AWS Developer Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Developer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 407 417
Rank change year-on-year -66 +10 +66
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 135 121 184
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.39% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.42% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 107 166
10th Percentile £381 £400 £409
25th Percentile £413 £491 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £788
90th Percentile £988 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +2.04%
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 38,045 28,496 40,781
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.80% 92.87% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,894 17,862 26,852
10th Percentile £309 £293 £275
25th Percentile £408 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £721 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.32% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,319 828 2,327
10th Percentile £14.61 £16.43 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £33.17 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% - -10.26%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.68 £75.00 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -4.62% -7.14% -2.78%

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 26 February 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 26 February 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 -75 118 £476 -23.84% 16
London -22 73 £581 -14.00% 8
Work from Home -20 50 £675 - 6
UK excluding London -72 39 £450 -14.29% 9
North of England -54 20 £438 -27.08% 3
North West -27 12 £450 -28.00% 3
South East -27 11 £462 -21.78% 1
Yorkshire -58 7 £425 -29.17%
Midlands -52 4 £397 -27.91% 1
East Midlands - 4 £397 - 1
South West - 3 £550 - 3
Scotland 0 1 - -
North East - 1 £400 -

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

For the 6 months to 26 February 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.

1 135 (100.00%) AWS
2 62 (45.93%) Java
3 57 (42.22%) CI/CD
4 56 (41.48%) Python
5 41 (30.37%) SQL
6 40 (29.63%) Serverless
7 38 (28.15%) Kafka
8 37 (27.41%) Agile
8 37 (27.41%) PostgreSQL
9 34 (25.19%) Microservices
10 33 (24.44%) AWS Lambda
10 33 (24.44%) Infrastructure as Code
11 31 (22.96%) React
11 31 (22.96%) Terraform
12 30 (22.22%) JavaScript
12 30 (22.22%) Node.js
13 26 (19.26%) Kubernetes
13 26 (19.26%) TDD
14 24 (17.78%) GitHub
15 23 (17.04%) DevOps
15 23 (17.04%) Spring
16 22 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
16 22 (16.30%) Spring Boot
17 21 (15.56%) Amazon S3
17 21 (15.56%) Docker
17 21 (15.56%) Full-Stack Development
17 21 (15.56%) Git
18 20 (14.81%) Risk Management
18 20 (14.81%) Security Cleared
18 20 (14.81%) Software Engineering

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 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 135 (100.00%) AWS
2 40 (29.63%) Serverless
3 33 (24.44%) AWS Lambda
4 24 (17.78%) GitHub
5 21 (15.56%) Amazon S3
6 18 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (8.89%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (5.93%) AWS Fargate
11 7 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (3.70%) Azure
12 5 (3.70%) Datadog
13 4 (2.96%) Amazon Cognito
13 4 (2.96%) AWS CodeBuild
13 4 (2.96%) AWS CodePipeline
13 4 (2.96%) AWS Step Functions
13 4 (2.96%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.96%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (27.41%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (12.59%) DynamoDB
3 14 (10.37%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (8.89%) Relational Database
5 10 (7.41%) NoSQL
6 9 (6.67%) MongoDB
7 6 (4.44%) DB2
7 6 (4.44%) HBase
7 6 (4.44%) RDBMS
7 6 (4.44%) Redis
8 5 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (3.70%) MySQL
9 4 (2.96%) Aerospike
9 4 (2.96%) Power BI
9 4 (2.96%) SQL Server
10 3 (2.22%) Apache Arrow
10 3 (2.22%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (2.22%) Dremio
10 3 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (15.56%) Git
2 17 (12.59%) Jenkins
3 15 (11.11%) JUnit
4 8 (5.93%) Cucumber
5 7 (5.19%) GitLab
6 6 (4.44%) Artifactory
6 6 (4.44%) Gradle
6 6 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.48%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.74%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.74%) JIRA
8 1 (0.74%) Mocha
8 1 (0.74%) MSTest
8 1 (0.74%) tSQLt
General
1 40 (29.63%) Finance
2 27 (20.00%) Banking
2 27 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 24 (17.78%) Investment Banking
4 13 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.63%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.44%) Front Office
6 3 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.48%) Legal
8 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (28.15%) Kafka
2 31 (22.96%) React
3 30 (22.22%) Node.js
4 23 (17.04%) Spring
5 22 (16.30%) Spring Boot
6 17 (12.59%) AngularJS
7 14 (10.37%) Flask
8 12 (8.89%) FastAPI
8 12 (8.89%) Vue
9 10 (7.41%) AWS CDK
9 10 (7.41%) NumPy
9 10 (7.41%) Pandas
9 10 (7.41%) RESTful
9 10 (7.41%) SciPy
10 8 (5.93%) .NET
10 8 (5.93%) REST
11 7 (5.19%) Polars
12 6 (4.44%) GraphQL
13 5 (3.70%) Lambda Expressions
13 5 (3.70%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.04%) Cloud Native
2 18 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 17 (12.59%) Derivative
3 17 (12.59%) Market Risk
4 10 (7.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (5.19%) Hedge funds
6 6 (4.44%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.96%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.22%) Equities
9 3 (2.22%) Fixed Income
10 2 (1.48%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.48%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.48%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.74%) Digital Media
11 1 (0.74%) PKI
11 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.41%) Linux
2 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (42.22%) CI/CD
2 37 (27.41%) Agile
3 34 (25.19%) Microservices
4 33 (24.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (19.26%) TDD
6 23 (17.04%) DevOps
7 22 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (15.56%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (14.81%) Risk Management
9 20 (14.81%) Software Engineering
10 19 (14.07%) Analytics
10 19 (14.07%) SDLC
11 14 (10.37%) Clean Code
11 14 (10.37%) Containerisation
12 10 (7.41%) Cloud Security
12 10 (7.41%) Data Engineering
12 10 (7.41%) Event-Driven
12 10 (7.41%) Secure Coding
13 9 (6.67%) Data Modelling
14 8 (5.93%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 62 (45.93%) Java
2 56 (41.48%) Python
3 41 (30.37%) SQL
4 30 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 19 (14.07%) TypeScript
6 18 (13.33%) C#
7 7 (5.19%) C++
7 7 (5.19%) Rust
8 5 (3.70%) Bash
9 3 (2.22%) PHP
10 2 (1.48%) Ruby
11 1 (0.74%) Go
11 1 (0.74%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.85%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.19%) OCP
3 7 (5.19%) Oracle Certification
4 6 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.70%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.22%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.74%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.48%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (15.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 31 (22.96%) Terraform
2 26 (19.26%) Kubernetes
3 8 (5.93%) Grafana
4 4 (2.96%) Ansible
5 1 (0.74%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (4.44%) Sybase
2 5 (3.70%) Salesforce
3 4 (2.96%) Databricks
4 3 (2.22%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.48%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (1.48%) Concur
5 2 (1.48%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.48%) Splunk
6 1 (0.74%) Adobe
6 1 (0.74%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.74%) Oracle
6 1 (0.74%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.74%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.74%) Zend