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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 320 366
Rank change year-on-year +45 +46 +8
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 352 249 252
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.97% 0.73% 0.57%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.87% 2.45% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 178 202
10th Percentile £351 £396 £463
25th Percentile £407 £450 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £531 £561
Median % change year-on-year -8.85% -5.35% -2.39%
75th Percentile £605 £638 £675
90th Percentile £748 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £564
% change year-on-year -5.00% -11.27% +7.33%
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 12,259 10,158 13,150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.64% 29.63% 29.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,992 6,234 8,284
10th Percentile £310 £305 £300
25th Percentile £415 £420 £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 £515 £538
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,002 490 732
10th Percentile £16.76 £19.61 £17.72
25th Percentile £19.38 £24.18 £27.69
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.25 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.03% -22.90% +18.89%
75th Percentile £53.75 £66.00 £67.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £52.35
% change year-on-year -45.54% -11.79% +17.91%

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 15 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 15 December 2025.

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 15 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 +23 283 £488 -7.14% 757
UK excluding London +14 179 £475 -5.00% 734
London +9 129 £484 -11.95% 182
Work from Home +37 115 £488 -11.36% 289
South East +38 49 £500 -23.08% 178
North of England -64 44 £450 - 172
Midlands -9 40 £520 +4.00% 130
West Midlands +1 38 £520 +4.00% 75
Scotland +20 29 £413 -21.43% 48
North West -13 20 £420 -20.00% 90
Yorkshire -71 19 £450 +1.41% 65
South West -8 12 £631 +5.21% 64
North East -10 5 £466 -1.89% 19
East of England -22 5 £488 -13.33% 100
East Midlands -18 2 £463 -15.14% 51
Northern Ireland - 2 £975 - 13

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 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
1 15 (4.26%) Confluence
2 14 (3.98%) Apache
3 13 (3.69%) Apache Spark
4 11 (3.13%) 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%) 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 (2.84%) 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
1 352 (100.00%) AWS
2 140 (39.77%) Azure
3 84 (23.86%) Serverless
4 80 (22.73%) AWS CloudFormation
5 77 (21.88%) GCP
6 73 (20.74%) Amazon S3
7 69 (19.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 65 (18.47%) AWS Lambda
9 52 (14.77%) Amazon ECS
10 51 (14.49%) Amazon EKS
11 46 (13.07%) GitHub
12 44 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 42 (11.93%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (8.81%) AWS KMS
15 30 (8.52%) GitHub Actions
16 24 (6.82%) Route 53
17 20 (5.68%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 20 (5.68%) Entra ID
18 16 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
18 16 (4.55%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 55 (15.63%) Firewall
2 31 (8.81%) DNS
3 15 (4.26%) Network Security
4 13 (3.69%) HTTP
5 12 (3.41%) LAN
6 11 (3.13%) BGP
6 11 (3.13%) VPN
6 11 (3.13%) WAN
7 10 (2.84%) FTP
7 10 (2.84%) IMAP
7 10 (2.84%) MPLS
7 10 (2.84%) OpenLDAP
7 10 (2.84%) OSPF
7 10 (2.84%) SMTP
7 10 (2.84%) SSH
8 9 (2.56%) DHCP
8 9 (2.56%) SNMP
8 9 (2.56%) Wireless
9 6 (1.70%) Kerberos
9 6 (1.70%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (17.05%) Amazon RDS
2 46 (13.07%) NoSQL
3 34 (9.66%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (8.24%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (7.95%) Amazon Redshift
6 21 (5.97%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (5.11%) DynamoDB
8 17 (4.83%) Amazon Aurora
9 14 (3.98%) Relational Database
10 13 (3.69%) Amazon QuickSight
10 13 (3.69%) MySQL
11 11 (3.13%) Oracle Database
12 9 (2.56%) Tableau
13 8 (2.27%) Data Lake
13 8 (2.27%) DataStage
13 8 (2.27%) Power BI
14 7 (1.99%) Metadata
14 7 (1.99%) MongoDB
15 6 (1.70%) SQL Server
16 5 (1.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 83 (23.58%) Jenkins
2 62 (17.61%) GitLab
3 54 (15.34%) Git
4 37 (10.51%) JIRA
5 15 (4.26%) Bitbucket
6 14 (3.98%) Liquibase
7 13 (3.69%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (2.84%) Vagrant
9 6 (1.70%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (1.70%) CA Release Automation
9 6 (1.70%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.42%) MLflow
11 4 (1.14%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.14%) Maven
12 2 (0.57%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.57%) Gradle
12 2 (0.57%) JUnit
12 2 (0.57%) Mockito
13 1 (0.28%) Snyk
13 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 150 (42.61%) Social Skills
2 99 (28.13%) Finance
3 51 (14.49%) Public Sector
4 48 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (11.08%) Banking
6 16 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (3.69%) Financial Institution
8 12 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.56%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.42%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.85%) Legal
11 3 (0.85%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.85%) Marketing
12 2 (0.57%) Aeronautics
12 2 (0.57%) Electronics
12 2 (0.57%) Private Banking
12 2 (0.57%) Publishing
13 1 (0.28%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 109 (30.97%) Architect
2 65 (18.47%) AWS Engineer
3 60 (17.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 40 (11.36%) Senior
5 39 (11.08%) AWS Architect
6 37 (10.51%) Solutions Architect
7 32 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
8 31 (8.81%) AWS DevOps
9 30 (8.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 24 (6.82%) Data Engineer
11 23 (6.53%) Platform Engineer
12 22 (6.25%) Lead
13 20 (5.68%) Cloud Architect
13 20 (5.68%) Developer
14 18 (5.11%) Security Architect
15 16 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 12 (3.41%) Software Engineer
17 11 (3.13%) AWS Platform Engineer
17 11 (3.13%) Consultant
17 11 (3.13%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.95%) Node.js
2 24 (6.82%) RESTful
3 21 (5.97%) Elastic Stack
4 20 (5.68%) REST
5 19 (5.40%) Kafka
6 17 (4.83%) LDAP
7 11 (3.13%) AngularJS
8 10 (2.84%) AWS CDK
9 9 (2.56%) OAuth
10 8 (2.27%) SAML
11 7 (1.99%) Middleware
11 7 (1.99%) OpenID
11 7 (1.99%) React
11 7 (1.99%) XML
12 5 (1.42%) .NET
12 5 (1.42%) PySpark
12 5 (1.42%) SailPoint
12 5 (1.42%) Spring
13 4 (1.14%) GraphQL
13 4 (1.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 61 (17.33%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.10%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (6.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 22 (6.25%) Public Cloud
5 19 (5.40%) Data Centre
6 18 (5.11%) Replication
7 13 (3.69%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (2.84%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.56%) Security Posture
10 8 (2.27%) Cloud Security Posture
11 7 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.99%) PKI
12 5 (1.42%) Onboarding
13 4 (1.14%) Clustering
13 4 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
13 4 (1.14%) Management Information System
14 3 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
14 3 (0.85%) SCADA
15 2 (0.57%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 69 (19.60%) Linux
2 38 (10.80%) Windows
3 20 (5.68%) Windows Server
4 14 (3.98%) Ubuntu
5 13 (3.69%) Unix
6 11 (3.13%) VMS
7 10 (2.84%) Amazon Linux
8 4 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.85%) CentOS
10 1 (0.28%) Solaris
10 1 (0.28%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (48.01%) CI/CD
2 155 (44.03%) DevOps
3 136 (38.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 94 (26.70%) Containerisation
5 84 (23.86%) Agile
6 73 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
7 71 (20.17%) Cloud Security
8 63 (17.90%) Migration
9 62 (17.61%) Microservices
10 48 (13.64%) TOGAF
11 46 (13.07%) Mentoring
11 46 (13.07%) Roadmaps
12 43 (12.22%) DevSecOps
12 43 (12.22%) Incident Response
13 42 (11.93%) High Availability
14 41 (11.65%) Cybersecurity
15 40 (11.36%) Computer Science
16 38 (10.80%) Data Modelling
17 36 (10.23%) Data Governance
17 36 (10.23%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 151 (42.90%) Python
2 67 (19.03%) Java
3 65 (18.47%) SQL
4 44 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 39 (11.08%) Bash
6 18 (5.11%) Go
6 18 (5.11%) Groovy
7 14 (3.98%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.13%) TypeScript
9 10 (2.84%) Perl
9 10 (2.84%) Ruby
10 7 (1.99%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.42%) Scala
12 4 (1.14%) C#
13 3 (0.85%) PHP
14 2 (0.57%) Bicep
14 2 (0.57%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.28%) Korn
Qualifications
1 116 (32.95%) Security Cleared
2 100 (28.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 96 (27.27%) Azure Certification
3 96 (27.27%) SC Cleared
4 65 (18.47%) Degree
5 34 (9.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (8.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 28 (7.95%) CISSP
8 27 (7.67%) Cisco Certification
9 21 (5.97%) Master's Degree
10 19 (5.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (5.40%) TOGAF Certification
11 17 (4.83%) AWS Certified Developer
12 15 (4.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 14 (3.98%) CCSP
14 10 (2.84%) CCIE
15 8 (2.27%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 8 (2.27%) JNCIE
16 6 (1.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 6 (1.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.22%) GDPR
2 39 (11.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (8.24%) NIST
4 24 (6.82%) Data Quality
5 20 (5.68%) QA
6 18 (5.11%) PCI DSS
7 13 (3.69%) NCSC
8 8 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (1.99%) HIPAA
9 7 (1.99%) PSD2
9 7 (1.99%) SOC 2
10 4 (1.14%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.57%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.28%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.28%) HL7
12 1 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 110 (31.25%) Docker
2 22 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.84%) DFS Replication
4 10 (2.84%) Dovecot
4 10 (2.84%) Postfix
4 10 (2.84%) Squid
4 10 (2.84%) VMware NSX
5 8 (2.27%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (1.70%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.85%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 157 (44.60%) Terraform
2 117 (33.24%) Kubernetes
3 62 (17.61%) Ansible
4 48 (13.64%) Prometheus
5 42 (11.93%) Grafana
6 10 (2.84%) Nessus
6 10 (2.84%) Proxmox
7 6 (1.70%) Argo
7 6 (1.70%) CA Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.70%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.70%) Puppet
8 5 (1.42%) CA Wily
8 5 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.85%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.85%) Nagios
9 3 (0.85%) Tivoli
10 2 (0.57%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.28%) linkerd
11 1 (0.28%) Packer
11 1 (0.28%) Suricata
Vendors
1 48 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.94%) Oracle
3 29 (8.24%) Splunk
4 25 (7.10%) VMware
5 18 (5.11%) Google
6 17 (4.83%) Cisco
7 14 (3.98%) IBM
8 13 (3.69%) ServiceNow
9 11 (3.13%) Databricks
10 10 (2.84%) F5
10 10 (2.84%) Fortinet
10 10 (2.84%) Jaspersoft
11 9 (2.56%) AppDynamics
11 9 (2.56%) Dynatrace
12 8 (2.27%) Citrix
12 8 (2.27%) Juniper
13 7 (1.99%) CloudEndure
13 7 (1.99%) Palo Alto
14 6 (1.70%) Broadcom
14 6 (1.70%) SAP