AWS Certification Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 28 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 - 65
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.15% - 0.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.45% - 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.70%
75th Percentile £525 - £538
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £531 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -7.61% -11.54% +22.35%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 220 152 299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 31.98% 39.38% 40.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 50 154
10th Percentile £363 £305 £315
25th Percentile £455 £466 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £722
90th Percentile £698 £675 £803
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 64 62
10th Percentile £16.35 £35.00 £30.58
25th Percentile £17.87 £58.88 £42.25
Median hourly rate £22.79 £67.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -66.24% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £65.00 £82.94 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £92.00 £84.36
East of England median hourly rate £22.50 £63.00 £30.48
% change year-on-year -64.29% +106.73% +45.12%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

AWS Certification
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 28 January 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
Hemel Hempstead - 1 £500 -
AWS Certification
East of England

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Kimball Methodology
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL