AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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 Certified Cloud Practitioner qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 341 395
Rank change year-on-year -71 +54 +51
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner 7 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.032% 0.023% 0.024%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.089% 0.065% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile - - £377
25th Percentile £456 - £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £545 £400
Median % change year-on-year -15.14% +36.25% -27.27%
75th Percentile £624 £593 £441
90th Percentile £718 £621 £451
UK median daily rate £463 £545 £455
% change year-on-year -15.14% +19.78% -17.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £86.55 - -
25th Percentile £87.00 - -
Median hourly rate £95.50 - -
75th Percentile £102.88 - -
90th Percentile £103.10 - -
UK median hourly rate £95.50 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner 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 7,876 4,591 7,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.74% 35.76% 37.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,980 2,803 4,551
10th Percentile £300 £213 £251
25th Percentile £406 £394 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 961 388 852
10th Percentile £16.17 £18.51 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.34 £24.42 £16.45
Median hourly rate £28.50 £48.31 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.01% +28.83% -23.47%
75th Percentile £67.50 £68.00 £61.61
90th Percentile £84.00 £81.01 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £42.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -29.41% +13.33% -28.06%

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner in the UK excluding London

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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 Certified Cloud Practitioner within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 March 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
South West - 4 £770 - 26
Midlands -57 3 £463 -15.14% 28
West Midlands - 3 £463 - 10
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
UK

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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 3 (42.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
2 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (42.86%) AWS CodePipeline
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (42.86%) GitHub
2 3 (42.86%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (42.86%) Serverless
2 3 (42.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) 3GPP
1 4 (57.14%) TETRA
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Bitbucket
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
1 4 (57.14%) Technical Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Scrum Master
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 7 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) ArchiMate
3 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (57.14%) MODAF
3 4 (57.14%) Roadmaps
3 4 (57.14%) TOGAF
4 3 (42.86%) Backlog Refinement
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Conflict Resolution
4 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 3 (42.86%) Impact Analysis
4 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (42.86%) ITIL
4 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) SAFe Practitioner
4 3 (42.86%) Scrum
4 3 (42.86%) Technology Roadmap
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) AWS Certification
3 3 (42.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (42.86%) SAFe Agilist
3 3 (42.86%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform