AWS Certification Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 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 228 345 344
Rank change year-on-year +117 -1 -29
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 108 54 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.85% 0.26% 0.49%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.38% 0.70% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 43 95
10th Percentile £368 £451 £440
25th Percentile £475 £516 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -1.79%
75th Percentile £665 £675 £600
90th Percentile £727 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,542 7,695 7,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.58% 37.05% 33.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,785 4,411 5,360
10th Percentile £211 £263 £275
25th Percentile £394 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £533 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +0.57% +6.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £723 £703
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 935 669
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £16.50 £19.92
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.94 £49.57
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -17.41% +53.14%
75th Percentile £67.50 £62.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £80.39 £76.29 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in the UK excluding London

AWS Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for AWS Certification in the UK excluding London

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in the UK excluding London

AWS Certification
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
Scotland +45 38 £550 - 13
North of England +27 24 £708 +18.00% 72
South West +55 14 £619 -1.00% 21
Wales +13 13 £270 -57.98% 7
North West +15 12 £708 +8.92% 50
Midlands +23 10 £500 -23.08% 43
Yorkshire +14 8 £725 +45.00% 19
South East +41 6 £575 +7.48% 66
East Midlands +14 6 £503 -18.95% 11
West Midlands +11 4 £500 -23.08% 30
North East - 4 £475 - 3
East of England +25 2 £525 -12.50% 8
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 - 7
AWS Certification
UK

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 15 (13.89%) Confluence
2 8 (7.41%) nginx
3 7 (6.48%) Traefik
4 2 (1.85%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Exstream
1 2 (1.85%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.93%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 108 (100.00%) AWS
2 57 (52.78%) Azure
3 33 (30.56%) Serverless
4 28 (25.93%) GCP
5 20 (18.52%) Amazon S3
5 20 (18.52%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (17.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 14 (12.96%) Amazon ECS
8 13 (12.04%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 11 (10.19%) AWS CloudTrail
10 11 (10.19%) AWS Fargate
10 11 (10.19%) GitHub
11 10 (9.26%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (8.33%) Entra ID
13 7 (6.48%) Amazon Cognito
13 7 (6.48%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (3.70%) PaaS
15 3 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (2.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.11%) DNS
2 10 (9.26%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.70%) Firewall
4 3 (2.78%) BGP
4 3 (2.78%) MPLS
4 3 (2.78%) OSPF
4 3 (2.78%) WAN
5 2 (1.85%) Network Security
5 2 (1.85%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.85%) SSL
5 2 (1.85%) VLAN
5 2 (1.85%) VPN
5 2 (1.85%) X.509
6 1 (0.93%) 5G
6 1 (0.93%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.93%) LAN
6 1 (0.93%) VoLTE
6 1 (0.93%) VoWiFi
6 1 (0.93%) VSAN
6 1 (0.93%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.96%) MongoDB
2 9 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (6.48%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (6.48%) DynamoDB
3 7 (6.48%) NoSQL
3 7 (6.48%) Oracle Database
4 6 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (5.56%) Metadata
4 6 (5.56%) Parquet
5 4 (3.70%) Metadata Repository
5 4 (3.70%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.85%) Redis
7 2 (1.85%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.93%) Big Data
8 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.93%) GIS
Development Applications
1 19 (17.59%) JIRA
2 17 (15.74%) Jenkins
3 13 (12.04%) Bitbucket
4 11 (10.19%) GitLab
5 5 (4.63%) Git
6 2 (1.85%) Terragrunt
6 2 (1.85%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.93%) Maven
General
1 54 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 21 (19.44%) Public Sector
3 19 (17.59%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (14.81%) Finance
5 8 (7.41%) Legal
5 8 (7.41%) Telecoms
6 7 (6.48%) Banking
7 3 (2.78%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.85%) Digital Health
8 2 (1.85%) French Language
8 2 (1.85%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.85%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.85%) Military
8 2 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Billing
9 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (48.15%) Architect
2 28 (25.93%) Solutions Architect
3 20 (18.52%) Senior
4 14 (12.96%) Cloud Architect
5 11 (10.19%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (9.26%) AWS Engineer
6 10 (9.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (8.33%) Lead
7 9 (8.33%) Security Architect
8 8 (7.41%) Developer
8 8 (7.41%) Senior DevOps
9 7 (6.48%) Technical Architect
10 6 (5.56%) Cloud Developer
10 6 (5.56%) Data Engineer
10 6 (5.56%) Senior Architect
11 5 (4.63%) Cloud Security Architect
11 5 (4.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.63%) Senior Solutions Architect
12 4 (3.70%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.96%) Kafka
2 11 (10.19%) Keycloak
3 9 (8.33%) cloud-init
4 7 (6.48%) AWS CDK
5 6 (5.56%) JSON
6 4 (3.70%) .NET
7 3 (2.78%) RESTful
8 2 (1.85%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.85%) CSS
8 2 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.85%) HTML
8 2 (1.85%) OpenJDK
8 2 (1.85%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.93%) AWS Amplify
9 1 (0.93%) JMS
9 1 (0.93%) JWT
9 1 (0.93%) Lightning Web Components
9 1 (0.93%) Middleware
9 1 (0.93%) SAML
9 1 (0.93%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 26 (24.07%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.19%) PKI
3 6 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.63%) NHS
4 5 (4.63%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.70%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.78%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.78%) Oracle Licensing
6 3 (2.78%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.78%) Replication
7 2 (1.85%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.85%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (15.74%) Linux
2 10 (9.26%) CentOS
3 9 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (8.33%) Unix
4 3 (2.78%) Windows
5 1 (0.93%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (40.74%) Computer Science
2 39 (36.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 36 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 36 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (31.48%) DevOps
5 24 (22.22%) Cloud Security
6 19 (17.59%) Agile
7 18 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 15 (13.89%) Analytics
8 15 (13.89%) Enterprise Architecture
8 15 (13.89%) Migration
9 14 (12.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 14 (12.96%) Roadmaps
9 14 (12.96%) TOGAF
10 13 (12.04%) Architectural Patterns
10 13 (12.04%) Event-Driven
11 12 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
11 12 (11.11%) Microservices
11 12 (11.11%) Operational Stability
11 12 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 47 (43.52%) Python
2 13 (12.04%) Java
2 13 (12.04%) SQL
3 12 (11.11%) Bash
4 10 (9.26%) Go
5 2 (1.85%) C#
5 2 (1.85%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.85%) Scala
6 1 (0.93%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 57 (52.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 39 (36.11%) Azure Certification
3 37 (34.26%) Degree
4 32 (29.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (28.70%) Security Cleared
6 27 (25.00%) SC Cleared
7 18 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (12.04%) Master's Degree
9 11 (10.19%) AWS Certified Developer
10 10 (9.26%) DV Cleared
11 4 (3.70%) CCNP
11 4 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (3.70%) CITP
12 3 (2.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (2.78%) CCIE
12 3 (2.78%) JNCIP
12 3 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (1.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (1.85%) JNCIE
14 1 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.81%) QA
2 11 (10.19%) NCSC
3 5 (4.63%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.85%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.85%) FIPS 140-2
5 2 (1.85%) GDPR
5 2 (1.85%) NIST
5 2 (1.85%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (14.81%) Docker
2 3 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.78%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.85%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 28 (25.93%) Terraform
2 21 (19.44%) Kubernetes
3 11 (10.19%) Grafana
3 11 (10.19%) Prometheus
4 10 (9.26%) linkerd
5 9 (8.33%) Consul
5 9 (8.33%) Istio
5 9 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
5 9 (8.33%) Packer
5 9 (8.33%) Rancher
5 9 (8.33%) ZABBIX
6 8 (7.41%) HAProxy
7 4 (3.70%) Ansible
8 3 (2.78%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.93%) Argo
9 1 (0.93%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.93%) Nagios
9 1 (0.93%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.93%) Puppet
Vendors
1 34 (31.48%) Microsoft
2 23 (21.30%) Google
3 9 (8.33%) Okta
3 9 (8.33%) Oracle
3 9 (8.33%) Splunk
4 7 (6.48%) Apple
4 7 (6.48%) ESET
5 5 (4.63%) Databricks
6 4 (3.70%) Cisco
6 4 (3.70%) Cloudera
6 4 (3.70%) VMware
7 3 (2.78%) Juniper
7 3 (2.78%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.85%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.85%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.85%) New Relic
8 2 (1.85%) OpenText
8 2 (1.85%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.93%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.93%) SolarWinds