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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 11 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 262 232 251
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 13.26% 12.73% 10.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.83% 30.57% 27.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 165 177
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £672 £675 £675
90th Percentile £804 £745 £760
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -13.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £76.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £74.50 - -

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 823 759 897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.65% 41.63% 37.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 485 635
10th Percentile £338 £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 £750 £748
Central London median daily rate £525 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 11
10th Percentile £31.88 £28.98 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.44 £35.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +150.00% -55.81%
75th Percentile £55.94 £118.13 £36.25
90th Percentile £66.53 £159.75 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% +84.21% -45.71%

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

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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 1 March 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 (6.49%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.82%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.29%) Confluence
4 5 (1.91%) Apache
5 2 (0.76%) CICS
5 2 (0.76%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.76%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
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 (1.15%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.15%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 117 (44.66%) Azure
2 70 (26.72%) GCP
3 40 (15.27%) Serverless
4 38 (14.50%) AWS Lambda
5 36 (13.74%) GitHub
6 32 (12.21%) Amazon S3
7 24 (9.16%) Snowflake
8 19 (7.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (7.25%) Power Platform
9 18 (6.87%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (6.87%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (6.11%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (6.11%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (4.20%) dbt
12 10 (3.82%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (3.82%) Amazon SageMaker
12 10 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (3.44%) SaaS
14 8 (3.05%) AWS Fargate
15 7 (2.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.20%) Firewall
2 9 (3.44%) DNS
2 9 (3.44%) Network Security
3 3 (1.15%) BGP
3 3 (1.15%) DHCP
3 3 (1.15%) OSPF
3 3 (1.15%) SSL
3 3 (1.15%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.15%) VPN
4 2 (0.76%) 4G
4 2 (0.76%) 5G
4 2 (0.76%) IPsec
4 2 (0.76%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.76%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.38%) 2G
5 1 (0.38%) DKIM
5 1 (0.38%) MPLS
5 1 (0.38%) NAS
5 1 (0.38%) VLAN
5 1 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.87%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (6.49%) Relational Database
3 16 (6.11%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (5.73%) DynamoDB
4 15 (5.73%) Power BI
5 14 (5.34%) NoSQL
6 11 (4.20%) MySQL
6 11 (4.20%) Tableau
7 10 (3.82%) Metadata
7 10 (3.82%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.44%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (3.44%) Data Lake
8 9 (3.44%) MongoDB
9 8 (3.05%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (2.67%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (2.67%) Big Data
10 7 (2.67%) DB2
11 4 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.53%) CockroachDB
11 4 (1.53%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (11.83%) Git
2 20 (7.63%) GitLab
3 17 (6.49%) Jenkins
4 14 (5.34%) JIRA
5 5 (1.91%) Cucumber
5 5 (1.91%) JUnit
6 4 (1.53%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.15%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.15%) Gatling
7 3 (1.15%) Mockito
7 3 (1.15%) Postman
8 2 (0.76%) Ant
8 2 (0.76%) ERwin
8 2 (0.76%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.76%) MLflow
8 2 (0.76%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.76%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.76%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.38%) Hamcrest
9 1 (0.38%) Mocha
General
1 91 (34.73%) Finance
2 65 (24.81%) Social Skills
3 41 (15.65%) Banking
4 22 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (8.02%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.58%) Financial Institution
7 11 (4.20%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (3.82%) Front Office
9 7 (2.67%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.53%) Retail
12 2 (0.76%) Back Office
12 2 (0.76%) Law
12 2 (0.76%) Legal
12 2 (0.76%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.76%) Marketing
12 2 (0.76%) Military
12 2 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (21.37%) Architect
2 35 (13.36%) Developer
3 34 (12.98%) Senior
4 27 (10.31%) Lead
5 26 (9.92%) Data Engineer
6 21 (8.02%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (8.02%) Solutions Architect
7 16 (6.11%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (4.20%) Project Manager
9 10 (3.82%) Python Engineer
10 9 (3.44%) AWS Architect
11 8 (3.05%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (3.05%) Consultant
11 8 (3.05%) Data Scientist
11 8 (3.05%) Java Developer
11 8 (3.05%) Migration Manager
11 8 (3.05%) Migration Project Manager
11 8 (3.05%) Security Architect
11 8 (3.05%) Senior Developer
12 7 (2.67%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.02%) Kafka
2 17 (6.49%) React
2 17 (6.49%) REST
3 15 (5.73%) RESTful
4 14 (5.34%) Node.js
5 12 (4.58%) .NET
5 12 (4.58%) PyTorch
6 11 (4.20%) scikit-learn
6 11 (4.20%) Spring
6 11 (4.20%) TensorFlow
7 10 (3.82%) Spring Boot
8 9 (3.44%) AngularJS
8 9 (3.44%) Pandas
9 8 (3.05%) HTML
9 8 (3.05%) NumPy
9 8 (3.05%) OAuth
10 7 (2.67%) boto
10 7 (2.67%) CSS
10 7 (2.67%) JSON
11 6 (2.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 51 (19.47%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.73%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.34%) Algorithms
4 11 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.44%) Security Posture
6 8 (3.05%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (3.05%) Equities
6 8 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.05%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.29%) Derivative
7 6 (2.29%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.29%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.91%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.91%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.53%) LIMS
10 3 (1.15%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.15%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.73%) Linux
2 11 (4.20%) Windows
3 3 (1.15%) Android
3 3 (1.15%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.15%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.76%) Unix
4 2 (0.76%) zOS
5 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (33.21%) CI/CD
2 57 (21.76%) AI
3 56 (21.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (20.23%) Agile
4 53 (20.23%) DevOps
5 43 (16.41%) Analytics
6 40 (15.27%) Machine Learning
7 38 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (14.12%) Migration
9 36 (13.74%) Microservices
9 36 (13.74%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (12.21%) Containerisation
11 31 (11.83%) ETL
11 31 (11.83%) Software Engineering
12 30 (11.45%) Data Modelling
12 30 (11.45%) Data Pipeline
13 29 (11.07%) Roadmaps
14 28 (10.69%) Data Engineering
14 28 (10.69%) Test Automation
15 27 (10.31%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 105 (40.08%) Python
2 79 (30.15%) SQL
3 47 (17.94%) Java
4 14 (5.34%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.67%) Bash
6 6 (2.29%) C#
6 6 (2.29%) PowerShell
6 6 (2.29%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.53%) Go
7 4 (1.53%) PHP
7 4 (1.53%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.15%) Korn
8 3 (1.15%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.15%) Ruby
8 3 (1.15%) Scala
9 2 (0.76%) C++
9 2 (0.76%) JCL
9 2 (0.76%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.38%) ProC
10 1 (0.38%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 57 (21.76%) Security Cleared
2 54 (20.61%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.73%) Degree
4 12 (4.58%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.44%) PMI Certification
5 9 (3.44%) PMP
6 8 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.29%) CISSP
8 5 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.53%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (1.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.15%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.15%) CISM
10 3 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.15%) PhD
11 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.76%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.76%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.31%) Data Quality
2 22 (8.40%) GDPR
3 18 (6.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (5.73%) NIST
5 7 (2.67%) QA
5 7 (2.67%) SLA
6 5 (1.91%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.15%) NCSC
8 2 (0.76%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.76%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.76%) GRC
8 2 (0.76%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.76%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.76%) PSD2
8 2 (0.76%) SEPA
9 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.38%) DICOM
9 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.38%) HL7
9 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
System Software
1 48 (18.32%) Docker
2 2 (0.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.76%) VMware NSX
2 2 (0.76%) vSphere
3 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 57 (21.76%) Terraform
2 44 (16.79%) Kubernetes
3 19 (7.25%) Ansible
4 9 (3.44%) Grafana
5 5 (1.91%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.15%) Argo
6 3 (1.15%) Karpenter
6 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.38%) CASB
7 1 (0.38%) Istio
7 1 (0.38%) Kibana
7 1 (0.38%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.38%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.38%) QRadar
7 1 (0.38%) SCCM
7 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.38%) vRealize
7 1 (0.38%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 25 (9.54%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.87%) Databricks
3 16 (6.11%) Oracle
4 11 (4.20%) Google
4 11 (4.20%) IBM
5 9 (3.44%) CyberArk
5 9 (3.44%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.67%) Splunk
7 6 (2.29%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.53%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.53%) Informatica
8 4 (1.53%) SAP
9 3 (1.15%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.15%) Charles River
9 3 (1.15%) Cognos
9 3 (1.15%) Confluent
9 3 (1.15%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.15%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.15%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.15%) Sage