AWS Certification Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 118 92 85
Rank change year-on-year -26 -7 +24
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 4 3 12
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.17% 0.23% 0.80%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.62% 0.71% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 7
10th Percentile £396 £465 £525
25th Percentile £473 £488 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile - - £619
90th Percentile - - £635
England median daily rate £575 £500 £535
% change year-on-year +15.00% -6.54% -4.46%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 644 422 432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 26.79% 32.54% 28.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 167 151
10th Percentile £195 £200 £200
25th Percentile £410 £379 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £531 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% +6.20% -9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £580 £575
90th Percentile £750 £680 £588
England median daily rate £530 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +0.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 144 127
10th Percentile £19.85 £16.13 £16.30
25th Percentile £40.75 £18.87 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +158.45% -41.51% +82.30%
75th Percentile £75.00 £57.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £84.63 £67.70
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £53.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -52.55% -1.24%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in the East of England

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing AWS Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing AWS Certification

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in the East of England over the 6 months to 29 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in the East of England

AWS Certification
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England 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
Norfolk - 3 £600 - 1
Cambridgeshire +2 1 £345 -23.33% 6
AWS Certification
England

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) CloudFront
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 3 (75.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security Architect
3 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Solution Architect
4 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (25.00%) gRPC
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) AI
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) API Design
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) CQRS
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Istio
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) linkerd