AWS Contracts in the City of Westminster

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of Westminster requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing AWS 5 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 11.36% 18.18% 16.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.32% 40.00% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 6
10th Percentile £516 £550 £594
25th Percentile £525 £606 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +12.00% -13.49%
75th Percentile £663 £819 £647
90th Percentile £670 £838 £766
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +0.81%

All Cloud Skills
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 19 20 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 43.18% 45.45% 41.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 12
10th Percentile £428 £355 £231
25th Percentile £514 £456 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +10.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £618 £725 £638
90th Percentile £655 £823 £649
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the City of Westminster

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in the City of Westminster.

Daily rate trend for AWS in the City of Westminster

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of Westminster

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the City of Westminster over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the City of Westminster

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Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Mayfair +2 4 £603 -13.93%
Westminster - 1 £520 - 2
AWS
Central London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of Westminster by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CodeCommit
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud9 IDE
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
1 1 (20.00%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) BGP
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
1 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Front Office
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (20.00%) Front Office Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Security Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) IT Security Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) NumPy
1 2 (40.00%) Pandas
2 1 (20.00%) gRPC
2 1 (20.00%) Next.js
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (20.00%) OpenCV
2 1 (20.00%) OpenID
2 1 (20.00%) Polars
2 1 (20.00%) pydantic
2 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (20.00%) SciPy
2 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (20.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Data Munging
3 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Deep Learning
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (20.00%) Network Performance Management
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Management
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Time Management
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Arista
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Meraki
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Sun