AWS Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Web Services Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £514, 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 305 371 394
Rank change year-on-year +66 +23 +54
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 31 28 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.13% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.15% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 23 56
10th Percentile £400 £302 £413
25th Percentile £475 £318 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £430 £466
Median % change year-on-year +19.48% -7.77% -15.23%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £515
90th Percentile £638 £640 £613
UK median daily rate £575 £571 £525
% change year-on-year +0.66% +8.81% -12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

AWS Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Developer in the UK excluding London

AWS Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for AWS Developer in the UK excluding London

AWS Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Developer in the UK excluding London

AWS Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
North of England +17 10 £575 +46.03% 10
Scotland +12 10 £525 +26.51% 1
North West +15 8 £625 +78.95% 8
Midlands - 4 £525 - 3
East of England - 4 £501 - 2
West Midlands - 4 £525 - 1
South East +45 3 £483 -25.77% 2
Yorkshire +8 2 £413 -10.81%
AWS Developer
UK

AWS Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring AWS Developer in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (54.84%) Serverless
3 15 (48.39%) AWS Lambda
3 15 (48.39%) Python
4 14 (45.16%) CI/CD
5 13 (41.94%) Amazon S3
6 11 (35.48%) Java
6 11 (35.48%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (32.26%) Node.js
8 9 (29.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (29.03%) SQL
8 9 (29.03%) Agile
8 9 (29.03%) Public Sector
9 8 (25.81%) AWS CDK
9 8 (25.81%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (25.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (25.81%) DevOps
9 8 (25.81%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (25.81%) DynamoDB
10 7 (22.58%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (22.58%) Docker
10 7 (22.58%) Kubernetes
10 7 (22.58%) SC Cleared
10 7 (22.58%) Security Cleared
10 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
11 6 (19.35%) Containerisation
11 6 (19.35%) Software Engineering
11 6 (19.35%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (19.35%) Kanban
11 6 (19.35%) Scrum

AWS Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (6.45%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 31 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (54.84%) Serverless
3 15 (48.39%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (41.94%) Amazon S3
5 9 (29.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (25.81%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (25.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (16.13%) Amazon Cognito
7 5 (16.13%) GitHub
7 5 (16.13%) PaaS
7 5 (16.13%) SaaS
8 4 (12.90%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (12.90%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (12.90%) Route 53
9 3 (9.68%) AWS CloudTrail
9 3 (9.68%) AWS CodeBuild
9 3 (9.68%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 2 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (6.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (6.45%) AWS CodeCommit
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) DynamoDB
1 8 (25.81%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (22.58%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (16.13%) Relational Database
4 4 (12.90%) MySQL
5 3 (9.68%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (9.68%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (9.68%) Parquet
6 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
7 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.90%) Git
3 2 (6.45%) Bitbucket
3 2 (6.45%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (6.45%) DbUnit
3 2 (6.45%) JIRA
3 2 (6.45%) jMock
3 2 (6.45%) JUnit
3 2 (6.45%) Maven
3 2 (6.45%) Mockito
3 2 (6.45%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.23%) Ant
4 1 (3.23%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.23%) GitLab
4 1 (3.23%) webpack
General
1 9 (29.03%) Public Sector
2 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (32.26%) Node.js
2 8 (25.81%) AWS CDK
3 5 (16.13%) React
4 4 (12.90%) Hibernate
4 4 (12.90%) JSON
4 4 (12.90%) REST
4 4 (12.90%) SOAP
4 4 (12.90%) Spring
5 3 (9.68%) OAuth
5 3 (9.68%) RESTful
5 3 (9.68%) Spring Boot
6 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
6 2 (6.45%) Bootstrap
6 2 (6.45%) Django
6 2 (6.45%) JPA
6 2 (6.45%) Kafka
6 2 (6.45%) PowerMock
6 2 (6.45%) Spring Batch
6 2 (6.45%) Spring Integration
6 2 (6.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.68%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.45%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) CI/CD
2 11 (35.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (29.03%) Agile
4 8 (25.81%) DevOps
5 6 (19.35%) Containerisation
5 6 (19.35%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (19.35%) Kanban
5 6 (19.35%) Microservices
5 6 (19.35%) Scrum
5 6 (19.35%) Software Engineering
6 5 (16.13%) Cost Optimisation
7 4 (12.90%) API Integration
7 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (12.90%) Software Delivery
8 3 (9.68%) API Development
8 3 (9.68%) Continuous Delivery
8 3 (9.68%) Identity Access Management
8 3 (9.68%) Release Management
8 3 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (9.68%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (48.39%) Python
2 11 (35.48%) Java
3 9 (29.03%) SQL
4 6 (19.35%) JavaScript
5 3 (9.68%) Bash
6 2 (6.45%) Clojure
6 2 (6.45%) R
6 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.23%) Groovy
7 1 (3.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) SC Cleared
1 7 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 7 (22.58%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.68%) Terraform
3 2 (6.45%) Grafana
3 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) Google
2 2 (6.45%) Atlassian
2 2 (6.45%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle
3 1 (3.23%) Imperva