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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 14 11
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 244 192 256
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 13.08% 10.27% 10.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.73% 26.12% 27.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 131 190
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £460 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +2.73% -13.39%
75th Percentile £670 £667 £650
90th Percentile £800 £738 £738
Central London median daily rate £543 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.36% - -12.84%

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 769 735 932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.23% 39.30% 38.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 464 675
10th Percentile £343 £405 £363
25th Percentile £418 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £655 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £755 £741
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 10
10th Percentile £25.49 - £16.58
25th Percentile £32.50 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 - £20.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.75%
75th Percentile £41.94 - £34.44
90th Percentile £45.28 - £51.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -27.23% +68.67% +1.22%

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 21 January 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 16 (6.56%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.69%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.46%) Confluence
4 5 (2.05%) Apache
5 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.82%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.41%) Notion
3 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.41%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.41%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 107 (43.85%) Azure
2 58 (23.77%) GCP
3 41 (16.80%) Serverless
4 39 (15.98%) AWS Lambda
5 35 (14.34%) Amazon S3
6 31 (12.70%) GitHub
7 23 (9.43%) Snowflake
8 20 (8.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (7.38%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (6.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (6.56%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (6.15%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (6.15%) Power Platform
13 11 (4.51%) dbt
14 10 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (4.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
16 8 (3.28%) Apigee
16 8 (3.28%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.74%) Firewall
2 12 (4.92%) DNS
3 7 (2.87%) Network Security
4 4 (1.64%) SSL
4 4 (1.64%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.64%) VPN
5 3 (1.23%) DHCP
5 3 (1.23%) LAN
5 3 (1.23%) WAN
5 3 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.82%) 4G
6 2 (0.82%) 5G
6 2 (0.82%) BGP
6 2 (0.82%) OSPF
6 2 (0.82%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.82%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.41%) Cisco Wireless
7 1 (0.41%) DKIM
7 1 (0.41%) NAS
7 1 (0.41%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.56%) Relational Database
2 15 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.33%) DynamoDB
3 13 (5.33%) Power BI
4 12 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (4.92%) NoSQL
5 11 (4.51%) MySQL
6 10 (4.10%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.69%) Data Lake
7 9 (3.69%) Tableau
8 7 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (2.87%) Metadata
8 7 (2.87%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (2.05%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (2.05%) Big Data
11 4 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.64%) CockroachDB
12 3 (1.23%) Amazon QuickSight
12 3 (1.23%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 30 (12.30%) Git
2 18 (7.38%) GitLab
2 18 (7.38%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.92%) JIRA
4 5 (2.05%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.64%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.64%) JUnit
6 3 (1.23%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.23%) Gatling
7 2 (0.82%) ERwin
7 2 (0.82%) MLflow
7 2 (0.82%) Mockito
7 2 (0.82%) Postman
7 2 (0.82%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.82%) Selenium
7 2 (0.82%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.82%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.41%) Hamcrest
8 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.41%) Terragrunt
General
1 86 (35.25%) Finance
2 51 (20.90%) Social Skills
3 35 (14.34%) Banking
4 22 (9.02%) Public Sector
5 19 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (3.69%) Financial Institution
7 9 (3.69%) Front Office
8 6 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.46%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.64%) Marketing
10 3 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.23%) Legal
10 3 (1.23%) Retail
11 2 (0.82%) Back Office
11 2 (0.82%) Law
11 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.82%) Military
11 2 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (19.26%) Architect
2 42 (17.21%) Senior
3 31 (12.70%) Developer
4 27 (11.07%) Lead
5 24 (9.84%) Data Engineer
6 21 (8.61%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (6.97%) Solutions Architect
8 16 (6.56%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (4.92%) Python Engineer
10 11 (4.51%) AWS Architect
11 10 (4.10%) Project Manager
12 9 (3.69%) Consultant
12 9 (3.69%) Security Architect
13 8 (3.28%) AWS DevOps
13 8 (3.28%) Senior Architect
13 8 (3.28%) Senior Developer
14 7 (2.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 7 (2.87%) Cloud Architect
15 6 (2.46%) Java Developer
15 6 (2.46%) Migration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.56%) React
2 15 (6.15%) Node.js
3 13 (5.33%) Kafka
3 13 (5.33%) REST
4 11 (4.51%) .NET
4 11 (4.51%) RESTful
5 10 (4.10%) HTML
5 10 (4.10%) scikit-learn
5 10 (4.10%) Spring
6 9 (3.69%) CSS
6 9 (3.69%) OAuth
6 9 (3.69%) Pandas
7 8 (3.28%) AngularJS
7 8 (3.28%) NumPy
7 8 (3.28%) Spring Boot
8 7 (2.87%) PyTorch
9 6 (2.46%) boto
9 6 (2.46%) PySpark
9 6 (2.46%) TensorFlow
10 5 (2.05%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 45 (18.44%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.51%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.69%) Data Centre
4 9 (3.69%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.28%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.87%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.46%) Derivative
7 6 (2.46%) Equities
7 6 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.05%) Fixed Income
8 5 (2.05%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.64%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.23%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.33%) Linux
2 12 (4.92%) Windows
3 4 (1.64%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.23%) Unix
5 1 (0.41%) Android
5 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (34.84%) CI/CD
2 59 (24.18%) DevOps
3 54 (22.13%) Agile
4 49 (20.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 42 (17.21%) AI
6 41 (16.80%) Analytics
7 37 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (14.75%) Stakeholder Management
9 33 (13.52%) Microservices
10 32 (13.11%) Machine Learning
11 31 (12.70%) Containerisation
12 30 (12.30%) Migration
12 30 (12.30%) Software Engineering
13 27 (11.07%) Roadmaps
14 26 (10.66%) Data Pipeline
14 26 (10.66%) ETL
15 25 (10.25%) Data Modelling
16 23 (9.43%) Generative AI
16 23 (9.43%) Observability
16 23 (9.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 101 (41.39%) Python
2 66 (27.05%) SQL
3 48 (19.67%) Java
4 16 (6.56%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.28%) Bash
6 6 (2.46%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.05%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.64%) C#
8 4 (1.64%) PHP
9 3 (1.23%) Go
9 3 (1.23%) Korn
9 3 (1.23%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.23%) Scala
10 2 (0.82%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.82%) C++
10 2 (0.82%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.82%) Perl
10 2 (0.82%) Ruby
10 2 (0.82%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.41%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 53 (21.72%) Security Cleared
2 49 (20.08%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.92%) AWS Certification
4 11 (4.51%) Degree
5 7 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.87%) PMI Certification
5 7 (2.87%) PMP
6 4 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.64%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.64%) MCP
7 3 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.23%) CISSP
7 3 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.82%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.82%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.02%) Data Quality
1 22 (9.02%) GDPR
2 15 (6.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.10%) NIST
4 9 (3.69%) QA
5 6 (2.46%) SLA
6 4 (1.64%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.23%) NCSC
8 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.82%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.82%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.82%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.82%) PSD2
8 2 (0.82%) SEPA
9 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.41%) DICOM
9 1 (0.41%) GRC
9 1 (0.41%) HL7
9 1 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 47 (19.26%) Docker
2 5 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.82%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.82%) vSphere
4 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.41%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 55 (22.54%) Terraform
2 38 (15.57%) Kubernetes
3 18 (7.38%) Ansible
4 8 (3.28%) Grafana
5 6 (2.46%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.23%) Argo
8 3 (1.23%) Karpenter
9 2 (0.82%) Istio
9 2 (0.82%) SCCM
10 1 (0.41%) CASB
10 1 (0.41%) Kibana
10 1 (0.41%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.41%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.41%) Puppet
10 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.41%) vRealize
10 1 (0.41%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 30 (12.30%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.02%) Databricks
3 17 (6.97%) Oracle
4 12 (4.92%) Google
5 8 (3.28%) IBM
5 8 (3.28%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.87%) CyberArk
6 7 (2.87%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.46%) Splunk
8 5 (2.05%) F5
8 5 (2.05%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.64%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.64%) VMware
10 3 (1.23%) Cognos
10 3 (1.23%) Confluent
10 3 (1.23%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.23%) Informatica
10 3 (1.23%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.23%) Sage
10 3 (1.23%) SAP