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 January 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
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
9,739
15,265
18,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK
22.73%
21.34%
19.25%
Number of daily rates quoted
6,374
9,844
11,587
Median daily rate
£475
£463
£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.70%
+2.78%
+5.49%
10th Percentile
£276
£256
£256
90th Percentile
£650
£638
£625
UK excluding London median daily rate
£450
£450
£425
% change year-on-year
-
+5.88%
+6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted
508
633
844
Median hourly rate
£40.00
£32.00
£26.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00%
+20.75%
+12.77%
10th Percentile
£15.00
£14.00
£12.50
90th Percentile
£64.50
£57.50
£51.00
Median hourly rate
£37.91
£27.50
£26.50
% change year-on-year
+37.86%
+3.77%
+6.00%
AWS Certification Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing AWS Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
AWS Certification Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification.
AWS Certification Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification over the 6 months to 27 January 2021.
AWS Certification Top 16 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 January 2021. 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
For the 6 months to 27 January 2021, IT contractor jobs citing AWS Certification also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for AWS Certification.
AWS Certification Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
