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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 13 17
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 -7
Contract jobs citing AWS 268 229 192
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.80% 12.98% 9.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.66% 31.98% 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 161 122
10th Percentile £430 £413 £425
25th Percentile £480 £480 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £691 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £836
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +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 935 716 816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.15% 40.59% 39.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 485 555
10th Percentile £363 £336 £383
25th Percentile £460 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% -2.61%
75th Percentile £656 £668 £675
90th Percentile £750 £759 £766
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £552
% change year-on-year - -0.32% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.84 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.23 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.08% +27.13% -10.74%
75th Percentile £41.25 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £86.43 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% +9.68% +2.48%

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 4 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 22 (8.21%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.73%) Confluence
3 9 (3.36%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.61%) Apache
5 5 (1.87%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.75%) CICS
7 2 (0.75%) nginx
7 2 (0.75%) SAS
8 1 (0.37%) Camunda
8 1 (0.37%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.37%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.87%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.75%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.37%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.37%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 109 (40.67%) Azure
2 59 (22.01%) GCP
3 41 (15.30%) Serverless
4 37 (13.81%) AWS Lambda
4 37 (13.81%) GitHub
5 35 (13.06%) Amazon S3
6 30 (11.19%) Snowflake
7 20 (7.46%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (6.72%) dbt
9 16 (5.97%) Amazon Bedrock
10 15 (5.60%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (5.60%) SaaS
11 14 (5.22%) Power Platform
12 13 (4.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (4.48%) Amazon Kinesis
13 12 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (4.10%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (4.10%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (4.10%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (4.10%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.60%) DNS
1 15 (5.60%) Firewall
2 8 (2.99%) DHCP
2 8 (2.99%) VPN
3 5 (1.87%) Network Security
3 5 (1.87%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.49%) BGP
5 3 (1.12%) Multicast
5 3 (1.12%) OSPF
5 3 (1.12%) SMTP
5 3 (1.12%) VLAN
6 2 (0.75%) Internet
6 2 (0.75%) MPLS
6 2 (0.75%) NGFW
6 2 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.75%) SSH
6 2 (0.75%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.75%) X.509
7 1 (0.37%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.37%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.72%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (6.34%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (5.60%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (5.22%) DynamoDB
5 13 (4.85%) Power BI
6 12 (4.48%) NoSQL
7 11 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (3.73%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (3.36%) Metadata
10 8 (2.99%) MongoDB
11 7 (2.61%) Delta Lake
11 7 (2.61%) Relational Database
12 6 (2.24%) Big Data
12 6 (2.24%) SQL Server
12 6 (2.24%) Tableau
13 5 (1.87%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.87%) Pinecone
13 5 (1.87%) Snowflake Schema
14 4 (1.49%) Amazon QuickSight
14 4 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 28 (10.45%) GitLab
2 26 (9.70%) Git
2 26 (9.70%) Jenkins
3 22 (8.21%) JIRA
4 8 (2.99%) Postman
5 7 (2.61%) JUnit
6 6 (2.24%) Maven
6 6 (2.24%) Mockito
7 5 (1.87%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.87%) JMeter
8 3 (1.12%) Claude Code
8 3 (1.12%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.12%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.12%) Gradle
8 3 (1.12%) Selenium
9 2 (0.75%) Appium
9 2 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.75%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.37%) NeoLoad
General
1 92 (34.33%) Finance
2 63 (23.51%) Social Skills
3 40 (14.93%) Banking
4 35 (13.06%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (11.57%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.99%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.24%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.87%) Back Office
10 5 (1.87%) Front Office
10 5 (1.87%) Military
10 5 (1.87%) Retail
11 4 (1.49%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.12%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.12%) Marketing
13 2 (0.75%) Billing
13 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 55 (20.52%) Architect
2 50 (18.66%) Senior
3 32 (11.94%) Developer
4 28 (10.45%) Data Engineer
5 23 (8.58%) AWS Engineer
5 23 (8.58%) Lead
6 15 (5.60%) Senior Developer
7 13 (4.85%) Analyst
8 11 (4.10%) Senior Data Engineer
8 11 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (3.73%) Data Architect
9 10 (3.73%) Java Developer
9 10 (3.73%) Senior Java Developer
9 10 (3.73%) Technical Architect
10 9 (3.36%) AWS Data Engineer
10 9 (3.36%) Data Analyst
