AWS Certification Contract Job Trends in England

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 302 345
Rank change year-on-year +20 +43 +64
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 285 214 221
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.91% 0.74% 0.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.67% 2.44% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 154 186
10th Percentile £358 £400 £463
25th Percentile £425 £450 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £531 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% -5.93% -1.78%
75th Percentile £623 £648 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £488 £538 £563
% change year-on-year -9.30% -4.44% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £76.00 - -
25th Percentile £82.75 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £58.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +55.17% - -
75th Percentile £96.88 - -
90th Percentile £101.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £90.00 £58.00 -
% change year-on-year +55.17% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 10,669 8,786 11,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.92% 30.33% 30.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,965 5,424 7,175
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £419 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% -
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 905 413 680
10th Percentile £16.75 £20.00 £17.11
25th Percentile £19.38 £25.26 £26.65
Median hourly rate £25.15 £48.56 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.21% -7.50% +16.67%
75th Percentile £56.00 £68.00 £67.61
90th Percentile £76.58 £75.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -23.81% +16.67%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in England

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in England over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in England

AWS Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing AWS Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing AWS Certification

AWS Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS Certification in England over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 19 December 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
London +16 130 £484 -11.95% 107
South East +20 49 £500 -23.08% 97
North of England -70 45 £450 - 96
Midlands -10 40 £520 +4.00% 70
West Midlands -1 38 £520 +4.00% 41
North West -17 21 £420 -34.38% 45
Yorkshire -70 19 £450 - 39
South West -8 12 £631 +5.21% 32
North East -6 5 £466 -1.89% 14
East of England -22 5 £488 -13.33% 44
East Midlands -19 2 £463 -15.14% 26
AWS Certification
UK

