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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 294 345
Rank change year-on-year +76 +51 -84
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 141 91 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.14% 0.52% 0.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.40% 2.19% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 70 102
10th Percentile £400 £448 £428
25th Percentile £425 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £555 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £659 £734 £669
90th Percentile £738 £763 £800
England median daily rate £575 £573 £550
% change year-on-year +0.44% +4.09% -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 3,201 4,149 5,628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.81% 23.76% 21.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,159 2,817 3,807
10th Percentile £356 £325 £363
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -6.52% +4.55%
75th Percentile £656 £650 £688
90th Percentile £763 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 107 79
10th Percentile £16.78 £14.17 £19.88
25th Percentile £22.27 £19.74 £21.24
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -47.37% +6.74%
75th Percentile £56.25 £42.00 £64.75
90th Percentile £72.61 £64.25 £84.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - -23.81% +30.42%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +3 16 £663 +20.45% 7
West London +16 5 £431 - 4
South London +5 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 5 (3.55%) Confluence
1 5 (3.55%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.42%) Apache
3 2 (1.42%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.42%) nginx
3 2 (1.42%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.42%) Traefik
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (3.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.84%) 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 49 (34.75%) Amazon S3
5 45 (31.91%) Azure
6 36 (25.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (18.44%) Amazon EKS
8 25 (17.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (13.48%) GCP
9 19 (13.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 14 (9.93%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (9.22%) Entra ID
12 12 (8.51%) AWS KMS
13 11 (7.80%) GitHub
14 10 (7.09%) AWS Step Functions
14 10 (7.09%) PaaS
15 9 (6.38%) Amazon SQS
16 8 (5.67%) Amazon SageMaker
16 8 (5.67%) AWS CodePipeline
16 8 (5.67%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.93%) VPN
2 13 (9.22%) Firewall
3 11 (7.80%) DNS
4 8 (5.67%) Network Security
5 7 (4.96%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.84%) BGP
7 3 (2.13%) DHCP
7 3 (2.13%) DOCSIS
7 3 (2.13%) OSPF
7 3 (2.13%) VLAN
7 3 (2.13%) WAN
7 3 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.42%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (1.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (1.42%) LAN
8 2 (1.42%) Wireless
9 1 (0.71%) IPsec
9 1 (0.71%) Multicast
9 1 (0.71%) SMS
9 1 (0.71%) Unicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (19.86%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (14.18%) DynamoDB
3 9 (6.38%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (4.96%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.26%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.84%) Big Data
7 4 (2.84%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.84%) Metadata
7 4 (2.84%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.13%) InfluxDB
8 3 (2.13%) Looker
8 3 (2.13%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.42%) EDMS
9 2 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.42%) GIS
9 2 (1.42%) MySQL
9 2 (1.42%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.42%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (14.18%) GitLab
2 18 (12.77%) Jenkins
3 13 (9.22%) Git
4 6 (4.26%) JIRA
5 5 (3.55%) MLflow
6 3 (2.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.71%) JMeter
7 1 (0.71%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.71%) Maven
7 1 (0.71%) Postman
7 1 (0.71%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.71%) Selenium
7 1 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.71%) WebDriver
General
1 57 (40.43%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.57%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (20.57%) Public Sector
3 20 (14.18%) Finance
4 10 (7.09%) Banking
5 4 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.13%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.42%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.42%) Military
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%) Legal
8 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (37.59%) Architect
2 25 (17.73%) AWS Architect
3 24 (17.02%) AWS Engineer
4 17 (12.06%) Senior
5 16 (11.35%) Developer
5 16 (11.35%) Solutions Architect
6 13 (9.22%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (8.51%) AWS DevOps
8 9 (6.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 8 (5.67%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (4.96%) Security Engineer
11 6 (4.26%) AWS Developer
11 6 (4.26%) Lead
11 6 (4.26%) Security Architect
12 5 (3.55%) Analyst
12 5 (3.55%) AWS Solution Architect
12 5 (3.55%) Backend Developer
12 5 (3.55%) Cloud Architect
12 5 (3.55%) Senior DevOps
12 5 (3.55%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.80%) React
2 10 (7.09%) Node.js
3 8 (5.67%) GraphQL
4 6 (4.26%) Kafka
5 5 (3.55%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (3.55%) FastAPI
5 5 (3.55%) LangChain
5 5 (3.55%) NumPy
5 5 (3.55%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (3.55%) Pandas
5 5 (3.55%) PyTorch
5 5 (3.55%) REST
5 5 (3.55%) SQLAlchemy
5 5 (3.55%) TensorFlow
6 4 (2.84%) AWS CDK
6 4 (2.84%) Hugging Face
6 4 (2.84%) Lambda Expressions
6 4 (2.84%) OAuth
6 4 (2.84%) pydantic
6 4 (2.84%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.93%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (6.38%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.55%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.55%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.55%) PKI
4 5 (3.55%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.84%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.84%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.13%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.13%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.13%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (2.13%) IVR
7 2 (1.42%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.42%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.42%) IoT
7 2 (1.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.06%) Linux
2 12 (8.51%) Windows
3 5 (3.55%) Unix
4 4 (2.84%) CentOS
5 3 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.13%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.71%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (42.55%) CI/CD
2 52 (36.88%) DevOps
3 47 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (28.37%) Containerisation
5 37 (26.24%) Agile
6 36 (25.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (25.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 31 (21.99%) High Availability
8 22 (15.60%) Cloud Security
9 20 (14.18%) Computer Science
9 20 (14.18%) Mentoring
10 19 (13.48%) Microservices
10 19 (13.48%) Migration
11 18 (12.77%) Open Source
11 18 (12.77%) Roadmaps
12 17 (12.06%) Continuous Integration
13 13 (9.22%) Observability
14 12 (8.51%) Analytics
14 12 (8.51%) ITIL
14 12 (8.51%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 67 (47.52%) Python
2 18 (12.77%) Bash
2 18 (12.77%) Java
3 15 (10.64%) JavaScript
3 15 (10.64%) TypeScript
4 12 (8.51%) PowerShell
5 9 (6.38%) SQL
6 8 (5.67%) Shell Script
7 5 (3.55%) Go
8 3 (2.13%) C
8 3 (2.13%) C++
9 2 (1.42%) C#
9 2 (1.42%) R
10 1 (0.71%) CodeQL
10 1 (0.71%) Groovy
10 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.71%) Ruby
10 1 (0.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 56 (39.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 44 (31.21%) Security Cleared
3 39 (27.66%) SC Cleared
4 33 (23.40%) Degree
5 29 (20.57%) Azure Certification
6 16 (11.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (10.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (8.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (7.80%) CISSP
10 9 (6.38%) AWS Certified Developer
11 7 (4.96%) PMI Certification
11 7 (4.96%) PMP
12 6 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (3.55%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 4 (2.84%) CISM
15 3 (2.13%) CISA
15 3 (2.13%) CRISC
15 3 (2.13%) OCP
15 3 (2.13%) Oracle Certification
15 3 (2.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.93%) QA
2 13 (9.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (7.09%) GDPR
4 9 (6.38%) NIST
5 6 (4.26%) HIPAA
6 4 (2.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (2.13%) Data Quality
8 2 (1.42%) NCSC
8 2 (1.42%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.42%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (17.02%) Docker
2 8 (5.67%) 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 46 (32.62%) Terraform
2 39 (27.66%) Kubernetes
3 17 (12.06%) Ansible
4 13 (9.22%) Prometheus
5 12 (8.51%) Grafana
6 8 (5.67%) Puppet
7 5 (3.55%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.13%) Istio
9 2 (1.42%) Argo
9 2 (1.42%) Consul
9 2 (1.42%) HAProxy
9 2 (1.42%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.42%) linkerd
9 2 (1.42%) Packer
9 2 (1.42%) Rancher
9 2 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.42%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.71%) Cilium
10 1 (0.71%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 26 (18.44%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.80%) Google
2 11 (7.80%) Splunk
3 8 (5.67%) Okta
4 7 (4.96%) Cisco
4 7 (4.96%) Oracle
5 5 (3.55%) VMware
6 4 (2.84%) Dataiku
6 4 (2.84%) DataRobot
7 3 (2.13%) Databricks
7 3 (2.13%) Genesys
7 3 (2.13%) Ping Identity
7 3 (2.13%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.13%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.42%) Apple
8 2 (1.42%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.42%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.42%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.42%) Sage
8 2 (1.42%) SolarWinds