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 20 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 262 410
Rank change year-on-year -105 +148 -8
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 270 296 174
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.01% 0.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.77% 3.27% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 209 126
10th Percentile £400 £367 £453
25th Percentile £463 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% -3.93% +4.09%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £675
90th Percentile £761 £713 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £78.75 £38.35 -
25th Percentile £86.63 £43.38 -
Median hourly rate £95.25 £53.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +78.04% - -
75th Percentile £103.06 £77.63 -
90th Percentile £105.75 £91.05 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.25 - -

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 15,227 9,041 12,797
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.63% 31.00% 30.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,134 5,692 7,977
10th Percentile £350 £281 £306
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £532
Median % change year-on-year - -1.32% -3.27%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £646
90th Percentile £725 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,070 515 1,058
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.07 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.33 £21.57 £17.73
Median hourly rate £47.80 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% -6.25% -27.25%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.03 £80.00 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £36.65 £40.30
% change year-on-year +29.62% -9.07% -19.40%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -97 221 £575 - 263
London -75 115 £560 -6.75% 85
UK excluding London -86 107 £550 - 225
Work from Home -86 71 £575 - 66
North of England -34 47 £581 -17.00% 66
North West -16 36 £575 -18.79% 31
Midlands -58 19 £425 -11.92% 34
South East -54 18 £525 +5.00% 43
West Midlands -40 17 £425 -15.00% 14
South West -42 10 £575 -8.00% 32
East of England -22 9 £550 +4.76% 22
Yorkshire -53 9 £663 +20.45% 26
Wales -21 3 £250 -7.41% 10
Scotland -43 3 £394 -28.36% 15
North East - 2 £525 - 9
East Midlands -35 1 £447 -3.87% 20

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 20 (7.41%) Confluence
2 7 (2.59%) Apache
3 5 (1.85%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.11%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.74%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.74%) nginx
5 2 (0.74%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.74%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.85%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.74%) DELMIA
2 2 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 270 (100.00%) AWS
2 141 (52.22%) Azure
3 65 (24.07%) AWS CloudFormation
4 61 (22.59%) GCP
5 57 (21.11%) Serverless
6 48 (17.78%) Amazon EKS
7 45 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 42 (15.56%) GitHub
9 40 (14.81%) Amazon S3
10 34 (12.59%) AWS Lambda
11 32 (11.85%) GitHub Actions
12 30 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 29 (10.74%) Amazon ECS
14 27 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
15 26 (9.63%) AWS KMS
16 19 (7.04%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 17 (6.30%) AWS CodePipeline
17 17 (6.30%) Route 53
18 16 (5.93%) AWS CloudTrail
18 16 (5.93%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 34 (12.59%) Firewall
2 17 (6.30%) VPN
3 16 (5.93%) Network Security
4 12 (4.44%) DNS
5 11 (4.07%) WAN
6 8 (2.96%) BGP
7 7 (2.59%) 3GPP
8 6 (2.22%) LAN
8 6 (2.22%) OSPF
8 6 (2.22%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.48%) IPv6
9 4 (1.48%) TETRA
10 3 (1.11%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (1.11%) IPv4
10 3 (1.11%) MPLS
10 3 (1.11%) VLAN
10 3 (1.11%) VXLAN
11 2 (0.74%) 5G
11 2 (0.74%) PCoIP
11 2 (0.74%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.22%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (8.52%) DynamoDB
3 13 (4.81%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (4.44%) Power BI
5 9 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 9 (3.33%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.59%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (2.22%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.85%) Metadata
8 5 (1.85%) MySQL
9 4 (1.48%) Big Data
9 4 (1.48%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.11%) Amazon QuickSight
10 3 (1.11%) DataStage
10 3 (1.11%) DocumentDB
10 3 (1.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 37 (13.70%) Jenkins
2 25 (9.26%) GitLab
3 20 (7.41%) JIRA
4 16 (5.93%) Git
5 7 (2.59%) JUnit
6 6 (2.22%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.85%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.85%) DbUnit
7 5 (1.85%) jMock
7 5 (1.85%) Maven
7 5 (1.85%) Mockito
8 4 (1.48%) MLflow
8 4 (1.48%) Snyk
9 3 (1.11%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (0.74%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.37%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.37%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.37%) Selenium
General
1 91 (33.70%) Social Skills
2 48 (17.78%) Finance
3 40 (14.81%) Public Sector
4 29 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.67%) Banking
6 10 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.70%) Legal
7 7 (2.59%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.85%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.48%) Electronics
11 3 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.11%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.11%) Marketing
12 2 (0.74%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.74%) Billing
13 1 (0.37%) Dutch Language
13 1 (0.37%) Law
13 1 (0.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 103 (38.15%) Architect
2 34 (12.59%) DevOps Engineer
3 32 (11.85%) AWS Engineer
4 31 (11.48%) AWS Architect
4 31 (11.48%) Cloud Architect
5 24 (8.89%) Lead
