AWS Developer Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Developer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in the UK is £503, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 438 451 453
Rank change year-on-year +13 +2 -31
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 150 102 158
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.30% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.32% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 91 139
10th Percentile £388 £388 £405
25th Percentile £413 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.60% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £734 £713 £750
90th Percentile £988 £738 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £462 £525 £456
% change year-on-year -12.10% +15.07% -8.75%
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 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 33,152 31,803 41,481
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.96% 92.76% 93.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,996 19,553 27,898
10th Percentile £290 £300 £290
25th Percentile £404 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £724 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,961 1,029 1,466
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.49 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.98 £21.05 £19.14
Median hourly rate £25.25 £34.00 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.74% -24.02% +46.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £72.90 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.00%

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 15 December 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 14 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 15 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
England +13 136 £505 -25.19% 12
London +7 93 £603 -10.67% 3
Work from Home +10 60 £800 +18.52% 7
UK excluding London -27 42 £462 -12.10% 9
North of England -22 25 £440 -12.05% 8
North West -11 14 £400 -20.00% 6
South East +4 11 £462 -21.78% 1
Yorkshire -34 10 £525 -12.50% 2
Scotland -6 3 £419 -11.84%
East of England -20 1 - -
Midlands -41 1 £400 -3.03%
North East - 1 £400 -
East Midlands - 1 £400 -
Wales - 1 £475 -

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 featuring AWS Developer in the job title.

1 150 (100.00%) AWS
2 73 (48.67%) Java
3 72 (48.00%) Python
4 54 (36.00%) CI/CD
5 50 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
6 45 (30.00%) JavaScript
7 42 (28.00%) SQL
8 40 (26.67%) Node.js
9 39 (26.00%) React
10 38 (25.33%) Kafka
10 38 (25.33%) Serverless
11 34 (22.67%) Agile
11 34 (22.67%) AWS Lambda
12 31 (20.67%) Kubernetes
12 31 (20.67%) Microservices
12 31 (20.67%) Risk Management
13 30 (20.00%) AngularJS
13 30 (20.00%) Software Engineering
13 30 (20.00%) TypeScript
14 29 (19.33%) Docker
15 28 (18.67%) Git
15 28 (18.67%) TDD
15 28 (18.67%) Terraform
16 27 (18.00%) Vue
17 25 (16.67%) C#
17 25 (16.67%) NumPy
17 25 (16.67%) Pandas
17 25 (16.67%) SciPy
18 24 (16.00%) GitHub
19 23 (15.33%) Spring

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 11 (7.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (1.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 150 (100.00%) AWS
2 38 (25.33%) Serverless
3 34 (22.67%) AWS Lambda
4 24 (16.00%) GitHub
5 22 (14.67%) Amazon S3
6 15 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
7 14 (9.33%) GCP
8 12 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
8 12 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (7.33%) dbt
10 10 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (5.33%) AWS Fargate
13 7 (4.67%) Amazon Kinesis
14 6 (4.00%) AWS Step Functions
14 6 (4.00%) Azure
14 6 (4.00%) Datadog
15 5 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.67%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.67%) DNS
2 1 (0.67%) Firewall
2 1 (0.67%) HTTP
2 1 (0.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (12.00%) DynamoDB
3 14 (9.33%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (8.67%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (8.67%) Relational Database
5 11 (7.33%) Apache Arrow
5 11 (7.33%) Apache Iceberg
5 11 (7.33%) Dremio
6 10 (6.67%) MongoDB
6 10 (6.67%) NoSQL
7 9 (6.00%) MySQL
7 9 (6.00%) RDBMS
8 6 (4.00%) HBase
9 5 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (3.33%) DB2
10 4 (2.67%) Power BI
10 4 (2.67%) Redis
11 3 (2.00%) SQL Server
11 3 (2.00%) Tableau
12 2 (1.33%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 28 (18.67%) Git
2 16 (10.67%) Jenkins
2 16 (10.67%) JUnit
3 11 (7.33%) Cucumber
4 7 (4.67%) GitLab
5 6 (4.00%) Artifactory
5 6 (4.00%) Gradle
5 6 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (2.00%) JIRA
6 3 (2.00%) Maven
7 2 (1.33%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.67%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.67%) Mockito
8 1 (0.67%) Vite
8 1 (0.67%) webpack
General
1 59 (39.33%) Finance
2 35 (23.33%) Banking
3 32 (21.33%) Investment Banking
4 23 (15.33%) Social Skills
5 16 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (9.33%) Front Office
7 12 (8.00%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (26.67%) Node.js
2 39 (26.00%) React
3 38 (25.33%) Kafka
4 30 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 27 (18.00%) Vue
6 25 (16.67%) NumPy
6 25 (16.67%) Pandas
6 25 (16.67%) SciPy
7 23 (15.33%) Spring
7 23 (15.33%) Spring Boot
8 17 (11.33%) Flask
9 16 (10.67%) FastAPI
10 14 (9.33%) Polars
11 10 (6.67%) AWS CDK
11 10 (6.67%) REST
12 8 (5.33%) RESTful
13 7 (4.67%) .NET
14 6 (4.00%) GraphQL
14 6 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (3.33%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 19 (12.67%) Management Information System
3 18 (12.00%) Derivative
3 18 (12.00%) Market Risk
4 14 (9.33%) Hedge funds
5 12 (8.00%) Cloud Native
6 11 (7.33%) Equities
6 11 (7.33%) Fixed Income
7 5 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.33%) NHS
7 5 (3.33%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.67%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.33%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.33%) Video on Demand
10 1 (0.67%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.67%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.67%) Linux
2 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (36.00%) CI/CD
2 34 (22.67%) Agile
3 31 (20.67%) Microservices
3 31 (20.67%) Risk Management
4 30 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 28 (18.67%) TDD
6 22 (14.67%) DevOps
7 21 (14.00%) Analytics
7 21 (14.00%) Clean Code
7 21 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (12.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 17 (11.33%) Data Engineering
11 15 (10.00%) SDLC
12 14 (9.33%) Mathematics
12 14 (9.33%) Structured Programming
12 14 (9.33%) Systematic Trading
13 12 (8.00%) Asset Management
13 12 (8.00%) Investment Management
14 11 (7.33%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 73 (48.67%) Java
2 72 (48.00%) Python
3 45 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 42 (28.00%) SQL
5 30 (20.00%) TypeScript
6 25 (16.67%) C#
7 14 (9.33%) C++
7 14 (9.33%) Rust
8 5 (3.33%) Bash
9 4 (2.67%) PHP
10 2 (1.33%) Go
10 2 (1.33%) Ruby
11 1 (0.67%) Clojure
11 1 (0.67%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.67%) OCP
2 7 (4.67%) Oracle Certification
2 7 (4.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.33%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.33%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.67%) QA
2 2 (1.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 29 (19.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.67%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 31 (20.67%) Kubernetes
2 28 (18.67%) Terraform
3 9 (6.00%) Grafana
4 4 (2.67%) Ansible
5 2 (1.33%) Kibana
6 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (3.33%) CA Agile Central
1 5 (3.33%) Salesforce
1 5 (3.33%) Sybase
2 4 (2.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.67%) ServiceNow
3 2 (1.33%) Concur
3 2 (1.33%) Google
3 2 (1.33%) Splunk
4 1 (0.67%) Adobe
4 1 (0.67%) Databricks
4 1 (0.67%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.67%) Ping Identity
4 1 (0.67%) Solace
4 1 (0.67%) Virgin Media
4 1 (0.67%) Zend