AWS Certification Contract Job Trends 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 6 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 212 264
Rank change year-on-year -92 +52 +66
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 173 163 100
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.61% 1.04% 0.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.83% 2.94% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 117 78
10th Percentile £401 £355 £374
25th Percentile £456 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £579 £492 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.58% +9.33% -18.18%
75th Percentile £670 £575 £575
90th Percentile £800 £713 £650
UK median daily rate £575 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +15.00% -6.98% -3.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £69.03 - -
25th Percentile £72.66 - -
Median hourly rate £82.00 - £58.00
75th Percentile £85.00 - -
90th Percentile £89.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £77.33 £45.00 £58.00
% change year-on-year +71.84% -22.41% -

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 9,435 5,543 5,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.46% 35.49% 34.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,874 3,336 3,437
10th Percentile £313 £208 £255
25th Percentile £425 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -3.26%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £625
90th Percentile £710 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £533 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.43% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,292 737 512
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.25 £18.00
25th Percentile £25.53 £18.87 £26.19
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -49.70% -4.49%
75th Percentile £70.50 £38.94 £68.98
90th Percentile £87.91 £70.16 £79.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -47.05% -11.69%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS Certification

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 6 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in the UK excluding London

AWS Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS Certification

AWS Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS Certification in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Hourly 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 6 October 2026. 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
North of England -48 67 £599 +33.09% 156
South East -53 43 £568 +13.50% 100
North West -26 42 £525 +25.00% 100
Midlands -39 30 £463 -9.31% 89
West Midlands -44 27 £520 -0.05% 60
South West -25 24 £800 +23.08% 83
Yorkshire -35 19 £619 +37.50% 30
Scotland -39 11 £475 - 81
North East -32 9 £625 +34.12% 27
East Midlands -8 3 £402 -7.80% 29
East of England -26 3 £600 +17.07% 37
Northern Ireland +5 1 £600 -38.46% 23
AWS Certification
UK

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (4.05%) Apache
2 3 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.16%) CloudStack
3 2 (1.16%) nginx
3 2 (1.16%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.58%) CIMPLICITY
4 1 (0.58%) Confluence
4 1 (0.58%) Predix
4 1 (0.58%) SAS
4 1 (0.58%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.31%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.58%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.58%) Maximo
3 1 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 173 (100.00%) AWS
2 102 (58.96%) Azure
3 56 (32.37%) GCP
4 40 (23.12%) Serverless
5 37 (21.39%) Amazon EKS
6 36 (20.81%) Amazon S3
7 35 (20.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 33 (19.08%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (15.61%) Amazon ECS
10 26 (15.03%) AWS CloudFormation
11 25 (14.45%) Amazon EC2
12 24 (13.87%) GitHub
13 20 (11.56%) GitHub Actions
13 20 (11.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 16 (9.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 11 (6.36%) AWS KMS
15 11 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
16 9 (5.20%) Amazon SQS
17 8 (4.62%) Azure AKS
18 7 (4.05%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 36 (20.81%) Firewall
2 18 (10.40%) DNS
3 14 (8.09%) Network Security
4 12 (6.94%) TCP/IP
5 9 (5.20%) VPN
6 8 (4.62%) DHCP
6 8 (4.62%) LAN
7 7 (4.05%) VSAN
7 7 (4.05%) WAN
8 5 (2.89%) SD-WAN
9 4 (2.31%) BGP
10 3 (1.73%) CTI
10 3 (1.73%) MPLS
10 3 (1.73%) OSPF
11 2 (1.16%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (1.16%) NAS
11 2 (1.16%) PBX
11 2 (1.16%) SAN
11 2 (1.16%) VoIP
11 2 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.09%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (5.20%) DynamoDB
3 7 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (3.47%) Power BI
5 5 (2.89%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (2.31%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.31%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.31%) Flink
6 4 (2.31%) Metadata
7 3 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.73%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.16%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.58%) Big Data
9 1 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.58%) GIS
9 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.58%) PowerCenter
9 1 (0.58%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 28 (16.18%) Jenkins
2 16 (9.25%) GitLab
3 9 (5.20%) Git
4 4 (2.31%) JIRA
4 4 (2.31%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.73%) Maven
6 2 (1.16%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (1.16%) DbUnit
6 2 (1.16%) jMock
6 2 (1.16%) JUnit
6 2 (1.16%) MLflow
6 2 (1.16%) Mockito
7 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.58%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.58%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.58%) Selenium
7 1 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 54 (31.21%) Social Skills
2 43 (24.86%) Finance
3 28 (16.18%) Public Sector
4 24 (13.87%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.67%) Banking
6 7 (4.05%) Aerospace
7 6 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.31%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.73%) Billing
10 3 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.73%) Military
10 3 (1.73%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.16%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.16%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.58%) Aviation
12 1 (0.58%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 46 (26.59%) Architect
2 27 (15.61%) Cloud Engineer
2 27 (15.61%) Lead
3 24 (13.87%) Security Engineer
4 15 (8.67%) Senior
5 14 (8.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (7.51%) Security Architect
7 12 (6.94%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (6.94%) Technical Architect
8 11 (6.36%) Technical Leader
9 10 (5.78%) Developer
9 10 (5.78%) Scrum Master
10 9 (5.20%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (5.20%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (4.62%) AWS Architect
11 8 (4.62%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (4.62%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 7 (4.05%) Lead DevOps
13 6 (3.47%) Java Scrum Master
13 6 (3.47%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (47.98%) Terraform
2 17 (9.83%) RESTful
3 16 (9.25%) Spring
3 16 (9.25%) Spring Boot
4 15 (8.67%) REST
5 12 (6.94%) OAuth
6 11 (6.36%) SOAP
7 9 (5.20%) OpenID
8 8 (4.62%) Node.js
9 7 (4.05%) SAML
9 7 (4.05%) Web Services
10 6 (3.47%) AWS CDK
10 6 (3.47%) LangChain
11 5 (2.89%) .NET
11 5 (2.89%) AngularJS
11 5 (2.89%) ARM Templates
11 5 (2.89%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (2.89%) React
12 4 (2.31%) LDAP
12 4 (2.31%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 65 (37.57%) Cloud Native
2 22 (12.72%) Security Posture
3 19 (10.98%) Data Centre
3 19 (10.98%) Product Ownership
4 18 (10.40%) Management Information System
5 14 (8.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (6.36%) Onboarding
7 10 (5.78%) Public Cloud
8 9 (5.20%) PKI
9 6 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (2.89%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (2.89%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (2.89%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (2.31%) IoT
11 4 (2.31%) NHS
11 4 (2.31%) Security Operations Centre
12 3 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.73%) Operational Technology
12 3 (1.73%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 41 (23.70%) Linux
2 38 (21.97%) Windows
3 21 (12.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.31%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.31%) Mac OS
4 4 (2.31%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.16%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.16%) Unix
6 1 (0.58%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (58.96%) CI/CD
2 96 (55.49%) DevOps
3 86 (49.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 73 (42.20%) Agile
5 50 (28.90%) Cloud Security
6 49 (28.32%) DevSecOps
7 46 (26.59%) Technical Leadership
8 42 (24.28%) Scrum
9 41 (23.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (22.54%) Observability
11 36 (20.81%) Stakeholder Management
12 35 (20.23%) Containerisation
12 35 (20.23%) Roadmaps
13 31 (17.92%) AI
13 31 (17.92%) Migration
14 30 (17.34%) Microservices
14 30 (17.34%) SIEM
15 29 (16.76%) Platform Engineering
16 28 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
17 27 (15.61%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 70 (40.46%) Python
2 43 (24.86%) PowerShell
3 42 (24.28%) Java
4 41 (23.70%) Bash
5 16 (9.25%) SQL
6 13 (7.51%) Bicep
7 10 (5.78%) JavaScript
8 8 (4.62%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.89%) Go
10 3 (1.73%) Rust
10 3 (1.73%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 61 (35.26%) Security Cleared
2 59 (34.10%) Azure Certification
3 51 (29.48%) SC Cleared
4 43 (24.86%) CISSP
5 36 (20.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 26 (15.03%) Degree
7 14 (8.09%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (6.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (6.94%) CISM
8 12 (6.94%) DV Cleared
9 9 (5.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (5.20%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (4.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 8 (4.62%) CCNP
11 7 (4.05%) CCSP
11 7 (4.05%) PMI Certification
11 7 (4.05%) PMP
12 6 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (3.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.25%) QA
2 15 (8.67%) NCSC
3 10 (5.78%) NIST
4 7 (4.05%) GDPR
4 7 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (3.47%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.73%) GRC
6 3 (1.73%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.16%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (1.16%) HL7
7 2 (1.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (1.16%) SLA
8 1 (0.58%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.58%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 55 (31.79%) Docker
2 16 (9.25%) Active Directory
3 13 (7.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (5.78%) vSphere
5 8 (4.62%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.73%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.16%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 58 (33.53%) Kubernetes
2 29 (16.76%) Ansible
3 24 (13.87%) Progress Chef
4 16 (9.25%) Grafana
5 11 (6.36%) Prometheus
6 7 (4.05%) VxRail
7 6 (3.47%) Puppet
8 5 (2.89%) Istio
8 5 (2.89%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.73%) linkerd
10 2 (1.16%) Check_MK
10 2 (1.16%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.16%) QRadar
11 1 (0.58%) CASB
11 1 (0.58%) Consul
11 1 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.58%) Packer
11 1 (0.58%) Rancher
11 1 (0.58%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 40 (23.12%) Microsoft
2 23 (13.29%) Google
3 18 (10.40%) Red Hat
4 15 (8.67%) VMware
5 13 (7.51%) Cisco
6 11 (6.36%) Splunk
7 6 (3.47%) Dynatrace
7 6 (3.47%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.89%) Salesforce
9 4 (2.31%) BeyondTrust
9 4 (2.31%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (2.31%) Fortinet
9 4 (2.31%) IBM
9 4 (2.31%) Remedy
9 4 (2.31%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.73%) Databricks
10 3 (1.73%) Dell
10 3 (1.73%) Oracle
10 3 (1.73%) Veeam
10 3 (1.73%) webMethods