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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 269 237 200
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.80% 13.18% 9.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.71% 32.64% 24.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 163 128
10th Percentile £425 £413 £425
25th Percentile £475 £480 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £694 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £798 £841
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £56.00 - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile £74.00 - -
Central London median hourly rate £65.00 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -35.00% - -

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 937 726 832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.10% 40.38% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 670 492 562
10th Percentile £363 £333 £400
25th Percentile £456 £435 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £564
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -1.96%
75th Percentile £656 £668 £675
90th Percentile £751 £756 £767
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.84 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.23 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.08% +27.13% -10.74%
75th Percentile £41.25 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £86.43 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% +15.70%

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 10 September 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 23 (8.55%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.35%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.35%) Confluence
3 7 (2.60%) Apache
4 5 (1.86%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.74%) CICS
6 2 (0.74%) nginx
6 2 (0.74%) SAS
7 1 (0.37%) Camunda
7 1 (0.37%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.37%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.86%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.74%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.37%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.37%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 111 (41.26%) Azure
2 59 (21.93%) GCP
3 41 (15.24%) Serverless
4 39 (14.50%) GitHub
5 37 (13.75%) AWS Lambda
6 35 (13.01%) Amazon S3
7 32 (11.90%) Snowflake
8 21 (7.81%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (7.06%) dbt
10 16 (5.95%) Amazon Bedrock
10 16 (5.95%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (5.58%) SaaS
12 14 (5.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (4.83%) Amazon Kinesis
13 13 (4.83%) Power Platform
14 12 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (4.09%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (4.09%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (4.09%) PaaS
16 10 (3.72%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.58%) DNS
1 15 (5.58%) Firewall
2 8 (2.97%) DHCP
2 8 (2.97%) VPN
3 5 (1.86%) Network Security
3 5 (1.86%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.49%) BGP
5 3 (1.12%) Multicast
5 3 (1.12%) OSPF
5 3 (1.12%) SMTP
5 3 (1.12%) VLAN
6 2 (0.74%) Internet
6 2 (0.74%) MPLS
6 2 (0.74%) NGFW
6 2 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.74%) SSH
6 2 (0.74%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.74%) X.509
7 1 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.37%) RTCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.69%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (6.32%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (5.58%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (4.83%) DynamoDB
5 12 (4.46%) NoSQL
5 12 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (4.46%) Power BI
6 11 (4.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (3.72%) Metadata
8 8 (2.97%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.60%) Delta Lake
9 7 (2.60%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.60%) SQL Server
10 6 (2.23%) Big Data
11 5 (1.86%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.86%) Pinecone
11 5 (1.86%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (1.86%) Tableau
12 4 (1.49%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 29 (10.78%) GitLab
2 26 (9.67%) Jenkins
3 25 (9.29%) Git
4 21 (7.81%) JIRA
5 8 (2.97%) Postman
6 7 (2.60%) JUnit
7 6 (2.23%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.23%) Maven
7 6 (2.23%) Mockito
8 5 (1.86%) JMeter
9 4 (1.49%) Claude Code
10 3 (1.12%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.12%) Gradle
10 3 (1.12%) Selenium
11 2 (0.74%) Appium
11 2 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.74%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.74%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.37%) Mocha
12 1 (0.37%) TestNG
General
1 94 (34.94%) Finance
2 67 (24.91%) Social Skills
3 40 (14.87%) Banking
4 36 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (11.52%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.60%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.86%) Back Office
8 5 (1.86%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.86%) Front Office
8 5 (1.86%) Military
8 5 (1.86%) Retail
9 4 (1.49%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.12%) Billing
10 3 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.12%) General Ledger
10 3 (1.12%) Marketing
11 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 59 (21.93%) Architect
2 52 (19.33%) Senior
3 30 (11.15%) Developer
4 28 (10.41%) Data Engineer
5 24 (8.92%) AWS Engineer
6 23 (8.55%) Lead
7 14 (5.20%) Senior Developer
8 12 (4.46%) Analyst
8 12 (4.46%) Data Architect
8 12 (4.46%) Senior Data Engineer
9 11 (4.09%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (3.72%) AWS Data Engineer
10 10 (3.72%) Technical Architect
11 9 (3.35%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (3.35%) Java Developer
11 9 (3.35%) Senior Java Developer
12 8 (2.97%) AWS Architect
12 8 (2.97%) Consultant
12 8 (2.97%) Data Analyst
12 8 (2.97%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (19.33%) Terraform
2 29 (10.78%) Kafka
3 26 (9.67%) Spring
4 25 (9.29%) Spring Boot
5 24 (8.92%) REST
6 15 (5.58%) React
6 15 (5.58%) RESTful
7 12 (4.46%) .NET
7 12 (4.46%) PySpark
7 12 (4.46%) SOAP
8 10 (3.72%) Node.js
9 8 (2.97%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (2.60%) JSON
11 6 (2.23%) .NET Core
11 6 (2.23%) ActiveMQ
11 6 (2.23%) LangChain
11 6 (2.23%) OAuth
11 6 (2.23%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (2.23%) Web Services
12 5 (1.86%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 76 (28.25%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.92%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (8.18%) AI Agents
4 14 (5.20%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.72%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.23%) Clustering
6 6 (2.23%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.49%) CMDB
8 4 (1.49%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.49%) PKI
8 4 (1.49%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.49%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.12%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.12%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.20%) Linux
2 12 (4.46%) Windows
3 9 (3.35%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.49%) Unix
5 2 (0.74%) zOS
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%) Data ONTAP
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
1 120 (44.61%) CI/CD
2 76 (28.25%) DevOps
3 66 (24.54%) AI
4 59 (21.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (21.56%) Agile
6 47 (17.47%) Microservices
7 46 (17.10%) Containerisation
8 44 (16.36%) Analytics
8 44 (16.36%) Data Engineering
8 44 (16.36%) Migration
9 43 (15.99%) Stakeholder Management
10 40 (14.87%) Data Modelling
10 40 (14.87%) Event-Driven
11 37 (13.75%) Test Automation
12 34 (12.64%) Data Pipeline
12 34 (12.64%) Software Engineering
13 32 (11.90%) Machine Learning
13 32 (11.90%) Observability
13 32 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
14 28 (10.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 99 (36.80%) Python
2 57 (21.19%) SQL
3 52 (19.33%) Java
4 19 (7.06%) C#
5 17 (6.32%) TypeScript
6 16 (5.95%) JavaScript
7 15 (5.58%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.46%) Bash
9 5 (1.86%) Ruby
10 4 (1.49%) Bicep
10 4 (1.49%) Korn
10 4 (1.49%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.12%) Scala
12 2 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.74%) Go
12 2 (0.74%) JCL
12 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.37%) Rust
13 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (20.07%) Security Cleared
2 41 (15.24%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.35%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.97%) Degree
5 7 (2.60%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.49%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.49%) PMP
6 4 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.12%) CCNP
7 3 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.12%) CISM
7 3 (1.12%) CISSP
7 3 (1.12%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.12%) SnowPro
8 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.74%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.74%) OSCP
9 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.41%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.83%) QA
3 11 (4.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.72%) NIST
5 9 (3.35%) GDPR
6 8 (2.97%) EU AI Act
7 5 (1.86%) NCSC
8 3 (1.12%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.12%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.74%) EMIR
9 2 (0.74%) MiFID
9 2 (0.74%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.74%) SEPA
9 2 (0.74%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.37%) GRC
10 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 19770
10 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.37%) PMO
System Software
1 44 (16.36%) Docker
2 9 (3.35%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.12%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.12%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.12%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.12%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.37%) Firmware
5 1 (0.37%) NFS
5 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (20.82%) Kubernetes
2 22 (8.18%) Ansible
3 14 (5.20%) Grafana
3 14 (5.20%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.86%) Puppet
5 4 (1.49%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.12%) Nagios
6 3 (1.12%) vMotion
7 1 (0.37%) Argo
7 1 (0.37%) Bosun
7 1 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.37%) Consul
7 1 (0.37%) Packer
7 1 (0.37%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.37%) Salt
7 1 (0.37%) SELinux
7 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.37%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 29 (10.78%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.29%) Databricks
3 18 (6.69%) Google
4 17 (6.32%) Oracle
5 10 (3.72%) Citrix
5 10 (3.72%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.72%) VMware
6 7 (2.60%) Cisco
7 6 (2.23%) CyberArk
7 6 (2.23%) Fortinet
7 6 (2.23%) Palo Alto
7 6 (2.23%) SAP
8 5 (1.86%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.49%) Informatica
9 4 (1.49%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.12%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.12%) HP
10 3 (1.12%) IBM
10 3 (1.12%) Symantec
10 3 (1.12%) Workday