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 27 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 316 365
Rank change year-on-year +31 +49 +14
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 348 254 245
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.94% 0.75% 0.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.77% 2.52% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 182 200
10th Percentile £358 £382 £452
25th Percentile £410 £450 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £538 £559
Median % change year-on-year -10.51% -3.80% -2.83%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £675
90th Percentile £744 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £567
% change year-on-year -9.52% -7.41% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £76.00 - -
25th Percentile £82.75 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £58.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +55.17% - -
75th Percentile £96.88 - -
90th Percentile £101.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £90.00 £58.00 -
% change year-on-year +55.17% - -

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 12,543 10,061 13,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.73% 29.91% 29.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,190 6,165 8,250
10th Percentile £313 £301 £300
25th Percentile £416 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £635 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £505 £539
% change year-on-year -0.99% -6.31% +2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,004 484 746
10th Percentile £16.30 £18.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.23 £23.90 £26.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -22.91% +15.31%
75th Percentile £52.52 £66.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £50.39
% change year-on-year -40.82% -15.66% +11.98%

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025. 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 +19 281 £492 -6.29% 605
UK excluding London +6 177 £475 -9.52% 555
London +18 129 £481 -12.55% 143
Work from Home +24 108 £478 -13.09% 200
South East +24 46 £516 -20.58% 130
North of England -68 46 £450 -2.70% 144
Midlands -10 40 £520 +4.00% 99
West Midlands +5 38 £520 +4.00% 57
Scotland +25 30 £405 -22.86% 33
North West -9 23 £420 -34.38% 64
Yorkshire -70 18 £450 - 63
South West -4 12 £631 +5.21% 59
North East -5 5 £466 -1.89% 19
East of England -21 5 £488 -14.29% 69
East Midlands -22 2 £463 -15.14% 41

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 15 (4.31%) Apache Airflow
1 15 (4.31%) Confluence
2 14 (4.02%) Apache
3 12 (3.45%) nginx
4 11 (3.16%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.72%) IIS
5 6 (1.72%) JBoss
5 6 (1.72%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.72%) WebSphere
6 5 (1.44%) iPlanet
6 5 (1.44%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.57%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.57%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.57%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.57%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (2.87%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (0.86%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.29%) DELMIA
1 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.29%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 348 (100.00%) AWS
2 142 (40.80%) Azure
3 83 (23.85%) AWS CloudFormation
4 82 (23.56%) Serverless
5 76 (21.84%) GCP
6 70 (20.11%) Amazon S3
7 66 (18.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 64 (18.39%) AWS Lambda
9 52 (14.94%) Amazon ECS
10 50 (14.37%) GitHub
11 49 (14.08%) Amazon EKS
12 44 (12.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 43 (12.36%) Amazon EC2
14 35 (10.06%) GitHub Actions
15 31 (8.91%) AWS KMS
16 20 (5.75%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 20 (5.75%) Entra ID
17 19 (5.46%) Route 53
18 17 (4.89%) Snowflake
19 16 (4.60%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 52 (14.94%) Firewall
2 25 (7.18%) DNS
3 16 (4.60%) Network Security
4 14 (4.02%) LAN
