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 4 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 269 348
Rank change year-on-year -93 +79 +63
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 353 307 232
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.95% 0.61%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.09% 3.05% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 212 167
10th Percentile £413 £363 £388
25th Percentile £475 £437 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £504 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.14% -8.41% -4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £628 £638
90th Percentile £800 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £70.24 £39.00 -
25th Percentile £76.83 £45.00 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £55.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.55% -5.17% -28.83%
75th Percentile £100.63 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £104.80 £91.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.50 - £58.00

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 16,856 10,071 11,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.42% 31.17% 29.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,303 6,240 7,066
10th Percentile £350 £300 £313
25th Percentile £438 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £629 £622 £638
90th Percentile £715 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,260 801 703
10th Percentile £17.39 £18.13 £15.75
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £22.54
Median hourly rate £47.54 £25.15 £48.56
Median % change year-on-year +89.03% -48.21% -11.71%
75th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £67.78
90th Percentile £87.02 £71.45 £76.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £51.72
% change year-on-year +88.87% -51.37% +3.44%

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 4 September 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 4 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Top 15 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 4 September 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 -53 311 £575 +9.52% 856
UK excluding London -65 160 £575 +15.00% 647
London -73 158 £550 -4.35% 438
Work from Home -59 115 £578 +10.10% 545
North of England -47 59 £563 +25.00% 161
North West -21 40 £518 +15.14% 84
South East -62 39 £575 +15.00% 83
Midlands -43 25 £444 -11.25% 93
South West -34 24 £800 +28.00% 118
West Midlands -42 23 £470 -6.05% 67
Yorkshire -40 16 £663 +47.22% 32
Scotland -36 9 £475 -5.00% 88
East of England -13 8 £600 +14.29% 33
North East -34 4 £500 - 46
East Midlands -22 1 £400 -18.03% 26

