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Senior Data Engineer - AWS. Banking/Financial Services.
Posted 1 week ago by Gravitas Recruitment Group Ltd
DescriptionSenior Data & Platform Engineer - AWS Cloud Transformation, Python, AWS Glue, SQL/ETL Data Modelling. £75...
- Rate £800 per day
- Category Inside
- Work type Onsite
- Location City of London
Senior AWS Infrastructure Engineer with SAP AEM (Integration)
Posted 1 week ago by ST Global Tech LLC
Title – AWS Senior Cloud EngineerLocation: Coventry, UK (Hybrid - 3 days in a week)Rate: GBP- 480 per day(InsideIR35)Job...
- Rate £480 per day
- Category Inside
- Work type Hybrid
- Location Coventry, England, United Kingdom
AWS Cloud Database Engineer – HYBRID – INSIDE IR35 – 11793HS
Posted 2 weeks ago by Proactive.IT Appointments
11793HS£450 – 470 per dayAWS Cloud Database Engineer – HYBRID – INSIDE IR35Cloud Database Engineer – AWSAre you an exper...
- Rate £470 per day
- Category Inside
- Work type Hybrid
- Location Surrey, UK
Senior Node.js Developer (AWS, HAPI)
Posted 2 weeks 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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About Our Inside IR35 AWS Contract Roles
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 does Inside IR35 mean?
IR35 is UK tax legislation that determines whether a contractor is genuinely self-employed or working in a manner that resembles employment. When a contract is classified as inside IR35, income tax and National Insurance are deducted at source, typically via an umbrella company or agency PAYE. Headline day rates on inside IR35 engagements are generally higher than equivalent outside IR35 roles to account for the tax and employment cost structure.
Inside IR35 determinations are made where the working arrangements are considered to resemble employment, based on factors including the level of client control, the absence of a genuine right of substitution, and the presence of mutuality of obligation. Since April 2021, the end client is responsible for making this determination for medium and large private sector organisations. Many employers in financial services, government, and professional services assess the majority of their contractor engagements as inside IR35.
On QualityContracts.co.uk, approximately 49% of roles with a stated IR35 status are classified as inside IR35, making it the most common arrangement across the contract market. The proportion varies by sector and role type. Each listing on this page displays its IR35 status where provided by the hiring organisation.
What aws roles are usually Inside IR35?
Around 35% of AWS contracts with a stated status are inside IR35, concentrated in financial services and government organisations that run substantial AWS estates and need ongoing operational support and development. Inside IR35 AWS work tends to involve maintaining and optimising existing cloud infrastructure, implementing security and compliance controls, and supporting development teams with platform services. Contractors with AWS certifications at the Professional or Specialty level are in consistent demand for these engagements.
How much do aws contractors usually earn when working Inside IR35?
Contract rates for aws roles typically range from £550 to £950 per day, depending on the scope of the role, required expertise, and the delivery expectations of the engagement. Inside IR35 rates are typically 15% to 30% higher than equivalent outside IR35 roles to account for tax and national insurance deducted at source by the fee-payer.
How many Inside IR35 aws vacancies are there on Quality Contracts?
Over the past twelve months, we have tracked over 400 aws contract roles across the site. Around one third of the roles currently listed on the site fall Inside IR35. Data reviewed up to July 2026.