AWS Developer Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Developer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in the UK is £505, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 410 452 459
Rank change year-on-year +42 +7 -59
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 174 113 164
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.31% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.33% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 97 145
10th Percentile £363 £376 £413
25th Percentile £413 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.20% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £875 £713 £713
90th Percentile £988 £815 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 30,820 33,990 44,445
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.86% 92.88% 93.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,489 20,492 30,296
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,712 1,308 1,539
10th Percentile £13.84 £15.05 £14.73
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.33% -12.22% +64.38%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.43 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.50% -10.11% +93.48%

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 28 October 2025.

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 17 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 28 October 2025. 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 +47 158 £525 -16.00% 47
London +49 104 £800 +18.52% 27
Work from Home +26 78 £800 +23.08% 32
UK excluding London +1 54 £450 -14.29% 32
North of England -20 24 £400 -20.00% 11
North West -15 13 £400 -20.00% 3
Yorkshire -26 9 £525 -6.67% 5
East of England - 8 £503 -
South East +7 7 £462 -21.78% 17
South West +13 4 £390 -35.00%
Scotland -7 4 £375 -17.40%
Midlands -24 4 £425 -22.73% 4
West Midlands -18 3 £475 -13.64%
North East - 2 £400 - 6
Wales - 2 £425 -
East Midlands - 1 £360 - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £375 -

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

For the 6 months to 28 October 2025, 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.

1 174 (100.00%) AWS
2 94 (54.02%) Java
3 81 (46.55%) Python
4 67 (38.51%) JavaScript
5 64 (36.78%) PostgreSQL
6 54 (31.03%) React
7 52 (29.89%) Agile
8 50 (28.74%) AngularJS
8 50 (28.74%) Software Engineering
9 47 (27.01%) CI/CD
10 46 (26.44%) Node.js
10 46 (26.44%) SQL
10 46 (26.44%) Vue
11 45 (25.86%) Risk Management
11 45 (25.86%) TypeScript
12 43 (24.71%) NumPy
12 43 (24.71%) Pandas
12 43 (24.71%) SciPy
13 41 (23.56%) Docker
14 39 (22.41%) Serverless
15 37 (21.26%) Kafka
16 34 (19.54%) Kubernetes
17 33 (18.97%) AWS Lambda
17 33 (18.97%) Git
17 33 (18.97%) Microservices
17 33 (18.97%) Spring
18 31 (17.82%) TDD
19 30 (17.24%) C#
20 29 (16.67%) Clean Code
21 28 (16.09%) GCP

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 25 (14.37%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.30%) JBoss
2 4 (2.30%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.15%) Alfresco
3 2 (1.15%) Apache
3 2 (1.15%) Camunda
3 2 (1.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (2.87%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 174 (100.00%) AWS
2 39 (22.41%) Serverless
3 33 (18.97%) AWS Lambda
4 28 (16.09%) GCP
5 25 (14.37%) Amazon S3
5 25 (14.37%) dbt
6 19 (10.92%) Amazon ECS
7 18 (10.34%) Amazon SQS
8 16 (9.20%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (8.62%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (8.62%) GitHub
10 11 (6.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (6.32%) Amazon Kinesis
10 11 (6.32%) AWS Fargate
11 7 (4.02%) Azure
12 5 (2.87%) AWS CodeBuild
12 5 (2.87%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (2.87%) Datadog
12 5 (2.87%) OpenShift
12 5 (2.87%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.30%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.57%) DNS
2 1 (0.57%) Firewall
2 1 (0.57%) HTTP
2 1 (0.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (36.78%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (14.94%) Amazon Athena
3 25 (14.37%) Apache Arrow
3 25 (14.37%) Apache Iceberg
3 25 (14.37%) Dremio
4 22 (12.64%) DynamoDB
5 21 (12.07%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (5.75%) MongoDB
6 10 (5.75%) MySQL
6 10 (5.75%) NoSQL
7 8 (4.60%) Relational Database
8 7 (4.02%) RDBMS
9 5 (2.87%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.87%) DB2
10 4 (2.30%) HBase
10 4 (2.30%) Power BI
11 3 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.72%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.72%) Tableau
12 2 (1.15%) GIS
Development Applications
1 33 (18.97%) Git
2 26 (14.94%) JUnit
3 17 (9.77%) Jenkins
4 13 (7.47%) Cucumber
4 13 (7.47%) Maven
5 9 (5.17%) Gradle
5 9 (5.17%) JIRA
5 9 (5.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (4.60%) GitLab
7 5 (2.87%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.72%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.15%) Mockito
10 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.57%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.57%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.57%) Vite
10 1 (0.57%) webpack
General
1 69 (39.66%) Finance
2 40 (22.99%) Banking
3 36 (20.69%) Investment Banking
4 26 (14.94%) Front Office
5 22 (12.64%) Social Skills
6 13 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (6.90%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.87%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Aviation
10 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.57%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (31.03%) React
2 50 (28.74%) AngularJS
3 46 (26.44%) Node.js
3 46 (26.44%) Vue
4 43 (24.71%) NumPy
4 43 (24.71%) Pandas
4 43 (24.71%) SciPy
5 37 (21.26%) Kafka
6 33 (18.97%) Spring
7 27 (15.52%) Spring Boot
8 20 (11.49%) Flask
9 19 (10.92%) FastAPI
10 18 (10.34%) Polars
11 12 (6.90%) REST
12 10 (5.75%) AWS CDK
13 8 (4.60%) .NET
13 8 (4.60%) RESTful
14 7 (4.02%) HTML
15 6 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
15 6 (3.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 43 (24.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 25 (14.37%) Equities
2 25 (14.37%) Fixed Income
3 19 (10.92%) Management Information System
4 18 (10.34%) Derivative
4 18 (10.34%) Hedge funds
4 18 (10.34%) Market Risk
5 10 (5.75%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.45%) IVR
7 5 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.87%) NHS
8 4 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.72%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.15%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.15%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.15%) Video on Demand
11 1 (0.57%) PKI
11 1 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (14.37%) Linux
2 5 (2.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (29.89%) Agile
2 50 (28.74%) Software Engineering
3 47 (27.01%) CI/CD
4 45 (25.86%) Risk Management
5 33 (18.97%) Microservices
6 31 (17.82%) TDD
7 29 (16.67%) Clean Code
8 27 (15.52%) Fintech
9 25 (14.37%) Asset Management
9 25 (14.37%) Investment Management
9 25 (14.37%) Order Management
9 25 (14.37%) Performance Attribution
10 21 (12.07%) Analytics
10 21 (12.07%) Full-Stack Development
11 18 (10.34%) Data Engineering
11 18 (10.34%) DevOps
11 18 (10.34%) Mathematics
11 18 (10.34%) Structured Programming
11 18 (10.34%) Systematic Trading
12 17 (9.77%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 94 (54.02%) Java
2 81 (46.55%) Python
3 67 (38.51%) JavaScript
4 46 (26.44%) SQL
5 45 (25.86%) TypeScript
6 30 (17.24%) C#
7 18 (10.34%) C++
7 18 (10.34%) Rust
8 5 (2.87%) Bash
8 5 (2.87%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.30%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.72%) PHP
11 2 (1.15%) Go
12 1 (0.57%) Clojure
12 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.57%) Ruby
12 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (5.75%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.60%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.87%) AWS Certification
3 5 (2.87%) OCP
3 5 (2.87%) Oracle Certification
4 4 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.60%) QA
System Software
1 41 (23.56%) Docker
2 2 (1.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 34 (19.54%) Kubernetes
2 24 (13.79%) Terraform
3 9 (5.17%) Grafana
4 4 (2.30%) Ansible
5 2 (1.15%) Kibana
6 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (5.17%) CA Agile Central
2 7 (4.02%) ServiceNow
3 6 (3.45%) Oracle
4 5 (2.87%) Sybase
5 3 (1.72%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.15%) Google
6 2 (1.15%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.57%) Concur
7 1 (0.57%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.57%) Solace
7 1 (0.57%) Virgin Media