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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 17 11
Rank change year-on-year +5 -6 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 245 186 263
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 13.26% 9.52% 10.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.90% 24.54% 27.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 125 199
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.32% +2.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £675 £664 £649
90th Percentile £799 £738 £738
Central London median daily rate £550 £544 £550
% change year-on-year +1.15% -1.14% -12.00%

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 768 758 961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.58% 38.79% 39.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 483 700
10th Percentile £340 £401 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £757 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 9
10th Percentile £25.49 - -
25th Percentile £32.50 £77.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £85.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.35% +277.78% +12.50%
75th Percentile £41.94 £92.50 £38.00
90th Percentile £45.28 - £53.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -27.23% +55.56% +9.76%

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

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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 7 January 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 16 (6.53%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.67%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.67%) Confluence
3 6 (2.45%) Apache
4 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.82%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.41%) CICS
5 1 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.41%) Notion
3 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 111 (45.31%) Azure
2 59 (24.08%) GCP
3 38 (15.51%) AWS Lambda
3 38 (15.51%) Serverless
4 37 (15.10%) Amazon S3
5 31 (12.65%) GitHub
6 22 (8.98%) Snowflake
7 20 (8.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (7.76%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (6.53%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (5.31%) Power Platform
13 11 (4.49%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (4.49%) dbt
14 10 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
16 8 (3.27%) Apigee
16 8 (3.27%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.12%) Firewall
2 12 (4.90%) DNS
3 7 (2.86%) Network Security
4 4 (1.63%) SSL
4 4 (1.63%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.63%) VPN
5 3 (1.22%) DHCP
5 3 (1.22%) LAN
5 3 (1.22%) WAN
5 3 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.82%) 4G
6 2 (0.82%) 5G
6 2 (0.82%) BGP
6 2 (0.82%) NAS
6 2 (0.82%) OSPF
6 2 (0.82%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.82%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.41%) Cisco Wireless
7 1 (0.41%) DKIM
7 1 (0.41%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.39%) Relational Database
2 15 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (4.90%) DynamoDB
4 12 (4.90%) NoSQL
5 11 (4.49%) Power BI
6 10 (4.08%) MySQL
6 10 (4.08%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.67%) Data Lake
8 8 (3.27%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.27%) Tableau
9 7 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (2.04%) Amazon QuickSight
10 5 (2.04%) Big Data
10 5 (2.04%) Metadata
11 4 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (1.63%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.22%) CockroachDB
12 3 (1.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (11.43%) Git
2 17 (6.94%) GitLab
2 17 (6.94%) Jenkins
3 15 (6.12%) JIRA
4 6 (2.45%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.63%) JUnit
6 3 (1.22%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.22%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.22%) Gatling
7 2 (0.82%) MLflow
7 2 (0.82%) Mockito
7 2 (0.82%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.82%) Selenium
7 2 (0.82%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.82%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.82%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.41%) ERwin
8 1 (0.41%) Hamcrest
8 1 (0.41%) Maven
8 1 (0.41%) Postman
General
1 83 (33.88%) Finance
2 51 (20.82%) Social Skills
3 37 (15.10%) Banking
4 22 (8.98%) Public Sector
5 21 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (3.67%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.27%) Front Office
9 7 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.45%) Investment Banking
11 5 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.22%) Legal
13 2 (0.82%) Back Office
13 2 (0.82%) Law
13 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.82%) Marketing
13 2 (0.82%) Military
13 2 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.82%) Retail
14 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (20.00%) Architect
2 42 (17.14%) Senior
3 35 (14.29%) Developer
4 27 (11.02%) Data Engineer
4 27 (11.02%) Lead
5 19 (7.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (7.35%) AWS Engineer
7 17 (6.94%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (5.31%) Python Engineer
9 11 (4.49%) AWS Architect
10 9 (3.67%) Consultant
10 9 (3.67%) Java Developer
10 9 (3.67%) Project Manager
11 8 (3.27%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (3.27%) Security Architect
11 8 (3.27%) Senior Architect
11 8 (3.27%) Senior Developer
12 7 (2.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 6 (2.45%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 6 (2.45%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.53%) Node.js
1 16 (6.53%) React
2 14 (5.71%) Spring
3 13 (5.31%) RESTful
4 12 (4.90%) Kafka
4 12 (4.90%) REST
4 12 (4.90%) Spring Boot
5 11 (4.49%) .NET
5 11 (4.49%) OAuth
6 10 (4.08%) HTML
7 9 (3.67%) AngularJS
7 9 (3.67%) CSS
7 9 (3.67%) scikit-learn
8 8 (3.27%) Pandas
9 7 (2.86%) NumPy
9 7 (2.86%) PyTorch
10 6 (2.45%) JWT
10 6 (2.45%) PySpark
10 6 (2.45%) TensorFlow
11 5 (2.04%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 41 (16.73%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.08%) Data Centre
4 9 (3.67%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.67%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.27%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.86%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.45%) Derivative
7 6 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.04%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.63%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.63%) Equities
9 4 (1.63%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.22%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.71%) Linux
2 13 (5.31%) Windows
3 4 (1.63%) Unix
3 4 (1.63%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.82%) Android
4 2 (0.82%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.41%) AIX
5 1 (0.41%) Solaris
5 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (32.65%) CI/CD
2 58 (23.67%) DevOps
3 50 (20.41%) Agile
4 46 (18.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (17.55%) Analytics
6 37 (15.10%) Microservices
7 36 (14.69%) AI
7 36 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (14.69%) Stakeholder Management
8 32 (13.06%) Roadmaps
9 31 (12.65%) Containerisation
10 30 (12.24%) Software Engineering
11 28 (11.43%) Machine Learning
11 28 (11.43%) Migration
12 27 (11.02%) Data Pipeline
13 26 (10.61%) ETL
14 23 (9.39%) Data Modelling
15 22 (8.98%) Data Engineering
16 21 (8.57%) Test Automation
17 20 (8.16%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 98 (40.00%) Python
2 70 (28.57%) SQL
3 53 (21.63%) Java
4 17 (6.94%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.27%) Bash
5 8 (3.27%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.45%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.63%) Go
7 4 (1.63%) PHP
8 3 (1.22%) C#
8 3 (1.22%) Korn
8 3 (1.22%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.22%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.22%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.82%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.82%) C++
9 2 (0.82%) Perl
9 2 (0.82%) Ruby
9 2 (0.82%) Scala
10 1 (0.41%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 54 (22.04%) Security Cleared
2 49 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.31%) AWS Certification
4 11 (4.49%) Degree
5 6 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.04%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.04%) PMP
7 4 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.63%) CISSP
7 4 (1.63%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.22%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.82%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.82%) MCP
9 2 (0.82%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.39%) Data Quality
2 20 (8.16%) GDPR
3 14 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.08%) QA
5 9 (3.67%) NIST
6 6 (2.45%) SLA
7 4 (1.63%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.82%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.82%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.82%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.82%) NCSC
8 2 (0.82%) PSD2
8 2 (0.82%) SEPA
9 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.41%) GRC
9 1 (0.41%) HL7
9 1 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.41%) PMO
9 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (18.37%) Docker
2 7 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.82%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.82%) vSphere
4 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.41%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 53 (21.63%) Terraform
2 35 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 17 (6.94%) Ansible
4 7 (2.86%) Grafana
5 6 (2.45%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.22%) Argo
9 2 (0.82%) Istio
9 2 (0.82%) Karpenter
9 2 (0.82%) SCCM
10 1 (0.41%) CASB
10 1 (0.41%) Kibana
10 1 (0.41%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.41%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.41%) Puppet
10 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.41%) vRealize
10 1 (0.41%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 30 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.57%) Databricks
3 16 (6.53%) Oracle
4 10 (4.08%) Google
5 8 (3.27%) IBM
5 8 (3.27%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.27%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.04%) CyberArk
6 5 (2.04%) F5
6 5 (2.04%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.04%) Splunk
7 4 (1.63%) CheckPoint
7 4 (1.63%) VMware
8 3 (1.22%) Confluent
8 3 (1.22%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.22%) Informatica
8 3 (1.22%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.22%) SAP
9 2 (0.82%) Cognos
9 2 (0.82%) Tenable