AWS Certified Developer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

AWS Certified Developer
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 - 459
Rank change year-on-year - - +147
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Developer 4 0 18
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% - 0.070%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.14% - 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 15
10th Percentile £367 - -
25th Percentile £430 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £606 - -
90th Percentile £663 - £639
UK median daily rate £550 £613 £563
% change year-on-year -10.20% +8.89% -2.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,762 4,242 6,586
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.88% 27.64% 25.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,865 2,651 4,417
10th Percentile £350 £325 £381
25th Percentile £425 £440 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £730 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 269 292
10th Percentile £19.10 £15.85 £20.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.51 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.76% -33.85% +33.22%
75th Percentile £67.75 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £85.78 £83.84 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

AWS Certified Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS Certified Developer as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS Certified Developer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

AWS Certified Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS Certified Developer.

AWS Certified Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Certified Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing AWS Certified Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

AWS Certified Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Certified Developer
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (25.00%) AWS KMS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (25.00%) boto
2 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Operational Stability
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk