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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 14 11
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 250 214 253
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 13.03% 11.68% 10.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.37% 28.50% 27.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 149 184
10th Percentile £356 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £675 £664 £654
90th Percentile £800 £738 £738
Central London median daily rate £539 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% - -14.73%

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 797 751 912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.55% 40.99% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 589 472 657
10th Percentile £327 £400 £363
25th Percentile £417 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £740
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 11
10th Percentile £27.83 - £12.75
25th Percentile £35.88 £46.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.78 £47.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.15% +150.00% -55.81%
75th Percentile £49.83 £48.75 £36.25
90th Percentile £55.19 - £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £29.74 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -15.04% +84.21% -24.00%

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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 12 February 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 17 (6.80%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.00%) Apache
4 4 (1.60%) Confluence
5 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.40%) Notion
3 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (0.80%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 111 (44.40%) Azure
2 67 (26.80%) GCP
3 40 (16.00%) Serverless
4 38 (15.20%) AWS Lambda
5 32 (12.80%) GitHub
6 31 (12.40%) Amazon S3
7 25 (10.00%) Snowflake
8 18 (7.20%) Power Platform
9 17 (6.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 17 (6.80%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (6.40%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (6.40%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (4.40%) dbt
13 10 (4.00%) Amazon SageMaker
14 9 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (3.60%) SaaS
15 8 (3.20%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (3.20%) OpenShift
15 8 (3.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.00%) DNS
1 10 (4.00%) Firewall
1 10 (4.00%) Network Security
2 3 (1.20%) BGP
2 3 (1.20%) DHCP
2 3 (1.20%) OSPF
2 3 (1.20%) SSL
2 3 (1.20%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.20%) VPN
3 2 (0.80%) 4G
3 2 (0.80%) 5G
3 2 (0.80%) IPsec
3 2 (0.80%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.80%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.40%) 2G
4 1 (0.40%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (0.40%) DKIM
4 1 (0.40%) NAS
4 1 (0.40%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.60%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (6.80%) Relational Database
3 15 (6.00%) NoSQL
3 15 (6.00%) Power BI
4 13 (5.20%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (4.80%) DynamoDB
6 11 (4.40%) MySQL
6 11 (4.40%) Tableau
7 10 (4.00%) Data Lake
7 10 (4.00%) Metadata
7 10 (4.00%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.60%) MongoDB
9 8 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (2.80%) Big Data
11 6 (2.40%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (1.60%) CockroachDB
12 4 (1.60%) DB2
13 3 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (10.80%) Git
2 17 (6.80%) GitLab
3 14 (5.60%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.00%) JIRA
5 4 (1.60%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.60%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.20%) Gatling
6 3 (1.20%) JUnit
7 2 (0.80%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.80%) ERwin
7 2 (0.80%) MLflow
7 2 (0.80%) Mockito
7 2 (0.80%) Postman
7 2 (0.80%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.80%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.80%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.40%) Hamcrest
8 1 (0.40%) Selenium
8 1 (0.40%) Serenity BDD
General
1 91 (36.40%) Finance
2 61 (24.40%) Social Skills
3 39 (15.60%) Banking
4 21 (8.40%) Public Sector
5 19 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (4.00%) Financial Institution
7 10 (4.00%) Front Office
8 9 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (3.20%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.60%) Retail
12 3 (1.20%) Legal
12 3 (1.20%) Marketing
13 2 (0.80%) Back Office
13 2 (0.80%) Law
13 2 (0.80%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.80%) Military
14 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (21.60%) Architect
2 36 (14.40%) Senior
3 31 (12.40%) Developer
4 27 (10.80%) Lead
5 25 (10.00%) Data Engineer
6 20 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 19 (7.60%) Solutions Architect
8 16 (6.40%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (4.40%) AWS Architect
9 11 (4.40%) Python Engineer
10 9 (3.60%) Project Manager
10 9 (3.60%) Security Architect
10 9 (3.60%) Senior Architect
11 8 (3.20%) AWS DevOps
12 7 (2.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 7 (2.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 7 (2.80%) Cloud Architect
12 7 (2.80%) Consultant
12 7 (2.80%) Data Scientist
12 7 (2.80%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.60%) Kafka
2 18 (7.20%) React
3 15 (6.00%) Node.js
3 15 (6.00%) REST
4 13 (5.20%) .NET
5 11 (4.40%) PyTorch
5 11 (4.40%) RESTful
6 10 (4.00%) AngularJS
6 10 (4.00%) scikit-learn
6 10 (4.00%) TensorFlow
7 9 (3.60%) HTML
7 9 (3.60%) OAuth
8 8 (3.20%) CSS
8 8 (3.20%) NumPy
8 8 (3.20%) Pandas
8 8 (3.20%) Spring
9 7 (2.80%) Spring Boot
10 6 (2.40%) boto
10 6 (2.40%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (2.40%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 51 (20.40%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.20%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.60%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.20%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.80%) Equities
6 7 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.40%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.40%) Derivative
7 6 (2.40%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.40%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.00%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.00%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.20%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.20%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.00%) Linux
2 12 (4.80%) Windows
3 4 (1.60%) Android
3 4 (1.60%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.80%) Unix
6 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (33.60%) CI/CD
2 51 (20.40%) Agile
2 51 (20.40%) AI
2 51 (20.40%) DevOps
2 51 (20.40%) Infrastructure as Code
3 45 (18.00%) Analytics
4 39 (15.60%) Machine Learning
5 38 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (14.40%) Microservices
7 35 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 32 (12.80%) Data Pipeline
8 32 (12.80%) Migration
9 31 (12.40%) Containerisation
9 31 (12.40%) Software Engineering
10 30 (12.00%) ETL
11 29 (11.60%) Data Modelling
12 27 (10.80%) Generative AI
12 27 (10.80%) Observability
12 27 (10.80%) Roadmaps
13 26 (10.40%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 107 (42.80%) Python
2 74 (29.60%) SQL
3 49 (19.60%) Java
4 14 (5.60%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.80%) Bash
6 6 (2.40%) PowerShell
6 6 (2.40%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.00%) C#
8 4 (1.60%) PHP
9 3 (1.20%) Go
9 3 (1.20%) Korn
9 3 (1.20%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.20%) Ruby
9 3 (1.20%) Scala
10 2 (0.80%) C++
10 2 (0.80%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.80%) Perl
10 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.40%) ProC
11 1 (0.40%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 51 (20.40%) Security Cleared
2 47 (18.80%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.40%) Degree
4 11 (4.40%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.80%) PMI Certification
6 7 (2.80%) PMP
7 6 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.00%) CISSP
8 5 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.20%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.20%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.20%) PhD
11 2 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.80%) CISM
11 2 (0.80%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.80%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.40%) Data Quality
2 22 (8.80%) GDPR
3 16 (6.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (4.80%) NIST
5 7 (2.80%) QA
6 6 (2.40%) SLA
7 4 (1.60%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.20%) NCSC
9 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.80%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.80%) GRC
9 2 (0.80%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.80%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.80%) PSD2
9 2 (0.80%) SEPA
10 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.40%) DICOM
10 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.40%) HL7
10 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 44 (17.60%) Docker
2 3 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.80%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.80%) vSphere
4 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.40%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 53 (21.20%) Terraform
2 41 (16.40%) Kubernetes
3 17 (6.80%) Ansible
4 8 (3.20%) Grafana
5 5 (2.00%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.20%) Argo
7 3 (1.20%) Karpenter
7 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.40%) CASB
8 1 (0.40%) Istio
8 1 (0.40%) Kibana
8 1 (0.40%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.40%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.40%) QRadar
8 1 (0.40%) SCCM
8 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.40%) vRealize
8 1 (0.40%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 30 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.00%) Databricks
3 16 (6.40%) Oracle
4 11 (4.40%) Google
5 9 (3.60%) IBM
6 8 (3.20%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.80%) CyberArk
7 7 (2.80%) Splunk
8 6 (2.40%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.60%) Informatica
10 3 (1.20%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.20%) Cognos
10 3 (1.20%) Confluent
10 3 (1.20%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.20%) F5
10 3 (1.20%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.20%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.20%) Sage
10 3 (1.20%) SAP
10 3 (1.20%) VMware