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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 276 402
Rank change year-on-year -89 +126 +12
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 321 304 200
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.95% 0.46%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.96% 3.09% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 216 146
10th Percentile £400 £376 £394
25th Percentile £450 £449 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £675 £638 £650
90th Percentile £775 £714 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £508 £530
% change year-on-year +8.37% -4.25% -3.64%
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 16,366 9,826 12,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.37% 30.76% 29.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,937 6,100 7,990
10th Percentile £350 £277 £310
25th Percentile £426 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £704 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £512 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,181 674 1,097
10th Percentile £17.40 £17.87 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.00 £20.04 £20.12
Median hourly rate £52.00 £27.50 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +89.09% -32.83% -25.56%
75th Percentile £72.54 £58.75 £64.25
90th Percentile £85.25 £75.00 £75.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +98.81% -41.51% -19.87%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -66 263 £568 +5.09% 287
UK excluding London -81 137 £550 +8.37% 236
London -78 131 £575 - 112
Work from Home -59 104 £588 +11.90% 97
North of England -39 57 £566 -1.52% 54
North West -16 40 £535 -23.64% 24
South East -54 29 £560 +12.00% 61
Midlands -46 24 £436 -5.63% 36
West Midlands -43 21 £450 -18.18% 16
Yorkshire -34 15 £663 +39.47% 22
South West -39 11 £623 -0.40% 39
East of England -17 10 £575 +9.52% 29
Scotland -43 7 £479 -8.76% 11
Wales -20 3 £250 -43.95% 5
North East -35 3 £575 - 11
East Midlands -16 2 £424 -7.73% 20

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 27 (8.41%) Confluence
2 7 (2.18%) Apache
3 4 (1.25%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.93%) CloudStack
4 3 (0.93%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.62%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.62%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.31%) nginx
6 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 321 (100.00%) AWS
2 180 (56.07%) Azure
3 78 (24.30%) GCP
4 73 (22.74%) Serverless
5 63 (19.63%) Amazon S3
6 57 (17.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 50 (15.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 49 (15.26%) Amazon EKS
8 49 (15.26%) AWS Lambda
9 47 (14.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 45 (14.02%) GitHub
11 43 (13.40%) Amazon EC2
12 32 (9.97%) Amazon ECS
12 32 (9.97%) GitHub Actions
13 24 (7.48%) Power Platform
14 19 (5.92%) Route 53
15 18 (5.61%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (5.30%) AWS KMS
16 17 (5.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 14 (4.36%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 41 (12.77%) Firewall
2 21 (6.54%) Network Security
3 15 (4.67%) VPN
4 14 (4.36%) DNS
5 13 (4.05%) WAN
6 10 (3.12%) BGP
7 9 (2.80%) LAN
7 9 (2.80%) SD-WAN
8 7 (2.18%) 3GPP
8 7 (2.18%) OSPF
9 4 (1.25%) DHCP
9 4 (1.25%) IPv6
9 4 (1.25%) MPLS
9 4 (1.25%) NGFW
9 4 (1.25%) TCP/IP
9 4 (1.25%) TETRA
10 3 (0.93%) IPsec
10 3 (0.93%) Multicast
10 3 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
10 3 (0.93%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (12.15%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (7.48%) Power BI
3 21 (6.54%) Amazon Redshift
3 21 (6.54%) DynamoDB
4 17 (5.30%) Amazon Athena
5 16 (4.98%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (4.36%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (4.05%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (2.80%) Data Lake
8 9 (2.80%) NoSQL
9 8 (2.49%) Metadata
9 8 (2.49%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.87%) Big Data
12 5 (1.56%) SQL Server
13 4 (1.25%) Delta Lake
13 4 (1.25%) MySQL
14 3 (0.93%) Amazon QuickSight
14 3 (0.93%) DocumentDB
14 3 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 43 (13.40%) Jenkins
2 38 (11.84%) GitLab
3 28 (8.72%) JIRA
4 27 (8.41%) Git
5 8 (2.49%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.18%) JUnit
7 6 (1.87%) Maven
8 5 (1.56%) DbUnit
8 5 (1.56%) jMock
8 5 (1.56%) MLflow
8 5 (1.56%) Mockito
8 5 (1.56%) Snyk
9 3 (0.93%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.93%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (0.62%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.62%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.62%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.62%) JMeter
10 2 (0.62%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 116 (36.14%) Social Skills
2 56 (17.45%) Finance
2 56 (17.45%) Public Sector
3 34 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (7.17%) Banking
5 21 (6.54%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (2.80%) Legal
6 9 (2.80%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.87%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.56%) Billing
10 5 (1.56%) Law
11 4 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.93%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.93%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.93%) Retail
13 2 (0.62%) Electronics
14 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.31%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 127 (39.56%) Architect
2 39 (12.15%) AWS Engineer
3 38 (11.84%) Cloud Engineer
4 37 (11.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 36 (11.21%) Senior
6 32 (9.97%) Technical Architect
7 31 (9.66%) AWS Architect
8 27 (8.41%) Cloud Architect
9 25 (7.79%) Security Engineer
10 24 (7.48%) Solutions Architect
11 23 (7.17%) Lead
12 21 (6.54%) Security Architect
13 17 (5.30%) Developer
13 17 (5.30%) Platform Engineer
14 15 (4.67%) Data Engineer
15 14 (4.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 12 (3.74%) AWS DevOps
16 12 (3.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 10 (3.12%) AWS Platform Engineer
17 10 (3.12%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.41%) REST
2 20 (6.23%) OAuth
3 19 (5.92%) Kafka
4 17 (5.30%) AWS CDK
5 16 (4.98%) OpenID
6 13 (4.05%) SOAP
7 12 (3.74%) Node.js
7 12 (3.74%) OAuth2
7 12 (3.74%) Web Services
8 11 (3.43%) RESTful
8 11 (3.43%) SAML
9 10 (3.12%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (3.12%) PySpark
10 9 (2.80%) .NET
11 8 (2.49%) LangChain
12 7 (2.18%) AngularJS
12 7 (2.18%) PyTorch
12 7 (2.18%) Spring
12 7 (2.18%) Spring Boot
13 6 (1.87%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 104 (32.40%) Cloud Native
2 28 (8.72%) Management Information System
3 25 (7.79%) Data Centre
3 25 (7.79%) Security Posture
4 22 (6.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 19 (5.92%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (4.98%) Enterprise Cloud
6 16 (4.98%) Onboarding
6 16 (4.98%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.43%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.87%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.56%) IoT
11 4 (1.25%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.25%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.25%) NHS
11 4 (1.25%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 69 (21.50%) Linux
2 49 (15.26%) Windows
3 17 (5.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.49%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.87%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.56%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.56%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.25%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.62%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.62%) Unix
9 1 (0.31%) CentOS
9 1 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (55.14%) DevOps
2 174 (54.21%) CI/CD
3 129 (40.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 102 (31.78%) Agile
5 79 (24.61%) Cloud Security
6 66 (20.56%) Containerisation
7 63 (19.63%) Microservices
8 60 (18.69%) Stakeholder Management
9 59 (18.38%) Roadmaps
10 57 (17.76%) AI
11 56 (17.45%) Observability
12 54 (16.82%) Migration
12 54 (16.82%) Technical Leadership
13 52 (16.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 46 (14.33%) DevSecOps
14 46 (14.33%) Event-Driven
15 45 (14.02%) Machine Learning
15 45 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
16 44 (13.71%) TOGAF
17 43 (13.40%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 121 (37.69%) Python
2 61 (19.00%) Java
3 47 (14.64%) Bash
4 45 (14.02%) PowerShell
5 36 (11.21%) SQL
6 20 (6.23%) JavaScript
7 18 (5.61%) TypeScript
8 13 (4.05%) Bicep
9 7 (2.18%) Rust
10 6 (1.87%) Perl
11 4 (1.25%) C#
11 4 (1.25%) Groovy
11 4 (1.25%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.25%) Ruby
12 3 (0.93%) Go
12 3 (0.93%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.62%) PHP
14 1 (0.31%) Scala
14 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 124 (38.63%) Security Cleared
2 107 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 102 (31.78%) SC Cleared
4 90 (28.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 47 (14.64%) CISSP
6 42 (13.08%) Degree
7 29 (9.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 23 (7.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (7.17%) DV Cleared
9 22 (6.85%) Cisco Certification
10 20 (6.23%) TOGAF Certification
11 19 (5.92%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (4.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 14 (4.36%) Microsoft Certification
14 13 (4.05%) CISM
15 12 (3.74%) AWS Certified Developer
15 12 (3.74%) CCNP
16 9 (2.80%) Master's Degree
17 8 (2.49%) PMI Certification
17 8 (2.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (7.17%) NIST
3 22 (6.85%) Data Quality
4 15 (4.67%) GDPR
5 12 (3.74%) NCSC
6 10 (3.12%) QA
7 8 (2.49%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.56%) GRC
9 4 (1.25%) HL7
9 4 (1.25%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.93%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.62%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.31%) DICOM
12 1 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.31%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.31%) SLA
12 1 (0.31%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 88 (27.41%) Docker
2 17 (5.30%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.56%) Postfix
5 4 (1.25%) vSphere
6 2 (0.62%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.62%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.62%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.62%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.62%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.31%) Squid
7 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 144 (44.86%) Terraform
2 97 (30.22%) Kubernetes
3 34 (10.59%) Ansible
4 28 (8.72%) Grafana
4 28 (8.72%) Prometheus
5 19 (5.92%) Progress Chef
6 8 (2.49%) Puppet
7 6 (1.87%) Argo
8 4 (1.25%) Istio
8 4 (1.25%) linkerd
8 4 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.93%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.62%) CASB
10 2 (0.62%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.62%) Packer
10 2 (0.62%) QRadar
10 2 (0.62%) SCCM
11 1 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.31%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 56 (17.45%) Microsoft
2 32 (9.97%) Google
3 16 (4.98%) Splunk
4 14 (4.36%) Red Hat
5 13 (4.05%) Databricks
5 13 (4.05%) ServiceNow
6 12 (3.74%) Cisco
6 12 (3.74%) VMware
7 9 (2.80%) Informatica
8 8 (2.49%) CrowdStrike
8 8 (2.49%) Oracle
9 7 (2.18%) Atlassian
9 7 (2.18%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.87%) Fortinet
10 6 (1.87%) Zscaler
11 5 (1.56%) BeyondTrust
11 5 (1.56%) Dynatrace
11 5 (1.56%) Jaspersoft
11 5 (1.56%) Okta
11 5 (1.56%) Tenable