AWS Contracts in the City of London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 13 9
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 264 227 488
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 14.10% 10.54% 13.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.29% 25.36% 33.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 151 314
10th Percentile £400 £413 £431
25th Percentile £475 £495 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £610
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -5.66% -2.48%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £736
90th Percentile £775 £850 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £610
% change year-on-year -2.65% -7.38% -2.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £42.50
25th Percentile - - £63.69
Median hourly rate £100.00 - £84.09
75th Percentile - - £88.30
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £100.00 - £84.09
% change year-on-year - - +52.89%

All Cloud 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 793 895 1,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.34% 41.57% 40.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 624 936
10th Percentile £363 £363 £275
25th Percentile £456 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £589
Median % change year-on-year - -6.58% +2.39%
75th Percentile £665 £675 £700
90th Percentile £751 £763 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 10
10th Percentile £24.02 £12.75 £20.35
25th Percentile £25.18 £16.31 £38.13
Median hourly rate £38.58 £27.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.87% -60.00% +35.00%
75th Percentile £63.37 £44.44 £88.30
90th Percentile £96.63 £71.38 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £27.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +28.33% -48.57% +26.51%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for AWS in the City of London

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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 12 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in the City of London

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Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the City of London region over the 6 months to 12 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Moorgate - 1 £390 -
London Bridge - 1 - -
AWS
Central London

