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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 261 405
Rank change year-on-year -96 +144 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 305 295 186
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 1.00% 0.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.94% 3.22% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 213 138
10th Percentile £407 £400 £400
25th Percentile £451 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% - -
75th Percentile £675 £638 £650
90th Percentile £775 £709 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £533 £550
% change year-on-year +0.94% -3.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile £78.75 £40.03 -
25th Percentile £86.63 £47.56 -
Median hourly rate £95.25 £54.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.58% - -
75th Percentile £103.06 £66.44 -
90th Percentile £105.75 £86.58 -
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 15,729 9,167 13,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.33% 30.94% 29.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,454 5,680 8,052
10th Percentile £350 £275 £310
25th Percentile £425 £412 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £614 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,160 590 1,118
10th Percentile £17.12 £17.86 £13.99
25th Percentile £22.68 £21.00 £18.57
Median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -25.00% -27.69%
75th Percentile £72.50 £63.19 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.25 £77.22 £75.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 £28.18 £41.50
% change year-on-year +68.70% -32.10% -21.59%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -78 252 £558 +1.36% 323
London -82 132 £575 - 118
UK excluding London -96 120 £538 +0.94% 260
Work from Home -57 91 £575 +9.52% 95
North of England -36 55 £558 -20.36% 64
North West -11 42 £550 -21.43% 32
South East -46 24 £560 +12.00% 65
Midlands -46 21 £425 -8.60% 33
West Midlands -45 18 £438 -20.45% 15
Yorkshire -49 11 £663 +26.19% 25
South West -32 10 £575 -8.00% 49
East of England -24 8 £550 +4.76% 32
Wales -21 3 £250 -42.33% 8
Scotland -45 3 £463 -15.91% 10
East Midlands -26 2 £424 -7.73% 18
North East -32 2 £525 - 8

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 (8.52%) Confluence
2 6 (1.97%) Apache
3 4 (1.31%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.66%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.66%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.66%) nginx
5 2 (0.66%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.66%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.64%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.66%) DELMIA
2 2 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 305 (100.00%) AWS
2 172 (56.39%) Azure
3 76 (24.92%) GCP
4 69 (22.62%) Serverless
5 58 (19.02%) AWS CloudFormation
6 55 (18.03%) Amazon S3
7 50 (16.39%) Amazon EKS
8 49 (16.07%) GitHub
9 47 (15.41%) AWS Lambda
10 45 (14.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 42 (13.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (12.46%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (11.80%) GitHub Actions
14 31 (10.16%) Amazon ECS
15 23 (7.54%) Power Platform
16 19 (6.23%) Route 53
17 18 (5.90%) Azure DevOps
18 17 (5.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 13 (4.26%) Amazon EMR
19 13 (4.26%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (13.11%) Firewall
2 21 (6.89%) Network Security
3 16 (5.25%) VPN
4 13 (4.26%) WAN
5 12 (3.93%) DNS
6 9 (2.95%) BGP
6 9 (2.95%) LAN
7 8 (2.62%) SD-WAN
8 7 (2.30%) 3GPP
9 6 (1.97%) OSPF
10 4 (1.31%) Internet
10 4 (1.31%) IPv6
10 4 (1.31%) TETRA
10 4 (1.31%) VLAN
10 4 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.98%) DHCP
11 3 (0.98%) IPv4
11 3 (0.98%) MPLS
11 3 (0.98%) VoIP
11 3 (0.98%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (11.15%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (7.54%) Power BI
3 21 (6.89%) DynamoDB
4 20 (6.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 15 (4.92%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (3.93%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (2.95%) NoSQL
9 8 (2.62%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.30%) Data Lake
10 7 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.64%) Metadata
12 4 (1.31%) Big Data
13 3 (0.98%) Amazon QuickSight
13 3 (0.98%) DataStage
13 3 (0.98%) Delta Lake
13 3 (0.98%) DocumentDB
13 3 (0.98%) MySQL
13 3 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 41 (13.44%) Jenkins
2 38 (12.46%) GitLab
3 25 (8.20%) Git
4 24 (7.87%) JIRA
5 9 (2.95%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.30%) JUnit
7 5 (1.64%) DbUnit
7 5 (1.64%) jMock
7 5 (1.64%) Maven
7 5 (1.64%) Mockito
7 5 (1.64%) Snyk
8 3 (0.98%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.98%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (0.98%) MLflow
9 2 (0.66%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.66%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.66%) JMeter
9 2 (0.66%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.33%) Claude Code
General
1 115 (37.70%) Social Skills
2 49 (16.07%) Finance
3 46 (15.08%) Public Sector
4 32 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.23%) Banking
6 16 (5.25%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.95%) Legal
9 7 (2.30%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.64%) Law
12 3 (0.98%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.98%) Billing
12 3 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.98%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.98%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.98%) Retail
13 2 (0.66%) Electronics
14 1 (0.33%) Military
14 1 (0.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 111 (36.39%) Architect
2 39 (12.79%) AWS Engineer
3 38 (12.46%) Cloud Engineer
3 38 (12.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 32 (10.49%) Senior
5 30 (9.84%) AWS Architect
6 26 (8.52%) Security Engineer
6 26 (8.52%) Technical Architect
