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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 13 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS 267 240 196
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.52% 13.24% 9.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.68% 32.00% 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 167 123
10th Percentile £429 £400 £425
25th Percentile £477 £475 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £684 £700
90th Percentile £763 £793 £835
Central London median daily rate £550 £578 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £57.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - -
75th Percentile £75.88 - -
90th Percentile £76.40 - -
Central London median hourly rate £70.00 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -30.00% - -

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 931 750 833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.18% 41.37% 40.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 654 500 571
10th Percentile £371 £339 £383
25th Percentile £463 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -0.09% -4.26%
75th Percentile £656 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £757 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 3
10th Percentile £19.48 £23.84 -
25th Percentile £22.67 £26.23 -
Median hourly rate £27.00 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.34% +27.13% -10.74%
75th Percentile £59.06 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £75.18 £86.43 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +2.94% +25.93% -10.74%

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 25 August 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 19 (7.12%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.62%) Confluence
3 6 (2.25%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.25%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.12%) Apache
4 3 (1.12%) CICS
4 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.75%) nginx
6 1 (0.37%) Camunda
6 1 (0.37%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.37%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.37%) SAS
6 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%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 108 (40.45%) Azure
2 59 (22.10%) GCP
3 44 (16.48%) Serverless
4 38 (14.23%) AWS Lambda
5 37 (13.86%) GitHub
6 35 (13.11%) Amazon S3
7 28 (10.49%) Snowflake
8 21 (7.87%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (6.37%) Power Platform
10 16 (5.99%) Amazon Bedrock
10 16 (5.99%) SaaS
11 15 (5.62%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (5.62%) dbt
12 14 (5.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (4.49%) Amazon Kinesis
13 12 (4.49%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (4.12%) PaaS
15 10 (3.75%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.24%) DNS
2 13 (4.87%) Firewall
3 7 (2.62%) DHCP
4 6 (2.25%) VPN
5 5 (1.87%) Network Security
6 4 (1.50%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.12%) SMTP
8 2 (0.75%) BGP
8 2 (0.75%) Internet
8 2 (0.75%) Multicast
8 2 (0.75%) NGFW
8 2 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.75%) SSH
8 2 (0.75%) VLAN
8 2 (0.75%) X.509
9 1 (0.37%) NAS
9 1 (0.37%) OpenVPN
9 1 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.37%) VSAN
9 1 (0.37%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.99%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (5.62%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (5.62%) DynamoDB
2 15 (5.62%) Power BI
3 14 (5.24%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (4.87%) NoSQL
5 12 (4.49%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (3.37%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.62%) Metadata
8 7 (2.62%) SQL Server
8 7 (2.62%) Tableau
9 6 (2.25%) Big Data
9 6 (2.25%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (1.87%) Delta Lake
10 5 (1.87%) Pinecone
10 5 (1.87%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.50%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.50%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.50%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 29 (10.86%) GitLab
2 25 (9.36%) Jenkins
3 24 (8.99%) Git
4 19 (7.12%) JIRA
5 8 (3.00%) Postman
6 6 (2.25%) JUnit
7 5 (1.87%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.87%) JMeter
7 5 (1.87%) Mockito
8 4 (1.50%) Maven
9 3 (1.12%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.12%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.12%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.12%) Gradle
9 3 (1.12%) Selenium
10 2 (0.75%) Appium
10 2 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.37%) NeoLoad
11 1 (0.37%) TestNG
General
1 88 (32.96%) Finance
2 60 (22.47%) Social Skills
3 35 (13.11%) Banking
4 29 (10.86%) Public Sector
5 28 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.00%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.62%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.50%) Back Office
9 4 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.50%) Front Office
9 4 (1.50%) Military
9 4 (1.50%) Retail
10 3 (1.12%) General Ledger
10 3 (1.12%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.75%) Marketing
11 2 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.37%) Billing
12 1 (0.37%) Police
Job Titles
1 59 (22.10%) Architect
2 48 (17.98%) Senior
3 31 (11.61%) Developer
4 26 (9.74%) Data Engineer
5 21 (7.87%) AWS Engineer
5 21 (7.87%) Lead
6 14 (5.24%) Senior Developer
7 12 (4.49%) Analyst
8 11 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (4.12%) Technical Architect
9 9 (3.37%) AWS Architect
9 9 (3.37%) Data Architect
9 9 (3.37%) Java Developer
9 9 (3.37%) Senior Data Engineer
9 9 (3.37%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (3.00%) AWS Data Engineer
10 8 (3.00%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (3.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (3.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 8 (3.00%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (18.73%) Terraform
2 28 (10.49%) Kafka
3 25 (9.36%) Spring
4 24 (8.99%) Spring Boot
5 21 (7.87%) REST
6 18 (6.74%) RESTful
7 17 (6.37%) React
8 12 (4.49%) PySpark
9 11 (4.12%) .NET
9 11 (4.12%) Node.js
10 10 (3.75%) SOAP
11 9 (3.37%) JSON
11 9 (3.37%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (2.62%) OAuth
13 6 (2.25%) OpenTelemetry
14 5 (1.87%) .NET Core
14 5 (1.87%) LangChain
14 5 (1.87%) Web Services
15 4 (1.50%) Django
15 4 (1.50%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 69 (25.84%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.99%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (7.87%) AI Agents
4 13 (4.87%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.37%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.62%) Clustering
6 7 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.25%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.87%) CMDB
8 5 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.50%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.50%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.50%) PKI
9 4 (1.50%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.12%) Online Banking
10 3 (1.12%) Reinsurance
10 3 (1.12%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.87%) Linux
1 13 (4.87%) Windows
2 9 (3.37%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.50%) Unix
4 3 (1.12%) zOS
5 2 (0.75%) Data ONTAP
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%) 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
1 112 (41.95%) CI/CD
2 77 (28.84%) DevOps
3 62 (23.22%) AI
4 57 (21.35%) Agile
4 57 (21.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (16.85%) Containerisation
5 45 (16.85%) Microservices
5 45 (16.85%) Migration
6 39 (14.61%) Stakeholder Management
7 38 (14.23%) Data Modelling
8 37 (13.86%) Analytics
8 37 (13.86%) Event-Driven
8 37 (13.86%) Test Automation
9 36 (13.48%) Data Engineering
10 31 (11.61%) Machine Learning
10 31 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (11.61%) Software Engineering
11 29 (10.86%) Observability
12 28 (10.49%) Data Pipeline
13 24 (8.99%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 101 (37.83%) Python
2 55 (20.60%) SQL
3 49 (18.35%) Java
4 18 (6.74%) C#
4 18 (6.74%) JavaScript
5 17 (6.37%) TypeScript
6 15 (5.62%) PowerShell
7 11 (4.12%) Bash
8 5 (1.87%) Ruby
8 5 (1.87%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.50%) Bicep
9 4 (1.50%) Korn
10 3 (1.12%) JCL
10 3 (1.12%) Scala
11 2 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.75%) Go
11 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.37%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.37%) Rust
12 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (22.10%) Security Cleared
2 48 (17.98%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.00%) Degree
3 8 (3.00%) DV Cleared
4 5 (1.87%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.87%) PMI Certification
4 5 (1.87%) PMP
5 3 (1.12%) CCNP
5 3 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.12%) CISM
5 3 (1.12%) CISSP
5 3 (1.12%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.12%) SnowPro
5 3 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.75%) CREST Certified
6 2 (0.75%) OSCP
7 1 (0.37%) CCIE
7 1 (0.37%) CCNA
7 1 (0.37%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.12%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (4.87%) QA
4 12 (4.49%) GDPR
4 12 (4.49%) NIST
5 8 (3.00%) EU AI Act
6 5 (1.87%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.50%) NCSC
8 3 (1.12%) SLA
9 2 (0.75%) EMIR
9 2 (0.75%) MiFID
9 2 (0.75%) NIST 800
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 20022
10 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 19770
10 1 (0.37%) PMO
10 1 (0.37%) SEPA
System Software
1 44 (16.48%) Docker
2 10 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.37%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.12%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.12%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.12%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.12%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.75%) NFS
7 1 (0.37%) Firmware
7 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (20.22%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.87%) Ansible
3 13 (4.87%) Grafana
3 13 (4.87%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.87%) Puppet
5 4 (1.50%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.12%) Nagios
6 3 (1.12%) vMotion
7 2 (0.75%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.37%) Argo
8 1 (0.37%) Bosun
8 1 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.37%) Consul
8 1 (0.37%) Packer
8 1 (0.37%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.37%) Salt
8 1 (0.37%) SELinux
8 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (11.24%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.49%) Databricks
3 17 (6.37%) Google
4 15 (5.62%) Oracle
5 11 (4.12%) ServiceNow
5 11 (4.12%) VMware
6 10 (3.75%) Citrix
7 8 (3.00%) CyberArk
7 8 (3.00%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.25%) SAP
9 5 (1.87%) Cisco
9 5 (1.87%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.50%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.50%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.50%) Splunk
11 3 (1.12%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.12%) HP
11 3 (1.12%) IBM
11 3 (1.12%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.12%) Workday