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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 298 372
Rank change year-on-year +29 +74 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 363 256 262
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.02% 0.69% 0.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.05% 2.35% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 183 215
10th Percentile £358 £390 £450
25th Percentile £405 £429 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £555
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -5.41% -3.48%
75th Percentile £625 £627 £675
90th Percentile £750 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £556
% change year-on-year - -14.61% +5.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £64.00 - -
25th Percentile £76.00 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £58.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +55.17% - -
75th Percentile £96.25 - -
90th Percentile £100.90 - -
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 11,891 10,876 13,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.28% 29.44% 29.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,647 6,566 8,616
10th Percentile £303 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £719 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £523 £538
% change year-on-year -4.31% -2.79% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 534 771
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.78 £17.72
25th Percentile £19.38 £24.18 £27.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £53.67
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -20.80% +19.26%
75th Percentile £45.46 £66.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £52.50
% change year-on-year -45.54% -12.04% +16.67%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +26 289 £500 -4.76% 532
UK excluding London +30 191 £475 - 476
London +45 128 £488 -11.36% 168
Work from Home +47 120 £475 -14.99% 82
North of England -65 48 £450 +2.86% 120
South East +40 47 £500 -23.08% 117
Midlands +5 42 £525 +5.00% 90
West Midlands +15 40 £525 +5.00% 57
Scotland +21 34 £402 -23.43% 27
North West -12 22 £420 -20.00% 68
Yorkshire -65 20 £450 +5.88% 40
South West -1 15 £625 +4.17% 36
North East -4 6 £466 -1.89% 15
East of England -17 4 £488 -13.33% 57
East Midlands -9 2 £463 +8.82% 33
Northern Ireland - 2 £975 - 5
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 (4.13%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (3.86%) Apache
3 13 (3.58%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.58%) Confluence
4 11 (3.03%) nginx
5 6 (1.65%) IIS
5 6 (1.65%) JBoss
5 6 (1.65%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.65%) WebSphere
6 5 (1.38%) CMS
6 5 (1.38%) Headless CMS
6 5 (1.38%) iPlanet
6 5 (1.38%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.55%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.55%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.55%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.55%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.55%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (2.75%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (1.10%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 363 (100.00%) AWS
2 146 (40.22%) Azure
3 91 (25.07%) Serverless
4 84 (23.14%) Amazon S3
4 84 (23.14%) GCP
5 73 (20.11%) AWS Lambda
6 72 (19.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 57 (15.70%) Amazon ECS
7 57 (15.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 53 (14.60%) Amazon EKS
9 46 (12.67%) GitHub
10 43 (11.85%) Amazon EC2
11 42 (11.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 27 (7.44%) GitHub Actions
13 22 (6.06%) Route 53
14 19 (5.23%) AWS KMS
15 16 (4.41%) Snowflake
16 15 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
17 14 (3.86%) AWS Step Functions
17 14 (3.86%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 55 (15.15%) Firewall
2 31 (8.54%) DNS
3 15 (4.13%) Network Security
4 13 (3.58%) BGP
4 13 (3.58%) HTTP
4 13 (3.58%) LAN
4 13 (3.58%) WAN
5 12 (3.31%) OSPF
6 11 (3.03%) MPLS
7 10 (2.75%) FTP
7 10 (2.75%) IMAP
7 10 (2.75%) OpenLDAP
7 10 (2.75%) SMTP
7 10 (2.75%) SSH
7 10 (2.75%) VPN
8 9 (2.48%) DHCP
8 9 (2.48%) SNMP
8 9 (2.48%) Wireless
9 7 (1.93%) VLAN
10 6 (1.65%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (17.36%) Amazon RDS
2 48 (13.22%) NoSQL
3 38 (10.47%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (7.99%) Amazon Redshift
6 25 (6.89%) Amazon Athena
7 23 (6.34%) DynamoDB
8 17 (4.68%) Amazon Aurora
9 14 (3.86%) Relational Database
10 13 (3.58%) Amazon QuickSight
10 13 (3.58%) MySQL
11 11 (3.03%) Oracle Database
12 9 (2.48%) Power BI
12 9 (2.48%) Tableau
13 8 (2.20%) Data Lake
13 8 (2.20%) DataStage
13 8 (2.20%) Metadata
14 6 (1.65%) Big Data
14 6 (1.65%) MongoDB
15 5 (1.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 83 (22.87%) Jenkins
2 69 (19.01%) GitLab
3 56 (15.43%) Git
4 36 (9.92%) JIRA
5 14 (3.86%) Bitbucket
5 14 (3.86%) Liquibase
6 13 (3.58%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (2.75%) Vagrant
8 6 (1.65%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (1.65%) CA Release Automation
8 6 (1.65%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.38%) MLflow
10 4 (1.10%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.10%) Maven
11 2 (0.55%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.55%) Gradle
11 2 (0.55%) JUnit
11 2 (0.55%) Mockito
12 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.28%) Gatling
General
1 166 (45.73%) Social Skills
2 91 (25.07%) Finance
3 51 (14.05%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (12.40%) Public Sector
5 43 (11.85%) Banking
6 17 (4.68%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (3.58%) Financial Institution
9 12 (3.31%) Aerospace
10 11 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.65%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.10%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.10%) Publishing
13 3 (0.83%) Legal
13 3 (0.83%) Marketing
14 2 (0.55%) Aeronautics
14 2 (0.55%) Electronics
14 2 (0.55%) Private Banking
15 1 (0.28%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 103 (28.37%) Architect
2 69 (19.01%) AWS Engineer
3 61 (16.80%) DevOps Engineer
4 45 (12.40%) Senior
5 39 (10.74%) Solutions Architect
6 35 (9.64%) AWS Architect
6 35 (9.64%) Cloud Engineer
7 34 (9.37%) AWS DevOps
8 33 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 24 (6.61%) Data Engineer
9 24 (6.61%) Platform Engineer
10 22 (6.06%) Developer
11 21 (5.79%) Lead
12 18 (4.96%) Security Architect
13 17 (4.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 13 (3.58%) Consultant
15 12 (3.31%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 12 (3.31%) AWS Solution Architect
15 12 (3.31%) Designer
15 12 (3.31%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.71%) Node.js
2 24 (6.61%) RESTful
3 22 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
4 20 (5.51%) REST
5 19 (5.23%) Kafka
6 17 (4.68%) LDAP
7 14 (3.86%) OAuth
8 13 (3.58%) SAML
9 12 (3.31%) OpenID
10 11 (3.03%) AngularJS
11 9 (2.48%) AWS CDK
12 8 (2.20%) React
13 7 (1.93%) Middleware
13 7 (1.93%) OAuth2
13 7 (1.93%) XML
14 5 (1.38%) .NET
14 5 (1.38%) GraphQL
14 5 (1.38%) PySpark
14 5 (1.38%) SailPoint
14 5 (1.38%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 63 (17.36%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.89%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (6.61%) Public Cloud
4 23 (6.34%) Hybrid Cloud
5 19 (5.23%) Data Centre
6 18 (4.96%) Replication
7 17 (4.68%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.48%) Product Ownership
10 8 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (2.20%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.93%) Cloud Security Posture
12 5 (1.38%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.38%) PKI
13 4 (1.10%) Clustering
13 4 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
13 4 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
14 3 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
14 3 (0.83%) Management Information System
14 3 (0.83%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 72 (19.83%) Linux
2 39 (10.74%) Windows
3 21 (5.79%) Windows Server
4 14 (3.86%) Ubuntu
5 13 (3.58%) Unix
6 10 (2.75%) Amazon Linux
6 10 (2.75%) VMS
7 4 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.83%) CentOS
9 1 (0.28%) Solaris
9 1 (0.28%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (45.18%) CI/CD
2 156 (42.98%) DevOps
3 133 (36.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 101 (27.82%) Containerisation
5 92 (25.34%) Agile
6 84 (23.14%) Problem-Solving
7 78 (21.49%) Cloud Security
8 62 (17.08%) Mentoring
8 62 (17.08%) Microservices
8 62 (17.08%) Migration
9 49 (13.50%) TOGAF
10 47 (12.95%) Cybersecurity
11 45 (12.40%) Computer Science
12 44 (12.12%) High Availability
13 43 (11.85%) Technical Leadership
14 41 (11.29%) Incident Response
14 41 (11.29%) Roadmaps
15 40 (11.02%) Data Modelling
16 39 (10.74%) Data Governance
16 39 (10.74%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 155 (42.70%) Python
2 67 (18.46%) Java
3 65 (17.91%) SQL
4 45 (12.40%) PowerShell
5 40 (11.02%) Bash
6 18 (4.96%) Go
6 18 (4.96%) Groovy
7 15 (4.13%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.03%) TypeScript
9 10 (2.75%) Perl
9 10 (2.75%) Ruby
10 7 (1.93%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.65%) Scala
12 4 (1.10%) C#
13 3 (0.83%) PHP
14 2 (0.55%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.28%) Bicep
15 1 (0.28%) Korn
Qualifications
1 112 (30.85%) Security Cleared
2 102 (28.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 99 (27.27%) Azure Certification
4 90 (24.79%) SC Cleared
5 68 (18.73%) Degree
6 38 (10.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (9.37%) CISSP
8 28 (7.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 27 (7.44%) Cisco Certification
10 24 (6.61%) Master's Degree
11 22 (6.06%) TOGAF Certification
12 20 (5.51%) Microsoft Certification
13 18 (4.96%) AWS Certified Developer
14 15 (4.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 13 (3.58%) CCSP
16 11 (3.03%) CCIE
17 10 (2.75%) DV Cleared
18 9 (2.48%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
18 9 (2.48%) JNCIE
19 7 (1.93%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (12.67%) GDPR
2 37 (10.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (7.16%) NIST
4 25 (6.89%) Data Quality
5 20 (5.51%) QA
6 17 (4.68%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.93%) PSD2
8 6 (1.65%) HIPAA
8 6 (1.65%) SOC 2
9 5 (1.38%) NCSC
10 4 (1.10%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.55%) GRC
11 2 (0.55%) 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
System Software
1 113 (31.13%) Docker
2 21 (5.79%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.75%) DFS Replication
4 10 (2.75%) Dovecot
4 10 (2.75%) Postfix
4 10 (2.75%) Squid
4 10 (2.75%) VMware NSX
5 8 (2.20%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.20%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.83%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 2 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 150 (41.32%) Terraform
2 120 (33.06%) Kubernetes
3 64 (17.63%) Ansible
4 50 (13.77%) Prometheus
5 44 (12.12%) Grafana
6 10 (2.75%) Nessus
6 10 (2.75%) Proxmox
7 7 (1.93%) Puppet
8 6 (1.65%) Argo
8 6 (1.65%) CA Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.65%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.38%) CA Wily
9 5 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.10%) Nagios
11 3 (0.83%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.83%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.28%) Consul
12 1 (0.28%) Icinga
12 1 (0.28%) Kibana
12 1 (0.28%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 46 (12.67%) Microsoft
2 34 (9.37%) Oracle
3 27 (7.44%) Splunk
4 25 (6.89%) VMware
5 20 (5.51%) Google
6 18 (4.96%) Cisco
6 18 (4.96%) IBM
7 14 (3.86%) ServiceNow
8 11 (3.03%) Fortinet
9 10 (2.75%) Databricks
9 10 (2.75%) Dynatrace
9 10 (2.75%) F5
9 10 (2.75%) Jaspersoft
10 9 (2.48%) AppDynamics
10 9 (2.48%) Juniper
10 9 (2.48%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.65%) Broadcom
11 6 (1.65%) SAP
12 4 (1.10%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (1.10%) Meraki