGFW
6 1 (0.37%) OSPF
6 1 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.37%) SSL
6 1 (0.37%) VLAN
6 1 (0.37%) WAN
6 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.75%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (7.38%) DynamoDB
3 17 (6.27%) NoSQL
4 16 (5.90%) Power BI
5 13 (4.80%) Metadata
5 13 (4.80%) Tableau
6 11 (4.06%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.69%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (3.69%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (3.32%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (3.32%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.95%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.95%) DB2
9 8 (2.95%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.21%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (1.85%) Big Data
11 5 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (1.48%) CockroachDB
12 4 (1.48%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 32 (11.81%) Git
2 23 (8.49%) GitLab
3 21 (7.75%) Jenkins
4 19 (7.01%) JIRA
5 7 (2.58%) Postman
6 6 (2.21%) JUnit
7 5 (1.85%) Mockito
8 4 (1.48%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.48%) JMeter
9 3 (1.11%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.11%) Gradle
9 3 (1.11%) Maven
10 2 (0.74%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.74%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.74%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.74%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.74%) Gatling
10 2 (0.74%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.74%) Mocha
10 2 (0.74%) webpack
General
1 93 (34.32%) Finance
2 63 (23.25%) Social Skills
3 38 (14.02%) Banking
4 28 (10.33%) Public Sector
5 22 (8.12%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.80%) Financial Institution
7 10 (3.69%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.95%) Front Office
8 8 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.58%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.11%) Back Office
11 3 (1.11%) Military
12 2 (0.74%) Advertising
12 2 (0.74%) Law
12 2 (0.74%) Marketing
12 2 (0.74%) Retail
12 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.37%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 60 (22.14%) Architect
2 42 (15.50%) Developer
3 33 (12.18%) Senior
4 25 (9.23%) Data Engineer
5 22 (8.12%) Lead
6 15 (5.54%) AWS Engineer
6 15 (5.54%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (4.80%) Project Manager
7 13 (4.80%) Senior Developer
7 13 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (4.06%) Java Developer
8 11 (4.06%) Migration Manager
8 11 (4.06%) Migration Project Manager
9 10 (3.69%) Consultant
9 10 (3.69%) Data Scientist
9 10 (3.69%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 10 (3.69%) Snowflake Engineer
10 9 (3.32%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (2.95%) AWS Architect
11 8 (2.95%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.18%) Kafka
2 27 (9.96%) Spring
3 26 (9.59%) Spring Boot
4 23 (8.49%) React
5 22 (8.12%) REST
6 19 (7.01%) RESTful
7 13 (4.80%) Node.js
8 12 (4.43%) JSON
9 10 (3.69%) .NET
9 10 (3.69%) PySpark
10 9 (3.32%) OpenTelemetry
10 9 (3.32%) PyTorch
11 8 (2.95%) scikit-learn
11 8 (2.95%) SOAP
12 7 (2.58%) AngularJS
12 7 (2.58%) boto
12 7 (2.58%) HTML
12 7 (2.58%) Pandas
12 7 (2.58%) TensorFlow
13 6 (2.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 68 (25.09%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.49%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.80%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.69%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.32%) Equities
5 9 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.58%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.21%) Clustering
7 6 (2.21%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.21%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.85%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.85%) Derivative
8 5 (1.85%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.85%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.85%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.48%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.48%) DataPower
9 4 (1.48%) LIMS
9 4 (1.48%) NHS
9 4 (1.48%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.54%) Linux
2 12 (4.43%) Windows
3 4 (1.48%) Android
3 4 (1.48%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.48%) zOS
4 3 (1.11%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.74%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.37%) AIX
6 1 (0.37%) CentOS
6 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.37%) Solaris
6 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.37%) Unix
6 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (39.11%) CI/CD
2 73 (26.94%) DevOps
3 64 (23.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (23.25%) AI
5 61 (22.51%) Agile
6 52 (19.19%) Migration
7 45 (16.61%) Containerisation
8 43 (15.87%) Analytics
8 43 (15.87%) Microservices
9 41 (15.13%) Machine Learning
9 41 (15.13%) Observability
10 39 (14.39%) Stakeholder Management
11 35 (12.92%) Event-Driven
12 33 (12.18%) Data Engineering
12 33 (12.18%) Data Pipeline
13 32 (11.81%) Test Automation
14 30 (11.07%) Data Modelling
15 29 (10.70%) Software Engineering
16 28 (10.33%) Problem-Solving
17 27 (9.96%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 108 (39.85%) Python
2 66 (24.35%) SQL
3 56 (20.66%) Java
4 17 (6.27%) JavaScript
5 14 (5.17%) TypeScript
6 12 (4.43%) Bash
7 11 (4.06%) C#
8 10 (3.69%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.21%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.85%) Ruby
10 5 (1.85%) Scala
11 4 (1.48%) JCL
12 3 (1.11%) Bicep
12 3 (1.11%) Go
12 3 (1.11%) Korn
12 3 (1.11%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.74%) R
14 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 66 (24.35%) Security Cleared
2 62 (22.88%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.06%) PMI Certification
3 11 (4.06%) PMP
4 9 (3.32%) Degree
5 7 (2.58%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.21%) CISSP
7 4 (1.48%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.48%) CISM
7 4 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.11%) PhD
9 2 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.74%) CCNP
9 2 (0.74%) OSCP
9 2 (0.74%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.86%) Data Quality
1 24 (8.86%) GDPR
2 23 (8.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (7.38%) NIST
4 8 (2.95%) SLA
5 7 (2.58%) QA
6 6 (2.21%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.85%) NCSC
8 3 (1.11%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.11%) NIST 800
8 3 (1.11%) SEPA
9 2 (0.74%) EMIR
9 2 (0.74%) GRC
9 2 (0.74%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.74%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.74%) MiFID
9 2 (0.74%) PSD2
10 1 (0.37%) DICOM
10 1 (0.37%) HL7
10 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 48 (17.71%) Docker
2 4 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.11%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.74%) NFS
4 2 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 53 (19.56%) Terraform
2 52 (19.19%) Kubernetes
3 19 (7.01%) Ansible
4 18 (6.64%) Grafana
5 15 (5.54%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.11%) Argo
6 3 (1.11%) Karpenter
7 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.74%) Puppet
7 2 (0.74%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.37%) Consul
8 1 (0.37%) Istio
8 1 (0.37%) Kibana
8 1 (0.37%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.37%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.37%) QRadar
8 1 (0.37%) Salt
8 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (8.49%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.90%) Databricks
3 13 (4.80%) Google
4 12 (4.43%) CyberArk
4 12 (4.43%) Oracle
5 9 (3.32%) IBM
6 8 (2.95%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.58%) Citrix
7 7 (2.58%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.58%) Splunk
8 5 (1.85%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.85%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.85%) SAP
8 5 (1.85%) VMware
9 3 (1.11%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.11%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.11%) Charles River
9 3 (1.11%) Cognos
9 3 (1.11%) Informatica
9 3 (1.11%) Palo Alto