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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 107 131
Rank change year-on-year -13 +24 +44
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 13 16 12
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.63% 0.76% 0.46%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.26% 3.04% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 12
10th Percentile £401 £405 £451
25th Percentile £434 £419 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -13.89% -6.09%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £579
90th Percentile £649 £705 £633
London median daily rate £525 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.51% -5.00%

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 574 526 527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 28.01% 25.06% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 307 334
10th Percentile £363 £310 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year - -0.47% -10.40%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £661
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
London median daily rate £525 £544 £550
% change year-on-year -3.45% -1.14% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 8
10th Percentile £23.00 £24.78 £16.93
25th Percentile £25.47 £28.94 £19.90
Median hourly rate £25.62 £72.25 £42.49
Median % change year-on-year -64.54% +70.06% +2.99%
75th Percentile £35.17 £112.00 £67.19
90th Percentile £56.01 - £74.88
London median hourly rate £34.27 £37.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -8.61% +5.63% -1.69%

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 February 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 3 February 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 -15 10 £475 +2.15% 12
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 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (30.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
3 3 (23.08%) AWS KMS
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Network Security
2 1 (7.69%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) DataStage
2 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
1 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Architect
1 6 (46.15%) AWS Architect
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Security Architect
2 3 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Security Architect
3 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) boto
1 1 (7.69%) Node.js
1 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.69%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 4 (30.77%) Migration
4 3 (23.08%) Cloud Security
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
5 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps
5 2 (15.38%) ETL
5 2 (15.38%) Incident Response
5 2 (15.38%) Security Architecture
5 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Zero Trust
6 1 (7.69%) Agile
6 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (7.69%) Data Migration
6 1 (7.69%) Data Modelling
6 1 (7.69%) Informatics
6 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (7.69%) Visualisation
6 1 (7.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) SC Cleared
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.69%) Degree
4 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) GDPR
1 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
2 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) DICOM
2 1 (7.69%) HL7
2 1 (7.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) FortiGate
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Fortinet
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) AppDynamics
2 1 (7.69%) Citrix
2 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle