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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 119 159
Rank change year-on-year +7 +40 -13
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 16 15 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.81% 0.62% 0.53%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.27% 3.07% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 14
10th Percentile £409 £488 £425
25th Percentile £433 £519 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £697 £638 £744
90th Percentile £709 - £809
London median daily rate £600 £573 £600
% change year-on-year +4.80% -4.58% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £100.00 - -
London median hourly rate £53.50 - £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 489 489 763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 24.70% 20.12% 20.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 315 452
10th Percentile £366 £363 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £564
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -6.87% +2.50%
75th Percentile £665 £639 £700
90th Percentile £763 £775 £820
London median daily rate £525 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -2.33% -6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 5
10th Percentile £24.16 £20.22 £18.06
25th Percentile £27.39 £21.41 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.99 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.87% -49.54% +15.73%
75th Percentile £63.75 £39.56 £53.75
90th Percentile £85.50 £54.38 £71.75
London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year +16.28% -48.72% +9.55%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +3 14 £675 +17.39% 4
Southwark - 1 - -
City of Westminster - 1 £650 -
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 2 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) Apache
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) Serverless
3 4 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
4 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (18.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon Macie
5 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (12.50%) AWS KMS
5 2 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (12.50%) GCP
5 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) Firewall
1 5 (31.25%) VPN
2 2 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon QuickSight
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%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.25%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Back Office
3 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Architect
2 4 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) AWS Architect
3 3 (18.75%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 3 (18.75%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Security Architect
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Specialist
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps Specialist
4 2 (12.50%) Security Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Security Technical Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Architect
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Solution Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Security Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Kafka
1 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) 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%) IVR
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
2 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) DevOps
2 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
3 6 (37.50%) Microservices
4 5 (31.25%) Containerisation
4 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (25.00%) High Availability
5 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (18.75%) Agile
6 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security
6 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (18.75%) Security Architecture
7 2 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
7 2 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
7 2 (12.50%) DevSecOps
7 2 (12.50%) IT Strategy
7 2 (12.50%) Log Aggregation
7 2 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
7 2 (12.50%) Risk Management
7 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) Java
2 3 (18.75%) Shell Script
3 2 (12.50%) Bash
3 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) Scala
4 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (68.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 5 (31.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Degree
3 4 (25.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 4 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (18.75%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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%) Kubernetes
1 6 (37.50%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
2 2 (12.50%) Puppet
3 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) Databricks
3 1 (6.25%) Genesys
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk
3 1 (6.25%) VMware