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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 271 256 234
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.74% 14.57% 10.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.04% 33.77% 27.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 176 168
10th Percentile £371 £410 £413
25th Percentile £463 £461 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £651 £664 £688
90th Percentile £763 £723 £791
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 902 758 859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.06% 43.14% 39.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 624 484 603
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £458 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £668
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £530
% change year-on-year - +3.77% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 6
10th Percentile £20.67 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.81 £29.64 £14.88
Median hourly rate £40.64 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +88.89% -73.24%
75th Percentile £57.83 £74.38 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.18 £135.00 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £40.64 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.70% +54.78% -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 10 May 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 17 (6.27%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.95%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.21%) Confluence
4 5 (1.85%) Apache
5 4 (1.48%) CICS
6 2 (0.74%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.74%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.37%) Camunda
7 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.37%) nginx
7 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.37%) Notion
2 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.11%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.74%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 116 (42.80%) Azure
2 65 (23.99%) GCP
3 45 (16.61%) Serverless
4 42 (15.50%) GitHub
5 40 (14.76%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (12.55%) Amazon S3
7 24 (8.86%) Snowflake
8 21 (7.75%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (7.38%) Power Platform
10 17 (6.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (6.27%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (4.80%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (4.80%) SaaS
12 12 (4.43%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (4.43%) Amazon SageMaker
12 12 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (3.32%) Amazon Bedrock
13 9 (3.32%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (3.32%) Amazon Kinesis
13 9 (3.32%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.32%) Firewall
1 9 (3.32%) Network Security
2 5 (1.85%) DNS
3 2 (0.74%) NAS
3 2 (0.74%) SAN
3 2 (0.74%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.74%) VPN
4 1 (0.37%) BGP
4 1 (0.37%) IPsec
4 1 (0.37%) LAN
4 1 (0.37%) NGFW
4 1 (0.37%) OSPF
4 1 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.37%) SSL
4 1 (0.37%) VLAN
4 1 (0.37%) WAN
4 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.75%) DynamoDB
2 20 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (6.64%) NoSQL
4 15 (5.54%) Power BI
5 13 (4.80%) Metadata
6 12 (4.43%) Tableau
7 11 (4.06%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (4.06%) MongoDB
8 10 (3.69%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (3.69%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (3.32%) SQL Server
10 8 (2.95%) DB2
10 8 (2.95%) Relational Database
11 7 (2.58%) Data Lake
11 7 (2.58%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (2.21%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (1.85%) Big Data
14 4 (1.48%) CockroachDB
14 4 (1.48%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 32 (11.81%) Git
2 23 (8.49%) GitLab
3 21 (7.75%) Jenkins
4 19 (7.01%) JIRA
5 7 (2.58%) Postman
6 6 (2.21%) JUnit
7 5 (1.85%) Mockito
8 4 (1.48%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.48%) JMeter
9 3 (1.11%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.11%) Gradle
9 3 (1.11%) Maven
10 2 (0.74%) Ant
10 2 (0.74%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.74%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.74%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.74%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.74%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.74%) Mocha
10 2 (0.74%) webpack
General
1 93 (34.32%) Finance
2 61 (22.51%) Social Skills
3 38 (14.02%) Banking
4 28 (10.33%) Public Sector
5 22 (8.12%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.80%) Financial Institution
7 10 (3.69%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.95%) Front Office
8 8 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.58%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.11%) Back Office
10 3 (1.11%) Military
11 2 (0.74%) Advertising
11 2 (0.74%) Law
11 2 (0.74%) Marketing
11 2 (0.74%) Retail
11 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 58 (21.40%) Architect
2 42 (15.50%) Developer
3 32 (11.81%) Senior
4 26 (9.59%) Data Engineer
5 20 (7.38%) Lead
6 16 (5.90%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (5.54%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (4.80%) Project Manager
8 13 (4.80%) Senior Developer
9 11 (4.06%) Java Developer
9 11 (4.06%) Migration Manager
9 11 (4.06%) Migration Project Manager
9 11 (4.06%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 11 (4.06%) Snowflake Engineer
9 11 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (3.69%) Consultant
11 9 (3.32%) AWS Architect
11 9 (3.32%) Data Scientist
11 9 (3.32%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (2.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.18%) Kafka
2 27 (9.96%) Spring
3 26 (9.59%) Spring Boot
4 23 (8.49%) React
5 22 (8.12%) REST
6 19 (7.01%) RESTful
7 13 (4.80%) Node.js
8 12 (4.43%) JSON
9 11 (4.06%) .NET
9 11 (4.06%) PySpark
10 10 (3.69%) PyTorch
11 9 (3.32%) OpenTelemetry
12 8 (2.95%) SOAP
12 8 (2.95%) TensorFlow
13 7 (2.58%) AngularJS
13 7 (2.58%) boto
13 7 (2.58%) HTML
13 7 (2.58%) scikit-learn
14 6 (2.21%) OAuth
14 6 (2.21%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 67 (24.72%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.86%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.80%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.32%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.32%) Equities
4 9 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.95%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.21%) AI Agents
6 6 (2.21%) Clustering
6 6 (2.21%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.21%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.85%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.85%) Derivative
7 5 (1.85%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.85%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.48%) DataPower
8 4 (1.48%) LIMS
8 4 (1.48%) NHS
8 4 (1.48%) Online Banking
8 4 (1.48%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.80%) Linux
2 10 (3.69%) Windows
3 4 (1.48%) Android
3 4 (1.48%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.48%) zOS
4 2 (0.74%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.37%) AIX
5 1 (0.37%) CentOS
5 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.37%) Solaris
5 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.37%) Unix
5 1 (0.37%) VMS
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (39.48%) CI/CD
2 73 (26.94%) DevOps
3 64 (23.62%) AI
3 64 (23.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 60 (22.14%) Agile
5 50 (18.45%) Migration
6 47 (17.34%) Containerisation
7 43 (15.87%) Microservices
8 42 (15.50%) Analytics
9 40 (14.76%) Machine Learning
9 40 (14.76%) Observability
10 37 (13.65%) Stakeholder Management
11 35 (12.92%) Data Engineering
11 35 (12.92%) Event-Driven
12 34 (12.55%) Data Pipeline
13 33 (12.18%) Test Automation
14 30 (11.07%) Data Modelling
15 29 (10.70%) Software Engineering
16 28 (10.33%) Problem-Solving
16 28 (10.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 109 (40.22%) Python
2 67 (24.72%) SQL
3 56 (20.66%) Java
4 17 (6.27%) JavaScript
5 14 (5.17%) TypeScript
6 12 (4.43%) C#
7 11 (4.06%) Bash
8 8 (2.95%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.21%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.85%) Ruby
10 5 (1.85%) Scala
11 4 (1.48%) JCL
12 3 (1.11%) Bicep
12 3 (1.11%) Go
12 3 (1.11%) Korn
12 3 (1.11%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.74%) R
14 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.37%) C
Qualifications
1 66 (24.35%) Security Cleared
2 62 (22.88%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.06%) PMI Certification
3 11 (4.06%) PMP
4 9 (3.32%) Degree
5 7 (2.58%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.21%) CISSP
7 4 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.48%) CISM
7 4 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.11%) PhD
9 2 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.74%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.74%) CCNP
9 2 (0.74%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.74%) OSCP
9 2 (0.74%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.86%) Data Quality
2 22 (8.12%) GDPR
3 21 (7.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (7.38%) NIST
5 8 (2.95%) SLA
6 7 (2.58%) QA
7 6 (2.21%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.85%) NCSC
9 3 (1.11%) ISO 20022
9 3 (1.11%) NIST 800
9 3 (1.11%) SEPA
10 2 (0.74%) EMIR
10 2 (0.74%) GRC
10 2 (0.74%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.74%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.74%) MiFID
10 2 (0.74%) PSD2
11 1 (0.37%) DICOM
11 1 (0.37%) HL7
11 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (18.08%) Docker
2 4 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.74%) NFS
3 2 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (19.93%) Kubernetes
2 51 (18.82%) Terraform
3 18 (6.64%) Grafana
4 17 (6.27%) Ansible
5 15 (5.54%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.11%) Argo
6 3 (1.11%) Karpenter
7 2 (0.74%) Puppet
7 2 (0.74%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.37%) Consul
8 1 (0.37%) Istio
8 1 (0.37%) Kibana
8 1 (0.37%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.37%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.37%) QRadar
8 1 (0.37%) Salt
8 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (7.75%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.54%) Databricks
3 12 (4.43%) CyberArk
3 12 (4.43%) Google
3 12 (4.43%) Oracle
4 8 (2.95%) IBM
4 8 (2.95%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.58%) Citrix
5 7 (2.58%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.58%) Splunk
6 5 (1.85%) MuleSoft
6 5 (1.85%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.85%) SAP
6 5 (1.85%) VMware
7 3 (1.11%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.11%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.11%) Charles River
7 3 (1.11%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.11%) Informatica
7 3 (1.11%) Palo Alto