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (4.91%) Confluence
2 11 (3.86%) Apache
2 11 (3.86%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (3.86%) nginx
3 6 (2.11%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.11%) IIS
3 6 (2.11%) JBoss
3 6 (2.11%) OpenStack
3 6 (2.11%) WebSphere
4 5 (1.75%) iPlanet
4 5 (1.75%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.70%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.70%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.70%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.70%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (3.51%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 285 (100.00%) AWS
2 121 (42.46%) Azure
3 68 (23.86%) GCP
4 60 (21.05%) AWS CloudFormation
4 60 (21.05%) Serverless
5 59 (20.70%) Amazon S3
6 52 (18.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 46 (16.14%) AWS Lambda
8 38 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 37 (12.98%) Amazon ECS
10 32 (11.23%) Amazon EKS
11 31 (10.88%) GitHub
12 29 (10.18%) Amazon EC2
12 29 (10.18%) AWS KMS
13 20 (7.02%) Entra ID
14 18 (6.32%) Route 53
15 17 (5.96%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (5.61%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 16 (5.61%) AWS Control Tower
17 14 (4.91%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 45 (15.79%) Firewall
2 27 (9.47%) DNS
3 13 (4.56%) HTTP
3 13 (4.56%) LAN
3 13 (4.56%) Network Security
4 12 (4.21%) WAN
5 11 (3.86%) BGP
6 10 (3.51%) FTP
6 10 (3.51%) IMAP
6 10 (3.51%) MPLS
6 10 (3.51%) OpenLDAP
6 10 (3.51%) OSPF
6 10 (3.51%) SMTP
6 10 (3.51%) SSH
7 9 (3.16%) DHCP
7 9 (3.16%) SNMP
7 9 (3.16%) VPN
7 9 (3.16%) Wireless
8 6 (2.11%) Kerberos
8 6 (2.11%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (16.14%) Amazon RDS
2 36 (12.63%) NoSQL
3 24 (8.42%) Amazon Redshift
3 24 (8.42%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (5.61%) DynamoDB
5 14 (4.91%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (4.56%) Amazon Aurora
6 13 (4.56%) Relational Database
7 11 (3.86%) Amazon QuickSight
7 11 (3.86%) Oracle Database
8 9 (3.16%) MySQL
8 9 (3.16%) Tableau
9 8 (2.81%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.81%) DataStage
9 8 (2.81%) Power BI
10 6 (2.11%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.75%) Metadata
11 5 (1.75%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 62 (21.75%) Jenkins
2 42 (14.74%) Git
3 40 (14.04%) GitLab
4 30 (10.53%) JIRA
5 11 (3.86%) Liquibase
6 10 (3.51%) Vagrant
7 8 (2.81%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.46%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (2.11%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (2.11%) CA Release Automation
10 4 (1.40%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.70%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.70%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.70%) Maven
11 2 (0.70%) MLflow
12 1 (0.35%) Gatling
12 1 (0.35%) Log4j
12 1 (0.35%) Postman
12 1 (0.35%) Snyk
12 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 128 (44.91%) Social Skills
2 76 (26.67%) Finance
3 43 (15.09%) Public Sector
4 42 (14.74%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (10.18%) Banking
6 16 (5.61%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (4.21%) Financial Institution
9 9 (3.16%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.75%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.05%) Legal
12 2 (0.70%) Aeronautics
12 2 (0.70%) Electronics
12 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.70%) Marketing
12 2 (0.70%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.35%) Aviation
13 1 (0.35%) Police
Job Titles
1 95 (33.33%) Architect
2 48 (16.84%) AWS Engineer
3 43 (15.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (10.88%) AWS Architect
5 30 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
6 27 (9.47%) Senior
7 24 (8.42%) Cloud Engineer
8 22 (7.72%) AWS DevOps
9 21 (7.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 20 (7.02%) Data Engineer
10 20 (7.02%) Security Architect
11 19 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
11 19 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (4.91%) Lead
13 13 (4.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 13 (4.56%) Developer
14 11 (3.86%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 10 (3.51%) Consultant
15 10 (3.51%) Technical Architect
16 9 (3.16%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.02%) RESTful
2 17 (5.96%) LDAP
3 15 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
3 15 (5.26%) Kafka
3 15 (5.26%) Node.js
4 14 (4.91%) REST
5 9 (3.16%) AWS CDK
5 9 (3.16%) OAuth
6 8 (2.81%) Middleware
6 8 (2.81%) SAML
7 7 (2.46%) AngularJS
7 7 (2.46%) OpenID
7 7 (2.46%) XML
8 5 (1.75%) React
9 4 (1.40%) .NET
10 3 (1.05%) Apache NiFi
10 3 (1.05%) ARM Templates
10 3 (1.05%) GraphQL
10 3 (1.05%) Spark Streaming
10 3 (1.05%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 50 (17.54%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.07%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (8.07%) Hybrid Cloud
3 20 (7.02%) Data Centre
4 19 (6.67%) Public Cloud
5 18 (6.32%) Replication
6 13 (4.56%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.81%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.46%) Cloud Security Posture
8 7 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.46%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.11%) PKI
10 4 (1.40%) Clustering
11 3 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.05%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.05%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.05%) SCADA
12 2 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 56 (19.65%) Linux
2 35 (12.28%) Windows
3 17 (5.96%) Windows Server
4 14 (4.91%) Ubuntu
5 11 (3.86%) VMS
6 10 (3.51%) Amazon Linux
7 9 (3.16%) Unix
8 4 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (1.05%) CentOS
10 1 (0.35%) Solaris
10 1 (0.35%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (48.42%) CI/CD
2 123 (43.16%) DevOps
3 110 (38.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (24.91%) Agile
4 71 (24.91%) Containerisation
5 59 (20.70%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (20.35%) Cloud Security
7 50 (17.54%) Migration
8 46 (16.14%) Microservices
9 43 (15.09%) TOGAF
10 41 (14.39%) DevSecOps
11 39 (13.68%) Incident Response
12 38 (13.33%) High Availability
12 38 (13.33%) Roadmaps
13 36 (12.63%) Cybersecurity
14 34 (11.93%) Computer Science
15 33 (11.58%) Mentoring
16 32 (11.23%) Continuous Improvement
17 30 (10.53%) Data Governance
17 30 (10.53%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 122 (42.81%) Python
2 58 (20.35%) SQL
3 54 (18.95%) Java
4 34 (11.93%) PowerShell
5 31 (10.88%) Bash
6 17 (5.96%) Groovy
7 12 (4.21%) Go
7 12 (4.21%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.46%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.11%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.40%) Perl
10 4 (1.40%) Ruby
10 4 (1.40%) Scala
11 3 (1.05%) C#
11 3 (1.05%) PHP
12 2 (0.70%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.35%) Bicep
13 1 (0.35%) Korn
Qualifications
1 100 (35.09%) Security Cleared
2 86 (30.18%) Azure Certification
3 84 (29.47%) SC Cleared
4 77 (27.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 54 (18.95%) Degree
6 29 (10.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (9.12%) Cisco Certification
8 25 (8.77%) CISSP
9 23 (8.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 19 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
11 17 (5.96%) Master's Degree
11 17 (5.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (4.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 14 (4.91%) CCSP
13 13 (4.56%) AWS Certified Developer
14 10 (3.51%) CCIE
15 9 (3.16%) JNCIE
16 6 (2.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 6 (2.11%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 6 (2.11%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (15.44%) GDPR
2 37 (12.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (10.18%) NIST
4 16 (5.61%) PCI DSS
4 16 (5.61%) QA
5 15 (5.26%) Data Quality
6 13 (4.56%) NCSC
7 8 (2.81%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (2.81%) PSD2
8 7 (2.46%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.05%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.70%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.35%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.35%) DICOM
11 1 (0.35%) HL7
11 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 90 (31.58%) Docker
2 21 (7.37%) Active Directory
3 16 (5.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.51%) DFS Replication
4 10 (3.51%) Dovecot
4 10 (3.51%) Postfix
4 10 (3.51%) Squid
4 10 (3.51%) VMware NSX
5 8 (2.81%) Hyper-V
6 6 (2.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (1.40%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.05%) Tivoli Directory Server
9 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 130 (45.61%) Terraform
2 89 (31.23%) Kubernetes
3 56 (19.65%) Ansible
4 35 (12.28%) Prometheus
5 31 (10.88%) Grafana
6 10 (3.51%) Nessus
6 10 (3.51%) Proxmox
7 6 (2.11%) CA Single Sign-On
7 6 (2.11%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.75%) CA Wily
8 5 (1.75%) Puppet
9 3 (1.05%) Argo
9 3 (1.05%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.05%) Nagios
9 3 (1.05%) Tivoli
10 2 (0.70%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.35%) CASB
11 1 (0.35%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 41 (14.39%) Microsoft
2 29 (10.18%) Oracle
3 25 (8.77%) Splunk
4 24 (8.42%) VMware
5 17 (5.96%) Cisco
6 16 (5.61%) Google
7 13 (4.56%) IBM
7 13 (4.56%) ServiceNow
8 11 (3.86%) Fortinet
9 10 (3.51%) F5
9 10 (3.51%) Jaspersoft
10 9 (3.16%) AppDynamics
10 9 (3.16%) Juniper
11 8 (2.81%) Databricks
12 7 (2.46%) Citrix
12 7 (2.46%) CloudEndure
12 7 (2.46%) Palo Alto
13 6 (2.11%) Broadcom
13 6 (2.11%) SAP
14 5 (1.75%) Dynatrace