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 20 July 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 569 345 468
Rank change year-on-year -224 +123 -34
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 92 210 122
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.64% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.70% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 169 99
10th Percentile £381 £363 £349
25th Percentile £431 £450 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £875 £788
90th Percentile £690 - £845
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -2.70%

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 48,848 30,065 38,836
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 91.66% 93.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,490 19,139 25,111
10th Percentile £325 £285 £291
25th Percentile £420 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £737 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,297 1,430 2,509
10th Percentile £15.79 £13.75 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £17.80
Median hourly rate £43.69 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.72% -37.13% -6.98%
75th Percentile £67.84 £55.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +78.93% -38.57% +3.51%

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 20 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 20 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 -211 77 £513 -10.87% 5
London -151 47 £470 -41.25% 2
Work from Home -112 35 £500 -37.50% 4
UK excluding London -142 28 £500 +5.26% 3
North of England -81 15 £550 +21.01%
North West -57 7 £725 +70.59%
Yorkshire -50 6 £525 +2.44%
Scotland -19 4 £431 -4.17%
South East -69 4 £600 +29.03%
North East -34 3 £500 -
South West -37 3 £500 +28.21%
Midlands -48 2 £488 +2.63% 3
East Midlands -13 1 - - 3
West Midlands -66 1 £488 +2.63%

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 92 (100.00%) AWS
2 47 (51.09%) Serverless
3 46 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 44 (47.83%) Python
5 39 (42.39%) AWS Lambda
6 33 (35.87%) Agile
6 33 (35.87%) Microservices
7 32 (34.78%) Amazon S3
8 25 (27.17%) SQL
9 24 (26.09%) Java
10 22 (23.91%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (23.91%) Security Cleared
11 21 (22.83%) RESTful
11 21 (22.83%) Terraform
12 20 (21.74%) DevOps
13 19 (20.65%) SC Cleared
14 18 (19.57%) Docker
14 18 (19.57%) DynamoDB
14 18 (19.57%) TypeScript
15 17 (18.48%) Git
16 16 (17.39%) GitHub
16 16 (17.39%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (16.30%) Amazon EC2
17 15 (16.30%) Event-Driven
17 15 (16.30%) React
18 14 (15.22%) Amazon ECS
18 14 (15.22%) AWS Step Functions
18 14 (15.22%) JavaScript
18 14 (15.22%) Jenkins
18 14 (15.22%) Node.js

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 (3.26%) Apache Spark
1 3 (3.26%) Confluence
2 2 (2.17%) Apache
2 2 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.17%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.09%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 92 (100.00%) AWS
2 47 (51.09%) Serverless
3 39 (42.39%) AWS Lambda
4 32 (34.78%) Amazon S3
5 16 (17.39%) GitHub
5 16 (17.39%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (16.30%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (15.22%) Amazon ECS
7 14 (15.22%) AWS Step Functions
8 13 (14.13%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (11.96%) Azure
11 9 (9.78%) Amazon EventBridge
12 8 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (5.43%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (5.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 4 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
15 4 (4.35%) AWS CodePipeline
15 4 (4.35%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (19.57%) DynamoDB
2 7 (7.61%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (7.61%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (7.61%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.26%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (3.26%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.26%) Power BI
4 3 (3.26%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.26%) SQLite
5 2 (2.17%) Db2
6 1 (1.09%) Big Data
6 1 (1.09%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.09%) Metadata
6 1 (1.09%) Redis
6 1 (1.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (18.48%) Git
2 14 (15.22%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.61%) GitLab
4 4 (4.35%) Cypress.io
5 3 (3.26%) JIRA
6 2 (2.17%) JUnit
7 1 (1.09%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.09%) Mocha
7 1 (1.09%) Mockito
7 1 (1.09%) MSTest
7 1 (1.09%) tSQLt
General
1 15 (16.30%) Finance
1 15 (16.30%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.26%) Banking
4 3 (3.26%) Investment Banking
4 3 (3.26%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.17%) Legal
5 2 (2.17%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.09%) Military
6 1 (1.09%) Retail
6 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (22.83%) RESTful
2 15 (16.30%) React
3 14 (15.22%) Node.js
4 11 (11.96%) Flask
4 11 (11.96%) Kafka
5 10 (10.87%) FastAPI
5 10 (10.87%) Pandas
6 8 (8.70%) Spring
7 7 (7.61%) Polars
7 7 (7.61%) Spring Boot
7 7 (7.61%) Web Services
8 6 (6.52%) AngularJS
9 5 (5.43%) .NET
9 5 (5.43%) AWS CDK
10 4 (4.35%) Django
11 3 (3.26%) ADO
11 3 (3.26%) GraphQL
11 3 (3.26%) PySpark
11 3 (3.26%) REST
11 3 (3.26%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 21 (22.83%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 7 (7.61%) Hedge funds
4 3 (3.26%) Derivative
4 3 (3.26%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.26%) Market Risk
5 2 (2.17%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.17%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.17%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.09%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.09%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.09%) IVR
6 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.09%) Media Streaming
6 1 (1.09%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.87%) Linux
2 9 (9.78%) Unix
3 1 (1.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 33 (35.87%) Agile
2 33 (35.87%) Microservices
3 22 (23.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (21.74%) DevOps
5 15 (16.30%) Event-Driven
6 13 (14.13%) Code Quality
7 12 (13.04%) Analytics
7 12 (13.04%) Containerisation
8 11 (11.96%) Full-Stack Development
8 11 (11.96%) SDLC
9 10 (10.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (10.87%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (10.87%) Software Engineering
10 8 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (8.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 8 (8.70%) Front End Development
10 8 (8.70%) Performance Optimisation
10 8 (8.70%) TDD
10 8 (8.70%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 44 (47.83%) Python
2 25 (27.17%) SQL
3 24 (26.09%) Java
4 18 (19.57%) TypeScript
5 14 (15.22%) JavaScript
6 12 (13.04%) C#
7 7 (7.61%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.09%) Bash
8 1 (1.09%) Go
8 1 (1.09%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (23.91%) Security Cleared
2 19 (20.65%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.43%) AWS Certification
3 5 (5.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (5.43%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.26%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.17%) QA
2 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (19.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (22.83%) Terraform
2 10 (10.87%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.43%) Grafana
4 2 (2.17%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.09%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (3.26%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.17%) ServiceNow
2 2 (2.17%) Splunk
2 2 (2.17%) Sybase
2 2 (2.17%) Trend Micro
3 1 (1.09%) Avaya
3 1 (1.09%) Confluent
3 1 (1.09%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.09%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.09%) SAP