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 6 July 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 347 457
Rank change year-on-year -216 +110 -31
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 92 207 129
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.65% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.71% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 167 105
10th Percentile £381 £363 £346
25th Percentile £450 £450 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £875 £788
90th Percentile £710 - £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £415
% change year-on-year +5.26% +14.46% -8.64%

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 47,894 29,248 40,280
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 91.99% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,968 18,668 25,910
10th Percentile £325 £287 £285
25th Percentile £417 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,250 1,325 2,804
10th Percentile £15.75 £13.75 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.44 £16.65
Median hourly rate £43.00 £26.45 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.57% -29.47% -14.05%
75th Percentile £67.50 £55.25 £62.96
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.25 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 -226 76 £525 -8.70% 11
London -155 45 £525 -34.38% 3
Work from Home -117 34 £550 -31.25% 9
UK excluding London -137 29 £500 +5.26% 8
North of England -78 15 £550 +21.01% 2
North West -50 7 £725 +69.69% 1
Yorkshire -48 6 £525 +5.00% 1
Scotland -18 4 £431 -11.54%
South West -27 4 £550 +41.03%
South East -51 4 £600 +29.03% 1
North East -34 3 £500 -
Midlands -66 2 £488 +2.63% 4
East Midlands -18 1 - - 4
West Midlands -63 1 £488 +2.63%

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

For the 6 months to 6 July 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 92 (100.00%) AWS
2 46 (50.00%) Serverless
3 45 (48.91%) CI/CD
4 43 (46.74%) Python
5 38 (41.30%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (36.96%) Agile
7 33 (35.87%) Microservices
8 31 (33.70%) Amazon S3
9 27 (29.35%) Java
10 26 (28.26%) SQL
11 23 (25.00%) Security Cleared
12 21 (22.83%) RESTful
13 20 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
13 20 (21.74%) SC Cleared
14 19 (20.65%) Docker
14 19 (20.65%) Terraform
15 18 (19.57%) DevOps
15 18 (19.57%) TypeScript
16 17 (18.48%) Git
16 17 (18.48%) GitHub
16 17 (18.48%) GitHub Actions
17 16 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
17 16 (17.39%) DynamoDB
18 15 (16.30%) Amazon ECS
18 15 (16.30%) Event-Driven
18 15 (16.30%) React
19 14 (15.22%) Jenkins
19 14 (15.22%) Node.js
20 13 (14.13%) Code Quality
20 13 (14.13%) 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 (3.26%) Apache Spark
1 3 (3.26%) Confluence
2 2 (2.17%) Apache
2 2 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.17%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.09%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 92 (100.00%) AWS
2 46 (50.00%) Serverless
3 38 (41.30%) AWS Lambda
4 31 (33.70%) Amazon S3
5 17 (18.48%) GitHub
5 17 (18.48%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (16.30%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (13.04%) Amazon SQS
8 12 (13.04%) AWS Step Functions
9 10 (10.87%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (10.87%) Azure
10 7 (7.61%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (6.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (5.43%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (5.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 5 (5.43%) AWS CodePipeline
12 5 (5.43%) AWS Fargate
13 3 (3.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (17.39%) DynamoDB
2 8 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (8.70%) NoSQL
3 7 (7.61%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.26%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (3.26%) Db2
5 3 (3.26%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.26%) Power BI
5 3 (3.26%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.26%) SQLite
6 1 (1.09%) Big Data
6 1 (1.09%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.09%) Metadata
6 1 (1.09%) Redis
6 1 (1.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (18.48%) Git
2 14 (15.22%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.52%) GitLab
4 4 (4.35%) Cypress.io
5 3 (3.26%) JIRA
5 3 (3.26%) JUnit
6 1 (1.09%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.09%) Mocha
6 1 (1.09%) Mockito
6 1 (1.09%) MSTest
6 1 (1.09%) tSQLt
General
1 16 (17.39%) Finance
2 14 (15.22%) Social Skills
3 12 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.35%) Banking
4 4 (4.35%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.26%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.17%) Legal
6 2 (2.17%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.09%) Military
7 1 (1.09%) Retail
7 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (22.83%) RESTful
2 15 (16.30%) React
3 14 (15.22%) Node.js
4 12 (13.04%) Kafka
5 11 (11.96%) Flask
6 10 (10.87%) FastAPI
6 10 (10.87%) Pandas
7 9 (9.78%) Spring
8 8 (8.70%) Spring Boot
9 7 (7.61%) Polars
9 7 (7.61%) Web Services
10 6 (6.52%) AngularJS
11 5 (5.43%) AWS CDK
12 4 (4.35%) .NET
12 4 (4.35%) Django
13 3 (3.26%) ADO
13 3 (3.26%) GraphQL
13 3 (3.26%) Next.js
13 3 (3.26%) PySpark
13 3 (3.26%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 22 (23.91%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 7 (7.61%) Hedge funds
4 4 (4.35%) Derivative
4 4 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.35%) Market Risk
5 2 (2.17%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.17%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.17%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.09%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.09%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.09%) IVR
6 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.09%) Media Streaming
6 1 (1.09%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.78%) Linux
1 9 (9.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (48.91%) CI/CD
2 34 (36.96%) Agile
3 33 (35.87%) Microservices
4 20 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (19.57%) DevOps
6 15 (16.30%) Event-Driven
7 13 (14.13%) Code Quality
8 12 (13.04%) Analytics
8 12 (13.04%) Containerisation
9 11 (11.96%) Full-Stack Development
9 11 (11.96%) SDLC
10 10 (10.87%) Data Pipeline
10 10 (10.87%) Software Engineering
10 10 (10.87%) TDD
11 9 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (8.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 8 (8.70%) Front End Development
12 8 (8.70%) Performance Optimisation
12 8 (8.70%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 43 (46.74%) Python
2 27 (29.35%) Java
3 26 (28.26%) SQL
4 18 (19.57%) TypeScript
5 13 (14.13%) JavaScript
6 11 (11.96%) C#
7 7 (7.61%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.09%) Bash
8 1 (1.09%) Go
8 1 (1.09%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.43%) AWS Certification
3 5 (5.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (5.43%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.26%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.17%) QA
2 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (20.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (20.65%) Terraform
2 10 (10.87%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.43%) Grafana
4 2 (2.17%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.09%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (3.26%) Microsoft
1 3 (3.26%) Sybase
2 2 (2.17%) ServiceNow
2 2 (2.17%) Splunk
2 2 (2.17%) Trend Micro
3 1 (1.09%) Avaya
3 1 (1.09%) Confluent
3 1 (1.09%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.09%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.09%) SAP