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 15 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 270 405
Rank change year-on-year -89 +135 -7
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 302 294 187
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.99% 0.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.92% 3.21% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 212 139
10th Percentile £401 £400 £400
25th Percentile £451 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.36% - -
75th Percentile £675 £638 £650
90th Percentile £775 £710 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £544 £533 £550
% change year-on-year +2.11% -3.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile £78.75 £40.03 -
25th Percentile £86.63 £47.56 -
Median hourly rate £95.25 £54.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.58% - -
75th Percentile £103.06 £66.44 -
90th Percentile £105.75 £86.58 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.25 - -

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 15,731 9,165 13,077
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.35% 30.95% 29.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,453 5,680 8,081
10th Percentile £350 £275 £310
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,159 588 1,116
10th Percentile £17.08 £17.85 £13.99
25th Percentile £22.63 £21.00 £18.35
Median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -25.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile £72.25 £63.38 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.25 £77.28 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 £28.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +67.75% -31.71% -20.95%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 15 June 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 -71 248 £575 +4.07% 255
London -72 130 £575 - 95
UK excluding London -109 119 £544 +2.11% 214
Work from Home -71 90 £575 +9.52% 61
North of England -42 54 £566 -19.11% 60
North West -13 41 £550 -21.43% 29
South East -49 23 £568 +13.50% 49
Midlands -44 21 £425 -8.60% 30
West Midlands -48 18 £438 -20.45% 15
Yorkshire -47 11 £663 +26.19% 24
South West -32 10 £575 -8.00% 39
East of England -24 8 £550 +4.76% 22
Scotland -52 4 £450 -18.18% 8
Wales -23 3 £250 -42.33% 7
East Midlands -25 2 £424 -7.73% 15
North East -32 2 £525 - 7

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 25 (8.28%) Confluence
2 6 (1.99%) Apache
3 4 (1.32%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.66%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.66%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.66%) nginx
5 2 (0.66%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.66%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.66%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.66%) DELMIA
2 2 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 302 (100.00%) AWS
2 169 (55.96%) Azure
3 74 (24.50%) GCP
4 69 (22.85%) Serverless
5 59 (19.54%) AWS CloudFormation
6 54 (17.88%) Amazon S3
7 51 (16.89%) Amazon EKS
8 49 (16.23%) GitHub
9 47 (15.56%) AWS Lambda
10 45 (14.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 41 (13.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (12.58%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (11.92%) GitHub Actions
14 32 (10.60%) Amazon ECS
15 21 (6.95%) Power Platform
16 19 (6.29%) Route 53
17 18 (5.96%) Azure DevOps
18 16 (5.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 13 (4.30%) AWS CodePipeline
19 13 (4.30%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (12.91%) Firewall
2 20 (6.62%) Network Security
3 15 (4.97%) VPN
4 13 (4.30%) WAN
5 11 (3.64%) DNS
6 8 (2.65%) BGP
6 8 (2.65%) LAN
6 8 (2.65%) SD-WAN
7 7 (2.32%) 3GPP
8 6 (1.99%) OSPF
9 4 (1.32%) Internet
9 4 (1.32%) IPv6
9 4 (1.32%) TETRA
9 4 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.99%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.99%) IPv4
10 3 (0.99%) MPLS
10 3 (0.99%) NGFW
10 3 (0.99%) VLAN
10 3 (0.99%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (11.59%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (6.95%) DynamoDB
2 21 (6.95%) Power BI
3 19 (6.29%) Amazon Redshift
4 14 (4.64%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (3.97%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (2.98%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.65%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.32%) Data Lake
9 7 (2.32%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.66%) Metadata
11 4 (1.32%) Big Data
12 3 (0.99%) Amazon QuickSight
12 3 (0.99%) DataStage
12 3 (0.99%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.99%) DocumentDB
12 3 (0.99%) MySQL
12 3 (0.99%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (13.91%) Jenkins
2 38 (12.58%) GitLab
3 24 (7.95%) Git
3 24 (7.95%) JIRA
4 9 (2.98%) SonarQube
5 7 (2.32%) JUnit
6 5 (1.66%) DbUnit
6 5 (1.66%) jMock
6 5 (1.66%) Maven
6 5 (1.66%) Mockito
6 5 (1.66%) Snyk
7 3 (0.99%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.99%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.99%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (0.99%) MLflow
7 3 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.66%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.66%) JMeter
8 2 (0.66%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.33%) Liquibase
General
1 113 (37.42%) Social Skills
2 49 (16.23%) Finance
3 45 (14.90%) Public Sector
4 32 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.62%) Banking
6 15 (4.97%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.98%) Legal
9 7 (2.32%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.66%) Law
12 3 (0.99%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.99%) Billing
12 3 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.99%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.99%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.99%) Retail
13 2 (0.66%) Electronics
14 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 110 (36.42%) Architect
2 40 (13.25%) AWS Engineer
3 39 (12.91%) DevOps Engineer
4 38 (12.58%) Cloud Engineer
5 33 (10.93%) Senior
6 30 (9.93%) AWS Architect
