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 26 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 323 393
Rank change year-on-year +44 +70 -12
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 323 246 253
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.96% 0.67% 0.53%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.96% 2.27% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 174 206
10th Percentile £358 £381 £460
25th Percentile £412 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £525 £553
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% -4.98% -3.91%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £675
90th Percentile £743 £700 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +5.78% -18.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 £58.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £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 10,894 10,827 13,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.38% 29.37% 28.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,873 6,572 8,740
10th Percentile £288 £312 £313
25th Percentile £413 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £635 £650
90th Percentile £708 £725 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £518 £538
% change year-on-year -3.38% -3.72% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 924 516 748
10th Percentile £16.97 £18.13 £16.59
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £25.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% -12.04% +16.67%
75th Percentile £39.45 £67.50 £68.97
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £48.18 £51.89
% change year-on-year -47.80% -7.14% +15.30%

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 26 October 2025.

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
Top 17 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 26 October 2025. 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 +35 256 £500 -4.76% 659
UK excluding London +37 170 £476 +5.78% 561
London +18 112 £500 -9.09% 241
Work from Home +36 107 £453 -18.08% 160
North of England -56 47 £450 +5.88% 141
South East +46 40 £500 -23.08% 154
Midlands +5 35 £520 +22.35% 93
West Midlands +10 32 £523 - 60
Scotland +28 28 £422 +9.58% 30
Yorkshire -59 22 £463 +8.94% 51
North West -15 21 £420 -20.00% 73
South West +18 15 £650 +8.33% 43
North East -4 4 £466 - 19
East of England -15 4 £488 -13.33% 67
East Midlands -5 3 £436 +2.59% 33
Northern Ireland - 2 £975 - 8
Channel Islands - 1 £760 -

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 13 (4.02%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (3.72%) Confluence
3 11 (3.41%) Apache
3 11 (3.41%) nginx
4 7 (2.17%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.86%) IIS
5 6 (1.86%) JBoss
5 6 (1.86%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.86%) WebSphere
6 5 (1.55%) CMS
6 5 (1.55%) Headless CMS
6 5 (1.55%) iPlanet
6 5 (1.55%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (0.93%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.62%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.62%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.62%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (3.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (1.24%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.31%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 323 (100.00%) AWS
2 124 (38.39%) Azure
3 86 (26.63%) Serverless
4 79 (24.46%) GCP
5 77 (23.84%) Amazon S3
6 67 (20.74%) AWS Lambda
7 54 (16.72%) Amazon ECS
8 50 (15.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 49 (15.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 46 (14.24%) Amazon EKS
11 42 (13.00%) GitHub
12 41 (12.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 39 (12.07%) Amazon EC2
14 24 (7.43%) GitHub Actions
15 21 (6.50%) Route 53
16 18 (5.57%) AWS KMS
17 16 (4.95%) Amazon SQS
18 14 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
19 13 (4.02%) AWS CloudTrail
19 13 (4.02%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 51 (15.79%) Firewall
2 32 (9.91%) DNS
3 16 (4.95%) BGP
4 15 (4.64%) Network Security
4 15 (4.64%) OSPF
4 15 (4.64%) VPN
5 14 (4.33%) WAN
6 13 (4.02%) HTTP
6 13 (4.02%) LAN
7 12 (3.72%) MPLS
8 10 (3.10%) FTP
8 10 (3.10%) IMAP
8 10 (3.10%) OpenLDAP
8 10 (3.10%) SMTP
8 10 (3.10%) SSH
9 9 (2.79%) SNMP
9 9 (2.79%) Wireless
10 7 (2.17%) VLAN
11 6 (1.86%) Kerberos
11 6 (1.86%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (17.03%) Amazon RDS
2 53 (16.41%) NoSQL
3 39 (12.07%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (8.98%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (8.98%) DynamoDB
5 24 (7.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 18 (5.57%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (4.95%) Amazon Aurora
8 13 (4.02%) Relational Database
9 10 (3.10%) Amazon QuickSight
10 9 (2.79%) MySQL
11 7 (2.17%) DataStage
11 7 (2.17%) Metadata
11 7 (2.17%) MongoDB
11 7 (2.17%) Oracle Database
12 6 (1.86%) Big Data
12 6 (1.86%) SQL Server
13 5 (1.55%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.55%) RDBMS
14 4 (1.24%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 84 (26.01%) Jenkins
2 58 (17.96%) GitLab
3 57 (17.65%) Git
4 30 (9.29%) JIRA
5 14 (4.33%) Liquibase
6 11 (3.41%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (3.10%) Bitbucket
7 10 (3.10%) Vagrant
8 6 (1.86%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (1.86%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (1.55%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.24%) Maven
11 3 (0.93%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.93%) MLflow
12 2 (0.62%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.62%) Gradle
12 2 (0.62%) JUnit
12 2 (0.62%) Mockito
13 1 (0.31%) LoadRunner
General
1 149 (46.13%) Social Skills
2 76 (23.53%) Finance
3 49 (15.17%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (12.69%) Banking
5 36 (11.15%) Public Sector
6 17 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (4.64%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (4.02%) Financial Institution
9 9 (2.79%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.24%) Publishing
11 4 (1.24%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.62%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.62%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.31%) Aviation
13 1 (0.31%) Billing
13 1 (0.31%) Marketing
13 1 (0.31%) Police
13 1 (0.31%) Retail
Job Titles
1 85 (26.32%) Architect
2 63 (19.50%) AWS Engineer
3 56 (17.34%) DevOps Engineer
4 39 (12.07%) Senior
4 39 (12.07%) Solutions Architect
5 31 (9.60%) AWS DevOps
6 30 (9.29%) AWS Architect
6 30 (9.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 30 (9.29%) Cloud Engineer
7 27 (8.36%) Developer
8 21 (6.50%) Lead
8 21 (6.50%) Platform Engineer
9 20 (6.19%) Data Engineer
10 16 (4.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 15 (4.64%) AWS Solution Architect
12 14 (4.33%) Security Architect
13 13 (4.02%) Consultant
14 12 (3.72%) Cloud Architect
14 12 (3.72%) Designer
14 12 (3.72%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.74%) Node.js
2 24 (7.43%) Elastic Stack
3 22 (6.81%) RESTful
4 19 (5.88%) Kafka
4 19 (5.88%) REST
5 17 (5.26%) LDAP
6 16 (4.95%) OAuth
7 13 (4.02%) SAML
8 12 (3.72%) OpenID
9 10 (3.10%) AngularJS
10 9 (2.79%) React
11 8 (2.48%) Middleware
12 7 (2.17%) .NET
12 7 (2.17%) AWS CDK
12 7 (2.17%) GraphQL
12 7 (2.17%) OAuth2
12 7 (2.17%) XML
13 6 (1.86%) Spring
14 5 (1.55%) SailPoint
14 5 (1.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 53 (16.41%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.12%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (6.50%) Public Cloud
4 20 (6.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (5.26%) Data Centre
5 17 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
6 16 (4.95%) Replication
7 9 (2.79%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.17%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.17%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.86%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.55%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.24%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.93%) Clustering
12 3 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (0.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 2 (0.62%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.62%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 65 (20.12%) Linux
2 34 (10.53%) Windows
3 17 (5.26%) Windows Server
4 15 (4.64%) Unix
5 14 (4.33%) Ubuntu
6 10 (3.10%) Amazon Linux
6 10 (3.10%) VMS
7 5 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.93%) CentOS
9 1 (0.31%) Solaris
9 1 (0.31%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (47.68%) DevOps
2 149 (46.13%) CI/CD
3 101 (31.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 89 (27.55%) Containerisation
5 79 (24.46%) Problem-Solving
6 73 (22.60%) Agile
7 68 (21.05%) Cloud Security
8 59 (18.27%) Mentoring
9 55 (17.03%) Microservices
10 53 (16.41%) Migration
11 47 (14.55%) Computer Science
12 43 (13.31%) High Availability
13 38 (11.76%) TOGAF
14 36 (11.15%) Cybersecurity
15 33 (10.22%) Data Modelling
15 33 (10.22%) Technical Leadership
16 32 (9.91%) Analytics
17 31 (9.60%) ETL
17 31 (9.60%) Incident Response
17 31 (9.60%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 150 (46.44%) Python
2 63 (19.50%) SQL
3 60 (18.58%) Java
4 35 (10.84%) Bash
5 34 (10.53%) PowerShell
6 18 (5.57%) Groovy
7 17 (5.26%) Go
8 15 (4.64%) JavaScript
9 13 (4.02%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.41%) TypeScript
11 7 (2.17%) Scala
12 5 (1.55%) Perl
12 5 (1.55%) Ruby
13 3 (0.93%) C#
13 3 (0.93%) CodeQL
14 2 (0.62%) C
14 2 (0.62%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.62%) PHP
15 1 (0.31%) Korn
Qualifications
1 86 (26.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 86 (26.63%) Security Cleared
2 80 (24.77%) Azure Certification
3 71 (21.98%) Degree
4 67 (20.74%) SC Cleared
5 40 (12.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (8.67%) CISSP
7 26 (8.05%) Cisco Certification
8 25 (7.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 24 (7.43%) Master's Degree
10 16 (4.95%) AWS Certified Developer
11 15 (4.64%) TOGAF Certification
12 14 (4.33%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (4.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 12 (3.72%) CCIE
15 11 (3.41%) CCSP
16 9 (2.79%) DV Cleared
16 9 (2.79%) JNCIE
17 7 (2.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 7 (2.17%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (11.15%) GDPR
2 30 (9.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (7.43%) QA
4 22 (6.81%) NIST
5 21 (6.50%) Data Quality
6 13 (4.02%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.48%) SOC 2
8 7 (2.17%) HIPAA
9 6 (1.86%) PSD2
10 4 (1.24%) NCSC
11 3 (0.93%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.62%) GRC
12 2 (0.62%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.62%) SLA
13 1 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.31%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 104 (32.20%) Docker
2 16 (4.95%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.10%) DFS Replication
3 10 (3.10%) Dovecot
3 10 (3.10%) Postfix
3 10 (3.10%) Squid
3 10 (3.10%) VMware NSX
4 9 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.24%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.93%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 2 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 132 (40.87%) Terraform
2 107 (33.13%) Kubernetes
3 62 (19.20%) Ansible
4 50 (15.48%) Prometheus
5 43 (13.31%) Grafana
6 10 (3.10%) Nessus
6 10 (3.10%) Proxmox
6 10 (3.10%) Puppet
7 7 (2.17%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.86%) CA Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.55%) CA Wily
10 4 (1.24%) Argo
10 4 (1.24%) Nagios
11 3 (0.93%) Tivoli
12 2 (0.62%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.31%) Control-M
13 1 (0.31%) linkerd
13 1 (0.31%) Observium
13 1 (0.31%) Packer
Vendors
1 36 (11.15%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.98%) Splunk
3 25 (7.74%) Oracle
4 20 (6.19%) Google
5 18 (5.57%) IBM
6 16 (4.95%) Cisco
6 16 (4.95%) ServiceNow
7 13 (4.02%) F5
7 13 (4.02%) Fortinet
8 12 (3.72%) VMware
9 10 (3.10%) AppDynamics
9 10 (3.10%) Jaspersoft
10 9 (2.79%) Dynatrace
10 9 (2.79%) Juniper
10 9 (2.79%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.86%) Broadcom
12 5 (1.55%) SAP
12 5 (1.55%) SolarWinds
13 4 (1.24%) NetApp
13 4 (1.24%) Salesforce