AWS Developer Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Developer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in the UK is £476, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 458 418 430
Rank change year-on-year -40 +12 +62
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 135 108 170
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.35% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.38% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 98 152
10th Percentile £393 £396 £407
25th Percentile £413 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.28% -2.92% -
75th Percentile £675 £713 £750
90th Percentile £988 - £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -5.26%
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 35,687 28,709 41,983
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.52% 92.95% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,471 17,591 27,699
10th Percentile £300 £290 £275
25th Percentile £406 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £489
% change year-on-year -0.42% -2.45% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,179 837 2,322
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.91 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.76 £21.25 £16.54
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £61.54 £63.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £71.99 £75.00 £72.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.85 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.23% -7.14% -

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 -40 118 £480 -23.20% 27
London -25 73 £603 -10.67% 12
Work from Home -7 52 £675 - 17
UK excluding London -58 42 £450 -14.29% 17
North of England -43 23 £425 -29.17% 9
North West -18 13 £450 -28.00% 1
South East -17 11 £462 -21.78% 1
Yorkshire -52 9 £425 -29.17% 4
Midlands -47 4 £397 -27.91% 4
East Midlands - 4 £397 - 3
Scotland +1 2 £525 -
South West - 2 £550 - 1
North East - 1 £400 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 9 February 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.

1 135 (100.00%) AWS
2 63 (46.67%) Java
3 57 (42.22%) Python
4 55 (40.74%) CI/CD
5 40 (29.63%) PostgreSQL
6 38 (28.15%) Serverless
6 38 (28.15%) SQL
7 37 (27.41%) Kafka
8 34 (25.19%) Agile
9 33 (24.44%) Infrastructure as Code
9 33 (24.44%) React
9 33 (24.44%) Terraform
10 32 (23.70%) AWS Lambda
10 32 (23.70%) JavaScript
11 31 (22.96%) Node.js
12 30 (22.22%) Microservices
13 28 (20.74%) Kubernetes
14 25 (18.52%) TDD
15 23 (17.04%) Docker
15 23 (17.04%) GitHub
16 22 (16.30%) DevOps
16 22 (16.30%) Full-Stack Development
16 22 (16.30%) Software Engineering
17 21 (15.56%) Git
17 21 (15.56%) Risk Management
17 21 (15.56%) Spring
17 21 (15.56%) TypeScript
18 20 (14.81%) Amazon S3
18 20 (14.81%) Security Cleared
18 20 (14.81%) Spring Boot

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 4 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 135 (100.00%) AWS
2 38 (28.15%) Serverless
3 32 (23.70%) AWS Lambda
4 23 (17.04%) GitHub
5 20 (14.81%) Amazon S3
6 17 (12.59%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (8.89%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (8.15%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (5.93%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (5.19%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (5.19%) AWS Fargate
12 6 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (3.70%) Azure
13 5 (3.70%) Datadog
13 5 (3.70%) GCP
14 4 (2.96%) Amazon Cognito
14 4 (2.96%) Amazon Kinesis
14 4 (2.96%) AWS Step Functions
14 4 (2.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.96%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (29.63%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (11.85%) DynamoDB
3 13 (9.63%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (8.89%) Relational Database
5 9 (6.67%) MongoDB
6 8 (5.93%) NoSQL
7 6 (4.44%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (4.44%) HBase
7 6 (4.44%) RDBMS
7 6 (4.44%) Redis
8 5 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (3.70%) MySQL
9 4 (2.96%) Aerospike
9 4 (2.96%) Apache Arrow
9 4 (2.96%) Apache Iceberg
9 4 (2.96%) DB2
9 4 (2.96%) Dremio
9 4 (2.96%) Power BI
9 4 (2.96%) SQL Server
10 3 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (15.56%) Git
2 15 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 13 (9.63%) JUnit
4 7 (5.19%) Cucumber
4 7 (5.19%) GitLab
5 6 (4.44%) Artifactory
5 6 (4.44%) Gradle
5 6 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.48%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.74%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.74%) JIRA
General
1 41 (30.37%) Finance
2 28 (20.74%) Banking
3 26 (19.26%) Social Skills
4 25 (18.52%) Investment Banking
5 14 (10.37%) Public Sector
6 11 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (5.19%) Front Office
8 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Legal
8 1 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (27.41%) Kafka
2 33 (24.44%) React
3 31 (22.96%) Node.js
4 21 (15.56%) Spring
5 20 (14.81%) Spring Boot
6 18 (13.33%) AngularJS
7 15 (11.11%) Flask
8 14 (10.37%) Vue
9 13 (9.63%) FastAPI
10 12 (8.89%) NumPy
10 12 (8.89%) Pandas
10 12 (8.89%) SciPy
11 10 (7.41%) AWS CDK
12 8 (5.93%) Polars
13 7 (5.19%) .NET
13 7 (5.19%) REST
13 7 (5.19%) RESTful
14 6 (4.44%) GraphQL
15 5 (3.70%) Lambda Expressions
15 5 (3.70%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.56%) Cloud Native
2 18 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 17 (12.59%) Derivative
3 17 (12.59%) Market Risk
4 12 (8.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (5.93%) Hedge funds
6 5 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (3.70%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.96%) Equities
7 4 (2.96%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.96%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.48%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.48%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.74%) Digital Media
10 1 (0.74%) Media Streaming
10 1 (0.74%) PKI
10 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.15%) Linux
2 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (40.74%) CI/CD
2 34 (25.19%) Agile
3 33 (24.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (22.22%) Microservices
5 25 (18.52%) TDD
6 22 (16.30%) DevOps
6 22 (16.30%) Full-Stack Development
6 22 (16.30%) Software Engineering
7 21 (15.56%) Risk Management
8 19 (14.07%) Analytics
8 19 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (13.33%) SDLC
10 14 (10.37%) Clean Code
11 12 (8.89%) Containerisation
12 11 (8.15%) Data Engineering
13 10 (7.41%) Secure Coding
14 9 (6.67%) Cloud Security
14 9 (6.67%) Data Modelling
14 9 (6.67%) Event-Driven
15 8 (5.93%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 63 (46.67%) Java
2 57 (42.22%) Python
3 38 (28.15%) SQL
4 32 (23.70%) JavaScript
5 21 (15.56%) TypeScript
6 18 (13.33%) C#
7 8 (5.93%) C++
7 8 (5.93%) Rust
8 5 (3.70%) Bash
9 3 (2.22%) PHP
10 2 (1.48%) Ruby
11 1 (0.74%) Clojure
11 1 (0.74%) Go
11 1 (0.74%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.85%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.19%) OCP
3 7 (5.19%) Oracle Certification
4 6 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.22%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.22%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.74%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.48%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
System Software
1 23 (17.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 33 (24.44%) Terraform
2 28 (20.74%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.67%) Grafana
4 4 (2.96%) Ansible
5 2 (1.48%) Kibana
6 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (3.70%) Salesforce
2 4 (2.96%) Databricks
2 4 (2.96%) Sybase
3 3 (2.22%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.48%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (1.48%) Concur
4 2 (1.48%) Splunk
5 1 (0.74%) Adobe
5 1 (0.74%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.74%) Oracle
5 1 (0.74%) Ping Identity
5 1 (0.74%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.74%) Virgin Media
5 1 (0.74%) Zend