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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 259 403
Rank change year-on-year -123 +144 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 268 292 174
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.02% 0.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.75% 3.28% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 212 129
10th Percentile £400 £368 £450
25th Percentile £463 £435 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £545 £560
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -2.68% +1.82%
75th Percentile £684 £626 £675
90th Percentile £760 £711 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £533 £600
% change year-on-year +3.29% -11.25% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £78.75 £38.35 -
25th Percentile £86.63 £43.38 -
Median hourly rate £95.25 £53.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +78.04% - -
75th Percentile £103.06 £77.63 -
90th Percentile £105.75 £91.05 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.25 - -

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 15,349 8,896 12,755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.62% 31.10% 29.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,182 5,617 7,949
10th Percentile £350 £275 £307
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £530
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -1.42% -3.64%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £645
90th Percentile £719 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +0.10% -5.66% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,115 503 1,075
10th Percentile £16.35 £17.87 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.33 £21.25 £17.94
Median hourly rate £47.54 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.28% -18.75% -27.27%
75th Percentile £71.50 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.25 £78.19 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £32.50 £40.63
% change year-on-year +46.15% -20.01% -22.06%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -100 218 £556 +1.14% 269
London -84 113 £537 -10.50% 98
UK excluding London -120 105 £550 +3.29% 215
Work from Home -88 70 £575 +9.52% 74
North of England -43 48 £581 -17.00% 66
North West -13 35 £566 -20.02% 32
South East -55 18 £525 +5.00% 40
Midlands -57 17 £425 -15.42% 33
West Midlands -51 15 £425 -22.73% 14
Yorkshire -51 11 £663 +26.19% 24
South West -34 10 £575 -7.07% 30
East of England -29 9 £550 +4.76% 20
Wales -21 3 £250 -7.41% 9
Scotland -40 2 £394 -28.36% 15
North East - 2 £525 - 10
East Midlands -35 1 £447 -3.87% 19

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 20 (7.46%) Confluence
2 6 (2.24%) Apache
3 4 (1.49%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.75%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.75%) CloudStack
4 2 (0.75%) nginx
4 2 (0.75%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.75%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.87%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.75%) DELMIA
2 2 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 268 (100.00%) AWS
2 138 (51.49%) Azure
3 64 (23.88%) AWS CloudFormation
4 59 (22.01%) GCP
5 57 (21.27%) Serverless
6 47 (17.54%) Amazon EKS
7 45 (16.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 41 (15.30%) GitHub
9 39 (14.55%) Amazon S3
10 34 (12.69%) AWS Lambda
11 31 (11.57%) GitHub Actions
12 30 (11.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 29 (10.82%) Amazon ECS
14 27 (10.07%) Amazon EC2
15 25 (9.33%) AWS KMS
16 20 (7.46%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 17 (6.34%) Route 53
18 16 (5.97%) AWS CloudTrail
18 16 (5.97%) AWS CodePipeline
18 16 (5.97%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 35 (13.06%) Firewall
2 17 (6.34%) VPN
3 16 (5.97%) Network Security
4 12 (4.48%) DNS
5 11 (4.10%) WAN
6 8 (2.99%) BGP
7 7 (2.61%) 3GPP
8 6 (2.24%) LAN
8 6 (2.24%) OSPF
8 6 (2.24%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.49%) IPv6
9 4 (1.49%) TETRA
10 3 (1.12%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (1.12%) IPv4
10 3 (1.12%) MPLS
10 3 (1.12%) VLAN
10 3 (1.12%) VXLAN
11 2 (0.75%) 5G
11 2 (0.75%) DHCP
11 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.94%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (8.58%) DynamoDB
3 13 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (4.48%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (4.48%) Power BI
5 10 (3.73%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (3.36%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.99%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.61%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.24%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.49%) Big Data
10 4 (1.49%) Metadata
11 3 (1.12%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (1.12%) DataStage
11 3 (1.12%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.12%) DocumentDB
11 3 (1.12%) MySQL
11 3 (1.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (13.43%) Jenkins
2 23 (8.58%) GitLab
3 20 (7.46%) JIRA
4 15 (5.60%) Git
5 7 (2.61%) JUnit
6 6 (2.24%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.87%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.87%) DbUnit
7 5 (1.87%) jMock
7 5 (1.87%) Maven
7 5 (1.87%) Mockito
8 4 (1.49%) Snyk
9 3 (1.12%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (1.12%) MLflow
10 2 (0.75%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.37%) JMeter
11 1 (0.37%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.37%) Postman
11 1 (0.37%) Selenium
General
1 91 (33.96%) Social Skills
2 44 (16.42%) Finance
3 43 (16.04%) Public Sector
4 28 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.72%) Banking
6 11 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.36%) Legal
8 6 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.87%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.12%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.12%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.75%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.75%) Billing
11 2 (0.75%) Electronics
12 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.37%) Law
12 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 104 (38.81%) Architect
2 34 (12.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 32 (11.94%) AWS Architect
3 32 (11.94%) AWS Engineer
4 29 (10.82%) Cloud Architect
5 25 (9.33%) Lead
6 23 (8.58%) Cloud Engineer
7 21 (7.84%) Security Engineer
7 21 (7.84%) Senior
8 19 (7.09%) Technical Architect
9 18 (6.72%) Solutions Architect
10 17 (6.34%) Developer
11 14 (5.22%) Security Architect
12 13 (4.85%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (4.10%) Lead Architect
14 10 (3.73%) AWS DevOps
14 10 (3.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 8 (2.99%) Data Architect
15 8 (2.99%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.72%) REST
2 17 (6.34%) Kafka
3 13 (4.85%) AWS CDK
4 12 (4.48%) Node.js
4 12 (4.48%) OAuth
5 11 (4.10%) Web Services
6 10 (3.73%) RESTful
6 10 (3.73%) SOAP
7 9 (3.36%) OpenID
8 8 (2.99%) AngularJS
8 8 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (2.99%) OAuth2
9 7 (2.61%) .NET
9 7 (2.61%) Spring
9 7 (2.61%) Spring Boot
10 6 (2.24%) Middleware
11 5 (1.87%) ActiveMQ
11 5 (1.87%) Hibernate
11 5 (1.87%) JPA
11 5 (1.87%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 75 (27.99%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.09%) Data Centre
3 17 (6.34%) Management Information System
4 16 (5.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (5.60%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (4.85%) Enterprise Cloud
7 11 (4.10%) Product Ownership
8 10 (3.73%) Virtual Team
9 9 (3.36%) Public Cloud
10 8 (2.99%) Onboarding
10 8 (2.99%) Security Posture
11 6 (2.24%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.49%) e-Learning
12 4 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.12%) AI Agents
13 3 (1.12%) Cloud Security Posture
13 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (1.12%) IoT
13 3 (1.12%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 45 (16.79%) Linux
2 30 (11.19%) Windows
3 5 (1.87%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.87%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.49%) VMS
4 4 (1.49%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.12%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.75%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (55.22%) CI/CD
2 136 (50.75%) DevOps
3 105 (39.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (26.49%) Agile
5 53 (19.78%) Cloud Security
6 52 (19.40%) Containerisation
7 49 (18.28%) Microservices
8 45 (16.79%) Migration
8 45 (16.79%) Stakeholder Management
9 42 (15.67%) DevSecOps
10 41 (15.30%) Observability
11 40 (14.93%) Roadmaps
12 38 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 38 (14.18%) Technical Leadership
13 35 (13.06%) TOGAF
14 32 (11.94%) Event-Driven
15 30 (11.19%) AI
15 30 (11.19%) Mentoring
15 30 (11.19%) Problem-Solving
15 30 (11.19%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 84 (31.34%) Python
2 49 (18.28%) Java
3 29 (10.82%) Bash
4 26 (9.70%) SQL
5 24 (8.96%) PowerShell
6 18 (6.72%) TypeScript
7 17 (6.34%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.61%) Bicep
8 7 (2.61%) Rust
9 6 (2.24%) Perl
10 5 (1.87%) C#
10 5 (1.87%) Ruby
11 4 (1.49%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.12%) Go
12 3 (1.12%) Groovy
13 2 (0.75%) PHP
13 2 (0.75%) Scala
14 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 111 (41.42%) Security Cleared
2 94 (35.07%) SC Cleared
3 84 (31.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 83 (30.97%) Azure Certification
5 28 (10.45%) CISSP
6 27 (10.07%) Degree
7 25 (9.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 22 (8.21%) Cisco Certification
9 18 (6.72%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (6.34%) DV Cleared
10 17 (6.34%) TOGAF Certification
11 12 (4.48%) AWS Certified Developer
11 12 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (3.73%) CCNP
12 10 (3.73%) PMI Certification
12 10 (3.73%) PMP
13 9 (3.36%) CCNA
13 9 (3.36%) CISM
13 9 (3.36%) Master's Degree
14 7 (2.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.58%) NIST
2 22 (8.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (6.34%) NCSC
4 12 (4.48%) GDPR
5 9 (3.36%) Data Quality
5 9 (3.36%) QA
6 6 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.87%) GRC
7 5 (1.87%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.49%) HL7
9 3 (1.12%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.75%) DICOM
10 2 (0.75%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 2 (0.75%) PSD2
10 2 (0.75%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.37%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 66 (24.63%) Docker
2 12 (4.48%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.99%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.87%) Postfix
4 5 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.75%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.75%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.75%) vSphere
6 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.37%) Squid
6 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 118 (44.03%) Terraform
2 78 (29.10%) Kubernetes
3 25 (9.33%) Ansible
4 24 (8.96%) Grafana
5 22 (8.21%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.61%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.24%) Argo
8 4 (1.49%) linkerd
8 4 (1.49%) Puppet
9 3 (1.12%) Istio
10 2 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.75%) CASB
10 2 (0.75%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.75%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.75%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.75%) Packer
10 2 (0.75%) SCCM
11 1 (0.37%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.37%) Suricata
Vendors
1 38 (14.18%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.84%) Google
3 14 (5.22%) Splunk
4 13 (4.85%) Databricks
5 11 (4.10%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.36%) Cisco
7 8 (2.99%) Citrix
7 8 (2.99%) Fortinet
8 7 (2.61%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.61%) IBM
8 7 (2.61%) Oracle
8 7 (2.61%) Zscaler
9 6 (2.24%) CloudEndure
9 6 (2.24%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.87%) BeyondTrust
10 5 (1.87%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (1.87%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.87%) Remedy
10 5 (1.87%) Tenable
10 5 (1.87%) VMware