AWS Certification Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 20 78
Rank change year-on-year -50 +58 +33
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 5 53 4
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.75% 7.90% 0.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.45% 31.74% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 49 4
10th Percentile £515 £288 £398
25th Percentile £538 £381 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £425 £490
Median % change year-on-year +32.35% -13.27% +25.64%
75th Percentile £606 £475 £558
90th Percentile £663 £528 £595
West Yorkshire median daily rate £563 £425 £490
% change year-on-year +32.35% -13.27% +25.64%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 204 167 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 30.45% 24.89% 17.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 129 141
10th Percentile £363 £288 £350
25th Percentile £416 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £650
90th Percentile £650 £600 £720
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £530
% change year-on-year +11.11% -15.09% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £34.50 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £40.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year - +33.33% -

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in Leeds

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in Leeds over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in Leeds

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (40.00%) AWS KMS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (20.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) SSL
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Gradle
2 1 (20.00%) JUnit
2 1 (20.00%) Log4j
2 1 (20.00%) Maven
2 1 (20.00%) Mockito
2 1 (20.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Lead DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) PowerMock
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (40.00%) FinOps
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Memory Management
3 1 (20.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (20.00%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) Release Management
3 1 (20.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) GDPR
2 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) NIST
2 2 (40.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (20.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (20.00%) Grafana
4 1 (20.00%) Kustomize
4 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) CloudEndure
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk