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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 261 412
Rank change year-on-year -114 +151 -12
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 280 285 174
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.99% 0.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.81% 3.19% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 207 130
10th Percentile £403 £368 £450
25th Percentile £463 £436 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £541 £561
Median % change year-on-year +1.66% -3.61% +2.05%
75th Percentile £675 £626 £658
90th Percentile £760 £711 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £531 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +1.19% -12.50% +9.09%
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 15,473 8,923 12,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.63% 31.03% 29.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,267 5,624 8,010
10th Percentile £350 £275 £310
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £530
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -1.84% -3.64%
75th Percentile £620 £619 £645
90th Percentile £715 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £534
% change year-on-year - -6.28% +1.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,134 519 1,084
10th Percentile £16.35 £17.86 £13.74
25th Percentile £21.33 £21.39 £18.00
Median hourly rate £48.05 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.85% -18.75% -27.27%
75th Percentile £71.50 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.25 £78.37 £75.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £32.05 £40.94
% change year-on-year +48.21% -21.71% -18.12%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -99 226 £550 - 215
London -86 116 £531 -11.50% 74
UK excluding London -97 111 £531 +1.19% 199
Work from Home -66 76 £575 +9.52% 40
North of England -38 52 £575 -17.86% 58
North West -5 39 £550 -21.43% 26
South East -44 18 £525 +5.00% 41
Midlands -51 18 £436 -13.23% 34
West Midlands -48 16 £438 -20.45% 15
Yorkshire -49 11 £663 +26.19% 24
South West -33 10 £575 -8.00% 21
East of England -21 9 £550 +4.76% 22
Wales -22 3 £250 -7.41% 10
Scotland -41 3 £450 -18.18% 13
North East - 2 £525 - 8
East Midlands -32 1 £447 -3.87% 19

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 (6.79%) Confluence
2 6 (2.14%) Apache
3 4 (1.43%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.71%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.71%) CloudStack
4 2 (0.71%) nginx
4 2 (0.71%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.71%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.71%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.71%) DELMIA
2 2 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 280 (100.00%) AWS
2 146 (52.14%) Azure
3 67 (23.93%) GCP
4 66 (23.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 60 (21.43%) Serverless
6 50 (17.86%) Amazon EKS
6 50 (17.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 43 (15.36%) GitHub
8 41 (14.64%) Amazon S3
9 36 (12.86%) AWS Lambda
10 34 (12.14%) GitHub Actions
11 32 (11.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 32 (11.43%) Amazon ECS
12 29 (10.36%) Amazon EC2
13 25 (8.93%) AWS KMS
14 20 (7.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 20 (7.14%) Route 53
15 17 (6.07%) AWS CloudTrail
15 17 (6.07%) AWS Control Tower
15 17 (6.07%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 40 (14.29%) Firewall
2 17 (6.07%) VPN
3 16 (5.71%) Network Security
4 12 (4.29%) DNS
5 11 (3.93%) WAN
6 8 (2.86%) BGP
7 7 (2.50%) 3GPP
8 6 (2.14%) LAN
8 6 (2.14%) OSPF
8 6 (2.14%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.43%) Internet
9 4 (1.43%) IPv6
9 4 (1.43%) TETRA
10 3 (1.07%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (1.07%) IPv4
10 3 (1.07%) MPLS
10 3 (1.07%) NGFW
10 3 (1.07%) VLAN
10 3 (1.07%) VXLAN
11 2 (0.71%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (12.14%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (8.21%) DynamoDB
3 13 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (4.64%) Power BI
4 12 (4.29%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (3.21%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.86%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.50%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.43%) Big Data
10 4 (1.43%) Metadata
11 3 (1.07%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (1.07%) DataStage
11 3 (1.07%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.07%) DocumentDB
11 3 (1.07%) MySQL
11 3 (1.07%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (13.21%) Jenkins
2 24 (8.57%) GitLab
3 18 (6.43%) JIRA
4 15 (5.36%) Git
5 7 (2.50%) JUnit
5 7 (2.50%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.79%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.79%) DbUnit
6 5 (1.79%) jMock
6 5 (1.79%) Maven
6 5 (1.79%) Mockito
7 4 (1.43%) Snyk
8 3 (1.07%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.07%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (1.07%) MLflow
8 3 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.36%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.36%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.36%) Postman
General
1 93 (33.21%) Social Skills
2 49 (17.50%) Finance
3 45 (16.07%) Public Sector
4 29 (10.36%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.43%) Banking
6 11 (3.93%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.21%) Legal
8 6 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.79%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.07%) Billing
10 3 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.07%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.07%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.71%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.71%) Electronics
12 1 (0.36%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.36%) Law
12 1 (0.36%) Local Government
12 1 (0.36%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 110 (39.29%) Architect
2 35 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 34 (12.14%) AWS Architect
3 34 (12.14%) AWS Engineer
4 30 (10.71%) Cloud Architect