5 13 (3.74%) HTTP
5 13 (3.74%) VPN
5 13 (3.74%) WAN
6 11 (3.16%) BGP
7 10 (2.87%) FTP
7 10 (2.87%) IMAP
7 10 (2.87%) MPLS
7 10 (2.87%) OpenLDAP
7 10 (2.87%) OSPF
7 10 (2.87%) SMTP
7 10 (2.87%) SSH
8 9 (2.59%) DHCP
8 9 (2.59%) SNMP
8 9 (2.59%) Wireless
9 6 (1.72%) TACACS
9 6 (1.72%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (17.24%) Amazon RDS
2 42 (12.07%) NoSQL
3 31 (8.91%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (8.62%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (8.05%) Amazon Redshift
6 21 (6.03%) Amazon Athena
7 17 (4.89%) Amazon Aurora
7 17 (4.89%) DynamoDB
8 14 (4.02%) Relational Database
9 13 (3.74%) MySQL
10 11 (3.16%) Amazon QuickSight
10 11 (3.16%) Oracle Database
11 9 (2.59%) DataStage
11 9 (2.59%) Tableau
12 8 (2.30%) Data Lake
12 8 (2.30%) Power BI
13 6 (1.72%) MongoDB
13 6 (1.72%) SQL Server
14 5 (1.44%) Metadata
14 5 (1.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 82 (23.56%) Jenkins
2 54 (15.52%) GitLab
3 52 (14.94%) Git
4 37 (10.63%) JIRA
5 16 (4.60%) Bitbucket
6 14 (4.02%) Liquibase
6 14 (4.02%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (2.87%) Vagrant
8 7 (2.01%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.72%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (1.72%) CA Release Automation
10 5 (1.44%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.44%) MLflow
11 4 (1.15%) Maven
12 2 (0.57%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.57%) Gradle
12 2 (0.57%) JUnit
12 2 (0.57%) Mockito
13 1 (0.29%) JMeter
13 1 (0.29%) LoadRunner
General
1 153 (43.97%) Social Skills
2 102 (29.31%) Finance
3 48 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 45 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (11.78%) Banking
6 16 (4.60%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (3.74%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.59%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.15%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.15%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.86%) Legal
11 3 (0.86%) Marketing
12 2 (0.57%) Aeronautics
12 2 (0.57%) Electronics
12 2 (0.57%) Private Banking
12 2 (0.57%) Publishing
13 1 (0.29%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 106 (30.46%) Architect
2 63 (18.10%) AWS Engineer
3 57 (16.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 40 (11.49%) Senior
5 36 (10.34%) AWS Architect
6 33 (9.48%) Solutions Architect
7 32 (9.20%) Cloud Engineer
8 31 (8.91%) AWS DevOps
9 30 (8.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 26 (7.47%) Platform Engineer
11 23 (6.61%) Data Engineer
12 22 (6.32%) Lead
13 20 (5.75%) Cloud Architect
13 20 (5.75%) Security Architect
14 19 (5.46%) Developer
15 18 (5.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 12 (3.45%) Software Engineer
17 11 (3.16%) AWS Platform Engineer
17 11 (3.16%) Consultant
17 11 (3.16%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (8.33%) Node.js
2 23 (6.61%) RESTful
3 20 (5.75%) Elastic Stack
3 20 (5.75%) REST
4 18 (5.17%) Kafka
5 17 (4.89%) LDAP
6 12 (3.45%) AngularJS
7 9 (2.59%) AWS CDK
7 9 (2.59%) OAuth
8 8 (2.30%) Middleware
8 8 (2.30%) React
8 8 (2.30%) SAML
9 7 (2.01%) OpenID
9 7 (2.01%) XML
10 6 (1.72%) .NET
11 5 (1.44%) PySpark
11 5 (1.44%) SailPoint
11 5 (1.44%) Spring
12 4 (1.15%) Spring Boot
13 3 (0.86%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 63 (18.10%) Cloud Native
2 26 (7.47%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (6.32%) Data Centre
3 22 (6.32%) Public Cloud
4 21 (6.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 18 (5.17%) Replication
6 13 (3.74%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.59%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.30%) Security Posture
9 7 (2.01%) Cloud Security Posture
9 7 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.01%) PKI
10 4 (1.15%) Clustering
10 4 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.15%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.15%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.86%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.86%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 71 (20.40%) Linux
