AWS Contract Jobs in London
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Forward Deployed Engineer - AWS Bedrock - Agentic Builds In Prod - Strong Data B...
Posted 5 days ago by Blackstone&
Forward Deployed Engineer - AWS Bedrock - Agentic Builds In Prod - Strong Data Background - Enterprise Exp requirement f...
- Rate £800 per day
- Category Outside
- Work type Hybrid
- Location London/Remote
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Senior .NET / AWS Engineer - Cloud Modernisation
Posted 5 days ago by Method-Resourcing
What you'll be working onModernising and migrating legacy .NET applications into AWS.Breaking down existing applications...
- Rate £550 per day
- Category Outside
- Work type Hybrid
- Location London; City of London; East London; Central London; South East London; West London; Canary Wharf; South West London; North London; Greenwich; Stratford
Data Engineer (Snowflake, Python, PySpark, AWS, Airflow)
Posted 6 days ago by Insight International (UK) Ltd
Role SummaryWe are seeking a highly skilled Senior Data Engineer with 8–15 years of experience in designing, developing,...
- Rate Not specified
- Category Not specified
- Work type Hybrid
- Location London Area, United Kingdom
Senior Node.js Developer (AWS, HAPI)
Posted 1 week ago by Sanderson Recruitment
ResponsibilitiesDevelop and maintain services using Node.js and HAPIBuild and support REST APIsIntegrate with existing D...
- Rate £563 per day
- Category Inside
- Work type Remote
- Location UK; London; Birmingham; Manchester; Glasgow; Liverpool; Leeds; Edinburgh; Bristol; Cardiff; Nottingham
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Senior C# Engineer – .NET 9, AWS Lambda, SQS, SNS – Outside IR35
Posted 1 week ago by Smart Sourcer Limited
Role OverviewYou’ll operate as the technical spearhead for a greenfield product build, reporting to the Director of Engi...
- Rate £800 per day
- Category Outside
- Work type Remote
- Location City of London (EC1A)
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Outside IR35 Contract Senior AWS Cloud Engineer (AI Platform)
Posted 2 weeks ago by 83zero Limited
Outside IR35 Contract: Senior AWS Platform Engineer (AI Platform)Day Rate: Up to £600 Outside IR35Location / Arrangement...
- Rate Not specified
- Category Outside
- Work type Hybrid
- Location UK; London; Birmingham; Manchester; Glasgow; Liverpool; Leeds; Edinburgh; Bristol; Cardiff; Nottingham
Azure / AWS Cloud Project Delivery Engineer – SC Cleared
Posted 2 weeks ago by Whitehall Resources
Whitehall Resources require an Azure / AWS Cloud Project Delivery Engineer – SC Cleared to work with a key client on a 6...
- Rate Not specified
- Category Inside
- Work type Onsite
- Location City of London, London
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About Our AWS Contract Roles in London
What does a aws contractor do?
Organisations bring in AWS contractors to design, build, migrate, and manage cloud infrastructure and services on the AWS platform. Contract engagements span a wide range of activities including cloud architecture design, infrastructure-as-code implementation, application migration from on-premise to AWS, cost optimisation, security hardening, and the ongoing management and automation of AWS environments. AWS contractors are in demand across virtually every sector, with financial services, retail, media, technology, and the public sector being particularly active users of AWS expertise on a contract basis.
AWS contractors are expected to have deep, practical knowledge of the core AWS service portfolio, including compute services such as EC2 and Lambda, storage including S3 and EBS, networking including VPC and Route 53, and managed database services. Infrastructure-as-code skills using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation are widely expected, as is experience with containerisation and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes or AWS ECS and EKS. For security-focused roles, knowledge of AWS IAM, security groups, and compliance frameworks is essential. AWS certifications, particularly Solutions Architect Associate or Professional, are widely held in the contractor market and are frequently listed as requirements in job specifications. DevOps experience and familiarity with CI/CD pipelines are expected across most senior engagements.
What is the market like for aws contractors?
The AWS contract market is one of the largest and most consistently active segments of the UK technology contracting market. AWS remains the leading cloud platform by market share in the UK, and the volume of cloud migration, modernisation, and optimisation work continues to generate strong contractor demand. Cost optimisation and cloud governance work has become an increasingly important source of contract engagements as organisations that moved quickly to AWS seek to bring their cloud spending under control. Rates for experienced AWS contractors have been broadly stable, with specialisms in serverless architecture, Kubernetes, and cloud security commanding premiums above the market rate.
What is the contracting market like in London?
London dominates the UK contractor market by volume, depth, and rate levels. The capital concentrates the headquarters and major offices of most FTSE 100 companies, the largest global banks, the Big Four professional services firms, and the central government departments that collectively generate the majority of UK contract demand. Every contracting discipline covered on this site has active demand in London, from niche specialisms like threat intelligence and LLM engineering through to high-volume disciplines like project management and business analysis. The sheer density of employers means contractors in London typically have more choice of engagement at any given time than anywhere else in the UK. Day rates carry a premium of 15 to 25 per cent over the national average across most disciplines, reflecting both the concentration of complex, high-value programmes and the cost of operating in the capital.
How much do aws contractors usually earn in London?
Contract rates for aws roles in London typically range from £605 to £1045 per day, depending on the scope of the role, required expertise, and the delivery expectations of the engagement.
How many aws vacancies in London are there on Quality Contracts?
Over the past twelve months, we have tracked over 400 aws contract roles across the site, with London accounting for roughly one in three of those. Data reviewed up to July 2026.