5 26 (9.29%) Cloud Engineer
5 26 (9.29%) Lead
6 25 (8.93%) Security Engineer
7 24 (8.57%) Senior
8 22 (7.86%) Technical Architect
9 19 (6.79%) Solutions Architect
10 17 (6.07%) Developer
11 16 (5.71%) Security Architect
12 13 (4.64%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (3.93%) AWS DevOps
13 11 (3.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.93%) Lead Architect
14 10 (3.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 8 (2.86%) Data Architect
15 8 (2.86%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.43%) REST
2 17 (6.07%) Kafka
3 14 (5.00%) AWS CDK
3 14 (5.00%) OAuth
4 12 (4.29%) Node.js
5 11 (3.93%) OpenID
5 11 (3.93%) Web Services
6 10 (3.57%) OAuth2
6 10 (3.57%) RESTful
6 10 (3.57%) SOAP
7 9 (3.21%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (2.86%) AngularJS
9 7 (2.50%) .NET
9 7 (2.50%) SAML
9 7 (2.50%) Spring
9 7 (2.50%) Spring Boot
10 6 (2.14%) Middleware
11 5 (1.79%) ActiveMQ
11 5 (1.79%) Hibernate
11 5 (1.79%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 83 (29.64%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.21%) Management Information System
3 20 (7.14%) Data Centre
4 16 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (5.36%) Security Posture
6 14 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
7 10 (3.57%) Product Ownership
7 10 (3.57%) Virtual Team
8 9 (3.21%) Public Cloud
9 8 (2.86%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.14%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.43%) e-Learning
12 4 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.07%) Cloud Security Posture
13 3 (1.07%) CMDB
13 3 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (1.07%) NHS
13 3 (1.07%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 54 (19.29%) Linux
2 37 (13.21%) Windows
3 11 (3.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.14%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.79%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.79%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.43%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.43%) VMS
7 3 (1.07%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.71%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (55.71%) CI/CD
2 146 (52.14%) DevOps
3 112 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 75 (26.79%) Agile
5 61 (21.79%) Cloud Security
6 56 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 50 (17.86%) Microservices
8 48 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 47 (16.79%) Migration
10 46 (16.43%) Observability
10 46 (16.43%) Roadmaps
11 41 (14.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 41 (14.64%) DevSecOps
11 41 (14.64%) Technical Leadership
12 38 (13.57%) TOGAF
13 35 (12.50%) Scrum
14 33 (11.79%) Event-Driven
15 31 (11.07%) AI
15 31 (11.07%) Architectural Patterns
15 31 (11.07%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 95 (33.93%) Python
2 54 (19.29%) Java
3 38 (13.57%) Bash
4 35 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 26 (9.29%) SQL
6 18 (6.43%) TypeScript
7 17 (6.07%) JavaScript
8 9 (3.21%) Bicep
9 7 (2.50%) Rust
10 6 (2.14%) Perl
11 5 (1.79%) C#
11 5 (1.79%) Ruby
12 4 (1.43%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.07%) Go
13 3 (1.07%) Groovy
14 2 (0.71%) PHP
14 2 (0.71%) Scala
15 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 113 (40.36%) Security Cleared
2 95 (33.93%) SC Cleared
3 88 (31.43%) Azure Certification
4 84 (30.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 35 (12.50%) CISSP
6 32 (11.43%) Degree
7 26 (9.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 22 (7.86%) Cisco Certification
9 18 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (6.43%) TOGAF Certification
10 17 (6.07%) DV Cleared
11 12 (4.29%) AWS Certified Developer
11 12 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (3.93%) CISM
13 10 (3.57%) CCNP
13 10 (3.57%) PMI Certification
13 10 (3.57%) PMP
14 9 (3.21%) CCNA
14 9 (3.21%) Master's Degree
15 8 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 24 (8.57%) NIST
2 17 (6.07%) NCSC
3 12 (4.29%) GDPR
4 10 (3.57%) QA
5 9 (3.21%) Data Quality
6 6 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.79%) GRC
7 5 (1.79%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.43%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.43%) HL7
8 4 (1.43%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.07%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.71%) DICOM
10 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 2 (0.71%) PSD2
11 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.36%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
System Software
1 72 (25.71%) Docker
2 12 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.79%) Postfix
6 2 (0.71%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.71%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.71%) vSphere
7 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.36%) Squid
7 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 129 (46.07%) Terraform
2 85 (30.36%) Kubernetes
3 28 (10.00%) Ansible
4 25 (8.93%) Grafana
5 23 (8.21%) Prometheus
6 13 (4.64%) Progress Chef
7 7 (2.50%) Argo
8 5 (1.79%) Puppet
9 4 (1.43%) Istio
9 4 (1.43%) linkerd
10 2 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.71%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.71%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.71%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.71%) Packer
10 2 (0.71%) SCCM
11 1 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.36%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.36%) logstash
11 1 (0.36%) Nessus
Vendors
1 41 (14.64%) Microsoft
2 28 (10.00%) Google
3 15 (5.36%) Splunk
4 13 (4.64%) Databricks
5 11 (3.93%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.21%) Cisco
6 9 (3.21%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.86%) Citrix
7 8 (2.86%) Fortinet
8 7 (2.50%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.50%) CrowdStrike
8 7 (2.50%) IBM
8 7 (2.50%) Oracle
8 7 (2.50%) Qualys
8 7 (2.50%) Tenable
9 6 (2.14%) CloudEndure
9 6 (2.14%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.14%) Palo Alto
9 6 (2.14%) VMware
9 6 (2.14%) Zscaler