AWS Developer Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services Developer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in the UK is £481, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 575 352 461
Rank change year-on-year -223 +109 -14
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 85 203 102
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.61% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.67% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 161 82
10th Percentile £369 £363 £351
25th Percentile £400 £435 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -16.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £575 £875 £738
90th Percentile £663 - £875
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £467 £450
% change year-on-year +7.07% +3.78% -4.71%

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 49,505 30,216 36,013
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 91.29% 92.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,709 19,089 23,205
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £625 £621 £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 3,494 1,545 1,999
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.60 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.53 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% +2.87%
75th Percentile £67.96 £53.99 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +21.62%

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 17 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 17 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 -223 71 £500 -9.09% 9
London -155 46 £450 -43.75% 5
Work from Home -127 32 £500 -37.50% 6
UK excluding London -132 24 £500 +7.07% 4
North of England -79 11 £550 +25.07% 1
Scotland -10 5 £425 +13.33%
North West -45 5 £725 +81.25%
Yorkshire -39 4 £550 +4.76% 1
North East -40 3 £500 -
South West -43 3 £380 -2.56% 2
South East -64 3 £600 +24.35%
Midlands -51 2 £488 +2.63% 1
East Midlands -16 1 - - 1
West Midlands -57 1 £488 +2.63%

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 85 (100.00%) AWS
2 48 (56.47%) Serverless
3 44 (51.76%) CI/CD
4 42 (49.41%) AWS Lambda
5 38 (44.71%) Python
6 35 (41.18%) Amazon S3
7 33 (38.82%) Microservices
8 32 (37.65%) Agile
9 23 (27.06%) Docker
9 23 (27.06%) RESTful
10 22 (25.88%) Java
11 21 (24.71%) DevOps
11 21 (24.71%) SQL
12 19 (22.35%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (22.35%) Jenkins
13 18 (21.18%) DynamoDB
13 18 (21.18%) Git
13 18 (21.18%) Terraform
14 17 (20.00%) Event-Driven
14 17 (20.00%) GitHub
14 17 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (18.82%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (18.82%) Amazon ECS
15 16 (18.82%) Security Cleared
16 15 (17.65%) Kubernetes
17 14 (16.47%) Amazon SQS
17 14 (16.47%) AWS Step Functions
18 13 (15.29%) Azure
18 13 (15.29%) Containerisation
18 13 (15.29%) Linux

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 4 (4.71%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.53%) Confluence
3 2 (2.35%) Apache
3 2 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.35%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.18%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 85 (100.00%) AWS
2 48 (56.47%) Serverless
3 42 (49.41%) AWS Lambda
4 35 (41.18%) Amazon S3
5 17 (20.00%) GitHub
5 17 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (18.82%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (18.82%) Amazon ECS
7 14 (16.47%) Amazon SQS
7 14 (16.47%) AWS Step Functions
8 13 (15.29%) Azure
9 12 (14.12%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (10.59%) Amazon EventBridge
11 9 (10.59%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (9.41%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (5.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 4 (4.71%) Amazon Kinesis
14 4 (4.71%) AWS CodePipeline
14 4 (4.71%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.18%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (21.18%) DynamoDB
2 9 (10.59%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (8.24%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (8.24%) NoSQL
3 7 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.53%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (3.53%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.53%) Power BI
4 3 (3.53%) SQLite
5 2 (2.35%) Db2
5 2 (2.35%) Redis
5 2 (2.35%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.35%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.18%) Big Data
6 1 (1.18%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.18%) Flink
6 1 (1.18%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 19 (22.35%) Jenkins
2 18 (21.18%) Git
3 10 (11.76%) GitLab
4 4 (4.71%) Cypress.io
4 4 (4.71%) JIRA
5 2 (2.35%) JUnit
6 1 (1.18%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.18%) Mocha
6 1 (1.18%) Mockito
6 1 (1.18%) MSTest
6 1 (1.18%) tSQLt
General
1 13 (15.29%) Finance
1 13 (15.29%) Public Sector
1 13 (15.29%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.53%) Manufacturing
3 3 (3.53%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.35%) Banking
5 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.18%) Military
5 1 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.18%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (27.06%) RESTful
2 12 (14.12%) Kafka
2 12 (14.12%) Node.js
3 11 (12.94%) Flask
3 11 (12.94%) Spring
4 10 (11.76%) FastAPI
4 10 (11.76%) Pandas
5 9 (10.59%) React
5 9 (10.59%) REST
6 8 (9.41%) Spring Boot
7 7 (8.24%) .NET
7 7 (8.24%) AngularJS
7 7 (8.24%) Polars
8 6 (7.06%) Web Services
9 5 (5.88%) AWS CDK
9 5 (5.88%) Django
10 3 (3.53%) .NET Core
10 3 (3.53%) GraphQL
10 3 (3.53%) Next.js
10 3 (3.53%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 24 (28.24%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.24%) Hedge funds
3 4 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.35%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.18%) IVR
5 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.18%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.18%) NHS
5 1 (1.18%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (15.29%) Linux
2 11 (12.94%) Unix
3 2 (2.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (51.76%) CI/CD
2 33 (38.82%) Microservices
3 32 (37.65%) Agile
4 21 (24.71%) DevOps
5 19 (22.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (20.00%) Event-Driven
7 13 (15.29%) Containerisation
8 12 (14.12%) Code Quality
8 12 (14.12%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (10.59%) Analytics
10 9 (10.59%) Full-Stack Development
10 9 (10.59%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (10.59%) Test Automation
11 8 (9.41%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 8 (9.41%) Migration
11 8 (9.41%) Performance Optimisation
11 8 (9.41%) SDLC
11 8 (9.41%) Software Engineering
12 7 (8.24%) Benchmarking
Programming Languages
1 38 (44.71%) Python
2 22 (25.88%) Java
3 21 (24.71%) SQL
4 13 (15.29%) TypeScript
5 12 (14.12%) C#
6 10 (11.76%) JavaScript
7 7 (8.24%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.53%) Bash
9 1 (1.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (18.82%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.29%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.53%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.53%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (3.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.35%) QA
1 2 (2.35%) WCAG
2 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
System Software
1 23 (27.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (21.18%) Terraform
2 15 (17.65%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.24%) Grafana
4 4 (4.71%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.53%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (4.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.35%) ServiceNow
2 2 (2.35%) Splunk
2 2 (2.35%) Sybase
2 2 (2.35%) Trend Micro
3 1 (1.18%) Avaya
3 1 (1.18%) Confluent
3 1 (1.18%) Databricks
3 1 (1.18%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.18%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.18%) SAP