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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 260 412
Rank change year-on-year -117 +152 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 285 286 176
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.99% 0.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.83% 3.19% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 208 131
10th Percentile £405 £368 £450
25th Percentile £463 £436 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £560
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -3.04% +0.67%
75th Percentile £675 £626 £655
90th Percentile £760 £711 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +9.09%
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 15,536 8,953 12,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.61% 31.01% 29.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 5,630 8,009
10th Percentile £350 £275 £310
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £530
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -1.89% -3.64%
75th Percentile £620 £618 £645
90th Percentile £714 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,131 521 1,093
10th Percentile £16.35 £17.80 £13.85
25th Percentile £21.33 £21.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £47.54 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.28% -18.75% -27.27%
75th Percentile £71.50 £65.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £85.25 £77.50 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £32.03 £40.94
% change year-on-year +48.32% -21.78% -22.02%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -94 231 £550 - 277
London -80 117 £531 -9.62% 109
UK excluding London -88 114 £525 - 224
Work from Home -91 78 £575 +9.52% 75
North of England -40 54 £566 -19.11% 68
North West -16 41 £550 -21.43% 32
South East -56 19 £525 +5.00% 45
Midlands -53 18 £436 -13.23% 35
West Midlands -56 16 £438 -20.45% 16
Yorkshire -59 11 £663 +26.19% 25
South West -38 10 £575 -8.00% 27
East of England -24 9 £550 +4.76% 22
Wales -22 3 £250 -7.41% 10
Scotland -39 3 £450 -18.18% 16
North East - 2 £525 - 11
East Midlands -29 1 £447 -3.87% 19

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 19 (6.67%) Confluence
2 6 (2.11%) Apache
3 4 (1.40%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.70%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.70%) CloudStack
4 2 (0.70%) nginx
4 2 (0.70%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.70%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.75%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.70%) DELMIA
2 2 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 285 (100.00%) AWS
2 151 (52.98%) Azure
3 70 (24.56%) GCP
4 66 (23.16%) AWS CloudFormation
5 61 (21.40%) Serverless
6 53 (18.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 51 (17.89%) Amazon EKS
8 44 (15.44%) GitHub
9 42 (14.74%) Amazon S3
10 37 (12.98%) AWS Lambda
11 34 (11.93%) GitHub Actions
12 33 (11.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 33 (11.58%) Amazon ECS
13 30 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
14 25 (8.77%) AWS KMS
15 20 (7.02%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 20 (7.02%) Route 53
16 17 (5.96%) AWS CloudTrail
16 17 (5.96%) AWS Control Tower
16 17 (5.96%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 42 (14.74%) Firewall
2 17 (5.96%) VPN
3 16 (5.61%) Network Security
4 12 (4.21%) DNS
5 11 (3.86%) WAN
6 8 (2.81%) BGP
7 7 (2.46%) 3GPP
8 6 (2.11%) LAN
8 6 (2.11%) OSPF
8 6 (2.11%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.40%) Internet
9 4 (1.40%) IPv6
9 4 (1.40%) TETRA
10 3 (1.05%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (1.05%) IPv4
10 3 (1.05%) MPLS
10 3 (1.05%) NGFW
10 3 (1.05%) VLAN
10 3 (1.05%) VXLAN
11 2 (0.70%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (12.28%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (8.07%) DynamoDB
3 13 (4.56%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (4.56%) Power BI
4 12 (4.21%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (3.51%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (3.16%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.81%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.46%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.40%) Big Data
10 4 (1.40%) Metadata
11 3 (1.05%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (1.05%) DataStage
11 3 (1.05%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.05%) DocumentDB
11 3 (1.05%) MySQL
11 3 (1.05%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 25 (8.77%) GitLab
3 18 (6.32%) JIRA
4 15 (5.26%) Git
5 7 (2.46%) JUnit
5 7 (2.46%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.75%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.75%) DbUnit
6 5 (1.75%) jMock
6 5 (1.75%) Maven
6 5 (1.75%) Mockito
7 4 (1.40%) Snyk
8 3 (1.05%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.05%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (1.05%) MLflow
8 3 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.35%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.35%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.35%) Selenium
General
1 94 (32.98%) Social Skills
2 52 (18.25%) Finance
3 45 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 29 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.67%) Banking
6 11 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.16%) Legal
9 6 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.75%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.05%) Billing
11 3 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.05%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.05%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.70%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.70%) Electronics
12 2 (0.70%) Law
13 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.35%) Local Government
13 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 111 (38.95%) Architect
2 36 (12.63%) DevOps Engineer
3 35 (12.28%) AWS Engineer
4 34 (11.93%) AWS Architect
5 30 (10.53%) Cloud Architect