10 9 (3.36%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (2.99%) AWS Architect
11 8 (2.99%) Consultant
11 8 (2.99%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (19.03%) Terraform
2 28 (10.45%) Kafka
3 26 (9.70%) Spring
4 25 (9.33%) Spring Boot
5 23 (8.58%) REST
6 17 (6.34%) React
7 16 (5.97%) RESTful
8 13 (4.85%) PySpark
9 12 (4.48%) .NET
9 12 (4.48%) SOAP
10 11 (4.10%) Node.js
11 8 (2.99%) JSON
12 7 (2.61%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (2.24%) .NET Core
13 6 (2.24%) OAuth
13 6 (2.24%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (2.24%) Web Services
14 5 (1.87%) ActiveMQ
14 5 (1.87%) AngularJS
14 5 (1.87%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 73 (27.24%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.58%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (7.84%) AI Agents
4 14 (5.22%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.73%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.24%) Clustering
6 6 (2.24%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.49%) CMDB
8 4 (1.49%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.49%) PKI
8 4 (1.49%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.12%) Equities
9 3 (1.12%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.12%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.12%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.22%) Linux
2 12 (4.48%) Windows
3 9 (3.36%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.49%) Unix
5 2 (0.75%) zOS
6 1 (0.37%) AIX
6 1 (0.37%) Android
6 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.37%) CentOS
6 1 (0.37%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.37%) Solaris
6 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.37%) VMS
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (43.66%) CI/CD
2 75 (27.99%) DevOps
3 63 (23.51%) AI
4 60 (22.39%) Agile
5 59 (22.01%) Infrastructure as Code
6 47 (17.54%) Microservices
7 45 (16.79%) Containerisation
8 43 (16.04%) Data Engineering
8 43 (16.04%) Migration
8 43 (16.04%) Stakeholder Management
9 42 (15.67%) Analytics
10 39 (14.55%) Data Modelling
11 38 (14.18%) Event-Driven
11 38 (14.18%) Test Automation
12 33 (12.31%) Data Pipeline
13 32 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
13 32 (11.94%) Software Engineering
14 31 (11.57%) Machine Learning
14 31 (11.57%) Observability
15 25 (9.33%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 100 (37.31%) Python
2 56 (20.90%) SQL
3 53 (19.78%) Java
4 19 (7.09%) C#
5 18 (6.72%) TypeScript
6 17 (6.34%) JavaScript
7 14 (5.22%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.48%) Bash
9 5 (1.87%) Ruby
10 4 (1.49%) Bicep
10 4 (1.49%) Korn
10 4 (1.49%) Scala
10 4 (1.49%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.75%) Go
11 2 (0.75%) JCL
11 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.37%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.37%) R
12 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (20.90%) Security Cleared
2 43 (16.04%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.36%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.99%) Degree
5 7 (2.61%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.87%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.87%) PMP
7 3 (1.12%) CCNP
7 3 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.12%) CISM
7 3 (1.12%) CISSP
7 3 (1.12%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.12%) SnowPro
7 3 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.75%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.75%) OSCP
9 1 (0.37%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.07%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.85%) QA
3 12 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.10%) NIST
5 10 (3.73%) GDPR
6 8 (2.99%) EU AI Act
7 5 (1.87%) NCSC
8 3 (1.12%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.75%) EMIR
9 2 (0.75%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.75%) MiFID
9 2 (0.75%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.75%) SEPA
9 2 (0.75%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.37%) GRC
10 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 19770
10 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.37%) PMO
System Software
1 43 (16.04%) Docker
2 9 (3.36%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.12%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.12%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.12%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.12%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.37%) Firmware
5 1 (0.37%) NFS
5 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (20.15%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.84%) Ansible
3 14 (5.22%) Grafana
3 14 (5.22%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.87%) Puppet
5 4 (1.49%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.12%) Nagios
6 3 (1.12%) vMotion
7 1 (0.37%) Argo
7 1 (0.37%) Bosun
7 1 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.37%) Consul
7 1 (0.37%) Packer
7 1 (0.37%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.37%) Salt
7 1 (0.37%) SELinux
7 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.37%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 29 (10.82%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.96%) Databricks
3 18 (6.72%) Google
4 17 (6.34%) Oracle
5 10 (3.73%) Citrix
5 10 (3.73%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.73%) VMware
6 7 (2.61%) Cisco
6 7 (2.61%) CyberArk
7 6 (2.24%) Fortinet
7 6 (2.24%) Palo Alto
7 6 (2.24%) SAP
8 5 (1.87%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.49%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.12%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.12%) HP
10 3 (1.12%) IBM
10 3 (1.12%) Informatica
10 3 (1.12%) Symantec
10 3 (1.12%) Workday