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 10 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 267 407
Rank change year-on-year -101 +140 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 293 289 186
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.98% 0.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.88% 3.17% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 209 140
10th Percentile £403 £396 £400
25th Percentile £453 £450 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.12%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £650
90th Percentile £769 £700 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile £78.75 £40.03 -
25th Percentile £86.63 £47.56 -
Median hourly rate £95.25 £54.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.58% - -
75th Percentile £103.06 £66.44 -
90th Percentile £105.75 £86.58 -
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 15,557 9,112 13,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.44% 31.02% 29.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,328 5,673 8,090
10th Percentile £350 £275 £310
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £618 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +1.00% -5.66% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,144 565 1,118
10th Percentile £17.01 £17.69 £13.87
25th Percentile £22.18 £21.25 £18.32
Median hourly rate £48.61 £30.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.38% -23.75% -27.27%
75th Percentile £71.50 £64.52 £62.64
90th Percentile £85.18 £77.38 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £30.00 £41.27
% change year-on-year +58.33% -27.30% -21.40%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -83 240 £553 -0.45% 243
London -83 125 £541 -6.00% 75
UK excluding London -83 116 £538 +2.38% 207
Work from Home -69 84 £575 +9.52% 75
North of England -37 54 £566 -19.11% 57
North West -9 41 £550 -21.43% 25
South East -59 21 £550 +10.00% 54
Midlands -52 20 £436 -5.63% 31
West Midlands -38 18 £438 -20.45% 16
Yorkshire -49 11 £663 +32.50% 25
South West -28 10 £575 -8.00% 26
East of England -18 8 £550 +4.76% 23
Scotland -47 4 £450 -18.18% 9
Wales -21 3 £250 -42.33% 7
North East - 2 £525 - 7
East Midlands -31 1 £447 -2.61% 15

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 22 (7.51%) Confluence
2 6 (2.05%) Apache
3 4 (1.37%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.68%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.68%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.68%) nginx
5 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.68%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.71%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.68%) DELMIA
2 2 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 293 (100.00%) AWS
2 163 (55.63%) Azure
3 72 (24.57%) GCP
4 68 (23.21%) Serverless
5 60 (20.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 52 (17.75%) Amazon EKS
6 52 (17.75%) Amazon S3
7 47 (16.04%) GitHub
8 46 (15.70%) AWS Lambda
8 46 (15.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 39 (13.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 36 (12.29%) GitHub Actions
11 35 (11.95%) Amazon EC2
12 33 (11.26%) Amazon ECS
13 18 (6.14%) Power Platform
13 18 (6.14%) Route 53
14 16 (5.46%) Azure DevOps
14 16 (5.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 14 (4.78%) AWS KMS
16 13 (4.44%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 40 (13.65%) Firewall
2 19 (6.48%) Network Security
3 15 (5.12%) VPN
4 13 (4.44%) WAN
5 11 (3.75%) DNS
6 8 (2.73%) BGP
6 8 (2.73%) LAN
6 8 (2.73%) SD-WAN
7 7 (2.39%) 3GPP
8 6 (2.05%) OSPF
9 4 (1.37%) Internet
9 4 (1.37%) IPv6
9 4 (1.37%) TETRA
9 4 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.02%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (1.02%) IPv4
10 3 (1.02%) MPLS
10 3 (1.02%) NGFW
10 3 (1.02%) VLAN
10 3 (1.02%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (12.29%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (7.17%) DynamoDB
3 18 (6.14%) Power BI
4 17 (5.80%) Amazon Redshift
5 13 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (4.10%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (4.10%) Amazon Aurora
7 11 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (3.07%) NoSQL
9 8 (2.73%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.39%) Data Lake
10 7 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.71%) Metadata
12 4 (1.37%) Big Data
13 3 (1.02%) Amazon QuickSight
13 3 (1.02%) DataStage
13 3 (1.02%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.02%) DocumentDB
13 3 (1.02%) MySQL
13 3 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (14.33%) Jenkins
2 34 (11.60%) GitLab
3 21 (7.17%) JIRA
4 19 (6.48%) Git
5 8 (2.73%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.39%) JUnit
7 5 (1.71%) DbUnit
7 5 (1.71%) jMock
7 5 (1.71%) Maven
7 5 (1.71%) Mockito
7 5 (1.71%) Snyk
8 3 (1.02%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.02%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.02%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (1.02%) MLflow
8 3 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.68%) JMeter
9 2 (0.68%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.34%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.34%) Liquibase
General
1 108 (36.86%) Social Skills
2 47 (16.04%) Finance
3 43 (14.68%) Public Sector
4 32 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.83%) Banking
6 14 (4.78%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.07%) Legal
9 7 (2.39%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.71%) Law
12 3 (1.02%) Billing
12 3 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.02%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.02%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.68%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.68%) Electronics
13 2 (0.68%) Retail
14 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 107 (36.52%) Architect
2 40 (13.65%) AWS Engineer
3 38 (12.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 35 (11.95%) Cloud Engineer
5 29 (9.90%) AWS Architect
5 29 (9.90%) Senior
6 27 (9.22%) Security Engineer
