[4][5][6] He is currently on the board of directors of the consortium of construction companies responsible for building the "Ashgabat City" residential development.
From 1992 to 1995 he ran a small business, Nusga; at the Ahal Province Gas company, and as deputy town mayor of Baherden.
[9] In 2017, Durdylyyev was reappointed mayor of Ashgabat and remained in that position until February 2020, when he was appointed deputy chairman of the government for construction and industry.
[13][14] On December 30, 2020, he and two other officials received "stern reprimands" due to an electrical outage that affected Ashgabat and other areas of Turkmenistan.
[16] On 9 July 2021, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow relieved Durdylyyev of his post in the Cabinet of Ministers and appointed him to the board of directors of the consortium of construction companies building the "Ashgabat City" (Turkmen: Aşgabat-Siti) residential complex.
[7][8] In April 2022, President Serdar Berdimuhamedow appointed him mayor (Turkmen: häkim) of the new city of Arkadag, at that time still under construction and unnamed.