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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 17 11
Rank change year-on-year +5 -6 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 234 194 303
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 13.45% 9.16% 10.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.14% 23.43% 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 122 220
10th Percentile £413 £429 £400
25th Percentile £488 £501 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £566
Median % change year-on-year - +1.55% -9.00%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £658
90th Percentile £800 £816 £775
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

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 728 828 1,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.84% 39.08% 40.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 534 792
10th Percentile £341 £400 £350
25th Percentile £425 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £671 £675 £675
90th Percentile £754 £761 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 10
10th Percentile £23.68 £32.05 £16.53
25th Percentile £30.69 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -29.46% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £58.96 £76.13 £46.06
90th Percentile £72.53 £85.95 £54.63
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +84.21% -7.32%

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 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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Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the City of London region over the 6 months to 16 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Moorgate - 1 £390 -
AWS
Central London

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 15 (6.41%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (4.70%) Apache Spark
3 9 (3.85%) Confluence
4 7 (2.99%) Apache
5 4 (1.71%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.43%) CICS
7 1 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.43%) CMS
7 1 (0.43%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.43%) Luigi
7 1 (0.43%) nginx
7 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.85%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Endur
2 2 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.43%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 104 (44.44%) Azure
2 52 (22.22%) GCP
3 40 (17.09%) Amazon S3
4 30 (12.82%) AWS Lambda
4 30 (12.82%) Serverless
5 25 (10.68%) GitHub
6 22 (9.40%) Snowflake
7 20 (8.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 17 (7.26%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (5.13%) dbt
9 12 (5.13%) Power Platform
10 11 (4.70%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (4.27%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (4.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (3.42%) SaaS
14 7 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (2.56%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.26%) Firewall
2 11 (4.70%) DNS
3 5 (2.14%) LAN
3 5 (2.14%) Network Security
3 5 (2.14%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.14%) VPN
3 5 (2.14%) WAN
4 4 (1.71%) SSL
5 3 (1.28%) BGP
5 3 (1.28%) DHCP
5 3 (1.28%) NAS
5 3 (1.28%) OSPF
5 3 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.85%) 4G
6 2 (0.85%) Internet
6 2 (0.85%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.85%) SAN
6 2 (0.85%) SSH
6 2 (0.85%) VLAN
6 2 (0.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.40%) Relational Database
2 19 (8.12%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (7.26%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (5.13%) MySQL
5 11 (4.70%) DynamoDB
5 11 (4.70%) Power BI
6 10 (4.27%) Data Lake
6 10 (4.27%) MongoDB
6 10 (4.27%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.99%) Hadoop
7 7 (2.99%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.56%) Big Data
8 6 (2.56%) Metadata
8 6 (2.56%) Tableau
9 5 (2.14%) Amazon QuickSight
9 5 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.71%) Apache Hive
10 4 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.28%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (11.97%) Git
2 15 (6.41%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.56%) JIRA
4 12 (5.13%) GitLab
5 5 (2.14%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.71%) JUnit
7 3 (1.28%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.28%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.28%) MLflow
8 2 (0.85%) Mockito
8 2 (0.85%) Postman
8 2 (0.85%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.85%) Selenium
8 2 (0.85%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.85%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.85%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.43%) ERwin
9 1 (0.43%) Hamcrest
9 1 (0.43%) Maven
General
1 87 (37.18%) Finance
2 61 (26.07%) Social Skills
3 29 (12.39%) Banking
4 24 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.98%) Front Office
5 14 (5.98%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.42%) Legal
7 6 (2.56%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.71%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
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 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 46 (19.66%) Senior
2 44 (18.80%) Architect
3 34 (14.53%) Developer
