AWS Certification Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 339 316
Rank change year-on-year -4 -23 +31
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 53 108 210
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.46% 0.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.70% 1.40% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 87 133
10th Percentile £456 £440 £414
25th Percentile £518 £500 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £638
90th Percentile £738 £688 £686
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

AWS Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,550 7,726 7,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.86% 32.93% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,354 5,173 5,169
10th Percentile £270 £287 £255
25th Percentile £425 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +6.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £635 £600
90th Percentile £725 £712 £675
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 932 644 522
10th Percentile £13.52 £13.94 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £16.52
Median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £31.89
Median % change year-on-year -18.12% +56.79% -7.67%
75th Percentile £63.29 £65.75 £55.96
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +11.55%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing AWS Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in the UK excluding London

AWS Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for AWS Certification in the UK excluding London

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in the UK excluding London

AWS Certification
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certification within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
North of England +4 15 £600 +9.09% 57
North West +7 13 £600 +34.83% 30
South East +19 10 £535 +7.00% 24
Midlands +43 9 £650 +18.18% 53
East of England +11 8 £600 +6.67% 12
West Midlands - 7 £650 - 40
Scotland +45 6 £550 - 23
South West -25 4 £625 +11.11% 25
East Midlands +25 2 £620 +12.73% 13
Yorkshire +3 2 £500 -9.09% 16
Wales - 1 £643 - 6
AWS Certification
UK

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (5.66%) Confluence
2 1 (1.89%) Apache
2 1 (1.89%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 53 (100.00%) AWS
2 24 (45.28%) Azure
3 15 (28.30%) Serverless
4 14 (26.42%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (24.53%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (22.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 11 (20.75%) Amazon S3
7 11 (20.75%) Entra ID
8 6 (11.32%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (11.32%) CloudFront
8 6 (11.32%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (9.43%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 5 (9.43%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (9.43%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (9.43%) GitHub
10 4 (7.55%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (7.55%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (5.66%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (5.66%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (5.66%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (24.53%) Network Security
2 7 (13.21%) VPN
3 6 (11.32%) Firewall
4 5 (9.43%) DNS
5 4 (7.55%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (5.66%) LAN
6 3 (5.66%) WAN
7 2 (3.77%) BGP
7 2 (3.77%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (3.77%) OSPF
7 2 (3.77%) SD-WAN
7 2 (3.77%) SSL
7 2 (3.77%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (24.53%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (5.66%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (5.66%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (3.77%) Big Data
3 2 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.77%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.89%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.89%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.89%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.89%) MySQL
4 1 (1.89%) Parquet
4 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (11.32%) Git
2 5 (9.43%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.55%) GitLab
4 3 (5.66%) JIRA
5 2 (3.77%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.89%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.89%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.89%) JUnit
6 1 (1.89%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (20.75%) Finance
2 8 (15.09%) Retail
3 7 (13.21%) Social Skills
4 4 (7.55%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.66%) Banking
5 3 (5.66%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.66%) Marketing
5 3 (5.66%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.77%) Electronics
7 1 (1.89%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 13 (24.53%) Architect
1 13 (24.53%) AWS Engineer
2 11 (20.75%) AWS DevOps
2 11 (20.75%) Senior
3 7 (13.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 7 (13.21%) Consultant
3 7 (13.21%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (13.21%) Senior DevOps
4 6 (11.32%) AWS Consultant
4 6 (11.32%) Cloud Architect
4 6 (11.32%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Applications Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Security Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) AWS Architect
6 4 (7.55%) DevOps Consultant
6 4 (7.55%) Network Architect
6 4 (7.55%) Senior Consultant
6 4 (7.55%) Senior DevOps Consultant
7 3 (5.66%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.43%) OAuth
1 5 (9.43%) OAuth2
1 5 (9.43%) SAML
2 4 (7.55%) GraphQL
2 4 (7.55%) React
3 3 (5.66%) Node.js
4 2 (3.77%) REST
4 2 (3.77%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (1.89%) .NET
5 1 (1.89%) ADO
5 1 (1.89%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.89%) JDBC
5 1 (1.89%) JSON
5 1 (1.89%) ODBC
5 1 (1.89%) RESTful
5 1 (1.89%) Spring
5 1 (1.89%) Spring Batch
5 1 (1.89%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.21%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.66%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.77%) PKI
3 2 (3.77%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.89%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.09%) Windows
2 3 (5.66%) Linux
3 2 (3.77%) Unix
4 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (39.62%) DevOps
2 20 (37.74%) CI/CD
3 14 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (24.53%) Containerisation
5 7 (13.21%) Application Security
5 7 (13.21%) Capacity Planning
5 7 (13.21%) Technical Architecture
6 6 (11.32%) Cloud Security
6 6 (11.32%) Data Security
6 6 (11.32%) DevSecOps
6 6 (11.32%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (9.43%) Cloud Operations
7 5 (9.43%) Cost Control
7 5 (9.43%) Incident Response
7 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (9.43%) Planning and Forecasting
7 5 (9.43%) Roadmaps
7 5 (9.43%) Task Automation
7 5 (9.43%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (9.43%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 22 (41.51%) Python
2 9 (16.98%) Bash
3 4 (7.55%) SQL
4 3 (5.66%) Ruby
5 2 (3.77%) C#
5 2 (3.77%) Java
5 2 (3.77%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.89%) PHP
6 1 (1.89%) Scala
6 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (28.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 12 (22.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 12 (22.64%) Azure Certification
3 6 (11.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 4 (7.55%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.55%) Security Cleared
5 3 (5.66%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (3.77%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (3.77%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.89%) CCNA
7 1 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.89%) Degree
7 1 (1.89%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.89%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.89%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.89%) NIST
1 1 (1.89%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (33.96%) Docker
2 11 (20.75%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.77%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 21 (39.62%) Terraform
2 15 (28.30%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.77%) Ansible
4 1 (1.89%) Grafana
4 1 (1.89%) Graylog
4 1 (1.89%) Nagios
4 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.32%) Oracle
3 5 (9.43%) Cisco
4 4 (7.55%) Palo Alto
5 3 (5.66%) Google
5 3 (5.66%) SAP
5 3 (5.66%) Splunk
5 3 (5.66%) VMware
6 2 (3.77%) F5
6 2 (3.77%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.89%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.89%) Databricks
7 1 (1.89%) Facebook
7 1 (1.89%) Instagram
7 1 (1.89%) Sage
7 1 (1.89%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.89%) Teradata