7 26 (8.61%) Security Engineer
8 25 (8.28%) Technical Architect
9 24 (7.95%) Lead
10 22 (7.28%) Cloud Architect
10 22 (7.28%) Solutions Architect
11 19 (6.29%) Platform Engineer
12 17 (5.63%) Developer
13 16 (5.30%) Security Architect
14 15 (4.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 14 (4.64%) AWS DevOps
15 14 (4.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 14 (4.64%) Data Engineer
16 10 (3.31%) AWS Platform Engineer
17 8 (2.65%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.28%) REST
2 18 (5.96%) OAuth
3 17 (5.63%) Kafka
4 16 (5.30%) AWS CDK
5 15 (4.97%) OpenID
6 12 (3.97%) Node.js
6 12 (3.97%) OAuth2
6 12 (3.97%) Web Services
7 11 (3.64%) RESTful
7 11 (3.64%) SAML
7 11 (3.64%) SOAP
8 9 (2.98%) .NET
8 9 (2.98%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (2.65%) AngularJS
9 8 (2.65%) PySpark
10 7 (2.32%) Spring
10 7 (2.32%) Spring Boot
11 6 (1.99%) LDAP
11 6 (1.99%) Middleware
12 5 (1.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 99 (32.78%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.61%) Data Centre
3 24 (7.95%) Management Information System
4 18 (5.96%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (5.96%) Security Posture
5 17 (5.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 14 (4.64%) Enterprise Cloud
7 12 (3.97%) Onboarding
8 11 (3.64%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.98%) Public Cloud
9 9 (2.98%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.99%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.32%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.32%) e-Learning
11 4 (1.32%) IoT
11 4 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.99%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.99%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 64 (21.19%) Linux
2 44 (14.57%) Windows
3 14 (4.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.99%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.66%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.66%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.66%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.99%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.99%) VMS
7 2 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (0.66%) Unix
8 1 (0.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (57.95%) CI/CD
2 170 (56.29%) DevOps
3 127 (42.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 92 (30.46%) Agile
5 72 (23.84%) Cloud Security
6 65 (21.52%) Containerisation
7 60 (19.87%) Microservices
8 54 (17.88%) Observability
9 53 (17.55%) Stakeholder Management
10 49 (16.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 47 (15.56%) Migration
11 47 (15.56%) Roadmaps
12 45 (14.90%) AI
12 45 (14.90%) Technical Leadership
13 42 (13.91%) DevSecOps
14 41 (13.58%) Event-Driven
15 40 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
16 38 (12.58%) TOGAF
17 37 (12.25%) Machine Learning
17 37 (12.25%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 112 (37.09%) Python
2 61 (20.20%) Java
3 45 (14.90%) Bash
4 43 (14.24%) PowerShell
5 32 (10.60%) SQL
6 19 (6.29%) JavaScript
7 17 (5.63%) TypeScript
8 12 (3.97%) Bicep
9 7 (2.32%) Rust
10 6 (1.99%) Perl
11 5 (1.66%) C#
11 5 (1.66%) Ruby
12 4 (1.32%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.99%) Go
13 3 (0.99%) Groovy
14 2 (0.66%) PHP
14 2 (0.66%) Scala
14 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 121 (40.07%) Security Cleared
2 103 (34.11%) SC Cleared
3 102 (33.77%) Azure Certification
4 84 (27.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 40 (13.25%) CISSP
6 34 (11.26%) Degree
7 29 (9.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 21 (6.95%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (6.95%) DV Cleared
9 20 (6.62%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (6.29%) TOGAF Certification
11 17 (5.63%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (4.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 12 (3.97%) AWS Certified Developer
13 12 (3.97%) CISM
14 11 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (3.31%) CCNP
15 10 (3.31%) PMI Certification
15 10 (3.31%) PMP
16 9 (2.98%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.28%) NIST
2 23 (7.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (5.63%) Data Quality
4 14 (4.64%) GDPR
5 11 (3.64%) NCSC
6 9 (2.98%) QA
7 7 (2.32%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.66%) GRC
9 4 (1.32%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.99%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.99%) HL7
10 3 (0.99%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 2 (0.66%) PSD2
12 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 82 (27.15%) Docker
2 15 (4.97%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.66%) Postfix
5 2 (0.66%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.66%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.66%) vSphere
6 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.33%) Squid
6 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 144 (47.68%) Terraform
2 95 (31.46%) Kubernetes
3 37 (12.25%) Ansible
4 26 (8.61%) Grafana
4 26 (8.61%) Prometheus
5 18 (5.96%) Progress Chef
6 8 (2.65%) Puppet
7 7 (2.32%) Argo
8 4 (1.32%) Istio
8 4 (1.32%) linkerd
9 3 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.66%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.66%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.66%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.66%) Packer
10 2 (0.66%) QRadar
10 2 (0.66%) SCCM
11 1 (0.33%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.33%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 52 (17.22%) Microsoft
2 31 (10.26%) Google
3 16 (5.30%) Splunk
4 13 (4.30%) Databricks
4 13 (4.30%) Red Hat
5 12 (3.97%) ServiceNow
6 11 (3.64%) Cisco
7 8 (2.65%) CrowdStrike
7 8 (2.65%) Fortinet
7 8 (2.65%) Informatica
7 8 (2.65%) VMware
8 7 (2.32%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.32%) IBM
9 6 (1.99%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.99%) Oracle
9 6 (1.99%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.99%) Qualys
9 6 (1.99%) Tenable
9 6 (1.99%) Zscaler
10 5 (1.66%) Jaspersoft