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 30 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 273 320 377
Rank change year-on-year +47 +57 +9
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 353 259 260
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.98% 0.71% 0.57%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.95% 2.43% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 184 211
10th Percentile £351 £381 £453
25th Percentile £410 £427 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £525 £555
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% -5.41% -3.48%
75th Percentile £638 £633 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £475 £567
% change year-on-year +1.42% -16.23% +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 11,956 10,657 13,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.36% 29.39% 29.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,724 6,436 8,517
10th Percentile £305 £309 £300
25th Percentile £413 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £538
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.26% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,015 514 757
10th Percentile £17.50 £19.07 £17.72
25th Percentile £19.38 £24.18 £27.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.71 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.70% -22.05% +18.89%
75th Percentile £48.73 £66.00 £67.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.59 £51.90
% change year-on-year -44.83% -12.16% +15.33%

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 30 November 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 30 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Top 17 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 30 November 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 +16 286 £500 -4.76% 530
UK excluding London +40 184 £482 +1.42% 484
London +39 127 £488 -11.36% 186
Work from Home +33 114 £481 -12.70% 46
North of England -73 48 £450 +4.35% 120
South East +34 46 £500 -23.08% 125
Midlands +5 41 £523 +4.50% 86
West Midlands +12 39 £523 +4.50% 54
Scotland +27 29 £413 -21.43% 28
North West -10 22 £420 -25.00% 69
Yorkshire -66 20 £450 +5.88% 39
South West +10 15 £625 - 34
North East -6 6 £466 -1.89% 15
East of England -14 4 £488 -13.33% 58
East Midlands -16 2 £463 +8.82% 32
Northern Ireland - 2 £975 - 6
Channel Islands - 1 £760 -

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 (4.25%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (3.97%) Apache
2 14 (3.97%) Confluence
3 13 (3.68%) Apache Spark
4 11 (3.12%) nginx
5 6 (1.70%) IIS
5 6 (1.70%) JBoss
5 6 (1.70%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.70%) WebSphere
6 5 (1.42%) CMS
6 5 (1.42%) Headless CMS
6 5 (1.42%) iPlanet
6 5 (1.42%) 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 (2.83%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (0.85%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 353 (100.00%) AWS
2 140 (39.66%) Azure
3 86 (24.36%) Serverless
4 82 (23.23%) Amazon S3
5 81 (22.95%) GCP
6 72 (20.40%) AWS CloudFormation
7 69 (19.55%) AWS Lambda
8 59 (16.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 57 (16.15%) Amazon ECS
10 52 (14.73%) Amazon EKS
11 48 (13.60%) GitHub
12 44 (12.46%) Amazon EC2
13 41 (11.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 28 (7.93%) GitHub Actions
15 22 (6.23%) Route 53
16 19 (5.38%) AWS KMS
17 16 (4.53%) Snowflake
18 15 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
19 14 (3.97%) Datadog
20 13 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 53 (15.01%) Firewall
2 30 (8.50%) DNS
3 15 (4.25%) Network Security
4 13 (3.68%) HTTP
5 12 (3.40%) BGP
5 12 (3.40%) LAN
5 12 (3.40%) WAN
6 11 (3.12%) MPLS
6 11 (3.12%) OSPF
7 10 (2.83%) FTP
7 10 (2.83%) IMAP
7 10 (2.83%) OpenLDAP
7 10 (2.83%) SMTP
7 10 (2.83%) SSH
7 10 (2.83%) VPN
8 9 (2.55%) DHCP
8 9 (2.55%) SNMP
8 9 (2.55%) Wireless
9 6 (1.70%) TACACS
9 6 (1.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (18.13%) Amazon RDS
2 46 (13.03%) NoSQL
3 38 (10.76%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (8.78%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (7.93%) Amazon Redshift
6 25 (7.08%) Amazon Athena
7 21 (5.95%) DynamoDB
8 17 (4.82%) Amazon Aurora
9 14 (3.97%) Relational Database
10 13 (3.68%) Amazon QuickSight
10 13 (3.68%) MySQL
11 11 (3.12%) Oracle Database
12 9 (2.55%) Tableau
13 8 (2.27%) Data Lake
13 8 (2.27%) DataStage
13 8 (2.27%) Metadata
13 8 (2.27%) Power BI
14 6 (1.70%) Big Data
14 6 (1.70%) MongoDB
15 5 (1.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 83 (23.51%) Jenkins
2 68 (19.26%) GitLab
3 56 (15.86%) Git
4 36 (10.20%) JIRA
5 14 (3.97%) Bitbucket
5 14 (3.97%) Liquibase
6 13 (3.68%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (2.83%) Vagrant
8 6 (1.70%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (1.70%) CA Release Automation
8 6 (1.70%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.42%) MLflow
10 4 (1.13%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.13%) Maven
11 2 (0.57%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.57%) Gradle
11 2 (0.57%) JUnit
11 2 (0.57%) Mockito
12 1 (0.28%) Gatling
12 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 161 (45.61%) Social Skills
2 91 (25.78%) Finance
3 47 (13.31%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (12.46%) Public Sector
5 39 (11.05%) Banking
6 16 (4.53%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (4.53%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (3.68%) Financial Institution
8 12 (3.40%) Aerospace
8 12 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.70%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.13%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.13%) Publishing
11 3 (0.85%) Legal
11 3 (0.85%) Marketing
12 2 (0.57%) Aeronautics
12 2 (0.57%) Electronics
12 2 (0.57%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.28%) Billing
Job Titles
1 103 (29.18%) Architect
2 67 (18.98%) AWS Engineer
3 59 (16.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (11.61%) Senior
5 39 (11.05%) Solutions Architect
6 35 (9.92%) AWS Architect
7 33 (9.35%) Cloud Engineer
8 32 (9.07%) AWS DevOps
9 31 (8.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 24 (6.80%) Platform Engineer
11 23 (6.52%) Data Engineer
12 21 (5.95%) Developer
12 21 (5.95%) Lead
13 18 (5.10%) Security Architect
14 17 (4.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 12 (3.40%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 12 (3.40%) AWS Solution Architect
15 12 (3.40%) Designer
15 12 (3.40%) Software Engineer
16 11 (3.12%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.93%) Node.js
2 24 (6.80%) RESTful
3 21 (5.95%) Elastic Stack
4 20 (5.67%) REST
5 18 (5.10%) Kafka
6 17 (4.82%) LDAP
7 14 (3.97%) OAuth
8 13 (3.68%) SAML
9 12 (3.40%) OpenID
10 11 (3.12%) AngularJS
11 10 (2.83%) AWS CDK
12 7 (1.98%) Middleware
12 7 (1.98%) OAuth2
12 7 (1.98%) React
12 7 (1.98%) XML
13 5 (1.42%) .NET
13 5 (1.42%) PySpark
13 5 (1.42%) SailPoint
13 5 (1.42%) Spring
14 4 (1.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 63 (17.85%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.08%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 23 (6.52%) Public Cloud
4 19 (5.38%) Data Centre
5 18 (5.10%) Data Protection Act
5 18 (5.10%) Replication
6 10 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.55%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.27%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.98%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.42%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.42%) PKI
11 4 (1.13%) Clustering
11 4 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (0.85%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.85%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 70 (19.83%) Linux
2 38 (10.76%) Windows
3 20 (5.67%) Windows Server
4 14 (3.97%) Ubuntu
5 13 (3.68%) Unix
6 10 (2.83%) Amazon Linux
6 10 (2.83%) VMS
7 4 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.85%) CentOS
9 1 (0.28%) Solaris
9 1 (0.28%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (45.89%) CI/CD
2 152 (43.06%) DevOps
3 133 (37.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 98 (27.76%) Containerisation
5 90 (25.50%) Agile
6 80 (22.66%) Problem-Solving
7 74 (20.96%) Cloud Security
8 62 (17.56%) Migration
9 61 (17.28%) Microservices
10 59 (16.71%) Mentoring
11 49 (13.88%) TOGAF
12 45 (12.75%) Computer Science
13 43 (12.18%) Cybersecurity
13 43 (12.18%) High Availability
14 42 (11.90%) Incident Response
14 42 (11.90%) Roadmaps
14 42 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
15 39 (11.05%) Data Modelling
16 38 (10.76%) Data Governance
16 38 (10.76%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 148 (41.93%) Python
2 65 (18.41%) Java
3 63 (17.85%) SQL
4 44 (12.46%) PowerShell
5 39 (11.05%) Bash
6 18 (5.10%) Go
6 18 (5.10%) Groovy
7 14 (3.97%) JavaScript
8 10 (2.83%) Perl
8 10 (2.83%) Ruby
8 10 (2.83%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.98%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.42%) Scala
11 4 (1.13%) C#
12 3 (0.85%) PHP
13 2 (0.57%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.28%) Bicep
14 1 (0.28%) Korn
Qualifications
1 109 (30.88%) Security Cleared
2 101 (28.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 98 (27.76%) Azure Certification
4 87 (24.65%) SC Cleared
5 67 (18.98%) Degree
6 38 (10.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (8.50%) CISSP
8 27 (7.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 27 (7.65%) Cisco Certification
9 24 (6.80%) Master's Degree
10 22 (6.23%) TOGAF Certification
11 20 (5.67%) Microsoft Certification
12 17 (4.82%) AWS Certified Developer
13 15 (4.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 13 (3.68%) CCSP
15 11 (3.12%) CCIE
16 9 (2.55%) DV Cleared
16 9 (2.55%) JNCIE
17 8 (2.27%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
18 7 (1.98%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (12.75%) GDPR
2 37 (10.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (7.93%) NIST
4 24 (6.80%) Data Quality
5 19 (5.38%) QA
6 17 (4.82%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.98%) PSD2
8 6 (1.70%) HIPAA
8 6 (1.70%) SOC 2
9 5 (1.42%) NCSC
10 4 (1.13%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.57%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.28%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 112 (31.73%) Docker
2 21 (5.95%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.83%) DFS Replication
4 10 (2.83%) Dovecot
4 10 (2.83%) Postfix
4 10 (2.83%) Squid
4 10 (2.83%) VMware NSX
5 8 (2.27%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.85%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 151 (42.78%) Terraform
2 116 (32.86%) Kubernetes
3 62 (17.56%) Ansible
4 48 (13.60%) Prometheus
5 42 (11.90%) Grafana
6 10 (2.83%) Nessus
6 10 (2.83%) Proxmox
7 7 (1.98%) Puppet
8 6 (1.70%) Argo
8 6 (1.70%) CA Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.70%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.42%) CA Wily
9 5 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.85%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.85%) Nagios
10 3 (0.85%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.28%) CASB
11 1 (0.28%) Control-M
11 1 (0.28%) Kibana
11 1 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 46 (13.03%) Microsoft
2 34 (9.63%) Oracle
3 28 (7.93%) Splunk
4 25 (7.08%) VMware
5 18 (5.10%) Cisco
5 18 (5.10%) Google
5 18 (5.10%) IBM
6 13 (3.68%) ServiceNow
7 11 (3.12%) Fortinet
8 10 (2.83%) Databricks
8 10 (2.83%) F5
8 10 (2.83%) Jaspersoft
9 9 (2.55%) AppDynamics
9 9 (2.55%) Dynatrace
9 9 (2.55%) Juniper
10 8 (2.27%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.70%) Broadcom
11 6 (1.70%) SAP
12 4 (1.13%) EMC
12 4 (1.13%) NetApp