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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 11 15
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 269 228 200
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.86% 12.73% 9.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.74% 31.58% 23.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 158 125
10th Percentile £425 £404 £425
25th Percentile £475 £480 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.75% +3.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £833
Central London median daily rate £553 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.56% +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 936 722 845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.27% 40.31% 40.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 492 563
10th Percentile £363 £341 £400
25th Percentile £456 £435 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -1.74%
75th Percentile £660 £670 £675
90th Percentile £755 £756 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £564
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +0.22%
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 £35.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% +15.70%

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 13 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 (8.18%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.35%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.35%) Confluence
3 7 (2.60%) Apache
4 5 (1.86%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.74%) CICS
6 2 (0.74%) nginx
6 2 (0.74%) SAS
7 1 (0.37%) Camunda
7 1 (0.37%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.37%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.37%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.49%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.74%) 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
1 114 (42.38%) Azure
2 60 (22.30%) GCP
3 40 (14.87%) GitHub
3 40 (14.87%) Serverless
4 36 (13.38%) AWS Lambda
5 33 (12.27%) Amazon S3
6 31 (11.52%) Snowflake
7 22 (8.18%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (6.69%) dbt
9 16 (5.95%) Amazon Bedrock
9 16 (5.95%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (5.58%) SaaS
11 14 (5.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (4.83%) Power Platform
13 12 (4.46%) Amazon Kinesis
14 11 (4.09%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (4.09%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (3.72%) OpenShift
15 10 (3.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.95%) DNS
1 16 (5.95%) Firewall
2 9 (3.35%) DHCP
2 9 (3.35%) VPN
3 6 (2.23%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.86%) BGP
5 4 (1.49%) Network Security
5 4 (1.49%) OSPF
5 4 (1.49%) VLAN
6 3 (1.12%) MPLS
6 3 (1.12%) Multicast
6 3 (1.12%) SMTP
7 2 (0.74%) Internet
7 2 (0.74%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.74%) IPsec
7 2 (0.74%) SSH
7 2 (0.74%) WAN
7 2 (0.74%) Wireless
7 2 (0.74%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.74%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.69%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (6.32%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (5.58%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (4.83%) NoSQL
5 12 (4.46%) DynamoDB
5 12 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (4.46%) Power BI
6 11 (4.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (3.72%) Metadata
8 8 (2.97%) Delta Lake
8 8 (2.97%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.60%) Big Data
9 7 (2.60%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.60%) SQL Server
10 6 (2.23%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.86%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.49%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (1.49%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 29 (10.78%) GitLab
2 27 (10.04%) Jenkins
3 23 (8.55%) Git
4 21 (7.81%) JIRA
5 8 (2.97%) Postman
6 7 (2.60%) JUnit
7 6 (2.23%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.23%) Maven
7 6 (2.23%) Mockito
8 5 (1.86%) JMeter
9 4 (1.49%) Claude Code
10 3 (1.12%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.12%) Gradle
10 3 (1.12%) Selenium
11 2 (0.74%) Appium
11 2 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.74%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.74%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.37%) Gatling
12 1 (0.37%) webpack
General
1 96 (35.69%) Finance
2 67 (24.91%) Social Skills
3 42 (15.61%) Banking
4 35 (13.01%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (10.78%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.60%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.86%) Back Office
8 5 (1.86%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.86%) Front Office
8 5 (1.86%) Military
8 5 (1.86%) Retail
9 4 (1.49%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.12%) Billing
10 3 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.12%) General Ledger
10 3 (1.12%) Marketing
11 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (22.30%) Architect
2 54 (20.07%) Senior
3 29 (10.78%) Developer
4 27 (10.04%) Data Engineer
5 23 (8.55%) AWS Engineer
5 23 (8.55%) Lead
6 14 (5.20%) Senior Developer
7 12 (4.46%) Analyst
7 12 (4.46%) Data Architect
7 12 (4.46%) Senior Data Engineer
7 12 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (3.72%) AWS Data Engineer
9 9 (3.35%) Java Developer
9 9 (3.35%) Senior Java Developer
9 9 (3.35%) Technical Architect
10 8 (2.97%) AWS Architect
10 8 (2.97%) Consultant
10 8 (2.97%) Data Analyst
10 8 (2.97%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (2.60%) AWS Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (19.70%) Terraform
2 29 (10.78%) Kafka
3 27 (10.04%) Spring
4 26 (9.67%) Spring Boot
5 25 (9.29%) REST
6 15 (5.58%) RESTful
7 14 (5.20%) React
8 13 (4.83%) .NET
8 13 (4.83%) SOAP
9 12 (4.46%) PySpark
10 11 (4.09%) Node.js
11 8 (2.97%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (2.60%) .NET Core
12 7 (2.60%) JSON
13 6 (2.23%) ActiveMQ
13 6 (2.23%) LangChain
13 6 (2.23%) OAuth
13 6 (2.23%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (2.23%) Web Services
14 5 (1.86%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 74 (27.51%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.55%) AI Agents
2 23 (8.55%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.95%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.46%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.23%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.86%) Clustering
6 5 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.49%) CMDB
7 4 (1.49%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.49%) PKI
7 4 (1.49%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.49%) Reinsurance
7 4 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.12%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.20%) Linux
2 12 (4.46%) Windows
3 9 (3.35%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.49%) Unix
5 2 (0.74%) 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
1 121 (44.98%) CI/CD
2 77 (28.62%) DevOps
3 67 (24.91%) AI
4 58 (21.56%) Agile
4 58 (21.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (17.84%) Microservices
6 46 (17.10%) Containerisation
7 45 (16.73%) Migration
7 45 (16.73%) Stakeholder Management
8 43 (15.99%) Analytics
8 43 (15.99%) Data Engineering
9 40 (14.87%) Event-Driven
10 38 (14.13%) Data Modelling
11 35 (13.01%) Test Automation
12 34 (12.64%) Software Engineering
13 33 (12.27%) Data Pipeline
13 33 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
14 32 (11.90%) Machine Learning
14 32 (11.90%) Observability
15 28 (10.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 97 (36.06%) Python
2 57 (21.19%) SQL
3 52 (19.33%) Java
4 19 (7.06%) C#
5 16 (5.95%) PowerShell
5 16 (5.95%) TypeScript
6 15 (5.58%) JavaScript
7 12 (4.46%) Bash
8 4 (1.49%) Bicep
8 4 (1.49%) Korn
8 4 (1.49%) Ruby
8 4 (1.49%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.12%) Scala
10 2 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.74%) Go
10 2 (0.74%) JCL
10 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.37%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.37%) R
11 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (19.70%) Security Cleared
2 40 (14.87%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.72%) Degree
4 9 (3.35%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.60%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.86%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.86%) PMP
6 5 (1.86%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.12%) CCNP
7 3 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.12%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.12%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.74%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.74%) CISM
8 2 (0.74%) CISSP
8 2 (0.74%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.74%) OSCP
8 2 (0.74%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.41%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.83%) QA
3 11 (4.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.72%) NIST
5 8 (2.97%) EU AI Act
5 8 (2.97%) GDPR
6 5 (1.86%) NCSC
7 3 (1.12%) ISO 20022
7 3 (1.12%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.12%) SEPA
8 2 (0.74%) EMIR
8 2 (0.74%) MiFID
8 2 (0.74%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.74%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.37%) GRC
9 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.37%) PMO
9 1 (0.37%) PSD2
System Software
1 45 (16.73%) Docker
2 9 (3.35%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.35%) 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 58 (21.56%) Kubernetes
2 23 (8.55%) Ansible
3 14 (5.20%) Grafana
3 14 (5.20%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.86%) 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%) FortiGate
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 27 (10.04%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.67%) Databricks
3 18 (6.69%) Google
4 17 (6.32%) Oracle
5 10 (3.72%) Citrix
5 10 (3.72%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.72%) VMware
6 8 (2.97%) Cisco
7 7 (2.60%) Palo Alto
7 7 (2.60%) SAP
8 6 (2.23%) CyberArk
8 6 (2.23%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.86%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.49%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.12%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.12%) HP
11 3 (1.12%) IBM
11 3 (1.12%) Informatica
11 3 (1.12%) Symantec
11 3 (1.12%) Workday