AWS Certification Contracts in the Thames Valley

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 97 141 143
Rank change year-on-year +44 +2 +9
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 5 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.33% 0.15% 0.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.91% 0.36% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile £501 £548 £469
25th Percentile £541 £581 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +23.08% +2.63%
75th Percentile £616 - £517
90th Percentile £668 - £555
South East median daily rate £575 £535 £500
% change year-on-year +7.48% +7.00% -13.04%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 547 1,103 1,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.20% 41.06% 34.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 588 696
10th Percentile £313 £213 £319
25th Percentile £436 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £620 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £690
South East median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 107 45
10th Percentile £19.12 £18.30 £20.10
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.75 £27.00
Median hourly rate £61.50 £58.30 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% -9.86% +207.61%
75th Percentile £71.38 £70.44 £74.79
90th Percentile £87.46 £87.18 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
% change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +28.75%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in the Thames Valley

AWS Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for AWS Certification in the Thames Valley

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in the Thames Valley

AWS Certification
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Buckinghamshire - 3 £575 - 27
Berkshire +29 2 £500 -16.67% 28
AWS Certification
South East

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (40.00%) Camunda
1 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) PaaS
3 2 (40.00%) SaaS
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) 5G
1 1 (20.00%) Diameter Protocol
1 1 (20.00%) MPLS
1 1 (20.00%) VoIP
1 1 (20.00%) VoLTE
1 1 (20.00%) VoWiFi
1 1 (20.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Billing
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Java Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Java Technical Architect
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Principal Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Principal Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
1 2 (40.00%) Keycloak
1 2 (40.00%) OpenJDK
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (60.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Load Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Network Design
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Presales
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (20.00%) Time Management
4 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (40.00%) Degree
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (20.00%) CCNP
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) NCSC
2 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) VMware