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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 279 361
Rank change year-on-year -63 +82 +50
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 359 308 231
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.94% 0.60%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.14% 3.01% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 212 166
10th Percentile £413 £363 £388
25th Percentile £468 £436 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £606 £638
90th Percentile £791 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 1
10th Percentile £70.32 £39.00 -
25th Percentile £72.66 £45.00 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £55.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.55% -5.17% -28.83%
75th Percentile £102.50 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £104.25 £91.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £85.00 - £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 16,805 10,236 11,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.32% 31.26% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,233 6,338 7,203
10th Percentile £350 £300 £313
25th Percentile £438 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £623 £638
90th Percentile £716 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,261 822 732
10th Percentile £17.42 £17.98 £15.11
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £22.00
Median hourly rate £48.81 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +94.08% -47.05% -13.64%
75th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £87.16 £71.43 £76.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +89.03% -49.70% -

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -64 309 £575 +9.52% 905
UK excluding London -63 161 £575 +15.00% 701
London -62 155 £550 - 448
Work from Home -47 119 £575 +9.52% 540
North of England -42 57 £563 +25.00% 182
South East -49 41 £575 +15.00% 94
North West -33 38 £506 +12.37% 97
South West -26 25 £800 +28.00% 129
Midlands -49 25 £444 -11.25% 96
West Midlands -44 23 £470 -6.05% 65
Yorkshire -34 16 £663 +43.24% 41
Scotland -35 9 £475 -5.00% 84
East of England -17 8 £600 +14.29% 41
North East -42 4 £500 - 46
East Midlands -15 1 £400 -18.03% 31

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 26 (7.24%) Confluence
2 7 (1.95%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.67%) Apache
4 4 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.84%) CloudStack
5 3 (0.84%) nginx
5 3 (0.84%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (0.84%) SAS
6 1 (0.28%) CIMPLICITY
6 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.28%) Predix
Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.28%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.39%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.28%) Actimize
3 1 (0.28%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.28%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.28%) Maximo
3 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 359 (100.00%) AWS
2 208 (57.94%) Azure
3 91 (25.35%) GCP
4 81 (22.56%) Amazon S3
5 80 (22.28%) Serverless
6 68 (18.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 63 (17.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 61 (16.99%) AWS Lambda
9 60 (16.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 59 (16.43%) Amazon EC2
11 58 (16.16%) Amazon EKS
12 50 (13.93%) GitHub
13 39 (10.86%) Amazon ECS
14 37 (10.31%) GitHub Actions
15 29 (8.08%) AWS KMS
16 27 (7.52%) Azure DevOps
16 27 (7.52%) Power Platform
17 16 (4.46%) Amazon EMR
17 16 (4.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 15 (4.18%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 52 (14.48%) Firewall
2 28 (7.80%) Network Security
3 23 (6.41%) DNS
4 15 (4.18%) VPN
5 11 (3.06%) TCP/IP
6 10 (2.79%) DHCP
7 9 (2.51%) LAN
8 8 (2.23%) WAN
9 7 (1.95%) VSAN
10 6 (1.67%) 3GPP
10 6 (1.67%) SD-WAN
11 5 (1.39%) BGP
11 5 (1.39%) Internet
12 4 (1.11%) NGFW
12 4 (1.11%) OSPF
12 4 (1.11%) SSH
12 4 (1.11%) TETRA
13 3 (0.84%) PCoIP
13 3 (0.84%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (0.84%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (13.93%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (7.52%) Power BI
3 22 (6.13%) Amazon Redshift
3 22 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (5.85%) Amazon Aurora
5 17 (4.74%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (4.74%) DynamoDB
6 12 (3.34%) SQL Server
7 10 (2.79%) MySQL
8 9 (2.51%) Redis
9 8 (2.23%) Big Data
9 8 (2.23%) MongoDB
9 8 (2.23%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.95%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.95%) Metadata
11 5 (1.39%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.11%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 52 (14.48%) Jenkins
2 48 (13.37%) GitLab
3 30 (8.36%) Git
4 25 (6.96%) JIRA
5 6 (1.67%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.39%) MLflow
7 4 (1.11%) JMeter
7 4 (1.11%) Maven
8 3 (0.84%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.84%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.56%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (0.56%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.56%) DbUnit
9 2 (0.56%) jMock
9 2 (0.56%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.56%) Mockito
9 2 (0.56%) Selenium
9 2 (0.56%) Snyk
9 2 (0.56%) Vagrant
General
1 141 (39.28%) Social Skills
2 83 (23.12%) Public Sector
3 66 (18.38%) Finance
4 44 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (6.69%) Banking
6 21 (5.85%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (2.51%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.95%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.39%) Billing
9 5 (1.39%) Law
9 5 (1.39%) Police
10 4 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.11%) Military
11 3 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.84%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.84%) Legal
11 3 (0.84%) Local Government
11 3 (0.84%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.84%) Retail
Job Titles
1 123 (34.26%) Architect
2 45 (12.53%) Cloud Engineer
3 41 (11.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 41 (11.42%) Senior
4 37 (10.31%) Lead
5 32 (8.91%) AWS Engineer
6 30 (8.36%) Security Engineer
6 30 (8.36%) Technical Architect
7 26 (7.24%) AWS Architect
7 26 (7.24%) Cloud Architect
8 23 (6.41%) Security Architect
8 23 (6.41%) Solutions Architect
9 21 (5.85%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (3.90%) Data Engineer
11 13 (3.62%) DBA
12 12 (3.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 12 (3.34%) Data Architect
13 11 (3.06%) AWS DevOps
13 11 (3.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.06%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (45.40%) Terraform
2 25 (6.96%) REST
3 19 (5.29%) OAuth
4 18 (5.01%) RESTful
5 15 (4.18%) OpenID
6 12 (3.34%) PySpark
6 12 (3.34%) SAML
6 12 (3.34%) Spring Boot
7 11 (3.06%) Kafka
7 11 (3.06%) Node.js
7 11 (3.06%) Spring
8 10 (2.79%) AWS CDK
8 10 (2.79%) OAuth2
9 8 (2.23%) .NET
9 8 (2.23%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (2.23%) Web Services
10 7 (1.95%) ARM Templates
10 7 (1.95%) LangChain
10 7 (1.95%) SOAP
11 6 (1.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 109 (30.36%) Cloud Native
2 33 (9.19%) Security Posture
3 31 (8.64%) Data Centre
4 30 (8.36%) Management Information System
5 28 (7.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 24 (6.69%) Product Ownership
7 19 (5.29%) Onboarding
8 18 (5.01%) Replication
9 14 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (3.90%) Public Cloud
10 11 (3.06%) Enterprise Cloud
11 9 (2.51%) PKI
12 8 (2.23%) Cloud Security Posture
12 8 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
13 6 (1.67%) IoT
14 5 (1.39%) AI Agents
14 5 (1.39%) NHS
14 5 (1.39%) Private Cloud
14 5 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 70 (19.50%) Linux
2 55 (15.32%) Windows
3 25 (6.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (3.34%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.23%) Amazon Linux
5 8 (2.23%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.39%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.39%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.84%) Unix
8 2 (0.56%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.28%) CentOS
9 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (52.37%) DevOps
2 186 (51.81%) CI/CD
3 163 (45.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 123 (34.26%) Agile
5 92 (25.63%) Cloud Security
6 84 (23.40%) Technical Leadership
7 82 (22.84%) Stakeholder Management
8 72 (20.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 68 (18.94%) AI
10 67 (18.66%) Microservices
10 67 (18.66%) Migration
10 67 (18.66%) Roadmaps
11 64 (17.83%) Observability
12 63 (17.55%) DevSecOps
13 60 (16.71%) Containerisation
14 51 (14.21%) Platform Engineering
15 50 (13.93%) Cybersecurity
16 49 (13.65%) Problem-Solving
17 48 (13.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 43 (11.98%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 141 (39.28%) Python
2 71 (19.78%) PowerShell
3 70 (19.50%) Bash
4 63 (17.55%) Java
5 43 (11.98%) SQL
6 18 (5.01%) Bicep
7 16 (4.46%) JavaScript
8 12 (3.34%) TypeScript
9 9 (2.51%) Groovy
10 6 (1.67%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.67%) Perl
10 6 (1.67%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.39%) Go
12 4 (1.11%) Ruby
12 4 (1.11%) Rust
13 1 (0.28%) C#
13 1 (0.28%) CQL
13 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 145 (40.39%) Security Cleared
2 129 (35.93%) SC Cleared
3 119 (33.15%) Azure Certification
4 101 (28.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 65 (18.11%) CISSP
6 43 (11.98%) Degree
7 25 (6.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 24 (6.69%) CISM
9 23 (6.41%) Cisco Certification
10 22 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
11 20 (5.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 20 (5.57%) DV Cleared
12 19 (5.29%) Microsoft Certification
13 17 (4.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 16 (4.46%) TOGAF Certification
15 14 (3.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 12 (3.34%) CCSP
17 11 (3.06%) CCNP
18 9 (2.51%) PMI Certification
18 9 (2.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.36%) Data Quality
1 30 (8.36%) NIST
2 24 (6.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (3.90%) GDPR
3 14 (3.90%) QA
4 11 (3.06%) NCSC
5 8 (2.23%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.11%) GRC
6 4 (1.11%) HL7
6 4 (1.11%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.84%) SLA
8 2 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.56%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.28%) DICOM
9 1 (0.28%) FedRAMP
9 1 (0.28%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
System Software
1 95 (26.46%) Docker
2 26 (7.24%) Active Directory
3 18 (5.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (3.34%) vSphere
5 8 (2.23%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.11%) Postfix
7 3 (0.84%) Squid
8 2 (0.56%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.56%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.56%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.56%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.56%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 102 (28.41%) Kubernetes
2 50 (13.93%) Ansible
3 38 (10.58%) Grafana
4 36 (10.03%) Prometheus
5 28 (7.80%) Progress Chef
6 10 (2.79%) Puppet
7 7 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (1.95%) VxRail
8 6 (1.67%) Istio
9 5 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (1.11%) Argo
11 3 (0.84%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.84%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.84%) QRadar
12 2 (0.56%) Kibana
12 2 (0.56%) linkerd
12 2 (0.56%) Nagios
12 2 (0.56%) Packer
12 2 (0.56%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 74 (20.61%) Microsoft
2 43 (11.98%) Google
3 23 (6.41%) VMware
4 18 (5.01%) Red Hat
4 18 (5.01%) Splunk
5 17 (4.74%) ServiceNow
6 16 (4.46%) Cisco
7 11 (3.06%) Informatica
8 9 (2.51%) Databricks
8 9 (2.51%) Dynatrace
8 9 (2.51%) Palo Alto
9 8 (2.23%) CrowdStrike
10 7 (1.95%) IBM
10 7 (1.95%) Oracle
11 6 (1.67%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.67%) Zscaler
12 5 (1.39%) BeyondTrust
12 5 (1.39%) Remedy
12 5 (1.39%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.39%) SAP