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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 12 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 267 227 200
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.81% 12.96% 9.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.59% 32.11% 23.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 157 124
10th Percentile £425 £402 £425
25th Percentile £475 £480 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £570
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £834
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £56.00 - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile £74.00 - -
Central London median hourly rate £65.00 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -35.00% - -

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 934 707 837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.33% 40.38% 40.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 486 556
10th Percentile £363 £336 £398
25th Percentile £456 £433 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -1.74%
75th Percentile £660 £669 £675
90th Percentile £754 £753 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.84 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.23 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.08% +27.13% +20.00%
75th Percentile £41.25 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £86.43 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% +55.56%

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 15 September 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 22 (8.24%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.37%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.37%) Confluence
3 7 (2.62%) Apache
4 5 (1.87%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.75%) CICS
6 2 (0.75%) nginx
6 2 (0.75%) SAS
7 1 (0.37%) Camunda
7 1 (0.37%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.37%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.37%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.50%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.75%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.37%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.37%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 115 (43.07%) Azure
2 61 (22.85%) GCP
3 40 (14.98%) Serverless
4 39 (14.61%) GitHub
5 36 (13.48%) AWS Lambda
6 33 (12.36%) Amazon S3
7 30 (11.24%) Snowflake
8 23 (8.61%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (6.74%) dbt
10 17 (6.37%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (5.99%) Amazon Bedrock
12 15 (5.62%) SaaS
13 14 (5.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (4.87%) Amazon Kinesis
14 13 (4.87%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (4.87%) Power Platform
15 11 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (3.75%) OpenShift
16 10 (3.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.99%) DNS
1 16 (5.99%) Firewall
2 9 (3.37%) DHCP
2 9 (3.37%) VPN
3 6 (2.25%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.87%) BGP
5 4 (1.50%) Network Security
5 4 (1.50%) OSPF
5 4 (1.50%) VLAN
6 3 (1.12%) MPLS
6 3 (1.12%) Multicast
6 3 (1.12%) SMTP
7 2 (0.75%) Internet
7 2 (0.75%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.75%) IPsec
7 2 (0.75%) SSH
7 2 (0.75%) WAN
7 2 (0.75%) Wireless
7 2 (0.75%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.75%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.74%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (6.37%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (5.62%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (4.87%) NoSQL
5 12 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (4.49%) Power BI
6 11 (4.12%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (4.12%) DynamoDB
7 10 (3.75%) Metadata
8 8 (3.00%) Delta Lake
8 8 (3.00%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.62%) Big Data
9 7 (2.62%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.62%) SQL Server
10 6 (2.25%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.87%) Pinecone
11 5 (1.87%) Tableau
12 4 (1.50%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.50%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 29 (10.86%) GitLab
2 26 (9.74%) Jenkins
3 23 (8.61%) Git
4 20 (7.49%) JIRA
5 7 (2.62%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.62%) Postman
6 6 (2.25%) JMeter
6 6 (2.25%) JUnit
6 6 (2.25%) Maven
7 5 (1.87%) Mockito
8 3 (1.12%) Claude Code
8 3 (1.12%) Gradle
8 3 (1.12%) Selenium
9 2 (0.75%) Appium
9 2 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.75%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.75%) Gatling
9 2 (0.75%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.75%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.37%) HP UFT
General
1 95 (35.58%) Finance
2 67 (25.09%) Social Skills
3 40 (14.98%) Banking
4 36 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (10.86%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.25%) Back Office
8 6 (2.25%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.87%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.87%) Front Office
9 5 (1.87%) Military
9 5 (1.87%) Retail
10 4 (1.50%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.12%) Billing
11 3 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.12%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.12%) Marketing
11 3 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (22.47%) Architect
2 55 (20.60%) Senior
3 28 (10.49%) Data Engineer
3 28 (10.49%) Developer
4 23 (8.61%) AWS Engineer
4 23 (8.61%) Lead
5 14 (5.24%) Senior Developer
6 13 (4.87%) Senior Data Engineer
7 12 (4.49%) Analyst
7 12 (4.49%) Data Architect
7 12 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (3.75%) AWS Data Engineer
9 9 (3.37%) Java Developer
9 9 (3.37%) Senior Java Developer
9 9 (3.37%) Technical Architect
10 8 (3.00%) AWS Architect
10 8 (3.00%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (3.00%) Consultant
10 8 (3.00%) Data Analyst
10 8 (3.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (19.85%) Terraform
2 29 (10.86%) Kafka
3 26 (9.74%) Spring
4 25 (9.36%) REST
4 25 (9.36%) Spring Boot
5 15 (5.62%) RESTful
6 12 (4.49%) .NET
6 12 (4.49%) PySpark
6 12 (4.49%) React
6 12 (4.49%) SOAP
7 9 (3.37%) Node.js
7 9 (3.37%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (2.62%) .NET Core
8 7 (2.62%) ActiveMQ
8 7 (2.62%) JSON
9 6 (2.25%) LangChain
9 6 (2.25%) OAuth
9 6 (2.25%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (2.25%) Web Services
10 5 (1.87%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 73 (27.34%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.61%) AI Agents
2 23 (8.61%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.99%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.49%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.25%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.87%) Clustering
6 5 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.50%) CMDB
7 4 (1.50%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.50%) PKI
7 4 (1.50%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.50%) Reinsurance
7 4 (1.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.24%) Linux
2 12 (4.49%) Windows
3 9 (3.37%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.50%) Unix
5 2 (0.75%) zOS
6 1 (0.37%) AIX
6 1 (0.37%) Android
6 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.37%) CentOS
6 1 (0.37%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.37%) Solaris
6 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.37%) VMS
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (45.32%) CI/CD
2 76 (28.46%) DevOps
3 66 (24.72%) AI
4 59 (22.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 55 (20.60%) Agile
6 48 (17.98%) Microservices
7 47 (17.60%) Containerisation
8 45 (16.85%) Migration
8 45 (16.85%) Stakeholder Management
9 44 (16.48%) Analytics
9 44 (16.48%) Data Engineering
10 40 (14.98%) Event-Driven
11 39 (14.61%) Data Modelling
12 34 (12.73%) Test Automation
13 33 (12.36%) Data Pipeline
13 33 (12.36%) Observability
13 33 (12.36%) Software Engineering
14 32 (11.99%) Problem-Solving
15 31 (11.61%) Machine Learning
16 28 (10.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 98 (36.70%) Python
2 57 (21.35%) SQL
3 49 (18.35%) Java
4 18 (6.74%) C#
5 16 (5.99%) PowerShell
6 15 (5.62%) TypeScript
7 14 (5.24%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.49%) Bash
9 4 (1.50%) Bicep
9 4 (1.50%) Korn
9 4 (1.50%) Ruby
9 4 (1.50%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.12%) Scala
11 2 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.75%) Go
11 2 (0.75%) JCL
11 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.37%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.37%) R
12 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (20.22%) Security Cleared
2 41 (15.36%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.37%) Degree
3 9 (3.37%) DV Cleared
4 7 (2.62%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.87%) PMI Certification
5 5 (1.87%) PMP
5 5 (1.87%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.12%) CCNP
6 3 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.12%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.12%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.75%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.75%) CISM
7 2 (0.75%) CISSP
7 2 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.75%) CREST Certified
7 2 (0.75%) OSCP
7 2 (0.75%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.86%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.87%) QA
3 11 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.75%) NIST
5 8 (3.00%) EU AI Act
5 8 (3.00%) GDPR
6 5 (1.87%) NCSC
7 3 (1.12%) ISO 20022
7 3 (1.12%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.12%) SEPA
8 2 (0.75%) EMIR
8 2 (0.75%) MiFID
8 2 (0.75%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.75%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.37%) GRC
9 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.37%) PMO
9 1 (0.37%) PSD2
System Software
1 45 (16.85%) Docker
2 9 (3.37%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.12%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.12%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.12%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.12%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.37%) Firmware
5 1 (0.37%) NFS
5 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (21.72%) Kubernetes
2 23 (8.61%) Ansible
3 15 (5.62%) Grafana
4 14 (5.24%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.87%) Puppet
6 4 (1.50%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.12%) Nagios
7 3 (1.12%) vMotion
8 1 (0.37%) Argo
8 1 (0.37%) Bosun
8 1 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.37%) Consul
8 1 (0.37%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.37%) Packer
8 1 (0.37%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.37%) Salt
8 1 (0.37%) SELinux
8 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.37%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 27 (10.11%) Databricks
1 27 (10.11%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.74%) Google
3 17 (6.37%) Oracle
4 10 (3.75%) Citrix
4 10 (3.75%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.75%) VMware
5 8 (3.00%) Cisco
6 7 (2.62%) Palo Alto
6 7 (2.62%) SAP
7 6 (2.25%) CyberArk
7 6 (2.25%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.87%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.50%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.50%) IBM
9 4 (1.50%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.12%) HP
10 3 (1.12%) Informatica
10 3 (1.12%) Symantec
10 3 (1.12%) Workday