AWS Certification Contracts

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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 263 389 414
Rank change year-on-year +126 +25 -86
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 300 200 282
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.97% 0.46% 0.51%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.13% 1.55% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 146 210
10th Percentile £368 £400 £449
25th Percentile £447 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £712 £763 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £516 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -3.50% -2.73% -2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £40.03 - £80.30
25th Percentile £47.56 - £80.75
Median hourly rate £54.25 - £81.50
75th Percentile £66.44 - £82.25
90th Percentile £86.58 - £82.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 9,581 12,940 14,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.89% 29.82% 26.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,919 7,996 9,928
10th Percentile £275 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £703 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £528 £525
% change year-on-year -5.30% +0.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 641 1,112 731
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £19.81 £22.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.94 £55.85
Median % change year-on-year -31.61% -26.70% +25.51%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.24 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.28 £43.00 £54.11
% change year-on-year -38.88% -20.54% +50.31%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification.

Daily rate trend for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification.

Hourly rate trend for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS Certification over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Top 18 Contract 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 2 July 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 +100 216 £540 -1.82% 1,811
London +78 136 £575 +4.55% 866
Work from Home +71 119 £525 -8.70% 703
UK excluding London +82 113 £516 -3.50% 1,155
Scotland +36 38 £525 -4.55% 90
South East +61 19 £500 -6.54% 270
North of England -8 16 £675 +68.75% 314
South West +46 15 £625 +4.17% 106
Midlands +11 11 £462 -28.92% 178
Wales +13 8 £440 -31.56% 31
North West +5 8 £700 +35.27% 177
Yorkshire -14 7 £488 +21.88% 104
West Midlands +11 6 £550 -15.38% 122
East Midlands +7 5 £459 +8.00% 55
Northern Ireland - 3 £738 - 50
East of England +11 2 £525 -6.67% 117
North East -1 1 - - 36
Channel Islands - 1 £760 -

