AWS Developer Contracts

Amazon Web Services Developer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 471 437
Rank change year-on-year +101 -34 -16
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 154 127 285
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.29% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.31% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 109 227
10th Percentile £400 £339 £425
25th Percentile £450 £456 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £568 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% +8.10% -12.50%
75th Percentile £794 £788 £650
90th Percentile £875 £800 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £430 £463
% change year-on-year +19.48% -7.03% -15.91%

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 27,138 40,367 56,304
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,714 26,265 39,350
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,034 2,668 1,565
10th Percentile £14.06 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.40
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
% change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%

AWS Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured AWS Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Developer in the UK

AWS Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Developer.

Daily rate trend for AWS Developer in the UK

AWS Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Developer over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Developer in the UK

AWS Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS Developer.

Hourly rate trend for AWS Developer in the UK

AWS Developer
Top 12 Contract 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 2 May 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 +81 133 £575 -4.17% 26
London +66 102 £675 +4.85% 8
Work from Home +67 75 £675 +12.50% 21
UK excluding London +63 31 £514 +19.48% 19
North of England +21 10 £575 +46.03% 9
Scotland +12 10 £525 +26.51% 1
North West +12 8 £625 +78.95% 7
Midlands - 4 £525 - 7
West Midlands - 4 £525 - 2
East of England - 4 £501 - 2
South East +45 3 £483 -25.77% 1
Yorkshire +7 2 £413 -10.81%

AWS Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, AWS Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring AWS Developer in the job title.

1 154 (100.00%) AWS
2 81 (52.60%) Python
3 67 (43.51%) Java
4 64 (41.56%) Agile
5 63 (40.91%) React
6 60 (38.96%) Finance
7 59 (38.31%) Software Engineering
8 54 (35.06%) TypeScript
9 53 (34.42%) JavaScript
10 52 (33.77%) Node.js
11 50 (32.47%) Amazon Athena
12 45 (29.22%) CI/CD
13 43 (27.92%) Apache Arrow
13 43 (27.92%) Dremio
13 43 (27.92%) dbt
13 43 (27.92%) Apache Iceberg
13 43 (27.92%) Apache Airflow
13 43 (27.92%) Asset Management
13 43 (27.92%) Front Office
13 43 (27.92%) Fixed Income
14 42 (27.27%) Serverless
15 40 (25.97%) SQL
16 39 (25.32%) PostgreSQL
17 38 (24.68%) Vue
17 38 (24.68%) AngularJS
18 36 (23.38%) AWS Lambda
19 34 (22.08%) Pandas
19 34 (22.08%) SciPy
19 34 (22.08%) NumPy
19 34 (22.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)

AWS Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 43 (27.92%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (18.18%) Apache
3 2 (1.30%) Alfresco
3 2 (1.30%) Camunda
3 2 (1.30%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (1.30%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 154 (100.00%) AWS
2 43 (27.92%) dbt
3 42 (27.27%) Serverless
4 36 (23.38%) AWS Lambda
5 27 (17.53%) GCP
6 26 (16.88%) Amazon S3
7 16 (10.39%) Snowflake
8 14 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (8.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (7.79%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (7.14%) GitHub
12 10 (6.49%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (3.90%) Amazon Cognito
13 6 (3.90%) AWS CodePipeline
13 6 (3.90%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (3.25%) AWS KMS
14 5 (3.25%) PaaS
14 5 (3.25%) SaaS
15 4 (2.60%) Datadog
15 4 (2.60%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.95%) HTTP
2 1 (0.65%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (32.47%) Amazon Athena
2 43 (27.92%) Apache Arrow
2 43 (27.92%) Apache Iceberg
2 43 (27.92%) Dremio
3 39 (25.32%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (14.29%) DynamoDB
5 11 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (6.49%) Apache Ignite
7 8 (5.19%) MySQL
7 8 (5.19%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.60%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (2.60%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.60%) Parquet
9 3 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.95%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.30%) GIS
11 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (15.58%) Git
2 11 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.90%) JIRA
3 6 (3.90%) JUnit
4 5 (3.25%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.95%) Maven
5 3 (1.95%) Mockito
6 2 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.30%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (1.30%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.30%) DbUnit
6 2 (1.30%) git-flow
6 2 (1.30%) jMock
6 2 (1.30%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.65%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.65%) Gradle
7 1 (0.65%) Mocha
7 1 (0.65%) Postman
7 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.65%) webpack
General
1 60 (38.96%) Finance
2 43 (27.92%) Front Office
3 31 (20.13%) Banking
4 27 (17.53%) Investment Banking
5 14 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 14 (9.09%) Social Skills
6 13 (8.44%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (1.95%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.95%) Billing
8 2 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.65%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.65%) Retail
9 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (40.91%) React
2 52 (33.77%) Node.js
3 38 (24.68%) AngularJS
3 38 (24.68%) Vue
4 34 (22.08%) NumPy
4 34 (22.08%) Pandas
4 34 (22.08%) SciPy
5 18 (11.69%) AWS CDK
6 16 (10.39%) PySpark
7 12 (7.79%) Redux
8 10 (6.49%) gRPC
8 10 (6.49%) Protocol Buffers
8 10 (6.49%) REST
9 9 (5.84%) Kafka
9 9 (5.84%) Spring
10 8 (5.19%) JSON
10 8 (5.19%) RESTful
11 7 (4.55%) Flask
11 7 (4.55%) GraphQL
11 7 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 43 (27.92%) Fixed Income
2 34 (22.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 27 (17.53%) Equities
4 23 (14.94%) Hedge funds
5 19 (12.34%) Derivative
6 8 (5.19%) Cloud Native
6 8 (5.19%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (3.90%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.60%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.95%) Market Risk
9 3 (1.95%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.95%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.30%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.65%) Vector Graphics
11 1 (0.65%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.44%) Linux
2 3 (1.95%) Android
3 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (41.56%) Agile
2 59 (38.31%) Software Engineering
3 45 (29.22%) CI/CD
4 43 (27.92%) Asset Management
5 31 (20.13%) Fintech
6 27 (17.53%) Investment Management
6 27 (17.53%) Performance Attribution
7 22 (14.29%) Risk Management
8 21 (13.64%) DevOps
8 21 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (11.04%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (11.04%) Order Management
10 16 (10.39%) Data Management
11 14 (9.09%) Containerisation
12 13 (8.44%) Clean Code
12 13 (8.44%) Microservices
12 13 (8.44%) TDD
13 12 (7.79%) Front End Development
13 12 (7.79%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (7.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 81 (52.60%) Python
2 67 (43.51%) Java
3 54 (35.06%) TypeScript
4 53 (34.42%) JavaScript
5 40 (25.97%) SQL
6 12 (7.79%) C#
7 7 (4.55%) C++
7 7 (4.55%) Rust
8 4 (2.60%) Clojure
8 4 (2.60%) Scala
9 3 (1.95%) Bash
9 3 (1.95%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.95%) RPG
9 3 (1.95%) RPG IV
10 2 (1.30%) R
10 2 (1.30%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.65%) Go
11 1 (0.65%) Groovy
11 1 (0.65%) JSX
11 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 18 (11.69%) SC Cleared
1 18 (11.69%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.49%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.95%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.65%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.30%) Accessibility
System Software
1 24 (15.58%) Docker
2 2 (1.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (1.30%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 25 (16.23%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.39%) Terraform
3 2 (1.30%) Grafana
3 2 (1.30%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.65%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (3.25%) Splunk
2 3 (1.95%) Google
3 2 (1.30%) Atlassian
3 2 (1.30%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (1.30%) Oracle
3 2 (1.30%) Virgin Media
4 1 (0.65%) Imperva
4 1 (0.65%) Solace
4 1 (0.65%) TIBCO