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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 11 13
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 277 259 228
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.43% 14.96% 10.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.82% 34.86% 25.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 182 156
10th Percentile £406 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £686 £700
90th Percentile £764 £775 £869
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%
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 929 743 889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.34% 42.92% 40.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 478 620
10th Percentile £350 £369 £363
25th Percentile £456 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £653
90th Percentile £750 £757 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% -7.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 7
10th Percentile £20.67 £23.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £24.62 £24.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £44.47 £38.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% +71.44% -72.73%
75th Percentile £63.68 £71.37 £27.00
90th Percentile £75.18 £98.88 £36.30
Central London median hourly rate £54.60 £31.86 £22.50
% change year-on-year +71.38% +41.60% -66.67%

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

AWS
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

AWS
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 19 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the City of London

AWS
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

AWS
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 18 (6.50%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.53%) Confluence
3 5 (1.81%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.44%) Apache
4 4 (1.44%) CICS
4 4 (1.44%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.72%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.36%) Camunda
7 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.36%) nginx
7 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.44%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.08%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.72%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 112 (40.43%) Azure
2 61 (22.02%) GCP
3 50 (18.05%) Serverless
4 43 (15.52%) AWS Lambda
5 37 (13.36%) Amazon S3
5 37 (13.36%) GitHub
6 23 (8.30%) Snowflake
7 20 (7.22%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (7.22%) Power Platform
8 19 (6.86%) Amazon Bedrock
9 16 (5.78%) SaaS
10 14 (5.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (5.05%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (3.97%) Amazon SageMaker
12 10 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (3.61%) Amazon Kinesis
12 10 (3.61%) dbt
13 9 (3.25%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (3.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.33%) Firewall
2 9 (3.25%) DNS
3 7 (2.53%) Network Security
4 6 (2.17%) DHCP
5 5 (1.81%) VPN
6 3 (1.08%) SMTP
6 3 (1.08%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.72%) NGFW
7 2 (0.72%) X.509
8 1 (0.36%) BGP
8 1 (0.36%) IPsec
8 1 (0.36%) NAS
8 1 (0.36%) OSPF
8 1 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.36%) SAN
8 1 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.36%) SSL
8 1 (0.36%) VLAN
8 1 (0.36%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.22%) DynamoDB
2 18 (6.50%) NoSQL
3 16 (5.78%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (5.42%) Power BI
5 14 (5.05%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (4.69%) Metadata
7 12 (4.33%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (3.97%) Tableau
9 8 (2.89%) Db2
9 8 (2.89%) MongoDB
9 8 (2.89%) Snowflake Schema
9 8 (2.89%) SQL Server
10 7 (2.53%) Big Data
10 7 (2.53%) Data Lake
11 6 (2.17%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.81%) Pinecone
13 4 (1.44%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.44%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 28 (10.11%) Git
2 25 (9.03%) GitLab
2 25 (9.03%) Jenkins
3 23 (8.30%) JIRA
4 8 (2.89%) Postman
5 7 (2.53%) JUnit
6 6 (2.17%) Mockito
7 4 (1.44%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.44%) JMeter
8 3 (1.08%) Claude Code
8 3 (1.08%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.08%) Gradle
8 3 (1.08%) Maven
9 2 (0.72%) Ant
9 2 (0.72%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.72%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.72%) Gatling
9 2 (0.72%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.72%) Mocha
9 2 (0.72%) webpack
General
1 92 (33.21%) Finance
2 67 (24.19%) Social Skills
3 36 (13.00%) Banking
4 32 (11.55%) Public Sector
5 21 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.33%) Financial Institution
7 9 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.17%) Front Office
8 6 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.81%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.81%) Military
10 3 (1.08%) Marketing
10 3 (1.08%) Retail
11 2 (0.72%) Advertising
11 2 (0.72%) Back Office
11 2 (0.72%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.36%) Law
12 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (22.02%) Architect
2 37 (13.36%) Senior
3 32 (11.55%) Developer
4 25 (9.03%) Data Engineer
5 22 (7.94%) Lead
6 19 (6.86%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (5.42%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (4.69%) Senior Developer
9 11 (3.97%) Java Developer
9 11 (3.97%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 11 (3.97%) Snowflake Engineer
10 10 (3.61%) Cloud Architect
10 10 (3.61%) Migration Manager
10 10 (3.61%) Migration Project Manager
10 10 (3.61%) Project Manager
11 9 (3.25%) Consultant
12 8 (2.89%) AWS Architect
12 8 (2.89%) Data Scientist
12 8 (2.89%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (12.27%) Kafka
2 28 (10.11%) Spring
2 28 (10.11%) Spring Boot
3 26 (9.39%) REST
4 21 (7.58%) React
5 18 (6.50%) RESTful
6 12 (4.33%) JSON
7 11 (3.97%) .NET
7 11 (3.97%) PySpark
8 10 (3.61%) Node.js
8 10 (3.61%) SOAP
9 9 (3.25%) PyTorch
10 8 (2.89%) OAuth
10 8 (2.89%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (2.53%) TensorFlow
12 6 (2.17%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.17%) boto
12 6 (2.17%) GraphQL
12 6 (2.17%) Middleware
12 6 (2.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 66 (23.83%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.58%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.05%) AI Agents
4 10 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.25%) Clustering
5 9 (3.25%) Equities
5 9 (3.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.53%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.53%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.17%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.17%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.81%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.81%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.44%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.44%) DataPower
9 4 (1.44%) LIMS
9 4 (1.44%) Online Banking
9 4 (1.44%) PKI
10 3 (1.08%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.08%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.69%) Linux
1 13 (4.69%) Windows
2 6 (2.17%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.44%) Android
3 4 (1.44%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.44%) zOS
4 2 (0.72%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (0.72%) Unix
5 1 (0.36%) AIX
5 1 (0.36%) CentOS
5 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.36%) Solaris
5 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (37.18%) CI/CD
2 71 (25.63%) AI
2 71 (25.63%) DevOps
3 62 (22.38%) Agile
3 62 (22.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (16.97%) Migration
5 46 (16.61%) Containerisation
6 44 (15.88%) Analytics
7 43 (15.52%) Machine Learning
8 39 (14.08%) Event-Driven
9 38 (13.72%) Microservices
9 38 (13.72%) Stakeholder Management
10 36 (13.00%) Data Engineering
11 35 (12.64%) Observability
12 34 (12.27%) Data Modelling
12 34 (12.27%) Data Pipeline
13 33 (11.91%) Test Automation
14 31 (11.19%) Problem-Solving
15 27 (9.75%) Generative AI
16 26 (9.39%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 100 (36.10%) Python
2 60 (21.66%) SQL
3 50 (18.05%) Java
4 15 (5.42%) C#
4 15 (5.42%) TypeScript
5 14 (5.05%) JavaScript
6 10 (3.61%) Bash
6 10 (3.61%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.81%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.44%) JCL
8 4 (1.44%) Ruby
8 4 (1.44%) Scala
9 3 (1.08%) Bicep
9 3 (1.08%) Korn
10 2 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.72%) Go
11 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.36%) R
11 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (23.10%) Security Cleared
2 57 (20.58%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.69%) Degree
4 11 (3.97%) PMI Certification
4 11 (3.97%) PMP
5 7 (2.53%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.17%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.81%) CISSP
8 4 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.44%) CISM
9 3 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.08%) CCNP
9 3 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.08%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.08%) PhD
9 3 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.72%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.72%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.58%) Data Quality
2 20 (7.22%) GDPR
2 20 (7.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (6.86%) NIST
4 10 (3.61%) QA
5 6 (2.17%) EU AI Act
6 5 (1.81%) NCSC
6 5 (1.81%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.44%) SLA
8 3 (1.08%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.08%) NIST 800
8 3 (1.08%) SEPA
9 2 (0.72%) EMIR
9 2 (0.72%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.72%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.72%) MiFID
9 2 (0.72%) PSD2
9 2 (0.72%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.36%) GRC
10 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (15.88%) Docker
2 8 (2.89%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.08%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.08%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.08%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.08%) Terminal Services
5 2 (0.72%) NFS
6 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 53 (19.13%) Kubernetes
2 48 (17.33%) Terraform
3 22 (7.94%) Ansible
4 16 (5.78%) Grafana
5 13 (4.69%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.81%) Puppet
7 4 (1.44%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.08%) Argo
8 3 (1.08%) Nagios
8 3 (1.08%) vMotion
9 2 (0.72%) SnapMirror
10 1 (0.36%) Consul
10 1 (0.36%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.36%) Packer
10 1 (0.36%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.36%) QRadar
10 1 (0.36%) Salt
10 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (9.75%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.05%) Databricks
2 14 (5.05%) Google
3 13 (4.69%) CyberArk
4 11 (3.97%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.61%) Citrix
6 8 (2.89%) VMware
7 7 (2.53%) Splunk
8 6 (2.17%) Oracle
9 5 (1.81%) IBM
9 5 (1.81%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.81%) SAP
9 5 (1.81%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.44%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.44%) Informatica
10 4 (1.44%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.44%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.08%) Bloomberg
11 3 (1.08%) HP
11 3 (1.08%) Symantec