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 18 April 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 379 440
Rank change year-on-year -118 +61 +2
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 122 148 152
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.50% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.54% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 128 130
10th Percentile £387 £400 £350
25th Percentile £426 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £656 £713 £788
90th Percentile £988 £875 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £447
% change year-on-year -9.52% +17.45% -3.35%
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 42,529 27,248 40,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 92.59% 92.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,364 17,869 26,526
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,696 990 2,603
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.50 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £19.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £41.94 £30.43 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.85% -13.07% -20.55%
75th Percentile £65.60 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £75.58 £72.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.85 £29.24 £35.65
% change year-on-year +46.55% -17.98% -15.28%

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 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 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 18 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 -126 106 £494 -14.13% 8
London -78 64 £550 -18.52% 3
Work from Home -64 46 £550 -18.52% 5
UK excluding London -88 36 £475 -9.52% 5
North of England -59 19 £475 -17.39% 2
North West -44 10 £463 -26.00%
South East -37 8 £473 +1.72% 3
Yorkshire -50 8 £476 +15.39% 2
Midlands -63 6 £400 -27.27%
East Midlands - 5 £397 -
South West - 3 £550 -
West Midlands -66 1 £488 -11.36%
North East - 1 £500 -

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 122 (100.00%) AWS
2 60 (49.18%) CI/CD
3 56 (45.90%) Python
4 50 (40.98%) Serverless
5 49 (40.16%) Java
6 44 (36.07%) AWS Lambda
7 40 (32.79%) SQL
8 39 (31.97%) Microservices
9 38 (31.15%) Agile
10 33 (27.05%) Infrastructure as Code
11 31 (25.41%) Amazon S3
12 29 (23.77%) Kafka
13 28 (22.95%) Terraform
14 27 (22.13%) GitHub
14 27 (22.13%) Node.js
14 27 (22.13%) PostgreSQL
14 27 (22.13%) React
15 24 (19.67%) Security Cleared
16 23 (18.85%) DevOps
17 22 (18.03%) Git
18 21 (17.21%) Docker
18 21 (17.21%) SC Cleared
18 21 (17.21%) TypeScript
19 20 (16.39%) Amazon EC2
19 20 (16.39%) DynamoDB
19 20 (16.39%) GitHub Actions
19 20 (16.39%) Kubernetes
20 19 (15.57%) Amazon ECS
20 19 (15.57%) Jenkins
21 18 (14.75%) 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 3 (2.46%) Confluence
2 2 (1.64%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.82%) Apache
3 1 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.82%) CMS
3 1 (0.82%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 122 (100.00%) AWS
2 50 (40.98%) Serverless
3 44 (36.07%) AWS Lambda
4 31 (25.41%) Amazon S3
5 27 (22.13%) GitHub
6 20 (16.39%) Amazon EC2
6 20 (16.39%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (15.57%) Amazon ECS
8 16 (13.11%) Amazon SQS
9 14 (11.48%) AWS Step Functions
10 12 (9.84%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (9.84%) Azure
11 9 (7.38%) AWS Fargate
12 8 (6.56%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (5.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (5.74%) Amazon EventBridge
13 7 (5.74%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (4.10%) Amazon Kinesis
15 4 (3.28%) AWS CodeBuild
15 4 (3.28%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.82%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (22.13%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (16.39%) DynamoDB
3 15 (12.30%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (10.66%) Relational Database
5 8 (6.56%) NoSQL
6 7 (5.74%) Redis
7 6 (4.92%) DB2
7 6 (4.92%) MongoDB
7 6 (4.92%) RDBMS
8 5 (4.10%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (3.28%) Aerospike
9 4 (3.28%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (3.28%) Power BI
10 3 (2.46%) HBase
10 3 (2.46%) MySQL
10 3 (2.46%) SQL Server
10 3 (2.46%) SQLite
11 2 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.64%) DocumentDB
12 1 (0.82%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 22 (18.03%) Git
2 19 (15.57%) Jenkins
3 11 (9.02%) JUnit
4 7 (5.74%) GitLab
5 4 (3.28%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.28%) JIRA
6 3 (2.46%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.46%) Gradle
6 3 (2.46%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.64%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.64%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.82%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.82%) Mocha
8 1 (0.82%) MSTest
8 1 (0.82%) tSQLt
General
1 33 (27.05%) Finance
2 24 (19.67%) Social Skills
3 16 (13.11%) Banking
4 14 (11.48%) Investment Banking
5 13 (10.66%) Public Sector
6 12 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.46%) Front Office
7 3 (2.46%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.64%) Legal
9 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.82%) Military
9 1 (0.82%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (23.77%) Kafka
2 27 (22.13%) Node.js
2 27 (22.13%) React
3 18 (14.75%) Spring
4 16 (13.11%) RESTful
4 16 (13.11%) Spring Boot
5 12 (9.84%) Flask
6 11 (9.02%) FastAPI
7 9 (7.38%) AngularJS
7 9 (7.38%) Pandas
8 8 (6.56%) REST
9 7 (5.74%) GraphQL
10 6 (4.92%) Next.js
10 6 (4.92%) Polars
10 6 (4.92%) Web Services
11 5 (4.10%) Django
11 5 (4.10%) Lambda Expressions
11 5 (4.10%) PySpark
12 4 (3.28%) AWS CDK
12 4 (3.28%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.03%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.84%) Derivative
2 12 (9.84%) Management Information System
2 12 (9.84%) Market Risk
3 6 (4.92%) Hedge funds
3 6 (4.92%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.28%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.64%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.64%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.64%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.82%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.82%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.82%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.82%) PKI
7 1 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.38%) Linux
2 5 (4.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (49.18%) CI/CD
2 39 (31.97%) Microservices
3 38 (31.15%) Agile
4 33 (27.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (18.85%) DevOps
6 18 (14.75%) Containerisation
6 18 (14.75%) TDD
7 17 (13.93%) Analytics
7 17 (13.93%) Full-Stack Development
7 17 (13.93%) SDLC
8 16 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (10.66%) Code Quality
9 13 (10.66%) Software Engineering
10 12 (9.84%) Event-Driven
10 12 (9.84%) Risk Management
11 11 (9.02%) Cloud Security
11 11 (9.02%) Secure Coding
11 11 (9.02%) Test Automation
12 10 (8.20%) Data Pipeline
13 9 (7.38%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 56 (45.90%) Python
2 49 (40.16%) Java
3 40 (32.79%) SQL
4 21 (17.21%) TypeScript
5 18 (14.75%) JavaScript
6 11 (9.02%) C#
7 4 (3.28%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.64%) C++
8 2 (1.64%) Ruby
8 2 (1.64%) Rust
9 1 (0.82%) Bash
9 1 (0.82%) Go
9 1 (0.82%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.82%) PHP
9 1 (0.82%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (19.67%) Security Cleared
2 21 (17.21%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (4.92%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.10%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (2.46%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (2.46%) OCP
5 3 (2.46%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.82%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.64%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.82%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (17.21%) Docker
2 1 (0.82%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 28 (22.95%) Terraform
2 20 (16.39%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.92%) Grafana
4 2 (1.64%) Kibana
4 2 (1.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (4.92%) Sybase
2 4 (3.28%) Databricks
2 4 (3.28%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.28%) Splunk
3 3 (2.46%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.64%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (1.64%) Concur
4 2 (1.64%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.82%) Adobe
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle
5 1 (0.82%) Ping Identity
5 1 (0.82%) SAP
5 1 (0.82%) Trend Micro
5 1 (0.82%) Virgin Media
5 1 (0.82%) Zend