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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 276 371
Rank change year-on-year -78 +95 +53
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 338 303 210
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.93% 0.51%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.05% 3.01% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 218 150
10th Percentile £408 £367 £381
25th Percentile £461 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £622 £650
90th Percentile £775 £714 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £560 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +12.00% -4.76% -4.55%
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 16,493 10,054 12,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.27% 30.81% 29.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,021 6,237 7,796
10th Percentile £350 £275 £310
25th Percentile £430 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £701 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,192 742 985
10th Percentile £17.87 £17.87 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.75 £19.38 £20.75
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -41.51% -25.00%
75th Percentile £73.46 £56.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £86.93 £75.00 £75.24
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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -62 279 £575 +9.52% 310
UK excluding London -73 149 £560 +12.00% 225
London -72 133 £550 -0.45% 142
Work from Home -59 112 £575 +9.52% 104
North of England -35 60 £582 +22.53% 62
North West -14 42 £550 -18.52% 27
South East -47 34 £560 +12.00% 51
Midlands -42 27 £450 -3.23% 32
West Midlands -40 25 £463 -11.90% 16
Yorkshire -42 17 £638 +51.79% 23
South West -34 15 £623 -0.40% 31
East of England -15 8 £600 +14.29% 23
Scotland -38 7 £479 -6.54% 19
Wales -21 2 £250 -43.95% 5
North East -35 2 £538 - 15
East Midlands -16 1 £400 -12.85% 16

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 (7.10%) Confluence
2 7 (2.07%) Apache
3 4 (1.18%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.89%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.89%) CloudStack
4 3 (0.89%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.59%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.59%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.30%) CIMPLICITY
6 1 (0.30%) nginx
6 1 (0.30%) Predix
6 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.48%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.30%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.30%) Maximo
3 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 338 (100.00%) AWS
2 193 (57.10%) Azure
3 91 (26.92%) GCP
4 76 (22.49%) Serverless
5 66 (19.53%) Amazon S3
6 60 (17.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 52 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
7 52 (15.38%) GitHub
8 47 (13.91%) Amazon EKS
9 46 (13.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 45 (13.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 45 (13.31%) Amazon EC2
11 37 (10.95%) GitHub Actions
12 33 (9.76%) Amazon ECS
13 24 (7.10%) Azure DevOps
13 24 (7.10%) Power Platform
14 21 (6.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 20 (5.92%) AWS KMS
16 13 (3.85%) Amazon EMR
16 13 (3.85%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 42 (12.43%) Firewall
2 22 (6.51%) Network Security
3 14 (4.14%) VPN
4 12 (3.55%) DNS
5 9 (2.66%) LAN
5 9 (2.66%) WAN
6 8 (2.37%) BGP
7 7 (2.07%) 3GPP
7 7 (2.07%) SD-WAN
8 5 (1.48%) DHCP
8 5 (1.48%) OSPF
8 5 (1.48%) TCP/IP
9 4 (1.18%) Internet
9 4 (1.18%) IPv6
9 4 (1.18%) MPLS
9 4 (1.18%) NGFW
9 4 (1.18%) TETRA
10 3 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (0.89%) Multicast
10 3 (0.89%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (10.65%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (7.10%) Power BI
3 22 (6.51%) DynamoDB
4 20 (5.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 16 (4.73%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (3.55%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (2.37%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (2.07%) Metadata
10 7 (2.07%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.78%) Big Data
12 5 (1.48%) NoSQL
13 4 (1.18%) Amazon QuickSight
13 4 (1.18%) Delta Lake
13 4 (1.18%) MySQL
13 4 (1.18%) SQL Server
14 2 (0.59%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (13.61%) Jenkins
2 39 (11.54%) GitLab
3 30 (8.88%) Git
4 25 (7.40%) JIRA
5 9 (2.66%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.07%) Maven
7 6 (1.78%) JUnit
8 5 (1.48%) DbUnit
8 5 (1.48%) jMock
8 5 (1.48%) MLflow
8 5 (1.48%) Mockito
9 4 (1.18%) Snyk
10 3 (0.89%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.89%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (0.89%) 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
1 118 (34.91%) Social Skills
2 62 (18.34%) Finance
3 61 (18.05%) Public Sector
4 36 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (7.10%) Banking
6 21 (6.21%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.66%) Legal
7 9 (2.66%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.78%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.48%) Billing
10 5 (1.48%) Law
11 3 (0.89%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.89%) Retail
12 2 (0.59%) Electronics
12 2 (0.59%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.59%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.59%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 127 (37.57%) Architect
2 47 (13.91%) Cloud Engineer
3 39 (11.54%) AWS Engineer
3 39 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
4 36 (10.65%) Senior
5 32 (9.47%) Technical Architect
6 29 (8.58%) Security Engineer
7 27 (7.99%) Lead
8 26 (7.69%) AWS Architect
9 25 (7.40%) Solutions Architect
10 24 (7.10%) Cloud Architect
11 22 (6.51%) Security Architect
12 19 (5.62%) Platform Engineer
