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 3 August 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 582 358 450
Rank change year-on-year -224 +92 -17
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 86 208 112
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.63% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.69% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 166 93
10th Percentile £381 £363 £365
25th Percentile £430 £450 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £544 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% -9.38% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £875 £788
90th Percentile £675 - £868
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £467 £488
% change year-on-year +7.07% -4.21% +5.41%

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 49,223 30,273 36,284
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 91.43% 92.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,638 19,224 23,532
10th Percentile £331 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,407 1,497 2,061
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.63 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +0.58%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.99 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.95 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £43.90
% change year-on-year +76.94% -42.71% +11.00%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -232 71 £513 -10.87% 8
London -151 44 £450 -43.75% 2
Work from Home -121 32 £500 -37.50% 4
UK excluding London -122 27 £500 +7.07% 6
North of England -77 13 £550 +25.07% 3
North West -56 7 £725 +81.25%
Scotland -5 5 £425 +13.33%
Yorkshire -49 4 £550 +4.76% 3
South East -71 4 £600 +24.35%
North East -36 3 £500 -
South West -39 3 £500 +28.21% 2
Midlands -51 2 £488 +2.63% 1
East Midlands -15 1 - - 1
West Midlands -64 1 £488 +2.63%

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

For the 6 months to 3 August 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 86 (100.00%) AWS
2 49 (56.98%) Serverless
3 44 (51.16%) CI/CD
4 42 (48.84%) AWS Lambda
5 40 (46.51%) Python
6 35 (40.70%) Amazon S3
7 34 (39.53%) Microservices
8 30 (34.88%) Agile
9 22 (25.58%) Java
10 21 (24.42%) DevOps
10 21 (24.42%) Infrastructure as Code
10 21 (24.42%) SQL
11 20 (23.26%) Docker
11 20 (23.26%) Security Cleared
11 20 (23.26%) Terraform
12 19 (22.09%) RESTful
13 18 (20.93%) DynamoDB
14 17 (19.77%) Git
14 17 (19.77%) TypeScript
15 16 (18.60%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (18.60%) Amazon ECS
15 16 (18.60%) GitHub
15 16 (18.60%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (18.60%) Jenkins
15 16 (18.60%) SC Cleared
16 15 (17.44%) Event-Driven
17 14 (16.28%) AWS Step Functions
17 14 (16.28%) Node.js
18 13 (15.12%) Amazon SQS
18 13 (15.12%) React

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 (3.49%) Apache Spark
1 3 (3.49%) Confluence
2 2 (2.33%) Apache
2 2 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.33%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.16%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 86 (100.00%) AWS
2 49 (56.98%) Serverless
3 42 (48.84%) AWS Lambda
4 35 (40.70%) Amazon S3
5 16 (18.60%) Amazon EC2
5 16 (18.60%) Amazon ECS
5 16 (18.60%) GitHub
5 16 (18.60%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (16.28%) AWS Step Functions
7 13 (15.12%) Amazon SQS
8 12 (13.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (12.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (12.79%) Azure
10 9 (10.47%) Amazon EventBridge
11 7 (8.14%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (8.14%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (5.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 4 (4.65%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (4.65%) AWS CodePipeline
13 4 (4.65%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.16%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.93%) DynamoDB
2 9 (10.47%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (8.14%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (8.14%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.49%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (3.49%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.49%) Power BI
5 3 (3.49%) SQLite
6 2 (2.33%) Db2
7 1 (1.16%) Big Data
7 1 (1.16%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.16%) Metadata
7 1 (1.16%) Redis
7 1 (1.16%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (19.77%) Git
2 16 (18.60%) Jenkins
3 9 (10.47%) GitLab
4 4 (4.65%) Cypress.io
5 3 (3.49%) JIRA
6 2 (2.33%) JUnit
7 1 (1.16%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.16%) Mocha
7 1 (1.16%) Mockito
7 1 (1.16%) MSTest
7 1 (1.16%) tSQLt
General
1 14 (16.28%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.12%) Finance
3 12 (13.95%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.49%) Banking
6 2 (2.33%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.16%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.16%) Legal
7 1 (1.16%) Military
7 1 (1.16%) Retail
7 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (22.09%) RESTful
2 14 (16.28%) Node.js
3 13 (15.12%) React
4 11 (12.79%) Flask
5 10 (11.63%) FastAPI
5 10 (11.63%) Pandas
6 9 (10.47%) Kafka
7 8 (9.30%) AngularJS
7 8 (9.30%) Spring
8 7 (8.14%) Polars
8 7 (8.14%) Spring Boot
9 6 (6.98%) REST
9 6 (6.98%) Web Services
10 5 (5.81%) .NET
10 5 (5.81%) AWS CDK
11 4 (4.65%) Django
12 3 (3.49%) ADO
12 3 (3.49%) Next.js
12 3 (3.49%) PySpark
12 3 (3.49%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 23 (26.74%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.14%) Hedge funds
3 5 (5.81%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.33%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.33%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.33%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.16%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.16%) Derivative
5 1 (1.16%) IVR
5 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.16%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.16%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.16%) PKI
5 1 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.63%) Linux
2 9 (10.47%) Unix
3 1 (1.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (51.16%) CI/CD
2 34 (39.53%) Microservices
3 30 (34.88%) Agile
4 21 (24.42%) DevOps
4 21 (24.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (17.44%) Event-Driven
6 12 (13.95%) Containerisation
7 11 (12.79%) Code Quality
7 11 (12.79%) Data Pipeline
7 11 (12.79%) Full-Stack Development
8 10 (11.63%) Analytics
8 10 (11.63%) Software Engineering
9 9 (10.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (9.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 8 (9.30%) Front End Development
10 8 (9.30%) Migration
10 8 (9.30%) Performance Optimisation
10 8 (9.30%) SDLC
10 8 (9.30%) Test Automation
11 7 (8.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 40 (46.51%) Python
2 22 (25.58%) Java
3 21 (24.42%) SQL
4 17 (19.77%) TypeScript
5 12 (13.95%) JavaScript
6 11 (12.79%) C#
7 7 (8.14%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.16%) Bash
8 1 (1.16%) Go
8 1 (1.16%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 16 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.81%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.65%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.49%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.16%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.33%) QA
2 1 (1.16%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (23.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (23.26%) Terraform
2 12 (13.95%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.81%) Grafana
4 2 (2.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.16%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (3.49%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (2.33%) Splunk
2 2 (2.33%) Sybase
2 2 (2.33%) Trend Micro
3 1 (1.16%) Avaya
3 1 (1.16%) Confluent
3 1 (1.16%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.16%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.16%) SAP