AWS Developer Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Developer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 375 450
Rank change year-on-year -202 +75 +20
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 95 188 109
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.57% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.63% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 147 90
10th Percentile £367 £363 £375
25th Percentile £400 £400 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £614
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -17.31% +11.59%
75th Percentile £600 £875 £714
90th Percentile £661 £988 £875
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £438 £513
% change year-on-year +14.29% -14.63% +9.33%

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 50,147 29,864 35,507
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 91.01% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,583 18,880 21,565
10th Percentile £325 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £630 £623 £638
90th Percentile £731 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,922 1,610 1,584
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.75 £14.85
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.30 £20.50
Median hourly rate £41.72 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.89% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.57 £74.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.00 £25.08 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.50% -41.69% -2.27%

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 28 September 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 13 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 28 September 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 -217 71 £550 +4.76% 28
London -152 43 £450 -43.75% 11
Work from Home -106 40 £538 -32.81% 8
UK excluding London -119 29 £500 +14.29% 20
North of England -80 14 £575 +43.75% 12
North West -61 8 £663 +65.63% 5
Scotland -25 6 £425 +13.33% 3
South West -37 4 £365 -6.41%
Yorkshire -46 4 £550 +4.76% 4
South East -58 4 £600 +20.00%
North East -37 3 £500 +25.00% 3
Midlands -48 1 £488 +2.63% 4
West Midlands -49 1 £488 +2.63% 1

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

For the 6 months to 28 September 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 95 (100.00%) AWS
2 44 (46.32%) CI/CD
3 43 (45.26%) Serverless
4 37 (38.95%) AWS Lambda
5 34 (35.79%) Agile
6 32 (33.68%) Microservices
6 32 (33.68%) Python
7 31 (32.63%) Amazon S3
8 24 (25.26%) Docker
9 23 (24.21%) DevOps
9 23 (24.21%) Java
10 22 (23.16%) Infrastructure as Code
11 21 (22.11%) Security Cleared
11 21 (22.11%) Terraform
12 19 (20.00%) Git
12 19 (20.00%) Jenkins
12 19 (20.00%) RESTful
13 18 (18.95%) DynamoDB
13 18 (18.95%) SQL
14 17 (17.89%) SC Cleared
15 16 (16.84%) Amazon SQS
15 16 (16.84%) Event-Driven
15 16 (16.84%) Kubernetes
16 15 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
16 15 (15.79%) Node.js
16 15 (15.79%) TypeScript
17 14 (14.74%) GitHub
17 14 (14.74%) GitHub Actions
18 13 (13.68%) C#
18 13 (13.68%) Full-Stack Development

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 4 (4.21%) Apache
1 4 (4.21%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.11%) Confluence
2 2 (2.11%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.05%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 95 (100.00%) AWS
2 43 (45.26%) Serverless
3 37 (38.95%) AWS Lambda
4 31 (32.63%) Amazon S3
5 16 (16.84%) Amazon SQS
6 15 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
7 14 (14.74%) GitHub
7 14 (14.74%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (12.63%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (12.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (11.58%) AWS Step Functions
9 11 (11.58%) Azure
10 10 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (9.47%) Amazon EventBridge
12 8 (8.42%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 3 (3.16%) Amazon Kinesis
14 3 (3.16%) AWS CodePipeline
14 3 (3.16%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.05%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.95%) DynamoDB
2 9 (9.47%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (7.37%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (6.32%) NoSQL
5 5 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (4.21%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.16%) Flink
8 2 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (2.11%) DocumentDB
8 2 (2.11%) Redis
8 2 (2.11%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.05%) Big Data
9 1 (1.05%) Power BI
9 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.05%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 19 (20.00%) Git
1 19 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 13 (13.68%) GitLab
3 3 (3.16%) Cypress.io
3 3 (3.16%) JIRA
4 1 (1.05%) Mockito
General
1 19 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.89%) Public Sector
3 14 (14.74%) Finance
4 7 (7.37%) Banking
5 6 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.16%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.11%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.05%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (22.11%) Terraform
2 19 (20.00%) RESTful
3 15 (15.79%) Node.js
4 13 (13.68%) Spring
5 12 (12.63%) Flask
5 12 (12.63%) Kafka
5 12 (12.63%) REST
6 11 (11.58%) React
7 10 (10.53%) Spring Boot
8 8 (8.42%) .NET
8 8 (8.42%) AngularJS
9 7 (7.37%) AWS CDK
9 7 (7.37%) Django
9 7 (7.37%) FastAPI
10 6 (6.32%) Pandas
11 5 (5.26%) Polars
12 4 (4.21%) .NET Core
12 4 (4.21%) SOAP
13 3 (3.16%) ASP.NET
13 3 (3.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (28.42%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.32%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.26%) Hedge funds
4 4 (4.21%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.16%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.11%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.05%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.05%) IVR
7 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.05%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.05%) NHS
7 1 (1.05%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.68%) Linux
2 10 (10.53%) Unix
3 3 (3.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (46.32%) CI/CD
2 34 (35.79%) Agile
3 32 (33.68%) Microservices
4 23 (24.21%) DevOps
5 22 (23.16%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (16.84%) Event-Driven
7 13 (13.68%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (12.63%) Migration
9 11 (11.58%) Code Quality
9 11 (11.58%) Containerisation
9 11 (11.58%) Software Engineering
9 11 (11.58%) Test Automation
10 10 (10.53%) Observability
11 9 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (9.47%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (9.47%) SDLC
12 8 (8.42%) Data Pipeline
12 8 (8.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 7 (7.37%) Analytics
13 7 (7.37%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 32 (33.68%) Python
2 23 (24.21%) Java
3 18 (18.95%) SQL
4 15 (15.79%) TypeScript
5 13 (13.68%) C#
6 10 (10.53%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.32%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.16%) Bash
Qualifications
1 21 (22.11%) Security Cleared
2 17 (17.89%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.21%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.05%) Degree
5 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.21%) QA
2 2 (2.11%) WCAG
3 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.05%) GRC
System Software
1 24 (25.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (16.84%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.26%) Grafana
3 4 (4.21%) Kibana
3 4 (4.21%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (2.11%) Confluent
1 2 (2.11%) Dynatrace
1 2 (2.11%) Microsoft
1 2 (2.11%) Salesforce
1 2 (2.11%) Trend Micro
1 2 (2.11%) webMethods
2 1 (1.05%) Avaya
2 1 (1.05%) Databricks
2 1 (1.05%) SAP
2 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
2 1 (1.05%) Splunk