AWS Certification Contract Job Trends in South London

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 34 40
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 +5
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 14 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 7.73% 1.47% 2.53%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.73% 2.88% 5.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 8
10th Percentile £462 £469 £522
25th Percentile £475 £497 £592
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £705 £563 £638
Median % change year-on-year +25.24% -11.76% +10.87%
75th Percentile £750 £647 £675
90th Percentile - £686 -
London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% -4.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 102 104 151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 56.35% 50.98% 47.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 74 105
10th Percentile £419 £211 £389
25th Percentile £475 £400 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £481 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.99% -8.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £540 £588
90th Percentile £738 £588 £645
London median daily rate £538 £538 £550
% change year-on-year - -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 11
10th Percentile - - £30.00
25th Percentile - - £37.91
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.19%
75th Percentile - - £60.05
90th Percentile - - £67.50
London median hourly rate £25.15 £33.50 £53.25
% change year-on-year -24.93% -37.09% +21.22%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in South London

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing AWS Certification

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in South London over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in South London

AWS Certification
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Croydon +7 12 £475 -29.63% 6
Bromley - 2 £750 - 7
AWS Certification
London

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 10 (71.43%) Confluence
1 10 (71.43%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (71.43%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 12 (85.71%) Azure
3 11 (78.57%) Amazon S3
3 11 (78.57%) Route 53
3 11 (78.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 10 (71.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (71.43%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (71.43%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (71.43%) Amazon ELB
4 10 (71.43%) AWS KMS
4 10 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (14.29%) GCP
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (78.57%) DNS
1 11 (78.57%) Firewall
2 10 (71.43%) FTP
2 10 (71.43%) HTTP
2 10 (71.43%) IMAP
2 10 (71.43%) OpenLDAP
2 10 (71.43%) SMTP
2 10 (71.43%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (71.43%) Amazon Aurora
1 10 (71.43%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (71.43%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) DataStage
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (71.43%) Git
1 10 (71.43%) Jenkins
1 10 (71.43%) JIRA
1 10 (71.43%) Vagrant
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 12 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 10 (71.43%) Presentation Skills
3 9 (64.29%) Public Sector
4 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Banking
4 2 (14.29%) Finance
5 1 (7.14%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) AWS Engineer
1 10 (71.43%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 10 (71.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 10 (71.43%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (57.14%) AWS DevOps
2 8 (57.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 8 (57.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (57.14%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Architect
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Solution Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (71.43%) LDAP
2 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (71.43%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (71.43%) Amazon Linux
1 10 (71.43%) Linux
1 10 (71.43%) Ubuntu
1 10 (71.43%) VMS
1 10 (71.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 12 (85.71%) DevOps
2 11 (78.57%) Patch Management
3 10 (71.43%) Change Management
3 10 (71.43%) Cloud Security
3 10 (71.43%) Configuration Management
3 10 (71.43%) Performance Tuning
3 10 (71.43%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Agile
5 2 (14.29%) Analytical Thinking
5 2 (14.29%) API Design
5 2 (14.29%) Business Strategy
5 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) Microservices
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) SDLC
5 2 (14.29%) TOGAF
5 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) SQL
2 10 (71.43%) Groovy
2 10 (71.43%) PowerShell
2 10 (71.43%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (85.71%) Azure Certification
1 12 (85.71%) Degree
2 11 (78.57%) SC Cleared
2 11 (78.57%) Security Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (85.71%) Docker
2 10 (71.43%) DFS Replication
2 10 (71.43%) Dovecot
2 10 (71.43%) Postfix
2 10 (71.43%) Squid
Systems Management
1 10 (71.43%) Grafana
1 10 (71.43%) Nessus
1 10 (71.43%) Prometheus
1 10 (71.43%) Proxmox
1 10 (71.43%) Terraform
2 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Jaspersoft
1 10 (71.43%) ServiceNow