AWS Developer Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Amazon Web Services Developer
South West > Dorset

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in Dorset is £380, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 0.43% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 - -
South West median daily rate £380 £390 £600
% change year-on-year -2.56% -35.00% -14.29%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Dorset

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Dorset. 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 Dorset with a recognized job title 219 104 139
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.59% 96.30% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 63 103
10th Percentile £393 £185 £175
25th Percentile £416 £205 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 £488
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -5.13% -4.88%
75th Percentile £688 £540 £630
90th Percentile £788 £555 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 16 14
10th Percentile £17.85 £14.88 £13.69
25th Percentile £25.75 £15.25 £14.41
Median hourly rate £63.14 £15.50 £15.62
Median % change year-on-year +307.32% -0.77% -72.01%
75th Percentile £72.54 £15.75 £47.11
90th Percentile - £18.19 £53.89
South West median hourly rate £62.50 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +148.51% -62.74% +9.76%

AWS Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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 Dorset.

AWS Developer job vacancy trend in Dorset

AWS Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Developer job vacancies in Dorset.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Developer job vacancies in Dorset

AWS Developer
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

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 Dorset region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Bournemouth - 1 £380 -
AWS Developer
South West

AWS Developer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset

For the 6 months to 29 August 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 Dorset region featuring AWS Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Flink
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) SQL

AWS Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Flink
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks