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 7 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 235 413
Rank change year-on-year -119 +178 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 294 309 166
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 1.06% 0.38%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.92% 3.43% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 222 123
10th Percentile £400 £368 £451
25th Percentile £458 £458 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £649 £694
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 15,304 9,016 13,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.09% 30.78% 30.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,172 5,686 8,192
10th Percentile £345 £286 £300
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £708 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,101 515 1,079
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.13 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.25 £21.59 £17.88
Median hourly rate £47.50 £40.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% - -25.93%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.68 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.25 £79.48 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £40.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year +18.75% -2.30% -17.66%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -94 233 £550 -8.33% 274
UK excluding London -94 119 £544 -1.14% 241
London -85 118 £525 -12.50% 88
Work from Home -69 81 £565 -1.74% 88
North of England -35 45 £581 -17.94% 69
North West -15 34 £575 -18.79% 30
South East -27 26 £525 +5.00% 53
Midlands -66 19 £500 - 37
West Midlands -47 17 £500 - 15
East of England -26 9 £550 +4.76% 22
Scotland -28 9 £380 -30.91% 19
South West -36 9 £644 +4.04% 31
Yorkshire -51 8 £669 -7.76% 26
North East -17 3 £575 +21.05% 13
Wales -24 3 £250 -7.41% 10
East Midlands -37 1 £447 -3.87% 22

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 18 (6.12%) Confluence
2 7 (2.38%) Apache
3 6 (2.04%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.70%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.68%) nginx
6 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.68%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.68%) DELMIA
2 2 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 294 (100.00%) AWS
2 148 (50.34%) Azure
3 80 (27.21%) AWS CloudFormation
4 65 (22.11%) Serverless
5 63 (21.43%) GCP
6 56 (19.05%) Amazon EKS
7 54 (18.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 47 (15.99%) Amazon S3
9 46 (15.65%) GitHub
10 43 (14.63%) AWS Lambda
11 37 (12.59%) Amazon ECS
12 36 (12.24%) GitHub Actions
13 32 (10.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 29 (9.86%) Amazon EC2
15 27 (9.18%) AWS KMS
16 20 (6.80%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 18 (6.12%) AWS CodePipeline
18 17 (5.78%) Route 53
19 15 (5.10%) AWS CloudTrail
20 14 (4.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 36 (12.24%) Firewall
2 19 (6.46%) Network Security
3 17 (5.78%) VPN
4 16 (5.44%) DNS
5 10 (3.40%) WAN
6 7 (2.38%) 3GPP
6 7 (2.38%) BGP
7 6 (2.04%) DHCP
8 5 (1.70%) LAN
8 5 (1.70%) OSPF
8 5 (1.70%) SD-WAN
8 5 (1.70%) TCP/IP
9 4 (1.36%) IPv6
9 4 (1.36%) TETRA
10 3 (1.02%) IPv4
10 3 (1.02%) VLAN
11 2 (0.68%) IPsec
11 2 (0.68%) PCoIP
11 2 (0.68%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (0.68%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (13.27%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (7.48%) DynamoDB
3 13 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
4 12 (4.08%) Power BI
5 11 (3.74%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (3.40%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (3.06%) NoSQL
7 9 (3.06%) Relational Database
8 8 (2.72%) Data Lake
9 7 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (2.38%) MySQL
10 6 (2.04%) Delta Lake
11 5 (1.70%) Metadata
12 4 (1.36%) Big Data
12 4 (1.36%) DataStage
13 3 (1.02%) Amazon QuickSight
13 3 (1.02%) DocumentDB
13 3 (1.02%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 40 (13.61%) Jenkins
2 34 (11.56%) GitLab
3 20 (6.80%) JIRA
4 17 (5.78%) Git
5 8 (2.72%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.04%) JUnit
6 6 (2.04%) MLflow
6 6 (2.04%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.70%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.36%) DbUnit
8 4 (1.36%) jMock
8 4 (1.36%) Maven
8 4 (1.36%) Mockito
8 4 (1.36%) Snyk
9 2 (0.68%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.68%) Bitbucket Server
10 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.34%) JMeter
10 1 (0.34%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.34%) Selenium
General
1 101 (34.35%) Social Skills
2 59 (20.07%) Finance
3 43 (14.63%) Public Sector
4 26 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.80%) Banking
6 15 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (4.08%) Legal
8 10 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.38%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.70%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.70%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.36%) Electronics
13 2 (0.68%) Aeronautics
13 2 (0.68%) Billing
13 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.68%) Marketing
14 1 (0.34%) Dutch Language
14 1 (0.34%) French Language
Job Titles
1 109 (37.07%) Architect
2 39 (13.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 37 (12.59%) AWS Engineer
4 33 (11.22%) AWS Architect
5 30 (10.20%) Cloud Architect
6 29 (9.86%) Senior
7 27 (9.18%) Lead
8 26 (8.84%) Cloud Engineer
9 21 (7.14%) Security Engineer
9 21 (7.14%) Technical Architect
10 20 (6.80%) Solutions Architect
11 18 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
12 15 (5.10%) Developer
