AWS Developer Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Developer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in the UK is £485, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 420 436
Rank change year-on-year -28 +16 +30
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 141 97 155
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.31% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.33% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 87 136
10th Percentile £393 £388 £413
25th Percentile £410 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £603 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.50% +0.42% -
75th Percentile £688 £713 £759
90th Percentile £988 £738 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £503 £450
% change year-on-year -10.45% +11.67% -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 33,229 29,465 40,074
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.31% 92.70% 93.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,002 18,045 26,741
10th Percentile £300 £291 £280
25th Percentile £405 £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 £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,953 888 1,677
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.60 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.22 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% -23.53% +28.79%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.60 £73.75 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.51 £44.78
% change year-on-year -20.18% -29.63% +65.05%

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 11 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 12 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 11 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 +3 128 £500 -25.93% 14
London +9 80 £675 - 2
Work from Home -9 55 £800 +18.52% 12
UK excluding London -34 45 £450 -10.45% 13
North of England -16 28 £425 -15.00% 6
North West -12 15 £400 -20.00%
Yorkshire -37 12 £501 -16.58% 1
South East +2 11 £462 -21.78% 2
Midlands -38 4 £397 -3.88% 5
East Midlands - 4 £397 - 5
Scotland -6 2 £525 +7.69%
North East - 1 £400 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 141 (100.00%) AWS
2 67 (47.52%) Python
3 63 (44.68%) Java
4 54 (38.30%) CI/CD
5 45 (31.91%) PostgreSQL
6 39 (27.66%) Serverless
7 38 (26.95%) JavaScript
7 38 (26.95%) Node.js
7 38 (26.95%) SQL
8 36 (25.53%) Kafka
9 35 (24.82%) React
10 33 (23.40%) AWS Lambda
10 33 (23.40%) Terraform
11 31 (21.99%) Agile
12 30 (21.28%) Kubernetes
13 28 (19.86%) Infrastructure as Code
14 27 (19.15%) Microservices
14 27 (19.15%) Software Engineering
15 25 (17.73%) AngularJS
15 25 (17.73%) Docker
15 25 (17.73%) Risk Management
15 25 (17.73%) TypeScript
16 24 (17.02%) GitHub
16 24 (17.02%) TDD
17 23 (16.31%) Git
18 22 (15.60%) Amazon S3
19 21 (14.89%) Vue
20 20 (14.18%) Analytics
20 20 (14.18%) C#
20 20 (14.18%) 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 8 (5.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 141 (100.00%) AWS
2 39 (27.66%) Serverless
3 33 (23.40%) AWS Lambda
4 24 (17.02%) GitHub
5 22 (15.60%) Amazon S3
6 16 (11.35%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (7.80%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (7.80%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (7.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (7.09%) GCP
9 8 (5.67%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (5.67%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (5.67%) dbt
10 7 (4.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (4.26%) AWS Fargate
11 6 (4.26%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (4.26%) Datadog
12 5 (3.55%) Azure
12 5 (3.55%) SaaS
13 4 (2.84%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.84%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (31.91%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (12.77%) DynamoDB
3 15 (10.64%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (7.80%) Relational Database
5 10 (7.09%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (7.09%) NoSQL
6 9 (6.38%) MongoDB
7 8 (5.67%) Apache Arrow
7 8 (5.67%) Apache Iceberg
7 8 (5.67%) Dremio
7 8 (5.67%) MySQL
8 7 (4.96%) RDBMS
8 7 (4.96%) Redis
9 6 (4.26%) HBase
10 5 (3.55%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (2.84%) Aerospike
11 4 (2.84%) Power BI
11 4 (2.84%) SQL Server
12 3 (2.13%) DB2
12 3 (2.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (16.31%) Git
2 15 (10.64%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.51%) JUnit
4 7 (4.96%) Cucumber
4 7 (4.96%) GitLab
5 6 (4.26%) Artifactory
5 6 (4.26%) Gradle
5 6 (4.26%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.42%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.71%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.71%) JIRA
7 1 (0.71%) Vite
7 1 (0.71%) webpack
General
1 48 (34.04%) Finance
2 31 (21.99%) Banking
3 28 (19.86%) Investment Banking
4 24 (17.02%) Social Skills
5 17 (12.06%) Public Sector
6 12 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (7.80%) Front Office
8 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (26.95%) Node.js
2 36 (25.53%) Kafka
3 35 (24.82%) React
4 25 (17.73%) AngularJS
5 21 (14.89%) Vue
6 19 (13.48%) NumPy
6 19 (13.48%) Pandas
6 19 (13.48%) SciPy
7 18 (12.77%) Flask
8 17 (12.06%) Spring
9 16 (11.35%) FastAPI
9 16 (11.35%) Spring Boot
10 11 (7.80%) AWS CDK
10 11 (7.80%) Polars
11 8 (5.67%) REST
12 7 (4.96%) .NET
13 6 (4.26%) GraphQL
13 6 (4.26%) Lambda Expressions
14 5 (3.55%) Next.js
14 5 (3.55%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 18 (12.77%) Management Information System
3 17 (12.06%) Cloud Native
3 17 (12.06%) Derivative
3 17 (12.06%) Market Risk
4 11 (7.80%) Hedge funds
5 8 (5.67%) Equities
5 8 (5.67%) Fixed Income
6 5 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.55%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (3.55%) NHS
7 4 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.84%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.42%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.42%) Video on Demand
10 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.71%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.71%) PKI
10 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.93%) Linux
2 1 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (38.30%) CI/CD
2 31 (21.99%) Agile
3 28 (19.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (19.15%) Microservices
4 27 (19.15%) Software Engineering
5 25 (17.73%) Risk Management
6 24 (17.02%) TDD
7 20 (14.18%) Analytics
7 20 (14.18%) DevOps
7 20 (14.18%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (12.06%) Clean Code
10 15 (10.64%) SDLC
11 14 (9.93%) Data Engineering
12 11 (7.80%) Mathematics
12 11 (7.80%) Structured Programming
12 11 (7.80%) Systematic Trading
13 10 (7.09%) Containerisation
14 9 (6.38%) Asset Management
14 9 (6.38%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 67 (47.52%) Python
2 63 (44.68%) Java
3 38 (26.95%) JavaScript
3 38 (26.95%) SQL
4 25 (17.73%) TypeScript
5 20 (14.18%) C#
6 11 (7.80%) C++
6 11 (7.80%) Rust
7 5 (3.55%) Bash
8 4 (2.84%) PHP
9 3 (2.13%) Ruby
10 1 (0.71%) Clojure
10 1 (0.71%) Go
10 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (8.51%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.38%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.96%) OCP
3 7 (4.96%) Oracle Certification
4 6 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.84%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.13%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.42%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.42%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.71%) QA
System Software
1 25 (17.73%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 33 (23.40%) Terraform
2 30 (21.28%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.38%) Grafana
4 4 (2.84%) Ansible
5 2 (1.42%) Kibana
6 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (3.55%) Salesforce
2 4 (2.84%) Databricks
3 3 (2.13%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.13%) Sybase
4 2 (1.42%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (1.42%) Concur
4 2 (1.42%) Splunk
5 1 (0.71%) Adobe
5 1 (0.71%) Google
5 1 (0.71%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle
5 1 (0.71%) Ping Identity
5 1 (0.71%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.71%) Virgin Media
5 1 (0.71%) Zend