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 9 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 323 381
Rank change year-on-year +38 +58 -12
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 327 240 257
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.95% 0.66% 0.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.88% 2.26% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 172 213
10th Percentile £358 £389 £450
25th Percentile £410 £427 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £675
90th Percentile £742 £700 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +5.78% -18.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 £58.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £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 11,367 10,619 13,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.87% 29.30% 28.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,259 6,452 8,674
10th Percentile £300 £312 £300
25th Percentile £413 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £636 £650
90th Percentile £716 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £527
% change year-on-year -3.75% -1.47% +0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 982 494 763
10th Percentile £17.08 £18.78 £17.72
25th Percentile £19.10 £24.18 £26.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £43.75 £66.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.92 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £51.89
% change year-on-year -45.54% -11.00% +15.31%

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 9 November 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
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 9 November 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 +24 262 £500 -4.76% 927
UK excluding London +29 174 £476 +5.78% 774
London +29 114 £500 -9.09% 353
Work from Home +39 108 £466 -15.36% 291
North of England -57 49 £450 +5.88% 208
South East +36 38 £500 -23.08% 277
Midlands +9 37 £525 +13.51% 95
West Midlands +4 35 £538 +7.50% 58
Scotland +22 29 £424 -15.25% 35
Yorkshire -60 23 £463 +8.94% 67
North West -5 21 £420 -20.00% 125
South West +13 16 £638 +6.25% 50
North East -8 5 £466 -37.87% 19
East of England -17 4 £488 -13.33% 76
East Midlands -8 2 £463 +8.82% 36
Northern Ireland - 2 £975 - 9
Channel Islands - 1 £760 -

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 (4.59%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (3.98%) Confluence
3 11 (3.36%) Apache
3 11 (3.36%) nginx
4 10 (3.06%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.83%) IIS
5 6 (1.83%) JBoss
5 6 (1.83%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.83%) WebSphere
6 5 (1.53%) CMS
6 5 (1.53%) Headless CMS
6 5 (1.53%) iPlanet
6 5 (1.53%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (0.92%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.61%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.61%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.61%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (3.06%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (1.22%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.31%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 327 (100.00%) AWS
2 126 (38.53%) Azure
3 86 (26.30%) Serverless
4 78 (23.85%) Amazon S3
4 78 (23.85%) GCP
5 68 (20.80%) AWS Lambda
6 59 (18.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 53 (16.21%) Amazon ECS
8 49 (14.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 46 (14.07%) GitHub
10 45 (13.76%) Amazon EKS
11 42 (12.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 39 (11.93%) Amazon EC2
13 26 (7.95%) GitHub Actions
14 21 (6.42%) Route 53
15 18 (5.50%) AWS KMS
16 15 (4.59%) Amazon SQS
16 15 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
16 15 (4.59%) Snowflake
17 14 (4.28%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 51 (15.60%) Firewall
2 29 (8.87%) DNS
3 14 (4.28%) BGP
3 14 (4.28%) Network Security
3 14 (4.28%) WAN
4 13 (3.98%) HTTP
4 13 (3.98%) LAN
4 13 (3.98%) OSPF
5 12 (3.67%) MPLS
5 12 (3.67%) VPN
6 10 (3.06%) FTP
6 10 (3.06%) IMAP
6 10 (3.06%) OpenLDAP
6 10 (3.06%) SMTP
6 10 (3.06%) SSH
7 9 (2.75%) SNMP
7 9 (2.75%) Wireless
8 7 (2.14%) VLAN
9 6 (1.83%) Kerberos
9 6 (1.83%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (17.13%) Amazon RDS
2 50 (15.29%) NoSQL
3 37 (11.31%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (9.79%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (8.87%) Amazon Redshift
6 25 (7.65%) DynamoDB
7 21 (6.42%) Amazon Athena
8 16 (4.89%) Amazon Aurora
9 13 (3.98%) Amazon QuickSight
9 13 (3.98%) Relational Database
10 9 (2.75%) MySQL
10 9 (2.75%) Oracle Database
10 9 (2.75%) Power BI
10 9 (2.75%) Tableau
11 7 (2.14%) Data Lake
11 7 (2.14%) DataStage
11 7 (2.14%) Metadata
12 6 (1.83%) Big Data
12 6 (1.83%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 84 (25.69%) Jenkins
2 59 (18.04%) GitLab
3 58 (17.74%) Git
4 33 (10.09%) JIRA
5 14 (4.28%) Liquibase
6 12 (3.67%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (3.36%) Bitbucket
8 10 (3.06%) Vagrant
9 6 (1.83%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (1.83%) CA Release Automation
10 5 (1.53%) SonarQube
11 4 (1.22%) Maven
12 3 (0.92%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.92%) MLflow
13 2 (0.61%) CircleCI
13 2 (0.61%) Gradle
13 2 (0.61%) JUnit
13 2 (0.61%) Mockito
14 1 (0.31%) JMeter
14 1 (0.31%) LoadRunner
General
1 154 (47.09%) Social Skills
2 78 (23.85%) Finance
3 53 (16.21%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (12.84%) Banking
5 39 (11.93%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.89%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (4.89%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (3.98%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.75%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.22%) Publishing
10 4 (1.22%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.61%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.61%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.31%) Aviation
12 1 (0.31%) Billing
12 1 (0.31%) Marketing
12 1 (0.31%) Military
12 1 (0.31%) Police
Job Titles
1 89 (27.22%) Architect
2 65 (19.88%) AWS Engineer
3 59 (18.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 38 (11.62%) Senior
5 37 (11.31%) Solutions Architect
6 32 (9.79%) AWS Architect
6 32 (9.79%) AWS DevOps
6 32 (9.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 31 (9.48%) Cloud Engineer
8 23 (7.03%) Data Engineer
8 23 (7.03%) Developer
9 21 (6.42%) Platform Engineer
10 20 (6.12%) Lead
11 16 (4.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 15 (4.59%) Security Architect
13 13 (3.98%) AWS Solution Architect
13 13 (3.98%) Consultant
14 12 (3.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 12 (3.67%) Designer
14 12 (3.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.65%) Node.js
2 24 (7.34%) Elastic Stack
3 22 (6.73%) RESTful
4 20 (6.12%) Kafka
4 20 (6.12%) REST
5 17 (5.20%) LDAP
6 14 (4.28%) OAuth
7 13 (3.98%) SAML
8 12 (3.67%) OpenID
9 11 (3.36%) AngularJS
10 9 (2.75%) AWS CDK
11 8 (2.45%) React
12 7 (2.14%) Middleware
12 7 (2.14%) OAuth2
12 7 (2.14%) XML
13 5 (1.53%) GraphQL
13 5 (1.53%) SailPoint
13 5 (1.53%) Spring
14 4 (1.22%) Hugging Face
14 4 (1.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 54 (16.51%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.73%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (6.73%) Public Cloud
3 21 (6.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (5.20%) Data Centre
4 17 (5.20%) Data Protection Act
5 16 (4.89%) Replication
6 9 (2.75%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.45%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.14%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (1.83%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.92%) Clustering
11 3 (0.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.92%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.92%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 65 (19.88%) Linux
