AWS Software Engineer Contracts

Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK is £800, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 427 534 664
Rank change year-on-year +107 +130 -53
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Software Engineer 93 48 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.11% 0.090%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.12% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 41 46
10th Percentile £450 £563 £438
25th Percentile £638 £663 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £750 £663
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +13.21% +10.42%
75th Percentile £875 £850 £788
90th Percentile £888 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 - £525
% change year-on-year - - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
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 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +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 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

AWS Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Software Engineer in the UK

AWS Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Software Engineer in the UK

AWS Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Software Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Software Engineer in the UK

AWS Software Engineer
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +99 89 £800 +6.67% 52
London +75 82 £800 +6.67% 25
Work from Home +80 72 £800 - 42
UK excluding London +70 10 £475 - 34
North of England +23 6 £438 - 23
North West +20 5 £425 - 19
Scotland +15 3 £500 -
Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 2
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 1
Midlands - 1 £500 - 1

AWS Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, AWS Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 93 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 93 (100.00%) AWS
2 77 (82.80%) Finance
3 75 (80.65%) Agile
4 72 (77.42%) Asset Management
4 72 (77.42%) Fixed Income
4 72 (77.42%) Front Office
4 72 (77.42%) Python
4 72 (77.42%) Apache Airflow
4 72 (77.42%) Amazon Athena
4 72 (77.42%) Dremio
4 72 (77.42%) dbt
4 72 (77.42%) Apache Arrow
4 72 (77.42%) Apache Iceberg
5 66 (70.97%) JavaScript
5 66 (70.97%) TypeScript
6 56 (60.22%) Pandas
6 56 (60.22%) SciPy
6 56 (60.22%) NumPy
6 56 (60.22%) Apache
7 55 (59.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 55 (59.14%) Equities
8 54 (58.06%) Java
9 45 (48.39%) Snowflake
9 45 (48.39%) Derivative
9 45 (48.39%) Banking
9 45 (48.39%) Investment Banking
9 45 (48.39%) Hedge funds
10 44 (47.31%) GCP
11 40 (43.01%) Protocol Buffers

AWS Software Engineer 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 72 (77.42%) Apache Airflow
2 56 (60.22%) Apache
3 1 (1.08%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 93 (100.00%) AWS
2 72 (77.42%) dbt
3 45 (48.39%) Snowflake
4 44 (47.31%) GCP
5 18 (19.35%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (18.28%) Amazon ECS
6 17 (18.28%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (18.28%) Dagster
7 9 (9.68%) Serverless
8 8 (8.60%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (6.45%) Amazon S3
10 5 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (3.23%) Amazon Cognito
11 3 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (2.15%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (2.15%) CloudFront
12 2 (2.15%) GitHub
12 2 (2.15%) Route 53
13 1 (1.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (1.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.23%) HTTP
2 1 (1.08%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (77.42%) Amazon Athena
1 72 (77.42%) Apache Arrow
1 72 (77.42%) Apache Iceberg
1 72 (77.42%) Dremio
2 40 (43.01%) Apache Ignite
3 29 (31.18%) Data Lake
4 18 (19.35%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.23%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.23%) MySQL
5 3 (3.23%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.15%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.15%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Bitbucket
1 3 (3.23%) Git
1 3 (3.23%) JIRA
2 2 (2.15%) Cypress.io
2 2 (2.15%) Mocha
2 2 (2.15%) Postman
2 2 (2.15%) Visual Studio Code
2 2 (2.15%) webpack
3 1 (1.08%) Ant
3 1 (1.08%) Babel
3 1 (1.08%) Jenkins
General
1 77 (82.80%) Finance
2 72 (77.42%) Front Office
3 45 (48.39%) Banking
3 45 (48.39%) Investment Banking
4 3 (3.23%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.08%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (60.22%) NumPy
1 56 (60.22%) Pandas
1 56 (60.22%) SciPy
2 40 (43.01%) gRPC
2 40 (43.01%) Protocol Buffers
3 39 (41.94%) Node.js
4 35 (37.63%) React
5 33 (35.48%) PySpark
6 29 (31.18%) Vue
7 28 (30.11%) AngularJS
8 11 (11.83%) Redux
9 8 (8.60%) AWS CDK
10 5 (5.38%) RESTful
11 4 (4.30%) .NET
11 4 (4.30%) GraphQL
11 4 (4.30%) Swagger
12 3 (3.23%) .NET Core
12 3 (3.23%) HTML
12 3 (3.23%) REST
12 3 (3.23%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 72 (77.42%) Fixed Income
2 55 (59.14%) Equities
2 55 (59.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 45 (48.39%) Derivative
3 45 (48.39%) Hedge funds
4 12 (12.90%) Pricing Data
5 4 (4.30%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.23%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.23%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.15%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.15%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.15%) Vector Graphics
8 1 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 75 (80.65%) Agile
3 72 (77.42%) Asset Management
4 39 (41.94%) Investment Management
5 30 (32.26%) Fintech
6 27 (29.03%) Performance Attribution
7 18 (19.35%) Migration
8 16 (17.20%) Data Management
8 16 (17.20%) Order Management
8 16 (17.20%) Risk Management
9 11 (11.83%) Credit Risk Analysis
10 9 (9.68%) CI/CD
11 8 (8.60%) Microservices
12 5 (5.38%) DevOps
12 5 (5.38%) Infrastructure as Code
12 5 (5.38%) Test Automation
13 4 (4.30%) Problem-Solving
13 4 (4.30%) User Experience
14 3 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence
14 3 (3.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 72 (77.42%) Python
2 66 (70.97%) JavaScript
2 66 (70.97%) TypeScript
3 54 (58.06%) Java
4 18 (19.35%) SQL
5 4 (4.30%) C#
6 2 (2.15%) Bash
7 1 (1.08%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
1 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.08%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.38%) Terraform
2 3 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.08%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.08%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (1.08%) Oracle
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