AWS Developer Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Developer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in the UK is £478, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 393 425
Rank change year-on-year -118 +32 +35
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 113 132 163
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.45% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.49% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 118 143
10th Percentile £381 £400 £364
25th Percentile £413 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.87% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £788
90th Percentile £988 £875 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £462 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -12.10% +16.67% -3.07%
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 40,899 26,977 41,058
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.01% 92.83% 92.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,498 17,746 26,889
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.67%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.11% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,538 929 2,519
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.19 £12.86
25th Percentile £19.51 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.54 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.51% -1.52% -23.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.52 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.25 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.63 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +18.86% -1.52% -18.70%

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 March 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 11 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 March 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 -127 102 £476 -22.29% 17
London -74 63 £603 -10.67% 8
Work from Home -54 37 £675 - 9
UK excluding London -91 35 £462 -12.10% 10
North of England -59 16 £463 -26.00% 6
South East -45 11 £462 -12.51% 4
North West -35 10 £463 -26.00% 3
Yorkshire -49 6 £451 +50.17% 3
Midlands -72 5 £397 -27.91%
East Midlands - 5 £397 -
South West - 3 £550 -

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

For the 6 months to 28 March 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.

1 113 (100.00%) AWS
2 57 (50.44%) CI/CD
3 55 (48.67%) Java
4 50 (44.25%) Python
5 40 (35.40%) Serverless
6 38 (33.63%) SQL
7 36 (31.86%) Agile
8 35 (30.97%) Microservices
9 34 (30.09%) AWS Lambda
10 32 (28.32%) Kafka
11 31 (27.43%) PostgreSQL
12 28 (24.78%) Infrastructure as Code
13 27 (23.89%) React
14 26 (23.01%) GitHub
15 23 (20.35%) Amazon S3
15 23 (20.35%) Node.js
15 23 (20.35%) Terraform
16 22 (19.47%) Kubernetes
17 21 (18.58%) Security Cleared
17 21 (18.58%) TDD
18 20 (17.70%) DevOps
18 20 (17.70%) Spring
19 19 (16.81%) Docker
19 19 (16.81%) Git
19 19 (16.81%) JavaScript
19 19 (16.81%) Jenkins
19 19 (16.81%) Spring Boot
20 18 (15.93%) Amazon EC2
20 18 (15.93%) DynamoDB
21 17 (15.04%) Amazon ECS

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 1 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (0.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 113 (100.00%) AWS
2 40 (35.40%) Serverless
3 34 (30.09%) AWS Lambda
4 26 (23.01%) GitHub
5 23 (20.35%) Amazon S3
6 18 (15.93%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (15.04%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (13.27%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (8.85%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (7.96%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (7.08%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (7.08%) AWS Fargate
11 8 (7.08%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (6.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (6.19%) Azure
13 5 (4.42%) Datadog
14 4 (3.54%) Amazon Cognito
14 4 (3.54%) Amazon Kinesis
14 4 (3.54%) AWS CodeBuild
14 4 (3.54%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.54%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (27.43%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (15.93%) DynamoDB
3 16 (14.16%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (10.62%) Relational Database
5 10 (8.85%) NoSQL
6 9 (7.96%) MongoDB
7 6 (5.31%) DB2
7 6 (5.31%) HBase
7 6 (5.31%) RDBMS
7 6 (5.31%) Redis
8 5 (4.42%) MySQL
9 4 (3.54%) Aerospike
10 3 (2.65%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (2.65%) Power BI
10 3 (2.65%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.77%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.77%) DocumentDB
11 2 (1.77%) SQLite
12 1 (0.88%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 19 (16.81%) Git
1 19 (16.81%) Jenkins
2 15 (13.27%) JUnit
3 8 (7.08%) Cucumber
4 6 (5.31%) Artifactory
4 6 (5.31%) Gradle
4 6 (5.31%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (2.65%) GitLab
6 2 (1.77%) JIRA
6 2 (1.77%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.88%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.88%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.88%) Mocha
7 1 (0.88%) MSTest
7 1 (0.88%) tSQLt
General
1 34 (30.09%) Finance
2 23 (20.35%) Social Skills
3 20 (17.70%) Banking
4 18 (15.93%) Investment Banking
5 14 (12.39%) Public Sector
6 11 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.65%) Front Office
7 3 (2.65%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.77%) Legal
9 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.88%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (28.32%) Kafka
2 27 (23.89%) React
3 23 (20.35%) Node.js
4 20 (17.70%) Spring
5 19 (16.81%) Spring Boot
6 13 (11.50%) Flask
6 13 (11.50%) RESTful
7 12 (10.62%) AngularJS
7 12 (10.62%) FastAPI
8 8 (7.08%) Pandas
8 8 (7.08%) REST
9 7 (6.19%) GraphQL
10 6 (5.31%) Django
10 6 (5.31%) Next.js
10 6 (5.31%) Polars
10 6 (5.31%) Vue
11 5 (4.42%) Lambda Expressions
11 5 (4.42%) Web Services
12 4 (3.54%) PySpark
12 4 (3.54%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.70%) Cloud Native
2 14 (12.39%) Derivative
2 14 (12.39%) Management Information System
2 14 (12.39%) Market Risk
3 6 (5.31%) Hedge funds
3 6 (5.31%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (3.54%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.77%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.77%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.77%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.88%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.88%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.96%) Linux
2 3 (2.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (50.44%) CI/CD
2 36 (31.86%) Agile
3 35 (30.97%) Microservices
4 28 (24.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (18.58%) TDD
6 20 (17.70%) DevOps
7 17 (15.04%) Analytics
7 17 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (14.16%) Containerisation
8 16 (14.16%) Full-Stack Development
9 15 (13.27%) SDLC
10 14 (12.39%) Risk Management
10 14 (12.39%) Software Engineering
11 11 (9.73%) Clean Code
11 11 (9.73%) Cloud Security
11 11 (9.73%) Event-Driven
12 10 (8.85%) Secure Coding
13 9 (7.96%) Code Quality
14 8 (7.08%) Deployment Automation
14 8 (7.08%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 55 (48.67%) Java
2 50 (44.25%) Python
3 38 (33.63%) SQL
4 19 (16.81%) JavaScript
5 17 (15.04%) TypeScript
6 11 (9.73%) C#
7 4 (3.54%) C++
7 4 (3.54%) Rust
8 3 (2.65%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.77%) Ruby
10 1 (0.88%) Go
10 1 (0.88%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.88%) PHP
10 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (18.58%) Security Cleared
2 17 (15.04%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.19%) OCP
3 7 (6.19%) Oracle Certification
4 6 (5.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.54%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (3.54%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.77%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.77%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (16.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 23 (20.35%) Terraform
2 22 (19.47%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.31%) Grafana
4 1 (0.88%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (5.31%) Sybase
2 4 (3.54%) Databricks
3 3 (2.65%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.65%) Salesforce
3 3 (2.65%) Splunk
4 2 (1.77%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (1.77%) Concur
4 2 (1.77%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.88%) Adobe
5 1 (0.88%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle
5 1 (0.88%) Ping Identity
5 1 (0.88%) Virgin Media
5 1 (0.88%) Zend