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 21 June 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 340 466
Rank change year-on-year -207 +126 -33
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 101 197 127
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.66% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.71% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 162 104
10th Percentile £381 £363 £345
25th Percentile £431 £450 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £544 £571
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% -4.81% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £875 £709
90th Percentile £725 - £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £400
% change year-on-year - +25.00% -11.11%

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 46,817 27,571 40,801
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.38% 92.17% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,459 17,717 26,128
10th Percentile £325 £289 £281
25th Percentile £414 £402 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £492
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.36% -1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,118 1,192 3,003
10th Percentile £15.33 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.58 £16.45
Median hourly rate £43.69 £27.45 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.16% -26.80% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -1.45%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -194 83 £525 -8.70% 8
London -140 47 £538 -32.81% 3
Work from Home -104 41 £550 -31.25% 6
UK excluding London -115 34 £500 - 5
North of England -72 17 £500 +10.01% 1
North West -46 8 £600 +40.43%
Yorkshire -51 7 £500 - 1
Midlands -61 5 £397 -16.53% 3
Scotland -10 4 £431 -15.85%
East Midlands -14 4 £393 +9.17% 3
South West -29 4 £550 +41.03%
South East -64 4 £600 +29.03%
North East -35 2 £500 -
West Midlands -63 1 £488 +2.63%

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

For the 6 months to 21 June 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.

1 101 (100.00%) AWS
2 52 (51.49%) Serverless
3 50 (49.50%) CI/CD
4 49 (48.51%) Python
5 42 (41.58%) AWS Lambda
6 39 (38.61%) Agile
7 36 (35.64%) Microservices
8 34 (33.66%) Amazon S3
9 32 (31.68%) Java
10 28 (27.72%) SQL
11 26 (25.74%) Security Cleared
11 26 (25.74%) Terraform
12 25 (24.75%) Infrastructure as Code
13 23 (22.77%) SC Cleared
14 22 (21.78%) Docker
15 20 (19.80%) Amazon EC2
15 20 (19.80%) RESTful
16 19 (18.81%) Amazon ECS
16 19 (18.81%) DynamoDB
16 19 (18.81%) GitHub
16 19 (18.81%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (18.81%) Node.js
16 19 (18.81%) React
17 17 (16.83%) Containerisation
17 17 (16.83%) DevOps
17 17 (16.83%) Git
17 17 (16.83%) TypeScript
18 16 (15.84%) Jenkins
18 16 (15.84%) Kafka
19 15 (14.85%) Code Quality

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 (2.97%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.97%) Confluence
2 2 (1.98%) Apache
2 2 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.98%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.99%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 101 (100.00%) AWS
2 52 (51.49%) Serverless
3 42 (41.58%) AWS Lambda
4 34 (33.66%) Amazon S3
5 20 (19.80%) Amazon EC2
6 19 (18.81%) Amazon ECS
6 19 (18.81%) GitHub
6 19 (18.81%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (11.88%) Amazon SQS
7 12 (11.88%) AWS Step Functions
8 10 (9.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (9.90%) Azure
9 9 (8.91%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (6.93%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (5.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (5.94%) AWS Fargate
11 6 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (4.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 5 (4.95%) AWS CodePipeline
13 3 (2.97%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.99%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (18.81%) DynamoDB
2 11 (10.89%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (9.90%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (7.92%) NoSQL
5 7 (6.93%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (3.96%) Redis
6 4 (3.96%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.97%) Aerospike
7 3 (2.97%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.97%) Db2
7 3 (2.97%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.97%) Power BI
7 3 (2.97%) SQLite
8 1 (0.99%) Big Data
8 1 (0.99%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.99%) Metadata
8 1 (0.99%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (16.83%) Git
2 16 (15.84%) Jenkins
3 8 (7.92%) GitLab
4 5 (4.95%) JUnit
5 4 (3.96%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.97%) JIRA
7 1 (0.99%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.99%) Mocha
7 1 (0.99%) MSTest
7 1 (0.99%) tSQLt
General
1 20 (19.80%) Finance
2 17 (16.83%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.87%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.94%) Banking
4 6 (5.94%) Investment Banking
5 4 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.97%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.98%) Legal
7 2 (1.98%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.99%) Military
8 1 (0.99%) Retail
8 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (19.80%) RESTful
2 19 (18.81%) Node.js
2 19 (18.81%) React
3 16 (15.84%) Kafka
4 15 (14.85%) Flask
5 13 (12.87%) FastAPI
6 10 (9.90%) Pandas
6 10 (9.90%) Spring
7 8 (7.92%) AngularJS
7 8 (7.92%) Next.js
7 8 (7.92%) Spring Boot
8 7 (6.93%) Django
8 7 (6.93%) Polars
8 7 (6.93%) Web Services
9 5 (4.95%) AWS CDK
10 4 (3.96%) .NET
11 3 (2.97%) ADO
11 3 (2.97%) GraphQL
11 3 (2.97%) PySpark
11 3 (2.97%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 27 (26.73%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.93%) Hedge funds
2 7 (6.93%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.94%) Derivative
3 6 (5.94%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.94%) Market Risk
4 2 (1.98%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.98%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.98%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.99%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.99%) IVR
5 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.99%) Media Streaming
5 1 (0.99%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.99%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.92%) Linux
1 8 (7.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (49.50%) CI/CD
2 39 (38.61%) Agile
3 36 (35.64%) Microservices
4 25 (24.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (16.83%) Containerisation
5 17 (16.83%) DevOps
6 15 (14.85%) Code Quality
6 15 (14.85%) Event-Driven
7 14 (13.86%) Analytics
7 14 (13.86%) SDLC
8 13 (12.87%) Software Engineering
9 11 (10.89%) Full-Stack Development
9 11 (10.89%) TDD
10 10 (9.90%) Data Pipeline
11 9 (8.91%) Cloud Security
11 9 (8.91%) Test Automation
12 8 (7.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (7.92%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (7.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 8 (7.92%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 49 (48.51%) Python
2 32 (31.68%) Java
3 28 (27.72%) SQL
4 17 (16.83%) TypeScript
5 13 (12.87%) JavaScript
6 10 (9.90%) C#
7 7 (6.93%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.99%) Bash
8 1 (0.99%) Go
8 1 (0.99%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.99%) Ruby
8 1 (0.99%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (25.74%) Security Cleared
2 23 (22.77%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.92%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.95%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (2.97%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.99%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.98%) QA
2 1 (0.99%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (21.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (25.74%) Terraform
2 14 (13.86%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.95%) Grafana
4 2 (1.98%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.99%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (2.97%) Databricks
1 3 (2.97%) Microsoft
1 3 (2.97%) Sybase
2 2 (1.98%) ServiceNow
2 2 (1.98%) Splunk
2 2 (1.98%) Trend Micro
3 1 (0.99%) Avaya
3 1 (0.99%) Confluent
3 1 (0.99%) Dynatrace
3 1 (0.99%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.99%) SAP