AWS Contract Job Trends in West End of London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Central London > West End of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West End of London requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 4 8
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 11 8 5
As % of all contract jobs in West End of London 16.42% 18.60% 8.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.43% 47.06% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 3
10th Percentile £410 £498 £430
25th Percentile £513 £550 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £580 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.07% +16.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile - £650 £526
90th Percentile £665 - £542
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -6.61%

All Cloud Computing Skills
West End 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 West End of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35 17 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West End of London 52.24% 39.53% 36.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 11 15
10th Percentile £284 £250 £428
25th Percentile £463 £438 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £650 £644 £544
90th Percentile £713 £650 £592
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £50.72 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £51.44 -
Median % change year-on-year +45.80% - -
75th Percentile £82.50 £52.16 -
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £34.33 £27.00
% change year-on-year +9.25% +27.13% -22.86%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in West End of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West End of London.

AWS job vacancy trend in West End of London

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in West End of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing AWS

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in West End of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in West End of London over the 6 months to 5 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in West End of London

AWS
Contract Job Locations in West End of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the West End of London region over the 6 months to 5 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Westminster -3 10 £650 - 5
AWS
Central London

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West End 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 1 (9.09%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) GitHub
1 6 (54.55%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon Cognito
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon ECR
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
2 3 (27.27%) AWS CodePipeline
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) dbt
3 1 (9.09%) Google Ads
3 1 (9.09%) Google Tag Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Twilio
3 1 (9.09%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) GitLab
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
1 3 (27.27%) JUnit
1 3 (27.27%) Mockito
2 1 (9.09%) Claude Code
2 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
2 1 (9.09%) Gatling
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) JMeter
2 1 (9.09%) Postman
2 1 (9.09%) REST Assured
2 1 (9.09%) Selenium
General
1 3 (27.27%) Law
1 3 (27.27%) Police
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) E-Commerce Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) QA Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) QA Test Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Kafka
1 3 (27.27%) Lambda Expressions
1 3 (27.27%) Plotly
1 3 (27.27%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (27.27%) RESTful
1 3 (27.27%) Spring
1 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
1 3 (27.27%) Spring Cloud
2 2 (18.18%) .NET
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
3 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
3 1 (9.09%) Django
3 1 (9.09%) Playwright
3 1 (9.09%) React
3 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) AI Agents
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Microservices
3 4 (36.36%) Scrum
4 3 (27.27%) Clean Code
4 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven
4 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (27.27%) Pair Programming
4 3 (27.27%) Workflow
5 2 (18.18%) AI
5 2 (18.18%) E-Commerce
5 2 (18.18%) Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
6 1 (9.09%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
2 4 (36.36%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Terraform
2 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 3 (27.27%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Databricks
1 1 (9.09%) Google
1 1 (9.09%) HubSpot
1 1 (9.09%) OpenAI
1 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
1 1 (9.09%) WooCommerce
1 1 (9.09%) Zoho