AWS Certification Contract Job Trends

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 273 397
Rank change year-on-year -86 +124 +20
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 306 291 189
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.97% 0.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.93% 3.13% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 208 140
10th Percentile £400 £390 £400
25th Percentile £450 £449 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £546 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -0.82% -
75th Percentile £675 £638 £650
90th Percentile £775 £700 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £543
% change year-on-year +4.76% -3.23% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 0
10th Percentile £78.08 £40.03 -
25th Percentile £84.00 £47.56 -
Median hourly rate £93.75 £54.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +72.81% - -
75th Percentile £102.69 £66.44 -
90th Percentile £104.75 £86.58 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £93.75 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 15,865 9,299 12,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.24% 31.03% 29.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,601 5,774 8,010
10th Percentile £350 £275 £312
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £618 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £500 £533
% change year-on-year +1.20% -6.19% +1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,166 618 1,129
10th Percentile £17.25 £17.87 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £20.24 £19.17
Median hourly rate £50.00 £29.26 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +70.88% -27.30% -26.82%
75th Percentile £72.54 £62.44 £64.25
90th Percentile £85.25 £76.25 £75.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.84 £27.94 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.80% -34.26% -20.80%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

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

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification over the 6 months to 23 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

AWS Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS Certification over the 6 months to 23 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 23 June 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
England -83 255 £559 +1.59% 272
London -77 130 £575 - 84
UK excluding London -87 127 £550 +4.76% 248
Work from Home -61 97 £575 +9.52% 56
North of England -36 57 £575 -17.86% 61
North West -9 43 £550 -21.43% 29
South East -46 28 £560 +12.00% 70
Midlands -40 21 £425 -8.60% 33
West Midlands -44 18 £438 -20.45% 14
Yorkshire -47 12 £663 +26.19% 25
South West -37 10 £575 -8.00% 34
East of England -21 8 £550 +4.76% 34
Scotland -47 4 £475 -9.52% 8
Wales -21 3 £250 -28.93% 7
East Midlands -20 2 £424 -7.73% 19
North East -34 2 £525 - 10

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 26 (8.50%) Confluence
2 6 (1.96%) Apache
3 4 (1.31%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.98%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.65%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.65%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.65%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.33%) nginx
6 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.63%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.65%) DELMIA
2 2 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 306 (100.00%) AWS
2 176 (57.52%) Azure
3 78 (25.49%) GCP
4 69 (22.55%) Serverless
5 58 (18.95%) AWS CloudFormation
6 56 (18.30%) Amazon S3
7 48 (15.69%) Amazon EKS
8 47 (15.36%) AWS Lambda
9 46 (15.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 45 (14.71%) GitHub
11 43 (14.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 39 (12.75%) Amazon EC2
13 32 (10.46%) GitHub Actions
14 31 (10.13%) Amazon ECS
15 23 (7.52%) Power Platform
16 19 (6.21%) Route 53
17 18 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
18 17 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 14 (4.58%) AWS KMS
20 13 (4.25%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 40 (13.07%) Firewall
2 20 (6.54%) Network Security
3 15 (4.90%) VPN
4 13 (4.25%) DNS
4 13 (4.25%) WAN
5 10 (3.27%) BGP
6 9 (2.94%) LAN
6 9 (2.94%) SD-WAN
7 7 (2.29%) 3GPP
7 7 (2.29%) OSPF
8 5 (1.63%) VLAN
9 4 (1.31%) IPv6
9 4 (1.31%) MPLS
9 4 (1.31%) NGFW
9 4 (1.31%) TETRA
9 4 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.98%) Internet
10 3 (0.98%) IPv4
10 3 (0.98%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.98%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (11.44%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (7.52%) Power BI
3 21 (6.86%) DynamoDB
4 20 (6.54%) Amazon Redshift
5 15 (4.90%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (3.92%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (2.94%) NoSQL
9 8 (2.61%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.61%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.96%) Metadata
12 5 (1.63%) Big Data
13 4 (1.31%) SQL Server
14 3 (0.98%) Amazon QuickSight
14 3 (0.98%) Delta Lake
14 3 (0.98%) DocumentDB
14 3 (0.98%) MySQL
14 3 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (13.73%) Jenkins
2 38 (12.42%) GitLab
3 27 (8.82%) JIRA
4 25 (8.17%) Git
5 8 (2.61%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.29%) JUnit
7 6 (1.96%) Maven
8 5 (1.63%) DbUnit
8 5 (1.63%) jMock
8 5 (1.63%) Mockito
8 5 (1.63%) Snyk
9 3 (0.98%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.98%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (0.98%) MLflow
10 2 (0.65%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.65%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.65%) JMeter
10 2 (0.65%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.33%) Liquibase
General
1 114 (37.25%) Social Skills
2 50 (16.34%) Finance
3 46 (15.03%) Public Sector
4 33 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.21%) Banking
6 17 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.94%) Legal
8 8 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.61%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.96%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.63%) Law
12 4 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.98%) Billing
13 3 (0.98%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.98%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.98%) Retail
14 2 (0.65%) Electronics
15 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 113 (36.93%) Architect
2 39 (12.75%) AWS Engineer
3 38 (12.42%) DevOps Engineer
4 35 (11.44%) Cloud Engineer
5 33 (10.78%) Senior
6 28 (9.15%) AWS Architect
7 27 (8.82%) Technical Architect
8 25 (8.17%) Lead
9 24 (7.84%) Security Engineer
10 23 (7.52%) Solutions Architect
11 22 (7.19%) Cloud Architect
12 17 (5.56%) Developer
13 16 (5.23%) Platform Engineer
13 16 (5.23%) Security Architect
14 14 (4.58%) AWS DevOps
14 14 (4.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 14 (4.58%) Data Engineer
15 13 (4.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 10 (3.27%) AWS Platform Engineer
17 9 (2.94%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.17%) REST
2 18 (5.88%) Kafka
2 18 (5.88%) OAuth
3 16 (5.23%) AWS CDK
4 15 (4.90%) OpenID
5 12 (3.92%) Node.js
5 12 (3.92%) OAuth2
5 12 (3.92%) Web Services
6 11 (3.59%) RESTful
6 11 (3.59%) SAML
6 11 (3.59%) SOAP
7 9 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (2.94%) PySpark
8 8 (2.61%) .NET
9 7 (2.29%) AngularJS
9 7 (2.29%) Spring
9 7 (2.29%) Spring Boot
10 6 (1.96%) LangChain
10 6 (1.96%) LDAP
10 6 (1.96%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 103 (33.66%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.15%) Management Information System
3 25 (8.17%) Data Centre
4 21 (6.86%) Security Posture
5 20 (6.54%) Hybrid Cloud
6 18 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (4.90%) Enterprise Cloud
7 15 (4.90%) Product Ownership
8 12 (3.92%) Onboarding
9 9 (2.94%) Public Cloud
9 9 (2.94%) Virtual Team
10 7 (2.29%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.63%) IoT
13 4 (1.31%) Cloud Security Posture
13 4 (1.31%) e-Learning
13 4 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.31%) NHS
14 3 (0.98%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 64 (20.92%) Linux
2 45 (14.71%) Windows
3 15 (4.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.96%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.63%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.63%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.63%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.98%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.98%) VMS
7 2 (0.65%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (0.65%) Unix
8 1 (0.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (56.54%) CI/CD
1 173 (56.54%) DevOps
2 124 (40.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 101 (33.01%) Agile
4 74 (24.18%) Cloud Security
5 61 (19.93%) Containerisation
6 59 (19.28%) Microservices
7 56 (18.30%) Stakeholder Management
8 55 (17.97%) Observability
9 54 (17.65%) Roadmaps
10 50 (16.34%) AI
10 50 (16.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 50 (16.34%) Migration
11 47 (15.36%) Technical Leadership
12 43 (14.05%) DevSecOps
12 43 (14.05%) Event-Driven
12 43 (14.05%) Scrum
13 42 (13.73%) Machine Learning
13 42 (13.73%) TOGAF
14 41 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 116 (37.91%) Python
2 59 (19.28%) Java
3 45 (14.71%) Bash
4 42 (13.73%) PowerShell
5 37 (12.09%) SQL
6 18 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 16 (5.23%) TypeScript
8 12 (3.92%) Bicep
9 7 (2.29%) Rust
10 5 (1.63%) Perl
11 4 (1.31%) C#
11 4 (1.31%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.31%) Ruby
12 3 (0.98%) Go
12 3 (0.98%) Groovy
12 3 (0.98%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.65%) PHP
14 1 (0.33%) Scala
14 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 121 (39.54%) Security Cleared
2 106 (34.64%) Azure Certification
3 102 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 85 (27.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 45 (14.71%) CISSP
6 39 (12.75%) Degree
7 27 (8.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 22 (7.19%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (7.19%) DV Cleared
9 21 (6.86%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (6.54%) TOGAF Certification
11 17 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (4.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 13 (4.25%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (3.92%) AWS Certified Developer
14 12 (3.92%) CISM
15 11 (3.59%) CCNP
16 10 (3.27%) PMI Certification
16 10 (3.27%) PMP
17 9 (2.94%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (7.19%) NIST
3 20 (6.54%) Data Quality
4 14 (4.58%) GDPR
5 12 (3.92%) NCSC
6 9 (2.94%) QA
7 8 (2.61%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.63%) GRC
9 4 (1.31%) HL7
9 4 (1.31%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.98%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.65%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.33%) DICOM
12 1 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.33%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.33%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 83 (27.12%) Docker
2 15 (4.90%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.63%) Postfix
5 2 (0.65%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.65%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.65%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.65%) vSphere
6 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.33%) Squid
6 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 141 (46.08%) Terraform
2 92 (30.07%) Kubernetes
3 38 (12.42%) Ansible
4 26 (8.50%) Grafana
4 26 (8.50%) Prometheus
5 19 (6.21%) Progress Chef
6 8 (2.61%) Puppet
7 6 (1.96%) Argo
8 4 (1.31%) Istio
8 4 (1.31%) linkerd
9 3 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.65%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.65%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.65%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.65%) Packer
10 2 (0.65%) QRadar
10 2 (0.65%) SCCM
11 1 (0.33%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.33%) Nessus
Vendors
1 53 (17.32%) Microsoft
2 36 (11.76%) Google
3 16 (5.23%) Splunk
4 14 (4.58%) Red Hat
5 12 (3.92%) Databricks
5 12 (3.92%) ServiceNow
6 11 (3.59%) Cisco
7 10 (3.27%) VMware
8 9 (2.94%) Informatica
9 8 (2.61%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (2.61%) IBM
10 7 (2.29%) Atlassian
10 7 (2.29%) Fortinet
10 7 (2.29%) Oracle
10 7 (2.29%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.96%) Zscaler
12 5 (1.63%) BeyondTrust
12 5 (1.63%) Dynatrace
12 5 (1.63%) Qualys
12 5 (1.63%) Tenable