AWS Developer Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Developer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in the UK is £494, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2026.

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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 357 454
Rank change year-on-year -173 +97 -29
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 109 164 117
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.57% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.62% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 139 96
10th Percentile £389 £400 £346
25th Percentile £430 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.13% - +6.73%
75th Percentile £606 £875 £778
90th Percentile £713 - £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £503 £400
% change year-on-year -5.27% +25.63% -13.14%
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 44,870 26,596 39,472
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.30% 92.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,419 17,312 25,704
10th Percentile £325 £289 £280
25th Percentile £413 £405 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -3.31%
75th Percentile £618 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,946 1,014 2,724
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.83
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -23.30% -18.89%
75th Percentile £66.44 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.69 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +64.87% -33.75% -5.11%

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 24 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 24 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 -169 92 £488 -15.22% 9
London -114 52 £525 -22.22% 6
Work from Home -81 44 £550 -18.52% 5
UK excluding London -99 36 £476 -5.27% 4
North of England -69 20 £476 -7.22% 1
North West -40 9 £450 -28.00%
Yorkshire -52 9 £476 -4.80% 1
Midlands -70 6 £400 -20.00% 1
South East -55 5 £600 +24.35% 1
East Midlands - 5 £397 - 1
South West -28 4 £550 +41.03%
North East - 2 £500 -
Scotland -10 1 £450 -14.29% 1
West Midlands -67 1 £488 -2.50%

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 109 (100.00%) AWS
2 54 (49.54%) CI/CD
2 54 (49.54%) Serverless
3 53 (48.62%) Python
4 46 (42.20%) AWS Lambda
5 41 (37.61%) Microservices
6 40 (36.70%) Agile
7 37 (33.94%) Java
8 35 (32.11%) SQL
9 32 (29.36%) Amazon S3
10 29 (26.61%) Infrastructure as Code
11 28 (25.69%) Terraform
12 27 (24.77%) GitHub
13 25 (22.94%) Security Cleared
14 24 (22.02%) GitHub Actions
15 23 (21.10%) Docker
15 23 (21.10%) Node.js
15 23 (21.10%) SC Cleared
16 21 (19.27%) Amazon EC2
16 21 (19.27%) DevOps
16 21 (19.27%) Git
16 21 (19.27%) Jenkins
16 21 (19.27%) React
17 20 (18.35%) Kafka
17 20 (18.35%) RESTful
18 19 (17.43%) Amazon ECS
19 18 (16.51%) Containerisation
19 18 (16.51%) DynamoDB
19 18 (16.51%) TypeScript
20 17 (15.60%) JavaScript

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 (2.75%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.75%) Confluence
2 2 (1.83%) Apache
2 2 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.83%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.92%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 109 (100.00%) AWS
2 54 (49.54%) Serverless
3 46 (42.20%) AWS Lambda
4 32 (29.36%) Amazon S3
5 27 (24.77%) GitHub
6 24 (22.02%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (19.27%) Amazon EC2
8 19 (17.43%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (11.93%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (11.93%) AWS Step Functions
10 11 (10.09%) Azure
11 10 (9.17%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (6.42%) Amazon EventBridge
12 7 (6.42%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (5.50%) AWS CodePipeline
13 6 (5.50%) AWS Fargate
14 5 (4.59%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 4 (3.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 3 (2.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.51%) DynamoDB
2 15 (13.76%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (12.84%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (7.34%) NoSQL
5 7 (6.42%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (6.42%) Redis
6 5 (4.59%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (3.67%) Aerospike
7 4 (3.67%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.75%) DB2
8 3 (2.75%) Power BI
8 3 (2.75%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.75%) SQLite
9 2 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.83%) DocumentDB
9 2 (1.83%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.92%) Big Data
10 1 (0.92%) HBase
10 1 (0.92%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 21 (19.27%) Git
1 21 (19.27%) Jenkins
2 8 (7.34%) GitLab
3 6 (5.50%) JUnit
4 3 (2.75%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.75%) JIRA
5 2 (1.83%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.83%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.92%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.92%) Gradle
6 1 (0.92%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.92%) Mocha
6 1 (0.92%) MSTest
6 1 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.92%) tSQLt
General
1 24 (22.02%) Finance
2 17 (15.60%) Social Skills
3 15 (13.76%) Public Sector
4 9 (8.26%) Banking
5 8 (7.34%) Investment Banking
6 7 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.75%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.83%) Legal
9 1 (0.92%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.92%) Military
9 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (21.10%) Node.js
2 21 (19.27%) React
3 20 (18.35%) Kafka
3 20 (18.35%) RESTful
4 16 (14.68%) Flask
5 14 (12.84%) FastAPI
6 12 (11.01%) Spring
7 10 (9.17%) Pandas
7 10 (9.17%) Spring Boot
8 9 (8.26%) AngularJS
9 8 (7.34%) Next.js
9 8 (7.34%) Web Services
10 7 (6.42%) Django
10 7 (6.42%) Polars
11 5 (4.59%) .NET
11 5 (4.59%) AWS CDK
11 5 (4.59%) PySpark
12 4 (3.67%) Lambda Expressions
12 4 (3.67%) SQLAlchemy
13 3 (2.75%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.85%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.34%) Derivative
2 8 (7.34%) Management Information System
2 8 (7.34%) Market Risk
2 8 (7.34%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.42%) Hedge funds
4 3 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.83%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.83%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.83%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.92%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.92%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.92%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.92%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.92%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.26%) Linux
2 8 (7.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (49.54%) CI/CD
2 41 (37.61%) Microservices
3 40 (36.70%) Agile
4 29 (26.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (19.27%) DevOps
6 18 (16.51%) Containerisation
7 16 (14.68%) Analytics
7 16 (14.68%) SDLC
8 15 (13.76%) Code Quality
8 15 (13.76%) TDD
9 14 (12.84%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (11.93%) Event-Driven
11 12 (11.01%) Software Engineering
11 12 (11.01%) Test Automation
12 11 (10.09%) Data Pipeline
12 11 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (9.17%) Secure Coding
14 9 (8.26%) Cloud Security
14 9 (8.26%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (8.26%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 53 (48.62%) Python
2 37 (33.94%) Java
3 35 (32.11%) SQL
4 18 (16.51%) TypeScript
5 17 (15.60%) JavaScript
6 10 (9.17%) C#
7 7 (6.42%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.92%) Bash
8 1 (0.92%) Go
8 1 (0.92%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.92%) PHP
8 1 (0.92%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.92%) Ruby
8 1 (0.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (22.94%) Security Cleared
2 23 (21.10%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.34%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.59%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (4.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.75%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.92%) Degree
6 1 (0.92%) OCP
6 1 (0.92%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.83%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.83%) QA
2 1 (0.92%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (21.10%) Docker
2 1 (0.92%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 28 (25.69%) Terraform
2 16 (14.68%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.59%) Grafana
4 2 (1.83%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.92%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (3.67%) Databricks
1 4 (3.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.75%) Salesforce
2 3 (2.75%) Splunk
2 3 (2.75%) Sybase
3 2 (1.83%) Trend Micro
4 1 (0.92%) Adobe
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle
4 1 (0.92%) SAP
4 1 (0.92%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.92%) Virgin Media
4 1 (0.92%) Zend