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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 10 13
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 262 258 238
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.31% 15.28% 10.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.34% 35.34% 27.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 179 169
10th Percentile £381 £406 £413
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% -10.40%
75th Percentile £675 £664 £688
90th Percentile £795 £730 £790
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £65.73 - -
25th Percentile £66.81 - -
Median hourly rate £72.25 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.75% - -
75th Percentile £76.31 - -
90th Percentile £76.58 - -
Central London median hourly rate £72.25 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -27.75% - -

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 893 730 869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.56% 43.25% 40.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 621 465 610
10th Percentile £350 £367 £363
25th Percentile £450 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £652
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 6
10th Percentile £20.35 £24.39 £12.75
25th Percentile £22.58 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £44.47 £38.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% +71.44% -72.99%
75th Percentile £63.54 £61.56 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.53 £126.25 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £44.47 £34.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +28.34% +54.00% -72.73%

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

AWS
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 May 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.

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

AWS
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 (6.87%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.29%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.29%) Confluence
3 5 (1.91%) Apache
4 4 (1.53%) CICS
5 2 (0.76%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.76%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.38%) Camunda
6 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.38%) nginx
6 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
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
1 3 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.76%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 104 (39.69%) Azure
2 58 (22.14%) GCP
3 48 (18.32%) Serverless
4 42 (16.03%) AWS Lambda
5 39 (14.89%) GitHub
6 34 (12.98%) Amazon S3
7 23 (8.78%) Snowflake
8 21 (8.02%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (7.25%) Power Platform
10 17 (6.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (6.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (5.73%) SaaS
13 12 (4.58%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (4.58%) Amazon SageMaker
14 11 (4.20%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (3.82%) Amazon Bedrock
15 10 (3.82%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (3.44%) Amazon Kinesis
16 9 (3.44%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.05%) Firewall
1 8 (3.05%) Network Security
2 6 (2.29%) DNS
3 2 (0.76%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.76%) VPN
4 1 (0.38%) BGP
4 1 (0.38%) DHCP
4 1 (0.38%) IPsec
4 1 (0.38%) NAS
4 1 (0.38%) NGFW
4 1 (0.38%) OSPF
4 1 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.38%) SAN
4 1 (0.38%) SSL
4 1 (0.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.02%) DynamoDB
2 17 (6.49%) NoSQL
2 17 (6.49%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.34%) Power BI
4 13 (4.96%) Tableau
5 12 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (4.58%) Metadata
6 11 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (3.82%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (3.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (3.44%) SQL Server
9 8 (3.05%) DB2
10 7 (2.67%) Data Lake
10 7 (2.67%) MongoDB
10 7 (2.67%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (2.29%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.91%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (1.53%) Big Data
13 4 (1.53%) CockroachDB
13 4 (1.53%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 27 (10.31%) Git
2 24 (9.16%) GitLab
3 23 (8.78%) Jenkins
4 22 (8.40%) JIRA
5 8 (3.05%) Postman
6 6 (2.29%) JUnit
7 5 (1.91%) Mockito
8 4 (1.53%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.53%) JMeter
9 3 (1.15%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.15%) Gradle
9 3 (1.15%) Maven
10 2 (0.76%) Ant
10 2 (0.76%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.76%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.76%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.76%) Gatling
10 2 (0.76%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.76%) Mocha
10 2 (0.76%) webpack
General
1 90 (34.35%) Finance
2 57 (21.76%) Social Skills
3 36 (13.74%) Banking
4 26 (9.92%) Public Sector
5 20 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.58%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.67%) Front Office
8 7 (2.67%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.15%) Back Office
9 3 (1.15%) Marketing
9 3 (1.15%) Military
9 3 (1.15%) Retail
10 2 (0.76%) Advertising
10 2 (0.76%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.38%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.38%) Law
Job Titles
1 56 (21.37%) Architect
2 37 (14.12%) Developer
3 30 (11.45%) Senior
4 25 (9.54%) Data Engineer
5 22 (8.40%) Lead
6 17 (6.49%) AWS Engineer
7 14 (5.34%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (4.96%) Senior Developer
9 12 (4.58%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (4.20%) Project Manager
10 11 (4.20%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 11 (4.20%) Snowflake Engineer
11 10 (3.82%) Cloud Architect
11 10 (3.82%) Consultant
11 10 (3.82%) Java Developer
11 10 (3.82%) Migration Manager
11 10 (3.82%) Migration Project Manager
12 9 (3.44%) Data Scientist
13 8 (3.05%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (3.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.60%) Kafka
2 26 (9.92%) Spring
2 26 (9.92%) Spring Boot
3 21 (8.02%) React
3 21 (8.02%) REST
4 17 (6.49%) RESTful
5 12 (4.58%) .NET
6 11 (4.20%) JSON
6 11 (4.20%) PySpark
7 10 (3.82%) Node.js
7 10 (3.82%) PyTorch
8 9 (3.44%) SOAP
9 8 (3.05%) OpenTelemetry
9 8 (3.05%) TensorFlow
10 7 (2.67%) boto
11 6 (2.29%) AngularJS
11 6 (2.29%) Pandas
11 6 (2.29%) scikit-learn
11 6 (2.29%) Web Services
12 5 (1.91%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (24.05%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.40%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.82%) Equities
3 10 (3.82%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.05%) Algorithms
6 7 (2.67%) AI Agents
6 7 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.29%) Clustering
8 5 (1.91%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.91%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.91%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.53%) DataPower
9 4 (1.53%) Derivative
9 4 (1.53%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.53%) LIMS
9 4 (1.53%) NHS
9 4 (1.53%) Online Banking
9 4 (1.53%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.34%) Linux
2 10 (3.82%) Windows
3 4 (1.53%) Android
3 4 (1.53%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.53%) zOS
4 2 (0.76%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.38%) AIX
5 1 (0.38%) CentOS
5 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.38%) Solaris
5 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (38.17%) CI/CD
2 70 (26.72%) DevOps
3 62 (23.66%) AI
4 60 (22.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 57 (21.76%) Agile
6 46 (17.56%) Containerisation
7 45 (17.18%) Migration
8 40 (15.27%) Analytics
9 39 (14.89%) Observability
10 37 (14.12%) Machine Learning
11 36 (13.74%) Microservices
12 35 (13.36%) Event-Driven
13 34 (12.98%) Data Engineering
13 34 (12.98%) Stakeholder Management
14 33 (12.60%) Data Pipeline
15 32 (12.21%) Test Automation
16 29 (11.07%) Data Modelling
17 27 (10.31%) Roadmaps
18 26 (9.92%) Validation
19 25 (9.54%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 104 (39.69%) Python
2 63 (24.05%) SQL
3 51 (19.47%) Java
4 15 (5.73%) JavaScript
5 14 (5.34%) C#
6 13 (4.96%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.82%) Bash
8 7 (2.67%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.29%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.91%) Ruby
10 5 (1.91%) Scala
11 4 (1.53%) JCL
12 3 (1.15%) Bicep
12 3 (1.15%) Go
12 3 (1.15%) Korn
12 3 (1.15%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.38%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.38%) PHP
14 1 (0.38%) R
Qualifications
1 60 (22.90%) Security Cleared
2 57 (21.76%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.20%) PMI Certification
3 11 (4.20%) PMP
4 9 (3.44%) Degree
5 6 (2.29%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.91%) CISSP
7 4 (1.53%) CISM
8 3 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.15%) PhD
9 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.76%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.76%) CCNP
9 2 (0.76%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.76%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.38%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.40%) Data Quality
2 19 (7.25%) NIST
3 18 (6.87%) GDPR
3 18 (6.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.05%) SLA
5 7 (2.67%) QA
6 4 (1.53%) NCSC
6 4 (1.53%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.15%) ISO 20022
7 3 (1.15%) NIST 800
7 3 (1.15%) SEPA
8 2 (0.76%) EMIR
8 2 (0.76%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.76%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.76%) MiFID
8 2 (0.76%) PSD2
9 1 (0.38%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.38%) GRC
9 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 46 (17.56%) Docker
2 3 (1.15%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.76%) NFS
4 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (19.08%) Kubernetes
2 46 (17.56%) Terraform
3 17 (6.49%) Ansible
4 16 (6.11%) Grafana
5 14 (5.34%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.15%) Argo
6 3 (1.15%) Karpenter
7 2 (0.76%) Puppet
7 2 (0.76%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.38%) Consul
8 1 (0.38%) Kibana
8 1 (0.38%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.38%) Packer
8 1 (0.38%) QRadar
8 1 (0.38%) Salt
8 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (7.25%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.20%) CyberArk
2 11 (4.20%) Databricks
3 10 (3.82%) Google
4 9 (3.44%) Oracle
5 8 (3.05%) IBM
5 8 (3.05%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.05%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.67%) Citrix
6 7 (2.67%) Splunk
7 5 (1.91%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.91%) SAP
8 4 (1.53%) VMware
9 3 (1.15%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.15%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.15%) Charles River
9 3 (1.15%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.15%) Informatica
9 3 (1.15%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.15%) Palo Alto