AWS Certified Developer Contract Job Trends in Central London

AWS Certified Developer
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for AWS Certified Developer qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 127 147
Rank change year-on-year +2 +20 -
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Developer 3 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.16% 0.17% 0.065%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.63% 0.71% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £694 £421 £517
25th Percentile £741 £423 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £838 £455 £546
Median % change year-on-year +84.07% -16.70% -
75th Percentile £856 £534 £567
90th Percentile - £565 £572
London median daily rate £500 £459 £544
% change year-on-year +8.99% -15.63% -23.01%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

AWS Certified Developer falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Central London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 477 563 635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 25.71% 24.08% 20.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 337 388
10th Percentile £331 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £460 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £688
90th Percentile £726 £753 £804
London median daily rate £537 £544 £550
% change year-on-year -1.24% -1.14% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 3
10th Percentile £24.24 £23.10 £13.40
25th Percentile £25.54 £27.00 £15.13
Median hourly rate £27.75 £32.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% +80.56% -58.26%
75th Percentile £34.48 £112.00 £47.75
90th Percentile £53.50 - £65.60
London median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -22.73% +24.69%

AWS Certified Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS Certified Developer relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

AWS Certified Developer job vacancy trend in Central London

AWS Certified Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing AWS Certified Developer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing AWS Certified Developer

AWS Certified Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Developer in Central London over the 6 months to 25 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certified Developer in Central London

AWS Certified Developer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 25 October 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
City of London +8 3 £838 +84.07%
AWS Certified Developer
London

AWS Certified Developer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon Neptune
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Applications Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Applications Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Log Aggregation
1 1 (33.33%) Microservices
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform