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 12 March 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 392 425
Rank change year-on-year -90 +33 +52
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 128 137 177
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.47% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.50% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 124 159
10th Percentile £381 £406 £374
25th Percentile £413 £481 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.45% -2.92% +5.96%
75th Percentile £663 £713 £788
90th Percentile £988 £875 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -13.19% +16.67% -4.51%
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 39,233 27,349 41,475
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.88% 92.93% 92.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,515 17,680 27,207
10th Percentile £312 £293 £270
25th Percentile £410 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.05% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 862 2,502
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.60 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.45 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.63% +2.92% -23.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.79 £76.25 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -18.75%

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 12 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 12 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 -97 111 £476 -23.84% 16
London -65 68 £570 -15.56% 7
Work from Home -45 45 £650 -3.70% 7
UK excluding London -80 37 £456 -13.19% 11
North of England -55 17 £450 -28.00% 9
North West -32 11 £450 -28.00% 6
South East -38 11 £462 -21.78% 2
Yorkshire -59 6 £451 +0.11% 3
Midlands -58 5 £397 -27.91%
East Midlands - 5 £397 -
South West - 3 £550 -
Scotland -4 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 128 (100.00%) AWS
2 60 (46.88%) Java
3 56 (43.75%) CI/CD
4 50 (39.06%) Python
5 40 (31.25%) Serverless
5 40 (31.25%) SQL
6 37 (28.91%) Kafka
7 35 (27.34%) Agile
8 34 (26.56%) Microservices
9 33 (25.78%) AWS Lambda
9 33 (25.78%) PostgreSQL
10 32 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 28 (21.88%) Terraform
12 27 (21.09%) React
13 26 (20.31%) TDD
14 25 (19.53%) Kubernetes
15 24 (18.75%) GitHub
15 24 (18.75%) Node.js
16 23 (17.97%) DevOps
16 23 (17.97%) Spring
17 22 (17.19%) JavaScript
17 22 (17.19%) Spring Boot
18 21 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
19 20 (15.63%) Amazon S3
19 20 (15.63%) Docker
19 20 (15.63%) Git
19 20 (15.63%) Security Cleared
20 19 (14.84%) SDLC
21 18 (14.06%) Amazon ECS
21 18 (14.06%) Analytics

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 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 128 (100.00%) AWS
2 40 (31.25%) Serverless
3 33 (25.78%) AWS Lambda
4 24 (18.75%) GitHub
5 20 (15.63%) Amazon S3
6 18 (14.06%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (11.72%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (7.03%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (7.03%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (7.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
11 7 (5.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (4.69%) Azure
13 5 (3.91%) Datadog
14 4 (3.13%) Amazon Cognito
14 4 (3.13%) AWS CodeBuild
14 4 (3.13%) AWS CodePipeline
14 4 (3.13%) AWS Step Functions
14 4 (3.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.13%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (25.78%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (13.28%) DynamoDB
3 15 (11.72%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (9.38%) Relational Database
5 10 (7.81%) NoSQL
6 9 (7.03%) MongoDB
7 6 (4.69%) DB2
7 6 (4.69%) HBase
7 6 (4.69%) RDBMS
7 6 (4.69%) Redis
8 5 (3.91%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (3.91%) MySQL
9 4 (3.13%) Aerospike
9 4 (3.13%) Power BI
9 4 (3.13%) SQL Server
10 3 (2.34%) Tableau
11 2 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (1.56%) DocumentDB
11 2 (1.56%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 20 (15.63%) Git
2 17 (13.28%) Jenkins
3 15 (11.72%) JUnit
4 8 (6.25%) Cucumber
5 6 (4.69%) Artifactory
5 6 (4.69%) Gradle
5 6 (4.69%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (3.13%) GitLab
7 2 (1.56%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.78%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.78%) JIRA
8 1 (0.78%) Mocha
8 1 (0.78%) MSTest
8 1 (0.78%) tSQLt
General
1 36 (28.13%) Finance
2 27 (21.09%) Social Skills
3 25 (19.53%) Banking
4 22 (17.19%) Investment Banking
5 13 (10.16%) Public Sector
6 12 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.34%) Front Office
7 3 (2.34%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.56%) Legal
9 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (28.91%) Kafka
2 27 (21.09%) React
3 24 (18.75%) Node.js
4 23 (17.97%) Spring
5 22 (17.19%) Spring Boot
6 13 (10.16%) AngularJS
6 13 (10.16%) Flask
7 11 (8.59%) FastAPI
7 11 (8.59%) RESTful
8 9 (7.03%) .NET
8 9 (7.03%) AWS CDK
9 8 (6.25%) REST
9 8 (6.25%) Vue
10 7 (5.47%) GraphQL
11 6 (4.69%) NumPy
11 6 (4.69%) Pandas
11 6 (4.69%) Polars
11 6 (4.69%) SciPy
12 5 (3.91%) Django
12 5 (3.91%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.97%) Cloud Native
2 17 (13.28%) Management Information System
3 16 (12.50%) Derivative
3 16 (12.50%) Market Risk
4 6 (4.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (4.69%) Hedge funds
4 6 (4.69%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.91%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (3.13%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.56%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.56%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.56%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.78%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.78%) Media Streaming
8 1 (0.78%) PKI
8 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.03%) Linux
2 1 (0.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (43.75%) CI/CD
2 35 (27.34%) Agile
3 34 (26.56%) Microservices
4 32 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (20.31%) TDD
6 23 (17.97%) DevOps
7 21 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (14.84%) SDLC
9 18 (14.06%) Analytics
9 18 (14.06%) Full-Stack Development
10 16 (12.50%) Risk Management
10 16 (12.50%) Software Engineering
11 14 (10.94%) Containerisation
12 13 (10.16%) Clean Code
13 11 (8.59%) Event-Driven
14 10 (7.81%) Cloud Security
14 10 (7.81%) Secure Coding
15 9 (7.03%) Data Engineering
15 9 (7.03%) Data Modelling
16 8 (6.25%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 60 (46.88%) Java
2 50 (39.06%) Python
3 40 (31.25%) SQL
4 22 (17.19%) JavaScript
5 17 (13.28%) C#
6 16 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 6 (4.69%) C++
7 6 (4.69%) Rust
8 3 (2.34%) PHP
9 2 (1.56%) Bash
9 2 (1.56%) Ruby
10 1 (0.78%) Go
10 1 (0.78%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.47%) OCP
3 7 (5.47%) Oracle Certification
4 6 (4.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.91%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.34%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
System Software
1 20 (15.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 28 (21.88%) Terraform
2 25 (19.53%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.91%) Grafana
4 1 (0.78%) Ansible
4 1 (0.78%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (4.69%) Sybase
2 5 (3.91%) Salesforce
3 4 (3.13%) Databricks
4 3 (2.34%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.56%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (1.56%) Concur
5 2 (1.56%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.56%) Splunk
6 1 (0.78%) Adobe
6 1 (0.78%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.78%) Oracle
6 1 (0.78%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.78%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.78%) Zend