AWS Certified Developer Contracts

AWS Certified Developer
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Certified Developer qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 592 693 810
Rank change year-on-year +101 +117 -158
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Developer 6 26 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.043% 0.044%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.045% 0.16% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 20 16
10th Percentile £533 - £501
25th Percentile £544 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% - +4.65%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £597
90th Percentile £638 £625 £664
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +13.04% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

AWS Certified Developer is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,270 16,337 19,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.65% 27.32% 21.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,165 10,899 12,575
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £530 £500
% change year-on-year - +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,067 858 776
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.25 £13.46
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.06 £19.33
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £56.31
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.28 £50.00 £31.89
% change year-on-year -19.45% +56.79% -14.39%

AWS Certified Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS Certified Developer as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certified Developer in the UK

AWS Certified Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Certified Developer.

Daily rate trend for AWS Certified Developer in the UK

AWS Certified Developer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certified Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +113 6 £575 -1.29% 5
UK excluding London +56 2 £650 +13.04% 3
London +92 1 £575 +7.48% 2
Midlands +23 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
East of England - 1 £650 - 1

AWS Certified Developer
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (83.33%) Serverless
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon Cognito
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 3 (50.00%) GitHub
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
5 1 (16.67%) CloudFront
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (50.00%) Big Data
1 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (33.33%) Metadata
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Architect
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Architect
4 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) JDBC
1 3 (50.00%) Node.js
1 3 (50.00%) ODBC
2 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) User Experience
3 3 (50.00%) Asset Management
3 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 3 (50.00%) SDLC
4 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (16.67%) Web Development
5 1 (16.67%) Website Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Sage
2 2 (33.33%) Google