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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 18 11
Rank change year-on-year +8 -7 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 236 192 298
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 13.33% 8.90% 11.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.64% 22.64% 26.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 122 220
10th Percentile £384 £429 £400
25th Percentile £479 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -11.61%
75th Percentile £678 £675 £650
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £568
% change year-on-year - +1.19% -9.08%

All Cloud 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 746 848 1,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.12% 39.31% 41.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 554 545 784
10th Percentile £343 £400 £358
25th Percentile £425 £469 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £766 £775
Central London median daily rate £539 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.30% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 8
10th Percentile £32.35 £32.05 -
25th Percentile £37.56 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £42.89 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.41% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £58.96 £76.13 £40.69
90th Percentile £72.53 £85.95 £56.25
Central London median hourly rate £37.25 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year +6.43% +68.67% +1.22%

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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 30 November 2025.

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 15 (6.36%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (4.66%) Apache Spark
3 9 (3.81%) Confluence
4 6 (2.54%) Apache
5 4 (1.69%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.42%) CICS
7 1 (0.42%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.42%) CMS
7 1 (0.42%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.42%) Luigi
7 1 (0.42%) nginx
7 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.42%) Endur
2 1 (0.42%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 108 (45.76%) Azure
2 55 (23.31%) GCP
3 39 (16.53%) Amazon S3
4 33 (13.98%) AWS Lambda
4 33 (13.98%) Serverless
5 28 (11.86%) GitHub
6 24 (10.17%) Snowflake
7 20 (8.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 17 (7.20%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (5.93%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (5.08%) dbt
11 11 (4.66%) Power Platform
11 11 (4.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (3.81%) SaaS
13 7 (2.97%) Apigee
14 6 (2.54%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.78%) Firewall
2 10 (4.24%) DNS
3 6 (2.54%) Network Security
4 5 (2.12%) VPN
5 4 (1.69%) LAN
5 4 (1.69%) SSL
5 4 (1.69%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.69%) WAN
6 3 (1.27%) DHCP
6 3 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.85%) 4G
7 2 (0.85%) 5G
7 2 (0.85%) BGP
7 2 (0.85%) NAS
7 2 (0.85%) OSPF
7 2 (0.85%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.85%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.42%) Cisco Wireless
8 1 (0.42%) DKIM
8 1 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.32%) Relational Database
2 18 (7.63%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (6.78%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (4.66%) DynamoDB
5 10 (4.24%) MongoDB
5 10 (4.24%) MySQL
5 10 (4.24%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.24%) Power BI
6 9 (3.81%) Data Lake
7 7 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.97%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.54%) Big Data
8 6 (2.54%) Hadoop
8 6 (2.54%) Tableau
9 5 (2.12%) Amazon QuickSight
9 5 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (2.12%) Metadata
10 3 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.27%) Apache Hive
10 3 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (11.86%) Git
2 14 (5.93%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.93%) JIRA
3 12 (5.08%) GitLab
4 5 (2.12%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.69%) JUnit
6 3 (1.27%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.27%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.27%) MLflow
7 2 (0.85%) Mockito
7 2 (0.85%) Postman
7 2 (0.85%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.85%) Selenium
7 2 (0.85%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.85%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.85%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.42%) ERwin
8 1 (0.42%) Hamcrest
8 1 (0.42%) Maven
8 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 86 (36.44%) Finance
2 57 (24.15%) Social Skills
3 28 (11.86%) Banking
4 23 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.78%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.08%) Front Office
7 7 (2.97%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.54%) Legal
9 5 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.69%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.85%) Back Office
11 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.85%) Law
11 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.85%) Marketing
11 2 (0.85%) Retail
11 2 (0.85%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (20.76%) Architect
2 44 (18.64%) Senior
3 30 (12.71%) Developer
4 29 (12.29%) Data Engineer
5 24 (10.17%) Lead
6 18 (7.63%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (6.36%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (5.93%) AWS Architect
8 14 (5.93%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (5.08%) Python Engineer
10 10 (4.24%) Consultant
10 10 (4.24%) Security Architect
10 10 (4.24%) Senior Architect
11 8 (3.39%) Software Engineer
12 7 (2.97%) AWS Security Architect
12 7 (2.97%) Java Developer
12 7 (2.97%) Security Engineer
12 7 (2.97%) Senior Data Engineer
13 6 (2.54%) AWS DevOps
13 6 (2.54%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.63%) React
2 16 (6.78%) Node.js
2 16 (6.78%) RESTful
3 15 (6.36%) Kafka
4 12 (5.08%) REST
5 11 (4.66%) AngularJS
5 11 (4.66%) CSS
5 11 (4.66%) HTML
5 11 (4.66%) Spring
6 10 (4.24%) OAuth
7 9 (3.81%) .NET
7 9 (3.81%) Spring Boot
8 7 (2.97%) GraphQL
9 6 (2.54%) JWT
9 6 (2.54%) PySpark
9 6 (2.54%) scikit-learn
9 6 (2.54%) XML
10 5 (2.12%) PyTorch
10 5 (2.12%) TensorFlow
11 4 (1.69%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 38 (16.10%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.66%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.24%) Data Centre
4 9 (3.81%) Virtual Team
5 8 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.97%) Algorithms
6 7 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.12%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.12%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.69%) Derivative
8 4 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.69%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.27%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (1.27%) Equities
9 3 (1.27%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.27%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.08%) Windows
2 11 (4.66%) Linux
3 4 (1.69%) Unix
4 3 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.85%) Android
5 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.85%) VMS
6 1 (0.42%) AIX
6 1 (0.42%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (33.47%) CI/CD
2 59 (25.00%) Agile
3 54 (22.88%) DevOps
4 46 (19.49%) Analytics
5 42 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (16.10%) Infrastructure as Code
7 34 (14.41%) Microservices
8 32 (13.56%) Software Engineering
9 31 (13.14%) AI
10 27 (11.44%) Machine Learning
10 27 (11.44%) Roadmaps
11 26 (11.02%) Data Modelling
11 26 (11.02%) Stakeholder Management
12 25 (10.59%) Containerisation
12 25 (10.59%) Migration
13 23 (9.75%) Data Pipeline
13 23 (9.75%) ETL
14 21 (8.90%) Data Engineering
15 19 (8.05%) Cloud Security
16 18 (7.63%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 96 (40.68%) Python
2 60 (25.42%) SQL
3 46 (19.49%) Java
4 20 (8.47%) JavaScript
5 11 (4.66%) TypeScript
6 10 (4.24%) Bash
7 6 (2.54%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.12%) Go
9 4 (1.69%) C#
10 3 (1.27%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.27%) PHP
10 3 (1.27%) Scala
11 2 (0.85%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.85%) C++
11 2 (0.85%) Perl
11 2 (0.85%) PromQL
11 2 (0.85%) R
11 2 (0.85%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.42%) COBOL
12 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (17.80%) Security Cleared
2 37 (15.68%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.20%) Degree
4 13 (5.51%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.12%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.69%) CISSP
7 4 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.85%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.85%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.85%) PMP
9 2 (0.85%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.42%) CCSP
10 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.90%) Data Quality
2 17 (7.20%) GDPR
3 13 (5.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.24%) QA
5 9 (3.81%) NIST
6 6 (2.54%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.85%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.85%) NCSC
8 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.42%) GRC
8 1 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.42%) PMO
8 1 (0.42%) SLA
8 1 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (15.25%) Docker
2 8 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.85%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.85%) vSphere
4 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.42%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 47 (19.92%) Terraform
2 32 (13.56%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.36%) Ansible
4 6 (2.54%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (2.12%) Grafana
6 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.85%) Istio
7 2 (0.85%) Puppet
7 2 (0.85%) SCCM
8 1 (0.42%) Argo
8 1 (0.42%) CASB
8 1 (0.42%) Consul
8 1 (0.42%) Packer
8 1 (0.42%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.42%) QRadar
8 1 (0.42%) Trend Micro Deep Security
8 1 (0.42%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.42%) vRealize
8 1 (0.42%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 31 (13.14%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.90%) Databricks
3 11 (4.66%) Google
3 11 (4.66%) Oracle
4 8 (3.39%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.54%) IBM
5 6 (2.54%) Splunk
6 5 (2.12%) F5
6 5 (2.12%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.69%) CheckPoint
7 4 (1.69%) Informatica
7 4 (1.69%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.27%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.27%) Tenable
8 3 (1.27%) VMware
9 2 (0.85%) Adobe
9 2 (0.85%) Dell
9 2 (0.85%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.85%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.85%) Okta