6 29 (10.18%) Cloud Engineer
7 27 (9.47%) Lead
7 27 (9.47%) Security Engineer
8 24 (8.42%) Senior
9 23 (8.07%) Technical Architect
10 19 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
11 17 (5.96%) Developer
12 16 (5.61%) Security Architect
13 14 (4.91%) Platform Engineer
14 11 (3.86%) AWS DevOps
14 11 (3.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 11 (3.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 11 (3.86%) Lead Architect
15 8 (2.81%) Data Architect
15 8 (2.81%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.67%) REST
2 17 (5.96%) Kafka
3 15 (5.26%) OAuth
4 14 (4.91%) AWS CDK
5 12 (4.21%) Node.js
5 12 (4.21%) OpenID
5 12 (4.21%) Web Services
6 11 (3.86%) SOAP
7 10 (3.51%) OAuth2
7 10 (3.51%) RESTful
8 9 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (2.81%) .NET
9 8 (2.81%) AngularJS
9 8 (2.81%) SAML
10 7 (2.46%) Spring
10 7 (2.46%) Spring Boot
11 6 (2.11%) Middleware
12 5 (1.75%) ActiveMQ
12 5 (1.75%) Hibernate
12 5 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 86 (30.18%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.77%) Management Information System
3 21 (7.37%) Data Centre
4 18 (6.32%) Security Posture
5 16 (5.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 15 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (4.91%) Enterprise Cloud
8 10 (3.51%) Product Ownership
8 10 (3.51%) Virtual Team
9 9 (3.16%) Public Cloud
10 8 (2.81%) Onboarding
11 6 (2.11%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.40%) Cloud Security Posture
13 4 (1.40%) e-Learning
13 4 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (1.05%) AI Agents
14 3 (1.05%) CMDB
14 3 (1.05%) NHS
14 3 (1.05%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 56 (19.65%) Linux
2 39 (13.68%) Windows
3 13 (4.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.11%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.75%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.75%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.40%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.40%) VMS
7 3 (1.05%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.70%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (56.49%) CI/CD
2 151 (52.98%) DevOps
3 114 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 78 (27.37%) Agile
5 64 (22.46%) Cloud Security
6 57 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 52 (18.25%) Microservices
8 49 (17.19%) Observability
8 49 (17.19%) Stakeholder Management
9 48 (16.84%) Roadmaps
10 47 (16.49%) Migration
11 43 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 42 (14.74%) Technical Leadership
13 41 (14.39%) DevSecOps
14 38 (13.33%) TOGAF
15 37 (12.98%) Scrum
16 33 (11.58%) Event-Driven
16 33 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
17 32 (11.23%) AI
17 32 (11.23%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 98 (34.39%) Python
2 58 (20.35%) Java
3 41 (14.39%) Bash
4 37 (12.98%) PowerShell
5 26 (9.12%) SQL
6 18 (6.32%) TypeScript
7 17 (5.96%) JavaScript
8 10 (3.51%) Bicep
9 7 (2.46%) Rust
10 6 (2.11%) Perl
11 5 (1.75%) C#
11 5 (1.75%) Ruby
12 4 (1.40%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.05%) Go
13 3 (1.05%) Groovy
14 2 (0.70%) PHP
14 2 (0.70%) Scala
15 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 114 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 96 (33.68%) SC Cleared
3 92 (32.28%) Azure Certification
4 85 (29.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 37 (12.98%) CISSP
6 35 (12.28%) Degree
7 27 (9.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 22 (7.72%) Cisco Certification
9 19 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (6.32%) TOGAF Certification
11 17 (5.96%) DV Cleared
12 12 (4.21%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (3.86%) CISM
14 10 (3.51%) CCNP
14 10 (3.51%) PMI Certification
14 10 (3.51%) PMP
15 9 (3.16%) CCNA
15 9 (3.16%) Master's Degree
15 9 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 24 (8.42%) NIST
2 18 (6.32%) NCSC
3 13 (4.56%) GDPR
4 10 (3.51%) QA
5 9 (3.16%) Data Quality
6 6 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.75%) GRC
7 5 (1.75%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.40%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.40%) HL7
8 4 (1.40%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.05%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.70%) DICOM
10 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 2 (0.70%) PSD2
11 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 74 (25.96%) Docker
2 13 (4.56%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.81%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.75%) Postfix
6 2 (0.70%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.70%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.70%) vSphere
7 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.35%) Squid
7 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 133 (46.67%) Terraform
2 88 (30.88%) Kubernetes
3 30 (10.53%) Ansible
4 25 (8.77%) Grafana
5 24 (8.42%) Prometheus
6 15 (5.26%) Progress Chef
7 7 (2.46%) Argo
8 5 (1.75%) Puppet
9 4 (1.40%) Istio
9 4 (1.40%) linkerd
10 3 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.70%) Check_MK
11 2 (0.70%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.70%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.70%) Packer
11 2 (0.70%) SCCM
12 1 (0.35%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.35%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.35%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.35%) Nessus
Vendors
1 43 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 30 (10.53%) Google
3 15 (5.26%) Splunk
4 13 (4.56%) Databricks
5 11 (3.86%) Red Hat
5 11 (3.86%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.16%) Cisco
7 8 (2.81%) Citrix
7 8 (2.81%) Fortinet
8 7 (2.46%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.46%) CrowdStrike
8 7 (2.46%) IBM
8 7 (2.46%) Oracle
8 7 (2.46%) Qualys
8 7 (2.46%) Tenable
9 6 (2.11%) CloudEndure
9 6 (2.11%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.11%) Palo Alto
9 6 (2.11%) VMware
9 6 (2.11%) Zscaler