AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
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 SysOps Administrator qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 - 409
Rank change year-on-year - - +82
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified SysOps Administrator 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.019% - 0.009%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.053% - 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £379 - -
25th Percentile £410 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.67%
75th Percentile £531 - £538
90th Percentile £558 - -
UK median daily rate £513 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +13.89% -14.29% -16.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator 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 5,625 5,908 7,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.62% 33.99% 34.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,385 3,426 4,564
10th Percentile £206 £250 £275
25th Percentile £388 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.26% +2.48%
75th Percentile £600 £624 £643
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 749 487 615
10th Percentile £16.84 £18.03 £15.73
25th Percentile £18.87 £26.25 £24.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £51.90
Median % change year-on-year -49.70% -3.66% +15.33%
75th Percentile £36.25 £68.75 £69.81
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £53.70
% change year-on-year -47.05% -11.55% +19.33%

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS Certified SysOps Administrator

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified SysOps Administrator in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certified SysOps Administrator in the UK excluding London

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
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 SysOps Administrator within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Midlands - 2 £458 -
West Midlands - 2 £458 -
East of England - 1 £475 - 1
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
UK

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Route 53
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (33.33%) AWS KMS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
2 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) VSAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (33.33%) PKI
2 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) SUSE
2 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Re-Platforming
2 1 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Nagios
1 1 (33.33%) PowerCLI
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
1 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Veeam
2 1 (33.33%) Commvault
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) SaltStack
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) VMware