AWS Certification Contracts

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 421 399 296
Rank change year-on-year -22 -103 +74
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 165 321 810
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.55% 0.92%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.26% 2.02% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 225 501
10th Percentile £451 £438 £450
25th Percentile £513 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £688
90th Percentile £763 £763 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £81.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +132.86% -12.50%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,080 15,853 18,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.33% 27.29% 21.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,082 10,577 12,473
10th Percentile £305 £330 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £626
90th Percentile £742 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £530 £500
% change year-on-year +0.94% +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,070 826 761
10th Percentile £13.83 £15.25 £13.75
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.22 £19.35
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £61.58 £68.48 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.35 £80.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £31.41
% change year-on-year -18.12% +59.18% -7.63%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification.

Daily rate trend for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification.

Hourly rate trend for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 8 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
England -31 143 £588 +6.82% 320
London +46 88 £573 -4.58% 150
Work from Home +19 66 £600 +9.09% 107
UK excluding London +14 53 £600 +9.09% 222
North of England +3 15 £600 +9.09% 57
North West +15 13 £600 +34.83% 29
South East +3 10 £535 +7.00% 24
Midlands +39 9 £650 +18.18% 53
East of England +8 8 £600 +6.67% 12
West Midlands - 7 £650 - 40
Scotland +46 6 £550 - 23
South West -20 4 £625 +11.11% 24
East Midlands +20 2 £620 +12.73% 13
Yorkshire +11 2 £500 -9.09% 18
Wales - 1 £643 - 6

AWS Certification
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 3 (1.82%) Apache
1 3 (1.82%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.82%) Confluence
2 1 (0.61%) IIS
2 1 (0.61%) nginx
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (4.24%) Chatbot
2 5 (3.03%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 165 (100.00%) AWS
2 70 (42.42%) Azure
3 44 (26.67%) Serverless
4 41 (24.85%) AWS Lambda
5 29 (17.58%) Amazon EC2
6 28 (16.97%) GCP
7 26 (15.76%) Amazon S3
8 23 (13.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 18 (10.91%) Entra ID
10 16 (9.70%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (7.88%) GitHub
12 11 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (6.06%) Amazon EMR
14 9 (5.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 9 (5.45%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (5.45%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (4.85%) Amazon Kinesis
16 7 (4.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 7 (4.24%) CloudFront
16 7 (4.24%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.91%) Firewall
2 17 (10.30%) Network Security
3 12 (7.27%) DNS
3 12 (7.27%) VPN
4 9 (5.45%) Cisco ASA
4 9 (5.45%) Cisco Nexus
5 8 (4.85%) BGP
5 8 (4.85%) IPv4
5 8 (4.85%) LAN
5 8 (4.85%) OSPF
6 7 (4.24%) CTI
6 7 (4.24%) VoIP
7 6 (3.64%) DHCP
7 6 (3.64%) IPv6
7 6 (3.64%) MPLS
7 6 (3.64%) VLAN
7 6 (3.64%) Wireless
8 5 (3.03%) HSRP
8 5 (3.03%) VXLAN
8 5 (3.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (17.58%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (12.12%) Data Lake
3 18 (10.91%) Big Data
4 11 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (6.06%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (4.85%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (3.64%) Relational Database
8 5 (3.03%) RDBMS
9 4 (2.42%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.42%) MySQL
9 4 (2.42%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.82%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (1.82%) GIS
10 3 (1.82%) Metadata
10 3 (1.82%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.21%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.21%) Parquet
11 2 (1.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (9.09%) Git
2 13 (7.88%) Jenkins
3 11 (6.67%) GitLab
4 4 (2.42%) JIRA
4 4 (2.42%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (1.82%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.21%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.61%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.61%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.61%) JUnit
7 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.61%) Terragrunt
General
1 39 (23.64%) Finance
2 33 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 17 (10.30%) Retail
4 15 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 10 (6.06%) Banking
6 9 (5.45%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (4.85%) Marketing
8 7 (4.24%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.03%) Electronics
10 2 (1.21%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.61%) French Language
11 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.61%) Military
11 1 (0.61%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.61%) Swedish Language
11 1 (0.61%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 55 (33.33%) Architect
2 35 (21.21%) AWS Engineer
3 30 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 24 (14.55%) Cloud Architect
4 24 (14.55%) DevOps Engineer
5 23 (13.94%) AWS Architect
6 20 (12.12%) Cloud Engineer
6 20 (12.12%) Senior
7 16 (9.70%) AWS DevOps
8 14 (8.48%) Lead
9 13 (7.88%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 13 (7.88%) Data Engineer
10 12 (7.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 12 (7.27%) Principal Architect
10 12 (7.27%) Principal Solutions Architect
11 10 (6.06%) Consultant
12 9 (5.45%) AWS Data Engineer
12 9 (5.45%) Security Engineer
13 8 (4.85%) AWS Consultant
13 8 (4.85%) AWS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.67%) React
2 9 (5.45%) GraphQL
2 9 (5.45%) Web Services
3 7 (4.24%) Middleware
4 6 (3.64%) .NET
4 6 (3.64%) OAuth
4 6 (3.64%) SAML
5 5 (3.03%) 802.1X
5 5 (3.03%) Node.js
5 5 (3.03%) OAuth2
6 4 (2.42%) REST
7 3 (1.82%) AWS CDK
7 3 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.82%) JDBC
7 3 (1.82%) ODBC
8 2 (1.21%) JSON
8 2 (1.21%) LDAP
8 2 (1.21%) PySpark
8 2 (1.21%) Spring
8 2 (1.21%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.45%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.24%) IVR
3 6 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (3.64%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.42%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.82%) Clustering
5 3 (1.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (1.82%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.82%) PKI
5 3 (1.82%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.82%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.82%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.82%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.21%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.21%) Life Science
6 2 (1.21%) Replication
6 2 (1.21%) Video on Demand
7 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 31 (18.79%) Linux
2 21 (12.73%) Windows
3 5 (3.03%) Unix
4 2 (1.21%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.61%) AIX
5 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (38.79%) DevOps
2 42 (25.45%) CI/CD
3 38 (23.03%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (21.21%) Agile
5 29 (17.58%) Containerisation
6 21 (12.73%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (12.12%) Cybersecurity
8 19 (11.52%) Capacity Planning
9 18 (10.91%) Scrum
9 18 (10.91%) SDLC
10 17 (10.30%) Data Modelling
10 17 (10.30%) Service Management
11 16 (9.70%) Computer Science
11 16 (9.70%) Machine Learning
12 15 (9.09%) Analytics
12 15 (9.09%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 14 (8.48%) Data Governance
13 14 (8.48%) ITIL
13 14 (8.48%) Technical Architecture
14 13 (7.88%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 61 (36.97%) Python
2 21 (12.73%) Bash
3 18 (10.91%) PowerShell
4 14 (8.48%) SQL
5 8 (4.85%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.03%) Java
7 4 (2.42%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.82%) C#
8 3 (1.82%) Ruby
9 1 (0.61%) Groovy
9 1 (0.61%) PHP
9 1 (0.61%) Scala
9 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (29.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 37 (22.42%) Azure Certification
3 30 (18.18%) Security Cleared
4 27 (16.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 26 (15.76%) SC Cleared
6 17 (10.30%) DV Cleared
7 16 (9.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 16 (9.70%) Degree
8 13 (7.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (5.45%) CISSP
11 7 (4.24%) CCNA
11 7 (4.24%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (4.24%) Master's Degree
12 6 (3.64%) CCNP
13 5 (3.03%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (3.03%) CISM
14 3 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (1.21%) CISA
15 2 (1.21%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.24%) PCI DSS
2 6 (3.64%) GDPR
2 6 (3.64%) HIPAA
2 6 (3.64%) SOC 2
3 3 (1.82%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.61%) NIST
System Software
1 38 (23.03%) Docker
2 18 (10.91%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.21%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.61%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.61%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 60 (36.36%) Terraform
2 42 (25.45%) Kubernetes
3 22 (13.33%) Ansible
4 18 (10.91%) Puppet
5 5 (3.03%) SolarWinds Orion
6 3 (1.82%) Grafana
6 3 (1.82%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.61%) Graylog
8 1 (0.61%) Nagios
8 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.61%) Salt
Vendors
1 33 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (12.12%) Cisco
3 19 (11.52%) Google
4 17 (10.30%) Oracle
5 12 (7.27%) Palo Alto
6 11 (6.67%) SAP
7 9 (5.45%) F5
8 7 (4.24%) Avaya
8 7 (4.24%) Genesys
9 5 (3.03%) CheckPoint
9 5 (3.03%) Infoblox
9 5 (3.03%) SolarWinds
9 5 (3.03%) VMware
10 3 (1.82%) Databricks
10 3 (1.82%) ESRI
10 3 (1.82%) Sage
10 3 (1.82%) Splunk
11 2 (1.21%) Facebook
11 2 (1.21%) Fortinet
11 2 (1.21%) Juniper