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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 269 245 206
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.41% 13.10% 9.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.59% 31.61% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 171 129
10th Percentile £426 £400 £461
25th Percentile £475 £475 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £760 £788 £830
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £57.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - -
75th Percentile £75.88 - -
90th Percentile £76.40 - -
Central London median hourly rate £70.00 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -30.00% - -

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 941 775 843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.91% 41.44% 40.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 516 584
10th Percentile £363 £356 £383
25th Percentile £458 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £654 £661 £675
90th Percentile £750 £753 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.93 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.42% +28.33% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.57 £59.75
90th Percentile £75.35 £97.75 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £36.25 £34.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +6.62% +25.93% -28.95%

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 16 August 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 (6.32%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.23%) Confluence
2 6 (2.23%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.49%) Apache
3 4 (1.49%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.49%) CICS
4 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.74%) nginx
6 1 (0.37%) Camunda
6 1 (0.37%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.37%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.37%) SAS
6 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.86%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.74%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.37%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.37%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.37%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 110 (40.89%) Azure
2 58 (21.56%) GCP
3 44 (16.36%) Serverless
4 41 (15.24%) GitHub
5 39 (14.50%) AWS Lambda
6 36 (13.38%) Amazon S3
7 26 (9.67%) Snowflake
8 23 (8.55%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (6.69%) Power Platform
10 17 (6.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (5.95%) Amazon Bedrock
11 16 (5.95%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (5.58%) SaaS
13 13 (4.83%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (4.83%) Amazon Kinesis
14 12 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (4.46%) dbt
15 11 (4.09%) Amazon ECS
15 11 (4.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.83%) DNS
1 13 (4.83%) Firewall
2 7 (2.60%) DHCP
3 6 (2.23%) VPN
4 4 (1.49%) Network Security
4 4 (1.49%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.12%) SMTP
6 2 (0.74%) NGFW
6 2 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.74%) SSH
6 2 (0.74%) VLAN
6 2 (0.74%) X.509
7 1 (0.37%) Internet
7 1 (0.37%) Multicast
7 1 (0.37%) NAS
7 1 (0.37%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.37%) SAN
7 1 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.37%) VSAN
7 1 (0.37%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.69%) DynamoDB
2 17 (6.32%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (5.58%) Amazon Athena
3 15 (5.58%) Power BI
4 14 (5.20%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (4.83%) NoSQL
6 11 (4.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (3.35%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.60%) Metadata
9 7 (2.60%) Snowflake Schema
9 7 (2.60%) SQL Server
9 7 (2.60%) Tableau
10 6 (2.23%) Big Data
11 5 (1.86%) Db2
11 5 (1.86%) Delta Lake
11 5 (1.86%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.49%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.49%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (11.52%) GitLab
2 27 (10.04%) Jenkins
3 25 (9.29%) Git
4 19 (7.06%) JIRA
5 9 (3.35%) Postman
6 8 (2.97%) JUnit
7 6 (2.23%) Mockito
8 5 (1.86%) JMeter
9 4 (1.49%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.49%) Claude Code
9 4 (1.49%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.49%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.49%) Maven
10 3 (1.12%) Gradle
10 3 (1.12%) Selenium
11 2 (0.74%) Appium
11 2 (0.74%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.74%) Mocha
11 2 (0.74%) webpack
12 1 (0.37%) Gatling
General
1 88 (32.71%) Finance
2 63 (23.42%) Social Skills
3 35 (13.01%) Banking
4 30 (11.15%) Public Sector
5 29 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.35%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.86%) Front Office
9 5 (1.86%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.49%) Back Office
10 4 (1.49%) Military
10 4 (1.49%) Retail
10 4 (1.49%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.12%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.74%) Advertising
12 2 (0.74%) Marketing
12 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 58 (21.56%) Architect
2 46 (17.10%) Senior
3 33 (12.27%) Developer
4 23 (8.55%) Data Engineer
5 19 (7.06%) Lead
6 18 (6.69%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (5.58%) Senior Developer
8 13 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
9 12 (4.46%) Analyst
10 10 (3.72%) Java Developer
10 10 (3.72%) Senior Java Developer
11 9 (3.35%) Consultant
11 9 (3.35%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 9 (3.35%) Snowflake Engineer
11 9 (3.35%) Technical Architect
12 8 (2.97%) AWS Architect
12 8 (2.97%) Data Architect
12 8 (2.97%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (2.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (2.97%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (10.78%) Kafka
2 27 (10.04%) Spring
3 26 (9.67%) Spring Boot
4 23 (8.55%) REST
5 20 (7.43%) RESTful
6 18 (6.69%) React
7 12 (4.46%) SOAP
8 11 (4.09%) .NET
8 11 (4.09%) Node.js
8 11 (4.09%) PySpark
9 10 (3.72%) JSON
10 9 (3.35%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (2.23%) OAuth
11 6 (2.23%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (2.23%) Web Services
12 5 (1.86%) .NET Core
12 5 (1.86%) GraphQL
12 5 (1.86%) LangChain
12 5 (1.86%) PyTorch
13 4 (1.49%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 66 (24.54%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.92%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (7.06%) AI Agents
4 13 (4.83%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.35%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.97%) Clustering
7 7 (2.60%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.86%) CMDB
9 5 (1.86%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.49%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.49%) DataPower
10 4 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.49%) Equities
10 4 (1.49%) Online Banking
10 4 (1.49%) PKI
10 4 (1.49%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.12%) Reinsurance
11 3 (1.12%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.83%) Linux
2 11 (4.09%) Windows
3 8 (2.97%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.49%) zOS
5 3 (1.12%) Unix
6 2 (0.74%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.37%) AIX
7 1 (0.37%) Android
7 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.37%) CentOS
7 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.37%) Solaris
7 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.37%) VMS
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (40.89%) CI/CD
2 72 (26.77%) DevOps
3 62 (23.05%) AI
4 58 (21.56%) Agile
5 53 (19.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 47 (17.47%) Containerisation
6 47 (17.47%) Microservices
7 42 (15.61%) Migration
8 38 (14.13%) Data Modelling
9 37 (13.75%) Analytics
9 37 (13.75%) Stakeholder Management
9 37 (13.75%) Test Automation
10 36 (13.38%) Event-Driven
11 34 (12.64%) Data Engineering
12 32 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (11.52%) Machine Learning
13 31 (11.52%) Observability
14 29 (10.78%) Software Engineering
15 27 (10.04%) Data Pipeline
16 25 (9.29%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 97 (36.06%) Python
2 56 (20.82%) SQL
3 51 (18.96%) Java
4 19 (7.06%) C#
5 18 (6.69%) JavaScript
6 17 (6.32%) TypeScript
7 15 (5.58%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.09%) Bash
9 6 (2.23%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.86%) Ruby
11 4 (1.49%) Bicep
11 4 (1.49%) JCL
11 4 (1.49%) Korn
12 3 (1.12%) Go
13 2 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.74%) Scala
14 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.37%) R
14 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (22.30%) Security Cleared
2 49 (18.22%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.35%) Degree
4 8 (2.97%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.23%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.23%) PMI Certification
5 6 (2.23%) PMP
6 4 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.49%) CISM
6 4 (1.49%) CISSP
7 3 (1.12%) CCNP
7 3 (1.12%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.74%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.74%) OSCP
8 2 (0.74%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.32%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (5.20%) NIST
4 13 (4.83%) GDPR
4 13 (4.83%) QA
5 8 (2.97%) EU AI Act
6 5 (1.86%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.49%) NCSC
8 3 (1.12%) NIST 800
8 3 (1.12%) SLA
9 2 (0.74%) EMIR
9 2 (0.74%) MiFID
9 2 (0.74%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.37%) GRC
10 1 (0.37%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 19770
10 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.37%) SEPA
System Software
1 47 (17.47%) Docker
2 10 (3.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.97%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.12%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.12%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.12%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.12%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.74%) NFS
7 1 (0.37%) Firmware
7 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (21.19%) Kubernetes
2 48 (17.84%) Terraform
3 20 (7.43%) Ansible
4 14 (5.20%) Grafana
5 13 (4.83%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.86%) Puppet
7 4 (1.49%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.12%) Nagios
8 3 (1.12%) vMotion
9 2 (0.74%) SnapMirror
10 1 (0.37%) Argo
10 1 (0.37%) Bosun
10 1 (0.37%) Consul
10 1 (0.37%) Packer
10 1 (0.37%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.37%) Salt
10 1 (0.37%) SELinux
10 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (10.41%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.06%) Google
3 16 (5.95%) Databricks
4 14 (5.20%) Oracle
5 12 (4.46%) ServiceNow
6 11 (4.09%) VMware
7 10 (3.72%) Citrix
8 9 (3.35%) CyberArk
8 9 (3.35%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.60%) SAP
10 5 (1.86%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.86%) Splunk
11 4 (1.49%) Cisco
11 4 (1.49%) OpenAI
11 4 (1.49%) Palo Alto
12 3 (1.12%) Dynatrace
12 3 (1.12%) HP
12 3 (1.12%) IBM
12 3 (1.12%) MuleSoft
12 3 (1.12%) Workday