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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 12 15
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 264 227 199
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.79% 12.99% 9.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.73% 32.38% 23.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 160 119
10th Percentile £430 £413 £425
25th Percentile £481 £479 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £720
90th Percentile £771 £800 £840
Central London median daily rate £575 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -1.71% +1.74% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £56.00 - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile £74.00 - -
Central London median hourly rate £65.00 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -35.00% - -

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 919 701 840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.05% 40.13% 40.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 656 491 552
10th Percentile £360 £340 £388
25th Percentile £456 £435 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% +0.44%
75th Percentile £660 £668 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 3
10th Percentile £18.33 £23.75 -
25th Percentile £20.25 £25.71 -
Median hourly rate £23.58 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.65% +25.93% +30.12%
75th Percentile £38.69 £61.16 £59.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £88.75 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +68.67%

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 24 September 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 21 (7.95%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.79%) Confluence
3 9 (3.41%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.65%) Apache
5 5 (1.89%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.76%) CICS
7 2 (0.76%) nginx
7 2 (0.76%) SAS
8 1 (0.38%) Camunda
8 1 (0.38%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.38%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.38%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.76%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.38%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.38%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 116 (43.94%) Azure
2 64 (24.24%) GCP
3 42 (15.91%) Serverless
4 40 (15.15%) GitHub
5 36 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (12.12%) Amazon S3
7 31 (11.74%) Snowflake
8 24 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (6.82%) Amazon Bedrock
9 18 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (6.44%) dbt
11 14 (5.30%) SaaS
12 13 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
13 12 (4.55%) Power Platform
14 11 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (4.17%) OpenShift
15 9 (3.41%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.06%) DNS
1 16 (6.06%) Firewall
2 10 (3.79%) VPN
3 9 (3.41%) DHCP
4 6 (2.27%) BGP
4 6 (2.27%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.89%) OSPF
5 5 (1.89%) VLAN
6 4 (1.52%) Network Security
7 3 (1.14%) MPLS
7 3 (1.14%) Multicast
7 3 (1.14%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.14%) SMTP
7 3 (1.14%) WAN
7 3 (1.14%) Wireless
8 2 (0.76%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.76%) IPsec
8 2 (0.76%) NGFW
8 2 (0.76%) SSH
8 2 (0.76%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.44%) Amazon RDS
1 17 (6.44%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (6.06%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (4.17%) Power BI
5 10 (3.79%) Metadata
5 10 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (3.41%) DynamoDB
7 8 (3.03%) Delta Lake
7 8 (3.03%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.65%) Big Data
8 7 (2.65%) SQL Server
9 6 (2.27%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.27%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.89%) Amazon QuickSight
10 5 (1.89%) Pinecone
11 4 (1.52%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (11.36%) GitLab
2 27 (10.23%) Jenkins
3 22 (8.33%) Git
4 19 (7.20%) JIRA
5 9 (3.41%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.65%) Postman
7 6 (2.27%) JMeter
7 6 (2.27%) JUnit
8 5 (1.89%) Maven
8 5 (1.89%) Mockito
9 3 (1.14%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.14%) Selenium
10 2 (0.76%) Appium
10 2 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.76%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.76%) Gatling
10 2 (0.76%) Gradle
10 2 (0.76%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.76%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.38%) HP UFT
General
1 95 (35.98%) Finance
2 65 (24.62%) Social Skills
3 42 (15.91%) Banking
4 35 (13.26%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (10.61%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.65%) Back Office
7 7 (2.65%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.27%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.89%) Front Office
9 5 (1.89%) Military
9 5 (1.89%) Retail
10 4 (1.52%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.14%) Billing
11 3 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.14%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.14%) Marketing
11 3 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (23.11%) Architect
2 53 (20.08%) Senior
3 28 (10.61%) Data Engineer
4 25 (9.47%) Developer
5 24 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
6 23 (8.71%) Lead
7 13 (4.92%) Data Architect
7 13 (4.92%) Senior Data Engineer
7 13 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (4.55%) Analyst
8 12 (4.55%) Senior Developer
9 11 (4.17%) AWS Data Engineer
10 9 (3.41%) AWS Architect
11 8 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (3.03%) Consultant
