AWS Certification Contracts with Work from Home Options

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) 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 270 303 267
Rank change year-on-year +33 -36 +29
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 71 168 434
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.47% 0.67% 0.99%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.73% 2.64% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 123 288
10th Percentile £500 £440 £435
25th Percentile £525 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate - £81.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +132.86% -12.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,100 6,366 8,706
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.20% 25.37% 19.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,587 4,286 6,114
10th Percentile £331 £381 £369
25th Percentile £440 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 275 222
10th Percentile £15.85 £19.25 £19.37
25th Percentile £25.13 £42.50 £35.63
Median hourly rate £43.00 £64.68 £48.79
Median % change year-on-year -33.51% +32.56% +21.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £65.44
90th Percentile £83.20 £83.40 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +11.55%

AWS Certification
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS Certification trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS Certification.

AWS Certification daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing AWS Certification over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

AWS Certification daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Certification
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS Certification.

AWS Certification hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Certification
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 2 (2.82%) Confluence
1 2 (2.82%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 1 (1.41%) Apache
2 1 (1.41%) IIS
2 1 (1.41%) nginx
2 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (7.04%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 71 (100.00%) AWS
2 31 (43.66%) Azure
3 18 (25.35%) Entra ID
4 16 (22.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 15 (21.13%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (16.90%) Amazon S3
7 11 (15.49%) Serverless
8 10 (14.08%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (14.08%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (12.68%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 9 (12.68%) Azure Sentinel
9 9 (12.68%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (11.27%) GCP
11 6 (8.45%) Amazon EMR
11 6 (8.45%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (7.04%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (7.04%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (7.04%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (7.04%) CloudFront
12 5 (7.04%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.49%) Network Security
2 9 (12.68%) VPN
3 8 (11.27%) Firewall
4 5 (7.04%) CTI
4 5 (7.04%) DNS
4 5 (7.04%) VoIP
5 4 (5.63%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (2.82%) BGP
6 2 (2.82%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (2.82%) LAN
6 2 (2.82%) OSPF
6 2 (2.82%) SD-WAN
6 2 (2.82%) SSH
6 2 (2.82%) SSL
6 2 (2.82%) WAN
6 2 (2.82%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.41%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (28.17%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (9.86%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (7.04%) MySQL
3 5 (7.04%) RDBMS
3 5 (7.04%) Relational Database
4 4 (5.63%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (5.63%) NoSQL
4 4 (5.63%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.82%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.82%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (2.82%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (2.82%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.82%) GIS
5 2 (2.82%) Power BI
5 2 (2.82%) Tableau
6 1 (1.41%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 10 (14.08%) Git
2 6 (8.45%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.23%) JIRA
4 2 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.41%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.41%) GitLab
5 1 (1.41%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (28.17%) Finance
2 13 (18.31%) Retail
2 13 (18.31%) Telecoms
3 12 (16.90%) Social Skills
4 8 (11.27%) Marketing
4 8 (11.27%) Public Sector
5 7 (9.86%) Manufacturing
6 6 (8.45%) Electronics
7 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Banking
8 1 (1.41%) French Language
8 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Spanish Language
8 1 (1.41%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 25 (35.21%) Architect
2 15 (21.13%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (14.08%) AWS Architect
4 9 (12.68%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (11.27%) Cloud Architect
5 8 (11.27%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (11.27%) Lead
6 7 (9.86%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (9.86%) AWS Specialist
6 7 (9.86%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (9.86%) Consultant
6 7 (9.86%) Senior
7 5 (7.04%) Applications Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) AWS Consultant
7 5 (7.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Security Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (5.63%) Azure Specialist
8 4 (5.63%) Cloud Specialist
8 4 (5.63%) Lead Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.45%) SAML
2 5 (7.04%) Middleware
2 5 (7.04%) OAuth
2 5 (7.04%) OAuth2
2 5 (7.04%) Web Services
3 3 (4.23%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.82%) .NET
4 2 (2.82%) Kafka
4 2 (2.82%) LDAP
4 2 (2.82%) PySpark
4 2 (2.82%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.41%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.41%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.27%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.45%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.04%) Data Centre
3 5 (7.04%) IVR
4 3 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.82%) Clustering
5 2 (2.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.82%) PKI
5 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.82%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.82%) Video on Demand
5 2 (2.82%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.41%) CMDB
6 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.41%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.49%) Windows
2 6 (8.45%) Linux
3 1 (1.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (33.80%) DevOps
2 22 (30.99%) CI/CD
3 16 (22.54%) Capacity Planning
3 16 (22.54%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (19.72%) Containerisation
5 10 (14.08%) Cloud Operations
6 9 (12.68%) Cost Control
7 8 (11.27%) Agile
7 8 (11.27%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (11.27%) Cloud Security
7 8 (11.27%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (9.86%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (9.86%) Performance Optimisation
8 7 (9.86%) Roadmaps
9 6 (8.45%) Application Security
9 6 (8.45%) DevSecOps
9 6 (8.45%) Identity Access Management
9 6 (8.45%) Incident Response
9 6 (8.45%) Planning and Forecasting
9 6 (8.45%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (26.76%) Python
2 11 (15.49%) Bash
3 5 (7.04%) JavaScript
3 5 (7.04%) SQL
4 4 (5.63%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.23%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (28.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 16 (22.54%) Azure Certification
3 13 (18.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 11 (15.49%) Security Cleared
5 10 (14.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 8 (11.27%) SC Cleared
7 6 (8.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (8.45%) Degree
7 6 (8.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (7.04%) Master's Degree
9 4 (5.63%) DV Cleared
10 3 (4.23%) CISSP
11 2 (2.82%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (1.41%) CEH
12 1 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (1.41%) CISM
12 1 (1.41%) CSSLP
12 1 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (1.41%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.04%) GDPR
1 5 (7.04%) PCI DSS
2 4 (5.63%) HIPAA
2 4 (5.63%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.41%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (29.58%) Docker
2 18 (25.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (29.58%) Kubernetes
2 19 (26.76%) Terraform
3 3 (4.23%) Ansible
3 3 (4.23%) Grafana
3 3 (4.23%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.82%) Puppet
5 1 (1.41%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.41%) Graylog
5 1 (1.41%) Nagios
5 1 (1.41%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.41%) Salt
5 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (23.94%) Microsoft
2 15 (21.13%) Oracle
3 9 (12.68%) Cisco
3 9 (12.68%) SAP
4 6 (8.45%) Google
5 5 (7.04%) Avaya
5 5 (7.04%) Genesys
6 4 (5.63%) Palo Alto
7 3 (4.23%) ServiceNow
7 3 (4.23%) Splunk
8 2 (2.82%) CyberArk
8 2 (2.82%) ESRI
8 2 (2.82%) F5
8 2 (2.82%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.41%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (1.41%) Checkmarx
9 1 (1.41%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.41%) Databricks
9 1 (1.41%) Instagram
9 1 (1.41%) Salesforce