AWS Developer Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Amazon Web Services Developer
England > North of England

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in the North of England is £440, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 159 169
Rank change year-on-year -17 +10 +63
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 25 5 18
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.54% 0.14% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.15% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 5 18
10th Percentile - - £439
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.05% +11.11% -11.33%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £494
90th Percentile £546 - £511
England median daily rate £505 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -25.19% +8.00% +4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 4,241 3,336 4,375
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.56% 92.18% 93.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,837 1,921 2,932
10th Percentile £213 £235 £266
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £551 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 175 203
10th Percentile £16.47 £15.36 £15.73
25th Percentile £20.00 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £31.50 £25.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.51% -8.00% +29.41%
75th Percentile £56.44 £44.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £65.00 £62.00
England median hourly rate £26.50 £37.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.38% -17.78% +38.46%

AWS Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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 North of England.

AWS Developer job vacancy trend in the North of England

AWS Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Developer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Developer job vacancies in the North of England

AWS Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Developer in the North of England

AWS Developer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 14 December 2025. 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
North West -8 14 £400 -20.00% 6
Yorkshire -37 10 £525 -12.50% 2
North East - 1 £400 -
AWS Developer
England

AWS Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, 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 North of England region featuring AWS Developer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (60.00%) Python
3 13 (52.00%) Terraform
4 10 (40.00%) Node.js
5 8 (32.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (32.00%) JavaScript
6 7 (28.00%) GitHub
6 7 (28.00%) Java
7 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
7 6 (24.00%) DevOps
7 6 (24.00%) GitLab
7 6 (24.00%) Microservices
7 6 (24.00%) Serverless
7 6 (24.00%) SQL
8 5 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (20.00%) Git
8 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
9 4 (16.00%) Agile
9 4 (16.00%) AI
9 4 (16.00%) Ansible
9 4 (16.00%) Bash
9 4 (16.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (16.00%) Grafana
9 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (16.00%) Migration
9 4 (16.00%) React
10 3 (12.00%) Kafka
10 3 (12.00%) NoSQL
10 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving

AWS Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (4.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (28.00%) GitHub
3 6 (24.00%) Serverless
4 5 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (8.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.00%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (4.00%) Azure
7 1 (4.00%) GCP
7 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (12.00%) Redis
2 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (8.00%) DocumentDB
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.00%) MySQL
3 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) GitLab
2 5 (20.00%) Git
2 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (8.00%) JIRA
3 2 (8.00%) JUnit
3 2 (8.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.00%) Jasmine
General
1 7 (28.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (40.00%) Node.js
2 4 (16.00%) React
3 3 (12.00%) Kafka
3 3 (12.00%) RESTful
3 3 (12.00%) Spring
3 3 (12.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (8.00%) HTML
4 2 (8.00%) REST
5 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.00%) Bootstrap
5 1 (4.00%) CSS
5 1 (4.00%) CSS3
5 1 (4.00%) HTML5
5 1 (4.00%) Jest
5 1 (4.00%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (4.00%) Laravel
5 1 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (4.00%) Sass
5 1 (4.00%) Spring MVC
5 1 (4.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) NHS
2 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (24.00%) DevOps
2 6 (24.00%) Microservices
3 4 (16.00%) Agile
3 4 (16.00%) AI
3 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (16.00%) Migration
4 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (12.00%) TDD
4 3 (12.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (8.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (8.00%) Case Management
5 2 (8.00%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (8.00%) ETL
5 2 (8.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (8.00%) Release Management
5 2 (8.00%) Scrum
5 2 (8.00%) SDLC
5 2 (8.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 15 (60.00%) Python
2 8 (32.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (28.00%) Java
4 6 (24.00%) SQL
5 4 (16.00%) Bash
6 3 (12.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (4.00%) C#
7 1 (4.00%) Clojure
7 1 (4.00%) PHP
7 1 (4.00%) Ruby
7 1 (4.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
1 1 (4.00%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 13 (52.00%) Terraform
2 4 (16.00%) Ansible
2 4 (16.00%) Grafana
3 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.00%) Adobe
2 1 (4.00%) Google
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Splunk