AWS Certified Developer Contracts

AWS Certified Developer
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 594 687
Rank change year-on-year +112 +93 +128
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Developer 37 6 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.014% 0.044%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.41% 0.045% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 3 20
10th Percentile £412 £533 -
25th Percentile £499 £544 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £585 £619 £600
90th Percentile - £638 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 8,989 13,363 16,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.75% 30.65% 27.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,678 8,219 10,866
10th Percentile £288 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £707 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £530 £530
% change year-on-year -5.57% - +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 516 1,077 849
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.87 £15.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.72 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -25.93% +29.75%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.60 £68.25
90th Percentile £80.34 £75.25 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £40.94 £49.57
% change year-on-year +9.92% -17.41% +55.44%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Developer over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certified Developer in the UK

AWS Certified Developer
Top 8 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 30 April 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
England +86 29 £585 +1.74% 11
London +59 25 £585 +1.74% 5
UK excluding London +63 11 £550 -15.38% 6
Scotland - 8 £550 - 1
Work from Home - 4 £515 - 22
South West - 2 £538 - 2
Midlands +24 1 £540 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £540 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (27.03%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 37 (100.00%) AWS
2 18 (48.65%) Serverless
3 8 (21.62%) Amazon SQS
3 8 (21.62%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (18.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (18.92%) Amazon S3
5 6 (16.22%) Amazon ECR
6 5 (13.51%) AWS KMS
7 4 (10.81%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (8.11%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (5.41%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (2.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (2.70%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (2.70%) Azure
10 1 (2.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) DNS
1 2 (5.41%) Firewall
1 2 (5.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (45.95%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (43.24%) MongoDB
2 16 (43.24%) NoSQL
3 8 (21.62%) DynamoDB
4 5 (13.51%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.70%) MySQL
5 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (32.43%) Bitbucket
2 10 (27.03%) JIRA
3 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.70%) Git
5 1 (2.70%) Maven
General
1 17 (45.95%) Public Sector
2 2 (5.41%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.70%) Finance
Job Titles
1 23 (62.16%) Developer
2 16 (43.24%) Java Developer
2 16 (43.24%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 9 (24.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) AWS Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (5.41%) AWS Specialist
5 2 (5.41%) DevOps Specialist
5 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (5.41%) Senior
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Developer
6 1 (2.70%) Applications Developer
6 1 (2.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (2.70%) Java Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Junior Developer
6 1 (2.70%) Junior Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (2.70%) Python Developer
6 1 (2.70%) QA Automation Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (56.76%) React
2 17 (45.95%) Spring Boot
3 16 (43.24%) Kafka
3 16 (43.24%) Spring
4 6 (16.22%) Node.js
5 5 (13.51%) boto
6 1 (2.70%) AWS CDK
6 1 (2.70%) JWT
6 1 (2.70%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (2.70%) OAuth
6 1 (2.70%) REST
6 1 (2.70%) SAML
6 1 (2.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
1 2 (5.41%) Distributed Architecture
1 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.70%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (2.70%) Video on Demand
2 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Linux
1 2 (5.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (70.27%) DevOps
2 19 (51.35%) Microservices
3 17 (45.95%) API Development
3 17 (45.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (43.24%) Agile
4 16 (43.24%) Clean Code
4 16 (43.24%) SOLID
5 12 (32.43%) Containerisation
6 11 (29.73%) CI/CD
7 10 (27.03%) Computer Science
7 10 (27.03%) Continuous Delivery
7 10 (27.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (27.03%) Mathematics
7 10 (27.03%) Operational Stability
8 5 (13.51%) Secrets Management
8 5 (13.51%) Static Code Analysis
9 4 (10.81%) Full-Stack Development
10 3 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
11 2 (5.41%) Continuous Deployment
11 2 (5.41%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 19 (51.35%) Java
1 19 (51.35%) Python
2 18 (48.65%) JavaScript
3 16 (43.24%) SQL
4 6 (16.22%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.70%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 21 (56.76%) AWS Certification
2 17 (45.95%) SC Cleared
2 17 (45.95%) Security Cleared
3 13 (35.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (10.81%) Degree
5 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (48.65%) Kubernetes
1 18 (48.65%) Terraform
2 2 (5.41%) Progress Chef
2 2 (5.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Splunk
2 1 (2.70%) MuleSoft
2 1 (2.70%) Salesforce