2 34 (10.40%) Windows
3 19 (5.81%) Windows Server
4 14 (4.28%) Ubuntu
5 13 (3.98%) Unix
6 10 (3.06%) Amazon Linux
6 10 (3.06%) VMS
7 5 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.92%) CentOS
9 1 (0.31%) Solaris
9 1 (0.31%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (45.57%) DevOps
2 144 (44.04%) CI/CD
3 110 (33.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 87 (26.61%) Containerisation
5 80 (24.46%) Problem-Solving
6 78 (23.85%) Agile
7 72 (22.02%) Cloud Security
8 58 (17.74%) Mentoring
9 57 (17.43%) Microservices
10 50 (15.29%) Migration
11 46 (14.07%) Computer Science
12 41 (12.54%) TOGAF
13 39 (11.93%) High Availability
14 38 (11.62%) Data Modelling
14 38 (11.62%) Technical Leadership
15 37 (11.31%) Analytics
15 37 (11.31%) Cybersecurity
16 36 (11.01%) ETL
17 34 (10.40%) Incident Response
18 32 (9.79%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 144 (44.04%) Python
2 65 (19.88%) SQL
3 57 (17.43%) Java
4 37 (11.31%) PowerShell
5 32 (9.79%) Bash
6 18 (5.50%) Groovy
7 17 (5.20%) Go
8 13 (3.98%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.36%) Shell Script
10 10 (3.06%) TypeScript
11 7 (2.14%) Perl
11 7 (2.14%) Ruby
11 7 (2.14%) Scala
12 3 (0.92%) C#
13 2 (0.61%) CodeQL
13 2 (0.61%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.61%) PHP
14 1 (0.31%) Bicep
14 1 (0.31%) Korn
Qualifications
1 91 (27.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 90 (27.52%) Security Cleared
3 83 (25.38%) Azure Certification
4 70 (21.41%) SC Cleared
5 68 (20.80%) Degree
6 39 (11.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 31 (9.48%) CISSP
8 27 (8.26%) Cisco Certification
9 24 (7.34%) Master's Degree
10 23 (7.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 18 (5.50%) AWS Certified Developer
11 18 (5.50%) Microsoft Certification
12 15 (4.59%) TOGAF Certification
13 14 (4.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 12 (3.67%) CCIE
14 12 (3.67%) CCSP
15 10 (3.06%) DV Cleared
16 9 (2.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 9 (2.75%) JNCIE
17 7 (2.14%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (13.46%) GDPR
2 36 (11.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (8.56%) NIST
4 24 (7.34%) Data Quality
5 21 (6.42%) QA
6 14 (4.28%) PCI DSS
7 9 (2.75%) SOC 2
8 7 (2.14%) PSD2
9 6 (1.83%) HIPAA
10 5 (1.53%) NCSC
11 4 (1.22%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.61%) GRC
12 2 (0.61%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.31%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 106 (32.42%) Docker
2 16 (4.89%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.06%) DFS Replication
3 10 (3.06%) Dovecot
3 10 (3.06%) Postfix
3 10 (3.06%) Squid
3 10 (3.06%) VMware NSX
4 9 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.83%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.92%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 137 (41.90%) Terraform
2 107 (32.72%) Kubernetes
3 62 (18.96%) Ansible
4 49 (14.98%) Prometheus
5 42 (12.84%) Grafana
6 10 (3.06%) Nessus
6 10 (3.06%) Proxmox
7 9 (2.75%) Puppet
8 6 (1.83%) CA Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.83%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.53%) CA Wily
9 5 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.22%) Argo
10 4 (1.22%) Nagios
11 3 (0.92%) Tivoli
12 2 (0.61%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.31%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.31%) Kibana
13 1 (0.31%) linkerd
13 1 (0.31%) Packer
Vendors
1 38 (11.62%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.87%) Oracle
2 29 (8.87%) Splunk
3 20 (6.12%) Google
4 17 (5.20%) IBM
5 14 (4.28%) ServiceNow
6 13 (3.98%) Cisco
6 13 (3.98%) VMware
7 11 (3.36%) F5
7 11 (3.36%) Fortinet
8 10 (3.06%) AppDynamics
8 10 (3.06%) Jaspersoft
9 9 (2.75%) Juniper
9 9 (2.75%) Palo Alto
10 8 (2.45%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.83%) Broadcom
11 6 (1.83%) Databricks
12 4 (1.22%) EMC
12 4 (1.22%) NetApp
12 4 (1.22%) SAP