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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 247 397
Rank change year-on-year -124 +150 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 271 301 174
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.03% 0.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.78% 3.32% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 214 126
10th Percentile £400 £367 £453
25th Percentile £463 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year +1.36% -3.93% +4.09%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £675
90th Percentile £761 £715 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £548 £600
% change year-on-year +0.46% -8.75% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile £79.50 £38.35 -
25th Percentile £85.63 £43.38 -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £53.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +77.57% - -
75th Percentile £102.88 £77.63 -
90th Percentile £105.25 £91.05 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.00 - -

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 15,214 9,060 12,827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.67% 31.02% 30.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,135 5,710 7,978
10th Percentile £350 £281 £306
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £623 £620 £646
90th Percentile £721 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.10% +1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,064 512 1,058
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.04 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.25 £21.25 £17.73
Median hourly rate £47.80 £37.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.31% -6.88% -27.25%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.25 £79.87 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £37.07 £40.30
% change year-on-year +28.13% -8.01% -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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -89 222 £575 - 268
London -86 114 £560 -6.75% 87
UK excluding London -102 108 £550 +0.46% 231
Work from Home -87 71 £588 +6.82% 72
North of England -39 47 £581 -17.00% 63
North West -15 36 £575 -18.79% 29
South East -49 20 £525 +5.00% 48
Midlands -55 19 £436 -9.64% 33
West Midlands -44 17 £438 -12.50% 14
East of England -21 9 £550 +4.76% 25
South West -31 9 £644 +3.00% 34
Yorkshire -48 9 £663 +20.45% 25
Wales -21 3 £250 -7.41% 10
Scotland -37 3 £394 -28.36% 16
North East -21 2 £525 +27.27% 9
East Midlands -36 1 £447 -3.87% 19

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 (7.38%) Confluence
2 7 (2.58%) 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
1 271 (100.00%) AWS
2 143 (52.77%) Azure
3 65 (23.99%) AWS CloudFormation
4 61 (22.51%) GCP
5 56 (20.66%) Serverless
6 48 (17.71%) Amazon EKS
7 45 (16.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 41 (15.13%) GitHub
9 39 (14.39%) Amazon S3
10 33 (12.18%) AWS Lambda
11 31 (11.44%) GitHub Actions
12 29 (10.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 29 (10.70%) Amazon ECS
13 26 (9.59%) Amazon EC2
14 25 (9.23%) AWS KMS
15 19 (7.01%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 17 (6.27%) AWS CodePipeline
17 16 (5.90%) AWS CloudTrail
17 16 (5.90%) Entra ID
17 16 (5.90%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 34 (12.55%) Firewall
2 17 (6.27%) VPN
3 16 (5.90%) Network Security
4 12 (4.43%) DNS
5 11 (4.06%) WAN
6 8 (2.95%) BGP
7 7 (2.58%) 3GPP
8 6 (2.21%) LAN
8 6 (2.21%) OSPF
8 6 (2.21%) 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 32 (11.81%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (8.12%) DynamoDB
3 12 (4.43%) Amazon Aurora
3 12 (4.43%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.43%) Power BI
4 9 (3.32%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (3.32%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.32%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.58%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.21%) Data Lake
6 6 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.85%) Metadata
7 5 (1.85%) MySQL
8 4 (1.48%) Big Data
8 4 (1.48%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.11%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (1.11%) DataStage
9 3 (1.11%) DocumentDB
9 3 (1.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 35 (12.92%) Jenkins
2 25 (9.23%) GitLab
3 20 (7.38%) JIRA
4 15 (5.54%) Git
5 6 (2.21%) JUnit
6 5 (1.85%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.85%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.48%) DbUnit
7 4 (1.48%) jMock
7 4 (1.48%) Maven
7 4 (1.48%) MLflow
7 4 (1.48%) Mockito
7 4 (1.48%) Snyk
8 2 (0.74%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.74%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.37%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.37%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.37%) Postman
General
1 92 (33.95%) Social Skills
2 48 (17.71%) Finance
3 39 (14.39%) Public Sector
4 28 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.64%) Banking
6 10 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.69%) Legal
7 7 (2.58%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.85%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.48%) Electronics
9 4 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.11%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.11%) Marketing
11 2 (0.74%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.74%) Billing
