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 30 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 256 435
Rank change year-on-year -103 +179 -37
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 303 302 167
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.64% 1.03% 0.38%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.98% 3.36% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 221 129
10th Percentile £388 £375 £450
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% -3.93% +4.09%
75th Percentile £669 £645 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £544 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -1.14% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 0
10th Percentile £72.33 £38.35 -
25th Percentile £84.25 £43.38 -
Median hourly rate £93.75 £53.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.23% - -
75th Percentile £102.69 £77.63 -
90th Percentile £105.73 £91.05 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £93.75 - -

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 15,293 8,987 13,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.41% 30.75% 30.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,167 5,677 8,223
10th Percentile £350 £288 £300
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £707 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £501 £530
% change year-on-year -0.10% -5.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,112 516 1,078
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.13 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.25 £22.00 £17.91
Median hourly rate £47.50 £40.72 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.66% +1.79% -25.93%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.25 £80.34 £75.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.00 £45.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year +4.44% +9.92% -17.37%

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 30 April 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 30 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Top 16 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 30 April 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 -80 241 £550 -8.33% 231
London -60 129 £525 -12.50% 74
UK excluding London -91 119 £544 -1.14% 203
Work from Home -76 82 £548 -4.78% 79
North of England -57 43 £578 -18.36% 51
North West -18 32 £575 -18.79% 22
South East -31 25 £525 -8.70% 53
Midlands -60 19 £500 - 27
West Midlands -46 17 £550 +10.00% 17
Scotland -30 10 £402 -26.91% 10
South West -35 10 £538 -13.13% 26
East of England -31 9 £550 +4.76% 26
Yorkshire -58 7 £675 -6.90% 18
North East -17 4 £525 +10.53% 11
Wales -21 3 £250 -7.41% 8
East Midlands -33 1 £447 -11.04% 10

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 19 (6.27%) Confluence
2 8 (2.64%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.31%) Apache
4 6 (1.98%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.66%) nginx
6 2 (0.66%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.66%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.99%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.66%) DELMIA
2 2 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 303 (100.00%) AWS
2 144 (47.52%) Azure
3 88 (29.04%) AWS CloudFormation
4 70 (23.10%) Serverless
5 63 (20.79%) GCP
6 57 (18.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 56 (18.48%) Amazon EKS
8 49 (16.17%) Amazon S3
9 48 (15.84%) AWS Lambda
10 47 (15.51%) GitHub
11 39 (12.87%) Amazon ECS
12 34 (11.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 34 (11.22%) GitHub Actions
13 31 (10.23%) Amazon EC2
14 28 (9.24%) AWS KMS
15 21 (6.93%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 18 (5.94%) AWS CodePipeline
17 17 (5.61%) AWS Control Tower
17 17 (5.61%) Route 53
18 16 (5.28%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 38 (12.54%) Firewall
2 18 (5.94%) Network Security
3 16 (5.28%) VPN
4 13 (4.29%) DNS
5 10 (3.30%) WAN
6 7 (2.31%) 3GPP
6 7 (2.31%) BGP
7 5 (1.65%) LAN
7 5 (1.65%) OSPF
7 5 (1.65%) SD-WAN
7 5 (1.65%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.32%) DHCP
8 4 (1.32%) IPv6
8 4 (1.32%) TETRA
9 3 (0.99%) IPv4
9 3 (0.99%) VLAN
10 2 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.66%) IPsec
10 2 (0.66%) MPLS
10 2 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (13.53%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (7.26%) DynamoDB
3 15 (4.95%) Power BI
4 14 (4.62%) Amazon Redshift
5 13 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (3.96%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (3.63%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (3.30%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.97%) NoSQL
9 9 (2.97%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (2.31%) MySQL
11 6 (1.98%) Delta Lake
12 5 (1.65%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (1.65%) Metadata
12 5 (1.65%) Tableau
13 4 (1.32%) Big Data
13 4 (1.32%) DataStage
13 4 (1.32%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 42 (13.86%) Jenkins
2 37 (12.21%) GitLab
3 25 (8.25%) JIRA
4 19 (6.27%) Git
5 10 (3.30%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.31%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.98%) JUnit
7 6 (1.98%) MLflow
7 6 (1.98%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.32%) DbUnit
8 4 (1.32%) jMock
8 4 (1.32%) Maven
8 4 (1.32%) Mockito
8 4 (1.32%) Snyk
9 2 (0.66%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.66%) Bitbucket Server
10 1 (0.33%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.33%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.33%) Postman
General
1 106 (34.98%) Social Skills
2 62 (20.46%) Finance
3 45 (14.85%) Public Sector
4 28 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (6.93%) Banking
6 14 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.96%) Legal
8 9 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.31%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.65%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.65%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.32%) Electronics
13 2 (0.66%) Aeronautics
13 2 (0.66%) Billing
13 2 (0.66%) Marketing
14 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.33%) Local Government
14 1 (0.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 110 (36.30%) Architect
2 44 (14.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 41 (13.53%) AWS Engineer
4 35 (11.55%) AWS Architect
5 30 (9.90%) Cloud Architect
6 29 (9.57%) Cloud Engineer
7 26 (8.58%) Lead
7 26 (8.58%) Senior
8 21 (6.93%) Solutions Architect
8 21 (6.93%) Technical Architect
9 20 (6.60%) Security Engineer
10 18 (5.94%) Platform Engineer
11 16 (5.28%) AWS DevOps
12 15 (4.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 15 (4.95%) Developer
13 14 (4.62%) Data Engineer
13 14 (4.62%) Security Architect
14 13 (4.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 11 (3.63%) Lead Architect
16 8 (2.64%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.60%) Kafka
2 15 (4.95%) Node.js
3 14 (4.62%) REST
4 13 (4.29%) AWS CDK
5 11 (3.63%) RESTful
6 9 (2.97%) Web Services
7 8 (2.64%) AngularJS
8 7 (2.31%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (2.31%) SOAP
9 6 (1.98%) OAuth
9 6 (1.98%) OAuth2
9 6 (1.98%) React
9 6 (1.98%) Spring
9 6 (1.98%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.65%) .NET
10 5 (1.65%) boto
10 5 (1.65%) Middleware
10 5 (1.65%) OpenID
10 5 (1.65%) XML
11 4 (1.32%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 83 (27.39%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.28%) Data Centre
2 16 (5.28%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.62%) Management Information System
4 13 (4.29%) Enterprise Cloud
4 13 (4.29%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (3.30%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.30%) Virtual Team
7 9 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.98%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.98%) PKI
8 6 (1.98%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.65%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.32%) e-Learning
10 4 (1.32%) Replication
11 3 (0.99%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.99%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 51 (16.83%) Linux
2 32 (10.56%) Windows
3 6 (1.98%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.32%) VMS
5 3 (0.99%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.99%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.66%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (55.45%) CI/CD
2 144 (47.52%) DevOps
3 134 (44.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 85 (28.05%) Agile
5 71 (23.43%) Containerisation
6 56 (18.48%) Cloud Security
7 54 (17.82%) Microservices
7 54 (17.82%) Migration
8 52 (17.16%) DevSecOps
9 45 (14.85%) Observability
10 44 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 42 (13.86%) Roadmaps
12 41 (13.53%) TOGAF
13 40 (13.20%) Stakeholder Management
14 36 (11.88%) Technical Leadership
15 34 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
16 32 (10.56%) Cybersecurity
16 32 (10.56%) Mentoring
17 31 (10.23%) Event-Driven
17 31 (10.23%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 103 (33.99%) Python
2 57 (18.81%) Java
3 35 (11.55%) Bash
4 31 (10.23%) SQL
5 30 (9.90%) PowerShell
6 19 (6.27%) JavaScript
6 19 (6.27%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.30%) Perl
7 10 (3.30%) Ruby
8 7 (2.31%) Bicep
8 7 (2.31%) Rust
9 6 (1.98%) C#
10 4 (1.32%) Go
10 4 (1.32%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.99%) PHP
11 3 (0.99%) Scala
12 2 (0.66%) Groovy
13 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 132 (43.56%) Security Cleared
2 111 (36.63%) SC Cleared
3 95 (31.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 91 (30.03%) Azure Certification
5 30 (9.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 30 (9.90%) Degree
6 25 (8.25%) TOGAF Certification
7 23 (7.59%) CISSP
8 20 (6.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (6.27%) Cisco Certification
10 17 (5.61%) DV Cleared
11 14 (4.62%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (2.97%) CCNA
13 9 (2.97%) Master's Degree
14 8 (2.64%) PMI Certification
14 8 (2.64%) PMP
15 7 (2.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 7 (2.31%) CCNP
15 7 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (7.59%) NIST
3 18 (5.94%) GDPR
4 15 (4.95%) Data Quality
5 12 (3.96%) NCSC
6 11 (3.63%) QA
7 7 (2.31%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.99%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.99%) GRC
9 3 (0.99%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.99%) HL7
9 3 (0.99%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.99%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.66%) DICOM
10 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 2 (0.66%) PSD2
11 1 (0.33%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 79 (26.07%) Docker
2 15 (4.95%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.97%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.98%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.32%) Postfix
6 4 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 142 (46.86%) Terraform
2 97 (32.01%) Kubernetes
3 33 (10.89%) Ansible
4 23 (7.59%) Grafana
4 23 (7.59%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.64%) Argo
6 7 (2.31%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.32%) linkerd
7 4 (1.32%) Puppet
8 3 (0.99%) Istio
8 3 (0.99%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.66%) CASB
9 2 (0.66%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.66%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.33%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.33%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.33%) logstash
10 1 (0.33%) QRadar
10 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.33%) Suricata
Vendors
1 39 (12.87%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.94%) Databricks
2 18 (5.94%) Google
2 18 (5.94%) Oracle
3 14 (4.62%) Splunk
3 14 (4.62%) VMware
4 11 (3.63%) Cisco
5 8 (2.64%) IBM
6 7 (2.31%) Citrix
6 7 (2.31%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.98%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.98%) CloudEndure
7 6 (1.98%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.98%) Fortinet
7 6 (1.98%) SAP
7 6 (1.98%) Zscaler
8 4 (1.32%) AVEVA
8 4 (1.32%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.32%) Qualys
8 4 (1.32%) Tenable