6 23 (8.52%) Senior
7 22 (8.15%) Cloud Engineer
8 20 (7.41%) Security Engineer
9 19 (7.04%) Solutions Architect
10 18 (6.67%) Technical Architect
11 17 (6.30%) Developer
12 13 (4.81%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (4.81%) Security Architect
13 11 (4.07%) Lead Architect
14 10 (3.70%) AWS DevOps
14 10 (3.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 8 (2.96%) Data Engineer
16 7 (2.59%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.67%) Kafka
1 18 (6.67%) REST
2 14 (5.19%) AWS CDK
3 12 (4.44%) Node.js
4 11 (4.07%) OAuth
4 11 (4.07%) Web Services
5 10 (3.70%) RESTful
5 10 (3.70%) SOAP
6 8 (2.96%) AngularJS
6 8 (2.96%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (2.96%) OpenID
7 7 (2.59%) .NET
7 7 (2.59%) OAuth2
7 7 (2.59%) Spring
7 7 (2.59%) Spring Boot
8 6 (2.22%) Middleware
9 5 (1.85%) ActiveMQ
9 5 (1.85%) Hibernate
9 5 (1.85%) JPA
9 5 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 76 (28.15%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.04%) Data Centre
3 17 (6.30%) Management Information System
4 14 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (4.81%) Enterprise Cloud
5 13 (4.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (4.07%) Product Ownership
7 10 (3.70%) Virtual Team
8 9 (3.33%) Public Cloud
9 8 (2.96%) Onboarding
10 7 (2.59%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.85%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.85%) Replication
12 4 (1.48%) e-Learning
13 3 (1.11%) AI Agents
13 3 (1.11%) Cloud Security Posture
13 3 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (1.11%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 45 (16.67%) Linux
2 31 (11.48%) Windows
3 5 (1.85%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.85%) Mac OS
3 5 (1.85%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.48%) VMS
5 3 (1.11%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.74%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 137 (50.74%) DevOps
3 107 (39.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (26.67%) Agile
5 55 (20.37%) Containerisation
6 52 (19.26%) Cloud Security
7 49 (18.15%) Microservices
7 49 (18.15%) Migration
8 47 (17.41%) Stakeholder Management
9 42 (15.56%) Observability
10 41 (15.19%) DevSecOps
10 41 (15.19%) Roadmaps
11 39 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 36 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
13 34 (12.59%) TOGAF
14 33 (12.22%) Event-Driven
14 33 (12.22%) Problem-Solving
15 31 (11.48%) Scrum
16 30 (11.11%) Mentoring
17 29 (10.74%) AI
Programming Languages
1 87 (32.22%) Python
2 50 (18.52%) Java
3 30 (11.11%) Bash
4 26 (9.63%) SQL
5 24 (8.89%) PowerShell
6 19 (7.04%) JavaScript
7 18 (6.67%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.59%) Bicep
8 7 (2.59%) Rust
9 6 (2.22%) C#
9 6 (2.22%) Perl
10 5 (1.85%) Ruby
11 4 (1.48%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.11%) Go
12 3 (1.11%) Groovy
12 3 (1.11%) PHP
13 2 (0.74%) Scala
14 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 114 (42.22%) Security Cleared
2 96 (35.56%) SC Cleared
3 87 (32.22%) Azure Certification
4 86 (31.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 27 (10.00%) CISSP
5 27 (10.00%) Degree
6 25 (9.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 22 (8.15%) Cisco Certification
8 19 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (6.67%) DV Cleared
9 18 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
10 12 (4.44%) AWS Certified Developer
11 11 (4.07%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (4.07%) PMI Certification
11 11 (4.07%) PMP
12 10 (3.70%) CCNP
13 9 (3.33%) CCNA
13 9 (3.33%) Master's Degree
14 8 (2.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (2.96%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.89%) NIST
2 23 (8.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (5.93%) NCSC
4 13 (4.81%) GDPR
5 11 (4.07%) QA
6 10 (3.70%) Data Quality
7 6 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.85%) GRC
8 5 (1.85%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.11%) HL7
9 3 (1.11%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.74%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.74%) DICOM
10 2 (0.74%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 2 (0.74%) PSD2
10 2 (0.74%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.37%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (25.19%) Docker
2 12 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.96%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.85%) Postfix
6 2 (0.74%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.74%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.74%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.74%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.74%) vSphere
7 1 (0.37%) Squid
7 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 120 (44.44%) Terraform
2 79 (29.26%) Kubernetes
3 26 (9.63%) Ansible
4 24 (8.89%) Grafana
5 22 (8.15%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.59%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.22%) Argo
8 4 (1.48%) linkerd
8 4 (1.48%) Puppet
9 3 (1.11%) Istio
10 2 (0.74%) CASB
10 2 (0.74%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.74%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.74%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.74%) Packer
10 2 (0.74%) SCCM
11 1 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.37%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.37%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.37%) logstash
Vendors
1 39 (14.44%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.67%) Google
3 14 (5.19%) Splunk
4 13 (4.81%) Databricks
5 11 (4.07%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.33%) Cisco
7 8 (2.96%) Citrix
7 8 (2.96%) Fortinet
7 8 (2.96%) Oracle
8 7 (2.59%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.59%) IBM
8 7 (2.59%) Zscaler
9 6 (2.22%) CloudEndure
9 6 (2.22%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.22%) SAP
9 6 (2.22%) VMware
10 5 (1.85%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (1.85%) Jaspersoft
10 5 (1.85%) Qualys
10 5 (1.85%) Remedy