AWS Certification Contracts 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 124 153
Rank change year-on-year +11 +29 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 16 12 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.80% 0.51% 0.51%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.26% 2.35% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 13
10th Percentile £424 £466 £419
25th Percentile £516 £510 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% -4.17% -4.91%
75th Percentile £697 £672 £813
90th Percentile £776 £779 £823
London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £100.00 - -
London median hourly rate £54.25 - £81.50

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 491 510 772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 24.69% 21.54% 20.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 319 467
10th Percentile £358 £363 £325
25th Percentile £463 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £697
90th Percentile £763 £775 £820
London median daily rate £525 £525 £560
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 6
10th Percentile £25.04 £20.22 £17.31
25th Percentile £26.57 £20.29 £18.56
Median hourly rate £34.48 £24.00 £36.10
Median % change year-on-year +43.67% -33.52% -17.01%
75th Percentile £57.96 £27.00 £53.50
90th Percentile £65.57 £35.38 £68.75
London median hourly rate £26.41 £25.50 £54.00
% change year-on-year +3.57% -52.78% +27.06%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing AWS Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in Central London

AWS Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification in Central London.

Daily rate trend for AWS Certification in Central London

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 July 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 July 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 +12 14 £675 +17.39% 59
Southwark - 1 - - 2
City of Westminster - 1 £650 - 8
AWS Certification
London

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.25%) CMS
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
1 1 (6.25%) Headless CMS
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Azure
3 4 (25.00%) Serverless
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
4 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (18.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (12.50%) GCP
5 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon Macie
6 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (6.25%) AWS KMS
6 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) Firewall
2 4 (25.00%) VPN
3 2 (12.50%) DNS
4 1 (6.25%) BGP
4 1 (6.25%) LAN
4 1 (6.25%) Multicast
4 1 (6.25%) OSPF
4 1 (6.25%) Unicast
4 1 (6.25%) VLAN
4 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (6.25%) Big Data
2 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
2 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.25%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Pentaho
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (12.50%) GitLab
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Back Office
4 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Architect
1 4 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
1 4 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Architect
3 2 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Security Architect
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Solution Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Security Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Kafka
1 1 (6.25%) OAuth
1 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
1 1 (6.25%) OpenID
1 1 (6.25%) SAML
1 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Distributed Applications
2 2 (12.50%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Team
3 1 (6.25%) Fixed Income
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Unix
3 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) DevOps
2 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 5 (31.25%) Microservices
3 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (25.00%) High Availability
4 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (25.00%) Migration
5 3 (18.75%) Agile
5 3 (18.75%) Analytics
5 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security
6 2 (12.50%) Data Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 2 (12.50%) DevSecOps
6 2 (12.50%) Log Aggregation
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Java
3 3 (18.75%) Shell Script
4 2 (12.50%) Bash
4 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 5 (31.25%) Azure Certification
3 4 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Degree
4 3 (18.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
4 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (6.25%) CCNA
6 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.25%) HIPAA
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.25%) NIST
1 1 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Terraform
2 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
3 3 (18.75%) Ansible
3 3 (18.75%) Puppet
4 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
5 1 (6.25%) Icinga
5 1 (6.25%) Nagios
5 1 (6.25%) Observium
5 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Google
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Arista
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
2 1 (6.25%) VMware