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 3 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 310 365
Rank change year-on-year +39 +55 +18
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 355 255 257
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.98% 0.71% 0.57%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.94% 2.42% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 181 208
10th Percentile £351 £388 £456
25th Percentile £410 £431 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £556
Median % change year-on-year -6.71% -5.62% -3.26%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £567
% change year-on-year -2.50% -11.82% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £76.00 - -
25th Percentile £82.75 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £58.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +55.17% - -
75th Percentile £96.88 - -
90th Percentile £101.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £90.00 £58.00 -
% change year-on-year +55.17% - -

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 12,069 10,536 13,281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.32% 29.42% 29.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,818 6,382 8,362
10th Percentile £305 £307 £300
25th Percentile £413 £420 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £517 £538
% change year-on-year -3.33% -3.77% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,022 506 751
10th Percentile £17.30 £19.00 £17.72
25th Percentile £19.26 £24.18 £27.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.38 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.23% -22.65% +18.89%
75th Percentile £46.71 £66.00 £67.75
90th Percentile £74.21 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £52.21
% change year-on-year -44.11% -13.80% +16.01%

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Top 17 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 3 December 2025. 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 +28 288 £492 -6.29% 600
UK excluding London +26 188 £488 -2.50% 551
London +17 125 £488 -11.36% 216
Work from Home +40 117 £484 -12.43% 156
South East +42 49 £500 -23.08% 156
North of England -74 48 £450 +2.86% 130
Midlands +8 41 £523 +4.50% 90
West Midlands +6 39 £523 +4.50% 54
Scotland +24 29 £413 -21.43% 26
North West -16 22 £420 -25.00% 73
Yorkshire -66 20 £450 +5.88% 43
South West +4 15 £625 - 42
North East -5 6 £466 -1.89% 16
East of England -18 5 £488 -13.33% 68
East Midlands -15 2 £463 +8.82% 36
Northern Ireland - 2 £975 - 8
Channel Islands - 1 £760 - 2

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 15 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (3.94%) Apache
2 14 (3.94%) Confluence
3 13 (3.66%) Apache Spark
4 11 (3.10%) nginx
5 6 (1.69%) IIS
5 6 (1.69%) JBoss
5 6 (1.69%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.69%) WebSphere
6 5 (1.41%) iPlanet
6 5 (1.41%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.56%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.56%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.56%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.56%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.28%) CMS
8 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 10 (2.82%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (0.85%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 355 (100.00%) AWS
2 141 (39.72%) Azure
3 83 (23.38%) Serverless
4 82 (23.10%) GCP
5 77 (21.69%) Amazon S3
5 77 (21.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 65 (18.31%) AWS Lambda
7 64 (18.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 52 (14.65%) Amazon ECS
9 48 (13.52%) Amazon EKS
10 47 (13.24%) GitHub
11 44 (12.39%) Amazon EC2
12 41 (11.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 28 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
14 25 (7.04%) AWS KMS
15 22 (6.20%) Route 53
16 16 (4.51%) Entra ID
16 16 (4.51%) Snowflake
17 15 (4.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 15 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 53 (14.93%) Firewall
2 30 (8.45%) DNS
3 15 (4.23%) Network Security
4 13 (3.66%) HTTP
