AWS Certification Contracts in England

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 395 298
Rank change year-on-year +9 -97 +62
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 149 286 652
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.57% 0.92%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.29% 2.04% 4.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 215 403
10th Percentile £450 £425 £446
25th Percentile £500 £489 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% -12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £688
90th Percentile £763 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £573 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.09% -8.33% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £81.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £81.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +132.86% -12.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

AWS Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,579 14,027 15,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.33% 27.75% 21.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,111 9,398 10,082
10th Percentile £300 £330 £315
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £637
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 756 690
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.23 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.00 £20.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £62.48 £68.33 £55.72
90th Percentile £77.25 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing AWS Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in England

AWS Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification in England.

Daily rate trend for AWS Certification in England

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in England

AWS Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification in England.

Hourly rate trend for AWS Certification in England

AWS Certification
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
London +38 87 £573 -2.97% 86
North of England +2 17 £600 +12.68% 33
North West 0 14 £650 +34.09% 17
South East +23 12 £530 +6.00% 12
Midlands +32 10 £650 +18.18% 29
South West -16 8 £625 +8.70% 13
East of England +19 7 £600 +6.67% 5
West Midlands - 7 £650 - 25
East Midlands +20 3 £515 -6.36% 4
Yorkshire +6 3 £500 -9.09% 6
AWS Certification
UK

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.01%) Apache
1 3 (2.01%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.01%) Confluence
2 1 (0.67%) IIS
2 1 (0.67%) nginx
2 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (3.36%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Maximo
1 1 (0.67%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 149 (100.00%) AWS
2 55 (36.91%) Azure
3 42 (28.19%) Serverless
4 38 (25.50%) AWS Lambda
5 31 (20.81%) Amazon EC2
6 23 (15.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 22 (14.77%) Amazon S3
8 21 (14.09%) GCP
9 14 (9.40%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (8.72%) GitHub
11 8 (5.37%) Amazon EMR
11 8 (5.37%) Entra ID
12 7 (4.70%) CloudFront
12 7 (4.70%) PaaS
13 6 (4.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (4.03%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (4.03%) IaaS
13 6 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (3.36%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 17 (11.41%) Network Security
2 15 (10.07%) Firewall
3 13 (8.72%) DNS
4 10 (6.71%) VPN
5 9 (6.04%) Cisco ASA
6 8 (5.37%) BGP
6 8 (5.37%) Cisco Nexus
6 8 (5.37%) DHCP
6 8 (5.37%) IPv4
6 8 (5.37%) LAN
6 8 (5.37%) OSPF
7 6 (4.03%) IPv6
7 6 (4.03%) MPLS
7 6 (4.03%) VLAN
7 6 (4.03%) Wireless
8 5 (3.36%) EIGRP
8 5 (3.36%) HSRP
8 5 (3.36%) IPsec
8 5 (3.36%) TACACS
8 5 (3.36%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.44%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (12.08%) Big Data
2 18 (12.08%) Data Lake
3 10 (6.71%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (6.04%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.36%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (2.68%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.68%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.68%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.68%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.01%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (2.01%) GIS
8 3 (2.01%) Metadata
8 3 (2.01%) MySQL
9 2 (1.34%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.34%) Parquet
9 2 (1.34%) Sisense
10 1 (0.67%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 15 (10.07%) Jenkins
2 14 (9.40%) Git
3 11 (7.38%) GitLab
4 4 (2.68%) JIRA
5 3 (2.01%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.34%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.34%) Postman
6 2 (1.34%) TestCafe
7 1 (0.67%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.67%) Terragrunt
General
1 35 (23.49%) Finance
2 31 (20.81%) Social Skills
3 13 (8.72%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.71%) Marketing
4 10 (6.71%) Telecoms
5 9 (6.04%) Banking
5 9 (6.04%) Manufacturing
5 9 (6.04%) Retail
6 7 (4.70%) Electronics
7 6 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.67%) French Language
8 1 (0.67%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.67%) Military
8 1 (0.67%) Spanish Language
8 1 (0.67%) Swedish Language
8 1 (0.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 48 (32.21%) Architect
2 34 (22.82%) AWS Engineer
3 25 (16.78%) Cloud Architect
4 23 (15.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (15.44%) Solutions Architect
5 22 (14.77%) AWS Architect
5 22 (14.77%) Senior
6 21 (14.09%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (10.74%) AWS DevOps
8 15 (10.07%) Lead
9 12 (8.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 12 (8.05%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 12 (8.05%) Principal Architect
9 12 (8.05%) Principal Solutions Architect
10 10 (6.71%) Data Engineer
11 8 (5.37%) Consultant
11 8 (5.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (5.37%) Security Engineer
12 7 (4.70%) Lead Architect
12 7 (4.70%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.71%) React
2 9 (6.04%) GraphQL
3 6 (4.03%) OAuth
3 6 (4.03%) SAML
4 5 (3.36%) .NET
4 5 (3.36%) 802.1X
4 5 (3.36%) AWS CDK
4 5 (3.36%) OAuth2
5 4 (2.68%) Node.js
5 4 (2.68%) REST
6 3 (2.01%) JDBC
6 3 (2.01%) ODBC
7 2 (1.34%) JSON
7 2 (1.34%) LDAP
7 2 (1.34%) SQLAlchemy
7 2 (1.34%) YAML
8 1 (0.67%) JPA
8 1 (0.67%) OpenID
8 1 (0.67%) RESTful
8 1 (0.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.37%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (2.68%) PKI
3 4 (2.68%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.01%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.01%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.34%) Clustering
5 2 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.34%) Life Science
5 2 (1.34%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.34%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.34%) Replication
5 2 (1.34%) Video on Demand
6 1 (0.67%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.67%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.67%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.67%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 31 (20.81%) Linux
2 21 (14.09%) Windows
3 3 (2.01%) Unix
4 2 (1.34%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.67%) AIX
5 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (38.26%) DevOps
2 39 (26.17%) CI/CD
3 34 (22.82%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (18.79%) Agile
5 25 (16.78%) Containerisation
6 19 (12.75%) Service Management
7 18 (12.08%) Scrum
7 18 (12.08%) SDLC
8 17 (11.41%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (10.74%) Cybersecurity
9 16 (10.74%) Machine Learning
10 15 (10.07%) Data Modelling
10 15 (10.07%) ITIL
10 15 (10.07%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 14 (9.40%) Technical Architecture
12 12 (8.05%) Cloud Security
12 12 (8.05%) Data Governance
13 10 (6.71%) Computer Science
13 10 (6.71%) Roadmaps
14 9 (6.04%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 58 (38.93%) Python
2 20 (13.42%) Bash
3 19 (12.75%) PowerShell
4 13 (8.72%) SQL
5 9 (6.04%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.36%) Java
7 3 (2.01%) C#
7 3 (2.01%) Ruby
7 3 (2.01%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.34%) VB
9 1 (0.67%) Groovy
9 1 (0.67%) Scala
9 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (28.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 30 (20.13%) Security Cleared
3 27 (18.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 27 (18.12%) Azure Certification
3 27 (18.12%) SC Cleared
4 17 (11.41%) DV Cleared
5 11 (7.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 10 (6.71%) Degree
7 8 (5.37%) CCNA
7 8 (5.37%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (4.70%) CISSP
8 7 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (4.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (4.03%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (4.03%) CCNP
10 4 (2.68%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (2.01%) CISM
12 2 (1.34%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.67%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.01%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.34%) NIST
3 1 (0.67%) GDPR
3 1 (0.67%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (22.82%) Docker
2 13 (8.72%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.34%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.67%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.67%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 62 (41.61%) Terraform
2 38 (25.50%) Kubernetes
3 22 (14.77%) Ansible
4 18 (12.08%) Puppet
5 5 (3.36%) SolarWinds Orion
6 2 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.67%) Grafana
7 1 (0.67%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.67%) Salt
Vendors
1 21 (14.09%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.72%) Cisco
2 13 (8.72%) Google
2 13 (8.72%) SAP
3 12 (8.05%) Palo Alto
4 9 (6.04%) Oracle
5 8 (5.37%) F5
6 6 (4.03%) VMware
7 5 (3.36%) CheckPoint
7 5 (3.36%) Infoblox
7 5 (3.36%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.01%) ESRI
8 3 (2.01%) Sage
9 2 (1.34%) Databricks
9 2 (1.34%) Facebook
9 2 (1.34%) IBM
9 2 (1.34%) Juniper
9 2 (1.34%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.34%) Splunk
9 2 (1.34%) Zscaler