4 29 (12.39%) Data Engineer
5 23 (9.83%) Lead
6 15 (6.41%) Solutions Architect
7 14 (5.98%) AWS Engineer
8 13 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (5.13%) Python Engineer
10 11 (4.70%) AWS Architect
11 10 (4.27%) Senior Architect
12 9 (3.85%) Consultant
12 9 (3.85%) Software Engineer
13 8 (3.42%) Security Architect
14 7 (2.99%) Java Developer
14 7 (2.99%) Senior Data Engineer
15 6 (2.56%) Data Architect
15 6 (2.56%) Python Developer
15 6 (2.56%) Security Engineer
15 6 (2.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.97%) React
2 17 (7.26%) Kafka
3 16 (6.84%) RESTful
4 15 (6.41%) REST
5 13 (5.56%) AngularJS
5 13 (5.56%) Node.js
6 12 (5.13%) Spring
7 11 (4.70%) Spring Boot
8 10 (4.27%) CSS
8 10 (4.27%) GraphQL
8 10 (4.27%) HTML
9 9 (3.85%) .NET
9 9 (3.85%) OAuth
10 6 (2.56%) PySpark
10 6 (2.56%) scikit-learn
10 6 (2.56%) XML
11 5 (2.14%) JWT
11 5 (2.14%) PyTorch
11 5 (2.14%) TensorFlow
12 4 (1.71%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 35 (14.96%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.70%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.85%) Virtual Team
4 8 (3.42%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.99%) Algorithms
5 7 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.14%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.14%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.71%) Derivative
7 4 (1.71%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.71%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.71%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.28%) Equities
8 3 (1.28%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.13%) Linux
1 12 (5.13%) Windows
2 5 (2.14%) Unix
3 3 (1.28%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.85%) Android
4 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.85%) VMS
5 1 (0.43%) AIX
5 1 (0.43%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 60 (25.64%) Agile
3 54 (23.08%) DevOps
4 46 (19.66%) Analytics
5 43 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (16.24%) Infrastructure as Code
7 35 (14.96%) Microservices
8 32 (13.68%) Software Engineering
9 27 (11.54%) AI
9 27 (11.54%) Data Modelling
9 27 (11.54%) Roadmaps
10 26 (11.11%) Machine Learning
11 25 (10.68%) Data Pipeline
12 24 (10.26%) Containerisation
12 24 (10.26%) ETL
12 24 (10.26%) Migration
13 23 (9.83%) Stakeholder Management
14 22 (9.40%) Data Engineering
15 20 (8.55%) Full-Stack Development
15 20 (8.55%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 98 (41.88%) Python
2 59 (25.21%) SQL
3 47 (20.09%) Java
4 19 (8.12%) JavaScript
5 15 (6.41%) TypeScript
6 11 (4.70%) Bash
7 6 (2.56%) Go
7 6 (2.56%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.71%) C#
9 3 (1.28%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.28%) PHP
9 3 (1.28%) Scala
10 2 (0.85%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.85%) C++
10 2 (0.85%) COBOL
10 2 (0.85%) Perl
10 2 (0.85%) PromQL
10 2 (0.85%) R
10 2 (0.85%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.43%) RPG
Qualifications
1 35 (14.96%) Security Cleared
2 30 (12.82%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.69%) Degree
4 13 (5.56%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.14%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.71%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.28%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.28%) CISSP
9 2 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.85%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.43%) PMP
10 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.97%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.98%) GDPR
3 12 (5.13%) QA
4 10 (4.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.99%) NIST
6 4 (1.71%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.85%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.43%) NCSC
8 1 (0.43%) PMO
8 1 (0.43%) SLA
8 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (14.53%) Docker
2 8 (3.42%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.85%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.85%) vSphere
4 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.43%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 44 (18.80%) Terraform
2 30 (12.82%) Kubernetes
3 17 (7.26%) Ansible
4 7 (2.99%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (2.14%) Grafana
7 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.28%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.85%) Istio
9 2 (0.85%) Packer
9 2 (0.85%) Puppet
9 2 (0.85%) SCCM
10 1 (0.43%) CASB
10 1 (0.43%) Consul
10 1 (0.43%) Observium
10 1 (0.43%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.43%) QRadar
10 1 (0.43%) Trend Micro Deep Security
10 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.43%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 32 (13.68%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.69%) Databricks
3 11 (4.70%) Oracle
4 9 (3.85%) Google
5 8 (3.42%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.99%) IBM
7 6 (2.56%) Palo Alto
7 6 (2.56%) Splunk
8 5 (2.14%) F5
9 4 (1.71%) Informatica
9 4 (1.71%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.28%) CheckPoint
10 3 (1.28%) Cisco
10 3 (1.28%) Tenable
10 3 (1.28%) VMware
11 2 (0.85%) Adobe
11 2 (0.85%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.85%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.85%) Okta
11 2 (0.85%) Sparx