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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 11 12
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 262 259 232
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.57% 14.90% 10.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.67% 34.35% 27.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 178 165
10th Percentile £371 £407 £413
25th Percentile £463 £459 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% -10.40%
75th Percentile £651 £654 £688
90th Percentile £759 £722 £795
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £65.73 - -
25th Percentile £66.81 - -
Median hourly rate £72.25 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.75% - -
75th Percentile £76.31 - -
90th Percentile £76.58 - -
Central London median hourly rate £72.25 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -27.75% - -

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 883 754 853
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.98% 43.38% 39.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 478 598
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £457 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £541
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +1.62% -8.65%
75th Percentile £647 £663 £669
90th Percentile £749 £750 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 6
10th Percentile £20.67 £24.39 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.81 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £40.64 £38.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.35% +71.44% -73.24%
75th Percentile £57.83 £61.56 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.18 £126.25 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £40.64 £34.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +17.29% +54.00% -72.99%

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

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 13 May 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 17 (6.49%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.29%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.29%) Confluence
3 5 (1.91%) Apache
4 4 (1.53%) CICS
5 2 (0.76%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.76%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.38%) Camunda
6 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.38%) nginx
6 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.38%) Notion
2 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.15%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.76%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 108 (41.22%) Azure
2 60 (22.90%) GCP
3 45 (17.18%) Serverless
4 41 (15.65%) GitHub
5 40 (15.27%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (12.98%) Amazon S3
7 24 (9.16%) Snowflake
8 20 (7.63%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (7.25%) Power Platform
10 17 (6.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (6.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (4.96%) SaaS
13 12 (4.58%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (4.58%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (4.58%) Amazon SageMaker
13 12 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (3.44%) Amazon Bedrock
14 9 (3.44%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (3.44%) Amazon Kinesis
14 9 (3.44%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.05%) Firewall
1 8 (3.05%) Network Security
2 5 (1.91%) DNS
3 2 (0.76%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.76%) VPN
4 1 (0.38%) BGP
4 1 (0.38%) IPsec
4 1 (0.38%) NAS
4 1 (0.38%) NGFW
4 1 (0.38%) OSPF
4 1 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.38%) SAN
4 1 (0.38%) SSL
4 1 (0.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.02%) DynamoDB
2 18 (6.87%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (6.49%) NoSQL
4 14 (5.34%) Power BI
5 12 (4.58%) Metadata
5 12 (4.58%) Tableau
6 11 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (3.82%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (3.82%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (3.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (3.44%) MongoDB
9 8 (3.05%) DB2
9 8 (3.05%) SQL Server
10 7 (2.67%) Data Lake
10 7 (2.67%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.67%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (2.29%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.53%) Big Data
12 4 (1.53%) CockroachDB
13 3 (1.15%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 28 (10.69%) Git
2 22 (8.40%) GitLab
3 20 (7.63%) Jenkins
4 19 (7.25%) JIRA
5 7 (2.67%) Postman
6 6 (2.29%) JUnit
7 5 (1.91%) Mockito
8 4 (1.53%) JMeter
9 3 (1.15%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.15%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.15%) Gradle
9 3 (1.15%) Maven
10 2 (0.76%) Ant
10 2 (0.76%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.76%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.76%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.76%) Gatling
10 2 (0.76%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.76%) Mocha
10 2 (0.76%) webpack
General
1 87 (33.21%) Finance
2 56 (21.37%) Social Skills
3 37 (14.12%) Banking
4 28 (10.69%) Public Sector
5 20 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.58%) Financial Institution
7 10 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.67%) Front Office
9 7 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.67%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.15%) Back Office
10 3 (1.15%) Military
11 2 (0.76%) Advertising
11 2 (0.76%) Marketing
11 2 (0.76%) Retail
11 2 (0.76%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.38%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (21.37%) Architect
2 38 (14.50%) Developer
3 31 (11.83%) Senior
4 25 (9.54%) Data Engineer
5 20 (7.63%) Lead
6 16 (6.11%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (5.73%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (4.96%) Senior Developer
9 12 (4.58%) Project Manager
10 11 (4.20%) Java Developer
10 11 (4.20%) Migration Manager
10 11 (4.20%) Migration Project Manager
10 11 (4.20%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 11 (4.20%) Snowflake Engineer
10 11 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (3.82%) Consultant
12 9 (3.44%) Data Scientist
12 9 (3.44%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (3.05%) AWS Architect
13 8 (3.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.60%) Kafka
2 27 (10.31%) Spring
3 26 (9.92%) Spring Boot
4 22 (8.40%) React
4 22 (8.40%) REST
5 18 (6.87%) RESTful
6 12 (4.58%) Node.js
7 11 (4.20%) JSON
7 11 (4.20%) PySpark
8 10 (3.82%) .NET
9 9 (3.44%) PyTorch
10 8 (3.05%) OpenTelemetry
10 8 (3.05%) SOAP
11 7 (2.67%) AngularJS
11 7 (2.67%) boto
11 7 (2.67%) TensorFlow
12 6 (2.29%) OAuth
12 6 (2.29%) Pandas
12 6 (2.29%) scikit-learn
12 6 (2.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 68 (25.95%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.78%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.58%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.44%) Equities
4 9 (3.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.05%) Algorithms
5 8 (3.05%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.67%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.29%) Clustering
7 6 (2.29%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.91%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.91%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.91%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.53%) DataPower
9 4 (1.53%) Derivative
9 4 (1.53%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.53%) LIMS
9 4 (1.53%) NHS
9 4 (1.53%) Online Banking
9 4 (1.53%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.96%) Linux
2 9 (3.44%) Windows
3 4 (1.53%) Android
3 4 (1.53%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.53%) zOS
4 2 (0.76%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.38%) AIX
5 1 (0.38%) CentOS
5 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.38%) Solaris
5 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.38%) Unix
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (38.93%) CI/CD
2 72 (27.48%) DevOps
3 65 (24.81%) AI
4 63 (24.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (22.14%) Agile
6 47 (17.94%) Migration
7 45 (17.18%) Containerisation
8 40 (15.27%) Microservices
8 40 (15.27%) Observability
9 39 (14.89%) Analytics
10 38 (14.50%) Machine Learning
11 36 (13.74%) Stakeholder Management
12 35 (13.36%) Event-Driven
13 33 (12.60%) Data Engineering
13 33 (12.60%) Test Automation
14 32 (12.21%) Data Pipeline
15 28 (10.69%) Data Modelling
16 27 (10.31%) Software Engineering
16 27 (10.31%) Validation
17 25 (9.54%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 105 (40.08%) Python
2 62 (23.66%) SQL
3 54 (20.61%) Java
4 16 (6.11%) JavaScript
5 13 (4.96%) TypeScript
6 11 (4.20%) Bash
6 11 (4.20%) C#
7 8 (3.05%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.29%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.91%) Ruby
9 5 (1.91%) Scala
10 4 (1.53%) JCL
11 3 (1.15%) Bicep
11 3 (1.15%) Go
11 3 (1.15%) Korn
11 3 (1.15%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.38%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.38%) C
13 1 (0.38%) R
Qualifications
1 66 (25.19%) Security Cleared
2 62 (23.66%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.20%) PMI Certification
3 11 (4.20%) PMP
4 9 (3.44%) Degree
5 6 (2.29%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.29%) CISSP
6 4 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.53%) CISM
6 4 (1.53%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.15%) PhD
8 2 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.76%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.76%) CCNP
8 2 (0.76%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.76%) OSCP
8 2 (0.76%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.40%) Data Quality
2 21 (8.02%) GDPR
3 20 (7.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (7.63%) NIST
4 8 (3.05%) SLA
5 7 (2.67%) QA
6 5 (1.91%) NCSC
6 5 (1.91%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.15%) ISO 20022
7 3 (1.15%) NIST 800
7 3 (1.15%) SEPA
8 2 (0.76%) EMIR
8 2 (0.76%) GRC
8 2 (0.76%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.76%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.76%) MiFID
8 2 (0.76%) PSD2
9 1 (0.38%) DICOM
9 1 (0.38%) HL7
9 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 47 (17.94%) Docker
2 3 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.76%) NFS
4 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (19.47%) Kubernetes
2 48 (18.32%) Terraform
3 17 (6.49%) Grafana
4 16 (6.11%) Ansible
5 15 (5.73%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.15%) Argo
6 3 (1.15%) Karpenter
7 2 (0.76%) Puppet
7 2 (0.76%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.38%) Consul
8 1 (0.38%) Istio
8 1 (0.38%) Kibana
8 1 (0.38%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.38%) QRadar
8 1 (0.38%) Salt
8 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (7.63%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.96%) Databricks
3 12 (4.58%) Google
4 11 (4.20%) CyberArk
5 10 (3.82%) Oracle
6 8 (3.05%) IBM
6 8 (3.05%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.67%) Citrix
7 7 (2.67%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.67%) Splunk
8 5 (1.91%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.91%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.91%) SAP
9 4 (1.53%) VMware
10 3 (1.15%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.15%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.15%) Charles River
10 3 (1.15%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.15%) Informatica
10 3 (1.15%) Palo Alto