AWS Certification Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxford with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 1.68% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 5.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £421 - -
25th Percentile £434 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £484 - -
90th Percentile £494 - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £463 - £650

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 36 20 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 30.25% 38.46% 21.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 6 10
10th Percentile £230 - £160
25th Percentile £313 £222 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £225 £425
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -47.06% -5.56%
75th Percentile £519 £245 £484
90th Percentile £581 £469 £500
Oxfordshire median daily rate £433 £250 £450
% change year-on-year +73.00% -44.44% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 1
10th Percentile £15.65 - -
25th Percentile £16.25 £25.15 -
Median hourly rate £35.50 £51.08 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.49% +219.22% -
75th Percentile £45.00 £87.97 -
90th Percentile £57.38 £89.63 -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £43.75 £25.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +73.96% +0.60% -22.65%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in Oxford

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

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

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

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) BGP
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) HSRP
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) VRRP
1 1 (50.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) Server Patching
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Arista
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto