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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 268 325
Rank change year-on-year -68 +57 +77
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 413 322 239
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.97% 0.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.34% 3.05% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 215 167
10th Percentile £407 £359 £381
25th Percentile £463 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% -5.83%
75th Percentile £672 £631 £631
90th Percentile £790 £740 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £480 £450
% change year-on-year +19.79% +6.67% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £57.00 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £61.80 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £72.66 £45.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.47% -22.41% -
75th Percentile £84.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £53.00 -
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 17,645 10,563 10,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.93% 31.84% 29.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,668 6,616 6,647
10th Percentile £355 £283 £310
25th Percentile £447 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £630
90th Percentile £713 £703 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,491 890 568
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.54 £18.13
25th Percentile £25.00 £18.87 £25.47
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -47.05% -11.52%
75th Percentile £72.25 £40.19 £68.00
90th Percentile £89.08 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -49.70% -3.65%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -43 363 £568 +13.50% 587
London -35 191 £550 +4.76% 340
UK excluding London -88 181 £575 +19.79% 281
Work from Home -37 140 £575 +23.52% 403
North of England -49 65 £599 +33.09% 86
South East -57 45 £568 +13.50% 30
North West -30 41 £513 +22.02% 57
Midlands -41 39 £470 -7.84% 42
West Midlands -37 35 £470 -9.62% 34
South West -26 23 £800 +23.08% 44
Yorkshire -33 18 £613 +36.11% 13
Scotland -38 11 £475 +3.04% 43
North East -36 9 £625 +34.12% 16
East Midlands -16 4 £404 -7.45% 8
East of England -29 3 £600 +23.08% 9
Northern Ireland +5 1 £600 -38.46% 17

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 27 (6.54%) Confluence
2 12 (2.91%) Apache
2 12 (2.91%) SAS
3 8 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.69%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.45%) nginx
6 3 (0.73%) CloudStack
6 3 (0.73%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.24%) Appian
8 1 (0.24%) CIMPLICITY
8 1 (0.24%) Predix
8 1 (0.24%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.97%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.48%) Gliffy
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.24%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.73%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.24%) Actimize
4 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.24%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.24%) Maximo
4 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.24%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 413 (100.00%) AWS
2 227 (54.96%) Azure
3 112 (27.12%) GCP
4 100 (24.21%) Amazon S3
5 91 (22.03%) Serverless
6 86 (20.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 78 (18.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 75 (18.16%) AWS Lambda
9 74 (17.92%) Amazon EC2
10 73 (17.68%) Amazon EKS
11 68 (16.46%) GitHub
12 64 (15.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 51 (12.35%) Amazon ECS
14 45 (10.90%) GitHub Actions
15 34 (8.23%) AWS KMS
16 32 (7.75%) Azure DevOps
17 26 (6.30%) Power Platform
18 21 (5.08%) Amazon EMR
18 21 (5.08%) Entra ID
19 20 (4.84%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (12.59%) Firewall
2 25 (6.05%) DNS
2 25 (6.05%) Network Security
3 12 (2.91%) TCP/IP
3 12 (2.91%) VPN
4 10 (2.42%) DHCP
5 9 (2.18%) LAN
5 9 (2.18%) VSAN
6 8 (1.94%) WAN
7 6 (1.45%) Internet
8 5 (1.21%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.97%) BGP
9 4 (0.97%) NGFW
9 4 (0.97%) SAN
9 4 (0.97%) SSH
10 3 (0.73%) CTI
10 3 (0.73%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.73%) MPLS
10 3 (0.73%) OSPF
10 3 (0.73%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (6.30%) Amazon Aurora
3 26 (6.30%) Amazon Redshift
3 26 (6.30%) Power BI
4 24 (5.81%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (4.84%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (4.36%) DynamoDB
7 17 (4.12%) Data Lake
8 16 (3.87%) MongoDB
8 16 (3.87%) SQL Server
9 14 (3.39%) MySQL
10 10 (2.42%) Redis
11 9 (2.18%) Metadata
11 9 (2.18%) Pentaho
12 7 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (1.45%) Hadoop
14 5 (1.21%) BigQuery
15 4 (0.97%) Amazon QuickSight
15 4 (0.97%) Flink
Development Applications
1 74 (17.92%) Jenkins
2 61 (14.77%) GitLab
3 50 (12.11%) Git
4 35 (8.47%) JIRA
5 8 (1.94%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.45%) Selenium
7 5 (1.21%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.21%) JMeter
7 5 (1.21%) Maven
8 4 (0.97%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.97%) Claude Code
8 4 (0.97%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.97%) JUnit
8 4 (0.97%) MLflow
8 4 (0.97%) Postman
9 3 (0.73%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.73%) Snyk
10 2 (0.48%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.48%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 151 (36.56%) Social Skills
2 98 (23.73%) Public Sector
3 89 (21.55%) Finance
4 45 (10.90%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (7.51%) Banking
6 16 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (1.94%) Billing
8 8 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.94%) Police
8 8 (1.94%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.69%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.45%) Military
11 5 (1.21%) Law
12 4 (0.97%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.97%) Local Government
12 4 (0.97%) Retail
13 3 (0.73%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.48%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 128 (30.99%) Architect
2 55 (13.32%) Senior
3 47 (11.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 45 (10.90%) Cloud Engineer
5 40 (9.69%) Lead
6 37 (8.96%) AWS Engineer
7 31 (7.51%) Technical Architect
8 29 (7.02%) Security Engineer
9 28 (6.78%) Security Architect
10 26 (6.30%) AWS Architect
10 26 (6.30%) Data Engineer
10 26 (6.30%) Solutions Architect
11 21 (5.08%) Cloud Architect
12 18 (4.36%) Consultant
12 18 (4.36%) Platform Engineer
13 17 (4.12%) AWS DevOps
14 16 (3.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 16 (3.87%) DBA
14 16 (3.87%) Enterprise Architect
15 13 (3.15%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (48.18%) Terraform
2 35 (8.47%) REST
3 20 (4.84%) OAuth
4 19 (4.60%) RESTful
5 18 (4.36%) OpenID
6 17 (4.12%) Spring Boot
7 16 (3.87%) Spring
8 15 (3.63%) AWS CDK
9 14 (3.39%) Kafka
9 14 (3.39%) PySpark
9 14 (3.39%) SOAP
10 13 (3.15%) SAML
11 11 (2.66%) Web Services
12 10 (2.42%) .NET
12 10 (2.42%) LangChain
12 10 (2.42%) Node.js
12 10 (2.42%) OAuth2
13 9 (2.18%) ARM Templates
13 9 (2.18%) React
14 7 (1.69%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 136 (32.93%) Cloud Native
2 37 (8.96%) Security Posture
3 35 (8.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 34 (8.23%) Data Centre
5 28 (6.78%) Management Information System
6 27 (6.54%) Onboarding
7 24 (5.81%) Product Ownership
8 23 (5.57%) Public Cloud
9 22 (5.33%) Replication
10 20 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (3.63%) PKI
12 14 (3.39%) Enterprise Cloud
13 9 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (1.94%) Cloud Security Posture
14 8 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
15 7 (1.69%) AI Agents
15 7 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
16 6 (1.45%) Mobile App
17 5 (1.21%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 78 (18.89%) Linux
2 56 (13.56%) Windows
3 29 (7.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (3.87%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.18%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.94%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (0.97%) Unix
8 3 (0.73%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.73%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.73%) macOS
9 2 (0.48%) CentOS
9 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.24%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (55.21%) CI/CD
2 220 (53.27%) DevOps
3 198 (47.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 155 (37.53%) Agile
5 111 (26.88%) Stakeholder Management
6 103 (24.94%) Cloud Security
7 97 (23.49%) Technical Leadership
8 88 (21.31%) Migration
9 86 (20.82%) Containerisation
9 86 (20.82%) Observability
10 84 (20.34%) AI
11 79 (19.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 77 (18.64%) Roadmaps
13 73 (17.68%) Microservices
14 70 (16.95%) DevSecOps
15 60 (14.53%) Platform Engineering
16 57 (13.80%) Problem-Solving
17 55 (13.32%) Cybersecurity
17 55 (13.32%) Software Engineering
18 54 (13.08%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 167 (40.44%) Python
2 74 (17.92%) Bash
3 73 (17.68%) PowerShell
4 70 (16.95%) Java
5 58 (14.04%) SQL
6 22 (5.33%) Bicep
7 20 (4.84%) JavaScript
8 13 (3.15%) TypeScript
9 12 (2.91%) Go
10 9 (2.18%) Groovy
11 7 (1.69%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.45%) Perl
13 5 (1.21%) Rust
14 3 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.48%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.48%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.24%) C
16 1 (0.24%) C#
16 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 175 (42.37%) Security Cleared
2 156 (37.77%) SC Cleared
3 125 (30.27%) Azure Certification
4 108 (26.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 77 (18.64%) CISSP
6 50 (12.11%) Degree
7 30 (7.26%) CISM
7 30 (7.26%) DV Cleared
8 29 (7.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 28 (6.78%) BPSS Clearance
10 25 (6.05%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
11 23 (5.57%) Microsoft Certification
12 18 (4.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 16 (3.87%) TOGAF Certification
14 14 (3.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 13 (3.15%) CCSP
16 11 (2.66%) PMI Certification
16 11 (2.66%) PMP
16 11 (2.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (10.41%) Data Quality
2 32 (7.75%) NIST
3 23 (5.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (5.33%) QA
5 21 (5.08%) NCSC
6 19 (4.60%) GDPR
7 7 (1.69%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.45%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.73%) EU AI Act
9 3 (0.73%) GRC
9 3 (0.73%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.73%) SLA
10 2 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.48%) HL7
10 2 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.24%) FedRAMP
11 1 (0.24%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 126 (30.51%) Docker
2 32 (7.75%) Active Directory
3 21 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (3.63%) vSphere
5 10 (2.42%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.97%) Postfix
7 3 (0.73%) DFS Replication
7 3 (0.73%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.73%) Squid
7 3 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.48%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.48%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.48%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 132 (31.96%) Kubernetes
2 60 (14.53%) Ansible
3 40 (9.69%) Grafana
4 36 (8.72%) Prometheus
5 29 (7.02%) Progress Chef
6 10 (2.42%) Puppet
7 9 (2.18%) Istio
8 8 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (1.69%) VxRail
10 5 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (1.21%) Argo
11 3 (0.73%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.73%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.73%) linkerd
11 3 (0.73%) Packer
11 3 (0.73%) QRadar
12 2 (0.48%) Consul
12 2 (0.48%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.48%) SCCM
Vendors
1 83 (20.10%) Microsoft
2 53 (12.83%) Google
3 27 (6.54%) VMware
4 22 (5.33%) Splunk
5 20 (4.84%) Red Hat
6 16 (3.87%) Cisco
6 16 (3.87%) ServiceNow
7 15 (3.63%) Databricks
8 11 (2.66%) Informatica
9 9 (2.18%) Denodo
9 9 (2.18%) Dynatrace
9 9 (2.18%) Oracle
9 9 (2.18%) Talend
10 8 (1.94%) Palo Alto
10 8 (1.94%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.69%) CrowdStrike
11 7 (1.69%) IBM
12 6 (1.45%) Commvault
12 6 (1.45%) Okta
12 6 (1.45%) OpenAI