AWS Developer Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Developer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in the UK is £483, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 April 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 395 447
Rank change year-on-year -127 +52 +7
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 114 138 154
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.47% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.51% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 121 133
10th Percentile £381 £400 £353
25th Percentile £413 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.09% - +6.48%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £788
90th Percentile £988 £875 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £525 £449
% change year-on-year -9.90% +17.06% -5.28%
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 41,646 27,118 40,940
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 92.78% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,966 17,841 26,815
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.31%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.53% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,596 956 2,534
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £12.86
25th Percentile £19.91 £20.26 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.00 £33.78
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -5.26% -24.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.50 £31.29 £34.61
% change year-on-year +32.63% -9.58% -18.32%

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 4 April 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 12 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 4 April 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 -119 102 £483 -19.58% 17
London -84 64 £580 -14.07% 8
Work from Home -63 39 £663 -1.85% 9
UK excluding London -95 34 £473 -9.90% 10
North of England -66 16 £463 -26.00% 6
North West -42 10 £463 -26.00% 3
South East -42 9 £473 +1.72% 4
Yorkshire -52 6 £451 +50.17% 3
Midlands -67 6 £400 -27.27%
East Midlands - 5 £397 -
South West - 3 £550 -
West Midlands -57 1 £488 -11.36%

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

For the 6 months to 4 April 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.

1 114 (100.00%) AWS
2 57 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 52 (45.61%) Java
4 50 (43.86%) Python
5 46 (40.35%) Serverless
6 40 (35.09%) AWS Lambda
6 40 (35.09%) SQL
7 37 (32.46%) Microservices
8 36 (31.58%) Agile
9 30 (26.32%) Kafka
10 29 (25.44%) Infrastructure as Code
11 28 (24.56%) Amazon S3
11 28 (24.56%) PostgreSQL
12 27 (23.68%) Node.js
13 25 (21.93%) GitHub
13 25 (21.93%) React
14 23 (20.18%) DevOps
15 22 (19.30%) Git
15 22 (19.30%) Terraform
16 20 (17.54%) DynamoDB
16 20 (17.54%) Kubernetes
16 20 (17.54%) Security Cleared
16 20 (17.54%) TDD
17 18 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
17 18 (15.79%) Docker
17 18 (15.79%) Jenkins
17 18 (15.79%) Spring
17 18 (15.79%) TypeScript
18 17 (14.91%) Analytics
18 17 (14.91%) Containerisation

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%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 114 (100.00%) AWS
2 46 (40.35%) Serverless
3 40 (35.09%) AWS Lambda
4 28 (24.56%) Amazon S3
5 25 (21.93%) GitHub
6 18 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
7 16 (14.04%) Amazon ECS
7 16 (14.04%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (12.28%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (10.53%) AWS Step Functions
10 11 (9.65%) Azure
11 8 (7.02%) AWS Fargate
12 7 (6.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (6.14%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (6.14%) Amazon EventBridge
12 7 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (4.39%) Amazon Kinesis
14 4 (3.51%) Amazon Cognito
14 4 (3.51%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.75%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (24.56%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (17.54%) DynamoDB
3 15 (13.16%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (11.40%) Relational Database
5 9 (7.89%) NoSQL
6 7 (6.14%) MongoDB
7 6 (5.26%) DB2
7 6 (5.26%) RDBMS
7 6 (5.26%) Redis
8 4 (3.51%) Aerospike
8 4 (3.51%) HBase
8 4 (3.51%) MySQL
8 4 (3.51%) Power BI
9 3 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (2.63%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.63%) SQLite
10 2 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.75%) DocumentDB
11 1 (0.88%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 22 (19.30%) Git
2 18 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 12 (10.53%) JUnit
4 5 (4.39%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.51%) Artifactory
5 4 (3.51%) Gradle
5 4 (3.51%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (2.63%) GitLab
7 2 (1.75%) JIRA
7 2 (1.75%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.88%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.88%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.88%) Mocha
8 1 (0.88%) MSTest
8 1 (0.88%) tSQLt
General
1 34 (29.82%) Finance
2 23 (20.18%) Social Skills
3 18 (15.79%) Banking
4 16 (14.04%) Investment Banking
5 14 (12.28%) Public Sector
6 11 (9.65%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.63%) Front Office
7 3 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.75%) Legal
9 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.88%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (26.32%) Kafka
2 27 (23.68%) Node.js
3 25 (21.93%) React
4 18 (15.79%) Spring
5 17 (14.91%) Spring Boot
6 14 (12.28%) RESTful
7 12 (10.53%) Flask
8 11 (9.65%) FastAPI
9 10 (8.77%) AngularJS
10 9 (7.89%) Pandas
11 8 (7.02%) REST
12 7 (6.14%) GraphQL
13 6 (5.26%) Next.js
13 6 (5.26%) Polars
13 6 (5.26%) Web Services
14 5 (4.39%) Django
14 5 (4.39%) Lambda Expressions
14 5 (4.39%) PySpark
15 4 (3.51%) AWS CDK
15 4 (3.51%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.54%) Cloud Native
2 13 (11.40%) Derivative
2 13 (11.40%) Management Information System
2 13 (11.40%) Market Risk
3 6 (5.26%) Hedge funds
3 6 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.51%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.75%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.75%) 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 (7.89%) Linux
2 4 (3.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 37 (32.46%) Microservices
3 36 (31.58%) Agile
4 29 (25.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (20.18%) DevOps
6 20 (17.54%) TDD
7 17 (14.91%) Analytics
7 17 (14.91%) Containerisation
8 16 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (13.16%) Full-Stack Development
9 15 (13.16%) SDLC
10 14 (12.28%) Software Engineering
11 13 (11.40%) Risk Management
12 12 (10.53%) Event-Driven
13 11 (9.65%) Cloud Security
14 10 (8.77%) Clean Code
14 10 (8.77%) Code Quality
14 10 (8.77%) Secure Coding
15 9 (7.89%) Data Pipeline
15 9 (7.89%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 52 (45.61%) Java
2 50 (43.86%) Python
3 40 (35.09%) SQL
4 18 (15.79%) TypeScript
5 17 (14.91%) JavaScript
6 11 (9.65%) C#
7 4 (3.51%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.63%) C++
8 3 (2.63%) Rust
9 2 (1.75%) 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 20 (17.54%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.04%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (4.39%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (3.51%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.51%) OCP
5 4 (3.51%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (2.63%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.75%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (15.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 22 (19.30%) Terraform
2 20 (17.54%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.39%) Grafana
4 1 (0.88%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (5.26%) Sybase
2 4 (3.51%) Databricks
2 4 (3.51%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.63%) Salesforce
3 3 (2.63%) Splunk
4 2 (1.75%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (1.75%) Concur
4 2 (1.75%) 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%) SAP
5 1 (0.88%) Virgin Media
5 1 (0.88%) Zend