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 18 November 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 404 441 460
Rank change year-on-year +37 +19 -67
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 167 116 163
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.32% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.35% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 101 143
10th Percentile £363 £376 £408
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 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -10.00%
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 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 32,191 33,474 43,775
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.95% 92.85% 93.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,427 20,165 29,691
10th Percentile £278 £300 £293
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £649
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,886 1,246 1,552
10th Percentile £14.16 £15.22 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.08 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.30% -19.82% +60.06%
75th Percentile £54.56 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +87.50%

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 18 November 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 18 November 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 +14 153 £525 -19.23% 38
London +33 101 £800 +18.52% 20
Work from Home +12 73 £800 +18.52% 27
UK excluding London +2 52 £450 -14.29% 21
North of England -22 23 £400 -20.00% 14
North West -13 12 £400 -20.00% 7
South East +10 11 £462 -21.78% 4
Yorkshire -32 9 £525 -6.67% 6
East of England -13 5 £520 -
Scotland +1 4 £375 -17.40%
Midlands -33 4 £425 -22.73% 2
West Midlands -29 3 £475 -13.64%
South West -2 2 - - 1
Wales - 2 £425 -
North East - 2 £400 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £360 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £375 -

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

For the 6 months to 18 November 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.

1 167 (100.00%) AWS
2 91 (54.49%) Java
3 80 (47.90%) Python
4 63 (37.72%) PostgreSQL
5 56 (33.53%) JavaScript
6 52 (31.14%) CI/CD
7 47 (28.14%) React
8 45 (26.95%) Agile
9 44 (26.35%) Node.js
9 44 (26.35%) SQL
10 42 (25.15%) Software Engineering
11 41 (24.55%) AngularJS
12 40 (23.95%) Risk Management
13 39 (23.35%) Serverless
14 38 (22.75%) Docker
14 38 (22.75%) TypeScript
14 38 (22.75%) Vue
15 37 (22.16%) Kafka
16 36 (21.56%) NumPy
16 36 (21.56%) Pandas
16 36 (21.56%) SciPy
17 34 (20.36%) AWS Lambda
17 34 (20.36%) Git
18 33 (19.76%) Kubernetes
19 32 (19.16%) Microservices
20 30 (17.96%) Spring
20 30 (17.96%) TDD
21 29 (17.37%) Clean Code
22 28 (16.77%) C#
23 26 (15.57%) Amazon S3

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 19 (11.38%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.40%) JBoss
2 4 (2.40%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (2.99%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 167 (100.00%) AWS
2 39 (23.35%) Serverless
3 34 (20.36%) AWS Lambda
4 26 (15.57%) Amazon S3
5 22 (13.17%) GCP
6 19 (11.38%) Amazon ECS
6 19 (11.38%) dbt
6 19 (11.38%) GitHub
7 17 (10.18%) Amazon SQS
8 14 (8.38%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (8.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (6.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (6.59%) Amazon Kinesis
9 11 (6.59%) AWS Fargate
10 7 (4.19%) Azure
11 6 (3.59%) Datadog
12 5 (2.99%) AWS CodeBuild
12 5 (2.99%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (2.99%) OpenShift
12 5 (2.99%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.40%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.60%) DNS
2 1 (0.60%) Firewall
2 1 (0.60%) HTTP
2 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (37.72%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (13.17%) DynamoDB
3 20 (11.98%) Amazon Athena
3 20 (11.98%) Amazon RDS
4 19 (11.38%) Apache Arrow
4 19 (11.38%) Apache Iceberg
4 19 (11.38%) Dremio
5 12 (7.19%) Relational Database
6 11 (6.59%) MongoDB
6 11 (6.59%) MySQL
6 11 (6.59%) NoSQL
7 8 (4.79%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.99%) DB2
8 5 (2.99%) HBase
9 4 (2.40%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (2.40%) Power BI
10 3 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.80%) Tableau
11 2 (1.20%) Sisense
11 2 (1.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 34 (20.36%) Git
2 25 (14.97%) JUnit
3 18 (10.78%) Jenkins
4 14 (8.38%) Cucumber
5 13 (7.78%) Maven
6 10 (5.99%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (5.39%) Gradle
7 9 (5.39%) JIRA
8 8 (4.79%) GitLab
9 6 (3.59%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.80%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.60%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.60%) Mockito
11 1 (0.60%) Vite
11 1 (0.60%) webpack
General
1 67 (40.12%) Finance
2 40 (23.95%) Banking
3 36 (21.56%) Investment Banking
4 24 (14.37%) Social Skills
5 21 (12.57%) Front Office
6 16 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (5.99%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.60%) Aviation
9 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (28.14%) React
2 44 (26.35%) Node.js
3 41 (24.55%) AngularJS
4 38 (22.75%) Vue
5 37 (22.16%) Kafka
6 36 (21.56%) NumPy
6 36 (21.56%) Pandas
6 36 (21.56%) SciPy
7 30 (17.96%) Spring
8 26 (15.57%) Spring Boot
9 19 (11.38%) Flask
10 18 (10.78%) FastAPI
11 17 (10.18%) Polars
12 15 (8.98%) REST
13 11 (6.59%) AWS CDK
14 9 (5.39%) RESTful
14 9 (5.39%) SOAP
15 7 (4.19%) .NET
16 6 (3.59%) Jest
16 6 (3.59%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (21.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 20 (11.98%) Management Information System
3 19 (11.38%) Derivative
3 19 (11.38%) Equities
3 19 (11.38%) Fixed Income
3 19 (11.38%) Market Risk
4 17 (10.18%) Hedge funds
5 11 (6.59%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.59%) IVR
7 5 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.99%) NHS
8 4 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.80%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.80%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.20%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.20%) Video on Demand
10 2 (1.20%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.60%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.60%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 22 (13.17%) Linux
2 5 (2.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (31.14%) CI/CD
2 45 (26.95%) Agile
3 42 (25.15%) Software Engineering
4 40 (23.95%) Risk Management
5 32 (19.16%) Microservices
6 30 (17.96%) TDD
7 29 (17.37%) Clean Code
8 22 (13.17%) Analytics
9 20 (11.98%) Fintech
9 20 (11.98%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (11.98%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (11.38%) Asset Management
10 19 (11.38%) Investment Management
10 19 (11.38%) Order Management
10 19 (11.38%) Performance Attribution
11 18 (10.78%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (10.18%) Data Engineering
12 17 (10.18%) Mathematics
12 17 (10.18%) Structured Programming
12 17 (10.18%) Systematic Trading
Programming Languages
1 91 (54.49%) Java
2 80 (47.90%) Python
3 56 (33.53%) JavaScript
4 44 (26.35%) SQL
5 38 (22.75%) TypeScript
6 28 (16.77%) C#
7 17 (10.18%) C++
7 17 (10.18%) Rust
8 5 (2.99%) Bash
8 5 (2.99%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.40%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.80%) PHP
11 2 (1.20%) Go
12 1 (0.60%) Clojure
12 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.60%) Ruby
12 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (4.79%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.59%) OCP
2 6 (3.59%) Oracle Certification
2 6 (3.59%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.99%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.79%) QA
System Software
1 38 (22.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (19.76%) Kubernetes
2 25 (14.97%) Terraform
3 9 (5.39%) Grafana
4 4 (2.40%) Ansible
5 2 (1.20%) Kibana
6 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (5.39%) CA Agile Central
2 7 (4.19%) ServiceNow
3 5 (2.99%) Oracle
3 5 (2.99%) Sybase
4 3 (1.80%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.20%) Concur
5 2 (1.20%) Google
5 2 (1.20%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.60%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.60%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.60%) Solace
6 1 (0.60%) Splunk