AWS Developer Contracts

Amazon Web Services Developer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 469 441 420
Rank change year-on-year -28 -21 -138
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 123 281 526
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.47% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.50% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 224 445
10th Percentile £332 £425 £450
25th Percentile £456 £456 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £750 £650 £653
90th Percentile £800 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £463 £544
% change year-on-year -4.86% -14.94% +21.51%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,241 56,070 84,738
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,194 39,189 59,507
10th Percentile £277 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,567 2,091
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.16 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.75 £48.76
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.37 £19.52
% change year-on-year -6.64% +117.03% +2.74%

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 3 May 2024.

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 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 Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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 +18 102 £600 +7.87% 16
London +32 75 £625 +7.30% 6
Work from Home +28 52 £575 +6.98% 18
UK excluding London +12 27 £440 -4.86% 12
North of England +25 11 £400 -27.27% 2
Scotland +14 11 £415 -7.78%
North West +17 9 £311 -40.76% 1
South West +21 4 £575 +9.52%
South East +8 4 £650 +6.12% 1
Yorkshire +18 2 £463 -19.57%

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, 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.

1 123 (100.00%) AWS
2 44 (35.77%) Agile
3 36 (29.27%) Java
4 35 (28.46%) Python
5 34 (27.64%) Finance
6 31 (25.20%) React
7 30 (24.39%) Serverless
8 27 (21.95%) JavaScript
9 26 (21.14%) SQL
9 26 (21.14%) TypeScript
9 26 (21.14%) AWS Lambda
10 24 (19.51%) Social Skills
11 23 (18.70%) CI/CD
12 21 (17.07%) Fixed Income
12 21 (17.07%) Software Engineering
12 21 (17.07%) Amazon S3
13 20 (16.26%) Node.js
14 19 (15.45%) Microservices
14 19 (15.45%) GCP
14 19 (15.45%) .NET
15 18 (14.63%) Front Office
16 17 (13.82%) C#
16 17 (13.82%) TDD
16 17 (13.82%) Asset Management
16 17 (13.82%) .NET Core
17 16 (13.01%) Terraform
17 16 (13.01%) Banking
18 15 (12.20%) DevOps
18 15 (12.20%) RESTful
18 15 (12.20%) PostgreSQL

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 13 (10.57%) Apache
1 13 (10.57%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.25%) Mule
3 3 (2.44%) CMS
4 1 (0.81%) CICS
4 1 (0.81%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Aareon QL
1 1 (0.81%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (0.81%) NEC Housing
1 1 (0.81%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 123 (100.00%) AWS
2 30 (24.39%) Serverless
3 26 (21.14%) AWS Lambda
4 21 (17.07%) Amazon S3
5 19 (15.45%) GCP
6 13 (10.57%) Azure
6 13 (10.57%) dbt
7 12 (9.76%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (8.94%) Amazon SQS
8 11 (8.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (5.69%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (4.07%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (4.07%) Amazon EventBridge
12 4 (3.25%) AWS Step Functions
13 3 (2.44%) Amazon Cognito
13 3 (2.44%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (2.44%) AWS KMS
13 3 (2.44%) Contentful
13 3 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.44%) SSL
2 2 (1.63%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (9.76%) DynamoDB
3 11 (8.94%) Amazon Athena
3 11 (8.94%) Apache Arrow
3 11 (8.94%) Apache Ignite
3 11 (8.94%) Dremio
4 9 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (5.69%) NoSQL
5 7 (5.69%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.88%) MySQL
7 4 (3.25%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (3.25%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.25%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (2.44%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.44%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.81%) DB2
10 1 (0.81%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.81%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (8.94%) Git
2 7 (5.69%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.07%) Cypress.io
4 4 (3.25%) Bitbucket
4 4 (3.25%) JUnit
4 4 (3.25%) Liquibase
4 4 (3.25%) Log4j
4 4 (3.25%) Mockito
4 4 (3.25%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.44%) JIRA
5 3 (2.44%) Mocha
5 3 (2.44%) PHPUnit
6 2 (1.63%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.81%) CocoaPods
7 1 (0.81%) GoCD
7 1 (0.81%) Maven
7 1 (0.81%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.81%) Protractor
7 1 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.81%) Xcode
General
1 34 (27.64%) Finance
2 24 (19.51%) Social Skills
3 18 (14.63%) Front Office
4 16 (13.01%) Banking
5 10 (8.13%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.07%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (4.07%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.44%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (2.44%) Retail
8 3 (2.44%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.81%) Automotive
9 1 (0.81%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.81%) Law
9 1 (0.81%) Legal
9 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (25.20%) React
2 20 (16.26%) Node.js
3 19 (15.45%) .NET
4 17 (13.82%) .NET Core
5 15 (12.20%) RESTful
6 13 (10.57%) Spring
6 13 (10.57%) Spring Boot
7 12 (9.76%) AngularJS
8 11 (8.94%) AWS CDK
8 11 (8.94%) gRPC
8 11 (8.94%) NumPy
8 11 (8.94%) Pandas
8 11 (8.94%) Protocol Buffers
8 11 (8.94%) SciPy
9 9 (7.32%) REST
10 7 (5.69%) Kafka
10 7 (5.69%) Lambda Expressions
10 7 (5.69%) Web Services
11 6 (4.88%) Next.js
11 6 (4.88%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 21 (17.07%) Fixed Income
2 11 (8.94%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (8.13%) Onboarding
4 8 (6.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (5.69%) Public Cloud
6 6 (4.88%) Derivative
6 6 (4.88%) Equities
7 4 (3.25%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.25%) Credit Derivative
8 2 (1.63%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.63%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (1.63%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.81%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.81%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.81%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.81%) NHS
9 1 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.44%) Linux
2 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.81%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.81%) Unix
2 1 (0.81%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (35.77%) Agile
2 23 (18.70%) CI/CD
3 21 (17.07%) Software Engineering
4 19 (15.45%) Microservices
5 17 (13.82%) Asset Management
5 17 (13.82%) TDD
6 15 (12.20%) DevOps
7 14 (11.38%) Analytics
8 13 (10.57%) Full Stack Development
9 12 (9.76%) Front End Development
9 12 (9.76%) Scrum
9 12 (9.76%) Unit Testing
10 10 (8.13%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (8.13%) OO
10 10 (8.13%) Performance Tuning
10 10 (8.13%) Test Automation
11 9 (7.32%) Containerisation
11 9 (7.32%) Design Patterns
12 8 (6.50%) Fintech
13 7 (5.69%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 36 (29.27%) Java
2 35 (28.46%) Python
3 27 (21.95%) JavaScript
4 26 (21.14%) SQL
4 26 (21.14%) TypeScript
5 17 (13.82%) C#
6 5 (4.07%) PHP
7 2 (1.63%) Bash
7 2 (1.63%) C
7 2 (1.63%) C++
7 2 (1.63%) Go
7 2 (1.63%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.81%) COBOL
8 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.81%) Ruby
8 1 (0.81%) Rust
8 1 (0.81%) Scala
8 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.81%) Swift
8 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (8.13%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.32%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.44%) Degree
4 2 (1.63%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.07%) MiFID
2 4 (3.25%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.44%) QA
4 2 (1.63%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.81%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (8.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (13.01%) Terraform
2 11 (8.94%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.81%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 6 (4.88%) Oracle
2 5 (4.07%) OpenAI
3 3 (2.44%) Sage
3 3 (2.44%) Virgin Media
4 1 (0.81%) Aareon
4 1 (0.81%) Capita
4 1 (0.81%) Civica
4 1 (0.81%) IBM
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.81%) NEC
4 1 (0.81%) SAP