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 29 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 272 347
Rank change year-on-year -77 +75 +52
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 379 321 232
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.69% 0.98% 0.61%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.19% 3.12% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 217 164
10th Percentile £405 £362 £381
25th Percentile £463 £434 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £675 £638 £638
90th Percentile £790 £743 £707
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £492 £450
% change year-on-year +16.87% +9.33% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £69.03 £39.00 -
25th Percentile £72.66 £45.00 -
Median hourly rate £82.00 £55.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.09% -5.17% -
75th Percentile £85.00 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £89.50 £91.00 -
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 17,321 10,276 11,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.71% 31.52% 29.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,524 6,433 6,726
10th Percentile £350 £282 £313
25th Percentile £445 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £634
90th Percentile £713 £709 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,394 866 615
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.87 £17.73
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £48.56
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -48.21% -9.54%
75th Percentile £72.25 £42.81 £68.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £70.00 £75.34
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -49.70% -4.21%

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 29 September 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 29 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Top 15 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 29 September 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 -58 336 £575 +15.00% 597
UK excluding London -85 174 £575 +16.87% 339
London -44 173 £550 +4.76% 344
Work from Home -48 123 £581 +18.09% 414
North of England -49 66 £590 +31.21% 89
South East -61 45 £560 +12.00% 37
North West -28 41 £538 +19.44% 62
Midlands -38 30 £463 -9.76% 37
West Midlands -40 27 £520 -5.50% 26
South West -30 24 £800 +28.00% 79
Yorkshire -38 20 £625 +38.89% 12
Scotland -43 11 £475 - 44
North East -36 8 £613 +31.44% 15
East of England -26 4 £600 +14.29% 9
East Midlands -17 3 £402 -7.80% 11

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 25 (6.60%) Confluence
2 12 (3.17%) Apache
3 6 (1.58%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.58%) nginx
4 5 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.06%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.79%) CloudStack
6 3 (0.79%) SAS
7 2 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.26%) Appian
8 1 (0.26%) CIMPLICITY
8 1 (0.26%) Predix
8 1 (0.26%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (1.06%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.26%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 5 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.53%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.26%) Actimize
3 1 (0.26%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.26%) Maximo
3 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.26%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 379 (100.00%) AWS
2 214 (56.46%) Azure
3 106 (27.97%) GCP
4 93 (24.54%) Amazon S3
5 81 (21.37%) Serverless
6 77 (20.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 70 (18.47%) Amazon EC2
8 69 (18.21%) AWS Lambda
9 68 (17.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 64 (16.89%) Amazon EKS
11 60 (15.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 55 (14.51%) GitHub
13 44 (11.61%) Amazon ECS
14 37 (9.76%) GitHub Actions
15 31 (8.18%) AWS KMS
16 28 (7.39%) Azure DevOps
16 28 (7.39%) Power Platform
17 20 (5.28%) Amazon EMR
18 18 (4.75%) Amazon SQS
18 18 (4.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 50 (13.19%) Firewall
2 25 (6.60%) Network Security
3 23 (6.07%) DNS
4 12 (3.17%) TCP/IP
4 12 (3.17%) VPN
5 10 (2.64%) DHCP
6 9 (2.37%) LAN
7 8 (2.11%) VSAN
7 8 (2.11%) WAN
8 5 (1.32%) Internet
8 5 (1.32%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.06%) BGP
9 4 (1.06%) NGFW
9 4 (1.06%) SSH
10 3 (0.79%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.79%) NAS
10 3 (0.79%) PCoIP
10 3 (0.79%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (0.79%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.79%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (14.25%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (7.39%) Power BI
3 26 (6.86%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (6.07%) Amazon Aurora
4 23 (6.07%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (5.80%) Amazon Redshift
6 19 (5.01%) DynamoDB
7 17 (4.49%) Amazon Athena
8 15 (3.96%) Data Lake
9 14 (3.69%) SQL Server
10 12 (3.17%) MySQL
11 10 (2.64%) MongoDB
12 9 (2.37%) Metadata
12 9 (2.37%) Redis
13 7 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (1.32%) Hadoop
15 4 (1.06%) Amazon QuickSight
15 4 (1.06%) Big Data
15 4 (1.06%) Flink
15 4 (1.06%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 59 (15.57%) Jenkins
2 55 (14.51%) GitLab
3 35 (9.23%) Git
4 30 (7.92%) JIRA
5 7 (1.85%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.32%) JMeter
6 5 (1.32%) Maven
7 4 (1.06%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.06%) JUnit
7 4 (1.06%) MLflow
7 4 (1.06%) Postman
8 3 (0.79%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.79%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.79%) Selenium
9 2 (0.53%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.53%) DbUnit
9 2 (0.53%) jMock
9 2 (0.53%) Mockito
9 2 (0.53%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.53%) Vagrant
General
1 140 (36.94%) Social Skills
2 86 (22.69%) Public Sector
3 83 (21.90%) Finance
4 41 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (8.18%) Banking
6 18 (4.75%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.11%) Aerospace
8 8 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.85%) Police
10 6 (1.58%) Military
10 6 (1.58%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.32%) Billing
11 5 (1.32%) Law
12 4 (1.06%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.79%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.79%) Local Government
13 3 (0.79%) Retail
13 3 (0.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 122 (32.19%) Architect
2 46 (12.14%) Senior
3 43 (11.35%) Cloud Engineer
3 43 (11.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 42 (11.08%) Lead
5 33 (8.71%) Security Engineer
6 31 (8.18%) AWS Engineer
7 29 (7.65%) Technical Architect
8 27 (7.12%) AWS Architect
9 25 (6.60%) Security Architect
9 25 (6.60%) Solutions Architect
10 22 (5.80%) Cloud Architect
11 17 (4.49%) Platform Engineer
12 15 (3.96%) Consultant
12 15 (3.96%) Data Engineer
13 14 (3.69%) AWS DevOps
13 14 (3.69%) DBA
13 14 (3.69%) Enterprise Architect
14 13 (3.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 13 (3.43%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (48.28%) Terraform
2 31 (8.18%) REST
3 20 (5.28%) OAuth
4 17 (4.49%) RESTful
4 17 (4.49%) Spring Boot
5 16 (4.22%) OpenID
5 16 (4.22%) Spring
6 14 (3.69%) SOAP
7 13 (3.43%) Kafka
7 13 (3.43%) SAML
8 12 (3.17%) PySpark
9 11 (2.90%) AWS CDK
10 10 (2.64%) .NET
10 10 (2.64%) Node.js
10 10 (2.64%) OAuth2
11 9 (2.37%) ARM Templates
11 9 (2.37%) LangChain
11 9 (2.37%) React
11 9 (2.37%) Web Services
12 6 (1.58%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 119 (31.40%) Cloud Native
2 36 (9.50%) Security Posture
3 33 (8.71%) Data Centre
4 32 (8.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (7.12%) Management Information System
6 23 (6.07%) Onboarding
7 21 (5.54%) Product Ownership
8 20 (5.28%) Public Cloud
8 20 (5.28%) Replication
9 17 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (3.43%) PKI
11 12 (3.17%) Enterprise Cloud
12 9 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (2.11%) Cloud Security Posture
13 8 (2.11%) Cyber Threat
14 7 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
15 6 (1.58%) AI Agents
16 5 (1.32%) Mobile App
16 5 (1.32%) Private Cloud
16 5 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 74 (19.53%) Linux
2 56 (14.78%) Windows
3 28 (7.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (3.43%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.11%) Amazon Linux
5 8 (2.11%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.32%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.32%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.06%) Unix
8 2 (0.53%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.53%) CentOS
8 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (53.30%) CI/CD
2 195 (51.45%) DevOps
3 181 (47.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 133 (35.09%) Agile
5 102 (26.91%) Stakeholder Management
6 94 (24.80%) Technical Leadership
7 93 (24.54%) Cloud Security
8 77 (20.32%) Observability
9 73 (19.26%) AI
9 73 (19.26%) Containerisation
9 73 (19.26%) Roadmaps
10 71 (18.73%) Migration
11 70 (18.47%) Continuous Improvement
12 68 (17.94%) DevSecOps
13 67 (17.68%) Microservices
14 55 (14.51%) Platform Engineering
14 55 (14.51%) Problem-Solving
15 52 (13.72%) Cybersecurity
16 51 (13.46%) Scrum
17 49 (12.93%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 146 (38.52%) Python
2 69 (18.21%) PowerShell
3 68 (17.94%) Bash
4 67 (17.68%) Java
5 46 (12.14%) SQL
6 20 (5.28%) Bicep
7 19 (5.01%) JavaScript
8 14 (3.69%) TypeScript
9 10 (2.64%) Go
10 9 (2.37%) Groovy
11 6 (1.58%) Perl
11 6 (1.58%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.32%) Rust
13 3 (0.79%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.53%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.26%) C
15 1 (0.26%) C#
15 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 153 (40.37%) Security Cleared
2 134 (35.36%) SC Cleared
3 121 (31.93%) Azure Certification
4 105 (27.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 75 (19.79%) CISSP
6 45 (11.87%) Degree
7 27 (7.12%) CISM
7 27 (7.12%) DV Cleared
8 25 (6.60%) Cisco Certification
9 24 (6.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 23 (6.07%) BPSS Clearance
11 21 (5.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
13 18 (4.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 16 (4.22%) TOGAF Certification
15 13 (3.43%) CCSP
16 12 (3.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 10 (2.64%) PMI Certification
17 10 (2.64%) PMP
17 10 (2.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.65%) Data Quality
1 29 (7.65%) NIST
2 20 (5.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (5.01%) QA
4 18 (4.75%) NCSC
5 11 (2.90%) GDPR
6 7 (1.85%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.06%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.79%) GRC
8 3 (0.79%) HL7
8 3 (0.79%) SLA
9 2 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.53%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.53%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.26%) COBIT
10 1 (0.26%) DICOM
10 1 (0.26%) FedRAMP
10 1 (0.26%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 105 (27.70%) Docker
2 30 (7.92%) Active Directory
3 20 (5.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (3.69%) vSphere
5 9 (2.37%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.06%) Postfix
7 3 (0.79%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.79%) Squid
8 2 (0.53%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.53%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.53%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.53%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 111 (29.29%) Kubernetes
2 56 (14.78%) Ansible
3 38 (10.03%) Grafana
4 35 (9.23%) Prometheus
5 28 (7.39%) Progress Chef
6 9 (2.37%) Puppet
7 8 (2.11%) Istio
7 8 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (1.85%) VxRail
9 5 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (1.06%) Argo
11 3 (0.79%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.79%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.79%) linkerd
11 3 (0.79%) Packer
11 3 (0.79%) QRadar
12 2 (0.53%) Consul
12 2 (0.53%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.53%) Kibana
12 2 (0.53%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 77 (20.32%) Microsoft
2 48 (12.66%) Google
3 25 (6.60%) VMware
4 23 (6.07%) Splunk
5 20 (5.28%) Red Hat
6 18 (4.75%) ServiceNow
7 15 (3.96%) Cisco
8 11 (2.90%) Informatica
9 10 (2.64%) Databricks
10 9 (2.37%) Dynatrace
10 9 (2.37%) Oracle
11 8 (2.11%) BeyondTrust
11 8 (2.11%) CrowdStrike
11 8 (2.11%) Palo Alto
11 8 (2.11%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.58%) CyberArk
12 6 (1.58%) IBM
13 5 (1.32%) Fortinet
13 5 (1.32%) Remedy
13 5 (1.32%) SAP