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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 242 334 347
Rank change year-on-year +92 +13 -43
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 103 53 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.80% 0.26% 0.47%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.24% 0.71% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 41 89
10th Percentile £320 £456 £440
25th Percentile £463 £515 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £631 £675 £600
90th Percentile £712 £738 £684
UK median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% -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 4,608 7,451 7,634
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.95% 36.65% 32.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,794 4,304 5,103
10th Percentile £208 £269 £286
25th Percentile £379 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +0.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £675 £725 £706
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 409 929 625
10th Percentile £17.76 £13.50 £13.95
25th Percentile £21.00 £16.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £40.94 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.18% -18.12% +42.86%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.29 £65.75
90th Percentile £80.02 £77.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -6.25% -25.93% +23.94%

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 15 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 15 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 +38 35 £550 - 25
North of England +19 17 £700 +27.27% 99
South West +55 15 £625 - 33
Wales +14 13 £270 -57.98% 6
Midlands +22 12 £483 -25.77% 61
North West +9 12 £708 +18.00% 60
South East +45 8 £500 -6.54% 100
East Midlands +16 7 £465 -25.00% 12
West Midlands +13 5 £500 -23.08% 47
Yorkshire +16 3 £550 +12.82% 30
East of England +18 2 £525 -12.50% 25
North East - 2 £413 - 9
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 - 13
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 (14.56%) Confluence
2 2 (1.94%) Camunda
2 2 (1.94%) nginx
3 1 (0.97%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Exstream
1 2 (1.94%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.97%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 103 (100.00%) AWS
2 57 (55.34%) Azure
3 31 (30.10%) Serverless
4 28 (27.18%) GCP
5 17 (16.50%) Amazon S3
5 17 (16.50%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (9.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (9.71%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (8.74%) AWS CloudTrail
7 9 (8.74%) GitHub
8 7 (6.80%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (6.80%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (5.83%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (4.85%) Amazon Cognito
10 5 (4.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (3.88%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (3.88%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (3.88%) PaaS
12 3 (2.91%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 3 (2.91%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.85%) DNS
2 4 (3.88%) Firewall
3 3 (2.91%) BGP
3 3 (2.91%) MPLS
3 3 (2.91%) OSPF
3 3 (2.91%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.91%) WAN
4 2 (1.94%) Network Security
4 2 (1.94%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.94%) SSL
4 2 (1.94%) VLAN
4 2 (1.94%) VPN
4 2 (1.94%) X.509
5 1 (0.97%) 5G
5 1 (0.97%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.97%) LAN
5 1 (0.97%) VoIP
5 1 (0.97%) VoLTE
5 1 (0.97%) VoWiFi
5 1 (0.97%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.74%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (6.80%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (6.80%) MongoDB
2 7 (6.80%) NoSQL
2 7 (6.80%) Oracle Database
3 6 (5.83%) Metadata
4 4 (3.88%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (3.88%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.88%) Metadata Repository
4 4 (3.88%) Parquet
5 3 (2.91%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.94%) Redis
6 2 (1.94%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.97%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.97%) Big Data
7 1 (0.97%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.97%) GIS
7 1 (0.97%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (20.39%) JIRA
2 14 (13.59%) Bitbucket
3 10 (9.71%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.80%) GitLab
5 5 (4.85%) Git
6 2 (1.94%) Terragrunt
6 2 (1.94%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.94%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.97%) Maven
General
1 52 (50.49%) Social Skills
2 20 (19.42%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (19.42%) Public Sector
3 16 (15.53%) Finance
4 8 (7.77%) Banking
4 8 (7.77%) Legal
4 8 (7.77%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.91%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.94%) Digital Health
6 2 (1.94%) French Language
6 2 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.94%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.94%) Retail
7 1 (0.97%) Billing
7 1 (0.97%) General Ledger
7 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.97%) Military
7 1 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (48.54%) Architect
2 27 (26.21%) Solutions Architect
3 14 (13.59%) Cloud Architect
3 14 (13.59%) Senior
4 13 (12.62%) Cloud Engineer
5 12 (11.65%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (8.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (8.74%) Security Architect
7 8 (7.77%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Developer
8 7 (6.80%) Lead
9 6 (5.83%) Data Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) Technical Architect
10 5 (4.85%) Cloud Security Architect
10 5 (4.85%) Senior Architect
11 4 (3.88%) Cloud Developer
11 4 (3.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 4 (3.88%) Senior Developer
11 4 (3.88%) Senior Solutions Architect
12 3 (2.91%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.80%) Kafka
2 4 (3.88%) AWS CDK
2 4 (3.88%) JSON
2 4 (3.88%) Keycloak
3 3 (2.91%) .NET
3 3 (2.91%) RESTful
4 2 (1.94%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.94%) cloud-init
4 2 (1.94%) CSS
4 2 (1.94%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.94%) HTML
4 2 (1.94%) Middleware
4 2 (1.94%) OpenJDK
4 2 (1.94%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.97%) AWS Amplify
5 1 (0.97%) JWT
5 1 (0.97%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.97%) Node.js
5 1 (0.97%) OAuth
5 1 (0.97%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 25 (24.27%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.85%) NHS
3 5 (4.85%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.88%) PKI
5 3 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.91%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.91%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.91%) Oracle Licensing
5 3 (2.91%) Replication
6 2 (1.94%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.94%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.94%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.97%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.97%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.74%) Linux
2 4 (3.88%) Windows
3 3 (2.91%) CentOS
3 3 (2.91%) Unix
4 2 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.97%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.97%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (40.78%) Computer Science
2 35 (33.98%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (30.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (28.16%) CI/CD
5 27 (26.21%) DevOps
6 19 (18.45%) Containerisation
7 18 (17.48%) Cloud Security
8 17 (16.50%) Agile
9 16 (15.53%) Migration
10 14 (13.59%) Analytics
10 14 (13.59%) Architectural Patterns
10 14 (13.59%) Enterprise Architecture
10 14 (13.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 14 (13.59%) TOGAF
11 13 (12.62%) Roadmaps
12 12 (11.65%) Continuous Delivery
12 12 (11.65%) Data Analytics
12 12 (11.65%) Event-Driven
12 12 (11.65%) Operational Stability
13 10 (9.71%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 39 (37.86%) Python
2 13 (12.62%) Java
2 13 (12.62%) SQL
3 5 (4.85%) Bash
4 3 (2.91%) Go
5 2 (1.94%) C#
5 2 (1.94%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.94%) Scala
6 1 (0.97%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.97%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.97%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 56 (54.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 40 (38.83%) Azure Certification
3 35 (33.98%) Degree
4 31 (30.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (27.18%) Security Cleared
6 24 (23.30%) SC Cleared
7 19 (18.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (12.62%) Master's Degree
9 11 (10.68%) AWS Certified Developer
9 11 (10.68%) DV Cleared
10 4 (3.88%) CCNP
10 4 (3.88%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (3.88%) CITP
10 4 (3.88%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (2.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.91%) CCIE
11 3 (2.91%) JNCIP
12 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (1.94%) JNCIE
13 1 (0.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (16.50%) QA
2 5 (4.85%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.88%) NCSC
4 2 (1.94%) FIPS 140-2
4 2 (1.94%) GDPR
4 2 (1.94%) NIST
4 2 (1.94%) NIST 800
4 2 (1.94%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.97%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.97%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (13.59%) Docker
2 4 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.91%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.97%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.97%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (22.33%) Terraform
2 15 (14.56%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.83%) Ansible
4 5 (4.85%) Grafana
4 5 (4.85%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.91%) linkerd
5 3 (2.91%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (1.94%) Consul
6 2 (1.94%) HAProxy
6 2 (1.94%) Istio
6 2 (1.94%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (1.94%) Packer
6 2 (1.94%) Rancher
6 2 (1.94%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.97%) Argo
7 1 (0.97%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.97%) Nagios
7 1 (0.97%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.97%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (32.04%) Microsoft
2 23 (22.33%) Google
3 8 (7.77%) Oracle
4 5 (4.85%) Databricks
5 4 (3.88%) Cloudera
6 3 (2.91%) Cisco
6 3 (2.91%) Juniper
6 3 (2.91%) Splunk
6 3 (2.91%) VMware
7 2 (1.94%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.94%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.94%) New Relic
7 2 (1.94%) Okta
7 2 (1.94%) OpenText
7 2 (1.94%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.94%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.97%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.97%) ESET
8 1 (0.97%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.97%) MuleSoft