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 7 June 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 334 474
Rank change year-on-year -200 +140 -60
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 107 185 117
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.63% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.69% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 155 94
10th Percentile £393 £363 £345
25th Percentile £450 £419 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £588
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -9.79% +11.90%
75th Percentile £600 £875 £744
90th Percentile £708 - £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -4.80% +25.00% -13.14%

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 45,716 26,993 40,308
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.36% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,851 17,397 26,006
10th Percentile £325 £287 £280
25th Percentile £413 £403 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,052 1,108 2,874
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.87 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.30 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.04% -24.55% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.75 £61.60
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.32 £40.00
% change year-on-year +77.73% -36.70% -5.88%

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 7 June 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 14 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 7 June 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 -183 89 £500 -13.04% 4
London -137 51 £531 -27.97% 3
Work from Home -102 43 £538 -20.37% 2
UK excluding London -111 35 £476 -4.80% 1
North of England -71 18 £476 +19.00% 1
Yorkshire -49 9 £476 -4.80%
North West -49 7 £475 +18.75%
Midlands -51 6 £400 -15.79%
East Midlands -22 5 £397 +10.14%
South West -24 4 £550 +41.03%
South East -56 4 £600 +29.03%
Scotland -14 3 £438 -16.67%
North East - 2 £500 - 1
West Midlands -63 1 £488 +2.63%

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

For the 6 months to 7 June 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.

1 107 (100.00%) AWS
2 53 (49.53%) CI/CD
2 53 (49.53%) Serverless
3 52 (48.60%) Python
4 44 (41.12%) AWS Lambda
5 41 (38.32%) Agile
6 40 (37.38%) Microservices
7 36 (33.64%) Java
8 33 (30.84%) Amazon S3
9 31 (28.97%) SQL
10 30 (28.04%) Infrastructure as Code
11 29 (27.10%) Terraform
12 26 (24.30%) GitHub
12 26 (24.30%) Security Cleared
13 24 (22.43%) GitHub Actions
14 23 (21.50%) SC Cleared
15 22 (20.56%) Docker
16 21 (19.63%) Amazon EC2
17 20 (18.69%) DevOps
17 20 (18.69%) DynamoDB
17 20 (18.69%) Jenkins
17 20 (18.69%) Node.js
17 20 (18.69%) RESTful
18 19 (17.76%) Amazon ECS
18 19 (17.76%) React
18 19 (17.76%) TypeScript
19 18 (16.82%) Containerisation
19 18 (16.82%) Kafka
20 17 (15.89%) Git
21 16 (14.95%) JavaScript

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 (2.80%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.80%) Confluence
2 2 (1.87%) Apache
2 2 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.87%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.93%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 107 (100.00%) AWS
2 53 (49.53%) Serverless
3 44 (41.12%) AWS Lambda
4 33 (30.84%) Amazon S3
5 26 (24.30%) GitHub
6 24 (22.43%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (19.63%) Amazon EC2
8 19 (17.76%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (11.21%) AWS Step Functions
10 11 (10.28%) Amazon SQS
10 11 (10.28%) Azure
11 10 (9.35%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (9.35%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (6.54%) Amazon EventBridge
12 7 (6.54%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (5.61%) AWS CodePipeline
13 6 (5.61%) AWS Fargate
14 5 (4.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 4 (3.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (3.74%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (18.69%) DynamoDB
2 13 (12.15%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (11.21%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (7.48%) NoSQL
5 7 (6.54%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (4.67%) Redis
7 4 (3.74%) Aerospike
7 4 (3.74%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.80%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.80%) Db2
8 3 (2.80%) Power BI
8 3 (2.80%) SQLite
9 2 (1.87%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.87%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.93%) Big Data
10 1 (0.93%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 20 (18.69%) Jenkins
2 17 (15.89%) Git
3 8 (7.48%) GitLab
4 5 (4.67%) JUnit
5 4 (3.74%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.80%) JIRA
7 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.93%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.93%) Mocha
7 1 (0.93%) MSTest
7 1 (0.93%) tSQLt
General
1 22 (20.56%) Finance
2 18 (16.82%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.15%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.48%) Banking
5 7 (6.54%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.80%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.87%) Legal
9 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.93%) Military
9 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (18.69%) Node.js
1 20 (18.69%) RESTful
2 19 (17.76%) React
3 18 (16.82%) Kafka
4 15 (14.02%) Flask
5 13 (12.15%) FastAPI
6 11 (10.28%) Spring
7 10 (9.35%) Pandas
8 9 (8.41%) AngularJS
8 9 (8.41%) Spring Boot
9 8 (7.48%) Next.js
9 8 (7.48%) Web Services
10 7 (6.54%) Django
10 7 (6.54%) Polars
11 6 (5.61%) AWS CDK
12 5 (4.67%) .NET
13 4 (3.74%) Lambda Expressions
14 3 (2.80%) GraphQL
14 3 (2.80%) Jest
14 3 (2.80%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 27 (25.23%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.48%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.54%) Derivative
3 7 (6.54%) Hedge funds
3 7 (6.54%) Management Information System
3 7 (6.54%) Market Risk
4 3 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.87%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.87%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.87%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.93%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.93%) IVR
6 1 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.93%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.93%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.41%) Linux
2 8 (7.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (49.53%) CI/CD
2 41 (38.32%) Agile
3 40 (37.38%) Microservices
4 30 (28.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (18.69%) DevOps
6 18 (16.82%) Containerisation
7 16 (14.95%) SDLC
8 15 (14.02%) Analytics
8 15 (14.02%) Code Quality
9 14 (13.08%) Event-Driven
9 14 (13.08%) TDD
10 13 (12.15%) Full-Stack Development
11 12 (11.21%) Software Engineering
11 12 (11.21%) Test Automation
12 11 (10.28%) Data Pipeline
13 10 (9.35%) Migration
13 10 (9.35%) Secure Coding
14 9 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (8.41%) Continuous Integration
14 9 (8.41%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 52 (48.60%) Python
2 36 (33.64%) Java
3 31 (28.97%) SQL
4 19 (17.76%) TypeScript
5 16 (14.95%) JavaScript
6 10 (9.35%) C#
7 7 (6.54%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.93%) Bash
8 1 (0.93%) Go
8 1 (0.93%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.93%) PHP
8 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.93%) Ruby
8 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (24.30%) Security Cleared
2 23 (21.50%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.48%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.67%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (2.80%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.93%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.87%) QA
2 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (20.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 29 (27.10%) Terraform
2 15 (14.02%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.67%) Grafana
4 2 (1.87%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.93%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (3.74%) Databricks
1 4 (3.74%) Salesforce
2 3 (2.80%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.80%) Splunk
2 3 (2.80%) Sybase
3 2 (1.87%) ServiceNow
3 2 (1.87%) Trend Micro
4 1 (0.93%) Adobe
4 1 (0.93%) Avaya
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle
4 1 (0.93%) SAP
4 1 (0.93%) Virgin Media
4 1 (0.93%) Zend