AWS Certification Contracts

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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 435 397
Rank change year-on-year +177 -38 -96
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 302 167 340
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.03% 0.38% 0.57%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.36% 1.25% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 129 238
10th Percentile £375 £450 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £645 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £753
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £38.35 - £80.30
25th Percentile £43.38 - £80.75
Median hourly rate £53.50 - £81.50
75th Percentile £77.63 - £82.25
90th Percentile £91.05 - £82.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 8,989 13,363 16,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.75% 30.65% 27.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,678 8,219 10,866
10th Percentile £288 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £707 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £530 £530
% change year-on-year -5.57% - +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 516 1,077 849
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.87 £15.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.72 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -25.93% +29.75%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.60 £68.25
90th Percentile £80.34 £75.25 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £40.94 £49.57
% change year-on-year +9.92% -17.41% +55.44%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification.

Daily rate trend for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification.

Hourly rate trend for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS Certification over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Top 17 Contract 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 30 April 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 +116 212 £600 +4.80% 380
London +87 140 £600 +4.80% 213
Work from Home +95 121 £575 -4.17% 281
UK excluding London +103 109 £550 -8.33% 189
Scotland +43 39 £550 - 12
North of England +35 24 £708 +18.00% 70
South West +51 14 £619 -1.00% 19
Wales +17 13 £270 -57.98% 7
North West +9 12 £708 +8.92% 47
Midlands +24 10 £500 -23.08% 38
Yorkshire +20 8 £725 +45.00% 20
South East +37 6 £575 +8.49% 29
East Midlands +13 6 £503 -2.43% 11
West Midlands +13 4 £500 -23.08% 27
North East - 4 £475 - 3
East of England +28 2 £525 -12.50% 7
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 - 7

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (6.95%) Confluence
2 14 (4.64%) nginx
3 12 (3.97%) Traefik
4 6 (1.99%) Apache
5 5 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.66%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.66%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.66%) Camunda
6 2 (0.66%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.66%) Exstream
3 1 (0.33%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.33%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.33%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.33%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 302 (100.00%) AWS
2 130 (43.05%) Azure
3 103 (34.11%) Serverless
4 87 (28.81%) AWS Lambda
5 74 (24.50%) Amazon S3
6 60 (19.87%) GCP
7 57 (18.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 57 (18.87%) AWS CloudFormation
8 37 (12.25%) Amazon EC2
9 35 (11.59%) Entra ID
10 34 (11.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 31 (10.26%) Amazon EKS
12 27 (8.94%) GitHub
13 24 (7.95%) Amazon ECS
13 24 (7.95%) AWS Fargate
14 23 (7.62%) PaaS
15 17 (5.63%) SaaS
16 15 (4.97%) AWS CloudTrail
16 15 (4.97%) AWS KMS
17 13 (4.30%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (11.59%) DNS
2 25 (8.28%) VPN
3 20 (6.62%) TCP/IP
4 16 (5.30%) WAN
5 15 (4.97%) Firewall
6 13 (4.30%) DHCP
6 13 (4.30%) LAN
7 8 (2.65%) Network Security
8 5 (1.66%) BGP
8 5 (1.66%) SSL
8 5 (1.66%) VLAN
9 4 (1.32%) OSPF
10 3 (0.99%) DOCSIS
10 3 (0.99%) MPLS
10 3 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.99%) Wireless
11 2 (0.66%) HTTP
11 2 (0.66%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.66%) X.509
12 1 (0.33%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (13.25%) Amazon RDS
2 31 (10.26%) MongoDB
3 27 (8.94%) DynamoDB
4 21 (6.95%) NoSQL
5 16 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (4.97%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (4.97%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (4.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (3.97%) Oracle Database
9 9 (2.98%) Big Data
9 9 (2.98%) Metadata
10 7 (2.32%) Data Lake
10 7 (2.32%) MySQL
10 7 (2.32%) Parquet
10 7 (2.32%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.32%) SQL Server
11 5 (1.66%) Metadata Repository
12 4 (1.32%) Flink
12 4 (1.32%) GIS
12 4 (1.32%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 45 (14.90%) GitLab
2 41 (13.58%) Jenkins
3 26 (8.61%) JIRA
4 25 (8.28%) Git
5 14 (4.64%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.66%) MLflow
7 3 (0.99%) Maven
8 2 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.66%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.66%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.33%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.33%) JMeter
9 1 (0.33%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.33%) Postman
9 1 (0.33%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.33%) Selenium
9 1 (0.33%) WebDriver
General
1 123 (40.73%) Social Skills
2 53 (17.55%) Public Sector
3 52 (17.22%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (12.58%) Finance
5 19 (6.29%) Banking
6 12 (3.97%) Legal
6 12 (3.97%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.66%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.66%) Military
8 4 (1.32%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.99%) Billing
10 2 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.66%) French Language
10 2 (0.66%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.66%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.66%) Retail
Job Titles
1 126 (41.72%) Architect
2 49 (16.23%) Solutions Architect
3 40 (13.25%) Senior
4 38 (12.58%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (11.59%) Developer
6 34 (11.26%) AWS Architect
7 29 (9.60%) DevOps Engineer
8 22 (7.28%) Cloud Architect
9 21 (6.95%) Lead
10 20 (6.62%) Cloud Engineer
11 16 (5.30%) AWS DevOps
11 16 (5.30%) Security Architect
11 16 (5.30%) Senior DevOps
12 13 (4.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 12 (3.97%) Data Engineer
13 12 (3.97%) Technical Architect
14 11 (3.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 10 (3.31%) AWS Developer
15 10 (3.31%) AWS Solution Architect
15 10 (3.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (10.60%) Kafka
2 22 (7.28%) React
3 16 (5.30%) Keycloak
4 15 (4.97%) Spring Boot
5 14 (4.64%) cloud-init
5 14 (4.64%) Spring
6 13 (4.30%) Node.js
7 12 (3.97%) AWS CDK
8 10 (3.31%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (2.98%) .NET
9 9 (2.98%) REST
10 8 (2.65%) JSON
11 7 (2.32%) boto
11 7 (2.32%) OAuth
12 6 (1.99%) AngularJS
12 6 (1.99%) CSS
12 6 (1.99%) GraphQL
12 6 (1.99%) HTML
12 6 (1.99%) NumPy
12 6 (1.99%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 43 (14.24%) Cloud Native
2 30 (9.93%) PKI
3 16 (5.30%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (3.97%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.31%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.98%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.32%) NHS
9 6 (1.99%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.99%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.99%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.32%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.32%) Video\Live Streaming
12 3 (0.99%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.99%) Embedded Systems
12 3 (0.99%) IVR
12 3 (0.99%) Oracle Licensing
12 3 (0.99%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 43 (14.24%) Linux
2 27 (8.94%) Windows
3 18 (5.96%) Unix
4 17 (5.63%) CentOS
5 15 (4.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (4.30%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.66%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (37.42%) DevOps
2 111 (36.75%) CI/CD
3 94 (31.13%) Problem-Solving
4 91 (30.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 73 (24.17%) Computer Science
6 69 (22.85%) Agile
7 64 (21.19%) Containerisation
8 53 (17.55%) Cloud Security
9 48 (15.89%) Migration
10 43 (14.24%) Stakeholder Management
11 41 (13.58%) Microservices
12 37 (12.25%) High Availability
12 37 (12.25%) Roadmaps
13 32 (10.60%) Observability
14 31 (10.26%) Analytics
15 30 (9.93%) Continuous Integration
16 29 (9.60%) Mentoring
17 27 (8.94%) Event-Driven
18 24 (7.95%) Technical Leadership
19 23 (7.62%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 127 (42.05%) Python
2 45 (14.90%) Java
3 34 (11.26%) SQL
4 32 (10.60%) Bash
5 27 (8.94%) JavaScript
6 25 (8.28%) PowerShell
7 18 (5.96%) Go
8 16 (5.30%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.32%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.99%) Ruby
11 4 (1.32%) C#
11 4 (1.32%) PHP
12 3 (0.99%) C
12 3 (0.99%) C++
12 3 (0.99%) Scala
13 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.66%) R
14 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.33%) Groovy
14 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 128 (42.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 98 (32.45%) Security Cleared
3 89 (29.47%) SC Cleared
4 88 (29.14%) Azure Certification
5 81 (26.82%) Degree
6 56 (18.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 35 (11.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (6.95%) AWS Certified Developer
9 16 (5.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 14 (4.64%) CISSP
10 14 (4.64%) Master's Degree
11 13 (4.30%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (4.30%) DV Cleared
12 7 (2.32%) CCNP
12 7 (2.32%) OCP
12 7 (2.32%) Oracle Certification
12 7 (2.32%) PMI Certification
12 7 (2.32%) PMP
12 7 (2.32%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (1.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.93%) QA
2 19 (6.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (5.30%) GDPR
3 16 (5.30%) NCSC
4 13 (4.30%) NIST
5 12 (3.97%) Data Quality
6 8 (2.65%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.66%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.66%) FIPS 140-2
8 2 (0.66%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.66%) SLA
8 2 (0.66%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 48 (15.89%) Docker
2 20 (6.62%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.32%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.32%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.66%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 86 (28.48%) Terraform
2 78 (25.83%) Kubernetes
3 35 (11.59%) Prometheus
4 34 (11.26%) Grafana
5 29 (9.60%) Ansible
6 18 (5.96%) Istio
7 16 (5.30%) linkerd
8 15 (4.97%) Consul
8 15 (4.97%) Packer
9 14 (4.64%) Jamf Pro
9 14 (4.64%) Rancher
9 14 (4.64%) ZABBIX
10 13 (4.30%) HAProxy
11 8 (2.65%) Puppet
12 5 (1.66%) Argo
12 5 (1.66%) Progress Chef
13 4 (1.32%) Oracle RMAN
14 2 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.66%) Data Guard
14 2 (0.66%) Nagios
Vendors
1 78 (25.83%) Microsoft
2 38 (12.58%) Google
3 28 (9.27%) Oracle
4 24 (7.95%) Splunk
5 21 (6.95%) Okta
6 12 (3.97%) Apple
6 12 (3.97%) ESET
7 9 (2.98%) Cisco
7 9 (2.98%) VMware
8 8 (2.65%) Databricks
8 8 (2.65%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.32%) SAP
10 6 (1.99%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.66%) Cloudera
11 5 (1.66%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.32%) Dataiku
12 4 (1.32%) DataRobot
12 4 (1.32%) Palo Alto
13 3 (0.99%) Ping Identity
13 3 (0.99%) Zscaler