AWS Certification Contract Job Trends 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 3 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 112 117
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +68
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 13 13 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.71% 0.66% 0.49%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.60% 2.55% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 12
10th Percentile £410 £410 £451
25th Percentile £444 £428 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -12.04% -6.09%
75th Percentile £694 £595 £579
90th Percentile £856 £705 £633
Central London median daily rate £550 £475 £540
% change year-on-year +15.79% -12.04% -14.42%

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 500 509 490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.26% 25.71% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 298 310
10th Percentile £356 £347 £333
25th Percentile £425 £456 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -5.23%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £681
90th Percentile £738 £746 £788
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £26.30 £24.78 £29.39
25th Percentile £26.38 £28.94 £45.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £72.25 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.25% -0.34% +68.60%
75th Percentile £47.25 £112.00 £75.63
90th Percentile £57.90 - £76.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.49 £72.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -63.34% +20.42% +39.53%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in the City of London

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AWS Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AWS Certification

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 3 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in the City of London

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon S3
3 3 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (23.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon Neptune
4 2 (15.38%) AWS KMS
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Network Security
2 1 (7.69%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (15.38%) DataStage
2 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
3 1 (7.69%) Power BI
3 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
1 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (7.69%) Banking
1 1 (7.69%) Finance
1 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Architect
1 5 (38.46%) AWS Architect
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Security Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Security Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Applications Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Applications Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Developer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) XML
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) boto
2 1 (7.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (30.77%) Migration
2 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
2 3 (23.08%) Cloud Security
2 3 (23.08%) DevSecOps
2 3 (23.08%) ETL
3 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
3 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
3 2 (15.38%) Incident Response
3 2 (15.38%) Security Architecture
3 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) Zero Trust
4 1 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (7.69%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (7.69%) Microservices
4 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
4 1 (7.69%) Runbook
4 1 (7.69%) Task Automation
4 1 (7.69%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Java
2 5 (38.46%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.69%) Degree
4 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
1 2 (15.38%) GDPR
1 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
2 1 (7.69%) DICOM
2 1 (7.69%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) AppDynamics
2 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle