AWS Developer Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Developer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in the UK is £505, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 422 457 460
Rank change year-on-year +35 +3 -48
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 169 115 162
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.32% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.34% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 102 143
10th Percentile £363 £376 £401
25th Percentile £412 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.20% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £875 £713 £713
90th Percentile £988 £773 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £456
% change year-on-year -14.29% +15.07% -8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 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 32,581 33,702 43,115
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.00% 92.80% 93.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,628 20,343 29,147
10th Percentile £281 £300 £290
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% -1.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,917 1,258 1,525
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.19
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.50 £19.18
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +50.00%
75th Percentile £56.44 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.50 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +81.52%

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 25 November 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 17 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 25 November 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 +34 155 £525 -19.23% 17
London +35 104 £738 +9.26% 11
Work from Home +16 70 £800 +18.52% 7
UK excluding London -3 51 £450 -14.29% 8
North of England -30 23 £400 -21.95% 5
North West -10 13 £400 -20.00% 4
South East +6 11 £462 -21.78% 3
Yorkshire -28 8 £525 -6.67% 1
East of England -11 5 £520 -
Scotland -3 4 £375 -17.40%
Midlands -34 3 £375 -31.82%
South West -4 2 - -
West Midlands -24 2 £425 -22.73%
Wales - 2 £425 -
North East - 2 £400 -
East Midlands - 1 £360 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £375 -

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

For the 6 months to 25 November 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.

1 169 (100.00%) AWS
2 89 (52.66%) Java
3 83 (49.11%) Python
4 60 (35.50%) PostgreSQL
5 54 (31.95%) CI/CD
6 53 (31.36%) JavaScript
7 46 (27.22%) React
8 44 (26.04%) SQL
9 42 (24.85%) Agile
10 41 (24.26%) Node.js
10 41 (24.26%) Serverless
11 40 (23.67%) Software Engineering
12 39 (23.08%) AngularJS
13 38 (22.49%) Kafka
13 38 (22.49%) Risk Management
14 37 (21.89%) Docker
14 37 (21.89%) TypeScript
15 36 (21.30%) AWS Lambda
15 36 (21.30%) Vue
16 34 (20.12%) Git
16 34 (20.12%) NumPy
16 34 (20.12%) Pandas
16 34 (20.12%) SciPy
17 33 (19.53%) Kubernetes
18 31 (18.34%) Microservices
19 30 (17.75%) Spring
20 29 (17.16%) Clean Code
20 29 (17.16%) TDD
21 28 (16.57%) Amazon S3
21 28 (16.57%) C#

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 17 (10.06%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.37%) JBoss
2 4 (2.37%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (2.96%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 169 (100.00%) AWS
2 41 (24.26%) Serverless
3 36 (21.30%) AWS Lambda
4 28 (16.57%) Amazon S3
5 20 (11.83%) GCP
6 19 (11.24%) Amazon ECS
6 19 (11.24%) GitHub
7 17 (10.06%) dbt
8 16 (9.47%) Amazon SQS
9 15 (8.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (6.51%) Amazon Kinesis
11 11 (6.51%) AWS Fargate
12 7 (4.14%) AWS Step Functions
13 6 (3.55%) Azure
13 6 (3.55%) Datadog
14 5 (2.96%) AWS CodeBuild
14 5 (2.96%) OpenShift
14 5 (2.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.37%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.59%) DNS
2 1 (0.59%) Firewall
2 1 (0.59%) HTTP
2 1 (0.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (35.50%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (12.43%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (12.43%) DynamoDB
3 20 (11.83%) Amazon Athena
4 17 (10.06%) Apache Arrow
4 17 (10.06%) Apache Iceberg
4 17 (10.06%) Dremio
5 13 (7.69%) Relational Database
6 10 (5.92%) MongoDB
6 10 (5.92%) MySQL
6 10 (5.92%) NoSQL
7 9 (5.33%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (2.96%) DB2
8 5 (2.96%) HBase
9 4 (2.37%) Power BI
10 3 (1.78%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.78%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.78%) Tableau
11 2 (1.18%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 34 (20.12%) Git
2 24 (14.20%) JUnit
3 16 (9.47%) Jenkins
4 14 (8.28%) Cucumber
5 12 (7.10%) Maven
6 9 (5.33%) Gradle
6 9 (5.33%) JIRA
6 9 (5.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (4.14%) GitLab
8 5 (2.96%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.59%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.59%) Mockito
9 1 (0.59%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.59%) Vite
9 1 (0.59%) webpack
General
1 66 (39.05%) Finance
2 41 (24.26%) Banking
3 36 (21.30%) Investment Banking
4 25 (14.79%) Social Skills
5 20 (11.83%) Front Office
6 18 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (6.51%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.59%) Aviation
9 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (27.22%) React
2 41 (24.26%) Node.js
3 39 (23.08%) AngularJS
4 38 (22.49%) Kafka
5 36 (21.30%) Vue
6 34 (20.12%) NumPy
6 34 (20.12%) Pandas
6 34 (20.12%) SciPy
7 30 (17.75%) Spring
8 26 (15.38%) Spring Boot
9 19 (11.24%) Flask
10 18 (10.65%) FastAPI
11 17 (10.06%) Polars
12 15 (8.88%) REST
13 11 (6.51%) AWS CDK
14 8 (4.73%) SOAP
15 7 (4.14%) .NET
15 7 (4.14%) RESTful
16 6 (3.55%) GraphQL
16 6 (3.55%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 34 (20.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 20 (11.83%) Management Information System
3 19 (11.24%) Derivative
3 19 (11.24%) Market Risk
4 17 (10.06%) Equities
4 17 (10.06%) Fixed Income
4 17 (10.06%) Hedge funds
5 11 (6.51%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.55%) IVR
7 5 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.96%) NHS
8 4 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.37%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.78%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.18%) Video on Demand
10 2 (1.18%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.59%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.59%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.59%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 23 (13.61%) Linux
2 5 (2.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (31.95%) CI/CD
2 42 (24.85%) Agile
3 40 (23.67%) Software Engineering
4 38 (22.49%) Risk Management
5 31 (18.34%) Microservices
6 29 (17.16%) Clean Code
6 29 (17.16%) TDD
7 22 (13.02%) Analytics
7 22 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (11.83%) Full-Stack Development
9 19 (11.24%) Data Engineering
9 19 (11.24%) Infrastructure as Code
10 18 (10.65%) Fintech
11 17 (10.06%) Asset Management
11 17 (10.06%) DevOps
11 17 (10.06%) Investment Management
11 17 (10.06%) Mathematics
11 17 (10.06%) Performance Attribution
11 17 (10.06%) Structured Programming
11 17 (10.06%) Systematic Trading
Programming Languages
1 89 (52.66%) Java
2 83 (49.11%) Python
3 53 (31.36%) JavaScript
4 44 (26.04%) SQL
5 37 (21.89%) TypeScript
6 28 (16.57%) C#
7 17 (10.06%) C++
7 17 (10.06%) Rust
8 5 (2.96%) Bash
8 5 (2.96%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.37%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.78%) PHP
11 2 (1.18%) Go
11 2 (1.18%) Ruby
12 1 (0.59%) Clojure
12 1 (0.59%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (5.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.55%) OCP
2 6 (3.55%) Oracle Certification
2 6 (3.55%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.96%) AWS Certification
3 5 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.14%) QA
2 2 (1.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 37 (21.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (19.53%) Kubernetes
2 26 (15.38%) Terraform
3 9 (5.33%) Grafana
4 4 (2.37%) Ansible
5 2 (1.18%) Kibana
6 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (5.33%) CA Agile Central
2 7 (4.14%) ServiceNow
3 5 (2.96%) Oracle
3 5 (2.96%) Sybase
4 4 (2.37%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.18%) Concur
5 2 (1.18%) Google
5 2 (1.18%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.59%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.59%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.59%) Solace
6 1 (0.59%) Splunk