AWS Certification Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 27 -
Rank change year-on-year -39 - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.13% 1.25% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.25% 3.51% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £538 £588 -
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £575 -
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 407 57 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 53.91% 35.63% 40.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 45 128
10th Percentile £415 £319 £358
25th Percentile £500 £415 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £501 £505
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -0.89% +7.45%
75th Percentile £610 £560 £569
90th Percentile £638 £620 £763
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £550 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +7.32% +2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 10
10th Percentile - £15.12 £15.85
25th Percentile - £15.15 £16.39
Median hourly rate £16.35 £16.69 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -7.31% +32.65%
75th Percentile £18.32 £19.84 £22.52
90th Percentile - £37.13 £23.32
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £19.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -13.95% -15.56% +65.81%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing AWS Certification

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) IPv6
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Multicast
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Behavioural Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Network Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) CCDA
1 1 (100.00%) CCDP
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCIP
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) CASB
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler