AWS Developer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Amazon Web Services Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £675, 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 230 288 326
Rank change year-on-year +58 +38 +98
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 74 57 153
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.75% 0.37% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.40% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 53 118
10th Percentile £405 £370 £425
25th Percentile £495 £450 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £531
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +12.94% -3.41%
75th Percentile £875 £788 £644
90th Percentile - £800 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £571 £525
% change year-on-year +0.66% +8.81% -12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

AWS Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured AWS Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS Developer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

AWS Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS Developer.

AWS Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing AWS Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

AWS Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring AWS Developer in the job title.

1 74 (100.00%) AWS
2 47 (63.51%) Python
3 42 (56.76%) Agile
4 40 (54.05%) Finance
5 39 (52.70%) React
5 39 (52.70%) Node.js
5 39 (52.70%) TypeScript
6 38 (51.35%) Software Engineering
6 38 (51.35%) JavaScript
6 38 (51.35%) Amazon Athena
7 35 (47.30%) Dremio
7 35 (47.30%) dbt
7 35 (47.30%) Apache Arrow
7 35 (47.30%) Apache Iceberg
7 35 (47.30%) Apache Airflow
7 35 (47.30%) Front Office
7 35 (47.30%) Asset Management
7 35 (47.30%) Fixed Income
8 30 (40.54%) Fintech
9 29 (39.19%) Vue
10 27 (36.49%) Performance Attribution
10 27 (36.49%) Pandas
10 27 (36.49%) GCP
10 27 (36.49%) PostgreSQL
10 27 (36.49%) AngularJS
10 27 (36.49%) SciPy
10 27 (36.49%) NumPy
10 27 (36.49%) Investment Management
11 26 (35.14%) Java
12 19 (25.68%) Risk Management

AWS Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 35 (47.30%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (25.68%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 74 (100.00%) AWS
2 35 (47.30%) dbt
3 27 (36.49%) GCP
4 18 (24.32%) Serverless
5 16 (21.62%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (16.22%) Amazon S3
7 8 (10.81%) GitHub
7 8 (10.81%) Snowflake
8 7 (9.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (6.76%) Amazon Cognito
9 5 (6.76%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (6.76%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (4.05%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (4.05%) AWS CloudTrail
12 2 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (2.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 2 (2.70%) Apigee
12 2 (2.70%) Azure
12 2 (2.70%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.05%) HTTP
2 1 (1.35%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (51.35%) Amazon Athena
2 35 (47.30%) Apache Arrow
2 35 (47.30%) Apache Iceberg
2 35 (47.30%) Dremio
3 27 (36.49%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (14.86%) Apache Ignite
4 11 (14.86%) DynamoDB
5 5 (6.76%) MySQL
6 3 (4.05%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (4.05%) Parquet
6 3 (4.05%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.70%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.35%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (6.76%) Git
2 2 (2.70%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.70%) Cypress.io
2 2 (2.70%) git-flow
3 1 (1.35%) Ant
3 1 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.35%) GitLab
3 1 (1.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.35%) Mocha
3 1 (1.35%) Postman
3 1 (1.35%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.35%) webpack
General
1 40 (54.05%) Finance
2 35 (47.30%) Front Office
3 14 (18.92%) Banking
4 12 (16.22%) Investment Banking
5 6 (8.11%) Social Skills
6 4 (5.41%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (4.05%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.35%) Retail
8 1 (1.35%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (52.70%) Node.js
1 39 (52.70%) React
2 29 (39.19%) Vue
3 27 (36.49%) AngularJS
3 27 (36.49%) NumPy
3 27 (36.49%) Pandas
3 27 (36.49%) SciPy
4 14 (18.92%) AWS CDK
5 13 (17.57%) Redux
6 11 (14.86%) gRPC
6 11 (14.86%) Protocol Buffers
7 8 (10.81%) PySpark
8 6 (8.11%) JSON
8 6 (8.11%) Kafka
9 5 (6.76%) GraphQL
9 5 (6.76%) RESTful
10 4 (5.41%) CSS
11 3 (4.05%) HTML
11 3 (4.05%) Jest
11 3 (4.05%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 35 (47.30%) Fixed Income
2 18 (24.32%) Equities
2 18 (24.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (14.86%) Derivative
4 8 (10.81%) Hedge funds
5 6 (8.11%) Cloud Native
6 3 (4.05%) Management Information System
6 3 (4.05%) Market Risk
6 3 (4.05%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.70%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.70%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.35%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.35%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.35%) Vector Graphics
8 1 (1.35%) Video on Demand
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (56.76%) Agile
2 38 (51.35%) Software Engineering
3 35 (47.30%) Asset Management
4 30 (40.54%) Fintech
5 27 (36.49%) Investment Management
5 27 (36.49%) Performance Attribution
6 19 (25.68%) Risk Management
7 16 (21.62%) Order Management
8 13 (17.57%) CI/CD
9 11 (14.86%) Credit Risk Analysis
10 8 (10.81%) Data Management
10 8 (10.81%) DevOps
10 8 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (10.81%) Test Automation
11 7 (9.46%) Full-Stack Development
12 5 (6.76%) Event-Driven
13 4 (5.41%) Clean Code
13 4 (5.41%) Kanban
13 4 (5.41%) Mentoring
13 4 (5.41%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 47 (63.51%) Python
2 39 (52.70%) TypeScript
3 38 (51.35%) JavaScript
4 26 (35.14%) Java
5 18 (24.32%) SQL
6 2 (2.70%) Clojure
6 2 (2.70%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.35%) Bash
7 1 (1.35%) C#
7 1 (1.35%) Go
7 1 (1.35%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (9.46%) AWS Certification
2 3 (4.05%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.05%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (6.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (1.35%) Google
1 1 (1.35%) Imperva
1 1 (1.35%) Splunk