AWS Certification Contracts in the Midlands

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 104 121 161
Rank change year-on-year +17 +40 +17
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 12 9 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.60% 0.34% 0.030%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.03% 1.04% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 1
10th Percentile £362 £581 -
25th Percentile £441 £625 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.77% +18.18% +7.32%
75th Percentile £545 £675 £575
90th Percentile £576 £700 -
England median daily rate £575 £573 £550
% change year-on-year +0.44% +4.09% -12.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 592 864 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 29.75% 32.19% 27.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 537 586
10th Percentile £150 £230 £260
25th Percentile £278 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £606
90th Percentile £691 £684 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 68 64
10th Percentile £16.09 £13.18 £10.90
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.66 £13.31
Median hourly rate £24.34 £24.65 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% +29.74% -5.00%
75th Percentile £32.36 £42.81 £30.33
90th Percentile £57.05 £57.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - -23.81% +30.42%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in the Midlands

AWS Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Certification in the Midlands

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in the Midlands

AWS Certification
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
East Midlands +14 7 £465 -25.00% 7
West Midlands +9 5 £500 -23.08% 39
AWS Certification
England

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Exstream
1 2 (16.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 2 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) GitLab
3 1 (8.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (8.33%) Maven
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Banking
3 3 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Retail
5 1 (8.33%) General Ledger
5 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) JWT
2 1 (8.33%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (8.33%) Middleware
2 1 (8.33%) OAuth
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) SAML
2 1 (8.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (16.67%) Data Structures
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 4 (33.33%) ITIL
4 3 (25.00%) API Design
4 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Migration
4 3 (25.00%) Service Management
4 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (25.00%) Validation
5 2 (16.67%) Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Data Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) Data Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
5 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 2 (16.67%) Microservices
5 2 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) Scala
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) Apex Code
4 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Degree
3 3 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
4 2 (16.67%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) OpenText
3 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
3 1 (8.33%) Bloomberg
3 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
3 1 (8.33%) IBM
3 1 (8.33%) KANA
3 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk