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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 7 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing AWS 8 7 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 19.51% 14.29% 18.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.10% 31.82% 47.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 9
10th Percentile £558 £540 £565
25th Percentile £584 £600 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -15.25%
75th Percentile £656 £788 £850
90th Percentile £668 £810 £883
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% -

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 21 22 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 51.22% 44.90% 39.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 14 17
10th Percentile £405 £454 £232
25th Percentile £525 £481 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.11% +2.27% +29.41%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £638
90th Percentile £658 £761 £863
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £580
% change year-on-year +2.23% -7.24% +0.87%

AWS
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

AWS
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

AWS
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 25 June 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 5 £600 -7.69%
Westminster - 2 £650 -
Paddington - 1 - - 2
AWS
Central London

AWS
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 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) BGP
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) HTTP
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
1 2 (25.00%) SSL
1 2 (25.00%) WAN
1 2 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Terragrunt
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Front Office
2 1 (12.50%) Japanese Language
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Python Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Front Office Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Security Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) IT Security Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) gRPC
1 1 (12.50%) Next.js
1 1 (12.50%) NumPy
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
1 1 (12.50%) OpenID
1 1 (12.50%) Pandas
1 1 (12.50%) Polars
1 1 (12.50%) React
1 1 (12.50%) REST
1 1 (12.50%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Hedge funds
2 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (12.50%) Fixed Income
3 1 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) Data Encryption
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (25.00%) Network Performance Management
3 2 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Management
3 2 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Register
3 2 (25.00%) SABSA
3 2 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Debt
3 2 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (12.50%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (25.00%) CASP
2 2 (25.00%) CCSP
2 2 (25.00%) CISSP
2 2 (25.00%) CREST Certified
2 2 (25.00%) CSSLP
2 2 (25.00%) GIAC
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) CCNA
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) NCSC
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) SELinux
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Arista
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco
1 2 (25.00%) Meraki
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) Sun
2 1 (12.50%) Google