AWS Certification Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 8 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 - 46
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 4 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 1.14% - 0.91%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.97% - 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £410 - £543
25th Percentile £425 - £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile £475 - £663
90th Percentile £490 - £708
South West median daily rate £475 £613 £700
% change year-on-year -22.45% -12.50% +21.74%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 203 157 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 57.83% 54.14% 60.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 120 160
10th Percentile £334 £400 £406
25th Percentile £413 £473 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% - -
75th Percentile £575 £700 £700
90th Percentile £675 £876 £750
South West median daily rate £538 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -2.27% -3.51% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 25
10th Percentile £32.69 £53.42 £15.75
25th Percentile £68.00 £54.44 £18.19
Median hourly rate £74.50 £64.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.41% +93.94% -60.39%
75th Percentile £197.50 £69.75 £78.36
90th Percentile - £72.90 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £33.50 £65.00 £57.33
% change year-on-year -48.46% +13.38% -11.80%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

AWS Certification
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 8 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
Gloucester - 3 £450 - 6
Cheltenham - 1 - - 1
AWS Certification
South West

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (25.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (25.00%) Impala
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (25.00%) NLTK
1 1 (25.00%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (25.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Kibana