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 13 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 274 322
Rank change year-on-year -56 +48 +86
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 407 321 239
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.74% 0.97% 0.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.32% 3.06% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 215 167
10th Percentile £407 £359 £381
25th Percentile £463 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% -6.46%
75th Percentile £672 £631 £631
90th Percentile £790 £740 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £480 £450
% change year-on-year +19.79% +6.67% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £57.00 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £61.80 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £72.66 £45.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.47% -22.41% -
75th Percentile £84.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £53.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.00 - £58.00

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 17,542 10,494 10,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.94% 31.87% 29.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,589 6,568 6,650
10th Percentile £356 £283 £310
25th Percentile £447 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £630
90th Percentile £713 £704 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,480 890 571
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.59 £18.13
25th Percentile £25.00 £18.87 £25.43
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -47.05% -11.35%
75th Percentile £72.25 £40.41 £68.00
90th Percentile £89.08 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -49.70% -3.64%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -47 358 £568 +13.50% 589
London -17 189 £550 +4.76% 352
UK excluding London -73 179 £575 +19.79% 261
Work from Home -33 138 £575 +23.52% 376
North of England -36 65 £599 +33.09% 84
South East -61 45 £568 +13.50% 33
North West -29 41 £513 +22.02% 52
Midlands -35 37 £470 -7.84% 37
West Midlands -42 33 £474 -8.94% 27
South West -24 23 £800 +23.08% 40
Yorkshire -34 18 £613 +36.11% 12
Scotland -41 11 £475 +3.04% 35
North East -36 9 £625 +34.12% 20
East Midlands -10 4 £404 -7.45% 10
East of England -25 3 £600 +23.08% 9
Northern Ireland +3 1 £600 -38.46% 16

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 27 (6.63%) Confluence
2 12 (2.95%) Apache
3 10 (2.46%) SAS
4 8 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.47%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.47%) nginx
6 3 (0.74%) CloudStack
6 3 (0.74%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.25%) Appian
8 1 (0.25%) CIMPLICITY
8 1 (0.25%) Predix
8 1 (0.25%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.98%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.49%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.49%) Gliffy
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.25%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (0.98%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.25%) Actimize
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.25%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.25%) Maximo
4 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.25%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 407 (100.00%) AWS
2 225 (55.28%) Azure
3 111 (27.27%) GCP
4 100 (24.57%) Amazon S3
5 91 (22.36%) Serverless
6 86 (21.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 78 (19.16%) AWS CloudFormation
8 75 (18.43%) AWS Lambda
9 74 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
10 72 (17.69%) Amazon EKS
11 66 (16.22%) GitHub
12 64 (15.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 51 (12.53%) Amazon ECS
14 44 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
15 34 (8.35%) AWS KMS
16 32 (7.86%) Azure DevOps
17 25 (6.14%) Power Platform
18 20 (4.91%) Amazon EMR
18 20 (4.91%) Amazon SQS
18 20 (4.91%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 52 (12.78%) Firewall
2 25 (6.14%) DNS
2 25 (6.14%) Network Security
3 12 (2.95%) TCP/IP
3 12 (2.95%) VPN
4 10 (2.46%) DHCP
5 9 (2.21%) LAN
5 9 (2.21%) VSAN
6 8 (1.97%) WAN
7 5 (1.23%) Internet
7 5 (1.23%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.98%) BGP
8 4 (0.98%) NGFW
8 4 (0.98%) SAN
8 4 (0.98%) SSH
9 3 (0.74%) CTI
9 3 (0.74%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.74%) MPLS
9 3 (0.74%) NAS
9 3 (0.74%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (14.50%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (7.13%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (6.39%) Amazon Aurora
3 26 (6.39%) Amazon Redshift
4 25 (6.14%) Power BI
5 23 (5.65%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (4.91%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (4.42%) DynamoDB
8 16 (3.93%) Data Lake
8 16 (3.93%) MongoDB
8 16 (3.93%) SQL Server
9 14 (3.44%) MySQL
10 10 (2.46%) Redis
11 9 (2.21%) Metadata
12 7 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (1.72%) Pentaho
13 5 (1.23%) BigQuery
13 5 (1.23%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.98%) Big Data
14 4 (0.98%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 71 (17.44%) Jenkins
2 59 (14.50%) GitLab
3 48 (11.79%) Git
4 35 (8.60%) JIRA
5 8 (1.97%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.47%) Selenium
7 5 (1.23%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.23%) JMeter
7 5 (1.23%) Maven
8 4 (0.98%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.98%) Claude Code
8 4 (0.98%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.98%) JUnit
8 4 (0.98%) MLflow
8 4 (0.98%) Postman
9 3 (0.74%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.74%) Snyk
10 2 (0.49%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.49%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (0.49%) Vagrant
General
1 150 (36.86%) Social Skills
2 97 (23.83%) Public Sector
3 89 (21.87%) Finance
4 45 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (7.62%) Banking
6 16 (3.93%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (1.97%) Billing
8 8 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.97%) Police
8 8 (1.97%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.72%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.47%) Military
11 5 (1.23%) Law
12 4 (0.98%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.98%) Local Government
12 4 (0.98%) Retail
13 3 (0.74%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.49%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 125 (30.71%) Architect
2 53 (13.02%) Senior
3 46 (11.30%) DevOps Engineer
4 45 (11.06%) Cloud Engineer
5 40 (9.83%) Lead
6 37 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
7 30 (7.37%) Technical Architect
8 29 (7.13%) Security Engineer
9 27 (6.63%) Security Architect
10 26 (6.39%) AWS Architect
10 26 (6.39%) Solutions Architect
11 24 (5.90%) Data Engineer
12 21 (5.16%) Cloud Architect
13 18 (4.42%) Consultant
13 18 (4.42%) Platform Engineer
14 17 (4.18%) AWS DevOps
15 16 (3.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 16 (3.93%) DBA
16 15 (3.69%) Enterprise Architect
17 13 (3.19%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (48.40%) Terraform
2 35 (8.60%) REST
3 20 (4.91%) OAuth
4 19 (4.67%) RESTful
5 18 (4.42%) OpenID
6 17 (4.18%) Spring Boot
7 16 (3.93%) Spring
8 15 (3.69%) AWS CDK
9 14 (3.44%) Kafka
9 14 (3.44%) PySpark
9 14 (3.44%) SOAP
10 13 (3.19%) SAML
11 11 (2.70%) Web Services
12 10 (2.46%) .NET
12 10 (2.46%) LangChain
12 10 (2.46%) Node.js
12 10 (2.46%) OAuth2
13 9 (2.21%) ARM Templates
13 9 (2.21%) React
14 7 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 132 (32.43%) Cloud Native
2 36 (8.85%) Security Posture
3 35 (8.60%) Hybrid Cloud
4 34 (8.35%) Data Centre
5 27 (6.63%) Management Information System
5 27 (6.63%) Onboarding
6 24 (5.90%) Product Ownership
7 23 (5.65%) Public Cloud
8 22 (5.41%) Replication
9 20 (4.91%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (3.69%) PKI
11 14 (3.44%) Enterprise Cloud
12 9 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.97%) Cloud Security Posture
13 8 (1.97%) Cyber Threat
14 7 (1.72%) AI Agents
14 7 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (1.47%) Mobile App
16 5 (1.23%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 77 (18.92%) Linux
2 55 (13.51%) Windows
3 28 (6.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (3.69%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.97%) Amazon Linux
5 8 (1.97%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.98%) Unix
7 3 (0.74%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.74%) macOS
8 2 (0.49%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.49%) CentOS
8 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (55.04%) CI/CD
2 215 (52.83%) DevOps
3 196 (48.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 152 (37.35%) Agile
5 109 (26.78%) Stakeholder Management
6 101 (24.82%) Cloud Security
7 97 (23.83%) Technical Leadership
8 86 (21.13%) Migration
9 84 (20.64%) AI
9 84 (20.64%) Containerisation
9 84 (20.64%) Observability
10 79 (19.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 76 (18.67%) Roadmaps
12 73 (17.94%) Microservices
13 69 (16.95%) DevSecOps
14 59 (14.50%) Platform Engineering
15 57 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
16 54 (13.27%) Cybersecurity
16 54 (13.27%) Scrum
16 54 (13.27%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 163 (40.05%) Python
2 73 (17.94%) Bash
3 72 (17.69%) PowerShell
4 70 (17.20%) Java
5 56 (13.76%) SQL
6 21 (5.16%) Bicep
7 20 (4.91%) JavaScript
8 13 (3.19%) TypeScript
9 12 (2.95%) Go
10 9 (2.21%) Groovy
11 7 (1.72%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.47%) Perl
13 5 (1.23%) Rust
14 3 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.49%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.49%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.25%) C
16 1 (0.25%) C#
16 1 (0.25%) C++
16 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 172 (42.26%) Security Cleared
2 153 (37.59%) SC Cleared
3 125 (30.71%) Azure Certification
4 108 (26.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 76 (18.67%) CISSP
6 50 (12.29%) Degree
7 30 (7.37%) DV Cleared
8 29 (7.13%) CISM
9 28 (6.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 27 (6.63%) BPSS Clearance
11 25 (6.14%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
13 22 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
14 18 (4.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 16 (3.93%) TOGAF Certification
16 14 (3.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 13 (3.19%) CCSP
18 11 (2.70%) PMI Certification
18 11 (2.70%) PMP
18 11 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (10.07%) Data Quality
2 31 (7.62%) NIST
3 22 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (5.41%) QA
4 21 (5.16%) NCSC
5 18 (4.42%) GDPR
6 7 (1.72%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.23%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.74%) EU AI Act
8 3 (0.74%) GRC
8 3 (0.74%) SLA
9 2 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.49%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.49%) HL7
9 2 (0.49%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.25%) FedRAMP
10 1 (0.25%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.25%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 123 (30.22%) Docker
2 32 (7.86%) Active Directory
3 21 (5.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (3.69%) vSphere
5 10 (2.46%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.98%) Postfix
7 3 (0.74%) DFS Replication
7 3 (0.74%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.74%) Squid
7 3 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.49%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.49%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.49%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 129 (31.70%) Kubernetes
2 59 (14.50%) Ansible
3 40 (9.83%) Grafana
4 36 (8.85%) Prometheus
5 29 (7.13%) Progress Chef
6 10 (2.46%) Puppet
7 9 (2.21%) Istio
8 8 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (1.72%) VxRail
10 5 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (1.23%) Argo
11 3 (0.74%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.74%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.74%) linkerd
11 3 (0.74%) Packer
11 3 (0.74%) QRadar
12 2 (0.49%) Consul
12 2 (0.49%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.49%) Kibana
12 2 (0.49%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 82 (20.15%) Microsoft
2 52 (12.78%) Google
3 27 (6.63%) VMware
4 21 (5.16%) Splunk
5 20 (4.91%) Red Hat
6 16 (3.93%) Cisco
6 16 (3.93%) ServiceNow
7 15 (3.69%) Databricks
8 11 (2.70%) Informatica
9 9 (2.21%) Dynatrace
9 9 (2.21%) Oracle
10 8 (1.97%) Palo Alto
10 8 (1.97%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.72%) Denodo
11 7 (1.72%) IBM
11 7 (1.72%) Talend
12 6 (1.47%) BeyondTrust
12 6 (1.47%) Commvault
12 6 (1.47%) CyberArk
12 6 (1.47%) OpenAI