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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 273 342
Rank change year-on-year -82 +69 +65
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 352 309 239
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.94% 0.61%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.10% 3.01% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 220 171
10th Percentile £413 £363 £388
25th Percentile £475 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £504 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.14% -8.41% -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £606 £638
90th Percentile £790 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 1
10th Percentile £69.86 £39.00 -
25th Percentile £78.56 £45.00 -
Median hourly rate £88.75 £55.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.36% -5.17% -28.83%
75th Percentile £102.69 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £104.75 £91.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £88.75 - £58.00

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 16,783 10,249 11,642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.33% 31.23% 29.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,254 6,303 7,364
10th Percentile £350 £288 £313
25th Percentile £433 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £638
90th Percentile £715 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,257 823 818
10th Percentile £17.72 £17.98 £14.49
25th Percentile £25.77 £19.38 £21.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.81% -41.51% -21.82%
75th Percentile £73.00 £53.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.96 £73.75 £76.47
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.77 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +93.90% -47.05% -6.40%

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 19 August 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 19 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Top 15 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 19 August 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 -63 305 £575 +9.52% 579
UK excluding London -49 162 £575 +15.00% 484
London -70 147 £550 +4.76% 250
Work from Home -63 115 £575 +9.52% 358
North of England -45 63 £582 +23.17% 152
North West -25 44 £550 +14.35% 79
South East -60 38 £575 +15.00% 65
Midlands -30 27 £444 -11.25% 73
West Midlands -45 25 £470 -6.05% 51
South West -35 22 £800 +25.49% 57
Yorkshire -39 16 £663 +48.04% 25
East of England -21 9 £600 +14.29% 28
Scotland -31 7 £479 -4.20% 61
North East -35 4 £500 - 51
East Midlands -16 1 £400 -18.03% 22

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 23 (6.53%) Confluence
2 7 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.70%) Apache
4 4 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.85%) CloudStack
5 3 (0.85%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.57%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.28%) CIMPLICITY
7 1 (0.28%) nginx
7 1 (0.28%) Predix
7 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.42%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.28%) Actimize
2 1 (0.28%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.28%) Maximo
2 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 352 (100.00%) AWS
2 201 (57.10%) Azure
3 95 (26.99%) GCP
4 79 (22.44%) Serverless
5 74 (21.02%) Amazon S3
6 69 (19.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 66 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 60 (17.05%) Amazon EKS
9 59 (16.76%) AWS Lambda
9 59 (16.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 54 (15.34%) Amazon EC2
11 53 (15.06%) GitHub
12 41 (11.65%) GitHub Actions
13 37 (10.51%) Amazon ECS
14 29 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
15 28 (7.95%) AWS KMS
16 24 (6.82%) Power Platform
17 23 (6.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 15 (4.26%) Amazon EMR
18 15 (4.26%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 54 (15.34%) Firewall
2 24 (6.82%) Network Security
3 21 (5.97%) DNS
4 16 (4.55%) VPN
5 11 (3.13%) TCP/IP
6 10 (2.84%) DHCP
7 9 (2.56%) LAN
8 8 (2.27%) WAN
9 7 (1.99%) 3GPP
9 7 (1.99%) VSAN
10 6 (1.70%) BGP
10 6 (1.70%) SD-WAN
11 4 (1.14%) Internet
11 4 (1.14%) NGFW
11 4 (1.14%) OSPF
11 4 (1.14%) TETRA
12 3 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
12 3 (0.85%) NAS
12 3 (0.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (13.35%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (6.82%) Power BI
3 20 (5.68%) Amazon Redshift
3 20 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (5.40%) Amazon Aurora
4 19 (5.40%) DynamoDB
5 16 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (3.98%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (3.41%) SQL Server
8 10 (2.84%) MySQL
9 9 (2.56%) Redis
10 8 (2.27%) MongoDB
11 7 (1.99%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.99%) Metadata
11 7 (1.99%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.70%) Big Data
13 5 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (1.42%) NoSQL
14 4 (1.14%) Amazon QuickSight
14 4 (1.14%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 53 (15.06%) Jenkins
2 48 (13.64%) GitLab
3 25 (7.10%) Git
4 22 (6.25%) JIRA
5 7 (1.99%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.42%) Maven
6 5 (1.42%) MLflow
7 4 (1.14%) JMeter
7 4 (1.14%) JUnit
8 3 (0.85%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.85%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (0.85%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.85%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.85%) DbUnit
8 3 (0.85%) jMock
8 3 (0.85%) Mockito
8 3 (0.85%) Snyk
9 2 (0.57%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.57%) Postman
9 2 (0.57%) REST Assured
General
1 128 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 76 (21.59%) Public Sector
3 67 (19.03%) Finance
4 39 (11.08%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (7.67%) Banking
6 21 (5.97%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.56%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.99%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.42%) Billing
10 5 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.42%) Law
11 3 (0.85%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.85%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.85%) Legal
11 3 (0.85%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.85%) Retail
12 2 (0.57%) Electronics
12 2 (0.57%) Police
Job Titles
1 121 (34.38%) Architect
2 50 (14.20%) Cloud Engineer
3 43 (12.22%) Senior
4 41 (11.65%) DevOps Engineer
5 34 (9.66%) Lead
5 34 (9.66%) Security Engineer
6 33 (9.38%) AWS Engineer
7 30 (8.52%) Technical Architect
8 26 (7.39%) AWS Architect
9 25 (7.10%) Cloud Architect
10 23 (6.53%) Security Architect
11 21 (5.97%) Platform Engineer
11 21 (5.97%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (3.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 12 (3.41%) Data Architect
12 12 (3.41%) Data Engineer
12 12 (3.41%) DBA
13 11 (3.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.13%) Developer
13 11 (3.13%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (7.39%) REST
2 19 (5.40%) OAuth
2 19 (5.40%) RESTful
3 15 (4.26%) OpenID
4 13 (3.69%) Spring Boot
5 12 (3.41%) Kafka
5 12 (3.41%) Node.js
5 12 (3.41%) SAML
5 12 (3.41%) Spring
6 10 (2.84%) AWS CDK
6 10 (2.84%) OAuth2
6 10 (2.84%) PySpark
7 9 (2.56%) LangChain
7 9 (2.56%) Web Services
8 8 (2.27%) .NET
8 8 (2.27%) SOAP
9 7 (1.99%) ARM Templates
9 7 (1.99%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (1.99%) PyTorch
10 5 (1.42%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 113 (32.10%) Cloud Native
2 36 (10.23%) Security Posture
3 31 (8.81%) Management Information System
4 29 (8.24%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (7.95%) Data Centre
6 23 (6.53%) Product Ownership
7 16 (4.55%) Enterprise Cloud
7 16 (4.55%) Onboarding
8 15 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (3.98%) Replication
10 13 (3.69%) Public Cloud
11 9 (2.56%) PKI
12 8 (2.27%) Cloud Security Posture
13 7 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (1.99%) IoT
14 5 (1.42%) AI Agents
14 5 (1.42%) NHS
15 4 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
15 4 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
16 3 (0.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 73 (20.74%) Linux
2 57 (16.19%) Windows
3 28 (7.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.84%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.70%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.42%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (1.42%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.42%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.57%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.28%) CentOS
8 1 (0.28%) Unix
8 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (54.26%) DevOps
2 190 (53.98%) CI/CD
3 157 (44.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 120 (34.09%) Agile
5 91 (25.85%) Cloud Security
6 79 (22.44%) Technical Leadership
7 73 (20.74%) Stakeholder Management
8 71 (20.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 69 (19.60%) Microservices
9 69 (19.60%) Roadmaps
10 67 (19.03%) DevSecOps
11 65 (18.47%) AI
11 65 (18.47%) Containerisation
11 65 (18.47%) Migration
12 61 (17.33%) Observability
13 51 (14.49%) Scrum
14 49 (13.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 48 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
16 45 (12.78%) Event-Driven
16 45 (12.78%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 145 (41.19%) Python
2 75 (21.31%) Bash
3 73 (20.74%) PowerShell
4 67 (19.03%) Java
5 40 (11.36%) SQL
6 20 (5.68%) Bicep
7 16 (4.55%) JavaScript
8 13 (3.69%) TypeScript
9 6 (1.70%) Groovy
9 6 (1.70%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.42%) Perl
10 5 (1.42%) Rust
11 4 (1.14%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.85%) Go
12 3 (0.85%) Ruby
13 1 (0.28%) C#
13 1 (0.28%) CQL
13 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 137 (38.92%) Security Cleared
2 120 (34.09%) Azure Certification
2 120 (34.09%) SC Cleared
3 98 (27.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 61 (17.33%) CISSP
5 41 (11.65%) Degree
6 29 (8.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 23 (6.53%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (6.25%) DV Cleared
9 20 (5.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (5.40%) CISM
10 19 (5.40%) Computer Science Degree
11 15 (4.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 15 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (3.98%) TOGAF Certification
13 12 (3.41%) CCNP
14 11 (3.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 10 (2.84%) AWS Certified Developer
16 9 (2.56%) CCSP
17 8 (2.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.24%) NIST
2 27 (7.67%) Data Quality
3 24 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (4.83%) QA
5 14 (3.98%) GDPR
6 12 (3.41%) NCSC
7 8 (2.27%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.14%) GRC
8 4 (1.14%) HL7
9 3 (0.85%) SLA
9 3 (0.85%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.57%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.28%) DICOM
11 1 (0.28%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 97 (27.56%) Docker
2 25 (7.10%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (3.41%) vSphere
5 8 (2.27%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.85%) Postfix
7 2 (0.57%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.57%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.57%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.28%) Squid
8 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 162 (46.02%) Terraform
2 106 (30.11%) Kubernetes
3 47 (13.35%) Ansible
4 37 (10.51%) Grafana
5 33 (9.38%) Prometheus
6 31 (8.81%) Progress Chef
7 10 (2.84%) Puppet
8 8 (2.27%) Istio
9 7 (1.99%) Argo
9 7 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (1.99%) VxRail
10 4 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (1.14%) linkerd
11 3 (0.85%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.85%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.85%) QRadar
12 2 (0.57%) Packer
12 2 (0.57%) SCCM
13 1 (0.28%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 73 (20.74%) Microsoft
2 47 (13.35%) Google
3 21 (5.97%) Red Hat
4 20 (5.68%) VMware
5 18 (5.11%) Splunk
6 15 (4.26%) ServiceNow
7 13 (3.69%) Cisco
8 9 (2.56%) Databricks
8 9 (2.56%) Dynatrace
8 9 (2.56%) Informatica
8 9 (2.56%) Palo Alto
9 8 (2.27%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (2.27%) IBM
10 6 (1.70%) Fortinet
10 6 (1.70%) Zscaler
11 5 (1.42%) BeyondTrust
11 5 (1.42%) Oracle
11 5 (1.42%) Remedy
11 5 (1.42%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.14%) SAP