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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 11 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 260 230 253
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 13.08% 12.51% 10.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.44% 30.07% 28.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 163 179
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 £673 £675 £675
90th Percentile £804 £748 £755
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -13.39%
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 827 765 896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.60% 41.62% 38.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 492 640
10th Percentile £334 £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 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -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 27 February 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 (6.54%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.31%) Confluence
4 5 (1.92%) Apache
5 2 (0.77%) CICS
5 2 (0.77%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.77%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.77%) 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 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 114 (43.85%) Azure
2 68 (26.15%) GCP
3 41 (15.77%) Serverless
4 39 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
5 36 (13.85%) GitHub
6 31 (11.92%) Amazon S3
7 24 (9.23%) Snowflake
8 19 (7.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (6.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (6.92%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (6.92%) Power Platform
10 16 (6.15%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (6.15%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (4.23%) dbt
12 10 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
12 10 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (3.46%) SaaS
14 8 (3.08%) AWS Fargate
15 7 (2.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.23%) Firewall
2 10 (3.85%) DNS
3 9 (3.46%) Network Security
4 3 (1.15%) BGP
4 3 (1.15%) DHCP
4 3 (1.15%) OSPF
4 3 (1.15%) SSL
4 3 (1.15%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.15%) VPN
5 2 (0.77%) 4G
5 2 (0.77%) 5G
5 2 (0.77%) IPsec
5 2 (0.77%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.77%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.38%) 2G
6 1 (0.38%) DKIM
6 1 (0.38%) MPLS
6 1 (0.38%) NAS
6 1 (0.38%) VLAN
6 1 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.31%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (6.54%) Relational Database
3 15 (5.77%) DynamoDB
3 15 (5.77%) NoSQL
4 14 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (5.38%) Power BI
5 11 (4.23%) MySQL
5 11 (4.23%) Tableau
6 10 (3.85%) Metadata
6 10 (3.85%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (3.46%) Data Lake
7 9 (3.46%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.69%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (2.69%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (2.69%) Big Data
8 7 (2.69%) DB2
9 4 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.54%) CockroachDB
9 4 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (11.92%) Git
2 20 (7.69%) GitLab
3 17 (6.54%) Jenkins
4 14 (5.38%) JIRA
5 5 (1.92%) Cucumber
5 5 (1.92%) JUnit
6 4 (1.54%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.15%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.15%) Gatling
7 3 (1.15%) Mockito
7 3 (1.15%) Postman
8 2 (0.77%) Ant
8 2 (0.77%) ERwin
8 2 (0.77%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.77%) MLflow
8 2 (0.77%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.77%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.77%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.38%) Hamcrest
9 1 (0.38%) Mocha
General
1 90 (34.62%) Finance
2 64 (24.62%) Social Skills
3 40 (15.38%) Banking
4 22 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (8.08%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (3.85%) Financial Institution
7 10 (3.85%) Front Office
8 7 (2.69%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.54%) Retail
12 2 (0.77%) Back Office
12 2 (0.77%) Law
12 2 (0.77%) Legal
12 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.77%) Marketing
12 2 (0.77%) Military
12 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (21.54%) Architect
2 35 (13.46%) Senior
3 33 (12.69%) Developer
4 27 (10.38%) Lead
5 26 (10.00%) Data Engineer
6 21 (8.08%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (8.08%) Solutions Architect
7 16 (6.15%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (4.23%) Python Engineer
9 10 (3.85%) Project Manager
10 9 (3.46%) AWS Architect
11 8 (3.08%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (3.08%) Consultant
11 8 (3.08%) Data Scientist
11 8 (3.08%) Security Architect
11 8 (3.08%) Senior Architect
12 7 (2.69%) Enterprise Architect
12 7 (2.69%) Java Developer
12 7 (2.69%) Migration Project Manager
12 7 (2.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.69%) Kafka
2 17 (6.54%) React
2 17 (6.54%) REST
3 14 (5.38%) Node.js
4 13 (5.00%) RESTful
5 12 (4.62%) .NET
5 12 (4.62%) PyTorch
6 11 (4.23%) scikit-learn
6 11 (4.23%) TensorFlow
7 10 (3.85%) Spring
8 9 (3.46%) AngularJS
8 9 (3.46%) Pandas
8 9 (3.46%) Spring Boot
9 8 (3.08%) HTML
9 8 (3.08%) NumPy
10 7 (2.69%) boto
10 7 (2.69%) CSS
10 7 (2.69%) OAuth
11 6 (2.31%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (2.31%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 51 (19.62%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.38%) Algorithms
4 11 (4.23%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.46%) Security Posture
6 8 (3.08%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.08%) Equities
6 8 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.08%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.69%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.31%) Derivative
8 6 (2.31%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.92%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.92%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.54%) LIMS
11 3 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.15%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.77%) Linux
2 11 (4.23%) Windows
3 3 (1.15%) Android
3 3 (1.15%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.15%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.77%) Unix
4 2 (0.77%) zOS
5 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (33.85%) CI/CD
2 57 (21.92%) AI
3 56 (21.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (20.38%) Agile
4 53 (20.38%) DevOps
5 44 (16.92%) Analytics
6 40 (15.38%) Machine Learning
7 38 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (13.85%) Microservices
9 35 (13.46%) Migration
9 35 (13.46%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (12.31%) Containerisation
11 31 (11.92%) Software Engineering
12 30 (11.54%) Data Pipeline
13 29 (11.15%) Data Modelling
13 29 (11.15%) ETL
13 29 (11.15%) Roadmaps
14 28 (10.77%) Data Engineering
14 28 (10.77%) Observability
14 28 (10.77%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 106 (40.77%) Python
2 78 (30.00%) SQL
3 47 (18.08%) Java
4 13 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.69%) Bash
6 6 (2.31%) C#
6 6 (2.31%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.92%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.54%) Go
8 4 (1.54%) PHP
8 4 (1.54%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.15%) Korn
9 3 (1.15%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.15%) Ruby
9 3 (1.15%) Scala
10 2 (0.77%) C++
10 2 (0.77%) JCL
10 2 (0.77%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.38%) ProC
11 1 (0.38%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 56 (21.54%) Security Cleared
2 53 (20.38%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.77%) Degree
4 12 (4.62%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.08%) PMI Certification
5 8 (3.08%) PMP
6 6 (2.31%) CISSP
7 5 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.15%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.15%) CISM
9 3 (1.15%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.15%) PhD
10 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.77%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.77%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.38%) Data Quality
2 22 (8.46%) GDPR
3 17 (6.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (5.38%) NIST
5 7 (2.69%) QA
5 7 (2.69%) SLA
6 5 (1.92%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.15%) NCSC
8 2 (0.77%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.77%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.77%) GRC
8 2 (0.77%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.77%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.77%) PSD2
8 2 (0.77%) 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 (18.46%) Docker
2 2 (0.77%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.77%) VMware NSX
2 2 (0.77%) vSphere
3 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 57 (21.92%) Terraform
2 44 (16.92%) Kubernetes
3 19 (7.31%) Ansible
4 9 (3.46%) Grafana
5 5 (1.92%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.15%) Argo
7 3 (1.15%) Karpenter
7 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.38%) CASB
8 1 (0.38%) Istio
8 1 (0.38%) Kibana
8 1 (0.38%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.38%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.38%) QRadar
8 1 (0.38%) SCCM
8 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.38%) vRealize
8 1 (0.38%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 25 (9.62%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.92%) Databricks
3 16 (6.15%) Oracle
4 11 (4.23%) Google
4 11 (4.23%) IBM
5 8 (3.08%) CyberArk
5 8 (3.08%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.69%) Splunk
7 6 (2.31%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.54%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.54%) Informatica
8 4 (1.54%) 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