AWS Certification Contract Job Trends 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 21 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 118 132
Rank change year-on-year +29 +14 +31
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 29 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 1.66% 0.23% 0.26%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.53% 0.60% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 3 6
10th Percentile £465 - £364
25th Percentile £475 £625 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £410
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +58.54% -21.90%
75th Percentile £550 £675 £554
90th Percentile £639 - £619
South East median daily rate £500 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -23.08% +30.00% -4.76%

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 640 837 1,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.61% 38.93% 39.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 493 700
10th Percentile £221 £260 £229
25th Percentile £363 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -4.00% +5.00%
75th Percentile £569 £625 £625
90th Percentile £628 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 61 56
10th Percentile £18.87 £25.99 £17.38
25th Percentile £22.91 £48.18 £48.40
Median hourly rate £25.15 £61.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.10% -2.39% +200.00%
75th Percentile £36.48 £69.69 £72.33
90th Percentile £87.77 £100.00 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -58.08% - +33.33%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing AWS Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing AWS Certification

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 21 October 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 21 October 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
Berkshire +38 29 £500 -23.08% 29
AWS Certification
South East

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (20.69%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 29 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (34.48%) Azure
3 9 (31.03%) GCP
4 6 (20.69%) OpenShift
5 4 (13.79%) Azure Storage
6 3 (10.34%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (10.34%) Entra ID
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
7 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (6.90%) OCI
7 2 (6.90%) Serverless
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (3.45%) GitHub
8 1 (3.45%) SaaS
8 1 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.69%) BGP
1 6 (20.69%) LAN
1 6 (20.69%) MPLS
1 6 (20.69%) OSPF
1 6 (20.69%) SNMP
1 6 (20.69%) TACACS
1 6 (20.69%) WAN
1 6 (20.69%) Wireless
2 4 (13.79%) NAS
2 4 (13.79%) SAN
3 3 (10.34%) Firewall
3 3 (10.34%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (41.38%) NoSQL
2 5 (17.24%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (6.90%) Couchbase
3 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.45%) MySQL
4 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (31.03%) JIRA
2 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.45%) GitLab
General
1 22 (75.86%) Social Skills
2 18 (62.07%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (24.14%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (17.24%) Finance
5 1 (3.45%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) AWS Engineer
1 9 (31.03%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Designer
2 6 (20.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) IP Designer
3 5 (17.24%) Architect
3 5 (17.24%) Security Architect
4 4 (13.79%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (13.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Technical Specialist
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Database Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (31.03%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (20.69%) Data Centre
3 5 (17.24%) Cloud Native
4 3 (10.34%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (10.34%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (10.34%) Public Cloud
4 3 (10.34%) Replication
4 3 (10.34%) Security Posture
5 2 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (6.90%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (3.45%) Clustering
6 1 (3.45%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (3.45%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Linux
2 2 (6.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (51.72%) CI/CD
2 15 (51.72%) Validation
3 12 (41.38%) High Availability
3 12 (41.38%) Test Automation
4 10 (34.48%) DevOps
5 9 (31.03%) Analytical Thinking
5 9 (31.03%) End-to-End Testing
5 9 (31.03%) Load Testing
5 9 (31.03%) Performance Testing
5 9 (31.03%) Risk Analysis
5 9 (31.03%) Scenario Testing
5 9 (31.03%) Test Scripting
5 9 (31.03%) Verification and Validation
6 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (24.14%) Incident Response
8 6 (20.69%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (20.69%) Network Virtualisation
9 5 (17.24%) Threat Modelling
9 5 (17.24%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 18 (62.07%) Python
2 10 (34.48%) SQL
3 2 (6.90%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.45%) Bash
4 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (48.28%) Security Cleared
2 13 (44.83%) SC Cleared
3 10 (34.48%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (27.59%) Azure Certification
5 6 (20.69%) CCIE
5 6 (20.69%) JNCIE
6 5 (17.24%) CISSP
7 4 (13.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (13.79%) CCSP
8 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (6.90%) Degree
9 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (3.45%) CISM
9 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (3.45%) OCP
9 1 (3.45%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (3.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (34.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (31.03%) GDPR
2 9 (31.03%) QA
3 5 (17.24%) NIST
4 4 (13.79%) PCI DSS
4 4 (13.79%) PSD2
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (20.69%) VMware NSX
2 3 (10.34%) Docker
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (31.03%) Terraform
2 6 (20.69%) Ansible
3 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Cisco
1 6 (20.69%) F5
1 6 (20.69%) Fortinet
1 6 (20.69%) Juniper
1 6 (20.69%) VMware
2 4 (13.79%) EMC
2 4 (13.79%) NetApp
2 4 (13.79%) Pure Storage
3 3 (10.34%) IBM
4 2 (6.90%) Confluent
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle