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 7 September 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 370 471
Rank change year-on-year -219 +101 -18
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 89 185 98
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.57% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.62% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 147 78
10th Percentile £372 £363 £370
25th Percentile £403 £400 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £875 £738
90th Percentile £671 £988 £875
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +15.51% -9.10% +5.26%

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 50,015 29,838 35,858
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 91.17% 93.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,814 18,799 22,503
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,645 1,551 1,794
10th Percentile £14.85 £13.60 £14.50
25th Percentile £20.48 £16.95 £20.30
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.89 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.60 £70.16 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +12.50%

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 7 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 7 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 -200 73 £550 +4.76% 14
London -142 47 £450 -43.75% 10
Work from Home -112 34 £500 -37.50% 8
UK excluding London -124 26 £525 +15.51% 5
North of England -80 13 £575 +43.75% 3
North West -59 7 £663 +65.63% 2
Scotland -26 5 £425 +13.33%
Yorkshire -46 4 £550 +4.76% 1
South East -71 4 £600 +20.00%
North East -38 3 £500 +25.00%
South West -45 3 £380 -2.56% 1
West Midlands -52 1 £488 +2.63%
Midlands -62 1 £488 +2.63% 1

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 89 (100.00%) AWS
2 45 (50.56%) Serverless
3 43 (48.31%) CI/CD
4 39 (43.82%) AWS Lambda
5 36 (40.45%) Python
6 33 (37.08%) Amazon S3
7 32 (35.96%) Agile
7 32 (35.96%) Microservices
8 23 (25.84%) Docker
8 23 (25.84%) Java
9 21 (23.60%) DevOps
9 21 (23.60%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (23.60%) RESTful
10 20 (22.47%) Git
10 20 (22.47%) SQL
10 20 (22.47%) Terraform
11 18 (20.22%) DynamoDB
11 18 (20.22%) Jenkins
12 16 (17.98%) Event-Driven
12 16 (17.98%) GitHub
12 16 (17.98%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (17.98%) Security Cleared
13 15 (16.85%) Amazon ECS
13 15 (16.85%) Amazon SQS
13 15 (16.85%) Kubernetes
13 15 (16.85%) Linux
14 14 (15.73%) AWS Step Functions
14 14 (15.73%) Azure
14 14 (15.73%) Node.js
15 13 (14.61%) Amazon EC2

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 (4.49%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.37%) Confluence
3 2 (2.25%) Apache
3 2 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.25%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.12%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 89 (100.00%) AWS
2 45 (50.56%) Serverless
3 39 (43.82%) AWS Lambda
4 33 (37.08%) Amazon S3
5 16 (17.98%) GitHub
5 16 (17.98%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (16.85%) Amazon ECS
6 15 (16.85%) Amazon SQS
7 14 (15.73%) AWS Step Functions
7 14 (15.73%) Azure
8 13 (14.61%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (13.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (11.24%) Amazon EventBridge
10 10 (11.24%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (10.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (7.87%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (5.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 3 (3.37%) Amazon Kinesis
14 3 (3.37%) AWS CodePipeline
14 3 (3.37%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.12%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.22%) DynamoDB
2 8 (8.99%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (7.87%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (7.87%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (6.74%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.37%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (3.37%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.37%) Power BI
5 3 (3.37%) SQLite
6 2 (2.25%) Redis
6 2 (2.25%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.12%) Big Data
7 1 (1.12%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.12%) Flink
7 1 (1.12%) Metadata
7 1 (1.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (22.47%) Git
2 18 (20.22%) Jenkins
3 11 (12.36%) GitLab
4 4 (4.49%) Cypress.io
4 4 (4.49%) JIRA
5 1 (1.12%) Mockito
General
1 18 (20.22%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.73%) Finance
3 13 (14.61%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.49%) Banking
6 3 (3.37%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.37%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.12%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (23.60%) RESTful
2 20 (22.47%) Terraform
3 14 (15.73%) Node.js
4 11 (12.36%) Flask
4 11 (12.36%) Kafka
4 11 (12.36%) Spring
5 10 (11.24%) FastAPI
5 10 (11.24%) Pandas
6 9 (10.11%) React
6 9 (10.11%) REST
7 8 (8.99%) Spring Boot
8 7 (7.87%) .NET
8 7 (7.87%) Polars
9 6 (6.74%) AngularJS
9 6 (6.74%) AWS CDK
10 5 (5.62%) Django
10 5 (5.62%) Web Services
11 4 (4.49%) .NET Core
12 3 (3.37%) ASP.NET Core
12 3 (3.37%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 26 (29.21%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.87%) Hedge funds
3 4 (4.49%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.37%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.25%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.25%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.12%) IVR
6 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.12%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.12%) NHS
6 1 (1.12%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 15 (16.85%) Linux
2 12 (13.48%) Unix
3 3 (3.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (48.31%) CI/CD
2 32 (35.96%) Agile
2 32 (35.96%) Microservices
3 21 (23.60%) DevOps
3 21 (23.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (17.98%) Event-Driven
5 13 (14.61%) Code Quality
5 13 (14.61%) Containerisation
6 12 (13.48%) Data Pipeline
6 12 (13.48%) Software Engineering
7 11 (12.36%) Test Automation
8 10 (11.24%) Migration
8 10 (11.24%) SDLC
9 9 (10.11%) Analytics
9 9 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (10.11%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (10.11%) Performance Optimisation
9 9 (10.11%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (7.87%) Data Analysis
10 7 (7.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 36 (40.45%) Python
2 23 (25.84%) Java
3 20 (22.47%) SQL
4 13 (14.61%) TypeScript
5 12 (13.48%) C#
6 9 (10.11%) JavaScript
7 8 (8.99%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.37%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (17.98%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.61%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.74%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.37%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.25%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.12%) Degree
6 1 (1.12%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.25%) QA
1 2 (2.25%) WCAG
2 1 (1.12%) Accessibility
System Software
1 23 (25.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (16.85%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.87%) Grafana
3 4 (4.49%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.37%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (4.49%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.25%) Salesforce
2 2 (2.25%) Splunk
2 2 (2.25%) Trend Micro
3 1 (1.12%) Avaya
3 1 (1.12%) Confluent
3 1 (1.12%) Databricks
3 1 (1.12%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.12%) SAP
3 1 (1.12%) ServiceNow