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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 261 411
Rank change year-on-year -108 +150 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 274 287 176
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.00% 0.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.77% 3.23% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 208 131
10th Percentile £400 £368 £450
25th Percentile £463 £436 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £563
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -3.11% +2.27%
75th Percentile £675 £626 £668
90th Percentile £760 £711 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £78.75 £38.35 -
25th Percentile £86.63 £43.38 -
Median hourly rate £95.25 £53.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +78.04% - -
75th Percentile £103.06 £77.63 -
90th Percentile £105.75 £91.05 -
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 15,438 8,898 12,812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.61% 31.06% 29.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,233 5,612 8,001
10th Percentile £350 £275 £310
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £521 £533
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% -2.25% -3.09%
75th Percentile £620 £615 £645
90th Percentile £715 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £534
% change year-on-year - -6.32% +1.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,136 509 1,073
10th Percentile £16.35 £17.87 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.33 £21.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £47.54 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.28% -18.75% -27.27%
75th Percentile £71.50 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.25 £78.46 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £32.50 £40.63
% change year-on-year +46.15% -20.01% -21.10%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -98 222 £550 - 272
London -81 115 £531 -11.50% 105
UK excluding London -93 108 £550 +4.76% 223
Work from Home -91 72 £581 +10.71% 71
North of England -41 50 £578 -17.43% 68
North West -13 37 £554 -21.79% 32
South East -47 18 £525 +5.00% 44
Midlands -55 17 £425 -15.42% 34
West Midlands -49 15 £425 -22.73% 15
Yorkshire -53 11 £663 +26.19% 25
South West -28 10 £575 -7.07% 28
East of England -22 9 £550 +4.76% 22
Wales -25 3 £250 -7.41% 10
Scotland -41 3 £450 -18.18% 16
North East - 2 £525 - 11
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 (6.93%) Confluence
2 6 (2.19%) Apache
3 4 (1.46%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.73%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.73%) CloudStack
4 2 (0.73%) nginx
4 2 (0.73%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.73%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.82%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.73%) DELMIA
2 2 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.73%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 274 (100.00%) AWS
2 142 (51.82%) Azure
3 65 (23.72%) AWS CloudFormation
4 63 (22.99%) GCP
5 59 (21.53%) Serverless
6 47 (17.15%) Amazon EKS
6 47 (17.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 40 (14.60%) Amazon S3
7 40 (14.60%) GitHub
8 35 (12.77%) AWS Lambda
9 31 (11.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 31 (11.31%) GitHub Actions
10 30 (10.95%) Amazon ECS
11 28 (10.22%) Amazon EC2
12 25 (9.12%) AWS KMS
13 20 (7.30%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 17 (6.20%) AWS CloudTrail
14 17 (6.20%) Entra ID
14 17 (6.20%) Route 53
15 16 (5.84%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 38 (13.87%) Firewall
2 17 (6.20%) VPN
3 16 (5.84%) Network Security
4 12 (4.38%) DNS
5 11 (4.01%) WAN
6 8 (2.92%) BGP
7 7 (2.55%) 3GPP
8 6 (2.19%) LAN
8 6 (2.19%) OSPF
8 6 (2.19%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.46%) Internet
9 4 (1.46%) IPv6
9 4 (1.46%) TETRA
10 3 (1.09%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (1.09%) IPv4
10 3 (1.09%) MPLS
10 3 (1.09%) VLAN
10 3 (1.09%) VXLAN
11 2 (0.73%) DHCP
11 2 (0.73%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.04%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (8.39%) DynamoDB
3 13 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (4.38%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (4.38%) Power BI
5 10 (3.65%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (3.28%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.92%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.55%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.46%) Big Data
10 4 (1.46%) Metadata
11 3 (1.09%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (1.09%) DataStage
11 3 (1.09%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.09%) DocumentDB
11 3 (1.09%) MySQL
11 3 (1.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (13.14%) Jenkins
2 23 (8.39%) GitLab
3 18 (6.57%) JIRA
4 15 (5.47%) Git
5 7 (2.55%) JUnit
6 6 (2.19%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.82%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.82%) DbUnit
7 5 (1.82%) jMock
7 5 (1.82%) Maven
7 5 (1.82%) Mockito
8 4 (1.46%) Snyk
9 3 (1.09%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (1.09%) MLflow
10 2 (0.73%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.36%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.36%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.36%) Selenium
General
1 91 (33.21%) Social Skills
2 46 (16.79%) Finance
3 44 (16.06%) Public Sector
4 28 (10.22%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.57%) Banking
6 11 (4.01%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.28%) Legal
8 6 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.82%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.09%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.09%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.73%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.73%) Billing
11 2 (0.73%) Electronics
12 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.36%) Law
12 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.36%) Police
Job Titles
1 107 (39.05%) Architect
2 34 (12.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 33 (12.04%) AWS Engineer
4 32 (11.68%) AWS Architect
5 29 (10.58%) Cloud Architect
6 26 (9.49%) Cloud Engineer
7 25 (9.12%) Lead
8 23 (8.39%) Security Engineer
8 23 (8.39%) Senior
9 20 (7.30%) Technical Architect
10 19 (6.93%) Solutions Architect
11 17 (6.20%) Developer
12 16 (5.84%) Security Architect
13 13 (4.74%) Platform Engineer
14 11 (4.01%) Lead Architect
15 10 (3.65%) AWS DevOps
15 10 (3.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 10 (3.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 8 (2.92%) Data Architect
16 8 (2.92%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.57%) REST
2 17 (6.20%) Kafka
3 13 (4.74%) AWS CDK
4 12 (4.38%) Node.js
4 12 (4.38%) OAuth
5 11 (4.01%) Web Services
6 10 (3.65%) RESTful
6 10 (3.65%) SOAP
7 9 (3.28%) OpenID
8 8 (2.92%) AngularJS
8 8 (2.92%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (2.92%) OAuth2
9 7 (2.55%) .NET
9 7 (2.55%) Spring
9 7 (2.55%) Spring Boot
10 6 (2.19%) Middleware
11 5 (1.82%) ActiveMQ
11 5 (1.82%) Hibernate
11 5 (1.82%) SAML
11 5 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 81 (29.56%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.66%) Management Information System
3 20 (7.30%) Data Centre
4 16 (5.84%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (5.47%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (5.11%) Enterprise Cloud
7 13 (4.74%) Security Posture
8 10 (3.65%) Product Ownership
8 10 (3.65%) Virtual Team
9 9 (3.28%) Public Cloud
10 8 (2.92%) Onboarding
11 6 (2.19%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.46%) e-Learning
12 4 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.09%) Cloud Security Posture
13 3 (1.09%) CMDB
13 3 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (1.09%) NHS
13 3 (1.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 51 (18.61%) Linux
2 35 (12.77%) Windows
3 9 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.19%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.82%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.82%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.46%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.46%) VMS
7 3 (1.09%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.73%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (55.11%) CI/CD
2 141 (51.46%) DevOps
3 109 (39.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (26.28%) Agile
5 59 (21.53%) Cloud Security
6 54 (19.71%) Containerisation
7 49 (17.88%) Microservices
8 48 (17.52%) Stakeholder Management
9 45 (16.42%) Migration
10 44 (16.06%) Observability
11 43 (15.69%) Roadmaps
12 41 (14.96%) DevSecOps
13 39 (14.23%) Continuous Improvement
13 39 (14.23%) Technical Leadership
14 38 (13.87%) TOGAF
15 33 (12.04%) Event-Driven
16 32 (11.68%) Scrum
17 31 (11.31%) AI
17 31 (11.31%) Architectural Patterns
18 30 (10.95%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 90 (32.85%) Python
2 52 (18.98%) Java
3 33 (12.04%) Bash
4 30 (10.95%) PowerShell
5 26 (9.49%) SQL
6 18 (6.57%) TypeScript
7 17 (6.20%) JavaScript
8 9 (3.28%) Bicep
9 7 (2.55%) Rust
10 6 (2.19%) Perl
11 5 (1.82%) C#
11 5 (1.82%) Ruby
12 4 (1.46%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.09%) Go
13 3 (1.09%) Groovy
14 2 (0.73%) PHP
14 2 (0.73%) Scala
15 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 111 (40.51%) Security Cleared
2 93 (33.94%) SC Cleared
3 85 (31.02%) Azure Certification
4 83 (30.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 33 (12.04%) CISSP
6 30 (10.95%) Degree
7 25 (9.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 22 (8.03%) Cisco Certification
9 18 (6.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (6.57%) TOGAF Certification
10 17 (6.20%) DV Cleared
11 12 (4.38%) AWS Certified Developer
11 12 (4.38%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (4.01%) CISM
13 10 (3.65%) CCNP
13 10 (3.65%) PMI Certification
13 10 (3.65%) PMP
14 9 (3.28%) CCNA
14 9 (3.28%) Master's Degree
15 8 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 24 (8.76%) NIST
2 17 (6.20%) NCSC
3 12 (4.38%) GDPR
4 9 (3.28%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.28%) QA
5 6 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.82%) GRC
6 5 (1.82%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.46%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.46%) HL7
7 4 (1.46%) SOC 2
8 3 (1.09%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.73%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.73%) DICOM
9 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 2 (0.73%) PSD2
10 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.36%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
System Software
1 69 (25.18%) Docker
2 12 (4.38%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.92%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.82%) Postfix
6 2 (0.73%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.73%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.73%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.73%) vSphere
7 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.36%) Squid
7 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 124 (45.26%) Terraform
2 82 (29.93%) Kubernetes
3 27 (9.85%) Ansible
4 24 (8.76%) Grafana
5 22 (8.03%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.65%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.19%) Argo
8 4 (1.46%) linkerd
8 4 (1.46%) Puppet
9 3 (1.09%) Istio
10 2 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.73%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.73%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.73%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.73%) Packer
10 2 (0.73%) SCCM
11 1 (0.36%) CloudForms
11 1 (0.36%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.36%) logstash
11 1 (0.36%) QRadar
Vendors
1 41 (14.96%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.49%) Google
3 15 (5.47%) Splunk
4 13 (4.74%) Databricks
5 11 (4.01%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.28%) Cisco
7 8 (2.92%) Citrix
7 8 (2.92%) Fortinet
8 7 (2.55%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.55%) CrowdStrike
8 7 (2.55%) IBM
8 7 (2.55%) Oracle
8 7 (2.55%) Qualys
8 7 (2.55%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.55%) Tenable
9 6 (2.19%) CloudEndure
9 6 (2.19%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.19%) VMware
9 6 (2.19%) Zscaler
10 5 (1.82%) Remedy