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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 262 377
Rank change year-on-year -70 +115 +13
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 325 288 213
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.73% 0.99% 0.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.18% 3.23% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 216 168
10th Percentile £368 £400 £450
25th Percentile £428 £458 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.93% +4.09%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £688
90th Percentile £740 £738 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 0
10th Percentile £72.33 - -
25th Percentile £84.25 £51.75 -
Median hourly rate £93.75 £53.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.23% - -
75th Percentile £102.69 £55.25 -
90th Percentile £105.73 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £93.75 - -

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 14,912 8,913 13,551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.55% 30.67% 30.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,822 5,673 8,401
10th Percentile £343 £294 £300
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,092 485 1,006
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.51 £13.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £24.18 £17.73
Median hourly rate £36.00 £42.50 £37.83
Median % change year-on-year -15.29% +12.35% -27.44%
75th Percentile £68.75 £67.50 £61.90
90th Percentile £84.90 £80.84 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £50.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -30.00% +33.33% -23.47%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -72 256 £525 -8.70% 276
UK excluding London -76 133 £500 -9.09% 248
London -48 128 £525 -3.45% 86
Work from Home -28 98 £525 -4.55% 57
North of England -54 40 £554 -20.89% 65
Midlands -57 31 £500 - 35
North West -20 30 £575 -17.86% 27
West Midlands -35 29 £520 +4.00% 17
South East -33 26 £525 -8.70% 57
Scotland -21 13 £358 -34.91% 10
East of England -20 11 £531 - 30
South West -30 10 £500 -18.37% 34
Yorkshire -59 6 £525 -22.22% 26
North East -10 4 £525 +10.53% 13
Wales -18 3 £250 - 12
East Midlands -38 1 £447 -11.04% 18

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 17 (5.23%) Confluence
2 11 (3.38%) Apache Spark
3 10 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.46%) Apache
5 5 (1.54%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.62%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.62%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.31%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.31%) nginx
7 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) DELMIA
2 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 325 (100.00%) AWS
2 143 (44.00%) Azure
3 97 (29.85%) AWS CloudFormation
4 79 (24.31%) Serverless
5 65 (20.00%) GCP
5 65 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 63 (19.38%) Amazon EKS
7 58 (17.85%) AWS Lambda
8 57 (17.54%) GitHub
9 56 (17.23%) Amazon S3
10 44 (13.54%) Amazon ECS
11 41 (12.62%) GitHub Actions
12 36 (11.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 33 (10.15%) Amazon EC2
14 25 (7.69%) AWS KMS
15 21 (6.46%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 21 (6.46%) AWS Control Tower
16 20 (6.15%) AWS CodePipeline
17 18 (5.54%) Entra ID
18 17 (5.23%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 46 (14.15%) Firewall
2 20 (6.15%) Network Security
3 19 (5.85%) VPN
4 18 (5.54%) DNS
5 13 (4.00%) WAN
6 11 (3.38%) BGP
7 9 (2.77%) LAN
8 8 (2.46%) DHCP
8 8 (2.46%) IPv6
8 8 (2.46%) OSPF
8 8 (2.46%) SD-WAN
9 7 (2.15%) 3GPP
9 7 (2.15%) IPv4
9 7 (2.15%) VLAN
10 5 (1.54%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (1.54%) MPLS
10 5 (1.54%) TCP/IP
10 5 (1.54%) VXLAN
10 5 (1.54%) WLAN
11 4 (1.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (13.23%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (6.77%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (6.15%) DynamoDB
4 19 (5.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (5.54%) NoSQL
6 16 (4.92%) Amazon Athena
7 14 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (3.69%) Relational Database
9 11 (3.38%) MySQL
9 11 (3.38%) Power BI
10 8 (2.46%) Amazon QuickSight
10 8 (2.46%) Data Lake
10 8 (2.46%) Tableau
11 7 (2.15%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (2.15%) Big Data
11 7 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (1.85%) DataStage
12 6 (1.85%) Metadata
13 5 (1.54%) Oracle Database
14 4 (1.23%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 49 (15.08%) Jenkins
2 41 (12.62%) GitLab
3 28 (8.62%) JIRA
4 25 (7.69%) Git
5 14 (4.31%) Bitbucket
6 10 (3.08%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.85%) JUnit
8 5 (1.54%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.23%) Maven
9 4 (1.23%) MLflow
9 4 (1.23%) Mockito
9 4 (1.23%) Snyk
10 3 (0.92%) DbUnit
10 3 (0.92%) jMock
11 2 (0.62%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.62%) Liquibase
12 1 (0.31%) Claude Code
12 1 (0.31%) Gradle
12 1 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.31%) Postman
General
1 110 (33.85%) Social Skills
2 64 (19.69%) Finance
3 51 (15.69%) Public Sector
4 36 (11.08%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.08%) Banking
6 15 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.69%) Legal
8 9 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.15%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.85%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.23%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.23%) Electronics
13 3 (0.92%) Marketing
14 2 (0.62%) Aeronautics
14 2 (0.62%) Private Banking
15 1 (0.31%) Aviation
15 1 (0.31%) Dutch Language
15 1 (0.31%) Police
Job Titles
1 119 (36.62%) Architect
2 44 (13.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 43 (13.23%) AWS Engineer
4 40 (12.31%) AWS Architect
5 33 (10.15%) Senior
6 31 (9.54%) Cloud Engineer
6 31 (9.54%) Solutions Architect
7 28 (8.62%) Cloud Architect
8 19 (5.85%) Data Engineer
9 18 (5.54%) Lead
9 18 (5.54%) Platform Engineer
10 17 (5.23%) AWS DevOps
10 17 (5.23%) Security Engineer
10 17 (5.23%) Technical Architect
11 16 (4.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 16 (4.92%) Security Architect
12 15 (4.62%) Developer
13 13 (4.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 11 (3.38%) Network Architect
15 10 (3.08%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.77%) Kafka
2 18 (5.54%) Node.js
3 17 (5.23%) REST
4 13 (4.00%) AWS CDK
4 13 (4.00%) RESTful
5 11 (3.38%) AngularJS
6 9 (2.77%) Web Services
7 8 (2.46%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (2.15%) XML
9 6 (1.85%) .NET
9 6 (1.85%) Middleware
9 6 (1.85%) SOAP
9 6 (1.85%) Spring
9 6 (1.85%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.54%) boto
10 5 (1.54%) React
11 4 (1.23%) Hibernate
11 4 (1.23%) JPA
11 4 (1.23%) PySpark
11 4 (1.23%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 78 (24.00%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.15%) Data Centre
3 16 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (4.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 13 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.38%) Enterprise Cloud
5 11 (3.38%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.77%) Virtual Team
8 8 (2.46%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.85%) PKI
10 5 (1.54%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.54%) IoT
10 5 (1.54%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.54%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.54%) SCADA
11 4 (1.23%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 56 (17.23%) Linux
2 31 (9.54%) Windows
3 8 (2.46%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.23%) VMS
5 3 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (52.31%) CI/CD
2 146 (44.92%) DevOps
3 145 (44.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 94 (28.92%) Agile
5 80 (24.62%) Containerisation
6 70 (21.54%) Cloud Security
7 60 (18.46%) Microservices
8 57 (17.54%) Migration
9 52 (16.00%) Roadmaps
10 50 (15.38%) DevSecOps
11 47 (14.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 47 (14.46%) Observability
11 47 (14.46%) TOGAF
12 44 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
13 41 (12.62%) Mentoring
14 37 (11.38%) Cost Optimisation
15 36 (11.08%) Technical Leadership
16 35 (10.77%) Cybersecurity
16 35 (10.77%) Data Governance
16 35 (10.77%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 119 (36.62%) Python
2 61 (18.77%) Java
3 44 (13.54%) Bash
4 41 (12.62%) SQL
5 30 (9.23%) PowerShell
6 18 (5.54%) JavaScript
7 16 (4.92%) TypeScript
8 13 (4.00%) Ruby
9 11 (3.38%) Perl
10 7 (2.15%) C#
10 7 (2.15%) Rust
11 6 (1.85%) Bicep
12 5 (1.54%) Go
12 5 (1.54%) Scala
13 3 (0.92%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.92%) PHP
14 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 139 (42.77%) Security Cleared
2 111 (34.15%) SC Cleared
3 107 (32.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 92 (28.31%) Azure Certification
5 36 (11.08%) Degree
6 34 (10.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 26 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
8 25 (7.69%) CISSP
9 23 (7.08%) TOGAF Certification
10 20 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
11 19 (5.85%) DV Cleared
12 16 (4.92%) AWS Certified Developer
13 12 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (3.38%) CCNP
14 11 (3.38%) CCSP
14 11 (3.38%) Master's Degree
15 10 (3.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 9 (2.77%) CCNA
16 9 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
17 8 (2.46%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (11.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (10.15%) GDPR
3 30 (9.23%) NIST
4 21 (6.46%) Data Quality
5 15 (4.62%) NCSC
5 15 (4.62%) PCI DSS
6 13 (4.00%) QA
7 7 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.54%) PSD2
9 4 (1.23%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.92%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.92%) GRC
10 3 (0.92%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.92%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.62%) HL7
11 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 2 (0.62%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.31%) DICOM
System Software
1 89 (27.38%) Docker
2 17 (5.23%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.77%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (1.85%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.92%) Postfix
6 3 (0.92%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.62%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 160 (49.23%) Terraform
2 113 (34.77%) Kubernetes
3 43 (13.23%) Ansible
4 27 (8.31%) Prometheus
5 22 (6.77%) Grafana
6 8 (2.46%) Progress Chef
7 7 (2.15%) Argo
8 5 (1.54%) Puppet
9 3 (0.92%) Istio
9 3 (0.92%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.92%) linkerd
10 2 (0.62%) CASB
10 2 (0.62%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.62%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.31%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.31%) Nagios
11 1 (0.31%) Nessus
11 1 (0.31%) QRadar
11 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (12.62%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.38%) Oracle
3 20 (6.15%) Google
4 17 (5.23%) Databricks
4 17 (5.23%) VMware
5 14 (4.31%) Cisco
6 12 (3.69%) Splunk
7 9 (2.77%) Fortinet
7 9 (2.77%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.46%) IBM
9 7 (2.15%) Citrix
9 7 (2.15%) CloudEndure
10 6 (1.85%) Dynatrace
11 5 (1.54%) Atlassian
11 5 (1.54%) Meraki
11 5 (1.54%) Zscaler
12 4 (1.23%) AVEVA
12 4 (1.23%) F5
12 4 (1.23%) Qualys
12 4 (1.23%) SolarWinds