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 1 May 2026.

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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 374 452
Rank change year-on-year -141 +78 -8
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 115 153 130
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.52% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.56% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 131 112
10th Percentile £381 £400 £343
25th Percentile £417 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £571
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +0.66% +8.81%
75th Percentile £634 £713 £778
90th Percentile £988 £875 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £514 £430
% change year-on-year -7.54% +19.48% -7.77%
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 43,629 27,082 40,416
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.55% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,928 17,690 26,310
10th Percentile £315 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £410
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 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £492
% change year-on-year +3.16% -3.46% -1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,807 1,034 2,664
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.15 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £44.00 £29.00 £36.42
Median % change year-on-year +51.72% -20.37% -19.07%
75th Percentile £66.00 £62.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £28.00 £39.55
% change year-on-year +62.36% -29.20% -6.94%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -132 99 £494 -14.13% 6
London -97 57 £565 -16.30% 3
Work from Home -63 44 £550 -18.52% 1
UK excluding London -90 37 £475 -7.54% 3
North of England -56 20 £476 -17.30% 2
North West -39 10 £463 -26.00%
Yorkshire -45 9 £476 +15.39% 2
South East -52 7 £506 +4.92%
Midlands -74 6 £400 -23.81% 1
East Midlands - 5 £397 - 1
South West - 4 £550 -
West Midlands -65 1 £488 -7.14%
North East - 1 £500 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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.

1 115 (100.00%) AWS
2 56 (48.70%) CI/CD
3 55 (47.83%) Python
4 49 (42.61%) Serverless
5 42 (36.52%) AWS Lambda
6 41 (35.65%) Java
7 37 (32.17%) Microservices
8 36 (31.30%) Agile
8 36 (31.30%) SQL
9 32 (27.83%) Infrastructure as Code
10 28 (24.35%) Amazon S3
10 28 (24.35%) GitHub
10 28 (24.35%) Terraform
11 27 (23.48%) Node.js
12 24 (20.87%) Kafka
12 24 (20.87%) React
13 23 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
13 23 (20.00%) Security Cleared
14 22 (19.13%) DevOps
14 22 (19.13%) Git
14 22 (19.13%) GitHub Actions
15 21 (18.26%) SC Cleared
16 20 (17.39%) Docker
16 20 (17.39%) Jenkins
16 20 (17.39%) TypeScript
17 18 (15.65%) Amazon EC2
17 18 (15.65%) RESTful
18 17 (14.78%) Analytics
18 17 (14.78%) Containerisation
18 17 (14.78%) Full-Stack Development

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 (2.61%) Confluence
2 2 (1.74%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.87%) Apache
3 1 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.87%) CMS
3 1 (0.87%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 115 (100.00%) AWS
2 49 (42.61%) Serverless
3 42 (36.52%) AWS Lambda
4 28 (24.35%) Amazon S3
4 28 (24.35%) GitHub
5 22 (19.13%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (15.65%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (13.04%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (12.17%) AWS Step Functions
9 13 (11.30%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (10.43%) Azure
11 8 (6.96%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (6.96%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (6.09%) Amazon EventBridge
12 7 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (5.22%) AWS Fargate
14 4 (3.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (3.48%) AWS CodePipeline
15 3 (2.61%) Power Platform
15 3 (2.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (13.91%) DynamoDB
3 12 (10.43%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (7.83%) Relational Database
5 7 (6.09%) NoSQL
5 7 (6.09%) Redis
6 6 (5.22%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (4.35%) MongoDB
8 4 (3.48%) Aerospike
9 3 (2.61%) DB2
9 3 (2.61%) MySQL
9 3 (2.61%) Power BI
9 3 (2.61%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.61%) SQLite
10 2 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.74%) DocumentDB
10 2 (1.74%) HBase
10 2 (1.74%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.87%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 22 (19.13%) Git
2 20 (17.39%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.09%) GitLab
3 7 (6.09%) JUnit
4 3 (2.61%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.61%) JIRA
5 2 (1.74%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.74%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.74%) Gradle
5 2 (1.74%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.87%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.87%) Mocha
6 1 (0.87%) MSTest
6 1 (0.87%) tSQLt
General
1 30 (26.09%) Finance
2 21 (18.26%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.43%) Banking
3 12 (10.43%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.70%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.61%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.74%) Front Office
6 2 (1.74%) Legal
7 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.87%) Military
7 1 (0.87%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (23.48%) Node.js
2 24 (20.87%) Kafka
2 24 (20.87%) React
3 18 (15.65%) RESTful
4 14 (12.17%) Spring
5 12 (10.43%) Flask
5 12 (10.43%) Spring Boot
6 11 (9.57%) FastAPI
7 9 (7.83%) Pandas
8 7 (6.09%) AngularJS
8 7 (6.09%) REST
8 7 (6.09%) Web Services
9 6 (5.22%) GraphQL
9 6 (5.22%) Next.js
9 6 (5.22%) Polars
10 5 (4.35%) AWS CDK
10 5 (4.35%) Django
10 5 (4.35%) Lambda Expressions
10 5 (4.35%) PySpark
11 4 (3.48%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 22 (19.13%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.70%) Derivative
2 10 (8.70%) Management Information System
2 10 (8.70%) Market Risk
3 6 (5.22%) Hedge funds
3 6 (5.22%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.61%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.74%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.74%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.74%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.74%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.87%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.87%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.87%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.87%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.87%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.83%) Linux
2 7 (6.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (48.70%) CI/CD
2 37 (32.17%) Microservices
3 36 (31.30%) Agile
4 32 (27.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (19.13%) DevOps
6 17 (14.78%) Analytics
6 17 (14.78%) Containerisation
6 17 (14.78%) Full-Stack Development
7 16 (13.91%) TDD
8 14 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (12.17%) SDLC
9 12 (10.43%) Code Quality
9 12 (10.43%) Event-Driven
10 11 (9.57%) Data Pipeline
10 11 (9.57%) Secure Coding
10 11 (9.57%) Software Engineering
10 11 (9.57%) Test Automation
11 10 (8.70%) Cloud Security
11 10 (8.70%) Risk Management
12 9 (7.83%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 55 (47.83%) Python
2 41 (35.65%) Java
3 36 (31.30%) SQL
4 20 (17.39%) TypeScript
5 16 (13.91%) JavaScript
6 10 (8.70%) C#
7 6 (5.22%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.74%) Ruby
9 1 (0.87%) Bash
9 1 (0.87%) Go
9 1 (0.87%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.87%) PHP
9 1 (0.87%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.87%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (18.26%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.22%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (5.22%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (2.61%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.74%) OCP
6 2 (1.74%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.87%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.74%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.87%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (17.39%) Docker
2 1 (0.87%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 28 (24.35%) Terraform
2 16 (13.91%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.35%) Grafana
4 2 (1.74%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.87%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (3.48%) Databricks
1 4 (3.48%) Microsoft
1 4 (3.48%) Splunk
2 3 (2.61%) Salesforce
2 3 (2.61%) Sybase
3 1 (0.87%) Adobe
3 1 (0.87%) Concur
3 1 (0.87%) Oracle
3 1 (0.87%) Ping Identity
3 1 (0.87%) SAP
3 1 (0.87%) ServiceNow
3 1 (0.87%) Trend Micro
3 1 (0.87%) Virgin Media
3 1 (0.87%) Zend