AWS Certification Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 9 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.82% - 0.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.55% - 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £599 - -
25th Percentile £656 - £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - £475
75th Percentile £691 - £483
90th Percentile £694 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £675 - £475

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 198 53 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 18.08% 12.41% 16.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 38 41
10th Percentile £401 £317 £390
25th Percentile £450 £358 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £449 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.60% -14.57% -16.00%
75th Percentile £638 £547 £576
90th Percentile £688 £649 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £514 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +14.22% -14.29% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 0
10th Percentile £21.33 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.77 £18.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +39.30% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £18.50 -
% change year-on-year +39.30% - -

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in Sheffield

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in Sheffield over the 6 months to 30 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in Sheffield

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) GCP
2 8 (88.89%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) LAN
1 2 (22.22%) Multicast
1 2 (22.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) Liquibase
General
1 9 (100.00%) Finance
1 9 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Billing
2 2 (22.22%) Financial Institution
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Lead
2 4 (44.44%) Lead DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Platform Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) GCP DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 6 (66.67%) Key Management
2 6 (66.67%) Secrets Management
2 6 (66.67%) Security Architecture
2 6 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
3 4 (44.44%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (44.44%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
5 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
5 2 (22.22%) Product Management
5 2 (22.22%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
6 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
6 1 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Grafana
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Splunk