AWS Developer Contracts in the South East

Amazon Web Services Developer
England > South East

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in the South East is £483, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 201 210
Rank change year-on-year +45 +9 +42
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 3 4 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.100% 0.072% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.078% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile £462 £615 £463
25th Percentile £468 £638 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £650 £613
Median % change year-on-year -25.77% +6.12% +22.50%
75th Percentile £493 £688 £641
90th Percentile £497 £755 £646
England median daily rate £575 £601 £563
% change year-on-year -4.37% +6.89% -6.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 2,767 5,141 5,491
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.50% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 3,084 3,829
10th Percentile £250 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.42%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £606
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 481 240
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £18.04
25th Percentile £20.06 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £65.16
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

AWS Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Developer in the South East

AWS Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Developer in the South East

AWS Developer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley +42 3 £483 -25.77%
Berkshire +30 3 £483 -25.77%
AWS Developer
England

AWS Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 across the South East region featuring AWS Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SOAP
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (66.67%) React
2 2 (66.67%) GraphQL
2 2 (66.67%) API Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon Cognito
2 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (66.67%) OAuth
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) API Management
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (33.33%) jMock
3 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) JPA
3 1 (33.33%) JUnit
3 1 (33.33%) SQL

AWS Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS KMS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (33.33%) DbUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) jMock
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
1 1 (33.33%) Mockito
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) SOAP
2 2 (66.67%) GraphQL
2 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 2 (66.67%) OAuth
2 2 (66.67%) React
3 1 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (33.33%) Bootstrap
3 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 1 (33.33%) JPA
3 1 (33.33%) PowerMock
3 1 (33.33%) RESTful
3 1 (33.33%) Spring
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Batch
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) API Integration
1 2 (66.67%) API Management
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
1 1 (33.33%) Jaspersoft