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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 13 18
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 -8
Contract jobs citing AWS 270 234 193
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.81% 13.14% 9.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.85% 32.19% 23.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 164 122
10th Percentile £426 £400 £425
25th Percentile £477 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £700
90th Percentile £763 £796 £836
Central London median daily rate £550 £578 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% -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 936 727 824
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.94% 40.82% 39.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 668 492 561
10th Percentile £363 £350 £383
25th Percentile £463 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £555
Median % change year-on-year - -0.81% -3.57%
75th Percentile £656 £666 £675
90th Percentile £750 £760 £768
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% 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 £31.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% +9.68% +2.48%

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 3 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 22 (8.15%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.70%) Confluence
3 9 (3.33%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.22%) Apache
5 5 (1.85%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.74%) CICS
7 2 (0.74%) nginx
7 2 (0.74%) SAS
8 1 (0.37%) Camunda
8 1 (0.37%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.37%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.85%) 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 (41.11%) Azure
2 60 (22.22%) GCP
3 41 (15.19%) Serverless
4 37 (13.70%) AWS Lambda
4 37 (13.70%) GitHub
5 35 (12.96%) Amazon S3
6 30 (11.11%) Snowflake
7 20 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (6.67%) dbt
9 16 (5.93%) Amazon Bedrock
9 16 (5.93%) SaaS
10 15 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (5.56%) Power Platform
11 13 (4.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (4.44%) Amazon Kinesis
12 12 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (4.07%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (4.07%) Amazon SQS
13 11 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (4.07%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.56%) DNS
1 15 (5.56%) Firewall
2 8 (2.96%) DHCP
2 8 (2.96%) VPN
3 5 (1.85%) Network Security
3 5 (1.85%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.48%) BGP
5 3 (1.11%) Multicast
5 3 (1.11%) OSPF
5 3 (1.11%) SMTP
5 3 (1.11%) 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%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.37%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (6.30%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (5.19%) DynamoDB
5 13 (4.81%) Power BI
6 12 (4.44%) NoSQL
6 12 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (2.96%) Metadata
8 8 (2.96%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.59%) Delta Lake
9 7 (2.59%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.22%) Big Data
10 6 (2.22%) SQL Server
10 6 (2.22%) Tableau
11 5 (1.85%) Pinecone
11 5 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (1.48%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (1.48%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.48%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 28 (10.37%) GitLab
2 27 (10.00%) Git
3 26 (9.63%) Jenkins
4 22 (8.15%) JIRA
5 8 (2.96%) Postman
6 7 (2.59%) JUnit
7 6 (2.22%) Maven
7 6 (2.22%) Mockito
8 5 (1.85%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.85%) JMeter
9 3 (1.11%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.11%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.11%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.11%) Gradle
9 3 (1.11%) Selenium
10 2 (0.74%) Appium
10 2 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.74%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.37%) NeoLoad
General
1 92 (34.07%) Finance
2 65 (24.07%) Social Skills
3 40 (14.81%) Banking
4 35 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (11.85%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.96%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.22%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.85%) Back Office
10 5 (1.85%) Front Office
10 5 (1.85%) Military
10 5 (1.85%) Retail
11 4 (1.48%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.11%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.11%) Marketing
13 2 (0.74%) Billing
13 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 55 (20.37%) Architect
2 51 (18.89%) Senior
3 32 (11.85%) Developer
4 28 (10.37%) Data Engineer
5 24 (8.89%) Lead
6 23 (8.52%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (5.56%) Senior Developer
8 13 (4.81%) Analyst
9 11 (4.07%) Senior Data Engineer
9 11 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (3.70%) Java Developer
10 10 (3.70%) Senior Java Developer
10 10 (3.70%) Technical Architect
