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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 306 360
Rank change year-on-year +24 +54 +24
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 353 256 251
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.96% 0.75% 0.57%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.86% 2.52% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 183 203
10th Percentile £350 £383 £463
25th Percentile £408 £450 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £538 £563
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -4.44% -2.17%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £675
90th Percentile £748 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £564
% change year-on-year -9.52% -6.83% +7.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £76.00 - -
25th Percentile £82.75 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £58.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +55.17% - -
75th Percentile £96.88 - -
90th Percentile £101.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £90.00 £58.00 -
% change year-on-year +55.17% - -

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 12,340 10,172 13,132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.73% 29.75% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,022 6,239 8,279
10th Percentile £313 £305 £300
25th Percentile £415 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -2.44% -4.65% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,009 485 733
10th Percentile £16.35 £19.72 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.38 £24.18 £27.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £52.31 £66.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.59 £51.90
% change year-on-year -44.83% -12.16% +16.11%

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 December 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS Certification over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

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 December 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 +24 285 £488 -8.24% 453
UK excluding London +15 181 £475 -9.52% 451
London +26 130 £484 -11.95% 108
Work from Home +14 111 £481 -12.55% 167
South East +23 49 £500 -23.08% 114
North of England -71 45 £450 - 117
Midlands -9 40 £520 +4.00% 84
West Midlands -1 38 £520 +4.00% 50
Scotland +24 30 £405 -22.86% 24
North West -9 21 £420 -34.38% 58
Yorkshire -69 19 £450 - 45
South West -4 12 £631 +5.21% 36
North East -6 5 £466 -1.89% 16
East of England -22 5 £488 -13.33% 50
East Midlands -17 2 £463 -15.14% 28
Northern Ireland - 2 £975 - 8

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 15 (4.25%) Apache Airflow
1 15 (4.25%) Confluence
2 14 (3.97%) Apache
3 12 (3.40%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.40%) nginx
4 6 (1.70%) IIS
4 6 (1.70%) JBoss
4 6 (1.70%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.70%) WebSphere
5 5 (1.42%) iPlanet
5 5 (1.42%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.57%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.57%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.57%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.57%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.57%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (2.83%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (0.85%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 353 (100.00%) AWS
2 140 (39.66%) Azure
3 84 (23.80%) Serverless
4 81 (22.95%) AWS CloudFormation
5 76 (21.53%) GCP
6 72 (20.40%) Amazon S3
7 71 (20.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 65 (18.41%) AWS Lambda
9 53 (15.01%) Amazon ECS
9 53 (15.01%) Amazon EKS
10 45 (12.75%) GitHub
11 44 (12.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 43 (12.18%) Amazon EC2
13 31 (8.78%) AWS KMS
14 30 (8.50%) GitHub Actions
15 24 (6.80%) Route 53
16 20 (5.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 20 (5.67%) Entra ID
17 16 (4.53%) AWS Control Tower
17 16 (4.53%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 59 (16.71%) Firewall
2 31 (8.78%) DNS
3 16 (4.53%) Network Security
4 13 (3.68%) HTTP
4 13 (3.68%) LAN
4 13 (3.68%) VPN
5 12 (3.40%) WAN
6 11 (3.12%) BGP
7 10 (2.83%) FTP
7 10 (2.83%) IMAP
7 10 (2.83%) MPLS
7 10 (2.83%) OpenLDAP
7 10 (2.83%) OSPF
7 10 (2.83%) SMTP
7 10 (2.83%) SSH
8 9 (2.55%) DHCP
8 9 (2.55%) SNMP
8 9 (2.55%) Wireless
9 6 (1.70%) Kerberos
9 6 (1.70%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (17.28%) Amazon RDS
2 45 (12.75%) NoSQL
3 33 (9.35%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (8.22%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (7.93%) Amazon Redshift
6 21 (5.95%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (5.10%) DynamoDB
8 17 (4.82%) Amazon Aurora
9 14 (3.97%) Relational Database
10 13 (3.68%) MySQL
11 12 (3.40%) Amazon QuickSight
12 11 (3.12%) Oracle Database
13 9 (2.55%) Tableau
14 8 (2.27%) Data Lake
14 8 (2.27%) DataStage
14 8 (2.27%) Power BI
15 7 (1.98%) MongoDB
16 6 (1.70%) Metadata
16 6 (1.70%) SQL Server
17 5 (1.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 83 (23.51%) Jenkins
2 61 (17.28%) GitLab
3 54 (15.30%) Git
4 38 (10.76%) JIRA
5 16 (4.53%) Bitbucket
6 14 (3.97%) Liquibase
6 14 (3.97%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (2.83%) Vagrant
8 6 (1.70%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (1.70%) CA Release Automation
8 6 (1.70%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.42%) MLflow
10 4 (1.13%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.13%) Maven
11 2 (0.57%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.57%) Gradle
11 2 (0.57%) JUnit
11 2 (0.57%) Mockito
12 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.28%) Gatling
General
1 150 (42.49%) Social Skills
2 101 (28.61%) Finance
3 50 (14.16%) Public Sector
4 48 (13.60%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (11.61%) Banking
6 16 (4.53%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (4.53%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (3.68%) Financial Institution
8 12 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.55%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.42%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.85%) Legal
11 3 (0.85%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.85%) Marketing
12 2 (0.57%) Aeronautics
12 2 (0.57%) Electronics
12 2 (0.57%) Private Banking
12 2 (0.57%) Publishing
13 1 (0.28%) Police
Job Titles
1 113 (32.01%) Architect
2 65 (18.41%) AWS Engineer
3 61 (17.28%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (11.61%) AWS Architect
4 41 (11.61%) Senior
5 38 (10.76%) Solutions Architect
6 32 (9.07%) AWS DevOps
7 31 (8.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 30 (8.50%) Cloud Engineer
9 23 (6.52%) Data Engineer
9 23 (6.52%) Platform Engineer
10 22 (6.23%) Lead
11 20 (5.67%) Cloud Architect
11 20 (5.67%) Security Architect
12 19 (5.38%) Developer
13 16 (4.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 12 (3.40%) Software Engineer
15 11 (3.12%) AWS Solution Architect
15 11 (3.12%) Consultant
15 11 (3.12%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (8.22%) Node.js
2 24 (6.80%) RESTful
3 21 (5.95%) Elastic Stack
4 20 (5.67%) REST
5 19 (5.38%) Kafka
6 17 (4.82%) LDAP
7 12 (3.40%) AngularJS
8 10 (2.83%) AWS CDK
9 9 (2.55%) OAuth
10 8 (2.27%) Middleware
10 8 (2.27%) React
10 8 (2.27%) SAML
11 7 (1.98%) OpenID
11 7 (1.98%) XML
12 6 (1.70%) .NET
13 5 (1.42%) PySpark
13 5 (1.42%) SailPoint
13 5 (1.42%) Spring
14 4 (1.13%) GraphQL
14 4 (1.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 61 (17.28%) Cloud Native
2 26 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 22 (6.23%) Public Cloud
5 21 (5.95%) Data Centre
6 18 (5.10%) Replication
7 13 (3.68%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (2.83%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (2.27%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.98%) Cloud Security Posture
11 7 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.98%) PKI
12 4 (1.13%) Clustering
12 4 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (1.13%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.13%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
13 3 (0.85%) SCADA
14 2 (0.57%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 71 (20.11%) Linux
2 38 (10.76%) Windows
3 20 (5.67%) Windows Server
4 14 (3.97%) Ubuntu
5 13 (3.68%) Unix
6 11 (3.12%) VMS
7 10 (2.83%) Amazon Linux
8 4 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.85%) CentOS
10 1 (0.28%) Solaris
10 1 (0.28%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (48.44%) CI/CD
2 155 (43.91%) DevOps
3 134 (37.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 96 (27.20%) Containerisation
5 85 (24.08%) Agile
6 72 (20.40%) Problem-Solving
7 71 (20.11%) Cloud Security
8 64 (18.13%) Microservices
9 62 (17.56%) Migration
10 49 (13.88%) TOGAF
11 46 (13.03%) Mentoring
11 46 (13.03%) Roadmaps
12 45 (12.75%) Incident Response
13 44 (12.46%) High Availability
14 43 (12.18%) DevSecOps
15 41 (11.61%) Computer Science
15 41 (11.61%) Cybersecurity
16 37 (10.48%) Data Modelling
17 36 (10.20%) Data Governance
18 35 (9.92%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 152 (43.06%) Python
2 70 (19.83%) Java
3 64 (18.13%) SQL
4 45 (12.75%) PowerShell
5 39 (11.05%) Bash
6 18 (5.10%) Go
6 18 (5.10%) Groovy
7 15 (4.25%) JavaScript
8 12 (3.40%) TypeScript
9 11 (3.12%) Perl
9 11 (3.12%) Ruby
10 7 (1.98%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.42%) C#
11 5 (1.42%) Scala
12 3 (0.85%) PHP
13 2 (0.57%) Bicep
13 2 (0.57%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.28%) Korn
Qualifications
1 116 (32.86%) Security Cleared
2 101 (28.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 97 (27.48%) SC Cleared
4 96 (27.20%) Azure Certification
5 66 (18.70%) Degree
6 35 (9.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (8.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 29 (8.22%) CISSP
9 26 (7.37%) Cisco Certification
10 21 (5.95%) Master's Degree
11 20 (5.67%) TOGAF Certification
12 19 (5.38%) Microsoft Certification
13 17 (4.82%) AWS Certified Developer
14 14 (3.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 14 (3.97%) CCSP
15 10 (2.83%) CCIE
16 9 (2.55%) JNCIE
17 8 (2.27%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
18 6 (1.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 6 (1.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (12.46%) GDPR
2 39 (11.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (8.78%) NIST
4 23 (6.52%) Data Quality
5 19 (5.38%) QA
6 18 (5.10%) PCI DSS
7 13 (3.68%) NCSC
8 8 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (2.27%) PSD2
9 7 (1.98%) HIPAA
9 7 (1.98%) SOC 2
10 4 (1.13%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.57%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.28%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 111 (31.44%) Docker
2 22 (6.23%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.83%) DFS Replication
4 10 (2.83%) Dovecot
4 10 (2.83%) Postfix
4 10 (2.83%) Squid
4 10 (2.83%) VMware NSX
5 8 (2.27%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (1.70%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.85%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 156 (44.19%) Terraform
2 119 (33.71%) Kubernetes
3 63 (17.85%) Ansible
4 48 (13.60%) Prometheus
5 42 (11.90%) Grafana
6 10 (2.83%) Nessus
6 10 (2.83%) Proxmox
7 6 (1.70%) Argo
7 6 (1.70%) CA Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.70%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.42%) CA Wily
8 5 (1.42%) Puppet
8 5 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.85%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.85%) Nagios
9 3 (0.85%) Tivoli
10 2 (0.57%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.28%) CASB
11 1 (0.28%) linkerd
11 1 (0.28%) Suricata
Vendors
1 48 (13.60%) Microsoft
2 36 (10.20%) Oracle
3 29 (8.22%) Splunk
4 25 (7.08%) VMware
5 18 (5.10%) Cisco
5 18 (5.10%) Google
6 13 (3.68%) IBM
6 13 (3.68%) ServiceNow
7 11 (3.12%) Databricks
7 11 (3.12%) Fortinet
8 10 (2.83%) F5
8 10 (2.83%) Jaspersoft
9 9 (2.55%) AppDynamics
9 9 (2.55%) Dynatrace
9 9 (2.55%) Juniper
10 8 (2.27%) Citrix
10 8 (2.27%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.98%) CloudEndure
12 6 (1.70%) Broadcom
12 6 (1.70%) Tenable