AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Contract Job Trends in England

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for AWS Certified SysOps Administrator qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 503 528 594
Rank change year-on-year +25 +66 +174
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified SysOps Administrator 7 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.025% 0.003% 0.005%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.078% 0.010% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £369 - -
25th Percentile £419 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% -17.49%
75th Percentile £688 - £538
90th Percentile £693 - -
UK median daily rate £513 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +13.89% -14.29% -16.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator 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 8,952 9,573 11,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.07% 29.73% 29.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,696 5,813 7,671
10th Percentile £293 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £733 £741
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 750 503 693
10th Percentile £17.87 £18.75 £17.03
25th Percentile £18.87 £30.11 £24.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £53.67
Median % change year-on-year -52.10% -2.17% +19.26%
75th Percentile £43.00 £69.22 £70.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.08 £79.66
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £53.70
% change year-on-year -47.05% -11.55% +19.33%

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator job vacancy trend in England

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing AWS Certified SysOps Administrator.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing AWS Certified SysOps Administrator

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified SysOps Administrator in England over the 6 months to 12 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certified SysOps Administrator in England

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
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 Certified SysOps Administrator within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +21 4 £675 +50.00%
Midlands - 2 £458 -
West Midlands - 2 £458 -
East of England - 1 £475 - 1
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
UK

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (42.86%) Route 53
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
4 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (28.57%) Azure
4 2 (28.57%) Serverless
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (14.29%) AWS KMS
5 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) DNS
2 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 4 (57.14%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (14.29%) iSCSI
3 1 (14.29%) Kerberos
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (14.29%) VLAN
3 1 (14.29%) VSAN
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 3 (42.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (28.57%) Git
3 2 (28.57%) GitLab
4 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
4 1 (14.29%) JIRA
4 1 (14.29%) Maven
4 1 (14.29%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Specialist
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps Specialist
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (14.29%) LDAP
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
1 1 (14.29%) OpenID
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) SAML
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
1 3 (42.86%) Distributed Architecture
1 3 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (28.57%) Distributed Applications
2 2 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team
3 1 (14.29%) PKI
3 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Unix
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) SUSE
3 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Containerisation
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Configuration Management
2 4 (57.14%) High Availability
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Deployment
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps
3 3 (42.86%) Log Aggregation
3 3 (42.86%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Project Management
5 1 (14.29%) Change Management
5 1 (14.29%) ITIL
5 1 (14.29%) ITSM
5 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Java
3 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
3 3 (42.86%) Shell Script
4 2 (28.57%) Bash
5 1 (14.29%) Groovy
5 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (57.14%) AWS Certified Developer
2 4 (57.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 4 (57.14%) Progress Chef
2 4 (57.14%) Puppet
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Nagios
3 1 (14.29%) PowerCLI
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Veeam
2 1 (14.29%) Commvault
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) SaltStack
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) VMware