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 citing AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 12 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	14	12	16
Rank change year-on-year	-2	+4	-5
Contract jobs citing AWS	258	237	198
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London	12.60%	13.61%	9.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category	28.54%	32.38%	24.06%
Number of daily rates quoted	189	172	125
10^th Percentile	£437	£396	£425
25^th Percentile	£500	£480	£500
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£600	£575	£575
Median % change year-on-year	+4.35%	-	+3.09%
75^th Percentile	£725	£688	£688
90^th Percentile	£775	£800	£830
Central London median daily rate	£575	£575	£575
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£55.00	-	-
Median hourly rate	£60.00	-	-
75^th Percentile	£65.00	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
Central London median hourly rate	£60.00	-	-

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 citing cloud computing skills in the City of London.

	6 months to 12 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills	904	732	823
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London	44.16%	42.04%	39.34%
Number of daily rates quoted	648	543	532
10^th Percentile	£351	£344	£400
25^th Percentile	£456	£428	£475
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£550	£575
Median % change year-on-year	-	-4.35%	+4.55%
75^th Percentile	£669	£669	£675
90^th Percentile	£772	£750	£767
Central London median daily rate	£550	£550	£575
% change year-on-year	-	-4.35%	+4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted	6	9	2
10^th Percentile	£14.75	£22.30	£32.05
25^th Percentile	£20.25	£26.75	£39.63
Median hourly rate	£23.25	£34.00	£56.00
Median % change year-on-year	-31.62%	-39.29%	+169.88%
75^th Percentile	£29.25	£56.75	£76.13
90^th Percentile	£48.00	£70.21	£85.95
Central London median hourly rate	£30.00	£28.50	£35.00
% change year-on-year	+5.26%	-18.57%	+84.21%

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 Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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 12 November 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the City of London

AWS Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AWS.

AWS Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 12 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing AWS also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region citing AWS.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CI/CD	45.0%	116
2	Azure	44.2%	114
3	Python	31.4%	81
4	AI	26.4%	68
5	Terraform	25.6%	66
6	GCP	25.2%	65
6	Infrastructure as Code	25.2%	65
8	DevOps	24.8%	64
9	SQL	24.4%	63
10	Agile	19.8%	51
10	Migration	19.8%	51
12	Stakeholder Management	19.4%	50
13	Kubernetes	19.0%	49
14	Security Cleared	18.2%	47
15	Java	17.4%	45
16	Serverless	16.7%	43
17	Microservices	16.3%	42
18	Docker	15.1%	39
19	Data Engineering	14.7%	38
19	Microsoft	14.7%	38
21	GitHub	14.3%	37
21	Observability	14.3%	37
23	Event-Driven	14.0%	36
23	Roadmaps	14.0%	36
25	Containerisation	13.6%	35
25	Data Modelling	13.6%	35
27	AWS Lambda	13.2%	34
27	SC Cleared	13.2%	34
27	Software Engineering	13.2%	34
30	Stakeholder Engagement	12.8%	33

AWS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	44.2%	114
2	GCP	25.2%	65
3	Serverless	16.7%	43
4	GitHub	14.3%	37
5	AWS Lambda	13.2%	34
6	Amazon S3	12.0%	31
7	Snowflake	10.5%	27
8	Amazon EKS	8.5%	22
8	GitHub Actions	8.5%	22
10	Amazon Bedrock	7.4%	19
11	Amazon ECS	6.6%	17
11	dbt	6.6%	17
13	AWS CloudFormation	6.2%	16
14	Amazon EC2	5.8%	15
15	Power Platform	5.4%	14
16	Amazon CloudWatch	5.0%	13
16	Azure DevOps	5.0%	13
16	SaaS	5.0%	13
19	OpenShift	4.7%	12
20	Amazon EventBridge	4.3%	11