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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 280 346
Rank change year-on-year -74 +66 +68
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 344 309 229
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.94% 0.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.04% 3.01% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 223 165
10th Percentile £413 £363 £388
25th Percentile £463 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -6.38%
75th Percentile £688 £600 £638
90th Percentile £788 £735 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 1
10th Percentile £69.86 £40.03 -
25th Percentile £78.56 £47.56 -
Median hourly rate £88.75 £54.25 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.59% -6.47% -28.83%
75th Percentile £102.69 £66.44 -
90th Percentile £104.75 £86.58 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £88.75 - £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 16,838 10,251 11,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.41% 31.16% 29.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,264 6,335 7,402
10th Percentile £350 £288 £313
25th Percentile £431 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £715 £703 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,256 785 855
10th Percentile £17.73 £17.87 £14.65
25th Percentile £25.75 £19.38 £21.25
Median hourly rate £51.75 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +105.77% -41.51% -22.00%
75th Percentile £73.53 £54.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.00 £75.00 £77.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +98.81% -45.54% -11.52%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -70 293 £575 +9.52% 465
UK excluding London -66 154 £575 +15.00% 299
London -74 143 £550 +2.33% 226
Work from Home -67 113 £575 +12.20% 169
North of England -50 58 £579 +22.43% 83
North West -21 40 £550 +11.79% 45
South East -49 38 £575 +15.00% 61
Midlands -39 27 £450 -6.15% 37
West Midlands -40 25 £463 -11.90% 20
South West -37 19 £760 +21.60% 64
Yorkshire -35 16 £663 +57.74% 27
East of England -10 9 £600 +14.29% 25
Scotland -29 7 £479 -4.20% 18
North East -41 3 £500 - 12
East Midlands -13 1 £400 -10.61% 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 20 (5.81%) Confluence
2 6 (1.74%) Apache
3 5 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.45%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.16%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.87%) CloudStack
5 3 (0.87%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.58%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.29%) CIMPLICITY
7 1 (0.29%) nginx
7 1 (0.29%) Predix
7 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.29%) Actimize
2 1 (0.29%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.29%) Maximo
2 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 344 (100.00%) AWS
2 199 (57.85%) Azure
3 97 (28.20%) GCP
4 79 (22.97%) Serverless
5 70 (20.35%) Amazon S3
6 67 (19.48%) AWS CloudFormation
7 57 (16.57%) AWS Lambda
8 56 (16.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 56 (16.28%) Amazon EKS
8 56 (16.28%) GitHub
9 53 (15.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 50 (14.53%) Amazon EC2
11 42 (12.21%) GitHub Actions
12 37 (10.76%) Amazon ECS
13 27 (7.85%) Azure DevOps
14 24 (6.98%) Power Platform
15 21 (6.10%) AWS KMS
16 19 (5.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 14 (4.07%) Amazon EMR
17 14 (4.07%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 48 (13.95%) Firewall
2 22 (6.40%) Network Security
3 19 (5.52%) DNS
4 16 (4.65%) VPN
5 9 (2.62%) DHCP
5 9 (2.62%) LAN
5 9 (2.62%) TCP/IP
5 9 (2.62%) WAN
6 8 (2.33%) BGP
7 7 (2.03%) 3GPP
7 7 (2.03%) SD-WAN
8 6 (1.74%) VSAN
9 5 (1.45%) OSPF
10 4 (1.16%) Internet
10 4 (1.16%) IPv6
10 4 (1.16%) MPLS
10 4 (1.16%) NGFW
10 4 (1.16%) TETRA
11 3 (0.87%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (0.87%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (11.63%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (6.98%) Power BI
3 20 (5.81%) Amazon Redshift
4 19 (5.52%) DynamoDB
5 16 (4.65%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (3.78%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (2.33%) Data Lake
9 7 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (2.03%) Metadata
9 7 (2.03%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.74%) Big Data
10 6 (1.74%) SQL Server
11 5 (1.45%) MySQL
11 5 (1.45%) NoSQL
12 4 (1.16%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (1.16%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.16%) Redis
13 3 (0.87%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 50 (14.53%) Jenkins
2 44 (12.79%) GitLab
3 26 (7.56%) Git
4 20 (5.81%) JIRA
5 7 (2.03%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.45%) Maven
6 5 (1.45%) MLflow
7 4 (1.16%) JUnit
8 3 (0.87%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.87%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (0.87%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.87%) DbUnit
8 3 (0.87%) jMock
8 3 (0.87%) Mockito
8 3 (0.87%) Snyk
9 2 (0.58%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.58%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.58%) JMeter
9 2 (0.58%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 121 (35.17%) Social Skills
2 65 (18.90%) Public Sector
3 60 (17.44%) Finance
4 37 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (6.40%) Banking
6 21 (6.10%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.62%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.03%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.74%) Legal
9 6 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.45%) Billing
10 5 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.45%) Law
11 4 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.87%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.87%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.87%) Retail
13 2 (0.58%) Electronics
13 2 (0.58%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.58%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 131 (38.08%) Architect
2 48 (13.95%) Cloud Engineer
3 39 (11.34%) Senior
4 38 (11.05%) DevOps Engineer
5 34 (9.88%) AWS Engineer
5 34 (9.88%) Lead
6 31 (9.01%) Technical Architect
7 28 (8.14%) AWS Architect
7 28 (8.14%) Security Engineer
8 26 (7.56%) Cloud Architect
8 26 (7.56%) Solutions Architect
9 23 (6.69%) Security Architect
10 21 (6.10%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (3.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 13 (3.78%) Data Engineer
12 12 (3.49%) Data Architect
12 12 (3.49%) Developer
13 11 (3.20%) AWS DevOps
13 11 (3.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.20%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.98%) REST
2 19 (5.52%) OAuth
2 19 (5.52%) RESTful
3 15 (4.36%) OpenID
4 14 (4.07%) Kafka
5 13 (3.78%) Spring Boot
6 12 (3.49%) Node.js
6 12 (3.49%) SAML
6 12 (3.49%) Spring
7 11 (3.20%) AWS CDK
8 10 (2.91%) OAuth2
8 10 (2.91%) PySpark
9 9 (2.62%) Web Services
10 8 (2.33%) .NET
10 8 (2.33%) LangChain
10 8 (2.33%) SOAP
11 7 (2.03%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (2.03%) PyTorch
12 6 (1.74%) AngularJS
12 6 (1.74%) React
Miscellaneous
1 114 (33.14%) Cloud Native
2 31 (9.01%) Security Posture
3 30 (8.72%) Management Information System
4 28 (8.14%) Data Centre
4 28 (8.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 24 (6.98%) Product Ownership
6 15 (4.36%) Enterprise Cloud
6 15 (4.36%) Onboarding
7 13 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (3.78%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.33%) Replication
9 7 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.03%) IoT
9 7 (2.03%) PKI
10 6 (1.74%) Cloud Security Posture
11 5 (1.45%) NHS
12 4 (1.16%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.87%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 71 (20.64%) Linux
2 53 (15.41%) Windows
3 24 (6.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.33%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.74%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.45%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.45%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.16%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.58%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.58%) Unix
9 1 (0.29%) CentOS
9 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (56.40%) DevOps
2 186 (54.07%) CI/CD
3 149 (43.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 118 (34.30%) Agile
5 90 (26.16%) Cloud Security
6 75 (21.80%) Technical Leadership
7 71 (20.64%) Microservices
8 69 (20.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 68 (19.77%) Containerisation
10 67 (19.48%) Roadmaps
11 66 (19.19%) AI
12 65 (18.90%) Stakeholder Management
13 64 (18.60%) DevSecOps
14 60 (17.44%) Migration
14 60 (17.44%) Observability
15 50 (14.53%) Scrum
15 50 (14.53%) TOGAF
16 48 (13.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 45 (13.08%) Machine Learning
17 45 (13.08%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 137 (39.83%) Python
2 69 (20.06%) Bash
3 65 (18.90%) PowerShell
4 64 (18.60%) Java
5 35 (10.17%) SQL
6 20 (5.81%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.52%) Bicep
8 17 (4.94%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.03%) Rust
10 5 (1.45%) Groovy
10 5 (1.45%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.16%) Perl
12 3 (0.87%) Ruby
13 2 (0.58%) C#
13 2 (0.58%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.29%) CQL
14 1 (0.29%) Go
14 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 134 (38.95%) Security Cleared
2 118 (34.30%) Azure Certification
3 115 (33.43%) SC Cleared
4 100 (29.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 53 (15.41%) CISSP
6 41 (11.92%) Degree
7 31 (9.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 23 (6.69%) DV Cleared
9 22 (6.40%) Cisco Certification
10 21 (6.10%) TOGAF Certification
11 20 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
12 19 (5.52%) BPSS Clearance
13 16 (4.65%) CISM
14 15 (4.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 15 (4.36%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (3.49%) CCNP
16 10 (2.91%) AWS Certified Developer
17 8 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 8 (2.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 7 (2.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.98%) NIST
2 23 (6.69%) Data Quality
2 23 (6.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (4.94%) QA
4 15 (4.36%) GDPR
5 12 (3.49%) NCSC
6 6 (1.74%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.16%) GRC
7 4 (1.16%) HL7
8 3 (0.87%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.58%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.29%) DICOM
10 1 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.29%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.29%) SLA
10 1 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 100 (29.07%) Docker
2 22 (6.40%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (3.20%) vSphere
5 7 (2.03%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.87%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.87%) Postfix
7 2 (0.58%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.58%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.29%) Squid
8 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 156 (45.35%) Terraform
2 109 (31.69%) Kubernetes
3 43 (12.50%) Ansible
4 35 (10.17%) Grafana
5 30 (8.72%) Prometheus
6 26 (7.56%) Progress Chef
7 10 (2.91%) Puppet
8 8 (2.33%) Argo
9 6 (1.74%) Istio
9 6 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.74%) VxRail
10 4 (1.16%) linkerd
11 3 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.87%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.87%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.58%) CASB
12 2 (0.58%) Packer
12 2 (0.58%) QRadar
12 2 (0.58%) SCCM
13 1 (0.29%) CloudForms
Vendors
1 68 (19.77%) Microsoft
2 45 (13.08%) Google
3 19 (5.52%) VMware
4 18 (5.23%) Red Hat
5 16 (4.65%) Splunk
6 14 (4.07%) ServiceNow
7 12 (3.49%) Cisco
8 10 (2.91%) Databricks
9 9 (2.62%) Informatica
10 8 (2.33%) CrowdStrike
10 8 (2.33%) IBM
10 8 (2.33%) Palo Alto
11 7 (2.03%) Dynatrace
11 7 (2.03%) Zscaler
12 6 (1.74%) Fortinet
13 5 (1.45%) BeyondTrust
13 5 (1.45%) Oracle
13 5 (1.45%) Remedy
13 5 (1.45%) Salesforce
14 4 (1.16%) Okta