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (3.67%) Confluence
2 6 (2.00%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.00%) Jupyter
3 5 (1.67%) Apache
3 5 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.67%) CMS
3 5 (1.67%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.67%) Camunda
4 2 (0.67%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.33%) nginx
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.33%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.33%) SAP EWM
2 1 (0.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.33%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.33%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 300 (100.00%) AWS
2 125 (41.67%) Azure
3 111 (37.00%) Serverless
4 96 (32.00%) AWS Lambda
5 90 (30.00%) Amazon S3
6 64 (21.33%) GCP
7 51 (17.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 47 (15.67%) Amazon EKS
9 36 (12.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 35 (11.67%) GitHub
11 33 (11.00%) Amazon EC2
12 31 (10.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 25 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
14 23 (7.67%) PaaS
15 21 (7.00%) SaaS
16 18 (6.00%) AWS KMS
17 17 (5.67%) AWS CloudTrail
18 16 (5.33%) Cloud Computing
19 15 (5.00%) IaaS
20 14 (4.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 29 (9.67%) Firewall
2 20 (6.67%) DNS
3 19 (6.33%) VPN
4 10 (3.33%) WAN
5 8 (2.67%) BGP
6 7 (2.33%) Network Security
6 7 (2.33%) OSPF
7 6 (2.00%) LAN
8 5 (1.67%) SSL
8 5 (1.67%) VLAN
9 4 (1.33%) MPLS
9 4 (1.33%) NAS
9 4 (1.33%) SAN
9 4 (1.33%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.00%) DHCP
10 3 (1.00%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 2 (0.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 2 (0.67%) Unicast
11 2 (0.67%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (16.33%) Amazon RDS
2 33 (11.00%) DynamoDB
3 27 (9.00%) NoSQL
4 23 (7.67%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (5.67%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (4.67%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (4.33%) MongoDB
9 11 (3.67%) Oracle Database
10 10 (3.33%) Metadata
11 7 (2.33%) Big Data
11 7 (2.33%) GIS
11 7 (2.33%) MySQL
12 4 (1.33%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (1.33%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.33%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.33%) SQL Server
13 3 (1.00%) Flink
13 3 (1.00%) Parquet
14 2 (0.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 46 (15.33%) GitLab
2 38 (12.67%) Jenkins
3 27 (9.00%) Git
4 18 (6.00%) JIRA
5 12 (4.00%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.00%) MLflow
7 5 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.67%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.33%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.33%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.33%) Maven
General
1 131 (43.67%) Social Skills
2 54 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (17.33%) Public Sector
4 41 (13.67%) Finance
5 20 (6.67%) Banking
6 8 (2.67%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.00%) Legal
7 6 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.67%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.33%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.00%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.00%) Billing
10 3 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.00%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.00%) Retail
11 2 (0.67%) Digital Health
11 2 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.67%) Publishing
12 1 (0.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 112 (37.33%) Architect
2 49 (16.33%) AWS Engineer
3 45 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
4 42 (14.00%) AWS Architect
5 31 (10.33%) Developer
5 31 (10.33%) Senior
6 30 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 30 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 25 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
8 20 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
8 20 (6.67%) Lead
9 17 (5.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 17 (5.67%) AWS Solution Architect
10 16 (5.33%) Security Architect
11 12 (4.00%) Data Engineer
12 11 (3.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 10 (3.33%) AWS Developer
14 9 (3.00%) Security Engineer
14 9 (3.00%) Technical Architect
15 8 (2.67%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.67%) React
2 18 (6.00%) Kafka
3 12 (4.00%) Node.js
3 12 (4.00%) OAuth
4 11 (3.67%) Spring Boot
5 10 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (3.33%) GraphQL
5 10 (3.33%) REST
5 10 (3.33%) Spring
6 9 (3.00%) AWS CDK
7 8 (2.67%) .NET
7 8 (2.67%) SAML
8 7 (2.33%) FastAPI
8 7 (2.33%) NumPy
8 7 (2.33%) Pandas
9 6 (2.00%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.00%) LangChain
9 6 (2.00%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (2.00%) PyTorch
9 6 (2.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 48 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 11 (3.67%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (3.00%) PKI
7 8 (2.67%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.00%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.67%) NHS
10 4 (1.33%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (1.33%) Replication
11 3 (1.00%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.00%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.00%) Life Science
11 3 (1.00%) Oracle Licensing
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.00%) Linux
2 14 (4.67%) Windows
3 9 (3.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.33%) Unix
5 3 (1.00%) CentOS
5 3 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.33%) SUSE
6 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (37.67%) DevOps
2 104 (34.67%) CI/CD
3 96 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
4 77 (25.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 71 (23.67%) Containerisation
6 66 (22.00%) Agile
7 58 (19.33%) Computer Science
8 51 (17.00%) Cloud Security
9 49 (16.33%) Migration
10 47 (15.67%) Mentoring
11 46 (15.33%) High Availability
12 44 (14.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 38 (12.67%) Microservices
14 35 (11.67%) Roadmaps
15 33 (11.00%) Technical Leadership
16 32 (10.67%) Artificial Intelligence
17 27 (9.00%) Analytics
18 25 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
18 25 (8.33%) Data Science
19 24 (8.00%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 117 (39.00%) Python
2 43 (14.33%) Java
3 34 (11.33%) SQL
4 30 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 22 (7.33%) Bash
6 18 (6.00%) TypeScript
7 15 (5.00%) PowerShell
8 9 (3.00%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.00%) Ruby
9 6 (2.00%) Scala
10 4 (1.33%) PHP
11 3 (1.00%) CodeQL
12 2 (0.67%) C
12 2 (0.67%) C#
12 2 (0.67%) Go
12 2 (0.67%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.67%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 118 (39.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 92 (30.67%) Security Cleared
3 87 (29.00%) Azure Certification
4 82 (27.33%) SC Cleared
5 71 (23.67%) Degree
6 48 (16.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (7.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (5.67%) CISSP
9 16 (5.33%) AWS Certified Developer
9 16 (5.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 15 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (5.00%) DV Cleared
11 14 (4.67%) Master's Degree
12 10 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (2.67%) PMI Certification
13 8 (2.67%) PMP
14 7 (2.33%) CISM
14 7 (2.33%) OCP
14 7 (2.33%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (2.00%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (8.00%) GDPR
3 23 (7.67%) QA
4 17 (5.67%) NIST
5 15 (5.00%) Data Quality
6 6 (2.00%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.67%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.67%) SOC 2
8 3 (1.00%) NCSC
8 3 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.00%) SLA
9 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.67%) FIPS 140-2
9 2 (0.67%) GRC
9 2 (0.67%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 53 (17.67%) Docker
2 15 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.33%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.67%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 83 (27.67%) Terraform
2 79 (26.33%) Kubernetes
3 37 (12.33%) Ansible
4 20 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 18 (6.00%) Grafana
6 13 (4.33%) Puppet
7 6 (2.00%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.33%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.67%) Argo
9 2 (0.67%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.67%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.67%) Icinga
9 2 (0.67%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.67%) linkerd
9 2 (0.67%) Nagios
9 2 (0.67%) Observium
9 2 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.33%) Istio
10 1 (0.33%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (17.00%) Microsoft
2 28 (9.33%) Google
3 26 (8.67%) Oracle
4 10 (3.33%) Splunk
5 9 (3.00%) Cisco
6 8 (2.67%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.33%) IBM
8 6 (2.00%) Databricks
8 6 (2.00%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.67%) Dataiku
9 5 (1.67%) DataRobot
9 5 (1.67%) Okta
9 5 (1.67%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.67%) SAP
10 4 (1.33%) EMC
10 4 (1.33%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.33%) NetApp
10 4 (1.33%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.33%) Pure Storage
10 4 (1.33%) VMware