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 25 April 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 377 439
Rank change year-on-year -134 +62 +5
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 116 151 144
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.51% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.55% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 130 124
10th Percentile £381 £399 £354
25th Percentile £421 £450 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £559
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +2.91% +6.43%
75th Percentile £663 £713 £778
90th Percentile £988 £875 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £514 £447
% change year-on-year -7.54% +14.93% -4.13%
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 43,041 27,334 40,483
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.61% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,619 17,888 26,425
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £408 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% -1.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,759 1,027 2,641
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.69 £29.07 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.84% -18.11% -21.11%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year +56.52% -23.33% -11.76%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -128 100 £500 -13.04% 16
London -105 59 £580 -14.07% 9
Work from Home -50 45 £550 -18.52% 9
UK excluding London -85 36 £475 -7.54% 8
North of England -59 20 £476 -17.30% 3
North West -37 10 £463 -26.00% 1
Yorkshire -52 9 £476 +15.39% 2
South East -60 7 £506 +4.92% 4
Midlands -56 6 £400 -23.81%
East Midlands - 5 £397 -
South West - 3 £550 -
West Midlands -60 1 £488 -7.14%
North East - 1 £500 -

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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.

1 116 (100.00%) AWS
2 57 (49.14%) CI/CD
3 55 (47.41%) Python
4 48 (41.38%) Serverless
5 43 (37.07%) Java
6 41 (35.34%) AWS Lambda
7 37 (31.90%) SQL
8 36 (31.03%) Microservices
9 35 (30.17%) Agile
10 32 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
11 28 (24.14%) Amazon S3
11 28 (24.14%) Terraform
12 27 (23.28%) GitHub
12 27 (23.28%) Node.js
13 26 (22.41%) React
14 25 (21.55%) PostgreSQL
15 24 (20.69%) Kafka
16 23 (19.83%) Security Cleared
17 22 (18.97%) DevOps
17 22 (18.97%) Git
18 21 (18.10%) Docker
18 21 (18.10%) GitHub Actions
18 21 (18.10%) SC Cleared
18 21 (18.10%) TypeScript
19 19 (16.38%) Jenkins
20 18 (15.52%) Kubernetes
21 17 (14.66%) Amazon EC2
21 17 (14.66%) Analytics
21 17 (14.66%) Containerisation
21 17 (14.66%) 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 (2.59%) Confluence
2 2 (1.72%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.86%) Apache
3 1 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.86%) CMS
3 1 (0.86%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 116 (100.00%) AWS
2 48 (41.38%) Serverless
3 41 (35.34%) AWS Lambda
4 28 (24.14%) Amazon S3
5 27 (23.28%) GitHub
6 21 (18.10%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (14.66%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (12.93%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (12.07%) AWS Step Functions
10 13 (11.21%) Amazon SQS
11 12 (10.34%) Azure
12 8 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (6.03%) Amazon EventBridge
13 7 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (5.17%) AWS Fargate
15 4 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (3.45%) AWS CodePipeline
16 3 (2.59%) Power Platform
16 3 (2.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (21.55%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (13.79%) DynamoDB
3 12 (10.34%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (8.62%) Relational Database
5 7 (6.03%) NoSQL
5 7 (6.03%) Redis
6 5 (4.31%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (4.31%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (4.31%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.45%) Aerospike
8 3 (2.59%) DB2
8 3 (2.59%) MySQL
8 3 (2.59%) Power BI
8 3 (2.59%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.59%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.59%) SQLite
9 2 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.72%) DocumentDB
9 2 (1.72%) HBase
10 1 (0.86%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 22 (18.97%) Git
2 19 (16.38%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.03%) GitLab
3 7 (6.03%) JUnit
4 3 (2.59%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.59%) JIRA
5 2 (1.72%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.72%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.72%) Gradle
5 2 (1.72%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.86%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.86%) Mocha
6 1 (0.86%) MSTest
6 1 (0.86%) tSQLt
General
1 32 (27.59%) Finance
2 20 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 14 (12.07%) Banking
4 12 (10.34%) Investment Banking
4 12 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.59%) Front Office
6 3 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.72%) Legal
8 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.86%) Military
8 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (23.28%) Node.js
2 26 (22.41%) React
3 24 (20.69%) Kafka
4 17 (14.66%) RESTful
5 14 (12.07%) Spring
6 12 (10.34%) Flask
6 12 (10.34%) Spring Boot
7 11 (9.48%) FastAPI
8 9 (7.76%) Pandas
9 8 (6.90%) AngularJS
9 8 (6.90%) REST
10 7 (6.03%) GraphQL
11 6 (5.17%) Next.js
11 6 (5.17%) Polars
11 6 (5.17%) Web Services
12 5 (4.31%) Django
12 5 (4.31%) Lambda Expressions
12 5 (4.31%) PySpark
13 4 (3.45%) AWS CDK
13 4 (3.45%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.97%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.48%) Derivative
2 11 (9.48%) Management Information System
2 11 (9.48%) Market Risk
3 6 (5.17%) Hedge funds
3 6 (5.17%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.59%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.72%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.72%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.72%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.86%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.86%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.86%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.86%) PKI
6 1 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.76%) Linux
2 6 (5.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (49.14%) CI/CD
2 36 (31.03%) Microservices
3 35 (30.17%) Agile
4 32 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (18.97%) DevOps
6 17 (14.66%) Analytics
6 17 (14.66%) Containerisation
6 17 (14.66%) Full-Stack Development
6 17 (14.66%) TDD
7 14 (12.07%) SDLC
8 13 (11.21%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (10.34%) Software Engineering
10 11 (9.48%) Cloud Security
10 11 (9.48%) Code Quality
10 11 (9.48%) Event-Driven
10 11 (9.48%) Risk Management
10 11 (9.48%) Secure Coding
10 11 (9.48%) Test Automation
11 10 (8.62%) Data Pipeline
12 9 (7.76%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 55 (47.41%) Python
2 43 (37.07%) Java
3 37 (31.90%) SQL
4 21 (18.10%) TypeScript
5 17 (14.66%) JavaScript
6 11 (9.48%) C#
7 5 (4.31%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.72%) Ruby
9 1 (0.86%) Bash
9 1 (0.86%) C++
9 1 (0.86%) Go
9 1 (0.86%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.86%) PHP
9 1 (0.86%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.86%) Rust
9 1 (0.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (19.83%) Security Cleared
2 21 (18.10%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (5.17%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.31%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (2.59%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.72%) OCP
6 2 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.72%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.86%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (18.10%) Docker
2 1 (0.86%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 28 (24.14%) Terraform
2 18 (15.52%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.31%) Grafana
4 2 (1.72%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.86%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (3.45%) Databricks
1 4 (3.45%) Microsoft
1 4 (3.45%) Splunk
2 3 (2.59%) Salesforce
2 3 (2.59%) Sybase
3 2 (1.72%) Concur
4 1 (0.86%) Adobe
4 1 (0.86%) Oracle
4 1 (0.86%) Ping Identity
4 1 (0.86%) SAP
4 1 (0.86%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.86%) Trend Micro
4 1 (0.86%) Virgin Media
4 1 (0.86%) Zend