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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 271 257 231
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.24% 14.99% 10.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.55% 34.78% 26.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 180 160
10th Percentile £388 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £450 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £556
Median % change year-on-year - -0.99% -11.12%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £688
90th Percentile £775 £764 £853
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%
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 917 739 873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.02% 43.09% 40.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 621 477 612
10th Percentile £350 £364 £363
25th Percentile £453 £456 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £541
Median % change year-on-year - +1.62% -9.79%
75th Percentile £650 £670 £651
90th Percentile £750 £751 £761
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% -8.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 6
10th Percentile £20.51 £23.75 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £51.44 £34.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.46% +54.00% -72.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.35 £100.00 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 £29.07 £22.50
% change year-on-year +98.71% +29.20% -66.67%

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 16 June 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

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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 (6.27%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.85%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.85%) Confluence
3 4 (1.48%) Apache
3 4 (1.48%) CICS
4 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.74%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.74%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.37%) Camunda
6 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.37%) nginx
6 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.48%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.11%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.74%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 111 (40.96%) Azure
2 58 (21.40%) GCP
3 49 (18.08%) Serverless
4 42 (15.50%) AWS Lambda
5 38 (14.02%) GitHub
6 37 (13.65%) Amazon S3
7 22 (8.12%) Snowflake
8 20 (7.38%) Power Platform
9 19 (7.01%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (5.90%) Amazon Bedrock
10 16 (5.90%) SaaS
11 15 (5.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (5.54%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (4.06%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (4.06%) Amazon SageMaker
12 11 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (3.69%) Amazon Kinesis
14 9 (3.32%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (3.32%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (3.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.43%) Firewall
2 9 (3.32%) DNS
3 8 (2.95%) Network Security
4 6 (2.21%) DHCP
5 5 (1.85%) VPN
6 3 (1.11%) SMTP
6 3 (1.11%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.74%) NGFW
8 1 (0.37%) BGP
8 1 (0.37%) IPsec
8 1 (0.37%) NAS
8 1 (0.37%) OSPF
8 1 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.37%) SAN
8 1 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.37%) SSL
8 1 (0.37%) VLAN
8 1 (0.37%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.38%) DynamoDB
2 17 (6.27%) NoSQL
3 16 (5.90%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (5.54%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (5.54%) Power BI
5 13 (4.80%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (4.43%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (4.43%) Metadata
7 11 (4.06%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (4.06%) Tableau
8 10 (3.69%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.95%) Db2
9 8 (2.95%) MongoDB
9 8 (2.95%) Snowflake Schema
10 7 (2.58%) Relational Database
11 6 (2.21%) Big Data
11 6 (2.21%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (1.85%) Pinecone
13 4 (1.48%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 28 (10.33%) Git
2 25 (9.23%) Jenkins
3 24 (8.86%) GitLab
4 21 (7.75%) JIRA
5 8 (2.95%) Postman
6 6 (2.21%) JUnit
7 5 (1.85%) Mockito
8 4 (1.48%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.48%) JMeter
9 3 (1.11%) Claude Code
9 3 (1.11%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.11%) Gradle
9 3 (1.11%) Maven
10 2 (0.74%) Ant
10 2 (0.74%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.74%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.74%) Gatling
10 2 (0.74%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.74%) Mocha
10 2 (0.74%) webpack
General
1 90 (33.21%) Finance
2 63 (23.25%) Social Skills
3 35 (12.92%) Banking
4 30 (11.07%) Public Sector
5 19 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.43%) Financial Institution
7 9 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.21%) Front Office
8 6 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.85%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.85%) Military
10 3 (1.11%) Marketing
10 3 (1.11%) Retail
11 2 (0.74%) Advertising
11 2 (0.74%) Back Office
11 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.37%) Law
12 1 (0.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (22.14%) Architect
2 36 (13.28%) Senior
3 33 (12.18%) Developer
4 24 (8.86%) Data Engineer
5 21 (7.75%) Lead
6 18 (6.64%) AWS Engineer
7 14 (5.17%) Senior Developer
7 14 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (4.80%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (4.06%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 11 (4.06%) Snowflake Engineer
10 10 (3.69%) Cloud Architect
10 10 (3.69%) Java Developer
10 10 (3.69%) Migration Manager
10 10 (3.69%) Migration Project Manager
10 10 (3.69%) Project Manager
11 8 (2.95%) AWS Architect
11 8 (2.95%) Consultant
11 8 (2.95%) Data Scientist
11 8 (2.95%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.18%) Kafka
2 27 (9.96%) Spring
2 27 (9.96%) Spring Boot
3 26 (9.59%) REST
4 21 (7.75%) React
5 17 (6.27%) RESTful
6 13 (4.80%) .NET
7 12 (4.43%) JSON
8 11 (4.06%) PySpark
9 10 (3.69%) Node.js
9 10 (3.69%) SOAP
10 9 (3.32%) OpenTelemetry
10 9 (3.32%) PyTorch
11 7 (2.58%) OAuth
11 7 (2.58%) TensorFlow
12 6 (2.21%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.21%) boto
12 6 (2.21%) GraphQL
12 6 (2.21%) Middleware
12 6 (2.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 66 (24.35%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.12%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.06%) AI Agents
4 10 (3.69%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.32%) Clustering
5 9 (3.32%) Equities
5 9 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.58%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.58%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.21%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.85%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.85%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.48%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.48%) DataPower
9 4 (1.48%) LIMS
9 4 (1.48%) NHS
9 4 (1.48%) Online Banking
9 4 (1.48%) PKI
9 4 (1.48%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.11%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.54%) Linux
2 14 (5.17%) Windows
3 6 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.48%) Android
4 4 (1.48%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.48%) zOS
5 2 (0.74%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.37%) AIX
6 1 (0.37%) CentOS
6 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.37%) Solaris
6 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.37%) Unix
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (38.38%) CI/CD
2 72 (26.57%) DevOps
3 69 (25.46%) AI
4 60 (22.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 59 (21.77%) Agile
6 48 (17.71%) Containerisation
6 48 (17.71%) Migration
7 41 (15.13%) Analytics
7 41 (15.13%) Machine Learning
8 38 (14.02%) Event-Driven
8 38 (14.02%) Microservices
8 38 (14.02%) Observability
9 36 (13.28%) Stakeholder Management
10 34 (12.55%) Data Engineering
11 33 (12.18%) Data Modelling
11 33 (12.18%) Data Pipeline
11 33 (12.18%) Test Automation
12 28 (10.33%) Roadmaps
13 27 (9.96%) Problem-Solving
14 26 (9.59%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 102 (37.64%) Python
2 60 (22.14%) SQL
3 52 (19.19%) Java
4 15 (5.54%) C#
4 15 (5.54%) JavaScript
4 15 (5.54%) TypeScript
5 10 (3.69%) Bash
5 10 (3.69%) PowerShell
6 5 (1.85%) Ruby
6 5 (1.85%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.48%) JCL
7 4 (1.48%) Scala
8 3 (1.11%) Bicep
8 3 (1.11%) Korn
9 2 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.74%) Go
10 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.37%) R
10 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (23.99%) Security Cleared
2 59 (21.77%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.80%) Degree
4 11 (4.06%) PMI Certification
4 11 (4.06%) PMP
5 7 (2.58%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.21%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.85%) CISSP
8 4 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.48%) CISM
9 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.11%) CCNP
9 3 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.11%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.11%) PhD
9 3 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.74%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.74%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.38%) Data Quality
2 19 (7.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (6.64%) GDPR
3 18 (6.64%) NIST
4 9 (3.32%) QA
5 5 (1.85%) NCSC
5 5 (1.85%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.48%) EU AI Act
6 4 (1.48%) SLA
7 3 (1.11%) ISO 20022
7 3 (1.11%) NIST 800
7 3 (1.11%) SEPA
8 2 (0.74%) EMIR
8 2 (0.74%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.74%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.74%) MiFID
8 2 (0.74%) PSD2
9 1 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.37%) PMO
9 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (16.97%) Docker
2 8 (2.95%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.95%) 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 2 (0.74%) NFS
6 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (20.30%) Kubernetes
2 47 (17.34%) Terraform
3 21 (7.75%) Ansible
4 17 (6.27%) Grafana
5 13 (4.80%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.85%) Puppet
7 4 (1.48%) Argo
7 4 (1.48%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.11%) Nagios
8 3 (1.11%) vMotion
9 2 (0.74%) Karpenter
9 2 (0.74%) SnapMirror
10 1 (0.37%) Consul
10 1 (0.37%) Packer
10 1 (0.37%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.37%) QRadar
10 1 (0.37%) Salt
10 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (9.23%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.17%) Google
3 13 (4.80%) CyberArk
3 13 (4.80%) Databricks
4 10 (3.69%) Citrix
4 10 (3.69%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.95%) Oracle
5 8 (2.95%) Splunk
5 8 (2.95%) VMware
6 5 (1.85%) IBM
6 5 (1.85%) MuleSoft
6 5 (1.85%) SAP
7 4 (1.48%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.48%) Informatica
7 4 (1.48%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.48%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.48%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.11%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.11%) HP
8 3 (1.11%) Symantec