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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 254 416
Rank change year-on-year -108 +162 -15
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 279 297 169
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.02% 0.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.84% 3.31% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 212 123
10th Percentile £400 £367 £451
25th Percentile £463 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £691 £638 £675
90th Percentile £765 £713 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £548 £600
% change year-on-year +0.46% -8.75% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 0
10th Percentile £72.33 £38.35 -
25th Percentile £84.25 £43.38 -
Median hourly rate £93.75 £53.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.23% - -
75th Percentile £102.69 £77.63 -
90th Percentile £105.73 £91.05 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £93.75 - -

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 15,140 8,977 12,977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.83% 30.98% 30.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,058 5,660 7,999
10th Percentile £350 £285 £305
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £623 £650
90th Percentile £720 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,068 507 1,065
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.13 £13.75
25th Percentile £21.25 £21.27 £17.80
Median hourly rate £48.72 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.92% -6.25% -25.93%
75th Percentile £70.33 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.36 £79.22 £75.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £37.50 £40.94
% change year-on-year +26.67% -8.40% -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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -85 230 £575 - 284
London -79 115 £537 -10.50% 92
UK excluding London -91 114 £550 +0.46% 244
Work from Home -80 73 £575 +4.55% 92
North of England -37 46 £581 -17.00% 63
North West -13 35 £575 -18.79% 31
South East -38 28 £525 +5.00% 51
Midlands -53 18 £447 -3.87% 39
West Midlands -44 16 £450 +9.09% 19
East of England -27 9 £550 +4.76% 26
South West -37 9 £644 +4.04% 37
Yorkshire -48 9 £663 +20.45% 21
Wales -21 3 £250 -7.41% 11
Scotland -26 3 £394 -28.36% 16
North East -17 2 £525 +27.27% 11
East Midlands -36 1 £447 -3.87% 20

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 (6.81%) Confluence
2 6 (2.15%) Apache
3 5 (1.79%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.08%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.72%) nginx
5 2 (0.72%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.72%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.36%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.72%) DELMIA
2 2 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 279 (100.00%) AWS
2 151 (54.12%) Azure
3 68 (24.37%) AWS CloudFormation
4 62 (22.22%) GCP
5 57 (20.43%) Serverless
6 50 (17.92%) Amazon EKS
7 48 (17.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 41 (14.70%) Amazon S3
9 39 (13.98%) GitHub
10 35 (12.54%) AWS Lambda
11 32 (11.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 32 (11.47%) Amazon ECS
12 30 (10.75%) GitHub Actions
13 27 (9.68%) Amazon EC2
14 25 (8.96%) AWS KMS
15 18 (6.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 17 (6.09%) AWS CodePipeline
17 16 (5.73%) Route 53
18 15 (5.38%) AWS CloudTrail
18 15 (5.38%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 36 (12.90%) Firewall
2 17 (6.09%) Network Security
2 17 (6.09%) VPN
3 16 (5.73%) DNS
4 10 (3.58%) WAN
5 7 (2.51%) 3GPP
5 7 (2.51%) BGP
6 6 (2.15%) DHCP
7 5 (1.79%) LAN
7 5 (1.79%) OSPF
7 5 (1.79%) SD-WAN
7 5 (1.79%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.43%) IPv6
8 4 (1.43%) TETRA
9 3 (1.08%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (1.08%) IPv4
9 3 (1.08%) VLAN
10 2 (0.72%) Internet
10 2 (0.72%) MPLS
10 2 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (12.19%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (7.89%) DynamoDB
3 12 (4.30%) Amazon Aurora
3 12 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.30%) Power BI
4 9 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (3.23%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.23%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.51%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.15%) Data Lake
6 6 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.79%) Metadata
7 5 (1.79%) MySQL
8 4 (1.43%) Big Data
8 4 (1.43%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.08%) DataStage
9 3 (1.08%) DocumentDB
9 3 (1.08%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.72%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 37 (13.26%) Jenkins
2 27 (9.68%) GitLab
3 18 (6.45%) JIRA
4 15 (5.38%) Git
5 6 (2.15%) JUnit
6 5 (1.79%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.79%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.43%) DbUnit
7 4 (1.43%) jMock
7 4 (1.43%) Maven
7 4 (1.43%) MLflow
7 4 (1.43%) Mockito
7 4 (1.43%) Snyk
8 2 (0.72%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.72%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (0.72%) 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 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 51 (18.28%) Finance
3 40 (14.34%) Public Sector
4 27 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.81%) Banking
6 10 (3.58%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.58%) Legal
7 7 (2.51%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.79%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.79%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.43%) Electronics
9 4 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.08%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.72%) Billing
11 2 (0.72%) Marketing
12 1 (0.36%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.36%) French Language
12 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 110 (39.43%) Architect
2 34 (12.19%) DevOps Engineer
3 32 (11.47%) AWS Engineer
4 31 (11.11%) AWS Architect
5 30 (10.75%) Cloud Architect
6 26 (9.32%) Lead
6 26 (9.32%) Senior
7 23 (8.24%) Technical Architect
8 21 (7.53%) Cloud Engineer
9 20 (7.17%) Security Engineer
9 20 (7.17%) Solutions Architect
10 15 (5.38%) Developer
11 14 (5.02%) Platform Engineer
11 14 (5.02%) Security Architect
12 12 (4.30%) Lead Architect
13 11 (3.94%) AWS DevOps
14 10 (3.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 8 (2.87%) Data Engineer
15 8 (2.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.45%) Kafka
2 16 (5.73%) REST
3 13 (4.66%) AWS CDK
4 10 (3.58%) Node.js
4 10 (3.58%) OAuth
4 10 (3.58%) Web Services
5 9 (3.23%) RESTful
5 9 (3.23%) SOAP
6 7 (2.51%) .NET
6 7 (2.51%) AngularJS
6 7 (2.51%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (2.51%) OAuth2
6 7 (2.51%) OpenID
7 6 (2.15%) Middleware
7 6 (2.15%) Spring
7 6 (2.15%) Spring Boot
8 5 (1.79%) boto
8 5 (1.79%) React
8 5 (1.79%) XML
9 4 (1.43%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 80 (28.67%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.45%) Data Centre
3 17 (6.09%) Management Information System
4 16 (5.73%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (5.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (4.66%) Enterprise Cloud
7 11 (3.94%) Product Ownership
8 10 (3.58%) Virtual Team
9 8 (2.87%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.87%) Public Cloud
10 7 (2.51%) Security Posture
11 6 (2.15%) PKI
12 5 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.79%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.79%) Replication
13 4 (1.43%) e-Learning
14 3 (1.08%) AI Agents
14 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (1.08%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 50 (17.92%) Linux
2 35 (12.54%) Windows
3 5 (1.79%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.79%) Mac OS
3 5 (1.79%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.43%) VMS
5 3 (1.08%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 135 (48.39%) DevOps
3 115 (41.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 77 (27.60%) Agile
5 62 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 55 (19.71%) Cloud Security
7 52 (18.64%) DevSecOps
8 51 (18.28%) Microservices
9 49 (17.56%) Migration
10 46 (16.49%) Roadmaps
11 45 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
12 44 (15.77%) Observability
13 42 (15.05%) Continuous Improvement
14 40 (14.34%) TOGAF
15 38 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
16 36 (12.90%) Technical Leadership
17 33 (11.83%) Cybersecurity
18 32 (11.47%) Event-Driven
19 29 (10.39%) Mentoring
19 29 (10.39%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 92 (32.97%) Python
2 52 (18.64%) Java
3 37 (13.26%) Bash
4 28 (10.04%) PowerShell
5 24 (8.60%) SQL
6 18 (6.45%) JavaScript
7 17 (6.09%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.51%) Bicep
8 7 (2.51%) Rust
9 6 (2.15%) C#
9 6 (2.15%) Perl
10 5 (1.79%) Ruby
11 4 (1.43%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.08%) Go
12 3 (1.08%) Groovy
12 3 (1.08%) PHP
13 2 (0.72%) Scala
14 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 121 (43.37%) Security Cleared
2 102 (36.56%) SC Cleared
3 94 (33.69%) Azure Certification
4 90 (32.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 29 (10.39%) CISSP
6 28 (10.04%) Degree
7 26 (9.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 24 (8.60%) TOGAF Certification
9 20 (7.17%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (6.81%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (6.09%) DV Cleared
12 11 (3.94%) AWS Certified Developer
12 11 (3.94%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (3.58%) PMI Certification
13 10 (3.58%) PMP
14 9 (3.23%) CCNA
14 9 (3.23%) Master's Degree
15 8 (2.87%) CCNP
15 8 (2.87%) CISM
16 7 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 25 (8.96%) NIST
2 15 (5.38%) NCSC
3 14 (5.02%) GDPR
4 11 (3.94%) QA
5 10 (3.58%) Data Quality
6 6 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (2.15%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.79%) GRC
8 3 (1.08%) HL7
8 3 (1.08%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.72%) DICOM
9 2 (0.72%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 2 (0.72%) PSD2
9 2 (0.72%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
System Software
1 73 (26.16%) Docker
2 17 (6.09%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.87%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (2.15%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.43%) Postfix
7 2 (0.72%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.72%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.72%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.36%) Squid
8 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 125 (44.80%) Terraform
2 86 (30.82%) Kubernetes
3 30 (10.75%) Ansible
4 22 (7.89%) Grafana
5 21 (7.53%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.51%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.15%) Argo
8 4 (1.43%) linkerd
8 4 (1.43%) Puppet
9 3 (1.08%) Istio
9 3 (1.08%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.72%) CASB
10 2 (0.72%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.72%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.72%) Packer
10 2 (0.72%) SCCM
11 1 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.36%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.36%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.36%) QRadar
Vendors
1 43 (15.41%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.45%) Google
3 14 (5.02%) Splunk
3 14 (5.02%) VMware
4 12 (4.30%) Cisco
4 12 (4.30%) Databricks
5 10 (3.58%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.87%) Oracle
7 7 (2.51%) Citrix
7 7 (2.51%) Fortinet
7 7 (2.51%) IBM
7 7 (2.51%) Zscaler
8 6 (2.15%) Atlassian
8 6 (2.15%) CloudEndure
8 6 (2.15%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.15%) SAP
9 5 (1.79%) BeyondTrust
9 5 (1.79%) CrowdStrike
9 5 (1.79%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.79%) Remedy