AWS Software Engineer Contracts

Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK

The median Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the UK is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 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
29 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 433 521 642
Rank change year-on-year +88 +121 -56
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Software Engineer 92 64 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.15% 0.084%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.16% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 59 40
10th Percentile £450 £563 £473
25th Percentile £638 £663 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £675
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +18.52% +12.50%
75th Percentile £875 £850 £788
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 - £525
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 26,595 39,741 53,234
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.79% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,233 25,863 37,175
10th Percentile £290 £280 £313
25th Percentile £405 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,046 2,776 1,475
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.81 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.97 £37.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.78% -17.38% +87.50%
75th Percentile £59.68 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.50 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +112.50%

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 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Software Engineer in the UK

AWS Software Engineer
Top 9 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 29 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 +93 89 £750 -6.25% 274
London +76 82 £800 - 44
Work from Home +65 71 £750 -6.25% 276
UK excluding London +69 10 £475 - 264
North of England +13 6 £438 - 74
North West +8 5 £425 - 40
Scotland +12 3 £500 - 14
South East - 1 £750 - 64
Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 24

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 92 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 92 (100.00%) AWS
2 76 (82.61%) Agile
3 75 (81.52%) Finance
4 71 (77.17%) Front Office
4 71 (77.17%) Fixed Income
4 71 (77.17%) Asset Management
4 71 (77.17%) Apache Airflow
4 71 (77.17%) Amazon Athena
4 71 (77.17%) Dremio
4 71 (77.17%) dbt
4 71 (77.17%) Apache Arrow
4 71 (77.17%) Apache Iceberg
5 70 (76.09%) Python
6 66 (71.74%) TypeScript
7 64 (69.57%) JavaScript
8 58 (63.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 58 (63.04%) Equities
9 55 (59.78%) Pandas
9 55 (59.78%) SciPy
9 55 (59.78%) NumPy
10 52 (56.52%) Java
11 50 (54.35%) Investment Management
12 48 (52.17%) Apache
13 41 (44.57%) Investment Banking
13 41 (44.57%) Banking
13 41 (44.57%) Derivative
13 41 (44.57%) Node.js
13 41 (44.57%) Hedge funds
13 41 (44.57%) Snowflake

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 71 (77.17%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (52.17%) Apache
3 1 (1.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 92 (100.00%) AWS
2 71 (77.17%) dbt
3 41 (44.57%) Snowflake
4 35 (38.04%) GCP
5 12 (13.04%) Serverless
6 8 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (6.52%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (6.52%) Amazon S3
8 5 (5.43%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (5.43%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (5.43%) Dagster
9 4 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (3.26%) Amazon Cognito
10 3 (3.26%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (3.26%) Apigee
10 3 (3.26%) Datadog
11 2 (2.17%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (2.17%) CloudFront
11 2 (2.17%) GitHub
11 2 (2.17%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.26%) HTTP
2 1 (1.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (77.17%) Amazon Athena
1 71 (77.17%) Apache Arrow
1 71 (77.17%) Apache Iceberg
1 71 (77.17%) Dremio
2 32 (34.78%) Apache Ignite
3 25 (27.17%) Data Lake
4 23 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.35%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.26%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.17%) MySQL
7 2 (2.17%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 4 (4.35%) Git
2 3 (3.26%) Bitbucket
2 3 (3.26%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (2.17%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.17%) JIRA
3 2 (2.17%) Mocha
3 2 (2.17%) Postman
3 2 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (2.17%) webpack
4 1 (1.09%) Ant
4 1 (1.09%) Babel
General
1 75 (81.52%) Finance
2 71 (77.17%) Front Office
3 41 (44.57%) Banking
3 41 (44.57%) Investment Banking
4 4 (4.35%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (59.78%) NumPy
1 55 (59.78%) Pandas
1 55 (59.78%) SciPy
2 41 (44.57%) Node.js
3 36 (39.13%) React
4 32 (34.78%) gRPC
4 32 (34.78%) Protocol Buffers
4 32 (34.78%) Vue
5 31 (33.70%) AngularJS
6 21 (22.83%) PySpark
7 7 (7.61%) AWS CDK
7 7 (7.61%) Redux
8 4 (4.35%) RESTful
8 4 (4.35%) Swagger
9 3 (3.26%) .NET
9 3 (3.26%) CSS
9 3 (3.26%) GraphQL
9 3 (3.26%) HTML
9 3 (3.26%) JSON
9 3 (3.26%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 71 (77.17%) Fixed Income
2 58 (63.04%) Equities
2 58 (63.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 41 (44.57%) Derivative
3 41 (44.57%) Hedge funds
4 20 (21.74%) Pricing Data
5 5 (5.43%) Cloud Native
6 4 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (3.26%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.17%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.17%) Mobile App
8 2 (2.17%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.17%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.17%) Vector Graphics
9 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 76 (82.61%) Agile
3 71 (77.17%) Asset Management
4 50 (54.35%) Investment Management
5 33 (35.87%) Fintech
6 30 (32.61%) Performance Attribution
7 23 (25.00%) Order Management
7 23 (25.00%) Risk Management
8 16 (17.39%) Data Management
9 10 (10.87%) CI/CD
10 8 (8.70%) DevOps
10 8 (8.70%) Test Automation
11 7 (7.61%) Credit Risk Analysis
11 7 (7.61%) Microservices
12 6 (6.52%) Infrastructure as Code
13 5 (5.43%) Event-Driven
13 5 (5.43%) Migration
14 4 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence
14 4 (4.35%) Observability
14 4 (4.35%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 70 (76.09%) Python
2 66 (71.74%) TypeScript
3 64 (69.57%) JavaScript
4 52 (56.52%) Java
5 19 (20.65%) SQL
6 3 (3.26%) C#
7 2 (2.17%) Bash
8 1 (1.09%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
1 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.09%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.35%) Terraform
2 2 (2.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.09%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (2.17%) Splunk
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