AWS Developer Contracts

Amazon Web Services Developer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in the UK is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 465 430 410
Rank change year-on-year -35 -20 -135
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 114 276 547
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.48% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.51% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 226 464
10th Percentile £346 £425 £438
25th Percentile £459 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £540 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -10.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £781 £675 £663
90th Percentile £800 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £415 £463 £525
% change year-on-year -10.27% -11.90% +20.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,468 54,175 84,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,716 37,826 59,224
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,504 2,051
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%

AWS Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured AWS Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Developer in the UK

AWS Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Developer.

Daily rate trend for AWS Developer in the UK

AWS Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Developer over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Developer in the UK

AWS Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS Developer.

Hourly rate trend for AWS Developer in the UK

AWS Developer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
England +3 97 £600 +4.35% 26
London +42 72 £625 +3.31% 13
Work from Home +19 44 £600 +11.11% 22
UK excluding London +5 24 £415 -10.27% 17
Scotland +17 10 £430 -4.44%
North of England +21 8 £311 -45.91% 5
North West +11 6 £311 -43.45% 4
South East +13 4 £650 +6.56% 5
South West +11 4 £575 +9.52% 3
Yorkshire +17 2 £463 -21.28% 1
West Midlands +17 1 - - 2
Midlands +12 1 - - 4

AWS Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, AWS Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring AWS Developer in the job title.

1 114 (100.00%) AWS
2 41 (35.96%) Agile
3 35 (30.70%) Python
4 34 (29.82%) Finance
5 33 (28.95%) Java
6 30 (26.32%) JavaScript
7 28 (24.56%) Serverless
8 27 (23.68%) React
9 26 (22.81%) SQL
10 24 (21.05%) TypeScript
10 24 (21.05%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (20.18%) Fixed Income
11 23 (20.18%) Software Engineering
12 21 (18.42%) GCP
12 21 (18.42%) Node.js
12 21 (18.42%) CI/CD
13 20 (17.54%) Amazon S3
13 20 (17.54%) Front Office
14 19 (16.67%) TDD
14 19 (16.67%) Asset Management
15 18 (15.79%) .NET
16 17 (14.91%) Microservices
16 17 (14.91%) C#
16 17 (14.91%) Social Skills
17 16 (14.04%) .NET Core
17 16 (14.04%) Banking
18 15 (13.16%) Apache
18 15 (13.16%) Apache Airflow
18 15 (13.16%) dbt
19 14 (12.28%) PostgreSQL

