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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 112 115
Rank change year-on-year -20 +3 +44
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 11 16 14
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.46% 0.81% 0.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.68% 3.15% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 12
10th Percentile £421 £409 £423
25th Percentile £453 £420 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £460 £545
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -15.60% -5.22%
75th Percentile £638 £694 £600
90th Percentile £691 £709 £638
London median daily rate £525 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -12.50% +5.26% -1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £100.00 -
London median hourly rate £89.00 £76.75 -
% change year-on-year +15.96% - -

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 655 508 512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 27.67% 25.59% 20.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 337 321
10th Percentile £364 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £456 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +1.42% -7.83%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £775
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 9
10th Percentile £19.34 £24.12 £17.59
25th Percentile £25.47 £27.30 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.77 £45.79 £24.97
Median % change year-on-year -43.72% +83.36% -51.51%
75th Percentile £42.63 £72.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £89.13 £66.75
London median hourly rate £37.50 £37.25 £26.12
% change year-on-year +0.67% +42.61% -37.44%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 £475 +4.40% 13
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 GuardDuty
3 3 (27.27%) AWS KMS
3 3 (27.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
4 2 (18.18%) AWS CodeBuild
4 2 (18.18%) AWS CodePipeline
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (18.18%) Serverless
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (9.09%) Azure
5 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 1 (9.09%) GCP
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) DynamoDB
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (9.09%) DB2
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) JUnit
General
1 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Architect
2 5 (45.45%) AWS Architect
3 3 (27.27%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Security Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Security Architect
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Consultant
5 1 (9.09%) Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Lead
5 1 (9.09%) Lead Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Lead Cloud Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) boto
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
1 1 (9.09%) RESTful
1 1 (9.09%) Spring
1 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 2 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
3 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 4 (36.36%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
5 2 (18.18%) Data Governance
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
5 2 (18.18%) Microservices
5 2 (18.18%) Security Architecture
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Zero Trust
6 1 (9.09%) Application Security
6 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
6 1 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (9.09%) Design Patterns
6 1 (9.09%) Event-Driven
6 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (9.09%) Observability
6 1 (9.09%) Runbook
6 1 (9.09%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
2 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
3 1 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
2 1 (9.09%) DICOM
2 1 (9.09%) HL7
2 1 (9.09%) NCSC
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%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) Sybase