AWS Developer Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Developer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 435 430
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 +34
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 140 99 151
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.31% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.34% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 89 133
10th Percentile £400 £388 £413
25th Percentile £413 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £688 £713 £750
90th Percentile £988 £738 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £463
% change year-on-year -14.29% +13.51% -7.50%
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 33,883 29,520 39,341
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.34% 92.72% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,433 18,105 26,194
10th Percentile £300 £288 £280
25th Percentile £405 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,985 889 1,660
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.24 £21.05 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.30 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.08% -23.53% +21.43%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.24 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.29 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.62% -30.47% +55.17%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 -5 128 £500 -24.53% 38
London -4 81 £675 - 3
Work from Home +1 54 £800 +18.52% 35
UK excluding London -44 45 £450 -14.29% 38
North of England -19 27 £425 -15.00% 10
North West -10 15 £400 -20.00% 1
South East -7 11 £462 -21.78% 9
Yorkshire -38 11 £476 -20.67% 6
Midlands -36 4 £397 -27.91% 5
East Midlands - 4 £397 - 4
Scotland -4 2 £525 +5.00% 1
South West -19 1 £600 - 4
North East - 1 £400 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 15 January 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.

1 140 (100.00%) AWS
2 66 (47.14%) Java
3 65 (46.43%) Python
4 54 (38.57%) CI/CD
5 44 (31.43%) PostgreSQL
6 40 (28.57%) SQL
7 39 (27.86%) Serverless
8 38 (27.14%) Kafka
9 36 (25.71%) JavaScript
10 35 (25.00%) Node.js
11 34 (24.29%) React
12 33 (23.57%) AWS Lambda
13 32 (22.86%) Terraform
14 31 (22.14%) Agile
14 31 (22.14%) Kubernetes
15 28 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
15 28 (20.00%) Microservices
16 26 (18.57%) Docker
16 26 (18.57%) Software Engineering
16 26 (18.57%) TDD
17 25 (17.86%) GitHub
17 25 (17.86%) Risk Management
18 24 (17.14%) AngularJS
19 22 (15.71%) Amazon S3
19 22 (15.71%) Git
19 22 (15.71%) TypeScript
20 21 (15.00%) Analytics
21 20 (14.29%) C#
21 20 (14.29%) DevOps
21 20 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development

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 7 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 140 (100.00%) AWS
2 39 (27.86%) Serverless
3 33 (23.57%) AWS Lambda
4 25 (17.86%) GitHub
5 22 (15.71%) Amazon S3
6 17 (12.14%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (6.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (6.43%) GCP
9 8 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
10 7 (5.00%) dbt
11 6 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (4.29%) Datadog
12 5 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (3.57%) Azure
12 5 (3.57%) SaaS
13 4 (2.86%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.86%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (31.43%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (12.14%) DynamoDB
3 16 (11.43%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (7.86%) NoSQL
5 10 (7.14%) Relational Database
6 9 (6.43%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (6.43%) MongoDB
7 7 (5.00%) Apache Arrow
7 7 (5.00%) Apache Iceberg
7 7 (5.00%) Dremio
7 7 (5.00%) MySQL
7 7 (5.00%) Redis
8 6 (4.29%) HBase
8 6 (4.29%) RDBMS
9 5 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (2.86%) Aerospike
10 4 (2.86%) DB2
10 4 (2.86%) Power BI
10 4 (2.86%) SQL Server
11 3 (2.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (15.71%) Git
2 16 (11.43%) Jenkins
3 13 (9.29%) JUnit
4 7 (5.00%) Cucumber
4 7 (5.00%) GitLab
5 6 (4.29%) Artifactory
5 6 (4.29%) Gradle
5 6 (4.29%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.43%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.71%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.71%) JIRA
7 1 (0.71%) Vite
7 1 (0.71%) webpack
General
1 48 (34.29%) Finance
2 32 (22.86%) Banking
3 29 (20.71%) Investment Banking
4 24 (17.14%) Social Skills
5 16 (11.43%) Public Sector
6 12 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (7.14%) Front Office
8 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (27.14%) Kafka
2 35 (25.00%) Node.js
3 34 (24.29%) React
4 24 (17.14%) AngularJS
5 20 (14.29%) Vue
6 18 (12.86%) Flask
6 18 (12.86%) NumPy
6 18 (12.86%) Pandas
6 18 (12.86%) SciPy
6 18 (12.86%) Spring
7 17 (12.14%) Spring Boot
8 16 (11.43%) FastAPI
9 11 (7.86%) Polars
10 10 (7.14%) AWS CDK
11 8 (5.71%) REST
12 7 (5.00%) .NET
13 6 (4.29%) GraphQL
13 6 (4.29%) Lambda Expressions
13 6 (4.29%) RESTful
14 5 (3.57%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.57%) Management Information System
2 18 (12.86%) Cloud Native
2 18 (12.86%) Derivative
2 18 (12.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 18 (12.86%) Market Risk
3 11 (7.86%) Hedge funds
4 7 (5.00%) Equities
4 7 (5.00%) Fixed Income
5 5 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.57%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.86%) NHS
6 4 (2.86%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.43%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.71%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.71%) PKI
9 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (38.57%) CI/CD
2 31 (22.14%) Agile
3 28 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (20.00%) Microservices
4 26 (18.57%) Software Engineering
4 26 (18.57%) TDD
5 25 (17.86%) Risk Management
6 21 (15.00%) Analytics
7 20 (14.29%) DevOps
7 20 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (12.14%) Clean Code
10 15 (10.71%) SDLC
11 14 (10.00%) Data Engineering
12 11 (7.86%) Containerisation
12 11 (7.86%) Mathematics
12 11 (7.86%) Structured Programming
12 11 (7.86%) Systematic Trading
13 9 (6.43%) Data Modelling
13 9 (6.43%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 66 (47.14%) Java
2 65 (46.43%) Python
3 40 (28.57%) SQL
4 36 (25.71%) JavaScript
5 22 (15.71%) TypeScript
6 20 (14.29%) C#
7 11 (7.86%) C++
7 11 (7.86%) Rust
8 5 (3.57%) Bash
9 4 (2.86%) PHP
10 3 (2.14%) Ruby
11 1 (0.71%) Clojure
11 1 (0.71%) Go
11 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (9.29%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.00%) OCP
3 7 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
4 6 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.14%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.14%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.43%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.71%) QA
System Software
1 26 (18.57%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 32 (22.86%) Terraform
2 31 (22.14%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.43%) Grafana
4 4 (2.86%) Ansible
5 2 (1.43%) Kibana
6 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (3.57%) Salesforce
2 4 (2.86%) Databricks
2 4 (2.86%) Sybase
3 3 (2.14%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.43%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (1.43%) Concur
4 2 (1.43%) Splunk
5 1 (0.71%) Adobe
5 1 (0.71%) Google
5 1 (0.71%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle
5 1 (0.71%) Ping Identity
5 1 (0.71%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.71%) Virgin Media
5 1 (0.71%) Zend