AWS Developer Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Developer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 395 410
Rank change year-on-year -76 +15 +63
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 130 126 179
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.42% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.45% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 113 162
10th Percentile £381 £401 £407
25th Percentile £413 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £669 £713 £788
90th Percentile £988 £850 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +1.06%
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 38,005 28,021 41,486
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.82% 92.83% 92.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,844 17,678 27,270
10th Percentile £310 £288 £275
25th Percentile £409 £406 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £721 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £487
% change year-on-year +1.32% -2.46% -2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,343 846 2,411
10th Percentile £14.82 £16.25 £13.05
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.30
Median hourly rate £33.50 £34.06 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -0.57% -14.38%
75th Percentile £64.00 £64.74 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.38 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% -7.03%

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 2 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 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 2 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 -85 113 £476 -25.33% 17
London -50 70 £570 -15.56% 10
Work from Home -35 47 £675 - 6
UK excluding London -75 37 £450 -14.29% 10
North of England -53 18 £450 -25.00% 4
North West -30 12 £450 -28.00% 3
South East -27 11 £462 -21.78% 3
Yorkshire -58 6 £451 -24.92% 1
Midlands -57 4 £397 -27.91% 1
East Midlands - 4 £397 - 1
South West - 3 £550 - 1
Scotland 0 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 130 (100.00%) AWS
2 60 (46.15%) Java
3 56 (43.08%) CI/CD
4 52 (40.00%) Python
5 40 (30.77%) Serverless
5 40 (30.77%) SQL
6 37 (28.46%) Kafka
7 36 (27.69%) Agile
8 35 (26.92%) PostgreSQL
9 34 (26.15%) Microservices
10 33 (25.38%) AWS Lambda
10 33 (25.38%) Infrastructure as Code
11 29 (22.31%) React
11 29 (22.31%) Terraform
12 27 (20.77%) Node.js
13 26 (20.00%) JavaScript
14 25 (19.23%) Kubernetes
14 25 (19.23%) TDD
15 24 (18.46%) GitHub
16 23 (17.69%) DevOps
16 23 (17.69%) Spring
17 22 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
17 22 (16.92%) Spring Boot
18 21 (16.15%) Amazon S3
19 20 (15.38%) Docker
19 20 (15.38%) Git
19 20 (15.38%) Security Cleared
20 19 (14.62%) Full-Stack Development
20 19 (14.62%) SDLC
21 18 (13.85%) 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 2 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 130 (100.00%) AWS
2 40 (30.77%) Serverless
3 33 (25.38%) AWS Lambda
4 24 (18.46%) GitHub
5 21 (16.15%) Amazon S3
6 18 (13.85%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (9.23%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (6.92%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (6.92%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (6.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (6.15%) AWS Fargate
11 7 (5.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (3.85%) Azure
12 5 (3.85%) Datadog
13 4 (3.08%) Amazon Cognito
13 4 (3.08%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (3.08%) AWS CodePipeline
13 4 (3.08%) Power Platform
13 4 (3.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.08%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (26.92%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (13.08%) DynamoDB
3 14 (10.77%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (9.23%) Relational Database
5 10 (7.69%) NoSQL
6 9 (6.92%) MongoDB
7 6 (4.62%) DB2
7 6 (4.62%) HBase
7 6 (4.62%) RDBMS
7 6 (4.62%) Redis
8 5 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (3.85%) MySQL
9 4 (3.08%) Aerospike
9 4 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (3.08%) Power BI
9 4 (3.08%) SQL Server
10 3 (2.31%) Tableau
11 2 (1.54%) Apache Arrow
11 2 (1.54%) Dremio
11 2 (1.54%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 20 (15.38%) Git
2 17 (13.08%) Jenkins
3 15 (11.54%) JUnit
4 8 (6.15%) Cucumber
5 6 (4.62%) Artifactory
5 6 (4.62%) Gradle
5 6 (4.62%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (3.85%) GitLab
7 2 (1.54%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.77%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.77%) JIRA
8 1 (0.77%) Mocha
8 1 (0.77%) MSTest
8 1 (0.77%) tSQLt
General
1 37 (28.46%) Finance
2 27 (20.77%) Social Skills
3 25 (19.23%) Banking
4 22 (16.92%) Investment Banking
5 13 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.85%) Front Office
7 3 (2.31%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.54%) Legal
9 1 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.77%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (28.46%) Kafka
2 29 (22.31%) React
3 27 (20.77%) Node.js
4 23 (17.69%) Spring
5 22 (16.92%) Spring Boot
6 15 (11.54%) AngularJS
7 13 (10.00%) Flask
8 11 (8.46%) FastAPI
9 10 (7.69%) AWS CDK
9 10 (7.69%) RESTful
9 10 (7.69%) Vue
10 8 (6.15%) .NET
10 8 (6.15%) NumPy
10 8 (6.15%) Pandas
10 8 (6.15%) REST
10 8 (6.15%) SciPy
11 6 (4.62%) GraphQL
11 6 (4.62%) Polars
12 5 (3.85%) Lambda Expressions
12 5 (3.85%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.69%) Cloud Native
2 17 (13.08%) Management Information System
3 16 (12.31%) Derivative
3 16 (12.31%) Market Risk
4 8 (6.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (4.62%) Hedge funds
5 6 (4.62%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (3.08%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.54%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.54%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.54%) Equities
9 2 (1.54%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.54%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.77%) Digital Media
10 1 (0.77%) Media Streaming
10 1 (0.77%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.92%) Linux
2 1 (0.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (43.08%) CI/CD
2 36 (27.69%) Agile
3 34 (26.15%) Microservices
4 33 (25.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (19.23%) TDD
6 23 (17.69%) DevOps
7 22 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (14.62%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (14.62%) SDLC
9 18 (13.85%) Analytics
9 18 (13.85%) Risk Management
9 18 (13.85%) Software Engineering
10 14 (10.77%) Containerisation
11 13 (10.00%) Clean Code
12 10 (7.69%) Cloud Security
12 10 (7.69%) Event-Driven
12 10 (7.69%) Secure Coding
13 9 (6.92%) Data Engineering
13 9 (6.92%) Data Modelling
14 8 (6.15%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 60 (46.15%) Java
2 52 (40.00%) Python
3 40 (30.77%) SQL
4 26 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 18 (13.85%) TypeScript
6 17 (13.08%) C#
7 6 (4.62%) C++
7 6 (4.62%) Rust
8 3 (2.31%) Bash
8 3 (2.31%) PHP
9 2 (1.54%) Ruby
10 1 (0.77%) Go
10 1 (0.77%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.77%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.77%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.31%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.38%) OCP
3 7 (5.38%) Oracle Certification
4 6 (4.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.85%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.31%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.77%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.54%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.77%) Accessibility
System Software
1 20 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (0.77%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 29 (22.31%) Terraform
2 25 (19.23%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.62%) Grafana
4 2 (1.54%) Ansible
5 1 (0.77%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (4.62%) Sybase
2 5 (3.85%) Salesforce
3 4 (3.08%) Databricks
4 3 (2.31%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.54%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (1.54%) Concur
5 2 (1.54%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.54%) Splunk
6 1 (0.77%) Adobe
6 1 (0.77%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.77%) Oracle
6 1 (0.77%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.77%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.77%) Zend