7 24 (7.87%) Lead
8 22 (7.21%) Cloud Architect
8 22 (7.21%) Solutions Architect
9 19 (6.23%) Platform Engineer
10 17 (5.57%) Developer
11 16 (5.25%) Security Architect
12 15 (4.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 15 (4.92%) Data Engineer
13 13 (4.26%) AWS DevOps
13 13 (4.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.28%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 8 (2.62%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.20%) REST
2 18 (5.90%) OAuth
3 17 (5.57%) Kafka
4 16 (5.25%) AWS CDK
5 15 (4.92%) OpenID
6 12 (3.93%) OAuth2
6 12 (3.93%) Web Services
7 11 (3.61%) Node.js
7 11 (3.61%) RESTful
7 11 (3.61%) SAML
7 11 (3.61%) SOAP
8 9 (2.95%) .NET
8 9 (2.95%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (2.95%) PySpark
9 8 (2.62%) AngularJS
10 7 (2.30%) Spring
10 7 (2.30%) Spring Boot
11 6 (1.97%) LDAP
11 6 (1.97%) Middleware
12 5 (1.64%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 100 (32.79%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.85%) Data Centre
3 25 (8.20%) Management Information System
4 19 (6.23%) Security Posture
5 18 (5.90%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (5.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 14 (4.59%) Enterprise Cloud
7 12 (3.93%) Onboarding
8 11 (3.61%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.95%) Public Cloud
9 9 (2.95%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.97%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.31%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.31%) e-Learning
11 4 (1.31%) IoT
11 4 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.98%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.98%) NHS
12 3 (0.98%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 64 (20.98%) Linux
2 45 (14.75%) Windows
3 15 (4.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.97%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.64%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.64%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.64%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.98%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.98%) VMS
7 2 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (0.66%) Unix
8 1 (0.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (57.70%) CI/CD
2 172 (56.39%) DevOps
3 129 (42.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 95 (31.15%) Agile
5 73 (23.93%) Cloud Security
6 64 (20.98%) Containerisation
7 59 (19.34%) Microservices
8 56 (18.36%) Observability
9 54 (17.70%) Stakeholder Management
10 49 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 48 (15.74%) Roadmaps
12 47 (15.41%) Migration
13 46 (15.08%) AI
13 46 (15.08%) Technical Leadership
14 42 (13.77%) DevSecOps
14 42 (13.77%) Event-Driven
15 41 (13.44%) Problem-Solving
16 38 (12.46%) Machine Learning
16 38 (12.46%) Scrum
16 38 (12.46%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 113 (37.05%) Python
2 61 (20.00%) Java
3 46 (15.08%) Bash
4 43 (14.10%) PowerShell
5 33 (10.82%) SQL
6 19 (6.23%) JavaScript
7 17 (5.57%) TypeScript
8 12 (3.93%) Bicep
9 7 (2.30%) Rust
10 5 (1.64%) C#
10 5 (1.64%) Perl
11 4 (1.31%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.31%) Ruby
12 3 (0.98%) Go
12 3 (0.98%) Groovy
13 2 (0.66%) PHP
13 2 (0.66%) Scala
13 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 123 (40.33%) Security Cleared
2 105 (34.43%) SC Cleared
3 104 (34.10%) Azure Certification
4 83 (27.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 41 (13.44%) CISSP
6 35 (11.48%) Degree
7 28 (9.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 22 (7.21%) Cisco Certification
9 21 (6.89%) DV Cleared
10 20 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
11 19 (6.23%) TOGAF Certification
12 17 (5.57%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (4.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 12 (3.93%) AWS Certified Developer
14 12 (3.93%) CISM
14 12 (3.93%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (3.61%) CCNP
16 10 (3.28%) PMI Certification
16 10 (3.28%) PMP
17 9 (2.95%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.20%) NIST
2 23 (7.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (5.90%) Data Quality
4 14 (4.59%) GDPR
5 11 (3.61%) NCSC
6 9 (2.95%) QA
7 7 (2.30%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.64%) GRC
9 4 (1.31%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.98%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.98%) HL7
10 3 (0.98%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 2 (0.66%) PSD2
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
System Software
1 82 (26.89%) Docker
2 15 (4.92%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.64%) Postfix
5 2 (0.66%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.66%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.66%) vSphere
6 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.33%) Squid
6 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 146 (47.87%) Terraform
2 95 (31.15%) Kubernetes
3 37 (12.13%) Ansible
4 27 (8.85%) Grafana
4 27 (8.85%) Prometheus
5 19 (6.23%) Progress Chef
6 8 (2.62%) Puppet
7 7 (2.30%) 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 (0.66%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.66%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.66%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.66%) Packer
10 2 (0.66%) QRadar
10 2 (0.66%) SCCM
11 1 (0.33%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.33%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 53 (17.38%) Microsoft
2 33 (10.82%) Google
3 16 (5.25%) Splunk
4 14 (4.59%) Red Hat
5 13 (4.26%) Databricks
6 12 (3.93%) ServiceNow
7 11 (3.61%) Cisco
8 9 (2.95%) Informatica
9 8 (2.62%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (2.62%) Fortinet
9 8 (2.62%) VMware
10 7 (2.30%) Atlassian
10 7 (2.30%) IBM
10 7 (2.30%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.97%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.97%) Qualys
11 6 (1.97%) Tenable
11 6 (1.97%) Zscaler
12 5 (1.64%) BeyondTrust
12 5 (1.64%) Jaspersoft