7 23 (7.85%) Lead
7 23 (7.85%) Technical Architect
8 21 (7.17%) Cloud Architect
8 21 (7.17%) Solutions Architect
9 18 (6.14%) Platform Engineer
10 17 (5.80%) Developer
11 16 (5.46%) Security Architect
12 14 (4.78%) AWS DevOps
12 14 (4.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 14 (4.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 12 (4.10%) Data Engineer
14 9 (3.07%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 8 (2.73%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.85%) REST
2 17 (5.80%) Kafka
3 16 (5.46%) AWS CDK
3 16 (5.46%) OAuth
4 13 (4.44%) OpenID
5 12 (4.10%) Node.js
5 12 (4.10%) Web Services
6 11 (3.75%) SOAP
7 10 (3.41%) OAuth2
7 10 (3.41%) RESTful
8 9 (3.07%) .NET
8 9 (3.07%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (3.07%) SAML
9 8 (2.73%) AngularJS
10 7 (2.39%) Spring
10 7 (2.39%) Spring Boot
11 6 (2.05%) Middleware
12 5 (1.71%) ActiveMQ
12 5 (1.71%) Hibernate
12 5 (1.71%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 96 (32.76%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.53%) Data Centre
3 24 (8.19%) Management Information System
4 18 (6.14%) Security Posture
5 17 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (5.46%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (4.78%) Enterprise Cloud
8 11 (3.75%) Product Ownership
9 9 (3.07%) Public Cloud
9 9 (3.07%) Virtual Team
10 8 (2.73%) Onboarding
11 6 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (2.05%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.37%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (1.37%) e-Learning
12 4 (1.37%) IoT
12 4 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.02%) CMDB
13 3 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (1.02%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 63 (21.50%) Linux
2 43 (14.68%) Windows
3 13 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.71%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.71%) Mac OS
4 5 (1.71%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.37%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.37%) VMS
6 3 (1.02%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.68%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (57.68%) CI/CD
2 162 (55.29%) DevOps
3 122 (41.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 85 (29.01%) Agile
5 68 (23.21%) Cloud Security
6 63 (21.50%) Containerisation
7 56 (19.11%) Microservices
8 54 (18.43%) Observability
9 49 (16.72%) Stakeholder Management
10 47 (16.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 45 (15.36%) Roadmaps
12 44 (15.02%) Migration
13 42 (14.33%) Technical Leadership
14 40 (13.65%) AI
14 40 (13.65%) DevSecOps
15 38 (12.97%) Event-Driven
16 37 (12.63%) Mentoring
16 37 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
16 37 (12.63%) Scrum
16 37 (12.63%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 108 (36.86%) Python
2 60 (20.48%) Java
3 45 (15.36%) Bash
4 41 (13.99%) PowerShell
5 30 (10.24%) SQL
6 18 (6.14%) JavaScript
7 17 (5.80%) TypeScript
8 10 (3.41%) Bicep
9 7 (2.39%) Rust
10 6 (2.05%) Perl
11 5 (1.71%) C#
11 5 (1.71%) Ruby
12 4 (1.37%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.02%) Go
13 3 (1.02%) Groovy
14 2 (0.68%) PHP
14 2 (0.68%) Scala
14 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 117 (39.93%) Security Cleared
2 99 (33.79%) Azure Certification
2 99 (33.79%) SC Cleared
3 81 (27.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 38 (12.97%) CISSP
5 34 (11.60%) Degree
6 29 (9.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 21 (7.17%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (6.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (6.83%) DV Cleared
9 18 (6.14%) TOGAF Certification
10 16 (5.46%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (4.10%) AWS Certified Developer
12 11 (3.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 11 (3.75%) CISM
13 10 (3.41%) CCNP
13 10 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (3.41%) PMI Certification
13 10 (3.41%) PMP
14 9 (3.07%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.19%) NIST
2 22 (7.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (5.12%) Data Quality
4 14 (4.78%) GDPR
5 11 (3.75%) NCSC
6 9 (3.07%) QA
7 5 (1.71%) GRC
7 5 (1.71%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.02%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.02%) HL7
8 3 (1.02%) ISO 20022
8 3 (1.02%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 2 (0.68%) PSD2
10 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.34%) DICOM
10 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 79 (26.96%) Docker
2 13 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.71%) Postfix
5 2 (0.68%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.68%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.68%) vSphere
6 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.34%) Squid
6 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 139 (47.44%) Terraform
2 92 (31.40%) Kubernetes
3 36 (12.29%) Ansible
4 26 (8.87%) Grafana
4 26 (8.87%) Prometheus
5 18 (6.14%) Progress Chef
6 8 (2.73%) Puppet
7 7 (2.39%) Argo
8 4 (1.37%) Istio
8 4 (1.37%) linkerd
9 3 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.68%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.68%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.68%) Packer
10 2 (0.68%) QRadar
10 2 (0.68%) SCCM
10 2 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.34%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.34%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.34%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 48 (16.38%) Microsoft
2 30 (10.24%) Google
3 15 (5.12%) Splunk
4 14 (4.78%) Databricks
5 13 (4.44%) Red Hat
6 11 (3.75%) Cisco
6 11 (3.75%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.73%) Fortinet
7 8 (2.73%) VMware
8 7 (2.39%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.39%) CrowdStrike
8 7 (2.39%) IBM
8 7 (2.39%) Qualys
8 7 (2.39%) Tenable
9 6 (2.05%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.05%) Oracle
9 6 (2.05%) Palo Alto
9 6 (2.05%) Zscaler
10 5 (1.71%) Informatica
10 5 (1.71%) Remedy