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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 266 404
Rank change year-on-year -95 +138 +2
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 305 289 185
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.97% 0.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.93% 3.13% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 206 137
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% - -
75th Percentile £675 £638 £650
90th Percentile £775 £700 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £535
% change year-on-year +4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
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 15,844 9,241 13,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.28% 30.95% 29.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,572 5,751 8,089
10th Percentile £350 £275 £310
25th Percentile £425 £411 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +1.40% -5.66% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,165 599 1,132
10th Percentile £17.24 £17.86 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £20.24 £19.23
Median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -25.47% -27.24%
75th Percentile £72.54 £63.13 £64.25
90th Percentile £85.25 £77.50 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £28.00 £42.25
% change year-on-year +78.57% -33.73% -19.52%

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 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 20 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 20 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 -59 255 £559 +1.59% 316
London -76 130 £575 - 138
UK excluding London -91 126 £550 +4.76% 246
Work from Home -69 96 £575 +9.52% 190
North of England -38 57 £575 -17.86% 72
North West -12 43 £550 -21.43% 47
South East -46 28 £560 +12.00% 58
Midlands -47 21 £425 -8.60% 39
West Midlands -46 18 £438 -20.45% 27
Yorkshire -54 12 £663 +26.19% 22
South West -33 10 £575 -8.00% 29
East of England -27 8 £550 +4.76% 19
Wales -20 3 £250 -28.93% 8
Scotland -42 3 £463 -11.90% 19
East Midlands -20 2 £424 -7.73% 12
North East -34 2 £525 - 4

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 (8.52%) Confluence
2 6 (1.97%) Apache
3 4 (1.31%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.98%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.66%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.66%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.66%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.33%) nginx
6 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.64%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.66%) DELMIA
2 2 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 305 (100.00%) AWS
2 176 (57.70%) Azure
3 78 (25.57%) GCP
4 68 (22.30%) Serverless
5 57 (18.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 55 (18.03%) Amazon S3
7 48 (15.74%) Amazon EKS
8 46 (15.08%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (14.75%) GitHub
9 45 (14.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 43 (14.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 38 (12.46%) Amazon EC2
12 32 (10.49%) GitHub Actions
13 31 (10.16%) Amazon ECS
14 23 (7.54%) Power Platform
15 19 (6.23%) Route 53
16 18 (5.90%) Azure DevOps
17 17 (5.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 14 (4.59%) AWS KMS
19 13 (4.26%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 40 (13.11%) Firewall
2 20 (6.56%) Network Security
3 15 (4.92%) VPN
4 13 (4.26%) DNS
4 13 (4.26%) WAN
5 10 (3.28%) BGP
6 9 (2.95%) LAN
6 9 (2.95%) SD-WAN
7 7 (2.30%) 3GPP
7 7 (2.30%) OSPF
8 5 (1.64%) VLAN
9 4 (1.31%) IPv6
9 4 (1.31%) MPLS
9 4 (1.31%) NGFW
9 4 (1.31%) TETRA
9 4 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.98%) DHCP
10 3 (0.98%) Internet
10 3 (0.98%) IPsec
10 3 (0.98%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (11.15%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (7.54%) Power BI
3 21 (6.89%) DynamoDB
4 20 (6.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 15 (4.92%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (3.93%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (2.95%) NoSQL
9 8 (2.62%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.62%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.97%) Metadata
12 5 (1.64%) Big Data
13 4 (1.31%) SQL Server
14 3 (0.98%) Amazon QuickSight
14 3 (0.98%) Delta Lake
14 3 (0.98%) DocumentDB
14 3 (0.98%) MySQL
14 3 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (13.77%) Jenkins
2 38 (12.46%) GitLab
3 27 (8.85%) JIRA
4 25 (8.20%) Git
5 8 (2.62%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.30%) JUnit
7 6 (1.97%) Maven
8 5 (1.64%) DbUnit
8 5 (1.64%) jMock
8 5 (1.64%) Mockito
8 5 (1.64%) Snyk
9 3 (0.98%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.98%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (0.98%) MLflow
10 2 (0.66%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.66%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.66%) JMeter
10 2 (0.66%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.33%) Claude Code
General
1 113 (37.05%) Social Skills
2 49 (16.07%) Finance
3 46 (15.08%) Public Sector
4 33 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.90%) Banking
6 17 (5.57%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.95%) Legal
8 8 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.62%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.97%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.64%) Law
12 4 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.98%) Billing
13 3 (0.98%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.98%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.98%) Retail
14 2 (0.66%) Electronics
15 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 112 (36.72%) Architect
2 39 (12.79%) AWS Engineer
3 38 (12.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 35 (11.48%) Cloud Engineer
5 33 (10.82%) Senior
6 28 (9.18%) AWS Architect
7 27 (8.85%) Technical Architect