AWS Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (13.16%) Apache
1 15 (13.16%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.51%) Mule
3 3 (2.63%) CMS
4 1 (0.88%) CICS
4 1 (0.88%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Aareon QL
1 1 (0.88%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (0.88%) NEC Housing
1 1 (0.88%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 114 (100.00%) AWS
2 28 (24.56%) Serverless
3 24 (21.05%) AWS Lambda
4 21 (18.42%) GCP
5 20 (17.54%) Amazon S3
6 15 (13.16%) dbt
7 13 (11.40%) Azure
8 11 (9.65%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (8.77%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (7.89%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (6.14%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (4.39%) AWS Step Functions
14 4 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
15 3 (2.63%) Amazon Cognito
15 3 (2.63%) Amazon EventBridge
15 3 (2.63%) Amazon SageMaker
15 3 (2.63%) AWS KMS
15 3 (2.63%) Contentful
15 3 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.63%) SSL
2 2 (1.75%) SMS
3 1 (0.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.28%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (11.40%) Amazon Athena
2 13 (11.40%) Apache Arrow
2 13 (11.40%) Apache Ignite
2 13 (11.40%) Dremio
3 9 (7.89%) DynamoDB
4 8 (7.02%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (5.26%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.39%) MySQL
6 5 (4.39%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.51%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (3.51%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (2.63%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.63%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.75%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.88%) DB2
10 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (10.53%) Git
2 7 (6.14%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.39%) Bitbucket
4 4 (3.51%) Cypress.io
4 4 (3.51%) JIRA
4 4 (3.51%) JUnit
4 4 (3.51%) Liquibase
4 4 (3.51%) Log4j
4 4 (3.51%) Mockito
4 4 (3.51%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.63%) Mocha
5 3 (2.63%) PHPUnit
6 2 (1.75%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.88%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.88%) CocoaPods
7 1 (0.88%) ESLint
7 1 (0.88%) GoCD
7 1 (0.88%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.88%) Xcode
General
1 34 (29.82%) Finance
2 20 (17.54%) Front Office
3 17 (14.91%) Social Skills
4 16 (14.04%) Banking
5 10 (8.77%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.39%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.39%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (4.39%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.63%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (2.63%) Retail
7 3 (2.63%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.88%) Law
8 1 (0.88%) Legal
8 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (23.68%) React
2 21 (18.42%) Node.js
3 18 (15.79%) .NET
4 16 (14.04%) .NET Core
5 14 (12.28%) RESTful
6 13 (11.40%) AngularJS
6 13 (11.40%) gRPC
6 13 (11.40%) NumPy
6 13 (11.40%) Pandas
6 13 (11.40%) Protocol Buffers
6 13 (11.40%) SciPy
6 13 (11.40%) Spring
6 13 (11.40%) Spring Boot
7 11 (9.65%) AWS CDK
8 10 (8.77%) REST
9 8 (7.02%) Kafka
9 8 (7.02%) Redux
10 7 (6.14%) Vue
10 7 (6.14%) Web Services
11 6 (5.26%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 23 (20.18%) Fixed Income
2 10 (8.77%) Onboarding
3 9 (7.89%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (7.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (6.14%) Public Cloud
6 6 (5.26%) Derivative
6 6 (5.26%) Equities
7 4 (3.51%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.51%) Credit Derivative
8 2 (1.75%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.75%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (0.88%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.88%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.88%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.88%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.88%) NHS
9 1 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.88%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.63%) Linux
2 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.88%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.88%) Unix
2 1 (0.88%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (35.96%) Agile
2 23 (20.18%) Software Engineering
3 21 (18.42%) CI/CD
4 19 (16.67%) Asset Management
4 19 (16.67%) TDD
5 17 (14.91%) Microservices
6 14 (12.28%) Analytics
7 13 (11.40%) DevOps
8 12 (10.53%) Unit Testing
9 10 (8.77%) Design Patterns
9 10 (8.77%) Fintech
9 10 (8.77%) Full Stack Development
9 10 (8.77%) OO
9 10 (8.77%) Test Automation
10 9 (7.89%) Containerisation
10 9 (7.89%) Front End Development
10 9 (7.89%) Performance Tuning
11 8 (7.02%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (6.14%) Credit Risk Analysis
12 7 (6.14%) Performance Attribution
Programming Languages
1 35 (30.70%) Python
2 33 (28.95%) Java
3 30 (26.32%) JavaScript
4 26 (22.81%) SQL
5 24 (21.05%) TypeScript
6 17 (14.91%) C#
7 4 (3.51%) PHP
8 2 (1.75%) Bash
8 2 (1.75%) C
8 2 (1.75%) C++
8 2 (1.75%) Scala
9 1 (0.88%) COBOL
9 1 (0.88%) Go
9 1 (0.88%) Ruby
9 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.88%) Swift
Qualifications
1 10 (8.77%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.89%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.63%) Degree
4 2 (1.75%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.39%) MiFID
2 4 (3.51%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.63%) QA
4 2 (1.75%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (9.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 11 (9.65%) Terraform
3 1 (0.88%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 6 (5.26%) Oracle
2 5 (4.39%) OpenAI
3 3 (2.63%) Sage
3 3 (2.63%) Virgin Media
4 1 (0.88%) Aareon
4 1 (0.88%) Capita
4 1 (0.88%) Civica
4 1 (0.88%) IBM
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.88%) NEC
4 1 (0.88%) SAP
4 1 (0.88%) Typelevel