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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 270 331
Rank change year-on-year -83 +61 +84
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 353 319 244
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.98% 0.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.07% 3.11% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 214 176
10th Percentile £413 £363 £388
25th Percentile £475 £436 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £680 £625 £638
90th Percentile £800 £739 £711
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -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 17,050 10,245 11,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.50% 31.34% 29.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,384 6,379 6,977
10th Percentile £350 £300 £313
25th Percentile £440 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,315 820 666
10th Percentile £17.17 £17.98 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -49.70% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71.47 £45.00 £68.00
90th Percentile £86.70 £71.00 £75.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £53.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -52.55% +0.95%

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 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 14 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 14 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 -63 313 £575 +9.52% 1,001
UK excluding London -79 163 £575 +15.00% 710
London -64 159 £550 -6.38% 530
Work from Home -71 114 £588 +14.63% 716
North of England -52 60 £563 +25.00% 185
South East -42 44 £568 +13.50% 90
North West -27 41 £518 +19.11% 104
Midlands -42 27 £444 -15.48% 87
West Midlands -42 25 £470 -14.59% 60
South West -38 22 £800 +28.00% 126
Yorkshire -36 16 £663 +43.24% 34
Scotland -39 9 £475 - 105
East of England -28 5 £600 +14.29% 39
North East -38 4 £500 - 49
East Midlands -16 1 £400 -8.26% 27

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 (6.52%) Confluence
2 10 (2.83%) Apache
3 6 (1.70%) nginx
4 4 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.13%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.85%) CloudStack
5 3 (0.85%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (0.85%) SAS
6 2 (0.57%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.28%) CIMPLICITY
7 1 (0.28%) Predix
7 1 (0.28%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.28%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.42%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.57%) 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
1 353 (100.00%) AWS
2 199 (56.37%) Azure
3 90 (25.50%) GCP
4 82 (23.23%) Amazon S3
5 74 (20.96%) Serverless
6 71 (20.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 62 (17.56%) Amazon EC2
7 62 (17.56%) AWS Lambda
8 61 (17.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 57 (16.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 56 (15.86%) Amazon EKS
11 47 (13.31%) GitHub
12 41 (11.61%) Amazon ECS
13 36 (10.20%) GitHub Actions
14 31 (8.78%) AWS KMS
15 27 (7.65%) Azure DevOps
16 24 (6.80%) Power Platform
17 17 (4.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 15 (4.25%) AWS Control Tower
18 15 (4.25%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 51 (14.45%) Firewall
2 28 (7.93%) Network Security
3 23 (6.52%) DNS
4 12 (3.40%) TCP/IP
4 12 (3.40%) VPN
5 10 (2.83%) DHCP
6 9 (2.55%) LAN
7 8 (2.27%) WAN
8 7 (1.98%) VSAN
9 6 (1.70%) SD-WAN
10 5 (1.42%) BGP
10 5 (1.42%) Internet
11 4 (1.13%) NGFW
11 4 (1.13%) OSPF
11 4 (1.13%) SSH
12 3 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
12 3 (0.85%) NAS
12 3 (0.85%) PCoIP
12 3 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (14.45%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (6.80%) Power BI
3 23 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (5.95%) Amazon Aurora
5 20 (5.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 20 (5.67%) DynamoDB
6 17 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (4.25%) Amazon Athena
8 12 (3.40%) SQL Server
9 11 (3.12%) MySQL
10 10 (2.83%) Metadata
11 9 (2.55%) Data Lake
11 9 (2.55%) MongoDB
11 9 (2.55%) Redis
12 7 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (1.98%) Relational Database
13 5 (1.42%) Big Data
13 5 (1.42%) NoSQL
14 4 (1.13%) Amazon QuickSight
15 3 (0.85%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 53 (15.01%) Jenkins
2 47 (13.31%) GitLab
3 30 (8.50%) Git
4 25 (7.08%) JIRA
5 6 (1.70%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.13%) JMeter
6 4 (1.13%) Maven
6 4 (1.13%) MLflow
7 3 (0.85%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.85%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.57%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.57%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (0.57%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.57%) DbUnit
8 2 (0.57%) jMock
8 2 (0.57%) JUnit
8 2 (0.57%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.57%) Mockito
8 2 (0.57%) Selenium
8 2 (0.57%) Vagrant
General
1 132 (37.39%) Social Skills
2 80 (22.66%) Public Sector
3 67 (18.98%) Finance
4 40 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (6.80%) Banking
6 19 (5.38%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.27%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.98%) Police
10 6 (1.70%) Law
10 6 (1.70%) Military
11 5 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.42%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.13%) Billing
13 3 (0.85%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.85%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.85%) Local Government
13 3 (0.85%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 111 (31.44%) Architect
2 43 (12.18%) Cloud Engineer
3 42 (11.90%) Senior
4 41 (11.61%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (11.61%) Lead
5 32 (9.07%) Security Engineer
6 27 (7.65%) AWS Engineer
