AWS Developer Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Developer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in the UK is £505, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 December 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 439 437 440
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -25
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 156 112 162
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.31% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.34% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 100 143
10th Percentile £373 £376 £401
25th Percentile £413 £494 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.20% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £875 £713 £750
90th Percentile £988 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £456
% change year-on-year -14.29% +15.07% -8.75%
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 Vacancies
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 33,145 33,385 42,274
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.93% 92.77% 93.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,040 20,359 28,495
10th Percentile £285 £300 £294
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,927 1,147 1,515
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.36 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +39.88%
75th Percentile £57.25 £63.93 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +78.00%

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025. 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 +26 144 £525 -19.23% 21
London +20 96 £675 - 6
Work from Home +2 65 £800 +18.52% 9
UK excluding London -25 46 £450 -14.29% 16
North of England -29 25 £400 -21.95% 14
North West -13 15 £400 -20.00% 8
South East +5 11 £462 -21.78% 2
Yorkshire -31 8 £525 -6.67% 3
East of England -8 4 £538 -
Scotland 0 3 £419 -7.76%
South West -4 2 - -
North East - 2 £400 - 3
Wales - 1 £475 -

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

For the 6 months to 6 December 2025, 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.

1 156 (100.00%) AWS
2 80 (51.28%) Java
3 76 (48.72%) Python
4 53 (33.97%) PostgreSQL
5 52 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 51 (32.69%) JavaScript
7 44 (28.21%) React
8 42 (26.92%) SQL
9 41 (26.28%) Node.js
10 39 (25.00%) Serverless
11 38 (24.36%) Kafka
12 35 (22.44%) Agile
12 35 (22.44%) AngularJS
12 35 (22.44%) Risk Management
12 35 (22.44%) Software Engineering
13 34 (21.79%) AWS Lambda
14 32 (20.51%) Git
14 32 (20.51%) Kubernetes
14 32 (20.51%) Vue
15 31 (19.87%) Docker
15 31 (19.87%) Microservices
15 31 (19.87%) TypeScript
16 30 (19.23%) NumPy
16 30 (19.23%) Pandas
16 30 (19.23%) SciPy
17 27 (17.31%) TDD
18 26 (16.67%) C#
18 26 (16.67%) Terraform
19 25 (16.03%) Spring
19 25 (16.03%) Spring Boot

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 15 (9.62%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.92%) JBoss
2 3 (1.92%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (3.21%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 156 (100.00%) AWS
2 39 (25.00%) Serverless
3 34 (21.79%) AWS Lambda
4 24 (15.38%) Amazon S3
5 20 (12.82%) GitHub
6 18 (11.54%) GCP
7 15 (9.62%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (9.62%) dbt
8 13 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (6.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (5.13%) Amazon Kinesis
13 7 (4.49%) AWS Fargate
13 7 (4.49%) AWS Step Functions
14 6 (3.85%) Azure
14 6 (3.85%) Datadog
15 5 (3.21%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (3.21%) SaaS
16 4 (2.56%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.56%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.64%) DNS
2 1 (0.64%) Firewall
2 1 (0.64%) HTTP
2 1 (0.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (33.97%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (11.54%) Amazon Athena
3 17 (10.90%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (10.26%) DynamoDB
5 15 (9.62%) Apache Arrow
5 15 (9.62%) Apache Iceberg
5 15 (9.62%) Dremio
6 13 (8.33%) Relational Database
7 10 (6.41%) MongoDB
7 10 (6.41%) MySQL
7 10 (6.41%) NoSQL
8 9 (5.77%) RDBMS
9 6 (3.85%) HBase
10 5 (3.21%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (3.21%) DB2
11 4 (2.56%) Power BI
12 3 (1.92%) Redis
12 3 (1.92%) SQL Server
12 3 (1.92%) Tableau
13 2 (1.28%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 32 (20.51%) Git
2 19 (12.18%) JUnit
3 15 (9.62%) Jenkins
4 11 (7.05%) Cucumber
5 9 (5.77%) Gradle
5 9 (5.77%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (5.13%) JIRA
7 7 (4.49%) GitLab
8 6 (3.85%) Artifactory
8 6 (3.85%) Maven
9 2 (1.28%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.64%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.64%) Mockito
10 1 (0.64%) Vite
10 1 (0.64%) webpack
General
1 62 (39.74%) Finance
2 37 (23.72%) Banking
3 33 (21.15%) Investment Banking
4 25 (16.03%) Social Skills
5 18 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (11.54%) Front Office
6 13 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.64%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (28.21%) React
2 41 (26.28%) Node.js
3 38 (24.36%) Kafka
4 35 (22.44%) AngularJS
5 32 (20.51%) Vue
6 30 (19.23%) NumPy
6 30 (19.23%) Pandas
6 30 (19.23%) SciPy
7 25 (16.03%) Spring
7 25 (16.03%) Spring Boot
8 18 (11.54%) Flask
9 17 (10.90%) FastAPI
10 15 (9.62%) Polars
11 13 (8.33%) REST
12 11 (7.05%) AWS CDK
13 7 (4.49%) .NET
13 7 (4.49%) RESTful
14 6 (3.85%) GraphQL
14 6 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (3.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 30 (19.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 19 (12.18%) Management Information System
3 18 (11.54%) Derivative
3 18 (11.54%) Market Risk
4 15 (9.62%) Equities
4 15 (9.62%) Fixed Income
4 15 (9.62%) Hedge funds
5 11 (7.05%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (3.21%) NHS
7 4 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.92%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.28%) Video on Demand
9 2 (1.28%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.64%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.64%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.64%) PKI
10 1 (0.64%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 20 (12.82%) Linux
2 4 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 35 (22.44%) Agile
2 35 (22.44%) Risk Management
2 35 (22.44%) Software Engineering
3 31 (19.87%) Microservices
4 27 (17.31%) TDD
5 23 (14.74%) Clean Code
6 22 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (13.46%) Analytics
8 19 (12.18%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (11.54%) DevOps
10 17 (10.90%) Data Engineering
10 17 (10.90%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (10.26%) Fintech
12 15 (9.62%) Asset Management
12 15 (9.62%) Investment Management
12 15 (9.62%) Mathematics
12 15 (9.62%) Performance Attribution
12 15 (9.62%) Structured Programming
12 15 (9.62%) Systematic Trading
Programming Languages
1 80 (51.28%) Java
2 76 (48.72%) Python
3 51 (32.69%) JavaScript
4 42 (26.92%) SQL
5 31 (19.87%) TypeScript
6 26 (16.67%) C#
7 15 (9.62%) C++
7 15 (9.62%) Rust
8 5 (3.21%) Bash
9 4 (2.56%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.92%) PHP
11 2 (1.28%) Go
11 2 (1.28%) Ruby
12 1 (0.64%) Clojure
12 1 (0.64%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (5.77%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.49%) OCP
2 7 (4.49%) Oracle Certification
3 6 (3.85%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.21%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.56%) QA
2 2 (1.28%) Data Quality
System Software
1 31 (19.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (20.51%) Kubernetes
2 26 (16.67%) Terraform
3 9 (5.77%) Grafana
4 4 (2.56%) Ansible
5 2 (1.28%) Kibana
6 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (3.21%) CA Agile Central
1 5 (3.21%) Sybase
2 4 (2.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.56%) Oracle
2 4 (2.56%) ServiceNow
3 2 (1.28%) Concur
3 2 (1.28%) Google
3 2 (1.28%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.64%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.64%) Ping Identity
4 1 (0.64%) Solace
4 1 (0.64%) Splunk