AWS Developer Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Developer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in the UK is £493, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 January 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 423 436
Rank change year-on-year -26 +13 +28
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 137 97 157
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.31% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.33% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 88 138
10th Percentile £399 £399 £411
25th Percentile £413 £500 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £614 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.76% +2.29% -
75th Percentile £684 £713 £750
90th Percentile £988 £738 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £514 £450
% change year-on-year -12.41% +14.17% -10.00%
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 33,788 29,232 40,213
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.39% 92.85% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,356 17,863 26,715
10th Percentile £300 £295 £275
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £481 £500
% change year-on-year -1.14% -3.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,002 885 1,834
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.92 £13.99
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.76
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £40.32
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -19.39% +18.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +46.55%

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 19 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 19 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 -14 124 £500 -25.93% 18
London -7 78 £650 -3.70% 4
Work from Home -5 52 £800 +18.52% 12
UK excluding London -28 44 £450 -12.41% 15
North of England -24 26 £425 -15.00% 8
North West -13 14 £400 -20.00% 1
South East -8 11 £462 -21.78% 3
Yorkshire -36 11 £476 -20.67% 5
Midlands -39 4 £397 -27.91% 3
East Midlands - 4 £397 - 3
Scotland +1 2 £525 +5.00%
North East - 1 £400 - 2
South West - 1 £600 -

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

For the 6 months to 19 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.

1 137 (100.00%) AWS
2 64 (46.72%) Java
2 64 (46.72%) Python
3 53 (38.69%) CI/CD
4 42 (30.66%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (28.47%) Serverless
5 39 (28.47%) SQL
6 37 (27.01%) Kafka
7 34 (24.82%) JavaScript
8 33 (24.09%) AWS Lambda
8 33 (24.09%) Node.js
8 33 (24.09%) Terraform
9 32 (23.36%) React
10 30 (21.90%) Agile
11 29 (21.17%) Infrastructure as Code
11 29 (21.17%) Kubernetes
12 27 (19.71%) Microservices
13 25 (18.25%) TDD
14 24 (17.52%) Docker
14 24 (17.52%) GitHub
14 24 (17.52%) Software Engineering
15 23 (16.79%) Risk Management
16 22 (16.06%) AngularJS
17 21 (15.33%) Amazon S3
17 21 (15.33%) TypeScript
18 20 (14.60%) Analytics
18 20 (14.60%) DevOps
18 20 (14.60%) Full-Stack Development
18 20 (14.60%) Git
19 19 (13.87%) C#

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 6 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 137 (100.00%) AWS
2 39 (28.47%) Serverless
3 33 (24.09%) AWS Lambda
4 24 (17.52%) GitHub
5 21 (15.33%) Amazon S3
6 17 (12.41%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (8.03%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (8.03%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (6.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (5.84%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (5.11%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (5.11%) AWS Fargate
10 7 (5.11%) GCP
11 6 (4.38%) Datadog
11 6 (4.38%) dbt
12 5 (3.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (3.65%) AWS Step Functions
13 4 (2.92%) Amazon Cognito
13 4 (2.92%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (2.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.92%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (30.66%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (12.41%) DynamoDB
3 15 (10.95%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (8.03%) NoSQL
5 10 (7.30%) Relational Database
6 9 (6.57%) MongoDB
7 8 (5.84%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (4.38%) Apache Arrow
8 6 (4.38%) Apache Iceberg
8 6 (4.38%) Dremio
8 6 (4.38%) HBase
8 6 (4.38%) MySQL
8 6 (4.38%) RDBMS
8 6 (4.38%) Redis
9 5 (3.65%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (2.92%) Aerospike
10 4 (2.92%) DB2
10 4 (2.92%) Power BI
10 4 (2.92%) SQL Server
11 3 (2.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (14.60%) Git
2 15 (10.95%) Jenkins
3 13 (9.49%) JUnit
4 7 (5.11%) Cucumber
4 7 (5.11%) GitLab
5 6 (4.38%) Artifactory
5 6 (4.38%) Gradle
5 6 (4.38%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.46%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.73%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.73%) JIRA
7 1 (0.73%) Vite
7 1 (0.73%) webpack
General
1 45 (32.85%) Finance
2 30 (21.90%) Banking
3 27 (19.71%) Investment Banking
4 24 (17.52%) Social Skills
5 16 (11.68%) Public Sector
6 12 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (6.57%) Front Office
8 1 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (27.01%) Kafka
2 33 (24.09%) Node.js
3 32 (23.36%) React
4 22 (16.06%) AngularJS
5 18 (13.14%) Spring
6 17 (12.41%) Flask
6 17 (12.41%) Spring Boot
6 17 (12.41%) Vue
7 16 (11.68%) NumPy
7 16 (11.68%) Pandas
7 16 (11.68%) SciPy
8 15 (10.95%) FastAPI
9 10 (7.30%) AWS CDK
9 10 (7.30%) Polars
10 8 (5.84%) REST
11 7 (5.11%) .NET
12 6 (4.38%) GraphQL
12 6 (4.38%) Lambda Expressions
12 6 (4.38%) RESTful
13 5 (3.65%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.87%) Cloud Native
2 18 (13.14%) Management Information System
3 17 (12.41%) Derivative
3 17 (12.41%) Market Risk
4 16 (11.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (7.30%) Hedge funds
6 6 (4.38%) Equities
6 6 (4.38%) Fixed Income
7 5 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.65%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.92%) NHS
8 4 (2.92%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.46%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.73%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.73%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.73%) PKI
11 1 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.49%) Linux
2 1 (0.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (38.69%) CI/CD
2 30 (21.90%) Agile
3 29 (21.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (19.71%) Microservices
5 25 (18.25%) TDD
6 24 (17.52%) Software Engineering
7 23 (16.79%) Risk Management
8 20 (14.60%) Analytics
8 20 (14.60%) DevOps
8 20 (14.60%) Full-Stack Development
9 19 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (11.68%) Clean Code
11 15 (10.95%) SDLC
12 13 (9.49%) Data Engineering
13 11 (8.03%) Containerisation
14 10 (7.30%) Mathematics
14 10 (7.30%) Structured Programming
14 10 (7.30%) Systematic Trading
15 9 (6.57%) Data Modelling
15 9 (6.57%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 64 (46.72%) Java
1 64 (46.72%) Python
2 39 (28.47%) SQL
3 34 (24.82%) JavaScript
4 21 (15.33%) TypeScript
5 19 (13.87%) C#
6 10 (7.30%) C++
6 10 (7.30%) Rust
7 5 (3.65%) Bash
8 3 (2.19%) PHP
8 3 (2.19%) Ruby
9 1 (0.73%) Clojure
9 1 (0.73%) Go
9 1 (0.73%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (9.49%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.30%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.11%) OCP
3 7 (5.11%) Oracle Certification
4 6 (4.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.19%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.19%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.46%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
System Software
1 24 (17.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.73%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 33 (24.09%) Terraform
2 29 (21.17%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.57%) Grafana
4 4 (2.92%) Ansible
5 2 (1.46%) Kibana
6 1 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (3.65%) Salesforce
2 4 (2.92%) Databricks
2 4 (2.92%) Sybase
3 3 (2.19%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.46%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (1.46%) Concur
4 2 (1.46%) Splunk
5 1 (0.73%) Adobe
5 1 (0.73%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.73%) Oracle
5 1 (0.73%) Ping Identity
5 1 (0.73%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.73%) Virgin Media
5 1 (0.73%) Zend