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 30 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 80 106
Rank change year-on-year -15 +26 +21
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 4 8 12
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.28% 0.60% 0.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.89% 2.20% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 7
10th Percentile £454 £539 £550
25th Percentile £459 £542 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £569 £650
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -12.50% +30.00%
75th Percentile £529 £616 £697
90th Percentile £537 £621 £741
England median daily rate £500 £525 £559
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.04% -2.83%

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 451 363 650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 31.85% 27.29% 34.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 153 329
10th Percentile £199 £214 £273
25th Percentile £382 £325 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.60% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £675
90th Percentile £669 £610 £747
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 75 152
10th Percentile £15.50 £22.54 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.87 £38.40 £14.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £62.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -59.76% +138.10% +25.00%
75th Percentile £55.69 £66.00 £59.06
90th Percentile £81.13 £78.85 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £51.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year -50.93% -2.38% +16.67%

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 30 October 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
Cambridgeshire -7 1 £450 -21.74% 11
Hertfordshire -8 1 £500 -16.67% 11
Bedfordshire -9 1 £531 -5.56% 7
Norfolk - 1 £475 - 9
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 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) dbt
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Route 53
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Kimball Methodology
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) OOP
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Nagios
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) SaltStack