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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 264 393
Rank change year-on-year -102 +129 +20
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 315 299 196
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.98% 0.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.97% 3.16% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 213 143
10th Percentile £400 £374 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £541 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -1.64% -
75th Percentile £675 £638 £650
90th Percentile £775 £712 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £544 £525 £543
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.23% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 0
10th Percentile £78.08 £40.03 -
25th Percentile £84.00 £47.56 -
Median hourly rate £93.75 £54.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +72.81% - -
75th Percentile £102.69 £66.44 -
90th Percentile £104.75 £86.58 -
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 16,028 9,450 12,874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.23% 30.88% 29.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,706 5,857 7,950
10th Percentile £350 £275 £312
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £701 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £500 £528
% change year-on-year +1.40% -5.30% +0.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,161 635 1,116
10th Percentile £17.25 £17.87 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.78 £20.19 £20.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £28.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +77.62% -31.24% -26.00%
75th Percentile £72.54 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.25 £75.00 £75.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £27.13 £43.00
% change year-on-year +84.33% -36.92% -19.87%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -75 259 £558 +1.36% 235
UK excluding London -75 133 £544 +3.57% 216
London -88 131 £575 - 73
Work from Home -64 100 £575 +9.52% 57
North of England -35 57 £566 -19.11% 55
North West -14 41 £550 -21.43% 25
South East -56 29 £560 +12.00% 65
Midlands -48 23 £425 -8.01% 30
West Midlands -41 20 £438 -20.45% 16
Yorkshire -44 14 £663 +32.50% 24
South West -34 10 £575 -8.00% 24
East of England -20 8 £550 +4.76% 26
Scotland -42 7 £479 -8.76% 10
Wales -18 3 £250 -43.15% 6
East Midlands -19 2 £424 -7.73% 14
North East -33 2 £525 - 9

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 26 (8.25%) Confluence
2 7 (2.22%) Apache
3 4 (1.27%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.95%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.95%) CloudStack
4 3 (0.95%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.63%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.63%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.32%) nginx
6 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.59%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.32%) DELMIA
3 1 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 315 (100.00%) AWS
2 178 (56.51%) Azure
3 78 (24.76%) GCP
4 71 (22.54%) Serverless
5 61 (19.37%) Amazon S3
6 57 (18.10%) AWS CloudFormation
7 49 (15.56%) Amazon EKS
7 49 (15.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 48 (15.24%) AWS Lambda
9 46 (14.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 46 (14.60%) GitHub
10 42 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
11 33 (10.48%) GitHub Actions
12 32 (10.16%) Amazon ECS
13 23 (7.30%) Power Platform
14 19 (6.03%) Route 53
15 18 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (5.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 16 (5.08%) AWS KMS
18 14 (4.44%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 40 (12.70%) Firewall
2 21 (6.67%) Network Security
3 15 (4.76%) VPN
4 14 (4.44%) WAN
5 13 (4.13%) DNS
6 10 (3.17%) BGP
6 10 (3.17%) LAN
7 9 (2.86%) SD-WAN
8 7 (2.22%) 3GPP
8 7 (2.22%) OSPF
9 4 (1.27%) IPv6
9 4 (1.27%) MPLS
9 4 (1.27%) NGFW
9 4 (1.27%) TETRA
9 4 (1.27%) VLAN
10 3 (0.95%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (0.95%) IPsec
10 3 (0.95%) Multicast
10 3 (0.95%) VXLAN
10 3 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (12.06%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (7.30%) Power BI
3 21 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 21 (6.67%) DynamoDB
4 16 (5.08%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (3.81%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (2.86%) Data Lake
8 9 (2.86%) NoSQL
9 8 (2.54%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (2.22%) Metadata
11 6 (1.90%) Big Data
12 4 (1.27%) MySQL
12 4 (1.27%) SQL Server
13 3 (0.95%) Amazon QuickSight
13 3 (0.95%) Delta Lake
13 3 (0.95%) DocumentDB
13 3 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 43 (13.65%) Jenkins
2 38 (12.06%) GitLab
3 27 (8.57%) JIRA
4 26 (8.25%) Git
5 8 (2.54%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.22%) JUnit
7 6 (1.90%) Maven
8 5 (1.59%) DbUnit
8 5 (1.59%) jMock
8 5 (1.59%) Mockito
8 5 (1.59%) Snyk
9 4 (1.27%) MLflow
10 3 (0.95%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.95%) Bitbucket Server
11 2 (0.63%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.63%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.63%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.63%) JMeter
11 2 (0.63%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 115 (36.51%) Social Skills
2 53 (16.83%) Finance
3 51 (16.19%) Public Sector
4 34 (10.79%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.35%) Banking
6 19 (6.03%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.86%) Legal
8 8 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.54%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.90%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.59%) Billing
11 5 (1.59%) Law
12 4 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.95%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.95%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.95%) Retail
14 2 (0.63%) Electronics
14 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.32%) Military
Job Titles
1 120 (38.10%) Architect