11 9 (3.33%) AWS Data Engineer
11 9 (3.33%) Data Analyst
11 9 (3.33%) Data Architect
11 9 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (2.96%) AWS Architect
12 8 (2.96%) Consultant
12 8 (2.96%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (18.89%) Terraform
2 29 (10.74%) Kafka
3 26 (9.63%) Spring
4 25 (9.26%) Spring Boot
5 23 (8.52%) REST
6 17 (6.30%) React
7 16 (5.93%) RESTful
8 13 (4.81%) PySpark
9 12 (4.44%) .NET
10 11 (4.07%) Node.js
10 11 (4.07%) SOAP
11 8 (2.96%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (2.59%) JSON
13 6 (2.22%) .NET Core
13 6 (2.22%) OAuth
13 6 (2.22%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (2.22%) Web Services
14 5 (1.85%) ActiveMQ
14 5 (1.85%) AngularJS
14 5 (1.85%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 73 (27.04%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (7.78%) AI Agents
4 13 (4.81%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.70%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.22%) Clustering
6 6 (2.22%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.48%) CMDB
8 4 (1.48%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.48%) PKI
8 4 (1.48%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.11%) Equities
9 3 (1.11%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.11%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.19%) Linux
2 12 (4.44%) Windows
3 9 (3.33%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.48%) 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
1 119 (44.07%) CI/CD
2 77 (28.52%) DevOps
3 64 (23.70%) AI
4 62 (22.96%) Agile
5 59 (21.85%) Infrastructure as Code
6 48 (17.78%) Microservices
7 46 (17.04%) Containerisation
8 44 (16.30%) Stakeholder Management
9 43 (15.93%) Migration
10 42 (15.56%) Analytics
10 42 (15.56%) Data Engineering
11 40 (14.81%) Event-Driven
12 39 (14.44%) Data Modelling
13 38 (14.07%) Test Automation
14 34 (12.59%) Data Pipeline
15 33 (12.22%) Problem-Solving
16 32 (11.85%) Machine Learning
16 32 (11.85%) Software Engineering
17 30 (11.11%) Observability
18 25 (9.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 101 (37.41%) Python
2 56 (20.74%) SQL
3 53 (19.63%) Java
4 19 (7.04%) C#
4 19 (7.04%) TypeScript
5 17 (6.30%) JavaScript
6 14 (5.19%) PowerShell
7 12 (4.44%) Bash
8 5 (1.85%) Ruby
9 4 (1.48%) Bicep
9 4 (1.48%) Korn
9 4 (1.48%) Scala
9 4 (1.48%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.74%) Go
10 2 (0.74%) JCL
10 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.37%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.37%) R
11 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (20.74%) Security Cleared
2 44 (16.30%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.96%) Degree
3 8 (2.96%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.22%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.85%) PMI Certification
5 5 (1.85%) PMP
6 3 (1.11%) CCNP
6 3 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.11%) CISM
6 3 (1.11%) CISSP
6 3 (1.11%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.11%) SnowPro
6 3 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.74%) CREST Certified
7 2 (0.74%) OSCP
8 1 (0.37%) CCNA
8 1 (0.37%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.63%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.81%) QA
3 12 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.07%) GDPR
4 11 (4.07%) NIST
5 8 (2.96%) EU AI Act
6 4 (1.48%) NCSC
7 3 (1.11%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.74%) EMIR
8 2 (0.74%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.74%) MiFID
8 2 (0.74%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.74%) SEPA
8 2 (0.74%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.37%) GRC
9 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 19770
9 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.37%) PMO
System Software
1 44 (16.30%) Docker
2 9 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.48%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.11%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.11%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.11%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.11%) 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 55 (20.37%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.78%) Ansible
3 14 (5.19%) Grafana
3 14 (5.19%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.85%) Puppet
5 4 (1.48%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.11%) Nagios
6 3 (1.11%) 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 (10.74%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.89%) Databricks
3 18 (6.67%) Google
4 17 (6.30%) Oracle
5 10 (3.70%) Citrix
5 10 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.70%) VMware
6 7 (2.59%) Cisco
6 7 (2.59%) CyberArk
7 6 (2.22%) Fortinet
7 6 (2.22%) Palo Alto
7 6 (2.22%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.22%) SAP
8 4 (1.48%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.11%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.11%) Informatica
9 3 (1.11%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.11%) Splunk
9 3 (1.11%) Symantec
9 3 (1.11%) Workday