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 23 (6.52%) Confluence
2 10 (2.83%) Apache
3 4 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.13%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.85%) CloudStack
4 3 (0.85%) nginx
4 3 (0.85%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (0.85%) SAS
5 2 (0.57%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.28%) CIMPLICITY
6 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.28%) Predix
Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.28%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.42%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.28%) Actimize
3 1 (0.28%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.28%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.28%) Maximo
3 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 353 (100.00%) AWS
2 201 (56.94%) Azure
3 92 (26.06%) GCP
4 81 (22.95%) Amazon S3
5 76 (21.53%) Serverless
6 68 (19.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 60 (17.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 60 (17.00%) AWS Lambda
8 59 (16.71%) Amazon EC2
9 57 (16.15%) Amazon EKS
9 57 (16.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 47 (13.31%) GitHub
11 39 (11.05%) Amazon ECS
12 35 (9.92%) GitHub Actions
13 30 (8.50%) AWS KMS
14 28 (7.93%) Azure DevOps
15 23 (6.52%) Power Platform
16 17 (4.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 16 (4.53%) AWS Control Tower
18 15 (4.25%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 52 (14.73%) Firewall
2 29 (8.22%) Network Security
3 23 (6.52%) DNS
4 13 (3.68%) VPN
5 11 (3.12%) TCP/IP
6 10 (2.83%) DHCP
7 9 (2.55%) LAN
8 8 (2.27%) WAN
9 7 (1.98%) VSAN
10 6 (1.70%) SD-WAN
11 5 (1.42%) BGP
11 5 (1.42%) Internet
12 4 (1.13%) 3GPP
12 4 (1.13%) NGFW
12 4 (1.13%) OSPF
12 4 (1.13%) SSH
13 3 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
13 3 (0.85%) PCoIP
13 3 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (14.16%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (6.52%) Power BI
3 22 (6.23%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (5.95%) Amazon Aurora
4 21 (5.95%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (4.82%) DynamoDB
6 15 (4.25%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (3.40%) SQL Server
8 10 (2.83%) Metadata
8 10 (2.83%) MySQL
9 9 (2.55%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.55%) Redis
10 8 (2.27%) Big Data
10 8 (2.27%) MongoDB
10 8 (2.27%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.42%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.13%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.13%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 51 (14.45%) Jenkins
2 47 (13.31%) GitLab
3 30 (8.50%) Git
4 25 (7.08%) JIRA
5 6 (1.70%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.42%) MLflow
7 4 (1.13%) JMeter
7 4 (1.13%) Maven
8 3 (0.85%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.85%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.57%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.57%) DbUnit
9 2 (0.57%) jMock
9 2 (0.57%) JUnit
9 2 (0.57%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.57%) Mockito
9 2 (0.57%) Postman
9 2 (0.57%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.57%) Selenium
9 2 (0.57%) Vagrant
General
1 136 (38.53%) Social Skills
2 78 (22.10%) Public Sector
3 67 (18.98%) Finance
4 41 (11.61%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (6.80%) Banking
6 21 (5.95%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (2.55%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.98%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.70%) Police
10 5 (1.42%) Law
11 4 (1.13%) Billing
11 4 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.13%) Military
12 3 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.85%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.85%) Legal
12 3 (0.85%) Local Government
12 3 (0.85%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 119 (33.71%) Architect
2 44 (12.46%) Cloud Engineer
3 40 (11.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 40 (11.33%) Senior
4 37 (10.48%) Lead
5 31 (8.78%) Security Engineer
6 28 (7.93%) AWS Engineer
7 27 (7.65%) Technical Architect
8 26 (7.37%) AWS Architect
9 25 (7.08%) Cloud Architect
10 23 (6.52%) Security Architect
10 23 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
11 20 (5.67%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (3.97%) Data Engineer
13 13 (3.68%) Consultant
13 13 (3.68%) DBA
14 12 (3.40%) Data Architect
15 11 (3.12%) AWS DevOps
15 11 (3.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 11 (3.12%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (45.89%) Terraform
2 27 (7.65%) REST
3 19 (5.38%) OAuth
4 18 (5.10%) RESTful
5 15 (4.25%) OpenID
6 12 (3.40%) PySpark
6 12 (3.40%) SAML
6 12 (3.40%) Spring Boot
7 11 (3.12%) Node.js
7 11 (3.12%) Spring
8 10 (2.83%) AWS CDK
8 10 (2.83%) Kafka
8 10 (2.83%) OAuth2
9 9 (2.55%) SOAP
10 8 (2.27%) .NET
10 8 (2.27%) ARM Templates
10 8 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (2.27%) Web Services
11 7 (1.98%) LangChain
12 6 (1.70%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 103 (29.18%) Cloud Native
2 33 (9.35%) Security Posture
3 31 (8.78%) Data Centre
3 31 (8.78%) Management Information System
4 28 (7.93%) Hybrid Cloud
5 24 (6.80%) Product Ownership
6 20 (5.67%) Onboarding
7 18 (5.10%) Replication
8 12 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (3.40%) Public Cloud
9 9 (2.55%) Enterprise Cloud
9 9 (2.55%) PKI
10 8 (2.27%) Cloud Security Posture
10 8 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (1.70%) IoT
12 5 (1.42%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.42%) NHS
12 5 (1.42%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.42%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 70 (19.83%) Linux
2 55 (15.58%) Windows
3 27 (7.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (3.40%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.27%) Amazon Linux
5 8 (2.27%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.42%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.42%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.85%) Unix
8 2 (0.57%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.28%) CentOS
9 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (52.97%) CI/CD
2 185 (52.41%) DevOps
3 164 (46.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 119 (33.71%) Agile
5 92 (26.06%) Cloud Security
6 86 (24.36%) Technical Leadership
7 83 (23.51%) Stakeholder Management
8 69 (19.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 67 (18.98%) AI
10 65 (18.41%) Observability
11 64 (18.13%) Microservices
12 63 (17.85%) DevSecOps
13 62 (17.56%) Containerisation
14 61 (17.28%) Migration
14 61 (17.28%) Roadmaps
15 49 (13.88%) Cybersecurity
15 49 (13.88%) Platform Engineering
16 48 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
17 46 (13.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 44 (12.46%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 136 (38.53%) Python
2 70 (19.83%) PowerShell
3 68 (19.26%) Bash
4 62 (17.56%) Java
5 42 (11.90%) SQL
6 19 (5.38%) Bicep
7 16 (4.53%) JavaScript
8 12 (3.40%) TypeScript
9 9 (2.55%) Groovy
10 6 (1.70%) Perl
10 6 (1.70%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.42%) Go
12 4 (1.13%) Ruby
12 4 (1.13%) Rust
13 3 (0.85%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.28%) C#
14 1 (0.28%) CQL
14 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 144 (40.79%) Security Cleared
2 125 (35.41%) SC Cleared
3 116 (32.86%) Azure Certification
4 100 (28.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 68 (19.26%) CISSP
6 44 (12.46%) Degree
7 25 (7.08%) CISM
7 25 (7.08%) DV Cleared
8 24 (6.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 23 (6.52%) Cisco Certification
10 22 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 20 (5.67%) Microsoft Certification
12 18 (5.10%) BPSS Clearance
13 17 (4.82%) TOGAF Certification
14 15 (4.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 14 (3.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 12 (3.40%) CCSP
17 11 (3.12%) CCNP
18 9 (2.55%) PMI Certification
18 9 (2.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.78%) NIST
2 28 (7.93%) Data Quality
3 24 (6.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (3.97%) GDPR
4 14 (3.97%) NCSC
4 14 (3.97%) QA
5 8 (2.27%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.13%) GRC
6 4 (1.13%) HL7
6 4 (1.13%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.85%) SLA
8 2 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.57%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.28%) DICOM
9 1 (0.28%) FedRAMP
9 1 (0.28%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 97 (27.48%) Docker
2 27 (7.65%) Active Directory
3 18 (5.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (3.40%) vSphere
5 8 (2.27%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.13%) Postfix
7 3 (0.85%) Squid
8 2 (0.57%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.57%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.57%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.57%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.57%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 102 (28.90%) Kubernetes
2 49 (13.88%) Ansible
3 37 (10.48%) Grafana
4 35 (9.92%) Prometheus
5 29 (8.22%) Progress Chef
6 10 (2.83%) Puppet
7 7 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (1.98%) VxRail
8 6 (1.70%) Istio
9 5 (1.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (1.13%) Argo
11 3 (0.85%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.85%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.85%) QRadar
12 2 (0.57%) Kibana
12 2 (0.57%) linkerd
12 2 (0.57%) Nessus
12 2 (0.57%) Packer
12 2 (0.57%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 72 (20.40%) Microsoft
2 44 (12.46%) Google
3 23 (6.52%) VMware
4 20 (5.67%) Red Hat
5 18 (5.10%) Splunk
6 17 (4.82%) ServiceNow
7 16 (4.53%) Cisco
8 11 (3.12%) Informatica
9 9 (2.55%) Databricks
9 9 (2.55%) Dynatrace
9 9 (2.55%) Palo Alto
10 8 (2.27%) CrowdStrike
11 7 (1.98%) IBM
11 7 (1.98%) Oracle
12 6 (1.70%) Fortinet
13 5 (1.42%) BeyondTrust
13 5 (1.42%) Commvault
13 5 (1.42%) Remedy
13 5 (1.42%) Salesforce
13 5 (1.42%) SAP