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 12 May 2026.

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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 372 470
Rank change year-on-year -143 +98 -38
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 113 156 120
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.53% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.58% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 132 102
10th Percentile £389 £400 £343
25th Percentile £426 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £559
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +2.91% +3.95%
75th Percentile £606 £875 £769
90th Percentile £795 - £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £514 £430
% change year-on-year -7.45% +19.48% -6.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - -

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 43,836 26,998 39,901
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 92.47% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,861 17,609 25,964
10th Percentile £319 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.07% -2.38% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,872 1,048 2,673
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.34 £16.30
Median hourly rate £44.00 £28.60 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -23.73% -16.67%
75th Percentile £66.63 £62.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.56 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +65.65% -31.25% -5.73%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -163 97 £494 -14.13% 15
London -104 54 £550 -18.52% 7
Work from Home -76 44 £550 -18.52% 11
UK excluding London -100 38 £476 -7.45% 12
North of England -56 21 £476 -17.22% 2
North West -35 10 £463 -26.00% 1
Yorkshire -47 9 £476 +15.39% 1
South East -52 7 £506 +4.92% 7
Midlands -53 6 £400 -23.81% 1
East Midlands - 5 £397 - 1
South West - 4 £550 -
North East - 2 £500 -
West Midlands -67 1 £488 -7.14%

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 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.

1 113 (100.00%) AWS
2 55 (48.67%) CI/CD
2 55 (48.67%) Python
3 49 (43.36%) Serverless
4 43 (38.05%) AWS Lambda
5 40 (35.40%) Java
6 38 (33.63%) Microservices
7 35 (30.97%) Agile
8 34 (30.09%) SQL
9 31 (27.43%) Infrastructure as Code
10 29 (25.66%) GitHub
11 28 (24.78%) Amazon S3
11 28 (24.78%) Terraform
12 27 (23.89%) Node.js
13 24 (21.24%) Security Cleared
14 23 (20.35%) GitHub Actions
14 23 (20.35%) Kafka
14 23 (20.35%) React
15 22 (19.47%) SC Cleared
16 21 (18.58%) DevOps
16 21 (18.58%) Docker
16 21 (18.58%) Git
16 21 (18.58%) PostgreSQL
17 20 (17.70%) Jenkins
18 19 (16.81%) Amazon EC2
18 19 (16.81%) RESTful
19 18 (15.93%) TypeScript
20 17 (15.04%) Analytics
20 17 (15.04%) Containerisation
20 17 (15.04%) 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 3 (2.65%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.65%) Confluence
2 2 (1.77%) Apache
2 2 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.77%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.88%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 113 (100.00%) AWS
2 49 (43.36%) Serverless
3 43 (38.05%) AWS Lambda
4 29 (25.66%) GitHub
5 28 (24.78%) Amazon S3
6 23 (20.35%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (16.81%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (13.27%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (11.50%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (11.50%) AWS Step Functions
10 11 (9.73%) Azure
11 8 (7.08%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (7.08%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (6.19%) Amazon EventBridge
12 7 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (5.31%) AWS Fargate
14 4 (3.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (3.54%) AWS CodePipeline
15 3 (2.65%) Power Platform
15 3 (2.65%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.58%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (14.16%) DynamoDB
3 12 (10.62%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (7.08%) Relational Database
5 7 (6.19%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (6.19%) Redis
6 6 (5.31%) NoSQL
7 5 (4.42%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (4.42%) MongoDB
8 4 (3.54%) Aerospike
9 3 (2.65%) DB2
9 3 (2.65%) MySQL
9 3 (2.65%) Power BI
9 3 (2.65%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.65%) SQLite
10 2 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.77%) DocumentDB
10 2 (1.77%) HBase
11 1 (0.88%) Big Data
11 1 (0.88%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 21 (18.58%) Git
2 20 (17.70%) Jenkins
3 8 (7.08%) GitLab
4 7 (6.19%) JUnit
5 3 (2.65%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.65%) JIRA
6 2 (1.77%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.77%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.77%) Gradle
6 2 (1.77%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.88%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.88%) Mocha
7 1 (0.88%) MSTest
7 1 (0.88%) tSQLt
General
1 28 (24.78%) Finance
2 20 (17.70%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.62%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.73%) Banking
5 10 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (7.96%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.65%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.77%) Legal
9 1 (0.88%) Front Office
9 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.88%) Military
9 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (23.89%) Node.js
2 23 (20.35%) Kafka
2 23 (20.35%) React
3 19 (16.81%) RESTful
4 14 (12.39%) Spring
5 13 (11.50%) Flask
6 12 (10.62%) FastAPI
6 12 (10.62%) Spring Boot
7 10 (8.85%) Pandas
8 7 (6.19%) AngularJS
8 7 (6.19%) Polars
8 7 (6.19%) Web Services
9 6 (5.31%) Next.js
9 6 (5.31%) REST
10 5 (4.42%) Django
10 5 (4.42%) GraphQL
10 5 (4.42%) PySpark
11 4 (3.54%) AWS CDK
11 4 (3.54%) Lambda Expressions
11 4 (3.54%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.58%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.96%) Derivative
2 9 (7.96%) Management Information System
2 9 (7.96%) Market Risk
3 7 (6.19%) Hedge funds
4 5 (4.42%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.77%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.77%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.77%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.77%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.88%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.88%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.85%) Linux
2 8 (7.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (48.67%) CI/CD
2 38 (33.63%) Microservices
3 35 (30.97%) Agile
4 31 (27.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (18.58%) DevOps
6 17 (15.04%) Analytics
6 17 (15.04%) Containerisation
6 17 (15.04%) Full-Stack Development
7 15 (13.27%) TDD
8 14 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (12.39%) SDLC
9 13 (11.50%) Code Quality
10 12 (10.62%) Data Pipeline
11 11 (9.73%) Event-Driven
12 10 (8.85%) Secure Coding
12 10 (8.85%) Software Engineering
12 10 (8.85%) Test Automation
13 9 (7.96%) Deployment Automation
13 9 (7.96%) Performance Optimisation
13 9 (7.96%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (48.67%) Python
2 40 (35.40%) Java
3 34 (30.09%) SQL
4 18 (15.93%) TypeScript
5 16 (14.16%) JavaScript
6 10 (8.85%) C#
7 7 (6.19%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.77%) Ruby
9 1 (0.88%) Bash
9 1 (0.88%) Go
9 1 (0.88%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.88%) PHP
9 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (21.24%) Security Cleared
2 22 (19.47%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.31%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (5.31%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.42%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (2.65%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.77%) OCP
6 2 (1.77%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.77%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (18.58%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 28 (24.78%) Terraform
2 15 (13.27%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.42%) Grafana
4 2 (1.77%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.88%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (3.54%) Databricks
1 4 (3.54%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.65%) Salesforce
2 3 (2.65%) Splunk
2 3 (2.65%) Sybase
3 2 (1.77%) Trend Micro
4 1 (0.88%) Adobe
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle
4 1 (0.88%) Ping Identity
4 1 (0.88%) SAP
4 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.88%) Virgin Media
4 1 (0.88%) Zend