12 15 (5.10%) Security Architect
13 13 (4.42%) AWS DevOps
13 13 (4.42%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 12 (4.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 12 (4.08%) Data Engineer
15 11 (3.74%) Lead Architect
16 8 (2.72%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.46%) Kafka
2 15 (5.10%) REST
3 13 (4.42%) AWS CDK
3 13 (4.42%) Node.js
4 11 (3.74%) RESTful
5 9 (3.06%) Web Services
6 7 (2.38%) AngularJS
6 7 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (2.38%) OAuth
6 7 (2.38%) OAuth2
6 7 (2.38%) SOAP
7 6 (2.04%) Middleware
7 6 (2.04%) OpenID
7 6 (2.04%) Spring
7 6 (2.04%) Spring Boot
8 5 (1.70%) .NET
8 5 (1.70%) boto
8 5 (1.70%) React
8 5 (1.70%) XML
9 4 (1.36%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 83 (28.23%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.46%) Data Centre
3 16 (5.44%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.10%) Management Information System
5 13 (4.42%) Enterprise Cloud
5 13 (4.42%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (4.42%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.40%) Virtual Team
7 9 (3.06%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.38%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.04%) PKI
9 6 (2.04%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.70%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.36%) e-Learning
11 4 (1.36%) Replication
12 3 (1.02%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.02%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 51 (17.35%) Linux
2 34 (11.56%) Windows
3 5 (1.70%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.36%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.36%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.36%) VMS
5 3 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.68%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 138 (46.94%) DevOps
3 131 (44.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 82 (27.89%) Agile
5 71 (24.15%) Containerisation
6 57 (19.39%) Cloud Security
7 54 (18.37%) DevSecOps
8 53 (18.03%) Migration
9 52 (17.69%) Microservices
10 45 (15.31%) Observability
10 45 (15.31%) Roadmaps
11 44 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
12 41 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
13 39 (13.27%) TOGAF
14 37 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
15 35 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
16 32 (10.88%) Cybersecurity
16 32 (10.88%) Event-Driven
16 32 (10.88%) Mentoring
17 31 (10.54%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 101 (34.35%) Python
2 56 (19.05%) Java
3 37 (12.59%) Bash
4 30 (10.20%) PowerShell
5 27 (9.18%) SQL
6 19 (6.46%) JavaScript
7 18 (6.12%) TypeScript
8 8 (2.72%) Perl
8 8 (2.72%) Ruby
9 7 (2.38%) Bicep
9 7 (2.38%) Rust
10 6 (2.04%) C#
11 4 (1.36%) Go
11 4 (1.36%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.02%) PHP
12 3 (1.02%) Scala
13 2 (0.68%) Groovy
14 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 127 (43.20%) Security Cleared
2 106 (36.05%) SC Cleared
3 94 (31.97%) Azure Certification
4 93 (31.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 30 (10.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 28 (9.52%) Degree
7 26 (8.84%) CISSP
8 24 (8.16%) TOGAF Certification
9 19 (6.46%) Cisco Certification
9 19 (6.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (6.12%) DV Cleared
11 11 (3.74%) AWS Certified Developer
11 11 (3.74%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (3.06%) CCNA
12 9 (3.06%) Master's Degree
12 9 (3.06%) PMI Certification
12 9 (3.06%) PMP
13 7 (2.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (2.38%) CCNP
13 7 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (8.16%) NIST
3 15 (5.10%) GDPR
4 13 (4.42%) Data Quality
4 13 (4.42%) NCSC
5 11 (3.74%) QA
6 8 (2.72%) PCI DSS
7 6 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.36%) GRC
9 3 (1.02%) HL7
9 3 (1.02%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.68%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.68%) DICOM
10 2 (0.68%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 2 (0.68%) PSD2
10 2 (0.68%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 77 (26.19%) Docker
2 15 (5.10%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.72%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.72%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.36%) Postfix
6 2 (0.68%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.68%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 137 (46.60%) Terraform
2 94 (31.97%) Kubernetes
3 31 (10.54%) Ansible
4 23 (7.82%) Grafana
4 23 (7.82%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.72%) Argo
6 7 (2.38%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.36%) linkerd
7 4 (1.36%) Puppet
8 3 (1.02%) Istio
8 3 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.68%) CASB
9 2 (0.68%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.68%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.68%) Packer
9 2 (0.68%) SCCM
10 1 (0.34%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.34%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.34%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.34%) Nessus
Vendors
1 39 (13.27%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.78%) Google
3 16 (5.44%) Databricks
4 15 (5.10%) VMware
5 14 (4.76%) Splunk
6 13 (4.42%) Oracle
7 11 (3.74%) Cisco
8 8 (2.72%) Dynatrace
8 8 (2.72%) IBM
8 8 (2.72%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.38%) Citrix
10 6 (2.04%) Atlassian
10 6 (2.04%) CloudEndure
10 6 (2.04%) Fortinet
10 6 (2.04%) SAP
10 6 (2.04%) Zscaler
11 4 (1.36%) BeyondTrust
11 4 (1.36%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (1.36%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.36%) Tenable