AWS Contract Job Trends in East London

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London requiring AWS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 30 11
Rank change year-on-year +13 -19 +8
Contract jobs citing AWS 6 1 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 5.36% 0.65% 12.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.79% 1.69% 26.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 29
10th Percentile £552 - £500
25th Percentile £571 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £750 £578
Median % change year-on-year -19.00% +29.76% -5.25%
75th Percentile £651 - £588
90th Percentile £673 - £650
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
London median hourly rate £63.75 £30.65 £85.00
% change year-on-year +107.99% -63.94% +61.90%

All Cloud Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 38 59 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 33.93% 38.31% 47.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 52 114
10th Percentile £415 £324 £191
25th Percentile £495 £413 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £455 £550
Median % change year-on-year +18.68% -17.27% -5.17%
75th Percentile £608 £546 £611
90th Percentile £686 £600 £720
London median daily rate £530 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% -1.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £28.89 - -
25th Percentile £34.49 - -
Median hourly rate £43.83 - -
75th Percentile £53.16 - -
90th Percentile £58.77 - -
London median hourly rate £31.00 £30.59 £47.50
% change year-on-year +1.34% -35.60% +35.71%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in East London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in East London

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing AWS

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in East London over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in East London

AWS
Hourly Rate Trend in East London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing AWS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing AWS

AWS
Contract Job Locations in East 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 East London region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Tower Hamlets +6 5 £540 -28.00% 3
AWS
London

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (16.67%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (16.67%) Figma
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) BGP
1 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
1 1 (16.67%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Junos
1 1 (16.67%) MPLS
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
1 1 (16.67%) SNMP
1 1 (16.67%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Automotive
1 3 (50.00%) Back Office
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Endur Architect
1 3 (50.00%) OpenLink Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Python Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) React
2 3 (50.00%) JSON
2 3 (50.00%) Swagger
3 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) CSS3
3 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
3 1 (16.67%) gRPC
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) HTML5
3 1 (16.67%) Jinja
3 1 (16.67%) JSP
3 1 (16.67%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (50.00%) Grid Computing
1 3 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) API Design
2 3 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 3 (50.00%) Batch Processing
2 3 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 3 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Groovy
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CCIE
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) JNCIE
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 4 (66.67%) Ansible
2 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Hitachi
2 1 (16.67%) Adobe
2 1 (16.67%) Juniper
2 1 (16.67%) Mellanox
2 1 (16.67%) NVIDIA