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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 119 123
Rank change year-on-year -25 +4 +29
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 6 16 15
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.23% 0.78% 0.65%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.90% 3.13% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 9
10th Percentile £451 £504 £500
25th Percentile £458 £552 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £675 £580
Median % change year-on-year -24.52% +16.38% +0.87%
75th Percentile £596 £784 £638
90th Percentile £658 £856 £778
London median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £100.00 -
London median hourly rate £89.00 £54.25 -
% change year-on-year +64.06% - -

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 670 511 530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 26.12% 24.90% 22.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 340 337
10th Percentile £405 £314 £370
25th Percentile £463 £452 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £658
90th Percentile £734 £763 £775
London median daily rate £540 £526 £538
% change year-on-year +2.61% -2.09% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 5
10th Percentile £19.45 £25.11 £20.33
25th Percentile £26.63 £26.13 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.53 £31.78 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.86% +17.69% +50.00%
75th Percentile £60.31 £55.06 -
90th Percentile £68.53 £65.39 £37.05
London median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £30.81
% change year-on-year +114.71% -18.37% -43.98%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -13 6 £510 -24.52% 4
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 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
2 1 (16.67%) Db2
2 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) JUnit
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Developer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) PySpark
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) ETL
2 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) Agile Coaching
3 1 (16.67%) Concurrent Programming
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) ETL Development
3 1 (16.67%) Presales
3 1 (16.67%) Release Train
3 1 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
2 1 (16.67%) PMP
2 1 (16.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Informatica
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Sybase