AWS Certification Contracts in the South East

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 194 207
Rank change year-on-year +41 +13 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 6 11 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.20% 0.20% 0.26%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.49% 0.44% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 10
10th Percentile £501 £418 £460
25th Percentile £541 £456 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £535 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% +7.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £616 £600 -
90th Percentile £668 - £576
England median daily rate £600 £588 £550
% change year-on-year +2.13% +6.82% -12.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,222 2,486 2,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 40.60% 44.73% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 778 1,412 1,432
10th Percentile £302 £313 £300
25th Percentile £438 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £623
90th Percentile £688 £735 £713
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 213 145
10th Percentile £20.00 £17.52 £21.40
25th Percentile £26.13 £27.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +28.75%
75th Percentile £70.63 £67.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £78.13 £85.41 £75.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in the South East

AWS Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Certification in the South East

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in the South East

AWS Certification
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Thames Valley +44 5 £575 -4.17% 11
Buckinghamshire - 3 £575 - 3
Berkshire +29 2 £500 -16.67% 4
Sussex - 1 - - 1
AWS Certification
England

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (33.33%) Camunda
1 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub
3 2 (33.33%) PaaS
3 2 (33.33%) SaaS
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) 5G
1 1 (16.67%) BGP
1 1 (16.67%) Diameter Protocol
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) MPLS
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
1 1 (16.67%) OSPF
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (16.67%) VoIP
1 1 (16.67%) VoLTE
1 1 (16.67%) VoWiFi
1 1 (16.67%) VSAN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
1 1 (16.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Billing
3 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Java Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Java Technical Architect
3 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
1 2 (33.33%) Keycloak
1 2 (33.33%) OpenJDK
1 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Network Design
3 2 (33.33%) Open Source
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (16.67%) Presales
4 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Debt
4 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) User Experience
4 1 (16.67%) Verification and Validation
4 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (33.33%) CCNP
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (33.33%) Degree
5 1 (16.67%) CCIE
5 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (16.67%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) NCSC
2 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Juniper
3 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds