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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 269 333
Rank change year-on-year -82 +64 +61
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 378 324 240
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.69% 0.98% 0.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.18% 3.13% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 218 172
10th Percentile £406 £363 £388
25th Percentile £461 £436 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -1.35%
75th Percentile £677 £619 £638
90th Percentile £790 £742 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £569 £492 £475
% change year-on-year +15.60% +3.58% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £69.03 £39.00 -
25th Percentile £72.66 £45.00 -
Median hourly rate £82.00 £55.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.09% -5.17% -28.83%
75th Percentile £85.00 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £89.50 £91.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.00 - £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 17,362 10,338 11,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.65% 31.37% 29.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,561 6,458 6,928
10th Percentile £350 £300 £313
25th Percentile £440 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £714 £711 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,376 838 653
10th Percentile £17.09 £17.87 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £47.77 £25.15 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +89.94% -48.67% -9.26%
75th Percentile £72.54 £45.00 £68.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £71.00 £76.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +88.87% -52.10% +1.17%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -52 335 £568 +8.10% 942
London -48 174 £550 -4.35% 487
UK excluding London -88 172 £569 +15.60% 651
Work from Home -68 123 £584 +16.85% 574
North of England -47 63 £550 +22.22% 169
South East -48 45 £560 +12.00% 91
North West -30 42 £511 +13.62% 97
Midlands -44 28 £425 -19.05% 84
West Midlands -45 25 £470 -14.59% 52
South West -24 24 £800 +25.49% 128
Yorkshire -39 17 £638 +41.67% 33
Scotland -33 11 £475 - 81
East of England -23 5 £600 +14.29% 37
North East -48 5 £500 - 42
East Midlands -13 3 £402 -16.34% 32

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 (6.08%) Confluence
2 13 (3.44%) Apache
3 6 (1.59%) nginx
4 5 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.06%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.06%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.79%) CloudStack
6 3 (0.79%) SAS
7 2 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.26%) CIMPLICITY
8 1 (0.26%) Predix
8 1 (0.26%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.06%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 5 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.26%) Actimize
3 1 (0.26%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.26%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.26%) Maximo
3 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 378 (100.00%) AWS
2 211 (55.82%) Azure
3 103 (27.25%) GCP
4 92 (24.34%) Amazon S3
5 80 (21.16%) Serverless
6 73 (19.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 68 (17.99%) Amazon EC2
8 67 (17.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 67 (17.72%) AWS Lambda
9 60 (15.87%) Amazon EKS
9 60 (15.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 53 (14.02%) GitHub
11 44 (11.64%) Amazon ECS
12 37 (9.79%) GitHub Actions
13 30 (7.94%) AWS KMS
14 28 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
15 26 (6.88%) Power Platform
16 18 (4.76%) Amazon EMR
16 18 (4.76%) Entra ID
17 17 (4.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 50 (13.23%) Firewall
2 27 (7.14%) Network Security
3 23 (6.08%) DNS
4 12 (3.17%) TCP/IP
4 12 (3.17%) VPN
5 10 (2.65%) DHCP
6 9 (2.38%) LAN
7 8 (2.12%) VSAN
7 8 (2.12%) WAN
8 5 (1.32%) Internet
8 5 (1.32%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.06%) BGP
9 4 (1.06%) NGFW
9 4 (1.06%) SSH
10 3 (0.79%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.79%) MPLS
10 3 (0.79%) NAS
10 3 (0.79%) PCoIP
10 3 (0.79%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (0.79%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (14.55%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (6.88%) Power BI
3 25 (6.61%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (6.08%) Amazon Aurora
4 23 (6.08%) Amazon Redshift
5 22 (5.82%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (5.56%) DynamoDB
7 17 (4.50%) Amazon Athena
8 14 (3.70%) SQL Server
9 13 (3.44%) Data Lake
10 12 (3.17%) MySQL
11 10 (2.65%) Metadata
11 10 (2.65%) MongoDB
12 9 (2.38%) Redis
13 7 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (1.85%) Relational Database
14 5 (1.32%) Amazon QuickSight
14 5 (1.32%) Big Data
14 5 (1.32%) NoSQL
15 4 (1.06%) Flink
Development Applications
1 56 (14.81%) Jenkins
2 52 (13.76%) GitLab
3 33 (8.73%) Git
4 28 (7.41%) JIRA
5 7 (1.85%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.32%) Maven
7 4 (1.06%) JMeter
7 4 (1.06%) JUnit
7 4 (1.06%) MLflow
8 3 (0.79%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.79%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.53%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.53%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.53%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.53%) DbUnit
9 2 (0.53%) jMock
9 2 (0.53%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.53%) Mockito
9 2 (0.53%) Selenium
9 2 (0.53%) Vagrant
General
1 142 (37.57%) Social Skills
2 82 (21.69%) Finance
2 82 (21.69%) Public Sector
3 42 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (8.47%) Banking
5 19 (5.03%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.12%) Aerospace
8 6 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.59%) Military
8 6 (1.59%) Police
8 6 (1.59%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.32%) Law
10 4 (1.06%) Billing
10 4 (1.06%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.79%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.79%) Local Government
11 3 (0.79%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 120 (31.75%) Architect
2 44 (11.64%) Senior
3 43 (11.38%) Cloud Engineer
3 43 (11.38%) Lead
4 41 (10.85%) DevOps Engineer
5 33 (8.73%) Security Engineer
6 28 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
7 27 (7.14%) AWS Architect
8 25 (6.61%) Technical Architect
9 24 (6.35%) Security Architect
9 24 (6.35%) Solutions Architect
10 22 (5.82%) Cloud Architect
11 19 (5.03%) Platform Engineer
12 16 (4.23%) Data Engineer
13 15 (3.97%) Consultant
14 14 (3.70%) DBA
14 14 (3.70%) Enterprise Architect
15 13 (3.44%) Developer
15 13 (3.44%) Technical Leader
16 12 (3.17%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (47.62%) Terraform
2 32 (8.47%) REST
3 20 (5.29%) RESTful
4 19 (5.03%) OAuth
5 17 (4.50%) Spring Boot
6 16 (4.23%) Spring
7 15 (3.97%) OpenID
8 14 (3.70%) SOAP
9 12 (3.17%) Node.js
9 12 (3.17%) PySpark
9 12 (3.17%) SAML
10 11 (2.91%) AWS CDK
10 11 (2.91%) Kafka
10 11 (2.91%) Web Services
11 10 (2.65%) .NET
11 10 (2.65%) OAuth2
11 10 (2.65%) React
12 8 (2.12%) ARM Templates
12 8 (2.12%) LangChain
13 7 (1.85%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 113 (29.89%) Cloud Native
2 36 (9.52%) Security Posture
3 33 (8.73%) Data Centre
4 32 (8.47%) Management Information System
5 31 (8.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (6.61%) Product Ownership
7 23 (6.08%) Onboarding
8 20 (5.29%) Replication
9 18 (4.76%) Public Cloud
10 13 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (3.17%) Enterprise Cloud
11 12 (3.17%) PKI
12 8 (2.12%) Cloud Security Posture
12 8 (2.12%) Cyber Threat
12 8 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.59%) AI Agents
15 5 (1.32%) Private Cloud
15 5 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
16 4 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 73 (19.31%) Linux
2 56 (14.81%) Windows
3 28 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (3.44%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.12%) Amazon Linux
5 8 (2.12%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.32%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.32%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.06%) Unix
8 2 (0.53%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.53%) CentOS
8 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (51.85%) CI/CD
2 191 (50.53%) DevOps
3 180 (47.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 133 (35.19%) Agile
5 100 (26.46%) Stakeholder Management
6 96 (25.40%) Cloud Security
7 95 (25.13%) Technical Leadership
8 76 (20.11%) Observability
9 73 (19.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 71 (18.78%) AI
11 70 (18.52%) Microservices
11 70 (18.52%) Roadmaps
12 69 (18.25%) Containerisation
12 69 (18.25%) Migration
13 66 (17.46%) DevSecOps
14 55 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
15 52 (13.76%) Cybersecurity
15 52 (13.76%) Platform Engineering
16 51 (13.49%) Scrum
17 49 (12.96%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 145 (38.36%) Python
2 70 (18.52%) Java
2 70 (18.52%) PowerShell
3 69 (18.25%) Bash
4 48 (12.70%) SQL
5 20 (5.29%) JavaScript
6 19 (5.03%) Bicep
7 15 (3.97%) TypeScript
8 9 (2.38%) Go
8 9 (2.38%) Groovy
9 6 (1.59%) Perl
9 6 (1.59%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.32%) Rust
11 4 (1.06%) Ruby
12 3 (0.79%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.53%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.26%) C
14 1 (0.26%) CQL
14 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.26%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 152 (40.21%) Security Cleared
2 133 (35.19%) SC Cleared
3 125 (33.07%) Azure Certification
4 109 (28.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 75 (19.84%) CISSP
6 49 (12.96%) Degree
7 28 (7.41%) CISM
8 25 (6.61%) DV Cleared
9 24 (6.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 24 (6.35%) Cisco Certification
9 24 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
10 21 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (5.29%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (4.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 16 (4.23%) TOGAF Certification
14 13 (3.44%) CCSP
15 12 (3.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 12 (3.17%) PMI Certification
15 12 (3.17%) PMP
16 10 (2.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.20%) NIST
2 28 (7.41%) Data Quality
3 23 (6.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (5.03%) QA
5 16 (4.23%) NCSC
6 11 (2.91%) GDPR
7 8 (2.12%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.32%) GRC
9 4 (1.06%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.79%) HL7
11 2 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.53%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.53%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 2 (0.53%) SLA
12 1 (0.26%) DICOM
12 1 (0.26%) FedRAMP
12 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 103 (27.25%) Docker
2 30 (7.94%) Active Directory
3 20 (5.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (3.70%) vSphere
5 9 (2.38%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.06%) Postfix
7 3 (0.79%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.79%) Squid
8 2 (0.53%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.53%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.53%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.53%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 107 (28.31%) Kubernetes
2 56 (14.81%) Ansible
3 37 (9.79%) Grafana
4 34 (8.99%) Prometheus
5 29 (7.67%) Progress Chef
6 10 (2.65%) Puppet
7 7 (1.85%) Istio
7 7 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (1.85%) VxRail
8 5 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.06%) Argo
10 3 (0.79%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.79%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.79%) linkerd
10 3 (0.79%) Packer
10 3 (0.79%) QRadar
11 2 (0.53%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.53%) Kibana
11 2 (0.53%) Nagios
11 2 (0.53%) SCCM
Vendors
1 77 (20.37%) Microsoft
2 48 (12.70%) Google
3 25 (6.61%) VMware
4 21 (5.56%) Splunk
5 20 (5.29%) Red Hat
6 17 (4.50%) ServiceNow
7 15 (3.97%) Cisco
8 11 (2.91%) Informatica
9 10 (2.65%) Oracle
10 9 (2.38%) Databricks
10 9 (2.38%) Dynatrace
11 8 (2.12%) BeyondTrust
11 8 (2.12%) CrowdStrike
11 8 (2.12%) Palo Alto
12 7 (1.85%) Salesforce
13 6 (1.59%) CyberArk
13 6 (1.59%) IBM
14 5 (1.32%) Okta
14 5 (1.32%) OpenAI
14 5 (1.32%) SAP