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 14 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 87 100
Rank change year-on-year -17 +13 +25
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 10 1 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.53% 0.099% 0.47%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.79% 0.28% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £468 - £546
25th Percentile £475 - £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.56%
75th Percentile £550 - £686
90th Percentile - - £706
England median daily rate £525 £550 £573
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.93% +4.09%

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 559 356 614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 29.44% 35.21% 32.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 151 284
10th Percentile £193 £179 £225
25th Percentile £350 £269 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £675 £736
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 96 180
10th Percentile £15.50 £21.46 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £30.78 £14.48
Median hourly rate £22.63 £65.00 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -65.18% +168.04% +15.48%
75th Percentile £64.00 £81.01 £56.05
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £52.00 £39.44
% change year-on-year -47.12% +31.86% -21.13%

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
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 14 March 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 - 5 £550 - 4
Cambridgeshire 0 3 - - 8
Hertfordshire - 1 £500 - 5
Bedfordshire - 1 £531 - 7
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 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Route 53
2 4 (40.00%) Serverless
3 3 (30.00%) GCP
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (20.00%) Azure
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub
4 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (10.00%) AWS KMS
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (10.00%) dbt
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) DNS
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
2 3 (30.00%) VPN
3 2 (20.00%) WAN
4 1 (10.00%) BGP
4 1 (10.00%) Kerberos
4 1 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) GitLab
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Aviation
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Architect
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Architect
4 2 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Network Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Security Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Snowflake Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (10.00%) eBPF
1 1 (10.00%) LDAP
1 1 (10.00%) RESTful
1 1 (10.00%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) N-Tier
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (30.00%) Generative AI
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) AI
3 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Network Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Open Source
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) SDLC
3 2 (20.00%) Service Catalogue
4 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (10.00%) RBAC
4 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (10.00%) SOAR
4 1 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (20.00%) CCNP
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (10.00%) CCIE
4 1 (10.00%) CCSP
4 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (10.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (10.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Nagios
2 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Google
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (10.00%) SaltStack
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk