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 1 January 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 444 442
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 +10
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 149 98 153
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.30% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.32% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 89 133
10th Percentile £386 £398 £413
25th Percentile £413 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £713 £788
90th Percentile £988 £738 -
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 33,835 30,753 40,099
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 92.71% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,431 18,857 26,859
10th Percentile £300 £298 £281
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,964 949 1,554
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.50 £14.43
25th Percentile £18.24 £21.05 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -27.78% +41.93%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.52 £46.18
% change year-on-year -20.21% -31.75% +80.14%

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 1 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 1 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 +10 135 £500 -25.93% 20
London +11 88 £675 - 6
Work from Home +1 59 £800 +18.52% 20
UK excluding London -29 45 £450 -12.41% 14
North of England -31 28 £425 -15.00% 10
North West -13 15 £400 -20.00% 5
Yorkshire -43 12 £501 -16.58% 5
South East -1 11 £462 -21.78%
Midlands -36 3 £400 -3.03% 4
East Midlands - 3 £400 - 4
Scotland +2 2 £525 +7.69%
Wales - 1 £475 -
North East - 1 £400 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 149 (100.00%) AWS
2 71 (47.65%) Python
3 69 (46.31%) Java
4 57 (38.26%) CI/CD
5 49 (32.89%) PostgreSQL
6 43 (28.86%) JavaScript
7 41 (27.52%) SQL
8 39 (26.17%) Node.js
9 38 (25.50%) React
9 38 (25.50%) Serverless
10 37 (24.83%) Kafka
11 33 (22.15%) Kubernetes
11 33 (22.15%) Terraform
12 32 (21.48%) Agile
12 32 (21.48%) AWS Lambda
13 29 (19.46%) AngularJS
13 29 (19.46%) Risk Management
13 29 (19.46%) Software Engineering
14 28 (18.79%) Docker
14 28 (18.79%) Infrastructure as Code
14 28 (18.79%) Microservices
14 28 (18.79%) TypeScript
15 27 (18.12%) TDD
16 25 (16.78%) Git
17 24 (16.11%) Vue
18 23 (15.44%) GitHub
19 22 (14.77%) Analytics
19 22 (14.77%) C#
19 22 (14.77%) DevOps
19 22 (14.77%) NumPy

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 9 (6.04%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 149 (100.00%) AWS
2 38 (25.50%) Serverless
3 32 (21.48%) AWS Lambda
4 23 (15.44%) GitHub
5 21 (14.09%) Amazon S3
6 15 (10.07%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (8.72%) GCP
8 11 (7.38%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (6.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (6.71%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (6.04%) dbt
11 8 (5.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (5.37%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (4.70%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (4.70%) Azure
13 6 (4.03%) AWS Fargate
13 6 (4.03%) AWS Step Functions
13 6 (4.03%) Datadog
14 5 (3.36%) SaaS
15 4 (2.68%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.68%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.67%) DNS
2 1 (0.67%) Firewall
2 1 (0.67%) HTTP
2 1 (0.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (32.89%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (11.41%) DynamoDB
3 15 (10.07%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (7.38%) Amazon Athena
4 11 (7.38%) MongoDB
4 11 (7.38%) Relational Database
5 10 (6.71%) NoSQL
6 9 (6.04%) Apache Arrow
6 9 (6.04%) Apache Iceberg
6 9 (6.04%) Dremio
6 9 (6.04%) MySQL
7 7 (4.70%) RDBMS
8 6 (4.03%) HBase
8 6 (4.03%) Redis
9 5 (3.36%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (2.68%) Power BI
10 4 (2.68%) SQL Server
11 3 (2.01%) Aerospike
11 3 (2.01%) DB2
11 3 (2.01%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (16.78%) Git
2 15 (10.07%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.05%) JUnit
4 7 (4.70%) Cucumber
5 6 (4.03%) Artifactory
5 6 (4.03%) GitLab
5 6 (4.03%) Gradle
5 6 (4.03%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.34%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.67%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.67%) JIRA
7 1 (0.67%) Maven
7 1 (0.67%) Mockito
7 1 (0.67%) Vite
7 1 (0.67%) webpack
General
1 54 (36.24%) Finance
2 36 (24.16%) Banking
3 32 (21.48%) Investment Banking
4 24 (16.11%) Social Skills
5 16 (10.74%) Public Sector
6 12 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (8.05%) Front Office
7 2 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (26.17%) Node.js
2 38 (25.50%) React
3 37 (24.83%) Kafka
4 29 (19.46%) AngularJS
5 24 (16.11%) Vue
6 22 (14.77%) NumPy
6 22 (14.77%) Pandas
6 22 (14.77%) SciPy
7 20 (13.42%) Spring
8 19 (12.75%) Flask
8 19 (12.75%) Spring Boot
9 17 (11.41%) FastAPI
10 13 (8.72%) Polars
11 11 (7.38%) AWS CDK
12 8 (5.37%) REST
13 7 (4.70%) .NET
14 6 (4.03%) GraphQL
14 6 (4.03%) Lambda Expressions
14 6 (4.03%) RESTful
15 5 (3.36%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 20 (13.42%) Management Information System
3 19 (12.75%) Derivative
3 19 (12.75%) Market Risk
4 16 (10.74%) Cloud Native
5 13 (8.72%) Hedge funds
6 9 (6.04%) Equities
6 9 (6.04%) Fixed Income
7 5 (3.36%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (3.36%) NHS
7 5 (3.36%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.34%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.34%) Video on Demand
10 1 (0.67%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.67%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.74%) Linux
2 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (38.26%) CI/CD
2 32 (21.48%) Agile
3 29 (19.46%) Risk Management
3 29 (19.46%) Software Engineering
4 28 (18.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (18.79%) Microservices
5 27 (18.12%) TDD
6 22 (14.77%) Analytics
6 22 (14.77%) DevOps
7 21 (14.09%) Full-Stack Development
8 20 (13.42%) Clean Code
9 18 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (10.74%) Data Engineering
11 14 (9.40%) SDLC
12 13 (8.72%) Mathematics
12 13 (8.72%) Structured Programming
12 13 (8.72%) Systematic Trading
13 10 (6.71%) Asset Management
13 10 (6.71%) Investment Management
14 9 (6.04%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 71 (47.65%) Python
2 69 (46.31%) Java
3 43 (28.86%) JavaScript
4 41 (27.52%) SQL
5 28 (18.79%) TypeScript
6 22 (14.77%) C#
7 13 (8.72%) C++
7 13 (8.72%) Rust
8 5 (3.36%) Bash
9 4 (2.68%) PHP
10 3 (2.01%) Ruby
11 1 (0.67%) Clojure
11 1 (0.67%) Go
11 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (8.05%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.04%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.70%) OCP
3 7 (4.70%) Oracle Certification
4 5 (3.36%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.34%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.34%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.34%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.67%) QA
System Software
1 28 (18.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.67%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 33 (22.15%) Kubernetes
1 33 (22.15%) Terraform
2 9 (6.04%) Grafana
3 4 (2.68%) Ansible
4 2 (1.34%) Kibana
5 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (3.36%) Salesforce
2 3 (2.01%) Databricks
2 3 (2.01%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.01%) Sybase
3 2 (1.34%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (1.34%) Concur
3 2 (1.34%) Google
3 2 (1.34%) Splunk
4 1 (0.67%) Adobe
4 1 (0.67%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.67%) Oracle
4 1 (0.67%) Ping Identity
4 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.67%) Virgin Media
4 1 (0.67%) Zend