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 3 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 123 134
Rank change year-on-year +7 +11 +54
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 15 14 12
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.76% 0.58% 0.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.69% 2.32% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 11
10th Percentile £429 £425 £413
25th Percentile £463 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +17.35% -6.67% -16.80%
75th Percentile £666 £628 £569
90th Percentile £846 £740 £588
London median daily rate £488 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -11.36% - -12.00%

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 557 603 579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 28.20% 25.19% 20.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 359 353
10th Percentile £343 £311 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £684
90th Percentile £738 £745 £790
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 7
10th Percentile - £21.25 £16.26
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.25 £21.95
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% -50.42% +28.34%
75th Percentile £34.48 £92.44 £69.38
90th Percentile £52.16 £112.00 £75.25
London median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -35.51% -25.71% +10.53%

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 3 December 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 3 December 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 +10 14 £525 +7.14% 7
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 (6.67%) CMS
1 1 (6.67%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Amazon S3
2 4 (26.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 3 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (20.00%) AWS KMS
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon Neptune
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (13.33%) GitHub
4 2 (13.33%) Serverless
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Network Security
2 1 (6.67%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (13.33%) DataStage
2 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
3 1 (6.67%) Power BI
3 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Banking
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Architect
1 6 (40.00%) AWS Architect
2 3 (20.00%) AWS Security Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Security Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Applications Developer
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Applications Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Designer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Cloud Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) XML
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) Node.js
2 1 (6.67%) OAuth
2 1 (6.67%) OAuth2
2 1 (6.67%) OpenID
2 1 (6.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.67%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Migration
2 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (20.00%) ETL
4 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (13.33%) Data Governance
4 2 (13.33%) Data Migration
4 2 (13.33%) Incident Response
4 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (13.33%) Security Architecture
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (13.33%) Zero Trust
5 1 (6.67%) Agile
5 1 (6.67%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (6.67%) E-Commerce
5 1 (6.67%) Inventory Management
5 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery
5 1 (6.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Java
2 5 (33.33%) SQL
3 4 (26.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (6.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (6.67%) Degree
5 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (13.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.67%) DICOM
2 1 (6.67%) HL7
2 1 (6.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) AppDynamics
1 1 (6.67%) Citrix
1 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle