AWS Developer Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Developer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in the UK is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 381 440
Rank change year-on-year -133 +59 +4
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 116 142 155
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.49% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.52% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 123 135
10th Percentile £381 £400 £355
25th Percentile £413 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% - +6.48%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £788
90th Percentile £988 £875 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £525 £449
% change year-on-year -9.90% +17.06% -5.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 42,225 27,079 40,770
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 92.67% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,249 17,802 26,661
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £407 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,659 969 2,573
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.84 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.09 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £41.06 £31.64 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.76% -9.60% -21.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.13 £30.20 £35.00
% change year-on-year +39.49% -13.71% -16.82%

AWS Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

AWS Developer job vacancy trend 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 11 April 2026.

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 12 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 11 April 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
England -117 103 £486 -15.43% 17
London -103 65 £580 -14.07% 8
Work from Home -60 42 £650 -3.70% 9
UK excluding London -92 34 £473 -9.90% 10
North of England -58 17 £475 -24.00% 6
North West -26 10 £463 -26.00% 3
South East -48 8 £473 +1.72% 4
Yorkshire -45 7 £476 +58.67% 3
Midlands -60 6 £400 -27.27%
East Midlands - 5 £397 -
South West - 3 £550 -
West Midlands -63 1 £488 -11.36%

AWS Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 11 April 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 featuring AWS Developer in the job title.

1 116 (100.00%) AWS
2 57 (49.14%) CI/CD
3 52 (44.83%) Python
4 51 (43.97%) Java
5 48 (41.38%) Serverless
6 42 (36.21%) AWS Lambda
7 41 (35.34%) SQL
8 38 (32.76%) Microservices
9 36 (31.03%) Agile
10 30 (25.86%) Kafka
11 29 (25.00%) Amazon S3
11 29 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 28 (24.14%) PostgreSQL
13 26 (22.41%) Node.js
14 25 (21.55%) React
15 24 (20.69%) GitHub
16 23 (19.83%) DevOps
16 23 (19.83%) Terraform
17 22 (18.97%) Git
18 20 (17.24%) Amazon EC2
18 20 (17.24%) Docker
18 20 (17.24%) Kubernetes
18 20 (17.24%) TDD
19 19 (16.38%) Security Cleared
19 19 (16.38%) TypeScript
20 18 (15.52%) Analytics
20 18 (15.52%) DynamoDB
20 18 (15.52%) Jenkins
20 18 (15.52%) Spring
21 17 (14.66%) Amazon ECS

AWS Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (0.86%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.86%) CMS
1 1 (0.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 116 (100.00%) AWS
2 48 (41.38%) Serverless
3 42 (36.21%) AWS Lambda
4 29 (25.00%) Amazon S3
5 24 (20.69%) GitHub
6 20 (17.24%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (14.66%) Amazon ECS
8 16 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (12.07%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (10.34%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (10.34%) AWS Step Functions
11 11 (9.48%) Azure
12 9 (7.76%) AWS Fargate
13 8 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (6.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (6.03%) Amazon EventBridge
14 7 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
15 5 (4.31%) Amazon Kinesis
16 4 (3.45%) Amazon Cognito
16 4 (3.45%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.86%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (24.14%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (15.52%) DynamoDB
3 15 (12.93%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (11.21%) Relational Database
5 8 (6.90%) NoSQL
6 6 (5.17%) DB2
6 6 (5.17%) MongoDB
6 6 (5.17%) RDBMS
6 6 (5.17%) Redis
7 4 (3.45%) Aerospike
7 4 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (3.45%) Power BI
8 3 (2.59%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.59%) HBase
8 3 (2.59%) MySQL
8 3 (2.59%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.59%) SQLite
9 2 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.72%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.86%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 22 (18.97%) Git
2 18 (15.52%) Jenkins
3 11 (9.48%) JUnit
4 4 (3.45%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.59%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.59%) GitLab
5 3 (2.59%) Gradle
5 3 (2.59%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.72%) JIRA
6 2 (1.72%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.86%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.86%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.86%) Mocha
7 1 (0.86%) MSTest
7 1 (0.86%) tSQLt
General
1 35 (30.17%) Finance
2 23 (19.83%) Social Skills
3 18 (15.52%) Banking
4 16 (13.79%) Investment Banking
5 13 (11.21%) Public Sector
6 12 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.59%) Front Office
7 3 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.72%) Legal
9 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.86%) Military
9 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (25.86%) Kafka
2 26 (22.41%) Node.js
3 25 (21.55%) React
4 18 (15.52%) Spring
5 16 (13.79%) RESTful
5 16 (13.79%) Spring Boot
6 13 (11.21%) Flask
7 12 (10.34%) FastAPI
8 10 (8.62%) AngularJS
8 10 (8.62%) Pandas
9 8 (6.90%) REST
10 7 (6.03%) GraphQL
10 7 (6.03%) Polars
11 6 (5.17%) Lambda Expressions
11 6 (5.17%) Next.js
11 6 (5.17%) Web Services
12 5 (4.31%) Django
12 5 (4.31%) PySpark
13 4 (3.45%) AWS CDK
13 4 (3.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 13 (11.21%) Derivative
2 13 (11.21%) Management Information System
2 13 (11.21%) Market Risk
3 7 (6.03%) Hedge funds
4 6 (5.17%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.72%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.72%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.86%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.86%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.86%) Media Streaming
8 1 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.48%) Linux
2 6 (5.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (49.14%) CI/CD
2 38 (32.76%) Microservices
3 36 (31.03%) Agile
4 29 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (19.83%) DevOps
6 20 (17.24%) TDD
7 18 (15.52%) Analytics
8 17 (14.66%) Containerisation
9 16 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (12.93%) Full-Stack Development
10 15 (12.93%) SDLC
11 14 (12.07%) Software Engineering
12 13 (11.21%) Risk Management
13 12 (10.34%) Event-Driven
14 11 (9.48%) Cloud Security
14 11 (9.48%) Code Quality
15 10 (8.62%) Clean Code
15 10 (8.62%) Data Pipeline
15 10 (8.62%) Secure Coding
16 9 (7.76%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 52 (44.83%) Python
2 51 (43.97%) Java
3 41 (35.34%) SQL
4 19 (16.38%) TypeScript
5 17 (14.66%) JavaScript
6 12 (10.34%) C#
7 5 (4.31%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.59%) C++
8 3 (2.59%) Rust
9 2 (1.72%) Ruby
10 1 (0.86%) Bash
10 1 (0.86%) Go
10 1 (0.86%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.86%) PHP
10 1 (0.86%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (16.38%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (4.31%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.59%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (2.59%) OCP
6 3 (2.59%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.72%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.86%) Accessibility
System Software
1 20 (17.24%) Docker
2 1 (0.86%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 23 (19.83%) Terraform
2 20 (17.24%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.31%) Grafana
4 2 (1.72%) Kibana
5 1 (0.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (5.17%) Sybase
2 4 (3.45%) Databricks
2 4 (3.45%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.59%) Salesforce
3 3 (2.59%) Splunk
4 2 (1.72%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (1.72%) Concur
4 2 (1.72%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.86%) Adobe
5 1 (0.86%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle
5 1 (0.86%) Ping Identity
5 1 (0.86%) SAP
5 1 (0.86%) Virgin Media
5 1 (0.86%) Zend