AWS Developer Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Developer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in the UK is £544, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 384 445
Rank change year-on-year -210 +61 +23
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 95 176 111
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.53% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.59% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 139 93
10th Percentile £370 £363 £373
25th Percentile £422 £409 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £505 £625
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -19.20% +8.70%
75th Percentile £606 £875 £713
90th Percentile £675 £988 £855
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £455 £525
% change year-on-year +15.51% -13.43% +13.51%

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 50,217 29,909 35,127
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.02% 90.83% 93.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,441 18,891 21,218
10th Percentile £325 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4,086 1,644 1,451
10th Percentile £14.31 £13.75 £15.00
25th Percentile £19.34 £17.30 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £41.27
Median % change year-on-year +65.84% -39.05% -8.30%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.18 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £25.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +66.84% -41.18% -4.49%

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 October 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 11 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 October 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 -213 70 £550 +4.76% 25
London -152 42 £538 -32.81% 10
Work from Home -104 37 £550 -31.25% 7
UK excluding London -128 28 £525 +15.51% 17
North of England -75 14 £600 +50.00% 10
North West -49 9 £663 +65.63% 1
Scotland -19 6 £425 +13.33% 2
South West -31 4 £365 -6.41%
South East -69 4 £600 +30.01% 1
Yorkshire -37 3 £550 +4.76% 5
North East -38 3 £500 +25.00% 4

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

For the 6 months to 12 October 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 95 (100.00%) AWS
2 43 (45.26%) CI/CD
3 37 (38.95%) Serverless
4 34 (35.79%) Agile
5 31 (32.63%) AWS Lambda
6 30 (31.58%) Python
7 27 (28.42%) Microservices
8 26 (27.37%) Java
9 25 (26.32%) Amazon S3
10 24 (25.26%) Security Cleared
11 23 (24.21%) Terraform
12 22 (23.16%) Docker
12 22 (23.16%) Infrastructure as Code
13 20 (21.05%) DevOps
14 19 (20.00%) SC Cleared
15 18 (18.95%) Jenkins
16 17 (17.89%) RESTful
17 16 (16.84%) DynamoDB
17 16 (16.84%) SQL
18 15 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
18 15 (15.79%) Event-Driven
18 15 (15.79%) Git
18 15 (15.79%) Kubernetes
18 15 (15.79%) TypeScript
19 14 (14.74%) GitHub
19 14 (14.74%) GitHub Actions
19 14 (14.74%) Migration
20 13 (13.68%) Amazon SQS
20 13 (13.68%) Full-Stack Development
20 13 (13.68%) GitLab

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 4 (4.21%) Apache
2 3 (3.16%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.11%) Confluence
3 2 (2.11%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 95 (100.00%) AWS
2 37 (38.95%) Serverless
3 31 (32.63%) AWS Lambda
4 25 (26.32%) Amazon S3
5 15 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (14.74%) GitHub
6 14 (14.74%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (13.68%) Amazon SQS
8 10 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (9.47%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (8.42%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (7.37%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (7.37%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (7.37%) Azure
12 5 (5.26%) Amazon EventBridge
13 4 (4.21%) AWS CodePipeline
13 4 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (4.21%) SaaS
14 3 (3.16%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 3 (3.16%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.05%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.84%) DynamoDB
2 9 (9.47%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (7.37%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.21%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.16%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (3.16%) Flink
7 2 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (2.11%) DocumentDB
7 2 (2.11%) Redis
7 2 (2.11%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (18.95%) Jenkins
2 15 (15.79%) Git
3 13 (13.68%) GitLab
4 3 (3.16%) Cypress.io
4 3 (3.16%) JIRA
5 1 (1.05%) Mockito
General
1 20 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 19 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 12 (12.63%) Finance
4 10 (10.53%) Banking
5 6 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.16%) Back Office
6 3 (3.16%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.16%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.11%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.05%) Front Office
8 1 (1.05%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (24.21%) Terraform
2 17 (17.89%) RESTful
3 13 (13.68%) Spring
4 12 (12.63%) Flask
4 12 (12.63%) REST
5 11 (11.58%) Kafka
5 11 (11.58%) Node.js
5 11 (11.58%) React
6 10 (10.53%) Spring Boot
7 9 (9.47%) .NET
7 9 (9.47%) Django
8 8 (8.42%) AngularJS
9 7 (7.37%) AWS CDK
10 5 (5.26%) FastAPI
10 5 (5.26%) JWT
10 5 (5.26%) OAuth
10 5 (5.26%) OAuth2
10 5 (5.26%) SOAP
11 4 (4.21%) .NET Core
12 3 (3.16%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 27 (28.42%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.37%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.21%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.16%) Hedge funds
4 3 (3.16%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.16%) Reference Data
5 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.11%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.05%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.05%) IVR
6 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.05%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.05%) NHS
6 1 (1.05%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.58%) Linux
2 8 (8.42%) Unix
3 3 (3.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (45.26%) CI/CD
2 34 (35.79%) Agile
3 27 (28.42%) Microservices
4 22 (23.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (21.05%) DevOps
6 15 (15.79%) Event-Driven
7 14 (14.74%) Migration
8 13 (13.68%) Full-Stack Development
8 13 (13.68%) Test Automation
9 12 (12.63%) Observability
10 10 (10.53%) Software Engineering
11 9 (9.47%) Code Quality
11 9 (9.47%) Containerisation
11 9 (9.47%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (9.47%) SDLC
12 8 (8.42%) AI
12 8 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (8.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 8 (8.42%) Stakeholder Management
13 7 (7.37%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 30 (31.58%) Python
2 26 (27.37%) Java
3 16 (16.84%) SQL
4 15 (15.79%) TypeScript
5 12 (12.63%) C#
6 10 (10.53%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.21%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.16%) Bash
Qualifications
1 24 (25.26%) Security Cleared
2 19 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.16%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.05%) Degree
6 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.26%) QA
2 2 (2.11%) WCAG
3 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.05%) GRC
System Software
1 22 (23.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.21%) Grafana
2 4 (4.21%) Kibana
2 4 (4.21%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (2.11%) Confluent
1 2 (2.11%) Dynatrace
1 2 (2.11%) Salesforce
1 2 (2.11%) Trend Micro
1 2 (2.11%) webMethods
2 1 (1.05%) Avaya
2 1 (1.05%) Databricks
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
2 1 (1.05%) Splunk