2 40 (12.70%) AWS Engineer
3 37 (11.75%) Cloud Engineer
3 37 (11.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 34 (10.79%) Senior
5 29 (9.21%) AWS Architect
6 28 (8.89%) Technical Architect
7 25 (7.94%) Security Engineer
8 24 (7.62%) Cloud Architect
8 24 (7.62%) Lead
9 23 (7.30%) Solutions Architect
10 19 (6.03%) Security Architect
11 17 (5.40%) Developer
12 16 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
13 14 (4.44%) Data Engineer
14 13 (4.13%) AWS DevOps
14 13 (4.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 13 (4.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 10 (3.17%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 10 (3.17%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.57%) REST
2 19 (6.03%) Kafka
2 19 (6.03%) OAuth
3 17 (5.40%) AWS CDK
4 15 (4.76%) OpenID
5 13 (4.13%) SOAP
6 12 (3.81%) Node.js
6 12 (3.81%) OAuth2
6 12 (3.81%) Web Services
7 11 (3.49%) RESTful
7 11 (3.49%) SAML
8 10 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (2.86%) .NET
9 9 (2.86%) PySpark
10 8 (2.54%) LangChain
11 7 (2.22%) AngularJS
11 7 (2.22%) PyTorch
11 7 (2.22%) Spring
11 7 (2.22%) Spring Boot
12 6 (1.90%) React
Miscellaneous
1 103 (32.70%) Cloud Native
2 28 (8.89%) Management Information System
3 25 (7.94%) Data Centre
4 23 (7.30%) Security Posture
5 22 (6.98%) Hybrid Cloud
6 19 (6.03%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (5.08%) Product Ownership
8 15 (4.76%) Enterprise Cloud
8 15 (4.76%) Onboarding
9 10 (3.17%) Public Cloud
10 8 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (2.22%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.59%) IoT
12 5 (1.59%) Private Cloud
13 4 (1.27%) AI Agents
13 4 (1.27%) Cloud Security Posture
13 4 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.27%) NHS
14 3 (0.95%) Autonomous Agent
Operating Systems
1 67 (21.27%) Linux
2 48 (15.24%) Windows
3 17 (5.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.54%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.90%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.59%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.59%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.95%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.63%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.63%) Unix
8 2 (0.63%) VMS
9 1 (0.32%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (55.87%) DevOps
2 173 (54.92%) CI/CD
3 127 (40.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 100 (31.75%) Agile
5 76 (24.13%) Cloud Security
6 64 (20.32%) Containerisation
7 62 (19.68%) Microservices
8 56 (17.78%) Roadmaps
8 56 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
9 55 (17.46%) Observability
10 54 (17.14%) AI
11 53 (16.83%) Migration
12 51 (16.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 49 (15.56%) Technical Leadership
14 45 (14.29%) DevSecOps
14 45 (14.29%) Machine Learning
14 45 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
15 44 (13.97%) Event-Driven
16 43 (13.65%) Scrum
17 42 (13.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 119 (37.78%) Python
2 60 (19.05%) Java
3 46 (14.60%) Bash
4 43 (13.65%) PowerShell
5 36 (11.43%) SQL
6 20 (6.35%) JavaScript
7 18 (5.71%) TypeScript
8 12 (3.81%) Bicep
9 7 (2.22%) Rust
10 5 (1.59%) Perl
11 4 (1.27%) C#
11 4 (1.27%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.27%) Ruby
12 3 (0.95%) Go
12 3 (0.95%) Groovy
12 3 (0.95%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.63%) PHP
14 1 (0.32%) Scala
14 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 121 (38.41%) Security Cleared
2 105 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 101 (32.06%) SC Cleared
4 89 (28.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 47 (14.92%) CISSP
6 41 (13.02%) Degree
7 29 (9.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 23 (7.30%) Cisco Certification
8 23 (7.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (6.98%) DV Cleared
10 20 (6.35%) TOGAF Certification
11 19 (6.03%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (4.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 13 (4.13%) CISM
13 13 (4.13%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (3.81%) AWS Certified Developer
14 12 (3.81%) CCNP
15 9 (2.86%) Master's Degree
15 9 (2.86%) PMI Certification
15 9 (2.86%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (7.30%) NIST
3 21 (6.67%) Data Quality
4 15 (4.76%) GDPR
5 12 (3.81%) NCSC
6 10 (3.17%) QA
7 8 (2.54%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.59%) GRC
9 4 (1.27%) HL7
9 4 (1.27%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.95%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.63%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.32%) DICOM
12 1 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.32%) PSD2
System Software
1 85 (26.98%) Docker
2 15 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.59%) Postfix
5 3 (0.95%) vSphere
6 2 (0.63%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.63%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.63%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.32%) Squid
7 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 143 (45.40%) Terraform
2 96 (30.48%) Kubernetes
3 35 (11.11%) Ansible
4 27 (8.57%) Grafana
4 27 (8.57%) Prometheus
5 19 (6.03%) Progress Chef
6 8 (2.54%) Puppet
7 6 (1.90%) Argo
8 4 (1.27%) Istio
8 4 (1.27%) linkerd
8 4 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.95%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.63%) CASB
10 2 (0.63%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.63%) Packer
10 2 (0.63%) QRadar
10 2 (0.63%) SCCM
11 1 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.32%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 54 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 34 (10.79%) Google
3 16 (5.08%) Splunk
4 14 (4.44%) Red Hat
5 12 (3.81%) Cisco
5 12 (3.81%) Databricks
5 12 (3.81%) ServiceNow
6 11 (3.49%) VMware
7 9 (2.86%) Informatica
8 8 (2.54%) CrowdStrike
8 8 (2.54%) Oracle
9 7 (2.22%) Atlassian
9 7 (2.22%) Fortinet
9 7 (2.22%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.90%) IBM
10 6 (1.90%) Zscaler
11 5 (1.59%) BeyondTrust
11 5 (1.59%) Dynatrace
11 5 (1.59%) Okta
11 5 (1.59%) Tenable