12 1 (0.37%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.37%) Law
12 1 (0.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 105 (38.75%) Architect
2 34 (12.55%) DevOps Engineer
3 32 (11.81%) AWS Engineer
4 31 (11.44%) AWS Architect
4 31 (11.44%) Cloud Architect
5 24 (8.86%) Lead
6 22 (8.12%) Senior
7 21 (7.75%) Cloud Engineer
8 20 (7.38%) Security Engineer
8 20 (7.38%) Technical Architect
9 19 (7.01%) Solutions Architect
10 15 (5.54%) Developer
11 14 (5.17%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (4.80%) Security Architect
13 11 (4.06%) Lead Architect
14 10 (3.69%) AWS DevOps
14 10 (3.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 8 (2.95%) Data Engineer
16 7 (2.58%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.64%) Kafka
2 17 (6.27%) REST
3 14 (5.17%) AWS CDK
4 11 (4.06%) Node.js
4 11 (4.06%) OAuth
5 10 (3.69%) Web Services
6 9 (3.32%) RESTful
6 9 (3.32%) SOAP
7 8 (2.95%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (2.95%) OpenID
8 7 (2.58%) .NET
8 7 (2.58%) AngularJS
8 7 (2.58%) OAuth2
9 6 (2.21%) Middleware
9 6 (2.21%) Spring
9 6 (2.21%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.85%) boto
10 5 (1.85%) React
10 5 (1.85%) XML
11 4 (1.48%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 76 (28.04%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.01%) Data Centre
3 17 (6.27%) Management Information System
4 13 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.80%) Enterprise Cloud
4 13 (4.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (4.06%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.69%) Virtual Team
7 9 (3.32%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.95%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.58%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.85%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.85%) Replication
11 4 (1.48%) e-Learning
12 3 (1.11%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.11%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.11%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 44 (16.24%) Linux
2 32 (11.81%) Windows
3 6 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.85%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.85%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.48%) VMS
6 3 (1.11%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.74%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (54.98%) CI/CD
2 135 (49.82%) DevOps
3 108 (39.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 73 (26.94%) Agile
5 54 (19.93%) Containerisation
6 53 (19.56%) Cloud Security
7 49 (18.08%) Migration
8 48 (17.71%) Microservices
9 46 (16.97%) Stakeholder Management
10 43 (15.87%) DevSecOps
10 43 (15.87%) Roadmaps
11 42 (15.50%) Observability
12 40 (14.76%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (13.28%) TOGAF
14 35 (12.92%) Technical Leadership
15 33 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
16 32 (11.81%) Event-Driven
17 30 (11.07%) Mentoring
17 30 (11.07%) Scrum
18 28 (10.33%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 86 (31.73%) Python
2 49 (18.08%) Java
3 30 (11.07%) Bash
4 25 (9.23%) SQL
5 24 (8.86%) PowerShell
6 19 (7.01%) JavaScript
7 18 (6.64%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.58%) Bicep
8 7 (2.58%) Rust
9 6 (2.21%) C#
9 6 (2.21%) 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
1 115 (42.44%) Security Cleared
2 97 (35.79%) SC Cleared
3 88 (32.47%) Azure Certification
4 86 (31.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 28 (10.33%) CISSP
6 27 (9.96%) Degree
7 24 (8.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 22 (8.12%) Cisco Certification
9 20 (7.38%) TOGAF Certification
10 19 (7.01%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (6.27%) DV Cleared
12 11 (4.06%) AWS Certified Developer
12 11 (4.06%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (4.06%) PMI Certification
12 11 (4.06%) PMP
13 10 (3.69%) CCNP
14 9 (3.32%) CCNA
14 9 (3.32%) Master's Degree
15 8 (2.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 8 (2.95%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.86%) NIST
2 23 (8.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (5.90%) NCSC
4 13 (4.80%) GDPR
5 11 (4.06%) QA
6 10 (3.69%) Data Quality
7 6 (2.21%) 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%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
System Software
1 67 (24.72%) Docker
2 13 (4.80%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.95%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.48%) 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
1 119 (43.91%) Terraform
2 79 (29.15%) Kubernetes
3 27 (9.96%) Ansible
4 23 (8.49%) Grafana
5 22 (8.12%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.58%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.21%) 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 40 (14.76%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.64%) Google
3 14 (5.17%) Splunk
4 13 (4.80%) Databricks
5 11 (4.06%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.69%) Cisco
7 8 (2.95%) Citrix
7 8 (2.95%) Fortinet
7 8 (2.95%) Oracle
8 7 (2.58%) IBM
8 7 (2.58%) VMware
8 7 (2.58%) Zscaler
9 6 (2.21%) Atlassian
9 6 (2.21%) CloudEndure
9 6 (2.21%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.21%) SAP
10 5 (1.85%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (1.85%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.85%) Qualys
10 5 (1.85%) Remedy