AWS Developer Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Developer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in the UK is £476, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 January 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 437 446
Rank change year-on-year -18 +9 +16
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 133 100 162
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.32% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.34% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 90 145
10th Percentile £397 £402 £403
25th Percentile £411 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.67% - -
75th Percentile £681 £713 £750
90th Percentile £988 £738 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -5.26%
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 34,502 29,046 41,229
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.46% 92.85% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,791 17,729 27,311
10th Percentile £300 £291 £275
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £480 £495
% change year-on-year -0.52% -3.03% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,057 865 2,093
10th Percentile £14.41 £15.95 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.25
Median hourly rate £28.88 £32.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.14% -13.33% +8.49%
75th Percentile £61.18 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.26 £73.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -12.70% -21.25% +33.33%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -33 120 £485 -25.38% 20
London +3 75 £650 -3.70% 6
Work from Home -10 51 £675 - 12
UK excluding London -33 43 £450 -14.29% 15
North of England -29 25 £425 -15.00% 5
North West -9 13 £400 -20.00%
South East -24 11 £462 -21.78% 2
Yorkshire -37 11 £476 -20.67% 4
Midlands -45 4 £397 -27.91% 4
East Midlands - 4 £397 - 3
Scotland -1 2 £525 +2.44%
North East - 1 £400 - 1
South West - 1 £600 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 26 January 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.

1 133 (100.00%) AWS
2 63 (47.37%) Java
3 59 (44.36%) Python
4 52 (39.10%) CI/CD
5 41 (30.83%) PostgreSQL
6 39 (29.32%) SQL
7 37 (27.82%) Kafka
8 36 (27.07%) Serverless
9 33 (24.81%) JavaScript
10 32 (24.06%) React
11 31 (23.31%) Agile
11 31 (23.31%) AWS Lambda
11 31 (23.31%) Terraform
12 29 (21.80%) Kubernetes
12 29 (21.80%) Node.js
13 28 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
14 27 (20.30%) Microservices
15 25 (18.80%) TDD
16 24 (18.05%) Docker
17 23 (17.29%) GitHub
17 23 (17.29%) Software Engineering
18 22 (16.54%) Git
18 22 (16.54%) Risk Management
19 20 (15.04%) AngularJS
19 20 (15.04%) Full-Stack Development
19 20 (15.04%) Spring
20 19 (14.29%) Amazon S3
20 19 (14.29%) Analytics
20 19 (14.29%) C#
20 19 (14.29%) DevOps

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 5 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 133 (100.00%) AWS
2 36 (27.07%) Serverless
3 31 (23.31%) AWS Lambda
4 23 (17.29%) GitHub
5 19 (14.29%) Amazon S3
6 16 (12.03%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (8.27%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (8.27%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (6.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (6.02%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
11 6 (4.51%) Datadog
11 6 (4.51%) GCP
12 5 (3.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (3.76%) dbt
13 4 (3.01%) Amazon Cognito
13 4 (3.01%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (3.01%) AWS Step Functions
13 4 (3.01%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.01%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (30.83%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (12.03%) DynamoDB
3 13 (9.77%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (9.02%) Relational Database
5 10 (7.52%) NoSQL
6 8 (6.02%) MongoDB
7 7 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (4.51%) HBase
8 6 (4.51%) RDBMS
8 6 (4.51%) Redis
9 5 (3.76%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (3.76%) Apache Arrow
9 5 (3.76%) Apache Iceberg
9 5 (3.76%) Dremio
9 5 (3.76%) MySQL
10 4 (3.01%) Aerospike
10 4 (3.01%) DB2
10 4 (3.01%) Power BI
10 4 (3.01%) SQL Server
11 3 (2.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (16.54%) Git
2 15 (11.28%) Jenkins
3 13 (9.77%) JUnit
4 7 (5.26%) Cucumber
4 7 (5.26%) GitLab
5 6 (4.51%) Artifactory
5 6 (4.51%) Gradle
5 6 (4.51%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.50%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.75%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.75%) JIRA
7 1 (0.75%) Vite
7 1 (0.75%) webpack
General
1 44 (33.08%) Finance
2 30 (22.56%) Banking
3 27 (20.30%) Investment Banking
4 23 (17.29%) Social Skills
5 15 (11.28%) Public Sector
6 12 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (6.02%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (27.82%) Kafka
2 32 (24.06%) React
3 29 (21.80%) Node.js
4 20 (15.04%) AngularJS
4 20 (15.04%) Spring
5 19 (14.29%) Spring Boot
6 17 (12.78%) Flask
7 16 (12.03%) Vue
8 15 (11.28%) FastAPI
8 15 (11.28%) NumPy
8 15 (11.28%) Pandas
8 15 (11.28%) SciPy
9 10 (7.52%) AWS CDK
9 10 (7.52%) Polars
10 8 (6.02%) RESTful
11 7 (5.26%) .NET
11 7 (5.26%) REST
12 6 (4.51%) GraphQL
13 5 (3.76%) Lambda Expressions
13 5 (3.76%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.53%) Cloud Native
1 18 (13.53%) Management Information System
2 17 (12.78%) Derivative
2 17 (12.78%) Market Risk
3 15 (11.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (7.52%) Hedge funds
5 5 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.76%) Equities
5 5 (3.76%) Fixed Income
5 5 (3.76%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (3.01%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.01%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.26%) NHS
8 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.75%) PKI
8 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.77%) Linux
2 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (39.10%) CI/CD
2 31 (23.31%) Agile
3 28 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (20.30%) Microservices
5 25 (18.80%) TDD
6 23 (17.29%) Software Engineering
7 22 (16.54%) Risk Management
8 20 (15.04%) Full-Stack Development
9 19 (14.29%) Analytics
9 19 (14.29%) DevOps
9 19 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (13.53%) SDLC
11 16 (12.03%) Clean Code
12 13 (9.77%) Data Engineering
13 11 (8.27%) Containerisation
14 10 (7.52%) Mathematics
14 10 (7.52%) Structured Programming
14 10 (7.52%) Systematic Trading
15 9 (6.77%) Data Modelling
15 9 (6.77%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 63 (47.37%) Java
2 59 (44.36%) Python
3 39 (29.32%) SQL
4 33 (24.81%) JavaScript
5 19 (14.29%) C#
5 19 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 10 (7.52%) C++
6 10 (7.52%) Rust
7 5 (3.76%) Bash
8 3 (2.26%) PHP
8 3 (2.26%) Ruby
9 1 (0.75%) Clojure
9 1 (0.75%) Go
9 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (11.28%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.02%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.26%) OCP
3 7 (5.26%) Oracle Certification
4 6 (4.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.26%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.50%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
System Software
1 24 (18.05%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 31 (23.31%) Terraform
2 29 (21.80%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.77%) Grafana
4 4 (3.01%) Ansible
5 2 (1.50%) Kibana
6 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (3.76%) Salesforce
2 4 (3.01%) Databricks
2 4 (3.01%) Sybase
3 3 (2.26%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.50%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (1.50%) Concur
4 2 (1.50%) Splunk
5 1 (0.75%) Adobe
5 1 (0.75%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle
5 1 (0.75%) Ping Identity
5 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.75%) Virgin Media
5 1 (0.75%) Zend