AWS Certification Contracts

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 431 402 304
Rank change year-on-year -29 -98 +66
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 167 343 803
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.57% 0.90%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.26% 2.10% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 242 496
10th Percentile £450 £426 £450
25th Percentile £500 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% -8.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £688
90th Percentile £763 £759 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £81.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +132.86% -12.50%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

AWS Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,270 16,337 19,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.65% 27.32% 21.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,165 10,899 12,575
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £530 £500
% change year-on-year - +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,067 858 776
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.25 £13.46
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.06 £19.33
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £56.31
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.28 £50.00 £31.89
% change year-on-year -19.45% +56.79% -14.39%

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 27 April 2024.

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
Top 15 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 27 April 2024. 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 +9 149 £573 +4.09% 184
London +38 87 £573 -2.97% 86
Work from Home +20 73 £600 +9.09% 95
UK excluding London +6 60 £600 +9.09% 136
North of England +2 17 £600 +12.68% 35
North West 0 14 £650 +34.09% 17
South East +23 12 £530 +6.00% 12
Midlands +32 10 £650 +18.18% 29
South West -16 8 £625 +8.70% 13
East of England +19 7 £600 +6.67% 5
West Midlands - 7 £650 - 25
Scotland +33 5 £550 -26.67% 22
East Midlands +20 3 £515 -6.36% 4
Yorkshire +6 3 £500 -9.09% 6
Wales - 1 £643 -

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 3 (1.80%) Apache
1 3 (1.80%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.80%) Confluence
2 1 (0.60%) IIS
2 1 (0.60%) nginx
2 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.99%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Maximo
1 1 (0.60%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 167 (100.00%) AWS
2 65 (38.92%) Azure
3 46 (27.54%) Serverless
4 42 (25.15%) AWS Lambda
5 34 (20.36%) Amazon EC2
6 27 (16.17%) Amazon S3
7 25 (14.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 21 (12.57%) GCP
9 18 (10.78%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (10.18%) Entra ID
11 13 (7.78%) GitHub
11 13 (7.78%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (5.99%) Amazon EMR
13 9 (5.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (5.39%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 9 (5.39%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (5.39%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (4.79%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (4.79%) Amazon Kinesis
15 7 (4.19%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.18%) Firewall
1 17 (10.18%) Network Security
2 13 (7.78%) DNS
3 12 (7.19%) VPN
4 9 (5.39%) Cisco ASA
5 8 (4.79%) BGP
5 8 (4.79%) Cisco Nexus
5 8 (4.79%) DHCP
5 8 (4.79%) IPv4
5 8 (4.79%) LAN
5 8 (4.79%) OSPF
6 6 (3.59%) IPv6
6 6 (3.59%) MPLS
6 6 (3.59%) VLAN
6 6 (3.59%) Wireless
7 5 (2.99%) EIGRP
7 5 (2.99%) HSRP
7 5 (2.99%) IPsec
7 5 (2.99%) TACACS
7 5 (2.99%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (19.16%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (11.98%) Data Lake
3 18 (10.78%) Big Data
4 11 (6.59%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (5.99%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (4.19%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (4.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (2.99%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.99%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.40%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.40%) MySQL
9 4 (2.40%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.80%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (1.80%) GIS
10 3 (1.80%) Metadata
11 2 (1.20%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.20%) Sisense
11 2 (1.20%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (8.98%) Git
1 15 (8.98%) Jenkins
2 11 (6.59%) GitLab
3 4 (2.40%) JIRA
4 3 (1.80%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.20%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.20%) Postman
5 2 (1.20%) TestCafe
6 1 (0.60%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.60%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.60%) Terragrunt
General
1 35 (20.96%) Finance
2 33 (19.76%) Social Skills
3 13 (7.78%) Public Sector
4 10 (5.99%) Marketing
4 10 (5.99%) Telecoms
5 9 (5.39%) Banking
5 9 (5.39%) Manufacturing
5 9 (5.39%) Retail
6 7 (4.19%) Electronics
7 6 (3.59%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.60%) French Language
8 1 (0.60%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.60%) Military
8 1 (0.60%) Spanish Language
8 1 (0.60%) Swedish Language
8 1 (0.60%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 51 (30.54%) Architect
2 40 (23.95%) AWS Engineer
3 26 (15.57%) Cloud Architect
4 25 (14.97%) AWS Architect
4 25 (14.97%) DevOps Engineer
5 24 (14.37%) Solutions Architect
6 23 (13.77%) Senior
7 21 (12.57%) Cloud Engineer
8 18 (10.78%) AWS DevOps
9 16 (9.58%) Lead
10 14 (8.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 14 (8.38%) Data Engineer
11 13 (7.78%) Cloud Solutions Architect
12 12 (7.19%) Principal Architect
12 12 (7.19%) Principal Solutions Architect
13 10 (5.99%) AWS Data Engineer
13 10 (5.99%) Consultant
14 8 (4.79%) AWS Consultant
14 8 (4.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (4.79%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.99%) React
2 9 (5.39%) GraphQL
3 6 (3.59%) OAuth
3 6 (3.59%) SAML
4 5 (2.99%) .NET
4 5 (2.99%) 802.1X
4 5 (2.99%) AWS CDK
4 5 (2.99%) OAuth2
5 4 (2.40%) Node.js
5 4 (2.40%) REST
6 3 (1.80%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.80%) JDBC
6 3 (1.80%) ODBC
7 2 (1.20%) JSON
7 2 (1.20%) Kafka
7 2 (1.20%) LDAP
7 2 (1.20%) PySpark
7 2 (1.20%) SQLAlchemy
7 2 (1.20%) YAML
8 1 (0.60%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.79%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (2.40%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.40%) PKI
3 4 (2.40%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.40%) Security Posture
4 3 (1.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (1.80%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.80%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.20%) Clustering
5 2 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.20%) Life Science
5 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.20%) Replication
5 2 (1.20%) Video on Demand
6 1 (0.60%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.60%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.60%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 32 (19.16%) Linux
2 22 (13.17%) Windows
3 3 (1.80%) Unix
4 2 (1.20%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.60%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (35.33%) DevOps
2 42 (25.15%) CI/CD
3 37 (22.16%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (18.56%) Containerisation
5 29 (17.37%) Agile
6 21 (12.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (11.98%) Cybersecurity
8 19 (11.38%) SDLC
8 19 (11.38%) Service Management
9 18 (10.78%) Scrum
10 17 (10.18%) Data Modelling
11 16 (9.58%) ITIL
11 16 (9.58%) Machine Learning
12 15 (8.98%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 14 (8.38%) Data Governance
13 14 (8.38%) Technical Architecture
14 13 (7.78%) Capacity Planning
15 12 (7.19%) Cloud Security
16 11 (6.59%) Data Pipeline
17 10 (5.99%) Cloud Operations
Programming Languages
1 62 (37.13%) Python
2 21 (12.57%) Bash
3 19 (11.38%) PowerShell
4 13 (7.78%) SQL
5 9 (5.39%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.99%) Java
7 3 (1.80%) C#
7 3 (1.80%) Ruby
7 3 (1.80%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.20%) VB
9 1 (0.60%) Groovy
9 1 (0.60%) PHP
9 1 (0.60%) Scala
9 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (26.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 32 (19.16%) Azure Certification
2 32 (19.16%) Security Cleared
3 28 (16.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 28 (16.77%) SC Cleared
4 20 (11.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 17 (10.18%) DV Cleared
6 10 (5.99%) Degree
7 8 (4.79%) CCNA
7 8 (4.79%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (4.19%) CISSP
8 7 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (4.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (3.59%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (3.59%) CCNP
10 4 (2.40%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (1.80%) CISM
12 2 (1.20%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.60%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.80%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.20%) NIST
3 1 (0.60%) GDPR
3 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (23.95%) Docker
2 20 (11.98%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.59%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.20%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.60%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.60%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 66 (39.52%) Terraform
2 44 (26.35%) Kubernetes
3 23 (13.77%) Ansible
4 18 (10.78%) Puppet
5 5 (2.99%) SolarWinds Orion
6 3 (1.80%) Grafana
6 3 (1.80%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.60%) Graylog
8 1 (0.60%) Nagios
8 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.60%) Salt
Vendors
1 29 (17.37%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.58%) Oracle
3 13 (7.78%) Cisco
3 13 (7.78%) Google
3 13 (7.78%) SAP
4 12 (7.19%) Palo Alto
5 8 (4.79%) F5
6 6 (3.59%) VMware
7 5 (2.99%) CheckPoint
7 5 (2.99%) Infoblox
7 5 (2.99%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.80%) Databricks
8 3 (1.80%) ESRI
8 3 (1.80%) Sage
8 3 (1.80%) Splunk
9 2 (1.20%) BiZZdesign
9 2 (1.20%) Facebook
9 2 (1.20%) Instagram
9 2 (1.20%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.20%) Zscaler