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 27 July 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 345 459
Rank change year-on-year -228 +114 -20
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 88 213 113
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.65% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.71% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 172 92
10th Percentile £381 £363 £364
25th Percentile £431 £450 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £531 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -11.46% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £875 £788
90th Percentile £675 - £871
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +13.51%

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 48,898 30,175 37,360
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.61% 91.56% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,518 19,205 24,201
10th Percentile £329 £284 £300
25th Percentile £423 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
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 3,323 1,465 2,247
10th Percentile £15.75 £13.71 £13.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £18.32
Median hourly rate £43.00 £25.15 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +70.97% -40.16% -2.26%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.17 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -41.51% +8.72%

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 27 July 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 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 27 July 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 -229 73 £525 -8.70% 10
London -144 45 £470 -41.25% 4
Work from Home -119 33 £500 -37.50% 6
UK excluding London -127 26 £525 +10.53% 6
North of England -84 13 £550 +19.11% 1
North West -57 7 £725 +75.76%
Scotland -6 4 £431 +4.55%
Yorkshire -49 4 £550 +4.76% 1
South East -72 4 £600 +29.03%
North East -38 3 £500 -
South West -41 3 £500 +28.21% 2
Midlands -57 2 £488 +2.63% 3
East Midlands -12 1 - - 3
West Midlands -56 1 £488 +2.63%

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

For the 6 months to 27 July 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 88 (100.00%) AWS
2 47 (53.41%) Serverless
3 44 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 43 (48.86%) Python
5 39 (44.32%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (36.36%) Amazon S3
6 32 (36.36%) Microservices
7 30 (34.09%) Agile
8 22 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (25.00%) SQL
9 21 (23.86%) Java
9 21 (23.86%) Terraform
10 20 (22.73%) DevOps
10 20 (22.73%) Security Cleared
11 19 (21.59%) RESTful
12 18 (20.45%) Docker
12 18 (20.45%) DynamoDB
12 18 (20.45%) TypeScript
13 17 (19.32%) SC Cleared
14 16 (18.18%) GitHub
14 16 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (17.05%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (17.05%) Event-Driven
15 15 (17.05%) Git
16 14 (15.91%) Amazon ECS
16 14 (15.91%) AWS Step Functions
16 14 (15.91%) Jenkins
16 14 (15.91%) Node.js
17 13 (14.77%) Amazon SQS
17 13 (14.77%) React

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 3 (3.41%) Apache Spark
1 3 (3.41%) Confluence
2 2 (2.27%) Apache
2 2 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.27%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.14%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 88 (100.00%) AWS
2 47 (53.41%) Serverless
3 39 (44.32%) AWS Lambda
4 32 (36.36%) Amazon S3
5 16 (18.18%) GitHub
5 16 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (17.05%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (15.91%) Amazon ECS
7 14 (15.91%) AWS Step Functions
8 13 (14.77%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (12.50%) Azure
11 9 (10.23%) Amazon EventBridge
12 8 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (7.95%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (5.68%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (5.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 4 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
15 4 (4.55%) AWS CodePipeline
15 4 (4.55%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.14%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.45%) DynamoDB
2 7 (7.95%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (7.95%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (7.95%) NoSQL
3 5 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.41%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (3.41%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.41%) Power BI
4 3 (3.41%) SQLite
5 2 (2.27%) Db2
6 1 (1.14%) Big Data
6 1 (1.14%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.14%) Metadata
6 1 (1.14%) Redis
6 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (17.05%) Git
2 14 (15.91%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.95%) GitLab
4 4 (4.55%) Cypress.io
5 3 (3.41%) JIRA
6 2 (2.27%) JUnit
7 1 (1.14%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.14%) Mocha
7 1 (1.14%) Mockito
7 1 (1.14%) MSTest
7 1 (1.14%) tSQLt
General
1 15 (17.05%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.91%) Finance
3 12 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.41%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.27%) Banking
6 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.27%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.27%) Legal
6 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.14%) Military
7 1 (1.14%) Retail
7 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (21.59%) RESTful
2 14 (15.91%) Node.js
3 13 (14.77%) React
4 11 (12.50%) Flask
5 10 (11.36%) FastAPI
5 10 (11.36%) Kafka
5 10 (11.36%) Pandas
6 7 (7.95%) Polars
7 6 (6.82%) AngularJS
7 6 (6.82%) Spring
7 6 (6.82%) Web Services
8 5 (5.68%) .NET
8 5 (5.68%) AWS CDK
8 5 (5.68%) Spring Boot
9 4 (4.55%) Django
10 3 (3.41%) ADO
10 3 (3.41%) Next.js
10 3 (3.41%) PySpark
10 3 (3.41%) REST
10 3 (3.41%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 21 (23.86%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.95%) Hedge funds
3 6 (6.82%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.27%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.27%) Derivative
4 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.27%) Market Risk
4 2 (2.27%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.27%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.27%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.14%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.14%) IVR
5 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.14%) Media Streaming
5 1 (1.14%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.14%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.36%) Linux
2 9 (10.23%) Unix
3 1 (1.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 32 (36.36%) Microservices
3 30 (34.09%) Agile
4 22 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (22.73%) DevOps
6 15 (17.05%) Event-Driven
7 12 (13.64%) Containerisation
8 11 (12.50%) Analytics
8 11 (12.50%) Code Quality
9 10 (11.36%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (11.36%) Software Engineering
10 9 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (10.23%) Full-Stack Development
11 8 (9.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 8 (9.09%) Front End Development
11 8 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
11 8 (9.09%) SDLC
11 8 (9.09%) Test Automation
12 7 (7.95%) Data Analysis
12 7 (7.95%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 43 (48.86%) Python
2 22 (25.00%) SQL
3 21 (23.86%) Java
4 18 (20.45%) TypeScript
5 12 (13.64%) C#
5 12 (13.64%) JavaScript
6 7 (7.95%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.14%) Bash
7 1 (1.14%) Go
7 1 (1.14%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 17 (19.32%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.68%) AWS Certification
3 5 (5.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (5.68%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.41%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.27%) QA
2 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (20.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (23.86%) Terraform
2 10 (11.36%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.68%) Grafana
4 2 (2.27%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (3.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.27%) ServiceNow
2 2 (2.27%) Splunk
2 2 (2.27%) Sybase
2 2 (2.27%) Trend Micro
3 1 (1.14%) Avaya
3 1 (1.14%) Confluent
3 1 (1.14%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.14%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.14%) SAP