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 14 May 2026.

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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 362 466
Rank change year-on-year -155 +104 -35
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 108 155 118
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.53% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.58% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 131 100
10th Percentile £393 £400 £341
25th Percentile £431 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £571
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +0.66% +6.28%
75th Percentile £600 £875 £778
90th Percentile £850 - £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 1 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 43,905 26,796 39,671
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 92.46% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,903 17,460 25,789
10th Percentile £320 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -2.78%
75th Percentile £614 £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 2,866 1,033 2,665
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.20 £16.30
Median hourly rate £43.43 £28.18 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.13% -24.85% -16.67%
75th Percentile £66.50 £62.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £27.24 £40.00
% change year-on-year +65.21% -31.91% -4.94%

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 14 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 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 14 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 -145 91 £500 -13.04% 11
London -109 52 £550 -18.52% 6
Work from Home -67 43 £550 -18.52% 6
UK excluding London -98 35 £476 -7.45% 8
North of England -55 21 £476 -17.22% 2
North West -34 10 £463 -26.00% 1
Yorkshire -47 9 £476 +15.39% 1
Midlands -57 6 £400 -23.81% 1
East Midlands - 5 £397 - 1
South West - 4 £550 -
South East -57 3 £600 +24.35% 4
North East - 2 £500 -
Scotland -3 1 £450 -14.29% 1
West Midlands -58 1 £488 -7.14%

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 108 (100.00%) AWS
2 52 (48.15%) Python
3 50 (46.30%) CI/CD
4 49 (45.37%) Serverless
5 41 (37.96%) AWS Lambda
6 38 (35.19%) Microservices
7 36 (33.33%) Java
8 35 (32.41%) Agile
9 34 (31.48%) SQL
10 29 (26.85%) Amazon S3
11 28 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
12 27 (25.00%) Terraform
13 25 (23.15%) GitHub
14 24 (22.22%) Security Cleared
15 23 (21.30%) Node.js
16 22 (20.37%) GitHub Actions
16 22 (20.37%) Kafka
16 22 (20.37%) SC Cleared
17 21 (19.44%) DevOps
17 21 (19.44%) Docker
17 21 (19.44%) Git
18 20 (18.52%) React
19 19 (17.59%) Amazon EC2
19 19 (17.59%) Jenkins
19 19 (17.59%) TypeScript
20 18 (16.67%) RESTful
21 17 (15.74%) Analytics
21 17 (15.74%) Containerisation
21 17 (15.74%) JavaScript
21 17 (15.74%) PostgreSQL

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 (2.78%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.78%) Confluence
2 2 (1.85%) Apache
2 2 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.85%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.93%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 108 (100.00%) AWS
2 49 (45.37%) Serverless
3 41 (37.96%) AWS Lambda
4 29 (26.85%) Amazon S3
5 25 (23.15%) GitHub
6 22 (20.37%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (17.59%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (13.89%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (12.04%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (12.04%) AWS Step Functions
10 11 (10.19%) Azure
11 8 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (6.48%) Amazon EventBridge
12 7 (6.48%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (5.56%) AWS Fargate
14 4 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (3.70%) AWS CodePipeline
15 3 (2.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 3 (2.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.74%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (14.81%) DynamoDB
3 12 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (6.48%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (6.48%) Redis
5 6 (5.56%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.63%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (4.63%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.70%) Aerospike
8 3 (2.78%) DB2
8 3 (2.78%) Power BI
8 3 (2.78%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.78%) SQLite
9 2 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.85%) DocumentDB
9 2 (1.85%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.93%) Big Data
10 1 (0.93%) HBase
10 1 (0.93%) Metadata
10 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (19.44%) Git
2 19 (17.59%) Jenkins
3 8 (7.41%) GitLab
4 6 (5.56%) JUnit
5 3 (2.78%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.78%) JIRA
6 2 (1.85%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.85%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.93%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.93%) Gradle
7 1 (0.93%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.93%) Mocha
7 1 (0.93%) MSTest
7 1 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.93%) tSQLt
General
1 26 (24.07%) Finance
2 18 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.04%) Public Sector
4 11 (10.19%) Banking
5 9 (8.33%) Investment Banking
6 7 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.85%) Legal
9 1 (0.93%) Front Office
9 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.93%) Military
9 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (21.30%) Node.js
2 22 (20.37%) Kafka
3 20 (18.52%) React
4 18 (16.67%) RESTful
5 13 (12.04%) Flask
5 13 (12.04%) Spring
6 12 (11.11%) FastAPI
7 11 (10.19%) Spring Boot
8 10 (9.26%) Pandas
9 7 (6.48%) AngularJS
9 7 (6.48%) Polars
9 7 (6.48%) Web Services
10 6 (5.56%) Next.js
11 5 (4.63%) .NET
11 5 (4.63%) AWS CDK
11 5 (4.63%) Django
11 5 (4.63%) PySpark
12 4 (3.70%) Lambda Expressions
12 4 (3.70%) SQLAlchemy
13 3 (2.78%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 22 (20.37%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.33%) Derivative
2 9 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 9 (8.33%) Market Risk
3 7 (6.48%) Hedge funds
4 6 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.85%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.85%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.85%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.85%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.85%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.93%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.93%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.93%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.26%) Linux
2 8 (7.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (46.30%) CI/CD
2 38 (35.19%) Microservices
3 35 (32.41%) Agile
4 28 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (19.44%) DevOps
6 17 (15.74%) Analytics
6 17 (15.74%) Containerisation
7 16 (14.81%) TDD
8 14 (12.96%) Full-Stack Development
8 14 (12.96%) SDLC
9 13 (12.04%) Code Quality
10 12 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
11 11 (10.19%) Event-Driven
11 11 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (9.26%) Secure Coding
12 10 (9.26%) Software Engineering
12 10 (9.26%) Test Automation
13 9 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
13 9 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
13 9 (8.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (48.15%) Python
2 36 (33.33%) Java
3 34 (31.48%) SQL
4 19 (17.59%) TypeScript
5 17 (15.74%) JavaScript
6 10 (9.26%) C#
7 7 (6.48%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.85%) Ruby
9 1 (0.93%) Bash
9 1 (0.93%) Go
9 1 (0.93%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.93%) PHP
9 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 22 (20.37%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.63%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (2.78%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.93%) Degree
6 1 (0.93%) OCP
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.85%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (19.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 27 (25.00%) Terraform
2 14 (12.96%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.63%) Grafana
4 2 (1.85%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.93%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (3.70%) Databricks
1 4 (3.70%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.78%) Salesforce
2 3 (2.78%) Splunk
2 3 (2.78%) Sybase
3 2 (1.85%) Trend Micro
4 1 (0.93%) Adobe
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle
4 1 (0.93%) SAP
4 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.93%) Virgin Media
4 1 (0.93%) Zend