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (4.55%) Confluence
2 9 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.03%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.89%) Apache
4 5 (1.89%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.14%) Luigi
6 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.76%) nginx
7 1 (0.38%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.38%) Camunda
7 1 (0.38%) CICS
7 1 (0.38%) CMS
7 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.14%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.76%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.38%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.38%) Sketch
3 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.65%) Endur
2 4 (1.52%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.38%) Magento
4 1 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.38%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 98 (37.12%) Azure
2 43 (16.29%) GCP
3 35 (13.26%) Amazon S3
4 33 (12.50%) Serverless
5 28 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (8.33%) GitHub
7 15 (5.68%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (4.92%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (4.55%) SaaS
10 11 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (3.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (3.41%) Entra ID
11 9 (3.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (3.03%) Amazon Cognito
12 8 (3.03%) AWS Step Functions
12 8 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (2.65%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.79%) Firewall
2 8 (3.03%) VPN
3 6 (2.27%) DNS
4 3 (1.14%) Internet
4 3 (1.14%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.76%) DHCP
5 2 (0.76%) LAN
5 2 (0.76%) NAS
5 2 (0.76%) SAN
5 2 (0.76%) SSH
5 2 (0.76%) WAN
6 1 (0.38%) BGP
6 1 (0.38%) HTTP
6 1 (0.38%) Multicast
6 1 (0.38%) Network Security
6 1 (0.38%) OSPF
6 1 (0.38%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.38%) Unicast
6 1 (0.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (11.74%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (7.95%) NoSQL
3 16 (6.06%) MongoDB
4 14 (5.30%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (4.55%) DynamoDB
6 11 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (3.41%) Redis
7 9 (3.41%) Relational Database
8 8 (3.03%) Hadoop
8 8 (3.03%) Metadata
8 8 (3.03%) MySQL
9 7 (2.65%) Data Lake
9 7 (2.65%) DocumentDB
9 7 (2.65%) SQL Server
10 6 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (2.27%) Power BI
10 6 (2.27%) Tableau
11 5 (1.89%) Big Data
12 4 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.52%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 21 (7.95%) Git
1 21 (7.95%) JIRA
2 20 (7.58%) Jenkins
3 15 (5.68%) GitLab
4 11 (4.17%) SonarQube
5 7 (2.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (2.27%) Maven
7 5 (1.89%) JUnit
7 5 (1.89%) Postman
8 4 (1.52%) Selenium
9 3 (1.14%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.14%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (1.14%) Gradle
9 3 (1.14%) IntelliJ
9 3 (1.14%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.14%) ScriptRunner
10 2 (0.76%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.76%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.76%) MLflow
10 2 (0.76%) Terragrunt
General
1 80 (30.30%) Finance
2 69 (26.14%) Social Skills
3 38 (14.39%) Banking
4 36 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 33 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.55%) Front Office
7 9 (3.41%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.41%) Retail
8 5 (1.89%) Legal
8 5 (1.89%) Retail Banking
9 4 (1.52%) Back Office
9 4 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.52%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.52%) Military
9 4 (1.52%) Police
10 3 (1.14%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.14%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.76%) Marketing
12 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (21.21%) Developer
2 47 (17.80%) Architect
3 39 (14.77%) Senior
4 28 (10.61%) Data Engineer
5 20 (7.58%) Lead
6 19 (7.20%) Java Developer
7 18 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (5.68%) AWS Engineer
9 14 (5.30%) Software Engineer
10 12 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (3.79%) Data Architect
11 10 (3.79%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 9 (3.41%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (3.03%) AWS Architect
13 8 (3.03%) Security Architect
13 8 (3.03%) Senior Architect
13 8 (3.03%) Technical Architect
14 7 (2.65%) Cloud Architect
14 7 (2.65%) Project Manager
14 7 (2.65%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (12.88%) Kafka
2 33 (12.50%) React
3 24 (9.09%) Spring
4 20 (7.58%) Spring Boot
5 19 (7.20%) Node.js
6 18 (6.82%) GraphQL
7 15 (5.68%) REST
8 13 (4.92%) .NET
9 12 (4.55%) AngularJS
10 11 (4.17%) RESTful
11 7 (2.65%) HTML
12 6 (2.27%) pytest
13 5 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
13 5 (1.89%) JPA
13 5 (1.89%) OpenTelemetry
13 5 (1.89%) Svelte
13 5 (1.89%) WebSockets
14 4 (1.52%) CSS
14 4 (1.52%) OAuth
14 4 (1.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.58%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.41%) Mobile App
3 8 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.27%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.27%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.89%) Equities
6 5 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.89%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.52%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.14%) Blockchain
8 3 (1.14%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.14%) Derivative
8 3 (1.14%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.14%) iSeries
8 3 (1.14%) PKI
8 3 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 24 (9.09%) Linux
2 15 (5.68%) Windows
3 6 (2.27%) Unix
4 5 (1.89%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.52%) Android
6 3 (1.14%) Rocky
7 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.38%) AIX
8 1 (0.38%) CentOS
8 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.38%) Solaris
8 1 (0.38%) VMS
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (32.95%) DevOps
2 75 (28.41%) CI/CD
3 70 (26.52%) Agile
4 50 (18.94%) Microservices
5 42 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (14.02%) Infrastructure as Code
7 32 (12.12%) Software Engineering
8 27 (10.23%) Migration
9 26 (9.85%) Analytics
9 26 (9.85%) Cloud Security
10 23 (8.71%) Containerisation
11 20 (7.58%) Data Modelling
12 19 (7.20%) Full-Stack Development
13 18 (6.82%) Data Engineering
13 18 (6.82%) Data Pipeline
13 18 (6.82%) Stakeholder Management
13 18 (6.82%) Technical Leadership
14 16 (6.06%) Artificial Intelligence
14 16 (6.06%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (6.06%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 97 (36.74%) Python
2 48 (18.18%) Java
3 45 (17.05%) SQL
4 34 (12.88%) JavaScript
5 17 (6.44%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.30%) Bash
7 12 (4.55%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.17%) C#
9 7 (2.65%) Go
10 6 (2.27%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.89%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.89%) Scala
12 4 (1.52%) Bicep
12 4 (1.52%) Groovy
12 4 (1.52%) Perl
13 3 (1.14%) C++
13 3 (1.14%) DAML
14 2 (0.76%) Ruby
14 2 (0.76%) Rust
14 2 (0.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 60 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 54 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.06%) Degree
4 13 (4.92%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.17%) AWS Certified Developer
6 6 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.89%) CISSP
7 5 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.89%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.52%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.52%) CISM
8 4 (1.52%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.52%) PMP
9 3 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.76%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.38%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.38%) OSCP
11 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.17%) Data Quality
1 11 (4.17%) GDPR
2 10 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (3.79%) NIST
3 9 (3.41%) QA
4 4 (1.52%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.14%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.14%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.76%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.76%) SLA
7 1 (0.38%) PMO
7 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (11.36%) Docker
2 8 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.38%) Lustre
5 1 (0.38%) Platform Symphony
5 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 58 (21.97%) Kubernetes
2 52 (19.70%) Terraform
3 20 (7.58%) Ansible
4 14 (5.30%) Prometheus
5 11 (4.17%) Grafana
6 7 (2.65%) ITRS Geneos
7 6 (2.27%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.27%) Puppet
8 4 (1.52%) Argo
8 4 (1.52%) Consul
8 4 (1.52%) Kibana
8 4 (1.52%) SCCM
9 2 (0.76%) Cilium
9 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.76%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.76%) Packer
9 2 (0.76%) Podman
9 2 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.38%) Control-M
10 1 (0.38%) Nagios
Vendors
1 26 (9.85%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.55%) Google
3 10 (3.79%) Oracle
3 10 (3.79%) Splunk
4 6 (2.27%) Databricks
4 6 (2.27%) IBM
5 5 (1.89%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.52%) Adobe
6 4 (1.52%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.52%) VMware
7 3 (1.14%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.14%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.14%) CyberArk
7 3 (1.14%) Informatica
7 3 (1.14%) Okta
8 2 (0.76%) BT
8 2 (0.76%) Cisco
8 2 (0.76%) Citrix
8 2 (0.76%) Foundry
8 2 (0.76%) Red Hat