5 12 (3.38%) BGP
5 12 (3.38%) LAN
5 12 (3.38%) WAN
6 11 (3.10%) MPLS
6 11 (3.10%) OSPF
7 10 (2.82%) FTP
7 10 (2.82%) IMAP
7 10 (2.82%) OpenLDAP
7 10 (2.82%) SMTP
7 10 (2.82%) SSH
7 10 (2.82%) VPN
8 9 (2.54%) DHCP
8 9 (2.54%) SNMP
8 9 (2.54%) Wireless
9 6 (1.69%) Kerberos
9 6 (1.69%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (17.75%) Amazon RDS
2 46 (12.96%) NoSQL
3 37 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (8.73%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (7.89%) Amazon Redshift
6 24 (6.76%) Amazon Athena
7 17 (4.79%) Amazon Aurora
7 17 (4.79%) DynamoDB
8 14 (3.94%) Relational Database
9 13 (3.66%) Amazon QuickSight
9 13 (3.66%) MySQL
10 11 (3.10%) Oracle Database
11 9 (2.54%) Tableau
12 8 (2.25%) Data Lake
12 8 (2.25%) DataStage
12 8 (2.25%) Metadata
12 8 (2.25%) Power BI
13 6 (1.69%) Big Data
13 6 (1.69%) MongoDB
14 5 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 83 (23.38%) Jenkins
2 67 (18.87%) GitLab
3 56 (15.77%) Git
4 36 (10.14%) JIRA
5 14 (3.94%) Bitbucket
5 14 (3.94%) Liquibase
6 13 (3.66%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (2.82%) Vagrant
8 6 (1.69%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (1.69%) CA Release Automation
8 6 (1.69%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.41%) MLflow
10 4 (1.13%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.13%) Maven
11 2 (0.56%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.56%) Gradle
11 2 (0.56%) JUnit
11 2 (0.56%) Mockito
12 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.28%) Gatling
General
1 159 (44.79%) Social Skills
2 96 (27.04%) Finance
3 48 (13.52%) Public Sector
4 47 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (10.99%) Banking
6 16 (4.51%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (3.66%) Financial Institution
8 12 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.10%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.69%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.13%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.85%) Legal
12 3 (0.85%) Marketing
13 2 (0.56%) Aeronautics
13 2 (0.56%) Electronics
13 2 (0.56%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.56%) Publishing
14 1 (0.28%) Military
Job Titles
1 108 (30.42%) Architect
2 67 (18.87%) AWS Engineer
3 59 (16.62%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (11.55%) Senior
5 39 (10.99%) Solutions Architect
6 38 (10.70%) AWS Architect
7 33 (9.30%) Cloud Engineer
8 32 (9.01%) AWS DevOps
9 31 (8.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 24 (6.76%) Lead
10 24 (6.76%) Platform Engineer
11 23 (6.48%) Data Engineer
12 21 (5.92%) Developer
13 18 (5.07%) Security Architect
14 17 (4.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 16 (4.51%) Cloud Architect
16 12 (3.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
16 12 (3.38%) AWS Solution Architect
16 12 (3.38%) Software Engineer
17 11 (3.10%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.89%) Node.js
2 24 (6.76%) RESTful
3 21 (5.92%) Elastic Stack
4 20 (5.63%) REST
5 18 (5.07%) Kafka
6 17 (4.79%) LDAP
7 11 (3.10%) AngularJS
8 10 (2.82%) AWS CDK
8 10 (2.82%) OAuth
9 9 (2.54%) SAML
10 8 (2.25%) OpenID
11 7 (1.97%) Middleware
11 7 (1.97%) React
11 7 (1.97%) XML
12 5 (1.41%) .NET
12 5 (1.41%) PySpark
12 5 (1.41%) SailPoint
12 5 (1.41%) Spring
13 4 (1.13%) GraphQL
13 4 (1.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 62 (17.46%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (6.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 23 (6.48%) Public Cloud
4 19 (5.35%) Data Centre
5 18 (5.07%) Replication
6 17 (4.79%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (2.54%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.54%) Security Posture
9 8 (2.25%) Cloud Security Posture
9 8 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.41%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.41%) PKI
11 4 (1.13%) Clustering
11 4 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (0.85%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.85%) SCADA
13 2 (0.56%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 70 (19.72%) Linux
2 39 (10.99%) Windows
3 21 (5.92%) Windows Server
4 14 (3.94%) Ubuntu
5 13 (3.66%) Unix
6 10 (2.82%) Amazon Linux
6 10 (2.82%) VMS
7 4 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.85%) CentOS
9 1 (0.28%) Solaris
9 1 (0.28%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (45.92%) CI/CD
2 153 (43.10%) DevOps
3 134 (37.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 97 (27.32%) Containerisation
5 90 (25.35%) Agile
6 79 (22.25%) Problem-Solving
7 74 (20.85%) Cloud Security
8 66 (18.59%) Migration
9 61 (17.18%) Microservices
10 54 (15.21%) Mentoring
11 49 (13.80%) TOGAF
12 46 (12.96%) Roadmaps
13 44 (12.39%) Computer Science
14 43 (12.11%) Cybersecurity
14 43 (12.11%) Incident Response
15 41 (11.55%) High Availability
16 39 (10.99%) Data Modelling
16 39 (10.99%) DevSecOps
16 39 (10.99%) Technical Leadership
17 38 (10.70%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 148 (41.69%) Python
2 65 (18.31%) Java
3 64 (18.03%) SQL
4 44 (12.39%) PowerShell
5 39 (10.99%) Bash
6 18 (5.07%) Go
6 18 (5.07%) Groovy
7 14 (3.94%) JavaScript
8 10 (2.82%) Perl
8 10 (2.82%) Ruby
8 10 (2.82%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.97%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.41%) Scala
11 4 (1.13%) C#
12 3 (0.85%) PHP
13 2 (0.56%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.28%) Bicep
14 1 (0.28%) Korn
Qualifications
1 112 (31.55%) Security Cleared
2 103 (29.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 98 (27.61%) Azure Certification
4 90 (25.35%) SC Cleared
5 67 (18.87%) Degree
6 37 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (8.45%) CISSP
8 28 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (7.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 24 (6.76%) Master's Degree
11 22 (6.20%) TOGAF Certification
12 20 (5.63%) Microsoft Certification
13 17 (4.79%) AWS Certified Developer
14 15 (4.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 14 (3.94%) CCSP
16 11 (3.10%) CCIE
17 9 (2.54%) DV Cleared
17 9 (2.54%) JNCIE
18 8 (2.25%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
19 7 (1.97%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (12.68%) GDPR
2 38 (10.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (8.17%) NIST
4 24 (6.76%) Data Quality
5 19 (5.35%) QA
6 18 (5.07%) PCI DSS
7 10 (2.82%) NCSC
8 7 (1.97%) HIPAA
8 7 (1.97%) PSD2
9 6 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.69%) SOC 2
10 4 (1.13%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.56%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.28%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.28%) HL7
12 1 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 112 (31.55%) Docker
2 21 (5.92%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.82%) DFS Replication
4 10 (2.82%) Dovecot
4 10 (2.82%) Postfix
4 10 (2.82%) Squid
4 10 (2.82%) VMware NSX
5 8 (2.25%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.25%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.85%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 2 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 156 (43.94%) Terraform
2 117 (32.96%) Kubernetes
3 62 (17.46%) Ansible
4 48 (13.52%) Prometheus
5 42 (11.83%) Grafana
6 10 (2.82%) Nessus
6 10 (2.82%) Proxmox
7 7 (1.97%) Puppet
8 6 (1.69%) Argo
8 6 (1.69%) CA Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.69%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.41%) CA Wily
9 5 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.85%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.85%) Nagios
10 3 (0.85%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.28%) Consul
11 1 (0.28%) Control-M
11 1 (0.28%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 47 (13.24%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.86%) Oracle
3 29 (8.17%) Splunk
4 25 (7.04%) VMware
5 18 (5.07%) Cisco
5 18 (5.07%) Google
6 17 (4.79%) IBM
7 13 (3.66%) ServiceNow
8 11 (3.10%) Fortinet
9 10 (2.82%) Databricks
9 10 (2.82%) F5
9 10 (2.82%) Jaspersoft
10 9 (2.54%) AppDynamics
10 9 (2.54%) Dynatrace
10 9 (2.54%) Juniper
11 8 (2.25%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.69%) Broadcom
12 6 (1.69%) Citrix
12 6 (1.69%) SAP
13 5 (1.41%) CloudEndure