AWS Developer Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Developer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in the UK is £506, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 460 447
Rank change year-on-year +85 -13 -80
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 185 102 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.26% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.28% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 81 154
10th Percentile £363 £373 £413
25th Percentile £400 £420 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £600 £539
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +11.37% -10.21%
75th Percentile £875 £738 £684
90th Percentile £988 £875 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £452 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -9.55% +5.26% -5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 30,009 35,817 46,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.07% 92.96% 94.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,949 22,029 31,957
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,585 1,680 1,499
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.73 £14.99
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%
75th Percentile £52.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -44.11% +2.86% +98.86%

AWS Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Developer in the UK

AWS Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Developer job vacancies in the UK

AWS Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Developer over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Developer in the UK

AWS Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for AWS Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for AWS Developer job vacancies in the UK

AWS Developer
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 September 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
England +84 168 £525 -16.00% 16
London +47 111 £800 +23.08% 10
Work from Home +52 90 £800 +28.00% 13
UK excluding London +44 57 £452 -9.55% 9
North of England -9 26 £400 -20.00% 4
North West +1 14 £400 -20.00% 1
Yorkshire -10 10 £525 -6.67%
East of England - 10 £503 -
Midlands -10 7 £475 +15.15%
West Midlands -4 6 £475 +15.15%
South West +18 4 £390 -35.00%
Scotland -8 4 £375 -16.67%
South East - 3 £500 - 5
North East - 2 £400 - 3
Wales - 2 £425 -
East Midlands - 1 £360 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £375 -

AWS Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 September 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 featuring AWS Developer in the job title.

1 185 (100.00%) AWS
2 96 (51.89%) Java
3 83 (44.86%) JavaScript
3 83 (44.86%) Python
4 77 (41.62%) Finance
5 73 (39.46%) PostgreSQL
6 68 (36.76%) Agile
7 65 (35.14%) React
8 62 (33.51%) Software Engineering
9 61 (32.97%) Node.js
9 61 (32.97%) AngularJS
10 60 (32.43%) TypeScript
11 57 (30.81%) Risk Management
11 57 (30.81%) Vue
12 53 (28.65%) Pandas
12 53 (28.65%) SciPy
12 53 (28.65%) NumPy
13 51 (27.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 50 (27.03%) CI/CD
15 44 (23.78%) Serverless
16 41 (22.16%) Docker
17 40 (21.62%) SQL
17 40 (21.62%) AWS Lambda
18 39 (21.08%) GCP
19 38 (20.54%) Fintech
20 37 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
20 37 (20.00%) Banking
21 36 (19.46%) Fixed Income
21 36 (19.46%) Asset Management
21 36 (19.46%) Investment Management

AWS Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 36 (19.46%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.16%) JBoss
2 4 (2.16%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.08%) Alfresco
3 2 (1.08%) Apache
3 2 (1.08%) Camunda
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 185 (100.00%) AWS
2 44 (23.78%) Serverless
3 40 (21.62%) AWS Lambda
4 39 (21.08%) GCP
5 36 (19.46%) dbt
6 31 (16.76%) Amazon S3
7 20 (10.81%) Amazon SQS
8 17 (9.19%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (8.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (7.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (6.49%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (6.49%) GitHub
12 10 (5.41%) AWS Step Functions
13 8 (4.32%) Amazon Kinesis
13 8 (4.32%) AWS Fargate
14 6 (3.24%) Amazon EventBridge
14 6 (3.24%) AWS CodePipeline
15 5 (2.70%) AWS CodeBuild
15 5 (2.70%) Azure
15 5 (2.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.08%) HTTP
2 1 (0.54%) DNS
2 1 (0.54%) Firewall
2 1 (0.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (39.46%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
3 36 (19.46%) Apache Arrow
3 36 (19.46%) Apache Iceberg
3 36 (19.46%) Dremio
4 23 (12.43%) DynamoDB
5 21 (11.35%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (5.41%) MySQL
7 7 (3.78%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (3.78%) Relational Database
8 6 (3.24%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.16%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.16%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.62%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.08%) DB2
11 2 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.08%) GIS
11 2 (1.08%) Redis
12 1 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.54%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 35 (18.92%) Git
2 21 (11.35%) JUnit
3 17 (9.19%) Jenkins
4 15 (8.11%) Maven
5 12 (6.49%) JIRA
6 8 (4.32%) Cucumber
6 8 (4.32%) GitLab
7 5 (2.70%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.70%) Gradle
7 5 (2.70%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (2.16%) Mockito
9 2 (1.08%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (1.08%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.08%) DbUnit
9 2 (1.08%) jMock
10 1 (0.54%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.54%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.54%) Postman
10 1 (0.54%) Vite
General
1 77 (41.62%) Finance
2 37 (20.00%) Banking
3 36 (19.46%) Front Office
4 34 (18.38%) Investment Banking
5 18 (9.73%) Social Skills
6 13 (7.03%) Public Sector
7 11 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.24%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Aviation
10 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.54%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (35.14%) React
2 61 (32.97%) AngularJS
2 61 (32.97%) Node.js
3 57 (30.81%) Vue
4 53 (28.65%) NumPy
4 53 (28.65%) Pandas
4 53 (28.65%) SciPy
5 27 (14.59%) Kafka
6 26 (14.05%) Spring
7 19 (10.27%) Spring Boot
8 17 (9.19%) FastAPI
8 17 (9.19%) Flask
8 17 (9.19%) Polars
9 15 (8.11%) REST
10 12 (6.49%) AWS CDK
11 10 (5.41%) RESTful
12 9 (4.86%) Hibernate
13 8 (4.32%) JPA
13 8 (4.32%) SOAP
14 7 (3.78%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 51 (27.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 36 (19.46%) Fixed Income
3 34 (18.38%) Equities
4 17 (9.19%) Derivative
4 17 (9.19%) Hedge funds
4 17 (9.19%) Management Information System
4 17 (9.19%) Market Risk
5 6 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (3.24%) IVR
6 5 (2.70%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.70%) NHS
7 4 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.62%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.62%) Video on Demand
8 3 (1.62%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.08%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 27 (14.59%) Linux
2 5 (2.70%) Unix
3 1 (0.54%) Android
3 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (36.76%) Agile
2 62 (33.51%) Software Engineering
3 57 (30.81%) Risk Management
4 50 (27.03%) CI/CD
5 38 (20.54%) Fintech
6 36 (19.46%) Asset Management
6 36 (19.46%) Investment Management
6 36 (19.46%) Order Management
6 36 (19.46%) Performance Attribution
7 34 (18.38%) TDD
8 29 (15.68%) Clean Code
8 29 (15.68%) Microservices
9 23 (12.43%) Full-Stack Development
10 20 (10.81%) DevOps
11 19 (10.27%) Analytics
12 17 (9.19%) Data Engineering
12 17 (9.19%) Mathematics
12 17 (9.19%) Structured Programming
12 17 (9.19%) Systematic Trading
13 14 (7.57%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 96 (51.89%) Java
2 83 (44.86%) JavaScript
2 83 (44.86%) Python
3 60 (32.43%) TypeScript
4 40 (21.62%) SQL
5 25 (13.51%) C#
6 17 (9.19%) C++
6 17 (9.19%) Rust
7 5 (2.70%) Bash
8 4 (2.16%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.16%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.62%) PHP
9 3 (1.62%) Scala
10 2 (1.08%) Go
10 2 (1.08%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.54%) Clojure
11 1 (0.54%) Dart
11 1 (0.54%) R
11 1 (0.54%) Ruby
11 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (5.41%) SC Cleared
1 10 (5.41%) Security Cleared
2 9 (4.86%) AWS Certification
3 5 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.62%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.32%) QA
System Software
1 41 (22.16%) Docker
2 2 (1.08%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (1.08%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 29 (15.68%) Kubernetes
2 27 (14.59%) Terraform
3 7 (3.78%) Grafana
4 4 (2.16%) Ansible
5 2 (1.08%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.54%) Kibana
6 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (3.78%) CA Agile Central
1 7 (3.78%) Oracle
2 6 (3.24%) ServiceNow
3 2 (1.08%) Atlassian
3 2 (1.08%) Google
3 2 (1.08%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (1.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.08%) Salesforce
3 2 (1.08%) Sybase
4 1 (0.54%) Solace
4 1 (0.54%) Virgin Media