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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 268 390
Rank change year-on-year -86 +122 +24
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 345 309 209
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.95% 0.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.08% 3.09% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 224 149
10th Percentile £404 £368 £381
25th Percentile £456 £437 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £626 £650
90th Percentile £775 £715 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £559 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +11.75% -5.66% -3.64%
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 16,597 10,016 12,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.37% 30.77% 29.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,088 6,221 7,884
10th Percentile £350 £278 £310
25th Percentile £430 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -0.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £704 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,200 729 1,037
10th Percentile £17.73 £17.87 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.75 £19.38 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.22 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +103.66% -40.82% -24.71%
75th Percentile £73.00 £56.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.41 £75.00 £75.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +98.81% -41.51% -21.82%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -73 287 £575 +9.52% 246
UK excluding London -81 150 £559 +11.75% 208
London -61 141 £550 -0.90% 91
Work from Home -67 112 £575 +9.52% 63
North of England -42 59 £575 +21.05% 62
North West -21 40 £550 -18.52% 30
South East -42 34 £560 +12.00% 49
Midlands -40 29 £449 -3.55% 31
West Midlands -43 26 £463 -11.90% 16
Yorkshire -36 17 £638 +51.79% 23
South West -39 14 £670 +7.20% 26
East of England -13 9 £600 +14.29% 21
Scotland -33 7 £479 -8.76% 14
North East -31 3 £575 - 12
East Midlands -15 2 £424 -7.73% 15
Wales -18 2 £250 -43.95% 6

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 25 (7.25%) Confluence
2 7 (2.03%) Apache
3 4 (1.16%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.87%) CloudStack
4 3 (0.87%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.58%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.58%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.29%) CIMPLICITY
6 1 (0.29%) nginx
6 1 (0.29%) Predix
6 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.29%) Maximo
3 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 345 (100.00%) AWS
2 197 (57.10%) Azure
3 91 (26.38%) GCP
4 78 (22.61%) Serverless
5 71 (20.58%) Amazon S3
6 63 (18.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 54 (15.65%) AWS Lambda
8 52 (15.07%) GitHub
9 50 (14.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 49 (14.20%) Amazon EKS
11 48 (13.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 47 (13.62%) Amazon EC2
13 37 (10.72%) GitHub Actions
14 34 (9.86%) Amazon ECS
15 24 (6.96%) Azure DevOps
15 24 (6.96%) Power Platform
16 19 (5.51%) AWS KMS
16 19 (5.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 18 (5.22%) Route 53
18 14 (4.06%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 44 (12.75%) Firewall
2 23 (6.67%) Network Security
3 16 (4.64%) VPN
4 15 (4.35%) DNS
5 12 (3.48%) WAN
6 10 (2.90%) BGP
7 9 (2.61%) LAN
7 9 (2.61%) SD-WAN
8 7 (2.03%) 3GPP
8 7 (2.03%) OSPF
9 5 (1.45%) DHCP
9 5 (1.45%) TCP/IP
10 4 (1.16%) Internet
10 4 (1.16%) IPv6
10 4 (1.16%) MPLS
10 4 (1.16%) NGFW
10 4 (1.16%) TETRA
11 3 (0.87%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (0.87%) IPsec
11 3 (0.87%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (11.01%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (6.96%) Power BI
3 22 (6.38%) DynamoDB
4 20 (5.80%) Amazon Redshift
5 16 (4.64%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (4.06%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (4.06%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (3.48%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (2.61%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.32%) Metadata
9 8 (2.32%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.74%) Big Data
11 6 (1.74%) NoSQL
12 5 (1.45%) SQL Server
13 4 (1.16%) Amazon QuickSight
13 4 (1.16%) Delta Lake
13 4 (1.16%) MySQL
14 3 (0.87%) Tableau
15 2 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 48 (13.91%) Jenkins
2 39 (11.30%) GitLab
3 30 (8.70%) Git
4 26 (7.54%) JIRA
5 9 (2.61%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.03%) Maven
7 6 (1.74%) JUnit
8 5 (1.45%) DbUnit
8 5 (1.45%) jMock
8 5 (1.45%) MLflow
8 5 (1.45%) Mockito
9 4 (1.16%) Snyk
10 3 (0.87%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.87%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (0.87%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.58%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.58%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.58%) JMeter
11 2 (0.58%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 120 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 61 (17.68%) Public Sector
3 59 (17.10%) Finance
4 38 (11.01%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (6.96%) Banking
6 21 (6.09%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.61%) Legal
7 9 (2.61%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.74%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.45%) Billing
10 5 (1.45%) Law
11 4 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.87%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.87%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.87%) Retail
13 2 (0.58%) Electronics
13 2 (0.58%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 130 (37.68%) Architect
2 46 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 39 (11.30%) AWS Engineer
3 39 (11.30%) DevOps Engineer
4 37 (10.72%) Senior
5 32 (9.28%) Technical Architect
6 29 (8.41%) AWS Architect
7 27 (7.83%) Cloud Architect
7 27 (7.83%) Lead
7 27 (7.83%) Security Engineer
8 24 (6.96%) Solutions Architect
9 22 (6.38%) Security Architect
10 19 (5.51%) Developer
10 19 (5.51%) Platform Engineer
11 15 (4.35%) Data Engineer
12 14 (4.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 12 (3.48%) AWS DevOps
13 12 (3.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 11 (3.19%) Data Architect
15 10 (2.90%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (8.41%) REST
2 20 (5.80%) OAuth
3 16 (4.64%) OpenID
4 15 (4.35%) Kafka
4 15 (4.35%) RESTful
5 14 (4.06%) AWS CDK
5 14 (4.06%) Node.js
6 13 (3.77%) SOAP
7 12 (3.48%) OAuth2
7 12 (3.48%) Web Services
8 11 (3.19%) SAML
8 11 (3.19%) Spring Boot
9 10 (2.90%) PySpark
9 10 (2.90%) Spring
10 9 (2.61%) .NET
11 8 (2.32%) AngularJS
11 8 (2.32%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (2.32%) LangChain
12 7 (2.03%) PyTorch
12 7 (2.03%) React
Miscellaneous
1 113 (32.75%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.41%) Management Information System
2 29 (8.41%) Security Posture
3 26 (7.54%) Data Centre
3 26 (7.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (6.09%) Product Ownership
5 18 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
6 15 (4.35%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.48%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.32%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.03%) IoT
10 5 (1.45%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.45%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.16%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.16%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.16%) Replication
11 4 (1.16%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 73 (21.16%) Linux
2 52 (15.07%) Windows
3 22 (6.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.61%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.74%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.45%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.45%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.16%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.58%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.58%) Unix
9 1 (0.29%) CentOS
9 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (55.07%) DevOps
2 185 (53.62%) CI/CD
3 141 (40.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 117 (33.91%) Agile
5 86 (24.93%) Cloud Security
6 71 (20.58%) Containerisation
7 69 (20.00%) Microservices
8 63 (18.26%) Roadmaps
8 63 (18.26%) Stakeholder Management
8 63 (18.26%) Technical Leadership
9 62 (17.97%) AI
10 59 (17.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 58 (16.81%) Observability
12 57 (16.52%) Migration
13 56 (16.23%) DevSecOps
14 51 (14.78%) Scrum
15 49 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
16 48 (13.91%) TOGAF
17 47 (13.62%) Machine Learning
18 44 (12.75%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 134 (38.84%) Python
2 63 (18.26%) Java
3 59 (17.10%) Bash
4 57 (16.52%) PowerShell
5 35 (10.14%) SQL
6 22 (6.38%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.51%) TypeScript
8 17 (4.93%) Bicep
9 7 (2.03%) Rust
10 6 (1.74%) Perl
11 5 (1.45%) Groovy
12 4 (1.16%) C#
12 4 (1.16%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.16%) Ruby
13 3 (0.87%) Go
13 3 (0.87%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.58%) PHP
15 1 (0.29%) Scala
15 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 136 (39.42%) Security Cleared
2 118 (34.20%) Azure Certification
3 113 (32.75%) SC Cleared
4 94 (27.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 53 (15.36%) CISSP
6 44 (12.75%) Degree
7 33 (9.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 25 (7.25%) DV Cleared
9 24 (6.96%) Cisco Certification
9 24 (6.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 22 (6.38%) TOGAF Certification
11 18 (5.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (4.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 15 (4.35%) CISM
13 14 (4.06%) Microsoft Certification
14 13 (3.77%) AWS Certified Developer
15 12 (3.48%) CCNP
16 10 (2.90%) Master's Degree
17 8 (2.32%) PMI Certification
17 8 (2.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.25%) NIST
2 24 (6.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (6.38%) Data Quality
4 15 (4.35%) GDPR
5 13 (3.77%) QA
6 11 (3.19%) NCSC
7 7 (2.03%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.45%) GRC
9 4 (1.16%) HL7
9 4 (1.16%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.87%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.58%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.29%) DICOM
12 1 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.29%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.29%) PSD2
System Software
1 96 (27.83%) Docker
2 18 (5.22%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.74%) vSphere
5 5 (1.45%) Postfix
6 3 (0.87%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.58%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.58%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.58%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.29%) Squid
8 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 155 (44.93%) Terraform
2 104 (30.14%) Kubernetes
3 38 (11.01%) Ansible
4 32 (9.28%) Grafana
5 30 (8.70%) Prometheus
6 23 (6.67%) Progress Chef
7 10 (2.90%) Puppet
8 6 (1.74%) Argo
9 4 (1.16%) Istio
9 4 (1.16%) linkerd
9 4 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.87%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.87%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.87%) QRadar
11 2 (0.58%) CASB
11 2 (0.58%) Packer
11 2 (0.58%) SCCM
11 2 (0.58%) VxRail
12 1 (0.29%) Nessus
Vendors
1 64 (18.55%) Microsoft
2 40 (11.59%) Google
3 17 (4.93%) Splunk
4 16 (4.64%) Red Hat
5 14 (4.06%) ServiceNow
5 14 (4.06%) VMware
6 13 (3.77%) Databricks
7 12 (3.48%) Cisco
8 9 (2.61%) Informatica
9 8 (2.32%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (2.32%) Oracle
9 8 (2.32%) Palo Alto
10 7 (2.03%) IBM
11 6 (1.74%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.74%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.74%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.74%) Zscaler
12 5 (1.45%) BeyondTrust
12 5 (1.45%) Jaspersoft
12 5 (1.45%) Okta