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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 262 408
Rank change year-on-year -120 +146 -14
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 267 285 173
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.00% 0.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.74% 3.21% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 205 126
10th Percentile £400 £367 £450
25th Percentile £464 £446 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £675
90th Percentile £760 £713 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £545 £600
% change year-on-year +0.92% -9.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £78.75 £38.35 -
25th Percentile £86.63 £43.38 -
Median hourly rate £95.25 £53.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +78.04% - -
75th Percentile £103.06 £77.63 -
90th Percentile £105.75 £91.05 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.25 - -

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 15,370 8,878 12,711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.64% 31.03% 29.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,197 5,609 7,914
10th Percentile £350 £275 £307
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £530
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -1.42% -3.64%
75th Percentile £623 £615 £645
90th Percentile £725 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.90% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,105 502 1,060
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.04 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.33 £21.34 £17.80
Median hourly rate £48.05 £33.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.37% -15.63% -27.27%
75th Percentile £71.50 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.25 £77.50 £75.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £32.50 £40.94
% change year-on-year +46.15% -20.62% -18.12%

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 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 23 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 23 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 -95 218 £566 +2.95% 207
London -87 112 £544 -9.33% 72
UK excluding London -100 106 £550 +0.92% 178
Work from Home -82 70 £575 +4.55% 64
North of England -44 48 £581 -17.00% 60
North West -15 35 £566 -20.02% 29
South East -58 19 £525 +5.00% 36
Midlands -65 17 £425 -8.60% 29
West Midlands -52 15 £425 -2.86% 13
Yorkshire -56 11 £663 +26.19% 24
South West -37 10 £575 -7.07% 20
East of England -24 9 £550 +4.76% 13
Wales -21 3 £250 -7.41% 7
Scotland -34 2 £394 -28.36% 12
North East - 2 £525 - 7
East Midlands -36 1 £447 -3.87% 16

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 (7.49%) Confluence
2 6 (2.25%) Apache
3 4 (1.50%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.75%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.75%) CloudStack
4 2 (0.75%) nginx
4 2 (0.75%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.75%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.87%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.75%) DELMIA
2 2 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 267 (100.00%) AWS
2 137 (51.31%) Azure
3 65 (24.34%) AWS CloudFormation
4 59 (22.10%) GCP
5 57 (21.35%) Serverless
6 47 (17.60%) Amazon EKS
7 46 (17.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 42 (15.73%) GitHub
9 39 (14.61%) Amazon S3
10 34 (12.73%) AWS Lambda
11 32 (11.99%) GitHub Actions
12 30 (11.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 29 (10.86%) Amazon ECS
14 28 (10.49%) Amazon EC2
15 25 (9.36%) AWS KMS
16 20 (7.49%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 17 (6.37%) AWS CodePipeline
17 17 (6.37%) Route 53
18 16 (5.99%) AWS CloudTrail
18 16 (5.99%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 35 (13.11%) Firewall
2 17 (6.37%) VPN
3 16 (5.99%) Network Security
4 12 (4.49%) DNS
5 11 (4.12%) WAN
6 8 (3.00%) BGP
7 7 (2.62%) 3GPP
8 6 (2.25%) LAN
8 6 (2.25%) OSPF
8 6 (2.25%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.50%) IPv6
9 4 (1.50%) TETRA
10 3 (1.12%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (1.12%) IPv4
10 3 (1.12%) MPLS
10 3 (1.12%) VLAN
10 3 (1.12%) VXLAN
11 2 (0.75%) 5G
11 2 (0.75%) PCoIP
11 2 (0.75%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.36%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (8.61%) DynamoDB
3 13 (4.87%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (4.49%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (4.49%) Power BI
5 9 (3.37%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (3.37%) NoSQL
6 8 (3.00%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.25%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (2.25%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.50%) Big Data
9 4 (1.50%) Metadata
10 3 (1.12%) Amazon QuickSight
10 3 (1.12%) DataStage
10 3 (1.12%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.12%) DocumentDB
10 3 (1.12%) MySQL
10 3 (1.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 37 (13.86%) Jenkins
2 23 (8.61%) GitLab
3 20 (7.49%) JIRA
4 15 (5.62%) Git
5 7 (2.62%) JUnit
6 6 (2.25%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.87%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.87%) DbUnit
7 5 (1.87%) jMock
7 5 (1.87%) Maven
7 5 (1.87%) Mockito
8 4 (1.50%) Snyk
9 3 (1.12%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (1.12%) MLflow
10 2 (0.75%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.37%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.37%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.37%) Postman
General
1 92 (34.46%) Social Skills
2 45 (16.85%) Finance
3 42 (15.73%) Public Sector
4 29 (10.86%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.74%) Banking
6 11 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.37%) Legal
9 6 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.87%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.12%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.12%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.75%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.75%) Billing
12 2 (0.75%) Electronics
13 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.37%) Law
13 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 103 (38.58%) Architect
2 34 (12.73%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (11.61%) AWS Architect
4 30 (11.24%) AWS Engineer
5 29 (10.86%) Cloud Architect
6 24 (8.99%) Lead
7 22 (8.24%) Senior
8 21 (7.87%) Cloud Engineer
8 21 (7.87%) Security Engineer
9 19 (7.12%) Technical Architect
10 18 (6.74%) Solutions Architect
11 17 (6.37%) Developer
12 14 (5.24%) Security Architect
13 13 (4.87%) Platform Engineer
14 11 (4.12%) Lead Architect
15 10 (3.75%) AWS DevOps
15 10 (3.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 10 (3.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 8 (3.00%) Data Engineer
17 7 (2.62%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.74%) REST
2 17 (6.37%) Kafka
3 14 (5.24%) AWS CDK
4 12 (4.49%) Node.js
4 12 (4.49%) OAuth
5 11 (4.12%) Web Services
6 10 (3.75%) RESTful
6 10 (3.75%) SOAP
7 9 (3.37%) OpenID
8 8 (3.00%) AngularJS
8 8 (3.00%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (3.00%) OAuth2
9 7 (2.62%) .NET
9 7 (2.62%) Spring
9 7 (2.62%) Spring Boot
10 6 (2.25%) Middleware
11 5 (1.87%) ActiveMQ
11 5 (1.87%) boto
11 5 (1.87%) Hibernate
11 5 (1.87%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 75 (28.09%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.12%) Data Centre
3 17 (6.37%) Management Information System
4 15 (5.62%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.62%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (4.87%) Enterprise Cloud
6 11 (4.12%) Product Ownership
7 10 (3.75%) Virtual Team
8 9 (3.37%) Public Cloud
9 8 (3.00%) Onboarding
9 8 (3.00%) Security Posture
10 6 (2.25%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.50%) e-Learning
12 4 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.12%) AI Agents
13 3 (1.12%) Cloud Security Posture
13 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (1.12%) NHS
13 3 (1.12%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 45 (16.85%) Linux
2 30 (11.24%) Windows
3 5 (1.87%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.87%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.50%) VMS
4 4 (1.50%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.12%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.75%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (56.18%) CI/CD
2 135 (50.56%) DevOps
3 107 (40.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (26.22%) Agile
5 53 (19.85%) Cloud Security
6 52 (19.48%) Containerisation
7 49 (18.35%) Microservices
8 45 (16.85%) Migration
9 44 (16.48%) Stakeholder Management
10 42 (15.73%) DevSecOps
11 41 (15.36%) Observability
12 40 (14.98%) Roadmaps
13 38 (14.23%) Continuous Improvement
14 37 (13.86%) Technical Leadership
15 35 (13.11%) TOGAF
16 32 (11.99%) Event-Driven
17 31 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
18 30 (11.24%) Mentoring
18 30 (11.24%) Scrum
19 29 (10.86%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 85 (31.84%) Python
2 49 (18.35%) Java
3 29 (10.86%) Bash
4 26 (9.74%) SQL
5 24 (8.99%) PowerShell
6 18 (6.74%) JavaScript
6 18 (6.74%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.62%) Bicep
7 7 (2.62%) Rust
8 6 (2.25%) Perl
9 5 (1.87%) C#
9 5 (1.87%) Ruby
10 4 (1.50%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.12%) Go
11 3 (1.12%) Groovy
12 2 (0.75%) PHP
12 2 (0.75%) Scala
13 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 111 (41.57%) Security Cleared
2 94 (35.21%) SC Cleared
3 82 (30.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 82 (30.71%) Azure Certification
4 28 (10.49%) CISSP
5 27 (10.11%) Degree
6 25 (9.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 22 (8.24%) Cisco Certification
8 18 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (6.37%) DV Cleared
9 17 (6.37%) TOGAF Certification
10 12 (4.49%) AWS Certified Developer
10 12 (4.49%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (3.75%) CCNP
11 10 (3.75%) PMI Certification
11 10 (3.75%) PMP
12 9 (3.37%) CCNA
12 9 (3.37%) CISM
12 9 (3.37%) Master's Degree
13 7 (2.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.99%) NIST
2 23 (8.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (6.37%) NCSC
4 12 (4.49%) GDPR
5 9 (3.37%) Data Quality
5 9 (3.37%) QA
6 6 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.87%) GRC
7 5 (1.87%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.50%) HL7
9 3 (1.12%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.75%) DICOM
10 2 (0.75%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 2 (0.75%) PSD2
10 2 (0.75%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.37%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 66 (24.72%) Docker
2 12 (4.49%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.87%) Postfix
4 5 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.75%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.75%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.75%) vSphere
6 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.37%) Squid
6 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 120 (44.94%) Terraform
2 78 (29.21%) Kubernetes
3 25 (9.36%) Ansible
4 24 (8.99%) Grafana
5 22 (8.24%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.62%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.25%) Argo
8 4 (1.50%) linkerd
8 4 (1.50%) Puppet
9 3 (1.12%) Istio
10 2 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.75%) CASB
10 2 (0.75%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.75%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.75%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.75%) Packer
10 2 (0.75%) SCCM
11 1 (0.37%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.37%) Nessus
11 1 (0.37%) Suricata
Vendors
1 38 (14.23%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.12%) Google
3 14 (5.24%) Splunk
4 12 (4.49%) Databricks
5 11 (4.12%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.37%) Cisco
7 8 (3.00%) Citrix
7 8 (3.00%) Fortinet
8 7 (2.62%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.62%) IBM
8 7 (2.62%) Oracle
8 7 (2.62%) Zscaler
9 6 (2.25%) CloudEndure
9 6 (2.25%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.87%) BeyondTrust
10 5 (1.87%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (1.87%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.87%) Remedy
10 5 (1.87%) Tenable
10 5 (1.87%) VMware