2 38 (10.92%) Windows
3 20 (5.75%) Windows Server
4 14 (4.02%) Ubuntu
5 13 (3.74%) Unix
6 12 (3.45%) VMS
7 10 (2.87%) Amazon Linux
8 4 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.86%) CentOS
10 1 (0.29%) Solaris
10 1 (0.29%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (49.14%) CI/CD
2 154 (44.25%) DevOps
3 136 (39.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 95 (27.30%) Containerisation
5 84 (24.14%) Agile
6 72 (20.69%) Cloud Security
7 70 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
8 62 (17.82%) Microservices
9 61 (17.53%) Migration
10 48 (13.79%) TOGAF
11 47 (13.51%) Mentoring
12 46 (13.22%) Incident Response
12 46 (13.22%) Roadmaps
13 44 (12.64%) DevSecOps
13 44 (12.64%) High Availability
14 41 (11.78%) Computer Science
14 41 (11.78%) Cybersecurity
15 38 (10.92%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (10.34%) Data Modelling
17 35 (10.06%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 145 (41.67%) Python
2 68 (19.54%) Java
3 63 (18.10%) SQL
4 44 (12.64%) PowerShell
5 37 (10.63%) Bash
6 18 (5.17%) Go
6 18 (5.17%) Groovy
7 13 (3.74%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.16%) Perl
8 11 (3.16%) Ruby
8 11 (3.16%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.01%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.72%) Scala
11 5 (1.44%) C#
12 3 (0.86%) PHP
13 2 (0.57%) Bicep
14 1 (0.29%) Korn
Qualifications
1 116 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 103 (29.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 98 (28.16%) Azure Certification
4 97 (27.87%) SC Cleared
5 65 (18.68%) Degree
6 35 (10.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 29 (8.33%) CISSP
8 25 (7.18%) Cisco Certification
9 21 (6.03%) Master's Degree
10 20 (5.75%) TOGAF Certification
11 18 (5.17%) Microsoft Certification
12 17 (4.89%) AWS Certified Developer
13 14 (4.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 14 (4.02%) CCSP
14 10 (2.87%) CCIE
15 9 (2.59%) JNCIE
16 8 (2.30%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 6 (1.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 6 (1.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (12.64%) GDPR
2 39 (11.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (8.91%) NIST
4 21 (6.03%) Data Quality
5 18 (5.17%) PCI DSS
6 17 (4.89%) QA
7 13 (3.74%) NCSC
8 8 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (2.30%) PSD2
9 7 (2.01%) HIPAA
9 7 (2.01%) SOC 2
10 4 (1.15%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.57%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.29%) DICOM
12 1 (0.29%) HL7
12 1 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 106 (30.46%) Docker
2 22 (6.32%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.87%) DFS Replication
4 10 (2.87%) Dovecot
4 10 (2.87%) Postfix
4 10 (2.87%) Squid
4 10 (2.87%) VMware NSX
5 8 (2.30%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.30%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.86%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 163 (46.84%) Terraform
2 112 (32.18%) Kubernetes
3 66 (18.97%) Ansible
4 49 (14.08%) Prometheus
5 41 (11.78%) Grafana
6 10 (2.87%) Nessus
6 10 (2.87%) Proxmox
7 6 (1.72%) Argo
7 6 (1.72%) CA Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.72%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.44%) CA Wily
8 5 (1.44%) Puppet
8 5 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.86%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.86%) Nagios
9 3 (0.86%) Tivoli
10 2 (0.57%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.29%) CASB
11 1 (0.29%) Kibana
11 1 (0.29%) Packer
Vendors
1 47 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 34 (9.77%) Oracle
3 28 (8.05%) Splunk
4 25 (7.18%) VMware
5 21 (6.03%) Google
6 18 (5.17%) Cisco
7 16 (4.60%) IBM
8 13 (3.74%) ServiceNow
9 12 (3.45%) Databricks
9 12 (3.45%) Fortinet
10 10 (2.87%) Dynatrace
10 10 (2.87%) F5
10 10 (2.87%) Jaspersoft
11 9 (2.59%) AppDynamics
11 9 (2.59%) Juniper
12 8 (2.30%) Citrix
12 8 (2.30%) Palo Alto
13 7 (2.01%) CloudEndure
14 6 (1.72%) SAP
14 6 (1.72%) Tenable