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 24 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 282 380
Rank change year-on-year -73 +98 +28
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 341 302 211
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.92% 0.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.06% 3.00% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 218 151
10th Percentile £408 £366 £381
25th Percentile £458 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £613 £650
90th Percentile £779 £714 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £560 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +12.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 1
10th Percentile £78.08 £40.03 -
25th Percentile £84.00 £47.56 -
Median hourly rate £93.75 £54.25 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.81% -6.47% -28.83%
75th Percentile £102.69 £66.44 -
90th Percentile £104.75 £86.58 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £93.75 - £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 16,550 10,081 12,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.36% 30.84% 29.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,044 6,256 7,729
10th Percentile £350 £278 £311
25th Percentile £430 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% -0.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,211 751 962
10th Percentile £17.87 £17.87 £14.25
25th Percentile £25.75 £19.38 £21.05
Median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.81% -41.51% -25.00%
75th Percentile £73.00 £56.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.00 £75.00 £76.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +98.81% -41.51% -21.82%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -66 282 £575 +9.52% 318
UK excluding London -71 151 £560 +12.00% 236
London -80 136 £550 -0.45% 144
Work from Home -58 112 £581 +10.71% 107
North of England -25 61 £579 +21.79% 66
North West -10 43 £550 -18.52% 33
South East -50 34 £560 +12.00% 48
Midlands -40 28 £450 -3.23% 31
West Midlands -46 26 £463 -11.90% 16
Yorkshire -39 17 £638 +51.79% 21
South West -38 15 £710 +13.60% 43
East of England -14 8 £600 +14.29% 21
Scotland -31 7 £479 -4.20% 18
Wales -20 2 £250 -43.95% 6
North East -34 2 £538 - 15
East Midlands -15 1 £400 -12.85% 15

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 24 (7.04%) Confluence
2 8 (2.35%) Apache
3 4 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.17%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.17%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.88%) CloudStack
4 3 (0.88%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.59%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.29%) CIMPLICITY
6 1 (0.29%) nginx
6 1 (0.29%) Predix
6 1 (0.29%) SAS
6 1 (0.29%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.47%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.29%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.29%) Maximo
3 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 341 (100.00%) AWS
2 194 (56.89%) Azure
3 93 (27.27%) GCP
4 78 (22.87%) Serverless
5 68 (19.94%) Amazon S3
6 61 (17.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 54 (15.84%) AWS Lambda
8 52 (15.25%) GitHub
9 49 (14.37%) Amazon EKS
10 47 (13.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 47 (13.78%) Amazon EC2
10 47 (13.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 37 (10.85%) GitHub Actions
12 35 (10.26%) Amazon ECS
13 24 (7.04%) Power Platform
14 23 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
15 21 (6.16%) AWS KMS
15 21 (6.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 13 (3.81%) Amazon EMR
16 13 (3.81%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 43 (12.61%) Firewall
2 22 (6.45%) Network Security
3 14 (4.11%) VPN
4 13 (3.81%) DNS
5 9 (2.64%) LAN
5 9 (2.64%) WAN
6 8 (2.35%) BGP
7 7 (2.05%) 3GPP
7 7 (2.05%) SD-WAN
8 6 (1.76%) DHCP
8 6 (1.76%) TCP/IP
9 5 (1.47%) OSPF
10 4 (1.17%) Internet
10 4 (1.17%) IPv6
10 4 (1.17%) MPLS
10 4 (1.17%) NGFW
10 4 (1.17%) TETRA
11 3 (0.88%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (0.88%) VSAN
11 3 (0.88%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (10.85%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (7.04%) Power BI
3 22 (6.45%) DynamoDB
4 21 (6.16%) Amazon Redshift
5 16 (4.69%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (3.52%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (2.35%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (2.05%) Metadata
10 7 (2.05%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.76%) Big Data
11 6 (1.76%) NoSQL
12 4 (1.17%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (1.17%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.17%) MySQL
12 4 (1.17%) SQL Server
13 3 (0.88%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.59%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 47 (13.78%) Jenkins
2 39 (11.44%) GitLab
3 29 (8.50%) Git
4 25 (7.33%) JIRA
5 9 (2.64%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.05%) Maven
7 6 (1.76%) JUnit
8 5 (1.47%) DbUnit
8 5 (1.47%) jMock
8 5 (1.47%) MLflow
8 5 (1.47%) Mockito
9 4 (1.17%) Snyk
10 3 (0.88%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.88%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (0.88%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.59%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.59%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.59%) JMeter
11 2 (0.59%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 119 (34.90%) Social Skills
2 62 (18.18%) Finance
3 61 (17.89%) Public Sector
4 37 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (7.04%) Banking
6 21 (6.16%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.64%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.35%) Legal
9 7 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.76%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.47%) Billing
11 5 (1.47%) Law
12 3 (0.88%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.88%) Retail
13 2 (0.59%) Electronics
13 2 (0.59%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.59%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.59%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 128 (37.54%) Architect
2 48 (14.08%) Cloud Engineer
3 39 (11.44%) AWS Engineer
4 38 (11.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 36 (10.56%) Senior
6 31 (9.09%) Technical Architect
7 29 (8.50%) Lead
7 29 (8.50%) Security Engineer
8 27 (7.92%) AWS Architect
9 25 (7.33%) Cloud Architect
9 25 (7.33%) Solutions Architect
10 22 (6.45%) Security Architect
11 20 (5.87%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (5.28%) Developer
13 14 (4.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 14 (4.11%) Data Engineer
14 12 (3.52%) AWS DevOps
14 12 (3.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 11 (3.23%) Data Architect
16 10 (2.93%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (8.50%) REST
2 19 (5.57%) OAuth
3 16 (4.69%) Kafka
3 16 (4.69%) RESTful
4 15 (4.40%) OpenID
5 14 (4.11%) Node.js
6 12 (3.52%) AWS CDK
6 12 (3.52%) SOAP
6 12 (3.52%) Spring Boot
6 12 (3.52%) Web Services
7 11 (3.23%) OAuth2
7 11 (3.23%) SAML
7 11 (3.23%) Spring
8 10 (2.93%) PySpark
9 8 (2.35%) .NET
9 8 (2.35%) AngularJS
9 8 (2.35%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (2.35%) LangChain
10 7 (2.05%) PyTorch
11 6 (1.76%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 112 (32.84%) Cloud Native
2 31 (9.09%) Security Posture
3 29 (8.50%) Management Information System
4 26 (7.62%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (7.33%) Data Centre
6 23 (6.74%) Product Ownership
7 18 (5.28%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (4.40%) Enterprise Cloud
8 15 (4.40%) Onboarding
9 13 (3.81%) Public Cloud
10 8 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (2.05%) IoT
12 6 (1.76%) Cloud Security Posture
12 6 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (1.17%) NHS
13 4 (1.17%) PKI
13 4 (1.17%) Replication
13 4 (1.17%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 76 (22.29%) Linux
2 54 (15.84%) Windows
3 24 (7.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.35%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.76%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.47%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.47%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.17%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.59%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.59%) Unix
9 1 (0.29%) CentOS
9 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (55.43%) DevOps
2 182 (53.37%) CI/CD
3 140 (41.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 118 (34.60%) Agile
5 88 (25.81%) Cloud Security
6 71 (20.82%) Containerisation
6 71 (20.82%) Microservices
7 66 (19.35%) Roadmaps
8 65 (19.06%) Technical Leadership
9 63 (18.48%) Stakeholder Management
10 62 (18.18%) AI
11 60 (17.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 59 (17.30%) DevSecOps
13 58 (17.01%) Observability
14 56 (16.42%) Migration
15 53 (15.54%) Scrum
16 49 (14.37%) TOGAF
17 47 (13.78%) Machine Learning
18 46 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
19 45 (13.20%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 137 (40.18%) Python
2 65 (19.06%) Java
3 63 (18.48%) Bash
4 60 (17.60%) PowerShell
5 34 (9.97%) SQL
6 23 (6.74%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.57%) Bicep
7 19 (5.57%) TypeScript
8 8 (2.35%) Rust
9 6 (1.76%) Perl
10 5 (1.47%) Groovy
11 4 (1.17%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.17%) Ruby
12 3 (0.88%) C#
12 3 (0.88%) Go
12 3 (0.88%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.59%) PHP
14 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 133 (39.00%) Security Cleared
2 119 (34.90%) Azure Certification
3 112 (32.84%) SC Cleared
4 95 (27.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 54 (15.84%) CISSP
6 43 (12.61%) Degree
7 29 (8.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 25 (7.33%) DV Cleared
9 23 (6.74%) Cisco Certification
10 22 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
10 22 (6.45%) TOGAF Certification
11 17 (4.99%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (4.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 15 (4.40%) CISM
12 15 (4.40%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (3.81%) AWS Certified Developer
14 12 (3.52%) CCNP
15 8 (2.35%) Master's Degree
16 7 (2.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 7 (2.05%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.33%) NIST
2 24 (7.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (6.16%) Data Quality
4 15 (4.40%) GDPR
5 14 (4.11%) QA
6 11 (3.23%) NCSC
7 7 (2.05%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.47%) GRC
9 4 (1.17%) HL7
9 4 (1.17%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.59%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.59%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.29%) DICOM
11 1 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.29%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.29%) PSD2
System Software
1 95 (27.86%) Docker
2 19 (5.57%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.35%) vSphere
5 5 (1.47%) Postfix
6 4 (1.17%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.59%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.59%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.59%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.29%) Squid
8 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 152 (44.57%) Terraform
2 105 (30.79%) Kubernetes
3 37 (10.85%) Ansible
4 33 (9.68%) Grafana
5 29 (8.50%) Prometheus
6 24 (7.04%) Progress Chef
7 10 (2.93%) Puppet
8 7 (2.05%) Argo
9 5 (1.47%) Istio
10 4 (1.17%) linkerd
10 4 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.88%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.88%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.88%) QRadar
11 3 (0.88%) VxRail
12 2 (0.59%) CASB
12 2 (0.59%) Packer
12 2 (0.59%) SCCM
13 1 (0.29%) CloudForms
Vendors
1 66 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 41 (12.02%) Google
3 18 (5.28%) Red Hat
4 17 (4.99%) Splunk
5 16 (4.69%) VMware
6 14 (4.11%) ServiceNow
7 12 (3.52%) Cisco
8 10 (2.93%) Databricks
9 9 (2.64%) Informatica
10 8 (2.35%) CrowdStrike
10 8 (2.35%) Palo Alto
11 7 (2.05%) IBM
12 6 (1.76%) Atlassian
12 6 (1.76%) Dynatrace
12 6 (1.76%) Fortinet
12 6 (1.76%) Oracle
12 6 (1.76%) Zscaler
13 5 (1.47%) BeyondTrust
13 5 (1.47%) Jaspersoft
13 5 (1.47%) Okta