8 25 (8.20%) Lead
9 24 (7.87%) Security Engineer
10 22 (7.21%) Cloud Architect
10 22 (7.21%) Solutions Architect
11 17 (5.57%) Developer
12 16 (5.25%) Platform Engineer
12 16 (5.25%) Security Architect
13 14 (4.59%) AWS DevOps
13 14 (4.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 14 (4.59%) Data Engineer
14 13 (4.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 10 (3.28%) AWS Platform Engineer
16 9 (2.95%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.20%) REST
2 18 (5.90%) Kafka
2 18 (5.90%) OAuth
3 16 (5.25%) AWS CDK
4 15 (4.92%) OpenID
5 12 (3.93%) Node.js
5 12 (3.93%) OAuth2
5 12 (3.93%) Web Services
6 11 (3.61%) RESTful
6 11 (3.61%) SAML
6 11 (3.61%) SOAP
7 9 (2.95%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (2.95%) PySpark
8 8 (2.62%) .NET
9 7 (2.30%) AngularJS
9 7 (2.30%) Spring
9 7 (2.30%) Spring Boot
10 6 (1.97%) LangChain
10 6 (1.97%) LDAP
10 6 (1.97%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 102 (33.44%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.18%) Management Information System
3 25 (8.20%) Data Centre
4 21 (6.89%) Security Posture
5 20 (6.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (5.57%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (4.92%) Enterprise Cloud
8 14 (4.59%) Product Ownership
9 12 (3.93%) Onboarding
10 9 (2.95%) Public Cloud
10 9 (2.95%) Virtual Team
11 7 (2.30%) Private Cloud
12 6 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.64%) IoT
14 4 (1.31%) Cloud Security Posture
14 4 (1.31%) e-Learning
14 4 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (1.31%) NHS
15 3 (0.98%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 64 (20.98%) Linux
2 45 (14.75%) Windows
3 15 (4.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.97%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.64%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.64%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.64%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.98%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.98%) VMS
7 2 (0.66%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (0.66%) Unix
8 1 (0.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (56.39%) CI/CD
1 172 (56.39%) DevOps
2 124 (40.66%) Infrastructure as Code
3 101 (33.11%) Agile
4 73 (23.93%) Cloud Security
5 61 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 58 (19.02%) Microservices
7 56 (18.36%) Stakeholder Management
8 55 (18.03%) Observability
9 54 (17.70%) Roadmaps
10 50 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 49 (16.07%) AI
11 49 (16.07%) Migration
12 46 (15.08%) Technical Leadership
13 43 (14.10%) DevSecOps
13 43 (14.10%) Scrum
14 42 (13.77%) Event-Driven
14 42 (13.77%) TOGAF
15 41 (13.44%) Machine Learning
16 40 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 116 (38.03%) Python
2 59 (19.34%) Java
3 45 (14.75%) Bash
4 42 (13.77%) PowerShell
5 37 (12.13%) SQL
6 18 (5.90%) JavaScript
7 16 (5.25%) TypeScript
8 12 (3.93%) Bicep
9 7 (2.30%) Rust
10 5 (1.64%) Perl
11 4 (1.31%) C#
11 4 (1.31%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.31%) Ruby
12 3 (0.98%) Go
12 3 (0.98%) Groovy
12 3 (0.98%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.66%) PHP
14 1 (0.33%) Scala
14 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 121 (39.67%) Security Cleared
2 106 (34.75%) Azure Certification
3 102 (33.44%) SC Cleared
4 84 (27.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 45 (14.75%) CISSP
6 39 (12.79%) Degree
7 27 (8.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 22 (7.21%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (7.21%) DV Cleared
9 21 (6.89%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (6.56%) TOGAF Certification
11 17 (5.57%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (4.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 13 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (3.93%) AWS Certified Developer
14 12 (3.93%) CISM
15 11 (3.61%) CCNP
16 10 (3.28%) PMI Certification
16 10 (3.28%) PMP
17 9 (2.95%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (7.21%) NIST
3 20 (6.56%) Data Quality
4 13 (4.26%) GDPR
5 12 (3.93%) NCSC
6 9 (2.95%) QA
7 7 (2.30%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.64%) GRC
9 4 (1.31%) HL7
9 4 (1.31%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.98%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.66%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.33%) DICOM
12 1 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.33%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 82 (26.89%) Docker
2 15 (4.92%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.64%) Postfix
5 2 (0.66%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.66%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.66%) vSphere
6 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.33%) Squid
6 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 140 (45.90%) Terraform
2 91 (29.84%) Kubernetes
3 38 (12.46%) Ansible
4 26 (8.52%) Grafana
4 26 (8.52%) Prometheus
5 19 (6.23%) Progress Chef
6 8 (2.62%) Puppet
7 6 (1.97%) Argo
8 4 (1.31%) Istio
8 4 (1.31%) linkerd
9 3 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.66%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.66%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.66%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.66%) Packer
10 2 (0.66%) QRadar
10 2 (0.66%) SCCM
11 1 (0.33%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.33%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 53 (17.38%) Microsoft
2 36 (11.80%) Google
3 16 (5.25%) Splunk
4 14 (4.59%) Red Hat
5 12 (3.93%) Databricks
5 12 (3.93%) ServiceNow
6 11 (3.61%) Cisco
7 10 (3.28%) VMware
8 9 (2.95%) Informatica
9 8 (2.62%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (2.62%) IBM
10 7 (2.30%) Atlassian
10 7 (2.30%) Fortinet
10 7 (2.30%) Oracle
10 7 (2.30%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.97%) Zscaler
12 5 (1.64%) BeyondTrust
12 5 (1.64%) Dynatrace
12 5 (1.64%) Qualys
12 5 (1.64%) Tenable