AWS Certification Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 - 64
Rank change year-on-year - - +20
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 17 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.36% - 0.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.91% - 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £426 - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - -
75th Percentile £794 - -
90th Percentile £892 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £520 £500 -
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Birmingham

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 requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 215 157 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 29.86% 22.75% 30.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 104 134
10th Percentile £213 £165 £259
25th Percentile £344 £384 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £656 £595
90th Percentile £619 £734 £684
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +5.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 13
10th Percentile £16.30 £23.54 £20.13
25th Percentile £18.44 £27.28 £55.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.26% -23.08% +225.00%
75th Percentile - £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £20.72 £54.40 £68.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.79 £35.00 £34.75
% change year-on-year -34.88% +0.72% +57.06%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in Birmingham

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing AWS Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing AWS Certification

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in Birmingham over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in Birmingham

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (52.94%) Confluence
1 9 (52.94%) nginx
2 2 (11.76%) Apache
2 2 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (11.76%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (52.94%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (76.47%) Azure
3 11 (64.71%) Amazon S3
4 10 (58.82%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (52.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (52.94%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (52.94%) Amazon ELB
5 9 (52.94%) AWS KMS
5 9 (52.94%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (52.94%) Route 53
5 9 (52.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (23.53%) GCP
7 3 (17.65%) GitHub
8 2 (11.76%) Azure AKS
8 2 (11.76%) Azure API Management
8 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (11.76%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (11.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (52.94%) DNS
1 9 (52.94%) Firewall
1 9 (52.94%) FTP
1 9 (52.94%) HTTP
1 9 (52.94%) IMAP
1 9 (52.94%) OpenLDAP
1 9 (52.94%) SMTP
1 9 (52.94%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (58.82%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (58.82%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (52.94%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (23.53%) NoSQL
4 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (11.76%) Hadoop
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (5.88%) Big Data
5 1 (5.88%) DataStage
5 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (76.47%) Jenkins
2 9 (52.94%) Git
2 9 (52.94%) JIRA
2 9 (52.94%) Vagrant
3 3 (17.65%) GitLab
4 2 (11.76%) CircleCI
4 2 (11.76%) Liquibase
General
1 13 (76.47%) Social Skills
2 9 (52.94%) Presentation Skills
2 9 (52.94%) Public Sector
3 4 (23.53%) Banking
3 4 (23.53%) Finance
4 2 (11.76%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) AWS Engineer
1 12 (70.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (58.82%) AWS DevOps
2 10 (58.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 9 (52.94%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 9 (52.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 9 (52.94%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (47.06%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 5 (29.41%) Senior
6 4 (23.53%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (23.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (17.65%) Data Engineer
8 2 (11.76%) AWS Software Engineer
8 2 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (11.76%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 2 (11.76%) Operations Engineer
8 2 (11.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 2 (11.76%) Senior Operations Engineer
8 2 (11.76%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) LDAP
2 2 (11.76%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (11.76%) REST
2 2 (11.76%) RESTful
3 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) Replication
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.76%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 11 (64.71%) Linux
2 9 (52.94%) Amazon Linux
2 9 (52.94%) Ubuntu
2 9 (52.94%) VMS
2 9 (52.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) DevOps
2 13 (76.47%) CI/CD
3 11 (64.71%) Change Management
3 11 (64.71%) Cloud Security
4 9 (52.94%) Configuration Management
4 9 (52.94%) Patch Management
4 9 (52.94%) Performance Tuning
4 9 (52.94%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
6 4 (23.53%) Migration
6 4 (23.53%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
7 3 (17.65%) Data Security
7 3 (17.65%) ETL
7 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (11.76%) Cost Optimisation
8 2 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (11.76%) Data Science
8 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
8 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) SQL
2 13 (76.47%) Python
3 9 (52.94%) Groovy
3 9 (52.94%) PowerShell
4 3 (17.65%) Java
5 2 (11.76%) Go
5 2 (11.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (70.59%) Degree
2 11 (64.71%) Azure Certification
3 9 (52.94%) SC Cleared
3 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
4 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Master's Degree
5 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (76.47%) Docker
2 9 (52.94%) DFS Replication
2 9 (52.94%) Dovecot
2 9 (52.94%) Postfix
2 9 (52.94%) Squid
Systems Management
1 12 (70.59%) Terraform
2 11 (64.71%) Grafana
2 11 (64.71%) Prometheus
3 9 (52.94%) Nessus
3 9 (52.94%) Proxmox
4 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
5 2 (11.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Jaspersoft
1 9 (52.94%) ServiceNow
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Splunk
3 1 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) IBM