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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 277 264 228
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.37% 14.09% 10.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.34% 33.25% 25.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 185 152
10th Percentile £425 £400 £413
25th Percentile £465 £475 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -5.58%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £760 £775 £850
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £565
% change year-on-year - -2.65% -7.30%
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 944 794 893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.75% 42.37% 41.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 517 622
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 6
10th Percentile £19.50 £24.02 £12.75
25th Percentile £22.83 £25.18 £16.31
Median hourly rate £37.50 £38.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% +42.87% -60.00%
75th Percentile £62.36 £63.37 £44.44
90th Percentile £75.00 £96.63 £71.38
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £34.65 £27.00
% change year-on-year +48.46% +28.33% -48.57%

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 July 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 (6.14%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.53%) Confluence
3 5 (1.81%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.44%) Apache
4 4 (1.44%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.44%) CICS
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 3 (1.08%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.81%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.08%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (1.08%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.72%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 108 (38.99%) Azure
2 60 (21.66%) GCP
3 48 (17.33%) Serverless
4 41 (14.80%) AWS Lambda
4 41 (14.80%) GitHub
5 36 (13.00%) Amazon S3
6 23 (8.30%) Snowflake
7 21 (7.58%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (7.58%) Power Platform
8 19 (6.86%) Amazon Bedrock
9 17 (6.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (5.78%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (5.42%) SaaS
12 13 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (4.33%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (4.33%) Amazon Kinesis
14 11 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (3.97%) PaaS
15 10 (3.61%) Amazon SageMaker
15 10 (3.61%) dbt
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%) SSH
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%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (5.78%) NoSQL
3 16 (5.78%) Power BI
4 15 (5.42%) Amazon Athena
4 15 (5.42%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (4.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (3.97%) Metadata
6 11 (3.97%) Tableau
7 9 (3.25%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.89%) Big Data
8 8 (2.89%) Db2
8 8 (2.89%) MongoDB
8 8 (2.89%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (2.17%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.17%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.44%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (1.44%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.44%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 30 (10.83%) Git
2 28 (10.11%) GitLab
3 25 (9.03%) Jenkins
4 22 (7.94%) JIRA
5 9 (3.25%) Postman
6 8 (2.89%) JUnit
7 7 (2.53%) Mockito
8 5 (1.81%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.44%) JMeter
9 4 (1.44%) Maven
10 3 (1.08%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.08%) Claude Code
10 3 (1.08%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.08%) Gradle
11 2 (0.72%) Ant
11 2 (0.72%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.72%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.72%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.72%) Mocha
11 2 (0.72%) webpack
General
1 91 (32.85%) Finance
2 67 (24.19%) Social Skills
3 39 (14.08%) Banking
4 30 (10.83%) Public Sector
5 25 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.61%) Financial Institution
7 9 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.53%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.17%) Front Office
10 4 (1.44%) Back Office
10 4 (1.44%) Military
10 4 (1.44%) Retail
11 3 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.08%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.72%) Advertising
13 1 (0.36%) Billing
13 1 (0.36%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 66 (23.83%) Architect
2 41 (14.80%) Senior
3 30 (10.83%) Developer
4 23 (8.30%) Data Engineer
5 19 (6.86%) Lead
6 17 (6.14%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (4.69%) Senior Developer
7 13 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (3.97%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (3.97%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 11 (3.97%) Snowflake Engineer
9 10 (3.61%) Technical Architect
10 9 (3.25%) Consultant
10 9 (3.25%) Data Architect
10 9 (3.25%) Java Developer
11 8 (2.89%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (2.89%) Data Scientist
11 8 (2.89%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (2.89%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (2.89%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (11.91%) Kafka
2 27 (9.75%) Spring
3 26 (9.39%) Spring Boot
4 24 (8.66%) REST
5 21 (7.58%) React
6 18 (6.50%) RESTful
7 12 (4.33%) SOAP
8 11 (3.97%) .NET
8 11 (3.97%) Node.js
9 10 (3.61%) PySpark
10 9 (3.25%) JSON
11 8 (2.89%) PyTorch
12 7 (2.53%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (2.53%) TensorFlow
13 6 (2.17%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.17%) GraphQL
13 6 (2.17%) Middleware
13 6 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (2.17%) Web Services
14 5 (1.81%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 68 (24.55%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.94%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.78%) AI Agents
4 10 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.25%) Clustering
5 9 (3.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (3.25%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.53%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.53%) Equities
7 6 (2.17%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.17%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.17%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.81%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.81%) Public Cloud
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%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.08%) NHS
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%) VMS
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (38.99%) CI/CD
2 68 (24.55%) AI
3 66 (23.83%) DevOps
4 56 (20.22%) Agile
4 56 (20.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 47 (16.97%) Containerisation
6 45 (16.25%) Migration
7 44 (15.88%) Microservices
8 42 (15.16%) Analytics
9 41 (14.80%) Machine Learning
10 39 (14.08%) Event-Driven
11 38 (13.72%) Test Automation
12 37 (13.36%) Data Modelling
13 35 (12.64%) Data Engineering
14 34 (12.27%) Observability
15 33 (11.91%) Stakeholder Management
16 32 (11.55%) Problem-Solving
17 31 (11.19%) Data Pipeline
18 27 (9.75%) Software Engineering
19 26 (9.39%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 102 (36.82%) Python
2 56 (20.22%) SQL
3 52 (18.77%) Java
4 16 (5.78%) C#
4 16 (5.78%) TypeScript
5 15 (5.42%) JavaScript
6 11 (3.97%) PowerShell
7 10 (3.61%) Bash
8 6 (2.17%) Ruby
9 5 (1.81%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.44%) JCL
10 4 (1.44%) Scala
11 3 (1.08%) Bicep
11 3 (1.08%) Go
12 2 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.72%) Korn
13 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 62 (22.38%) Security Cleared
2 54 (19.49%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.69%) Degree
4 7 (2.53%) AWS Certification
4 7 (2.53%) PMI Certification
4 7 (2.53%) PMP
5 6 (2.17%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.81%) CISSP
7 4 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.44%) CISM
8 3 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.08%) CCNP
8 3 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.08%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.08%) PhD
8 3 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.72%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.72%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.14%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (5.42%) NIST
4 14 (5.05%) GDPR
5 9 (3.25%) QA
6 8 (2.89%) EU AI Act
7 5 (1.81%) NCSC
7 5 (1.81%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.08%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.72%) EMIR
9 2 (0.72%) GRC
9 2 (0.72%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.72%) MiFID
9 2 (0.72%) SLA
9 2 (0.72%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.36%) PMO
10 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.36%) SEPA
System Software
1 45 (16.25%) 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 57 (20.58%) Kubernetes
2 46 (16.61%) Terraform
3 21 (7.58%) Ansible
4 15 (5.42%) Grafana
5 12 (4.33%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.81%) Puppet
7 4 (1.44%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.08%) Nagios
8 3 (1.08%) vMotion
9 2 (0.72%) SnapMirror
10 1 (0.36%) Argo
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
Vendors
1 27 (9.75%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.05%) Google
3 13 (4.69%) Databricks
4 11 (3.97%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.61%) Citrix
5 10 (3.61%) CyberArk
6 9 (3.25%) Oracle
7 8 (2.89%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.89%) Splunk
7 8 (2.89%) VMware
8 5 (1.81%) IBM
8 5 (1.81%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.44%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.44%) Informatica
9 4 (1.44%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.44%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.08%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.08%) Charles River
10 3 (1.08%) SAP
10 3 (1.08%) Symantec