11 8 (3.03%) Data Analyst
11 8 (3.03%) Technical Architect
12 7 (2.65%) Cloud Architect
12 7 (2.65%) Java Developer
12 7 (2.65%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (20.45%) Terraform
2 26 (9.85%) Kafka
2 26 (9.85%) REST
3 23 (8.71%) Spring
4 22 (8.33%) Spring Boot
5 13 (4.92%) RESTful
6 12 (4.55%) .NET
6 12 (4.55%) PySpark
6 12 (4.55%) React
6 12 (4.55%) SOAP
7 9 (3.41%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (3.03%) ActiveMQ
8 8 (3.03%) JSON
8 8 (3.03%) Node.js
9 7 (2.65%) .NET Core
9 7 (2.65%) Web Services
10 6 (2.27%) LangChain
10 6 (2.27%) Middleware
10 6 (2.27%) OAuth
10 6 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 70 (26.52%) Cloud Native
2 24 (9.09%) AI Agents
3 20 (7.58%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.68%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.17%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.65%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.89%) CMDB
7 5 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.52%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.52%) PKI
8 4 (1.52%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.52%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 3 (1.14%) Clustering
9 3 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.06%) Linux
2 13 (4.92%) Windows
3 10 (3.79%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.89%) Unix
5 2 (0.76%) CentOS
5 2 (0.76%) zOS
6 1 (0.38%) AIX
6 1 (0.38%) Android
6 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.38%) Solaris
6 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.38%) VMS
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (44.70%) CI/CD
2 74 (28.03%) DevOps
3 65 (24.62%) AI
4 60 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 51 (19.32%) Agile
6 46 (17.42%) Migration
7 44 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 43 (16.29%) Data Engineering
8 43 (16.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 42 (15.91%) Microservices
10 41 (15.53%) Analytics
11 38 (14.39%) Data Modelling
11 38 (14.39%) Event-Driven
12 34 (12.88%) Observability
13 33 (12.50%) Test Automation
14 32 (12.12%) Data Pipeline
14 32 (12.12%) Software Engineering
15 30 (11.36%) Machine Learning
15 30 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
16 29 (10.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 95 (35.98%) Python
2 56 (21.21%) SQL
3 46 (17.42%) Java
4 18 (6.82%) PowerShell
5 17 (6.44%) C#
6 15 (5.68%) JavaScript
7 13 (4.92%) Bash
7 13 (4.92%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.89%) Korn
8 5 (1.89%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.52%) Bicep
10 3 (1.14%) Ruby
11 2 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.76%) Go
11 2 (0.76%) JCL
11 2 (0.76%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.76%) Scala
12 1 (0.38%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.38%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (20.08%) Security Cleared
2 40 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.41%) AWS Certification
3 9 (3.41%) Degree
3 9 (3.41%) DV Cleared
4 5 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
5 4 (1.52%) PMI Certification
5 4 (1.52%) PMP
6 3 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.14%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.14%) CCNP
6 3 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.14%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.14%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.76%) CISM
7 2 (0.76%) CISSP
7 2 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.76%) CREST Certified
7 2 (0.76%) OSCP
8 1 (0.38%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.61%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (4.17%) QA
3 8 (3.03%) EU AI Act
3 8 (3.03%) NIST
4 7 (2.65%) GDPR
5 5 (1.89%) NCSC
6 3 (1.14%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.14%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.14%) SEPA
7 2 (0.76%) EMIR
7 2 (0.76%) MiFID
7 2 (0.76%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.76%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.38%) GRC
8 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 19770
8 1 (0.38%) PMO
8 1 (0.38%) PSD2
System Software
1 42 (15.91%) Docker
2 9 (3.41%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.52%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.14%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.14%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.14%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.38%) Firmware
5 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 59 (22.35%) Kubernetes
2 26 (9.85%) Ansible
3 14 (5.30%) Grafana
4 13 (4.92%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.89%) Puppet
6 4 (1.52%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.14%) Nagios
7 3 (1.14%) vMotion
8 2 (0.76%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.38%) Netcool
9 1 (0.38%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 1 (0.38%) Packer
9 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.38%) Salt
9 1 (0.38%) SCCM
9 1 (0.38%) SELinux
9 1 (0.38%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.38%) Tivoli Monitoring
9 1 (0.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 29 (10.98%) Databricks
1 29 (10.98%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.44%) Google
3 16 (6.06%) Oracle
4 11 (4.17%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.79%) Citrix
5 10 (3.79%) VMware
6 9 (3.41%) Cisco
7 7 (2.65%) Fortinet
7 7 (2.65%) IBM
7 7 (2.65%) Palo Alto
7 7 (2.65%) SAP
8 5 (1.89%) CyberArk
8 5 (1.89%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.89%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.89%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.14%) F5
9 3 (1.14%) HP
9 3 (1.14%) Splunk
9 3 (1.14%) Symantec