13 18 (5.33%) Developer
14 14 (4.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 14 (4.14%) Data Engineer
15 12 (3.55%) AWS DevOps
15 12 (3.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 10 (2.96%) AWS Platform Engineer
16 10 (2.96%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (8.58%) REST
2 19 (5.62%) OAuth
3 15 (4.44%) Kafka
3 15 (4.44%) OpenID
3 15 (4.44%) RESTful
4 14 (4.14%) Node.js
5 13 (3.85%) SOAP
6 12 (3.55%) AWS CDK
6 12 (3.55%) Web Services
7 11 (3.25%) OAuth2
7 11 (3.25%) SAML
7 11 (3.25%) Spring Boot
8 10 (2.96%) PySpark
8 10 (2.96%) Spring
9 8 (2.37%) .NET
9 8 (2.37%) AngularJS
9 8 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (2.37%) LangChain
10 7 (2.07%) PyTorch
11 6 (1.78%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 111 (32.84%) Cloud Native
2 31 (9.17%) Security Posture
3 29 (8.58%) Management Information System
4 26 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 24 (7.10%) Data Centre
6 22 (6.51%) Product Ownership
7 18 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (4.44%) Enterprise Cloud
8 15 (4.44%) Onboarding
9 12 (3.55%) Public Cloud
10 8 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (2.07%) IoT
12 6 (1.78%) Cloud Security Posture
12 6 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (1.18%) NHS
13 4 (1.18%) Replication
13 4 (1.18%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.89%) CMDB
14 3 (0.89%) Mobile App
14 3 (0.89%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 76 (22.49%) Linux
2 53 (15.68%) Windows
3 24 (7.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.37%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.78%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.48%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.48%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.18%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.59%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.59%) Unix
9 1 (0.30%) CentOS
9 1 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (55.92%) DevOps
2 181 (53.55%) CI/CD
3 138 (40.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 117 (34.62%) Agile
5 90 (26.63%) Cloud Security
6 70 (20.71%) Containerisation
6 70 (20.71%) Microservices
7 65 (19.23%) Roadmaps
8 63 (18.64%) Stakeholder Management
9 62 (18.34%) Technical Leadership
10 61 (18.05%) AI
11 59 (17.46%) Continuous Improvement
12 57 (16.86%) DevSecOps
13 56 (16.57%) Migration
13 56 (16.57%) Observability
14 52 (15.38%) Scrum
15 49 (14.50%) TOGAF
16 46 (13.61%) Machine Learning
16 46 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
17 44 (13.02%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 135 (39.94%) Python
2 65 (19.23%) Java
3 62 (18.34%) Bash
4 59 (17.46%) PowerShell
5 33 (9.76%) SQL
6 23 (6.80%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.62%) Bicep
7 19 (5.62%) TypeScript
8 8 (2.37%) Rust
9 6 (1.78%) Perl
10 5 (1.48%) Groovy
11 4 (1.18%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.18%) Ruby
12 3 (0.89%) C#
12 3 (0.89%) Go
12 3 (0.89%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.59%) PHP
14 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 131 (38.76%) Security Cleared
2 118 (34.91%) Azure Certification
3 110 (32.54%) SC Cleared
4 94 (27.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 54 (15.98%) CISSP
6 43 (12.72%) Degree
7 30 (8.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 24 (7.10%) DV Cleared
9 23 (6.80%) Cisco Certification
10 22 (6.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 22 (6.51%) TOGAF Certification
11 17 (5.03%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (4.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 15 (4.44%) CISM
12 15 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (3.85%) AWS Certified Developer
14 12 (3.55%) CCNP
15 8 (2.37%) Master's Degree
16 7 (2.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 7 (2.07%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.40%) NIST
2 24 (7.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (6.21%) Data Quality
4 15 (4.44%) GDPR
5 13 (3.85%) QA
6 11 (3.25%) NCSC
7 7 (2.07%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.48%) GRC
9 4 (1.18%) HL7
9 4 (1.18%) 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 (0.30%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.30%) DICOM
11 1 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.30%) PSD2
System Software
1 93 (27.51%) Docker
2 18 (5.33%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.78%) vSphere
5 5 (1.48%) Postfix
6 3 (0.89%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.59%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.59%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.59%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.59%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.30%) Squid
8 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 150 (44.38%) Terraform
2 103 (30.47%) Kubernetes
3 36 (10.65%) Ansible
4 32 (9.47%) Grafana
5 28 (8.28%) Prometheus
6 24 (7.10%) Progress Chef
7 10 (2.96%) Puppet
8 6 (1.78%) Argo
9 4 (1.18%) Istio
9 4 (1.18%) linkerd
9 4 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.89%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.89%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.89%) QRadar
11 2 (0.59%) CASB
11 2 (0.59%) Packer
11 2 (0.59%) SCCM
11 2 (0.59%) VxRail
12 1 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 66 (19.53%) Microsoft
2 40 (11.83%) Google
3 18 (5.33%) Red Hat
4 17 (5.03%) Splunk
5 14 (4.14%) ServiceNow
5 14 (4.14%) VMware
6 12 (3.55%) Cisco
7 9 (2.66%) Databricks
7 9 (2.66%) Informatica
8 8 (2.37%) CrowdStrike
8 8 (2.37%) Palo Alto
9 7 (2.07%) IBM
9 7 (2.07%) Oracle
10 6 (1.78%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.78%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.78%) Fortinet
10 6 (1.78%) Zscaler
11 5 (1.48%) BeyondTrust
11 5 (1.48%) Jaspersoft
11 5 (1.48%) Okta