AWS Certification Contracts in the South West

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 97 152 122
Rank change year-on-year +55 -30 +19
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 14 5 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.83% 0.16% 1.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.52% 0.28% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 41
10th Percentile £516 £508 £513
25th Percentile £575 £575 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £682 £650 £675
90th Percentile £688 £673 £788
England median daily rate £600 £588 £550
% change year-on-year +2.13% +6.82% -12.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 923 1,806 1,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 55.01% 56.46% 52.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 1,150 1,403
10th Percentile £250 £353 £388
25th Percentile £450 £465 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £578
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +11.06%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £675
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 196 156
10th Percentile £18.51 £22.31 £38.53
25th Percentile £25.15 £40.00 £57.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £61.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -6.15% +5.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £80.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £86.45
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in the South West

AWS Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Certification in the South West

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in the South West

AWS Certification
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Wiltshire +38 8 £670 +21.82%
Bristol +19 2 £525 -22.22% 8
Dorset - 2 £538 - 4
Somerset - 2 £600 - 1
AWS Certification
England

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (78.57%) Azure
3 4 (28.57%) GCP
4 2 (14.29%) Serverless
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) BGP
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
1 2 (14.29%) MPLS
1 2 (14.29%) OSPF
1 2 (14.29%) SD-WAN
1 2 (14.29%) VLAN
1 2 (14.29%) VPN
1 2 (14.29%) WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
3 1 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Architect
2 8 (57.14%) Security Architect
3 5 (35.71%) Cloud Architect
3 5 (35.71%) Cloud Security Architect
4 3 (21.43%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Lead
5 2 (14.29%) Network Architect
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Architect
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Lead Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Lead Security Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) CentOS
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Cloud Security
2 6 (42.86%) Threat Modelling
3 5 (35.71%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (35.71%) Incident Response
3 5 (35.71%) Roadmaps
3 5 (35.71%) Security Operations
4 4 (28.57%) Security Architecture
5 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
5 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
5 3 (21.43%) Decision-Making
5 3 (21.43%) DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
5 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (21.43%) TOGAF
6 2 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (14.29%) Operational Stability
6 2 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
6 2 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 9 (64.29%) DV Cleared
2 9 (64.29%) Security Cleared
3 7 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (35.71%) Azure Certification
5 2 (14.29%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (14.29%) CCIE
5 2 (14.29%) CCNP
5 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (14.29%) Degree
5 2 (14.29%) JNCIE
5 2 (14.29%) JNCIP
6 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
6 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Google
2 2 (14.29%) Cisco
2 2 (14.29%) Fortinet
2 2 (14.29%) Juniper
2 2 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat