AWS Contract Job Trends in Tower Hamlets

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
East London > Tower Hamlets

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - 5
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs citing AWS 8 0 22
As % of all contract jobs in Tower Hamlets 14.81% - 14.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.24% - 39.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 22
10th Percentile £532 - -
25th Percentile £540 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - £579
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.15%
75th Percentile £675 - £591
90th Percentile - - £654
East London median daily rate £630 - £578
% change year-on-year - - -5.20%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 33 16 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 61.11% 32.65% 37.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 15 54
10th Percentile £416 £497 £481
25th Percentile £450 £550 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.97% +1.74% +2.22%
75th Percentile £619 £634 £599
90th Percentile £689 £638 £720
East London median daily rate £495 £544 £569
% change year-on-year -8.97% -4.40% +5.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
East London median hourly rate £22.26 £26.63 -
% change year-on-year -16.40% - -

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets.

AWS job vacancy trend in Tower Hamlets

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing AWS

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Tower Hamlets

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Tower Hamlets over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Tower Hamlets

AWS
Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Tower Hamlets region over the 6 months to 4 February 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
Canary Wharf - 8 £588 -
AWS
East London

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tower Hamlets 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 (12.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (12.50%) Camunda
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (12.50%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) GCP
3 3 (37.50%) Cloud Functions
3 3 (37.50%) Cloud Run
3 3 (37.50%) Google Compute Engine
3 3 (37.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 3 (37.50%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (12.50%) Figma
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (12.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
1 1 (12.50%) VLAN
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) BigQuery
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (75.00%) Banking
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (37.50%) GCP Architect
3 1 (12.50%) IT Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) OAuth
1 3 (37.50%) OpenID
1 3 (37.50%) SAML
2 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) CSS3
3 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) HTML5
3 1 (12.50%) JSP
3 1 (12.50%) OSGi
3 1 (12.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Event-Driven
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (37.50%) Compliance Audit
4 3 (37.50%) Data Integration
4 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (37.50%) Identity Management
4 3 (37.50%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
5 2 (25.00%) Credit Risk Management
5 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
5 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (25.00%) ETL
5 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) Go
4 2 (25.00%) Java
5 1 (12.50%) Groovy
5 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Google
2 2 (25.00%) Algorithmics
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Temenos
2 2 (25.00%) Wolters Kluwer
3 1 (12.50%) Adobe
3 1 (12.50%) SAP