AWS Certification Contracts in London

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 213 306 346
Rank change year-on-year +93 +40 -87
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 141 85 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.12% 0.48% 0.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.39% 1.98% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 69 105
10th Percentile £400 £463 £425
25th Percentile £436 £525 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £573 £590
Median % change year-on-year +4.80% -2.97% -5.60%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £650
90th Percentile £745 £763 £738
England median daily rate £600 £588 £550
% change year-on-year +2.13% +6.82% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £38.35 - £80.30
25th Percentile £43.38 - £80.75
Median hourly rate £53.50 - £81.50
75th Percentile £77.63 - £82.25
90th Percentile £91.05 - £82.70
England median hourly rate £53.50 - £81.50

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,210 4,292 5,821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.58% 24.07% 21.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,169 2,903 3,919
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £653 £661 £688
90th Percentile £754 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 111 80
10th Percentile £19.20 £14.25 £19.94
25th Percentile £22.27 £20.74 £21.24
Median hourly rate £29.07 £26.00 £45.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -42.54% +1.69%
75th Percentile £55.50 £43.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £69.72 £68.75 £82.55
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing AWS Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in London

AWS Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification in London.

Daily rate trend for AWS Certification in London

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in London

AWS Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification in London.

Hourly rate trend for AWS Certification in London

AWS Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS Certification in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS Certification in London

AWS Certification
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +8 16 £650 +15.56% 7
West London +15 5 £431 - 8
South London +9 4 - -
AWS Certification
England

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (4.26%) Confluence
1 6 (4.26%) nginx
2 5 (3.55%) Traefik
3 4 (2.84%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.13%) Apache
4 3 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.13%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.42%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 141 (100.00%) AWS
2 59 (41.84%) Serverless
3 57 (40.43%) AWS Lambda
4 48 (34.04%) Amazon S3
5 43 (30.50%) Azure
6 38 (26.95%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (21.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 24 (17.02%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (14.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 18 (12.77%) GCP
11 15 (10.64%) Entra ID
12 14 (9.93%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (8.51%) AWS KMS
14 10 (7.09%) AWS Fargate
14 10 (7.09%) PaaS
15 9 (6.38%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (6.38%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (6.38%) GitHub
16 8 (5.67%) AWS CodePipeline
17 7 (4.96%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.22%) DNS
1 13 (9.22%) VPN
2 12 (8.51%) Firewall
3 10 (7.09%) TCP/IP
4 8 (5.67%) Network Security
5 4 (2.84%) BGP
6 3 (2.13%) DHCP
6 3 (2.13%) DOCSIS
6 3 (2.13%) OSPF
6 3 (2.13%) VLAN
6 3 (2.13%) WAN
6 3 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.42%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (1.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (1.42%) LAN
7 2 (1.42%) Wireless
8 1 (0.71%) Broadband
8 1 (0.71%) IPsec
8 1 (0.71%) Multicast
8 1 (0.71%) Unicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (20.57%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (12.77%) DynamoDB
3 8 (5.67%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (5.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (4.96%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.55%) Big Data
5 5 (3.55%) Data Lake
5 5 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.55%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.13%) InfluxDB
6 3 (2.13%) Looker
6 3 (2.13%) Metadata
6 3 (2.13%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.13%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.42%) Flink
7 2 (1.42%) GIS
7 2 (1.42%) MySQL
7 2 (1.42%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (17.02%) GitLab
2 19 (13.48%) Jenkins
3 13 (9.22%) Git
4 7 (4.96%) JIRA
5 4 (2.84%) MLflow
6 2 (1.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.42%) Maven
7 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.71%) JMeter
7 1 (0.71%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.71%) Postman
7 1 (0.71%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.71%) Selenium
7 1 (0.71%) WebDriver
General
1 56 (39.72%) Social Skills
2 30 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (20.57%) Public Sector
4 19 (13.48%) Finance
5 11 (7.80%) Banking
6 4 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.13%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.13%) Military
7 3 (2.13%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.71%) Back Office
8 1 (0.71%) Billing
8 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.71%) Legal
8 1 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (36.88%) Architect
2 25 (17.73%) AWS Architect
3 23 (16.31%) AWS Engineer
4 19 (13.48%) Senior
5 17 (12.06%) Developer
6 16 (11.35%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (10.64%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (7.80%) AWS DevOps
9 9 (6.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 8 (5.67%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (5.67%) Lead
10 8 (5.67%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (4.26%) AWS Developer
11 6 (4.26%) Security Architect
11 6 (4.26%) Security Engineer
11 6 (4.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.55%) Cloud Architect
12 5 (3.55%) Data Engineer
12 5 (3.55%) Software Developer
12 5 (3.55%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.80%) Node.js
1 11 (7.80%) React
2 10 (7.09%) Kafka
3 6 (4.26%) GraphQL
4 5 (3.55%) boto
4 5 (3.55%) cloud-init
4 5 (3.55%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (3.55%) Keycloak
4 5 (3.55%) REST
5 4 (2.84%) FastAPI
5 4 (2.84%) LangChain
5 4 (2.84%) NumPy
5 4 (2.84%) OAuth
5 4 (2.84%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (2.84%) Pandas
5 4 (2.84%) PyTorch
5 4 (2.84%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.84%) SQLAlchemy
5 4 (2.84%) TensorFlow
6 3 (2.13%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.80%) Cloud Native
1 11 (7.80%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (6.38%) Data Centre
3 8 (5.67%) PKI
4 5 (3.55%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.55%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.84%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.84%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.84%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (2.13%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (2.13%) IVR
7 2 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.42%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.42%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.42%) IoT
7 2 (1.42%) NHS
8 1 (0.71%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.18%) Linux
2 11 (7.80%) Windows
3 7 (4.96%) CentOS
3 7 (4.96%) Unix
4 6 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.13%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.71%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (44.68%) CI/CD
2 56 (39.72%) DevOps
3 48 (34.04%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (27.66%) Containerisation
4 39 (27.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 37 (26.24%) Agile
6 34 (24.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 29 (20.57%) High Availability
8 24 (17.02%) Cloud Security
9 21 (14.89%) Computer Science
10 19 (13.48%) Mentoring
10 19 (13.48%) Migration
11 17 (12.06%) Continuous Integration
11 17 (12.06%) Microservices
11 17 (12.06%) Open Source
11 17 (12.06%) Roadmaps
12 15 (10.64%) Observability
13 14 (9.93%) Analytics
14 11 (7.80%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (7.80%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 65 (46.10%) Python
2 20 (14.18%) Bash
3 18 (12.77%) Java
4 14 (9.93%) TypeScript
5 13 (9.22%) JavaScript
6 12 (8.51%) PowerShell
7 9 (6.38%) SQL
8 8 (5.67%) Go
9 6 (4.26%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.13%) C
10 3 (2.13%) C++
11 2 (1.42%) C#
11 2 (1.42%) R
12 1 (0.71%) Groovy
12 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.71%) Ruby
12 1 (0.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 59 (41.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 47 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 42 (29.79%) SC Cleared
4 33 (23.40%) Degree
5 28 (19.86%) Azure Certification
6 17 (12.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (10.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (7.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (7.80%) CISSP
9 9 (6.38%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (4.96%) PMI Certification
10 7 (4.96%) PMP
11 6 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (2.84%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 4 (2.84%) CISM
13 3 (2.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (2.13%) CISA
13 3 (2.13%) OCP
13 3 (2.13%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (2.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (8.51%) QA
3 10 (7.09%) GDPR
4 9 (6.38%) NIST
5 6 (4.26%) HIPAA
6 5 (3.55%) Data Quality
6 5 (3.55%) NCSC
7 4 (2.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.42%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.42%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (16.31%) Docker
2 7 (4.96%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.13%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 47 (33.33%) Terraform
2 40 (28.37%) Kubernetes
3 17 (12.06%) Ansible
3 17 (12.06%) Prometheus
4 16 (11.35%) Grafana
5 7 (4.96%) Istio
5 7 (4.96%) Puppet
6 6 (4.26%) Consul
6 6 (4.26%) Packer
7 5 (3.55%) HAProxy
7 5 (3.55%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (3.55%) linkerd
7 5 (3.55%) Rancher
7 5 (3.55%) ZABBIX
8 4 (2.84%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.13%) Argo
10 2 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.71%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.71%) Icinga
11 1 (0.71%) Observium
Vendors
1 25 (17.73%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.93%) Splunk
3 11 (7.80%) Google
3 11 (7.80%) Okta
4 8 (5.67%) Oracle
5 6 (4.26%) Cisco
6 5 (3.55%) Apple
6 5 (3.55%) ESET
6 5 (3.55%) VMware
7 3 (2.13%) Databricks
7 3 (2.13%) Dataiku
7 3 (2.13%) DataRobot
7 3 (2.13%) Genesys
7 3 (2.13%) Ping Identity
7 3 (2.13%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.13%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.13%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.42%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.42%) Sage
8 2 (1.42%) SolarWinds