AWS Developer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Amazon Web Services Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in the City of London is £343, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 115 123
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 +46
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 2 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.099% 0.17% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.18% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £321 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £343 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -31.50% - -15.25%
75th Percentile £364 £525 £588
90th Percentile - - £708
Central London median daily rate £343 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -31.50% - -11.50%

All Contract IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 City of London with a recognized job title 1,908 1,681 2,233
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 93.13% 94.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,313 1,045 1,600
10th Percentile £350 £361 £338
25th Percentile £440 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% +2.22% -5.06%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 19
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £16.15
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.25 £17.97
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.08% +57.78% -35.71%
75th Percentile £52.16 £96.19 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £119.55 £49.05
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -25.40% +40.00% -25.93%

AWS Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

AWS Developer job vacancy trend in the City of London

AWS Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Developer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Developer job vacancies in the City of London

AWS Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 10 March 2026, AWS Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring AWS Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Concurrent Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics

AWS Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (50.00%) DB2
2 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Concurrent Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) Sybase