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 21 September 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 378 463
Rank change year-on-year -211 +85 -5
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 91 189 103
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.58% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.64% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 148 83
10th Percentile £363 £363 £373
25th Percentile £400 £400 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £516 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% -13.96% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £875 £738
90th Percentile £650 £988 £875
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £452 £500
% change year-on-year +10.56% -9.55% +5.26%

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 50,135 29,742 35,694
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 91.07% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,651 18,759 21,938
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £627 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,860 1,586 1,659
10th Percentile £14.56 £13.75 £14.73
25th Percentile £20.25 £17.17 £20.30
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.84 £51.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.78 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.13 £43.90
% change year-on-year +69.14% -42.76% +0.34%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -214 71 £519 -1.19% 36
London -153 44 £450 -43.75% 18
Work from Home -116 37 £525 -34.38% 12
UK excluding London -135 28 £500 +10.56% 21
North of England -80 13 £575 +43.75% 10
North West -56 7 £663 +65.63% 4
Scotland -26 6 £425 +13.33% 2
South West -39 4 £365 -6.41% 1
Yorkshire -45 4 £550 +4.76% 3
South East -62 4 £600 +20.00% 1
North East -39 3 £500 +25.00% 3
West Midlands -51 1 £488 +2.63% 1
Midlands -52 1 £488 +2.63% 6

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

For the 6 months to 21 September 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 91 (100.00%) AWS
2 43 (47.25%) CI/CD
2 43 (47.25%) Serverless
3 37 (40.66%) AWS Lambda
4 34 (37.36%) Python
5 32 (35.16%) Agile
5 32 (35.16%) Amazon S3
5 32 (35.16%) Microservices
6 24 (26.37%) Java
7 23 (25.27%) Docker
8 22 (24.18%) DevOps
9 20 (21.98%) Git
9 20 (21.98%) RESTful
9 20 (21.98%) SQL
10 19 (20.88%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (20.88%) Jenkins
11 18 (19.78%) Security Cleared
11 18 (19.78%) Terraform
12 17 (18.68%) DynamoDB
13 16 (17.58%) Kubernetes
14 15 (16.48%) Amazon ECS
14 15 (16.48%) Amazon SQS
14 15 (16.48%) Event-Driven
14 15 (16.48%) SC Cleared
15 14 (15.38%) GitHub
15 14 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (15.38%) Linux
15 14 (15.38%) Node.js
16 13 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions

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 (4.40%) Apache
1 4 (4.40%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.20%) Confluence
2 2 (2.20%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.10%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 91 (100.00%) AWS
2 43 (47.25%) Serverless
3 37 (40.66%) AWS Lambda
4 32 (35.16%) Amazon S3
5 15 (16.48%) Amazon ECS
5 15 (16.48%) Amazon SQS
6 14 (15.38%) GitHub
6 14 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
8 12 (13.19%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (13.19%) Azure
9 9 (9.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (9.89%) Amazon EventBridge
9 9 (9.89%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (8.79%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (5.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 3 (3.30%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (3.30%) AWS CodePipeline
13 2 (2.20%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.68%) DynamoDB
2 8 (8.79%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.59%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (6.59%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.30%) Flink
4 3 (3.30%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.20%) Power BI
5 2 (2.20%) Redis
5 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.20%) SQLite
6 1 (1.10%) Big Data
6 1 (1.10%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.10%) Metadata
6 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (21.98%) Git
2 19 (20.88%) Jenkins
3 11 (12.09%) GitLab
4 3 (3.30%) Cypress.io
4 3 (3.30%) JIRA
5 1 (1.10%) Mockito
General
1 19 (20.88%) Social Skills
2 15 (16.48%) Finance
2 15 (16.48%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.69%) Banking
4 6 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.30%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.30%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.10%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (21.98%) RESTful
2 18 (19.78%) Terraform
3 14 (15.38%) Node.js
4 13 (14.29%) Spring
5 12 (13.19%) Flask
6 11 (12.09%) Kafka
6 11 (12.09%) REST
7 10 (10.99%) Spring Boot
8 9 (9.89%) React
9 8 (8.79%) FastAPI
9 8 (8.79%) Pandas
10 7 (7.69%) AngularJS
11 6 (6.59%) .NET
11 6 (6.59%) AWS CDK
11 6 (6.59%) Django
11 6 (6.59%) Polars
12 4 (4.40%) .NET Core
12 4 (4.40%) SOAP
12 4 (4.40%) Web Services
13 3 (3.30%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 26 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.59%) Hedge funds
3 4 (4.40%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.40%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.30%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.10%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.10%) IVR
6 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.10%) NHS
6 1 (1.10%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.38%) Linux
2 11 (12.09%) Unix
3 3 (3.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (47.25%) CI/CD
2 32 (35.16%) Agile
2 32 (35.16%) Microservices
3 22 (24.18%) DevOps
4 19 (20.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (16.48%) Event-Driven
6 12 (13.19%) Code Quality
6 12 (13.19%) Containerisation
6 12 (13.19%) Migration
7 11 (12.09%) Full-Stack Development
7 11 (12.09%) Software Engineering
8 10 (10.99%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (10.99%) Test Automation
9 9 (9.89%) Analytics
9 9 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (9.89%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (9.89%) SDLC
10 8 (8.79%) Performance Optimisation
11 7 (7.69%) AI
11 7 (7.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 34 (37.36%) Python
2 24 (26.37%) Java
3 20 (21.98%) SQL
4 12 (13.19%) TypeScript
5 11 (12.09%) C#
6 8 (8.79%) JavaScript
7 7 (7.69%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.30%) Bash
Qualifications
1 18 (19.78%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.48%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.49%) AWS Certification
3 5 (5.49%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.20%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.10%) Degree
6 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.40%) QA
2 2 (2.20%) WCAG
3 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.10%) GRC
System Software
1 23 (25.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (17.58%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.59%) Grafana
3 4 (4.40%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.30%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (3.30%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.20%) Salesforce
2 2 (2.20%) Trend Micro
2 2 (2.20%) webMethods
3 1 (1.10%) Avaya
3 1 (1.10%) Confluent
3 1 (1.10%) Databricks
3 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.10%) SAP
3 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.10%) Splunk