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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 12 13
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 281 242 232
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 12.67% 13.84% 10.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.43% 32.18% 26.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 166 165
10th Percentile £367 £413 £408
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -0.09% -11.92%
75th Percentile £652 £662 £678
90th Percentile £775 £720 £775
Central London median daily rate £543 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.36% - -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 894 752 864
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.31% 43.00% 38.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 630 482 604
10th Percentile £350 £381 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £749 £738 £763
Central London median daily rate £528 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.09% +1.85% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 9
10th Percentile £33.72 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.53 £29.64 £17.00
Median hourly rate £48.22 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% +88.89% -72.73%
75th Percentile £63.54 £74.38 £27.00
90th Percentile £75.53 £135.00 £54.95
Central London median hourly rate £40.64 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.70% +54.78% -57.14%

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 16 April 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

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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 20 (7.12%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.49%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.14%) Apache
3 6 (2.14%) Confluence
4 3 (1.07%) CICS
4 3 (1.07%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.71%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.36%) Camunda
6 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.36%) Notion
1 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.07%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.07%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.07%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.71%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 124 (44.13%) Azure
2 70 (24.91%) GCP
3 46 (16.37%) Serverless
4 43 (15.30%) GitHub
5 41 (14.59%) AWS Lambda
6 39 (13.88%) Amazon S3
7 25 (8.90%) Snowflake
8 21 (7.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 21 (7.47%) Power Platform
9 20 (7.12%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (6.05%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (5.69%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (4.98%) SaaS
13 13 (4.63%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (4.27%) Amazon SageMaker
15 11 (3.91%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (3.91%) dbt
16 9 (3.20%) Amazon Kinesis
17 8 (2.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.91%) Firewall
2 9 (3.20%) Network Security
3 5 (1.78%) DNS
4 3 (1.07%) VPN
5 2 (0.71%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.36%) 2G
6 1 (0.36%) 4G
6 1 (0.36%) BGP
6 1 (0.36%) DHCP
6 1 (0.36%) IPsec
6 1 (0.36%) LAN
6 1 (0.36%) NAS
6 1 (0.36%) OSPF
6 1 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.36%) SAN
6 1 (0.36%) SSL
6 1 (0.36%) VLAN
6 1 (0.36%) WAN
6 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.83%) DynamoDB
2 21 (7.47%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (6.41%) NoSQL
4 16 (5.69%) Power BI
5 14 (4.98%) Tableau
6 12 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (4.27%) MongoDB
6 12 (4.27%) Relational Database
7 11 (3.91%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (3.91%) Metadata
8 10 (3.56%) SQL Server
9 9 (3.20%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (2.85%) Data Lake
10 8 (2.85%) DB2
11 6 (2.14%) Apache Cassandra
11 6 (2.14%) MySQL
12 5 (1.78%) Big Data
12 5 (1.78%) Snowflake Schema
13 4 (1.42%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 34 (12.10%) Git
2 23 (8.19%) GitLab
3 18 (6.41%) Jenkins
3 18 (6.41%) JIRA
4 6 (2.14%) JUnit
5 5 (1.78%) Cucumber
5 5 (1.78%) Mockito
6 4 (1.42%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.07%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.07%) Gradle
7 3 (1.07%) Maven
7 3 (1.07%) Postman
8 2 (0.71%) Ant
8 2 (0.71%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.71%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.71%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.71%) Gatling
8 2 (0.71%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.71%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.71%) webpack
General
1 92 (32.74%) Finance
2 66 (23.49%) Social Skills
3 37 (13.17%) Banking
4 30 (10.68%) Public Sector
5 20 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.27%) Financial Institution
7 11 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.85%) Front Office
9 8 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.49%) Investment Banking
11 6 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.07%) Back Office
12 3 (1.07%) Law
12 3 (1.07%) Military
12 3 (1.07%) Retail
12 3 (1.07%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.71%) Advertising
13 2 (0.71%) Marketing
13 2 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 57 (20.28%) Architect
2 39 (13.88%) Developer
3 34 (12.10%) Senior
4 29 (10.32%) Data Engineer
5 25 (8.90%) Lead
6 19 (6.76%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (6.05%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (4.98%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (4.63%) Project Manager
10 11 (3.91%) Java Developer
10 11 (3.91%) Migration Manager
10 11 (3.91%) Migration Project Manager
10 11 (3.91%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 11 (3.91%) Snowflake Engineer
11 10 (3.56%) Data Scientist
12 9 (3.20%) AWS Architect
12 9 (3.20%) Consultant
12 9 (3.20%) Python Engineer
12 9 (3.20%) Senior Developer
12 9 (3.20%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (10.32%) Kafka
2 23 (8.19%) React
3 22 (7.83%) Spring
4 21 (7.47%) REST
4 21 (7.47%) Spring Boot
5 19 (6.76%) RESTful
6 16 (5.69%) Node.js
7 10 (3.56%) JSON
8 9 (3.20%) .NET
8 9 (3.20%) OpenTelemetry
8 9 (3.20%) PySpark
8 9 (3.20%) PyTorch
9 8 (2.85%) OAuth
9 8 (2.85%) scikit-learn
9 8 (2.85%) SOAP
10 7 (2.49%) AngularJS
10 7 (2.49%) boto
10 7 (2.49%) Pandas
10 7 (2.49%) TensorFlow
11 6 (2.14%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 60 (21.35%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.54%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.98%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.56%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.20%) Equities
6 8 (2.85%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.49%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.49%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.14%) Clustering
8 6 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.78%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.78%) Derivative
9 5 (1.78%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.78%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.78%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.42%) LIMS
10 4 (1.42%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.42%) NHS
11 3 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.34%) Linux
2 13 (4.63%) Windows
3 4 (1.42%) Android
3 4 (1.42%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.07%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.07%) zOS
5 2 (0.71%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (0.71%) Unix
6 1 (0.36%) AIX
6 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.36%) Solaris
6 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (38.43%) CI/CD
2 68 (24.20%) DevOps
3 64 (22.78%) Agile
4 62 (22.06%) AI
5 61 (21.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 48 (17.08%) Migration
7 46 (16.37%) Microservices
8 44 (15.66%) Analytics
9 41 (14.59%) Containerisation
9 41 (14.59%) Machine Learning
10 39 (13.88%) Stakeholder Management
11 35 (12.46%) Data Pipeline
11 35 (12.46%) Observability
12 33 (11.74%) Data Modelling
13 32 (11.39%) Event-Driven
13 32 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
13 32 (11.39%) Software Engineering
13 32 (11.39%) Test Automation
14 30 (10.68%) Data Engineering
15 28 (9.96%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 110 (39.15%) Python
2 73 (25.98%) SQL
3 55 (19.57%) Java
4 13 (4.63%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.27%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.20%) C#
7 8 (2.85%) Bash
8 6 (2.14%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.78%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.78%) Ruby
9 5 (1.78%) Scala
10 3 (1.07%) Go
10 3 (1.07%) JCL
10 3 (1.07%) Korn
10 3 (1.07%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.71%) Bicep
11 2 (0.71%) PHP
11 2 (0.71%) R
12 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 65 (23.13%) Security Cleared
2 61 (21.71%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.91%) Degree
3 11 (3.91%) PMI Certification
3 11 (3.91%) PMP
4 8 (2.85%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.14%) CISSP
6 5 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.42%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.42%) CISM
7 4 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.07%) PhD
8 3 (1.07%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.71%) CCNP
9 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.71%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.25%) Data Quality
2 24 (8.54%) GDPR
3 23 (8.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (7.47%) NIST
5 9 (3.20%) QA
6 8 (2.85%) SLA
7 7 (2.49%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.78%) NCSC
9 3 (1.07%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.71%) GRC
10 2 (0.71%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.71%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.71%) PSD2
10 2 (0.71%) SEPA
11 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.36%) DICOM
11 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.36%) HL7
11 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 52 (18.51%) Docker
2 3 (1.07%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.71%) NFS
3 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (19.93%) Terraform
2 51 (18.15%) Kubernetes
3 17 (6.05%) Ansible
4 14 (4.98%) Grafana
5 11 (3.91%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.07%) Argo
6 3 (1.07%) Karpenter
6 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.71%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.36%) CASB
8 1 (0.36%) Consul
8 1 (0.36%) Istio
8 1 (0.36%) Kibana
8 1 (0.36%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.36%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.36%) Puppet
8 1 (0.36%) QRadar
8 1 (0.36%) Salt
8 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (8.54%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.69%) Databricks
3 14 (4.98%) Google
4 13 (4.63%) Oracle
5 12 (4.27%) CyberArk
6 10 (3.56%) IBM
7 7 (2.49%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.49%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.49%) Splunk
8 5 (1.78%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.42%) Citrix
9 4 (1.42%) Informatica
9 4 (1.42%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.42%) SAP
9 4 (1.42%) VMware
10 3 (1.07%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.07%) Charles River
10 3 (1.07%) Cognos
10 3 (1.07%) Confluent
10 3 (1.07%) Sage