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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 153 117
Rank change year-on-year +55 -36 +12
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 15 5 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.85% 0.15% 1.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.58% 0.29% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 35
10th Percentile £538 £504 £513
25th Percentile £606 £566 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £676 £609 £675
90th Percentile £688 £626 £788
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -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 952 1,754 1,824
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 54.18% 53.09% 52.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 1,125 1,297
10th Percentile £215 £372 £400
25th Percentile £413 £469 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +11.90%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £725 £733
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 193 137
10th Percentile £18.51 £23.90 £39.55
25th Percentile £18.87 £40.00 £56.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.77% - +6.68%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £80.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £86.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £41.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -27.71% -24.55% +35.80%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +37 7 £665 +10.83% 11
Bristol - 5 £625 - 37
Somerset - 2 £613 - 7
Dorset +4 1 £525 - 6
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 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (73.33%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) GCP
4 2 (13.33%) GitHub
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) BGP
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) MPLS
1 2 (13.33%) OSPF
1 2 (13.33%) SD-WAN
1 2 (13.33%) VLAN
1 2 (13.33%) VPN
1 2 (13.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) GitLab
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.67%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (86.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Architect
2 8 (53.33%) Security Architect
3 5 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
3 5 (33.33%) Cloud Security Architect
4 4 (26.67%) Lead
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Network Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) Lead Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Security Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Security Project Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Security Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) CentOS
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Cloud Security
2 6 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
3 5 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 5 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 5 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 5 (33.33%) Security Operations
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Security Architecture
4 4 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (20.00%) DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (20.00%) Migration
5 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (13.33%) ArchiMate
6 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
6 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
6 2 (13.33%) Strategic Roadmap
6 2 (13.33%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 10 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (60.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 7 (46.67%) SC Cleared
4 4 (26.67%) Azure Certification
5 2 (13.33%) CCIE
5 2 (13.33%) CCNP
5 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (13.33%) Degree
5 2 (13.33%) JNCIE
5 2 (13.33%) JNCIP
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Puppet
3 1 (6.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Cisco
1 2 (13.33%) Fortinet
1 2 (13.33%) Google
1 2 (13.33%) Juniper
1 2 (13.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (6.67%) IBM
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat