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 18 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 258 405
Rank change year-on-year -104 +147 +4
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 281 302 174
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.03% 0.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.84% 3.32% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 215 126
10th Percentile £400 £367 £453
25th Percentile £463 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year +1.36% -3.93% +4.09%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £675
90th Percentile £760 £715 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £548 £600
% change year-on-year +0.46% -8.75% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 0
10th Percentile £72.33 £38.35 -
25th Percentile £84.25 £43.38 -
Median hourly rate £93.75 £53.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.23% - -
75th Percentile £102.69 £77.63 -
90th Percentile £105.73 £91.05 -
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 15,237 9,103 12,859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.77% 30.98% 30.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,137 5,746 7,978
10th Percentile £350 £281 £306
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £622 £620 £646
90th Percentile £725 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.10% +1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,076 514 1,058
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.13 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.28 £21.26 £17.73
Median hourly rate £50.00 £37.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.23% -6.88% -25.93%
75th Percentile £71.50 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.36 £79.61 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 £37.07 £40.30
% change year-on-year +28.24% -8.01% -19.40%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -82 232 £575 - 266
UK excluding London -87 117 £550 +0.46% 229
London -79 115 £544 -9.33% 87
Work from Home -76 73 £575 +4.55% 306
North of England -47 47 £581 -17.00% 60
North West -14 36 £575 -18.79% 29
South East -40 29 £525 +5.00% 48
Midlands -55 19 £436 -9.64% 34
West Midlands -44 17 £438 -12.50% 15
East of England -22 9 £550 +4.76% 23
South West -29 9 £644 +3.00% 35
Yorkshire -55 9 £663 +20.45% 23
Wales -21 3 £250 -7.41% 10
Scotland -32 3 £394 -28.36% 16
North East -20 2 £525 +27.27% 8
East Midlands -33 1 £447 -3.87% 19

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 20 (7.12%) Confluence
2 7 (2.49%) Apache
3 5 (1.78%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.07%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.71%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.71%) nginx
5 2 (0.71%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.71%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.71%) DELMIA
2 2 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 281 (100.00%) AWS
2 152 (54.09%) Azure
3 70 (24.91%) AWS CloudFormation
4 61 (21.71%) GCP
5 56 (19.93%) Serverless
6 48 (17.08%) Amazon EKS
7 46 (16.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 41 (14.59%) GitHub
9 39 (13.88%) Amazon S3
10 33 (11.74%) AWS Lambda
11 31 (11.03%) GitHub Actions
12 29 (10.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 29 (10.32%) Amazon ECS
13 26 (9.25%) Amazon EC2
13 26 (9.25%) AWS KMS
14 20 (7.12%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 17 (6.05%) AWS CodePipeline
16 16 (5.69%) AWS CloudTrail
16 16 (5.69%) Entra ID
16 16 (5.69%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 38 (13.52%) Firewall
2 17 (6.05%) Network Security
2 17 (6.05%) VPN
3 16 (5.69%) DNS
4 11 (3.91%) WAN
5 8 (2.85%) BGP
6 7 (2.49%) 3GPP
7 6 (2.14%) DHCP
7 6 (2.14%) LAN
7 6 (2.14%) OSPF
7 6 (2.14%) SD-WAN
7 6 (2.14%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.42%) IPv6
8 4 (1.42%) TETRA
9 3 (1.07%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (1.07%) IPv4
9 3 (1.07%) MPLS
9 3 (1.07%) VLAN
9 3 (1.07%) VXLAN
10 2 (0.71%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.39%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (7.83%) DynamoDB
3 12 (4.27%) Amazon Aurora
3 12 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.27%) Power BI
4 9 (3.20%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (3.20%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.20%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.49%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.14%) Data Lake
6 6 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.78%) Metadata
7 5 (1.78%) MySQL
8 4 (1.42%) Big Data
8 4 (1.42%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.07%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (1.07%) DataStage
9 3 (1.07%) DocumentDB
9 3 (1.07%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 35 (12.46%) Jenkins
2 25 (8.90%) GitLab
3 20 (7.12%) JIRA
4 15 (5.34%) Git
5 6 (2.14%) JUnit
6 5 (1.78%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.78%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.42%) DbUnit
7 4 (1.42%) jMock
7 4 (1.42%) Maven
7 4 (1.42%) MLflow
7 4 (1.42%) Mockito
7 4 (1.42%) Snyk
8 2 (0.71%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.36%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.36%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.36%) Postman
General
1 96 (34.16%) Social Skills
2 48 (17.08%) Finance
3 39 (13.88%) Public Sector
4 28 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.41%) Banking
6 10 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.56%) Legal
7 7 (2.49%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.78%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.78%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.42%) Electronics
9 4 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.07%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.07%) Marketing
11 2 (0.71%) Billing
12 1 (0.36%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.36%) French Language
12 1 (0.36%) Police
Job Titles
1 111 (39.50%) Architect
2 34 (12.10%) DevOps Engineer
3 32 (11.39%) AWS Architect
3 32 (11.39%) AWS Engineer
4 31 (11.03%) Cloud Architect
5 26 (9.25%) Senior
6 24 (8.54%) Lead
6 24 (8.54%) Technical Architect
7 21 (7.47%) Cloud Engineer
8 20 (7.12%) Security Engineer
8 20 (7.12%) Solutions Architect
9 15 (5.34%) Developer
10 14 (4.98%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (4.98%) Security Architect
11 11 (3.91%) Lead Architect
12 10 (3.56%) AWS DevOps
12 10 (3.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 9 (3.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (2.85%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.41%) Kafka
2 17 (6.05%) REST
3 14 (4.98%) AWS CDK
4 11 (3.91%) Node.js
4 11 (3.91%) OAuth
5 10 (3.56%) Web Services
6 9 (3.20%) RESTful
6 9 (3.20%) SOAP
7 8 (2.85%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (2.85%) OpenID
8 7 (2.49%) .NET
8 7 (2.49%) AngularJS
8 7 (2.49%) OAuth2
9 6 (2.14%) Middleware
9 6 (2.14%) Spring
9 6 (2.14%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.78%) boto
10 5 (1.78%) React
10 5 (1.78%) XML
11 4 (1.42%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 81 (28.83%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.12%) Data Centre
3 17 (6.05%) Management Information System
4 13 (4.63%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.63%) Enterprise Cloud
4 13 (4.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (3.91%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.56%) Virtual Team
7 9 (3.20%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.85%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.49%) Security Posture
10 6 (2.14%) PKI
11 5 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.78%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.78%) Replication
12 4 (1.42%) e-Learning
13 3 (1.07%) Cloud Security Posture
13 3 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (1.07%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 48 (17.08%) Linux
2 36 (12.81%) Windows
3 6 (2.14%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.78%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.78%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.42%) VMS
6 3 (1.07%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.71%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (54.80%) CI/CD
2 135 (48.04%) DevOps
3 113 (40.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 78 (27.76%) Agile
5 58 (20.64%) Containerisation
6 54 (19.22%) Cloud Security
7 52 (18.51%) DevSecOps
8 50 (17.79%) Migration
9 48 (17.08%) Microservices
9 48 (17.08%) Roadmaps
10 46 (16.37%) Stakeholder Management
11 42 (14.95%) Observability
12 41 (14.59%) TOGAF
13 40 (14.23%) Continuous Improvement
14 38 (13.52%) Technical Leadership
15 35 (12.46%) Problem-Solving
16 32 (11.39%) Cybersecurity
16 32 (11.39%) Event-Driven
17 31 (11.03%) Mentoring
18 30 (10.68%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 90 (32.03%) Python
2 49 (17.44%) Java
3 34 (12.10%) Bash
4 28 (9.96%) PowerShell
5 25 (8.90%) SQL
6 19 (6.76%) JavaScript
7 18 (6.41%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.49%) Bicep
8 7 (2.49%) Rust
9 6 (2.14%) C#
9 6 (2.14%) Perl
10 5 (1.78%) Ruby
11 4 (1.42%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.07%) Go
12 3 (1.07%) Groovy
12 3 (1.07%) PHP
13 2 (0.71%) Scala
14 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 122 (43.42%) Security Cleared
2 103 (36.65%) SC Cleared
3 93 (33.10%) Azure Certification
4 89 (31.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 28 (9.96%) CISSP
6 27 (9.61%) Degree
7 24 (8.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (8.54%) TOGAF Certification
8 22 (7.83%) Cisco Certification
9 19 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (6.05%) DV Cleared
11 11 (3.91%) AWS Certified Developer
11 11 (3.91%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (3.91%) PMI Certification
11 11 (3.91%) PMP
12 10 (3.56%) CCNP
13 9 (3.20%) CCNA
13 9 (3.20%) Master's Degree
14 8 (2.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (2.85%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 24 (8.54%) NIST
2 16 (5.69%) NCSC
3 14 (4.98%) GDPR
4 11 (3.91%) QA
5 10 (3.56%) Data Quality
6 6 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (2.14%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.78%) GRC
8 3 (1.07%) HL7
8 3 (1.07%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.71%) DICOM
9 2 (0.71%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 2 (0.71%) PSD2
9 2 (0.71%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 71 (25.27%) Docker
2 17 (6.05%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (2.14%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.42%) Postfix
7 2 (0.71%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.71%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (0.71%) vSphere
8 1 (0.36%) Squid
8 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 124 (44.13%) Terraform
2 83 (29.54%) Kubernetes
3 31 (11.03%) Ansible
4 23 (8.19%) Grafana
5 22 (7.83%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.49%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.14%) Argo
8 4 (1.42%) linkerd
8 4 (1.42%) Puppet
9 3 (1.07%) Istio
10 2 (0.71%) CASB
10 2 (0.71%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.71%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.71%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.71%) Packer
10 2 (0.71%) SCCM
11 1 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.36%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.36%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.36%) logstash
Vendors
1 44 (15.66%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.41%) Google
3 15 (5.34%) VMware
4 14 (4.98%) Cisco
4 14 (4.98%) Splunk
5 13 (4.63%) Databricks
6 11 (3.91%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.85%) Citrix
7 8 (2.85%) Fortinet
7 8 (2.85%) Oracle
8 7 (2.49%) IBM
8 7 (2.49%) Zscaler
9 6 (2.14%) Atlassian
9 6 (2.14%) CloudEndure
9 6 (2.14%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.14%) SAP
10 5 (1.78%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (1.78%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.78%) Qualys
10 5 (1.78%) Remedy