AWS Certification Contracts in the City of London

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 114 151
Rank change year-on-year +8 +37 -26
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 13 12 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.74% 0.55% 0.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.02% 2.68% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 15
10th Percentile £401 £480 £425
25th Percentile £422 £503 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -2.17% -8.00%
75th Percentile £700 £628 £738
90th Percentile £726 £653 £808
Central London median daily rate £650 £563 £575
% change year-on-year +15.56% -2.17% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £100.00 - -
Central London median hourly rate £100.00 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 430 447 710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.47% 20.35% 19.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 293 409
10th Percentile £404 £382 £375
25th Percentile £459 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -7.83% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £723
90th Percentile £763 £775 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £568
% change year-on-year +4.76% -7.49% +3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £23.62 - £18.06
25th Percentile £26.04 £20.22 £20.22
Median hourly rate £45.33 £20.82 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +117.75% -59.58% +13.19%
75th Percentile £72.81 £24.20 £53.75
90th Percentile £89.13 £25.88 £71.75
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.99 £51.50
% change year-on-year +11.87% -49.54% +13.19%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in the City of London

AWS Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for AWS Certification in the City of London

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in the City of London

AWS Certification
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 2 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
London Bridge - 1 - -
AWS Certification
Central London

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (15.38%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) Serverless
3 4 (30.77%) Azure
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
4 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon Macie
5 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (15.38%) AWS KMS
5 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (7.69%) GCP
6 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Firewall
1 3 (23.08%) VPN
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) DynamoDB
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Back Office
4 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Architect
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Security Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Security Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Security Technical Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Solution Architect
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Kafka
1 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Fixed Income
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) IVR
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 5 (38.46%) Microservices
4 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
5 3 (23.08%) Agile
5 3 (23.08%) Cloud Security
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Security Architecture
6 2 (15.38%) Analytics
6 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (15.38%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (15.38%) High Availability
6 2 (15.38%) IT Strategy
6 2 (15.38%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
6 2 (15.38%) SIEM
6 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (15.38%) Threat Intelligence
6 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Bash
2 2 (15.38%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) Scala
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (30.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Degree
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
3 3 (23.08%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Certification
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.69%) HIPAA
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
1 1 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 3 (23.08%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
3 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Genesys
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) VMware