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 19 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 115 136
Rank change year-on-year -3 +21 +51
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 14 13 12
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.72% 0.55% 0.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.59% 2.25% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 11
10th Percentile £463 £425 £413
25th Percentile £466 £454 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.73% -0.95% -16.80%
75th Percentile £763 £628 £569
90th Percentile £856 £740 £588
London median daily rate £488 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -11.36% - -10.93%

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 540 579 604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 27.64% 24.70% 20.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 344 366
10th Percentile £324 £337 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £638 £688
90th Percentile £738 £748 £789
London median daily rate £535 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -0.93% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 8
10th Percentile - £23.10 £16.28
25th Percentile £25.47 £27.00 £18.70
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £42.49
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -23.50% -1.75%
75th Percentile £34.48 £112.00 £67.19
90th Percentile £52.16 - £74.88
London median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -35.51% -29.09% +15.79%

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025. 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 -3 14 £555 +6.73% 38
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) CMS
1 1 (7.14%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 3 (21.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon Neptune
4 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (14.29%) AWS KMS
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (14.29%) GitHub
4 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 2 (14.29%) Serverless
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (7.14%) Azure
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (7.14%) BGP
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) LAN
2 1 (7.14%) Multicast
2 1 (7.14%) OSPF
2 1 (7.14%) SNMP
2 1 (7.14%) Unicast
2 1 (7.14%) VLAN
2 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (14.29%) DataStage
2 2 (14.29%) Power BI
2 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
3 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
3 1 (7.14%) Pentaho
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Architect
1 4 (28.57%) AWS Architect
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Security Architect
2 3 (21.43%) Data Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Security Architect
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Applications Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Applications Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Developer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Security Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Designer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) XML
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) OAuth
2 1 (7.14%) OAuth2
2 1 (7.14%) OpenID
2 1 (7.14%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Migration
2 4 (28.57%) ETL
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security
3 3 (21.43%) Data Migration
3 3 (21.43%) DevSecOps
3 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 2 (14.29%) Data Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 2 (14.29%) Security Architecture
4 2 (14.29%) Zero Trust
5 1 (7.14%) Inventory Management
5 1 (7.14%) Project Delivery
5 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (7.14%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Java
2 6 (42.86%) Python
3 4 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (7.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Icinga
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Nagios
2 1 (7.14%) Observium
2 1 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) AppDynamics
1 1 (7.14%) Arista
1 1 (7.14%) Cisco
1 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto