AWS Certification Contract Job Trends in Central London

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 111 117
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 +38
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 11 16 13
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.45% 0.81% 0.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.69% 3.31% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 9
10th Percentile £421 £409 £473
25th Percentile £453 £433 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £663 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.77% +20.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £697 £638
90th Percentile £735 £709 £668
London median daily rate £544 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -9.33% +9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £100.00 -
London median hourly rate £89.00 £53.50 -
% change year-on-year +66.36% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 652 484 479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 26.60% 24.57% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 317 306
10th Percentile £404 £362 £363
25th Percentile £462 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -7.49%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £643
90th Percentile £738 £763 £775
London median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 5
10th Percentile £18.50 £23.52 -
25th Percentile £22.56 £25.63 £20.22
Median hourly rate £32.07 £28.61 £24.97
Median % change year-on-year +12.08% +14.58% -51.51%
75th Percentile £58.58 £55.08 £27.00
90th Percentile £69.70 £81.88 £37.05
London median hourly rate £54.50 £29.07 £24.99
% change year-on-year +87.48% +16.35% -47.40%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in Central London

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing AWS Certification

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in Central London over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in Central London

AWS Certification
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 15 May 2026. 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
City of London -18 8 £544 -19.41% 10
AWS Certification
London

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (18.18%) AWS CodeBuild
4 2 (18.18%) AWS CodePipeline
4 2 (18.18%) AWS KMS
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (18.18%) Azure
4 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (18.18%) Serverless
4 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (18.18%) DynamoDB
2 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
2 1 (9.09%) DB2
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) JUnit
General
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Architect
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) boto
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
1 1 (9.09%) REST
1 1 (9.09%) RESTful
1 1 (9.09%) Spring
1 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (45.45%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) Microservices
4 2 (18.18%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Scrum
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (9.09%) Business Continuity
5 1 (9.09%) Data Modelling
5 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (9.09%) ETL
5 1 (9.09%) Informatics
5 1 (9.09%) Integration Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Multithreading
5 1 (9.09%) Project Management
5 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) TDD
5 1 (9.09%) TOGAF
5 1 (9.09%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
3 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
3 1 (9.09%) PMP
3 1 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) DICOM
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) HL7
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NCSC
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) FortiGate
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Fortinet
2 1 (9.09%) Citrix
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) Sybase