AWS Certified Developer Contract Job Trends in the South East

AWS Certified Developer
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 22 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 - 209
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Developer 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.019% - 0.036%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.039% - 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £557
25th Percentile - - £562
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £571
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.86%
75th Percentile - - £579
90th Percentile - - £583
England median daily rate £525 £525 £560
% change year-on-year - -6.25% -6.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,546 1,164 2,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 47.10% 39.05% 45.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,695 756 1,433
10th Percentile £304 £286 £263
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.02% -0.45% +3.77%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £716
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 82 185
10th Percentile £15.62 £19.98 £17.80
25th Percentile £19.74 £28.00 £24.25
Median hourly rate £45.10 £56.75 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -20.52% -1.05% +12.45%
75th Percentile £84.00 £69.38 £66.74
90th Percentile £88.00 £78.24 £84.00
England median hourly rate £29.61 £50.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year -40.78% +29.03% -22.50%

AWS Certified Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

AWS Certified Developer job vacancy trend in the South East

AWS Certified Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing AWS Certified Developer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing AWS Certified Developer

AWS Certified Developer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 22 March 2026. 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
Berkshire - 1 £525 - 2
Thames Valley - 1 £525 - 2
AWS Certified Developer
England

AWS Certified Developer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
1 1 (100.00%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared