AWS Certified Developer Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

AWS Certified Developer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 2 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 - 99
Rank change year-on-year - - +30
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Developer 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.16% - 0.090%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.76% - 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £393
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.64%
75th Percentile - - £401
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £550 - £393
% change year-on-year - - -30.22%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 131 180 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 21.13% 22.67% 17.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 112 109
10th Percentile £254 £156 £164
25th Percentile £403 £229 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £340 £450
Median % change year-on-year +32.35% -24.44% -3.23%
75th Percentile £525 £495 £513
90th Percentile £600 £588 £588
Scotland median daily rate £445 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +1.71% -7.89% +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 3
10th Percentile £32.85 £12.36 £43.74
25th Percentile £37.12 £13.88 £47.48
Median hourly rate £45.02 £17.00 £53.70
Median % change year-on-year +164.79% -68.34% +170.53%
75th Percentile £55.40 £18.00 £58.10
90th Percentile £61.16 £44.78 £60.74
Scotland median hourly rate £19.69 £17.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +15.82% -69.09% +22.22%

AWS Certified Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certified Developer in Edinburgh

AWS Certified Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

AWS Certified Developer
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Liquibase
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk