AWS Developer Contracts

Amazon Web Services Developer
UK

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in the UK is £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 483 434 404
Rank change year-on-year -49 -30 -123
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 119 272 557
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.49% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.52% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 228 466
10th Percentile £334 £425 £438
25th Percentile £461 £462 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.90% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £731 £675 £675
90th Percentile £800 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £454 £520
% change year-on-year -11.94% -12.64% +16.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

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 9 June 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 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 9 June 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 +1 101 £600 +4.35% 21
London +35 79 £625 -1.96% 8
Work from Home +23 48 £600 +11.11% 12
UK excluding London -5 23 £400 -11.94% 13
Scotland +12 10 £440 -2.22%
North of England +16 8 £311 -45.91% 6
North West +8 7 £311 -42.14% 5
South West - 3 £350 - 3
Midlands +16 2 £550 +31.34% 4
West Midlands +10 2 £550 +46.67% 2
South East +8 2 £625 +2.46%
Yorkshire +10 1 £400 -33.33% 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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.

1 119 (100.00%) AWS
2 44 (36.97%) Agile
3 40 (33.61%) Python
4 38 (31.93%) Finance
5 34 (28.57%) JavaScript
6 32 (26.89%) SQL
6 32 (26.89%) Java
7 30 (25.21%) React
8 29 (24.37%) Fixed Income
9 28 (23.53%) Serverless
10 27 (22.69%) TypeScript
11 26 (21.85%) Software Engineering
11 26 (21.85%) CI/CD
12 23 (19.33%) Front Office
13 22 (18.49%) Node.js
13 22 (18.49%) GCP
13 22 (18.49%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (17.65%) Amazon S3
14 21 (17.65%) Asset Management
15 20 (16.81%) TDD
16 18 (15.13%) Apache Airflow
16 18 (15.13%) .NET
17 17 (14.29%) C#
17 17 (14.29%) Apache
17 17 (14.29%) Banking
17 17 (14.29%) AngularJS
17 17 (14.29%) Social Skills
17 17 (14.29%) dbt
18 16 (13.45%) Amazon Athena
18 16 (13.45%) .NET Core

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 18 (15.13%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (14.29%) Apache
3 4 (3.36%) Mule
4 3 (2.52%) CMS
5 1 (0.84%) CICS
Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Aareon QL
1 1 (0.84%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (0.84%) NEC Housing
1 1 (0.84%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 119 (100.00%) AWS
2 28 (23.53%) Serverless
3 22 (18.49%) AWS Lambda
3 22 (18.49%) GCP
4 21 (17.65%) Amazon S3
5 17 (14.29%) dbt
6 13 (10.92%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (10.08%) Azure
8 11 (9.24%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (8.40%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (8.40%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (5.04%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (5.04%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (4.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (3.36%) GitHub
12 4 (3.36%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (2.52%) Amazon EMR
13 3 (2.52%) Amazon EventBridge
13 3 (2.52%) AWS KMS
13 3 (2.52%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.52%) SSL
2 2 (1.68%) SMS
3 1 (0.84%) DNS
3 1 (0.84%) HTTP
3 1 (0.84%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.45%) Amazon Athena
1 16 (13.45%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (12.61%) Apache Arrow
2 15 (12.61%) Apache Ignite
2 15 (12.61%) Dremio
3 10 (8.40%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (6.72%) DynamoDB
5 6 (5.04%) NoSQL
5 6 (5.04%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.20%) Data Lake
6 5 (4.20%) MySQL
7 4 (3.36%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (3.36%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (2.52%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.52%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.68%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.84%) DB2
Development Applications
1 15 (12.61%) Git
2 8 (6.72%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.04%) Bitbucket
4 5 (4.20%) JIRA
5 4 (3.36%) Cypress.io
5 4 (3.36%) JUnit
5 4 (3.36%) Liquibase
5 4 (3.36%) Log4j
5 4 (3.36%) Mockito
5 4 (3.36%) PHPUnit
5 4 (3.36%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.52%) Mocha
7 2 (1.68%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.84%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.84%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.84%) CocoaPods
8 1 (0.84%) GitLab
8 1 (0.84%) GoCD
8 1 (0.84%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 38 (31.93%) Finance
2 23 (19.33%) Front Office
3 17 (14.29%) Banking
3 17 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 10 (8.40%) Investment Banking
5 5 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.36%) Corporate Banking
6 4 (3.36%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (3.36%) Retail
6 4 (3.36%) Retail Banking
7 3 (2.52%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.84%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.84%) Law
8 1 (0.84%) Legal
8 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (25.21%) React
2 22 (18.49%) Node.js
3 18 (15.13%) .NET
4 17 (14.29%) AngularJS
5 16 (13.45%) .NET Core
6 15 (12.61%) gRPC
6 15 (12.61%) NumPy
6 15 (12.61%) Pandas
6 15 (12.61%) Protocol Buffers
6 15 (12.61%) RESTful
6 15 (12.61%) SciPy
7 12 (10.08%) AWS CDK
7 12 (10.08%) REST
7 12 (10.08%) Spring
7 12 (10.08%) Spring Boot
8 11 (9.24%) Redux
9 10 (8.40%) Vue
10 8 (6.72%) Kafka
11 7 (5.88%) Next.js
12 6 (5.04%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 29 (24.37%) Fixed Income
2 11 (9.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (7.56%) Derivative
3 9 (7.56%) Equities
3 9 (7.56%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (7.56%) Onboarding
4 7 (5.88%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.36%) Credit Derivative
6 3 (2.52%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.52%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.68%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.68%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (0.84%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.84%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.84%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.84%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.84%) NHS
8 1 (0.84%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.20%) Linux
2 1 (0.84%) Android
2 1 (0.84%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.84%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.84%) Unix
2 1 (0.84%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (36.97%) Agile
2 26 (21.85%) CI/CD
2 26 (21.85%) Software Engineering
3 21 (17.65%) Asset Management
4 20 (16.81%) TDD
5 15 (12.61%) DevOps
5 15 (12.61%) Microservices
6 13 (10.92%) Fintech
6 13 (10.92%) Unit Testing
7 12 (10.08%) Containerisation
7 12 (10.08%) Design Patterns
7 12 (10.08%) OO
7 12 (10.08%) Test Automation
8 11 (9.24%) Analytics
9 10 (8.40%) Credit Risk Analysis
9 10 (8.40%) Full Stack Development
9 10 (8.40%) Investment Management
9 10 (8.40%) Performance Attribution
10 9 (7.56%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (7.56%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 40 (33.61%) Python
2 34 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 32 (26.89%) Java
3 32 (26.89%) SQL
4 27 (22.69%) TypeScript
5 17 (14.29%) C#
6 5 (4.20%) PHP
7 3 (2.52%) Bash
7 3 (2.52%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.68%) C
8 2 (1.68%) C++
9 1 (0.84%) COBOL
9 1 (0.84%) Groovy
9 1 (0.84%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.84%) Scala
9 1 (0.84%) Swift
Qualifications
1 10 (8.40%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.56%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.52%) Degree
4 2 (1.68%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.20%) MiFID
2 3 (2.52%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.52%) QA
3 2 (1.68%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.84%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (11.76%) Kubernetes
1 14 (11.76%) Terraform
2 1 (0.84%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 7 (5.88%) Oracle
2 5 (4.20%) OpenAI
3 3 (2.52%) Sage
4 2 (1.68%) Bloomberg
4 2 (1.68%) Reuters
4 2 (1.68%) Virgin Media
5 1 (0.84%) Aareon
5 1 (0.84%) Capita
5 1 (0.84%) Civica
5 1 (0.84%) IBM
5 1 (0.84%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.84%) NEC
5 1 (0.84%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.84%) SAP
5 1 (0.84%) Syncfusion
5 1 (0.84%) Typelevel