AWS Certification Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 261 307 279
Rank change year-on-year +46 -28 +23
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 80 151 415
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.54% 0.63% 0.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.07% 2.52% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 117 279
10th Percentile £491 £445 £435
25th Percentile £525 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £688
90th Percentile £693 £763 £756
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +13.64%
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% -47.64%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

AWS Certification 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 3,871 5,983 8,825
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.24% 25.06% 20.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,499 4,053 6,276
10th Percentile £331 £380 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +3.58% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 246 232
10th Percentile £15.36 £19.00 £19.04
25th Percentile £23.94 £42.50 £39.19
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +25.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £84.28 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +34.85%

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 13 June 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 3 (3.75%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 2 (2.50%) Confluence
3 1 (1.25%) Apache
3 1 (1.25%) IIS
3 1 (1.25%) nginx
3 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 80 (100.00%) AWS
2 39 (48.75%) Azure
3 19 (23.75%) Entra ID
4 17 (21.25%) Amazon EC2
5 16 (20.00%) Amazon S3
6 14 (17.50%) GCP
6 14 (17.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 11 (13.75%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (13.75%) Serverless
8 10 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (11.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 9 (11.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (11.25%) Azure Sentinel
9 9 (11.25%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (8.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (8.75%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (8.75%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (8.75%) AWS Fargate
10 7 (8.75%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (7.50%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.00%) Network Security
2 9 (11.25%) Firewall
2 9 (11.25%) VPN
3 7 (8.75%) DNS
4 5 (6.25%) CTI
4 5 (6.25%) VoIP
5 4 (5.00%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (3.75%) LAN
6 3 (3.75%) SD-WAN
6 3 (3.75%) SSH
6 3 (3.75%) WAN
7 2 (2.50%) BGP
7 2 (2.50%) Internet
7 2 (2.50%) OSPF
7 2 (2.50%) SSL
7 2 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.25%) 4G
8 1 (1.25%) MPLS
8 1 (1.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (27.50%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (7.50%) MySQL
2 6 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.25%) RDBMS
3 5 (6.25%) Relational Database
3 5 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (5.00%) Amazon QuickSight
4 4 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.25%) Big Data
5 1 (1.25%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 10 (12.50%) Git
2 4 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (3.75%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.75%) JIRA
4 1 (1.25%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.25%) GitLab
4 1 (1.25%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.25%) Terragrunt
General
1 20 (25.00%) Finance
2 16 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 15 (18.75%) Retail
4 10 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.00%) Banking
5 4 (5.00%) Marketing
6 3 (3.75%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.75%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.50%) Electronics
7 2 (2.50%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.25%) French Language
8 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Spanish Language
8 1 (1.25%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 24 (30.00%) Architect
2 15 (18.75%) Consultant
3 14 (17.50%) AWS Engineer
4 10 (12.50%) Senior
5 9 (11.25%) AWS Architect
5 9 (11.25%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (8.75%) AWS Consultant
7 7 (8.75%) AWS DevOps
8 6 (7.50%) AWS Specialist
8 6 (7.50%) Cloud Consultant
8 6 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) Security Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) Senior Consultant
9 5 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 5 (6.25%) Azure Specialist
9 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (5.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.75%) SAML
2 5 (6.25%) Middleware
2 5 (6.25%) OAuth
2 5 (6.25%) OAuth2
2 5 (6.25%) Web Services
3 3 (3.75%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (3.75%) LDAP
3 3 (3.75%) SailPoint
4 2 (2.50%) OpenID
5 1 (1.25%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.25%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.75%) Data Centre
3 6 (7.50%) Management Information System
4 5 (6.25%) IVR
5 4 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (3.75%) Clustering
6 3 (3.75%) PKI
7 2 (2.50%) Hedge funds
7 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.50%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.50%) Video on Demand
7 2 (2.50%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.25%) CMDB
8 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.25%) IoT
8 1 (1.25%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.25%) Windows
2 9 (11.25%) Linux
3 2 (2.50%) Unix
3 2 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (30.00%) DevOps
2 23 (28.75%) CI/CD
3 16 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 15 (18.75%) Containerisation
4 15 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (13.75%) Agile
5 11 (13.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (12.50%) Application Security
6 10 (12.50%) Cloud Operations
7 9 (11.25%) Cloud Security
7 9 (11.25%) Cost Control
8 8 (10.00%) Migration
8 8 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
8 8 (10.00%) Roadmaps
9 7 (8.75%) Artificial Intelligence
9 7 (8.75%) Computer Science
9 7 (8.75%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (8.75%) Data Security
9 7 (8.75%) Identity Access Management
9 7 (8.75%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (26.25%) Python
2 11 (13.75%) Bash
3 5 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 5 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.75%) SQL
4 3 (3.75%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.25%) PHP
5 1 (1.25%) Rust
5 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (27.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 22 (27.50%) Azure Certification
2 13 (16.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 11 (13.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 11 (13.75%) Security Cleared
4 9 (11.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (8.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (8.75%) Degree
5 7 (8.75%) SC Cleared
6 6 (7.50%) Master's Degree
7 5 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (6.25%) CISSP
8 4 (5.00%) DV Cleared
9 3 (3.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (3.75%) MCSE
10 2 (2.50%) CCNP
10 2 (2.50%) MCSA
11 1 (1.25%) CCNA
11 1 (1.25%) Citrix Certification
11 1 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.00%) PCI DSS
2 6 (7.50%) GDPR
3 5 (6.25%) HIPAA
4 4 (5.00%) SOC 2
5 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.25%) COBIT
6 1 (1.25%) ISO 9001
6 1 (1.25%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (27.50%) Docker
2 21 (26.25%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.25%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.25%) XenApp
5 1 (1.25%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 22 (27.50%) Kubernetes
2 21 (26.25%) Terraform
3 6 (7.50%) Ansible
4 4 (5.00%) Puppet
5 3 (3.75%) Grafana
5 3 (3.75%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.50%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (2.50%) Karpenter
6 2 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.25%) Graylog
7 1 (1.25%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.25%) Nagios
7 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.25%) Salt
Vendors
1 20 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (17.50%) Oracle
3 12 (15.00%) Cisco
4 8 (10.00%) Google
5 6 (7.50%) Palo Alto
6 5 (6.25%) Avaya
6 5 (6.25%) Genesys
7 4 (5.00%) F5
7 4 (5.00%) ServiceNow
8 3 (3.75%) CyberArk
8 3 (3.75%) Juniper
8 3 (3.75%) Splunk
9 2 (2.50%) Databricks
9 2 (2.50%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.50%) SAP
9 2 (2.50%) VMware
9 2 (2.50%) Zscaler
10 1 (1.25%) Checkmarx
10 1 (1.25%) Instagram
10 1 (1.25%) Okta