7 26 (7.37%) AWS Architect
8 24 (6.80%) Technical Architect
9 23 (6.52%) Security Architect
10 22 (6.23%) Cloud Architect
11 21 (5.95%) Solutions Architect
12 19 (5.38%) Platform Engineer
13 14 (3.97%) Consultant
13 14 (3.97%) Data Engineer
14 13 (3.68%) DBA
14 13 (3.68%) Technical Leader
15 12 (3.40%) AWS DevOps
15 12 (3.40%) Data Architect
16 11 (3.12%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (47.03%) Terraform
2 27 (7.65%) REST
3 19 (5.38%) OAuth
3 19 (5.38%) RESTful
4 15 (4.25%) OpenID
5 14 (3.97%) Spring Boot
6 13 (3.68%) Spring
7 12 (3.40%) Node.js
7 12 (3.40%) PySpark
7 12 (3.40%) SAML
8 11 (3.12%) Kafka
9 10 (2.83%) .NET
9 10 (2.83%) AWS CDK
9 10 (2.83%) OAuth2
10 9 (2.55%) SOAP
11 8 (2.27%) ARM Templates
11 8 (2.27%) Web Services
12 7 (1.98%) LangChain
12 7 (1.98%) React
13 6 (1.70%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 103 (29.18%) Cloud Native
2 33 (9.35%) Security Posture
3 31 (8.78%) Management Information System
4 29 (8.22%) Data Centre
5 27 (7.65%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (7.08%) Product Ownership
7 20 (5.67%) Onboarding
8 18 (5.10%) Replication
9 12 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (3.12%) Public Cloud
11 10 (2.83%) PKI
12 8 (2.27%) Cloud Security Posture
12 8 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (1.98%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (1.98%) Enterprise Cloud
14 5 (1.42%) AI Agents
14 5 (1.42%) IoT
14 5 (1.42%) NHS
14 5 (1.42%) Security Operations Centre
15 4 (1.13%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 71 (20.11%) Linux
2 55 (15.58%) Windows
3 28 (7.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (3.40%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.27%) Amazon Linux
5 8 (2.27%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.42%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.42%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.13%) Unix
8 2 (0.57%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.57%) CentOS
8 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (52.41%) CI/CD
1 185 (52.41%) DevOps
2 170 (48.16%) Infrastructure as Code
3 124 (35.13%) Agile
4 92 (26.06%) Cloud Security
5 89 (25.21%) Stakeholder Management
5 89 (25.21%) Technical Leadership
6 71 (20.11%) Observability
7 70 (19.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 66 (18.70%) AI
8 66 (18.70%) Containerisation
8 66 (18.70%) Microservices
9 64 (18.13%) DevSecOps
10 61 (17.28%) Migration
10 61 (17.28%) Roadmaps
11 49 (13.88%) Platform Engineering
12 48 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
12 48 (13.60%) Scrum
13 47 (13.31%) Cybersecurity
14 46 (13.03%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 138 (39.09%) Python
2 70 (19.83%) PowerShell
3 69 (19.55%) Bash
4 64 (18.13%) Java
5 41 (11.61%) SQL
6 19 (5.38%) Bicep
6 19 (5.38%) JavaScript
7 14 (3.97%) TypeScript
8 9 (2.55%) Groovy
9 7 (1.98%) Go
10 6 (1.70%) Perl
10 6 (1.70%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.13%) Ruby
11 4 (1.13%) Rust
12 3 (0.85%) Kotlin
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
1 148 (41.93%) Security Cleared
2 129 (36.54%) SC Cleared
3 116 (32.86%) Azure Certification
4 98 (27.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 70 (19.83%) CISSP
6 43 (12.18%) Degree
7 25 (7.08%) CISM
7 25 (7.08%) DV Cleared
8 24 (6.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 23 (6.52%) Cisco Certification
10 22 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 21 (5.95%) Microsoft Certification
12 17 (4.82%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (4.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 14 (3.97%) TOGAF Certification
15 13 (3.68%) CCSP
16 12 (3.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 10 (2.83%) CCNP
17 10 (2.83%) PMI Certification
17 10 (2.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.93%) Data Quality
1 28 (7.93%) NIST
2 19 (5.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (4.53%) QA
4 15 (4.25%) NCSC
5 11 (3.12%) GDPR
6 8 (2.27%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.13%) GRC
7 4 (1.13%) HL7
7 4 (1.13%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.57%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 2 (0.57%) SLA
9 1 (0.28%) DICOM
9 1 (0.28%) FedRAMP
9 1 (0.28%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 99 (28.05%) Docker
2 27 (7.65%) Active Directory
3 18 (5.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (3.40%) vSphere
5 8 (2.27%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.13%) Postfix
7 3 (0.85%) Squid
8 2 (0.57%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.57%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.57%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.57%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.57%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 99 (28.05%) Kubernetes
2 52 (14.73%) Ansible
3 36 (10.20%) Grafana
4 34 (9.63%) Prometheus
5 29 (8.22%) Progress Chef
6 10 (2.83%) Puppet
7 7 (1.98%) Istio
7 7 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (1.98%) VxRail
8 5 (1.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.13%) Argo
10 3 (0.85%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.85%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.85%) linkerd
10 3 (0.85%) Packer
10 3 (0.85%) QRadar
11 2 (0.57%) Consul
11 2 (0.57%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.57%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 73 (20.68%) Microsoft
2 40 (11.33%) Google
3 23 (6.52%) VMware
4 20 (5.67%) Red Hat
4 20 (5.67%) Splunk
5 17 (4.82%) ServiceNow
6 16 (4.53%) Cisco
7 11 (3.12%) Informatica
8 9 (2.55%) Dynatrace
8 9 (2.55%) Palo Alto
9 8 (2.27%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (2.27%) Databricks
9 8 (2.27%) Oracle
10 6 (1.70%) Fortinet
10 6 (1.70%) IBM
10 6 (1.70%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.42%) BeyondTrust
11 5 (1.42%) Commvault
11 5 (1.42%) Remedy
11 5 (1.42%) SAP