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 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 112 113
Rank change year-on-year -32 +1 +39
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 9 16 17
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.36% 0.82% 0.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.38% 3.29% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 11
10th Percentile £458 £508 £488
25th Percentile £463 £552 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £675 £580
Median % change year-on-year -18.04% +16.38% +0.87%
75th Percentile £691 £784 £681
90th Percentile £744 £856 £775
London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £100.00 -
London median hourly rate - £55.00 -

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 651 486 537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 26.13% 25.03% 23.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 321 332
10th Percentile £400 £313 £350
25th Percentile £463 £440 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% - -
75th Percentile £638 £661 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £750
London median daily rate £550 £537 £538
% change year-on-year +2.42% -0.09% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 3
10th Percentile £28.05 £25.04 £21.80
25th Percentile £34.46 £26.00 £23.75
Median hourly rate £56.00 £34.48 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.41% +27.70% +50.00%
75th Percentile £132.76 £57.96 -
90th Percentile £155.34 £65.57 -
London median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £33.50
% change year-on-year +114.71% -24.93% -37.96%

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 September 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 19 September 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 -32 9 £553 -18.04% 14
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 (11.11%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) GCP
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 3 (33.33%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) GitHub
3 3 (33.33%) Serverless
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (22.22%) Snowflake
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (11.11%) BigQuery
2 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 1 (11.11%) Metadata
2 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) Parquet
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) GitLab
3 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Back Office
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Data Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Agile Delivery Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Applications Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (11.11%) Apache Avro
3 1 (11.11%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CDK
3 1 (11.11%) FastAPI
3 1 (11.11%) JSON
3 1 (11.11%) PySpark
3 1 (11.11%) pytest
3 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (11.11%) SOAP
3 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Data Fabric
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
1 4 (44.44%) Data Modelling
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) Data Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) ETL
3 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven
3 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Kanban
3 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (22.22%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 1 (11.11%) CISA
3 1 (11.11%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (11.11%) GSEC
3 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
3 1 (11.11%) PMP
3 1 (11.11%) SSCP
3 1 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) NCSC
2 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Databricks
1 2 (22.22%) Google
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Informatica
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce