AWS Certification Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - 15
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 0.74% - 2.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.23% - 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £305 - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £338 - -
90th Percentile £345 - -
South West median daily rate £800 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +28.00% - +4.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 62 29 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 22.88% 28.16% 18.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 22 13
10th Percentile £339 £146 £383
25th Percentile £520 £469 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £540 £620
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -12.90% +12.73%
75th Percentile £675 £550 £634
90th Percentile £825 £556 £700
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £551
% change year-on-year - -0.18% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 1 0
10th Percentile £33.65 - -
25th Percentile £55.98 - -
Median hourly rate £72.54 £20.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +262.70% - -
75th Percentile £74.68 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £25.15 £70.00
% change year-on-year +138.57% -64.07% +12.40%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in Dorset

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing AWS Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing AWS Certification

AWS Certification
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

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 Dorset region over the 6 months to 29 September 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
Bournemouth - 2 £325 - 11
AWS Certification
South West

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Flink
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (100.00%) webMethods Developer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) EDI
1 2 (100.00%) EDIFACT
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) JPA
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Integration
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) webMethods
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle