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 31 August 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 591 374 472
Rank change year-on-year -217 +98 -9
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 83 193 101
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.59% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.64% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 154 80
10th Percentile £378 £363 £339
25th Percentile £409 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £875 £738
90th Percentile £663 £954 £875
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £462 £500
% change year-on-year +19.11% -7.65% +8.11%

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 49,691 30,076 35,928
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 91.26% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,638 19,002 22,670
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,580 1,568 1,839
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.73 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.51 £17.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +1.96%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.78 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.41 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £44.04
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.89% +13.95%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -218 68 £550 +4.76% 9
London -148 44 £450 -43.75% 5
Work from Home -108 32 £500 -37.50% 5
UK excluding London -118 24 £550 +19.11% 5
North of England -80 13 £575 +43.75% 3
North West -53 7 £663 +65.63% 1
Scotland -18 5 £425 +13.33%
Yorkshire -50 4 £550 +4.76% 1
North East -35 3 £500 +25.00% 1
South East -67 3 £600 +20.00%
South West -43 2 £380 -2.56% 1
West Midlands -49 1 £488 +2.63%
Midlands -55 1 £488 +2.63% 1

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

For the 6 months to 31 August 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 83 (100.00%) AWS
2 44 (53.01%) Serverless
3 42 (50.60%) CI/CD
4 38 (45.78%) AWS Lambda
5 34 (40.96%) Python
6 33 (39.76%) Amazon S3
7 32 (38.55%) Microservices
8 29 (34.94%) Agile
9 23 (27.71%) Java
10 22 (26.51%) Docker
11 21 (25.30%) DevOps
11 21 (25.30%) RESTful
12 20 (24.10%) Infrastructure as Code
12 20 (24.10%) Terraform
13 19 (22.89%) SQL
14 18 (21.69%) Git
14 18 (21.69%) Jenkins
15 17 (20.48%) DynamoDB
16 15 (18.07%) Amazon ECS
16 15 (18.07%) Event-Driven
16 15 (18.07%) GitHub
16 15 (18.07%) GitHub Actions
16 15 (18.07%) Kubernetes
16 15 (18.07%) Security Cleared
17 14 (16.87%) Amazon SQS
17 14 (16.87%) AWS Step Functions
17 14 (16.87%) Azure
17 14 (16.87%) Linux
18 13 (15.66%) Amazon EC2
18 13 (15.66%) Code Quality

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 (4.82%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.61%) Confluence
3 2 (2.41%) Apache
3 2 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.41%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.20%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 83 (100.00%) AWS
2 44 (53.01%) Serverless
3 38 (45.78%) AWS Lambda
4 33 (39.76%) Amazon S3
5 15 (18.07%) Amazon ECS
5 15 (18.07%) GitHub
5 15 (18.07%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (16.87%) Amazon SQS
6 14 (16.87%) AWS Step Functions
6 14 (16.87%) Azure
7 13 (15.66%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (14.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (12.05%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (10.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (10.84%) Amazon EventBridge
11 7 (8.43%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (6.02%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 3 (3.61%) Amazon Kinesis
13 3 (3.61%) Power Platform
14 2 (2.41%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.48%) DynamoDB
2 8 (9.64%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (8.43%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (8.43%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (6.02%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.61%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (3.61%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.61%) Power BI
5 3 (3.61%) SQLite
6 2 (2.41%) Redis
6 2 (2.41%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.20%) Big Data
7 1 (1.20%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.20%) Flink
7 1 (1.20%) Metadata
7 1 (1.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (21.69%) Git
1 18 (21.69%) Jenkins
2 11 (13.25%) GitLab
3 4 (4.82%) Cypress.io
3 4 (4.82%) JIRA
4 1 (1.20%) Mockito
General
1 17 (20.48%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.87%) Finance
3 13 (15.66%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.82%) Banking
6 3 (3.61%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.61%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.20%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (25.30%) RESTful
2 20 (24.10%) Terraform
3 13 (15.66%) Node.js
4 11 (13.25%) Flask
4 11 (13.25%) Kafka
4 11 (13.25%) Spring
5 10 (12.05%) FastAPI
5 10 (12.05%) Pandas
6 9 (10.84%) React
6 9 (10.84%) REST
7 8 (9.64%) Spring Boot
8 7 (8.43%) .NET
8 7 (8.43%) Polars
9 6 (7.23%) AngularJS
10 5 (6.02%) Web Services
11 4 (4.82%) .NET Core
11 4 (4.82%) AWS CDK
11 4 (4.82%) Django
12 3 (3.61%) ASP.NET Core
12 3 (3.61%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 25 (30.12%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.43%) Hedge funds
3 4 (4.82%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.61%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.41%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.20%) IVR
6 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.20%) NHS
6 1 (1.20%) PKI
6 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (16.87%) Linux
2 11 (13.25%) Unix
3 3 (3.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (50.60%) CI/CD
2 32 (38.55%) Microservices
3 29 (34.94%) Agile
4 21 (25.30%) DevOps
5 20 (24.10%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (18.07%) Event-Driven
7 13 (15.66%) Code Quality
8 12 (14.46%) Containerisation
8 12 (14.46%) Data Pipeline
9 11 (13.25%) Software Engineering
9 11 (13.25%) Test Automation
10 10 (12.05%) Migration
10 10 (12.05%) SDLC
11 9 (10.84%) Analytics
11 9 (10.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (10.84%) Full-Stack Development
12 8 (9.64%) Performance Optimisation
12 8 (9.64%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (8.43%) Data Analysis
13 7 (8.43%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 34 (40.96%) Python
2 23 (27.71%) Java
3 19 (22.89%) SQL
4 13 (15.66%) TypeScript
5 12 (14.46%) C#
6 9 (10.84%) JavaScript
7 7 (8.43%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.61%) Bash
Qualifications
1 15 (18.07%) Security Cleared
2 12 (14.46%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.02%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.41%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.41%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.41%) QA
1 2 (2.41%) WCAG
2 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
System Software
1 22 (26.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (18.07%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.43%) Grafana
3 4 (4.82%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.61%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (4.82%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.41%) Splunk
2 2 (2.41%) Trend Micro
3 1 (1.20%) Avaya
3 1 (1.20%) Confluent
3 1 (1.20%) Databricks
3 1 (1.20%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.20%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.20%) SAP
3 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow