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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 11 13
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 279 254 228
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.52% 14.72% 10.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.90% 34.42% 25.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 178 156
10th Percentile £406 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £452 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £561
Median % change year-on-year - -1.92% -10.28%
75th Percentile £675 £686 £688
90th Percentile £763 £775 £869
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%
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 933 738 884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.52% 42.76% 40.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 634 475 619
10th Percentile £350 £364 £363
25th Percentile £456 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £658
90th Percentile £750 £754 £769
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% -8.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 7
10th Percentile £22.38 £23.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £51.44 £38.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.35% +71.44% -72.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.37 £27.00
90th Percentile £75.35 £98.88 £36.30
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 £31.86 £22.50
% change year-on-year +81.31% +41.60% -66.67%

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 22 June 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 18 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.51%) Confluence
3 5 (1.79%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.43%) Apache
4 4 (1.43%) CICS
4 4 (1.43%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.72%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.36%) Camunda
7 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.36%) nginx
7 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.43%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.08%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.72%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 113 (40.50%) Azure
2 62 (22.22%) GCP
3 50 (17.92%) Serverless
4 43 (15.41%) AWS Lambda
5 38 (13.62%) GitHub
6 37 (13.26%) Amazon S3
7 23 (8.24%) Snowflake
8 20 (7.17%) Amazon Bedrock
8 20 (7.17%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (7.17%) Power Platform
9 16 (5.73%) SaaS
10 15 (5.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (5.02%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (3.94%) Amazon SageMaker
13 10 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (3.58%) Amazon Kinesis
13 10 (3.58%) dbt
14 9 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (3.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.30%) Firewall
2 9 (3.23%) DNS
3 7 (2.51%) Network Security
4 6 (2.15%) DHCP
5 5 (1.79%) VPN
6 3 (1.08%) SMTP
6 3 (1.08%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.72%) NGFW
7 2 (0.72%) X.509
8 1 (0.36%) BGP
8 1 (0.36%) IPsec
8 1 (0.36%) NAS
8 1 (0.36%) OSPF
8 1 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.36%) SAN
8 1 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.36%) SSL
8 1 (0.36%) VLAN
8 1 (0.36%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.53%) DynamoDB
2 18 (6.45%) NoSQL
3 16 (5.73%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (5.38%) Power BI
5 14 (5.02%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (4.66%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (4.66%) Metadata
7 12 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (3.94%) Tableau
9 8 (2.87%) Db2
9 8 (2.87%) MongoDB
9 8 (2.87%) Snowflake Schema
9 8 (2.87%) SQL Server
10 7 (2.51%) Big Data
10 7 (2.51%) Data Lake
11 6 (2.15%) Pinecone
11 6 (2.15%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.43%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.43%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 30 (10.75%) Git
2 26 (9.32%) GitLab
2 26 (9.32%) Jenkins
3 24 (8.60%) JIRA
4 9 (3.23%) Postman
5 8 (2.87%) JUnit
6 7 (2.51%) Mockito
7 5 (1.79%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.43%) JMeter
9 3 (1.08%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.08%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.08%) Gradle
9 3 (1.08%) Maven
10 2 (0.72%) Ant
10 2 (0.72%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.72%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.72%) Gatling
10 2 (0.72%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.72%) Mocha
10 2 (0.72%) webpack
General
1 93 (33.33%) Finance
2 66 (23.66%) Social Skills
3 37 (13.26%) Banking
4 32 (11.47%) Public Sector
5 21 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.30%) Financial Institution
7 9 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.15%) Front Office
8 6 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.79%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.79%) Military
10 3 (1.08%) Marketing
10 3 (1.08%) Retail
11 2 (0.72%) Advertising
11 2 (0.72%) Back Office
11 2 (0.72%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.36%) Law
12 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 61 (21.86%) Architect
2 38 (13.62%) Senior
3 31 (11.11%) Developer
4 25 (8.96%) Data Engineer
5 22 (7.89%) Lead
6 19 (6.81%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (4.66%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (4.66%) Senior Developer
9 11 (3.94%) Java Developer
9 11 (3.94%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 11 (3.94%) Snowflake Engineer
10 10 (3.58%) Cloud Architect
10 10 (3.58%) Migration Manager
10 10 (3.58%) Migration Project Manager
10 10 (3.58%) Project Manager
11 9 (3.23%) Consultant
12 8 (2.87%) AWS Architect
12 8 (2.87%) Data Scientist
12 8 (2.87%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (12.19%) Kafka
2 28 (10.04%) Spring
2 28 (10.04%) Spring Boot
3 25 (8.96%) REST
4 20 (7.17%) React
5 18 (6.45%) RESTful
6 11 (3.94%) .NET
6 11 (3.94%) JSON
6 11 (3.94%) PySpark
6 11 (3.94%) SOAP
7 10 (3.58%) Node.js
8 9 (3.23%) PyTorch
9 8 (2.87%) OAuth
9 8 (2.87%) OpenTelemetry
10 7 (2.51%) TensorFlow
11 6 (2.15%) AngularJS
11 6 (2.15%) boto
11 6 (2.15%) GraphQL
11 6 (2.15%) Middleware
11 6 (2.15%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 67 (24.01%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.53%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.38%) AI Agents
4 10 (3.58%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.23%) Clustering
5 9 (3.23%) Equities
5 9 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.51%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.51%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.15%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.15%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.79%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.79%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.43%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.43%) DataPower
9 4 (1.43%) LIMS
9 4 (1.43%) Online Banking
9 4 (1.43%) PKI
10 3 (1.08%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.08%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.66%) Linux
1 13 (4.66%) Windows
2 6 (2.15%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.43%) Android
3 4 (1.43%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.43%) zOS
4 2 (0.72%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (0.72%) Unix
5 1 (0.36%) AIX
5 1 (0.36%) CentOS
5 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.36%) Solaris
5 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (37.99%) CI/CD
2 72 (25.81%) AI
3 70 (25.09%) DevOps
4 63 (22.58%) Agile
5 62 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 47 (16.85%) Migration
7 46 (16.49%) Containerisation
8 44 (15.77%) Analytics
9 43 (15.41%) Machine Learning
10 38 (13.62%) Event-Driven
10 38 (13.62%) Microservices
10 38 (13.62%) Stakeholder Management
11 36 (12.90%) Data Engineering
12 35 (12.54%) Observability
13 34 (12.19%) Data Modelling
13 34 (12.19%) Data Pipeline
13 34 (12.19%) Test Automation
14 31 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
15 28 (10.04%) Generative AI
16 26 (9.32%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 101 (36.20%) Python
2 59 (21.15%) SQL
3 50 (17.92%) Java
4 16 (5.73%) C#
5 15 (5.38%) TypeScript
6 13 (4.66%) JavaScript
7 10 (3.58%) Bash
7 10 (3.58%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.79%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.43%) JCL
9 4 (1.43%) Ruby
9 4 (1.43%) Scala
10 3 (1.08%) Bicep
10 3 (1.08%) Korn
11 2 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.72%) Go
12 1 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.36%) R
12 1 (0.36%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 64 (22.94%) Security Cleared
2 57 (20.43%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.66%) Degree
4 11 (3.94%) PMI Certification
4 11 (3.94%) PMP
5 7 (2.51%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.51%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.79%) CISSP
7 4 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.43%) CISM
8 3 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.08%) CCNP
8 3 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.08%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.08%) PhD
8 3 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.72%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.72%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.53%) Data Quality
2 20 (7.17%) GDPR
2 20 (7.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (6.81%) NIST
4 10 (3.58%) QA
5 7 (2.51%) EU AI Act
6 5 (1.79%) NCSC
6 5 (1.79%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.43%) SLA
8 3 (1.08%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.08%) NIST 800
8 3 (1.08%) SEPA
9 2 (0.72%) EMIR
9 2 (0.72%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.72%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.72%) MiFID
9 2 (0.72%) PSD2
9 2 (0.72%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.36%) GRC
10 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 44 (15.77%) Docker
2 8 (2.87%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.08%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.08%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.08%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.08%) Terminal Services
5 2 (0.72%) NFS
6 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (19.71%) Kubernetes
2 48 (17.20%) Terraform
3 22 (7.89%) Ansible
4 16 (5.73%) Grafana
5 13 (4.66%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.79%) Puppet
7 4 (1.43%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.08%) Argo
8 3 (1.08%) Nagios
8 3 (1.08%) vMotion
9 2 (0.72%) SnapMirror
10 1 (0.36%) Consul
10 1 (0.36%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.36%) Packer
10 1 (0.36%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.36%) QRadar
10 1 (0.36%) Salt
10 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.02%) Databricks
2 14 (5.02%) Google
3 13 (4.66%) CyberArk
4 11 (3.94%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.58%) Citrix
6 8 (2.87%) VMware
7 7 (2.51%) Splunk
8 6 (2.15%) Oracle
9 5 (1.79%) IBM
9 5 (1.79%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.79%) SAP
9 5 (1.79%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.43%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.43%) Informatica
10 4 (1.43%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.43%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.08%) Bloomberg
11 3 (1.08%) Charles River
11 3 (1.08%) Symantec