AWS Certification Contracts 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 6 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.10% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 3.59% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £460 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £560 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £650 -
% change year-on-year -19.23% - -

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 167 149 208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 30.64% 22.07% 23.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 84 114
10th Percentile £150 £263 £274
25th Percentile £253 £325 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £650
90th Percentile £602 £725 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £494 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -3.75% -6.77% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 5
10th Percentile £18.62 £13.70 £12.98
25th Percentile - £14.00 £13.70
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +21.62% -7.50%
75th Percentile £27.44 £53.13 £35.08
90th Percentile £49.95 £56.25 £72.53
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £34.47 £27.50
% change year-on-year -12.96% +25.33% +37.50%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in Birmingham

AWS Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Certification in Birmingham

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (50.00%) Confluence
1 3 (50.00%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon S3
3 4 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (66.67%) Azure
4 3 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
4 3 (50.00%) AWS KMS
4 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (50.00%) Route 53
4 3 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (16.67%) GitHub
5 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) DNS
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) FTP
2 3 (50.00%) HTTP
2 3 (50.00%) IMAP
2 3 (50.00%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (50.00%) SMTP
2 3 (50.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (16.67%) DataStage
3 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
2 3 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) Vagrant
3 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) LDAP
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 3 (50.00%) VMS
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Change Management
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 1 (16.67%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) ITSM
4 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 4 (66.67%) Python
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Groovy
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) DFS Replication
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
1 3 (50.00%) Dovecot
1 3 (50.00%) Postfix
1 3 (50.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Grafana
1 4 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Nessus
2 3 (50.00%) Proxmox
3 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 3 (50.00%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (16.67%) Commvault
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) Veeam