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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 280 343
Rank change year-on-year -85 +63 +71
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 347 313 239
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.95% 0.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.07% 3.03% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 223 171
10th Percentile £413 £368 £388
25th Percentile £480 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £631 £638
90th Percentile £790 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £582 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +16.40% +5.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 1
10th Percentile £70.32 £39.00 -
25th Percentile £72.66 £45.00 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £55.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.55% -5.17% -28.83%
75th Percentile £102.50 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £104.25 £91.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £85.00 - £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 16,746 10,332 11,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.22% 31.32% 29.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,194 6,383 7,325
10th Percentile £350 £289 £313
25th Percentile £434 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £622 £638
90th Percentile £716 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,268 827 784
10th Percentile £17.42 £17.99 £14.65
25th Percentile £25.77 £19.23 £21.34
Median hourly rate £49.25 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +95.83% -41.51% -21.82%
75th Percentile £72.54 £53.63 £66.81
90th Percentile £87.96 £73.75 £76.77
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.00 £25.15 £48.09
% change year-on-year +90.85% -47.70% -7.32%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -70 301 £575 +9.52% 316
UK excluding London -75 160 £582 +16.40% 318
London -70 145 £550 - 116
Work from Home -68 112 £581 +10.71% 142
North of England -36 61 £590 +25.63% 73
North West -21 42 £550 +17.02% 39
South East -57 38 £575 +15.00% 62
Midlands -38 26 £444 -11.25% 35
West Midlands -38 24 £470 -6.05% 13
South West -33 23 £800 +25.49% 87
Yorkshire -33 16 £663 +48.04% 24
East of England -18 9 £600 +14.29% 28
Scotland -36 7 £479 -4.20% 15
North East -36 4 £500 - 13
East Midlands -13 1 £400 -18.03% 22

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 (7.49%) Confluence
2 7 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.73%) Apache
4 4 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.86%) CloudStack
5 3 (0.86%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (0.86%) SAS
6 2 (0.58%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.29%) CIMPLICITY
7 1 (0.29%) nginx
7 1 (0.29%) Predix
Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.44%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.29%) Actimize
2 1 (0.29%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.29%) Maximo
2 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 347 (100.00%) AWS
2 202 (58.21%) Azure
3 92 (26.51%) GCP
4 77 (22.19%) Serverless
5 74 (21.33%) Amazon S3
6 65 (18.73%) AWS CloudFormation
7 63 (18.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 58 (16.71%) Amazon EKS
8 58 (16.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 57 (16.43%) AWS Lambda
10 54 (15.56%) Amazon EC2
11 51 (14.70%) GitHub
12 39 (11.24%) GitHub Actions
13 32 (9.22%) Amazon ECS
14 29 (8.36%) Azure DevOps
15 27 (7.78%) AWS KMS
16 26 (7.49%) Power Platform
17 21 (6.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 16 (4.61%) Amazon EMR
19 15 (4.32%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 51 (14.70%) Firewall
2 25 (7.20%) Network Security
3 21 (6.05%) DNS
4 16 (4.61%) VPN
5 11 (3.17%) TCP/IP
6 10 (2.88%) DHCP
7 9 (2.59%) LAN
8 8 (2.31%) WAN
9 7 (2.02%) 3GPP
9 7 (2.02%) VSAN
10 6 (1.73%) BGP
10 6 (1.73%) SD-WAN
11 5 (1.44%) Internet
12 4 (1.15%) NGFW
12 4 (1.15%) OSPF
12 4 (1.15%) TETRA
13 3 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
13 3 (0.86%) Intrusion Detection
13 3 (0.86%) NAS
13 3 (0.86%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (13.26%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (7.49%) Power BI
3 21 (6.05%) Amazon Redshift
4 20 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (5.48%) Amazon Aurora
6 17 (4.90%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (4.61%) DynamoDB
8 12 (3.46%) SQL Server
9 10 (2.88%) MySQL
10 9 (2.59%) Redis
11 8 (2.31%) Big Data
11 8 (2.31%) MongoDB
12 7 (2.02%) Data Lake
12 7 (2.02%) Metadata
12 7 (2.02%) Relational Database
13 5 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (1.15%) Amazon QuickSight
14 4 (1.15%) Delta Lake
14 4 (1.15%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 52 (14.99%) Jenkins
2 50 (14.41%) GitLab
3 27 (7.78%) Git
4 24 (6.92%) JIRA
5 6 (1.73%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.44%) MLflow
7 4 (1.15%) JMeter
7 4 (1.15%) Maven
8 3 (0.86%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.86%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.58%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.58%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (0.58%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.58%) DbUnit
9 2 (0.58%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.58%) Mockito
9 2 (0.58%) Postman
9 2 (0.58%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.58%) Selenium
9 2 (0.58%) Snyk
General
1 128 (36.89%) Social Skills
2 77 (22.19%) Public Sector
3 64 (18.44%) Finance
4 38 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (7.49%) Banking
6 21 (6.05%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.59%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.02%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.44%) Billing
9 5 (1.44%) Law
9 5 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.86%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.86%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.86%) Legal
11 3 (0.86%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.86%) Police
11 3 (0.86%) Retail
12 2 (0.58%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 121 (34.87%) Architect
2 47 (13.54%) Cloud Engineer
3 42 (12.10%) Senior
4 40 (11.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 34 (9.80%) Lead
6 30 (8.65%) AWS Engineer
6 30 (8.65%) Security Engineer
6 30 (8.65%) Technical Architect
7 27 (7.78%) Cloud Architect
8 25 (7.20%) AWS Architect
9 22 (6.34%) Security Architect
10 21 (6.05%) Solutions Architect
11 20 (5.76%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (3.75%) Data Engineer
12 13 (3.75%) DBA
13 12 (3.46%) Data Architect
14 11 (3.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 11 (3.17%) Lead DevOps
14 11 (3.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 10 (2.88%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (46.69%) Terraform
2 25 (7.20%) REST
3 19 (5.48%) OAuth
4 17 (4.90%) RESTful
5 15 (4.32%) OpenID
6 12 (3.46%) PySpark
6 12 (3.46%) SAML
7 11 (3.17%) Node.js
7 11 (3.17%) Spring Boot
8 10 (2.88%) AWS CDK
8 10 (2.88%) Kafka
8 10 (2.88%) OAuth2
8 10 (2.88%) Spring
9 8 (2.31%) .NET
9 8 (2.31%) Web Services
10 7 (2.02%) ARM Templates
10 7 (2.02%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (2.02%) LangChain
10 7 (2.02%) SOAP
11 5 (1.44%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 108 (31.12%) Cloud Native
2 34 (9.80%) Security Posture
3 30 (8.65%) Management Information System
4 29 (8.36%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (8.07%) Data Centre
6 23 (6.63%) Product Ownership
7 17 (4.90%) Onboarding
8 15 (4.32%) Enterprise Cloud
8 15 (4.32%) Replication
9 14 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (3.75%) Public Cloud
11 9 (2.59%) PKI
12 8 (2.31%) Cloud Security Posture
13 7 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (2.02%) IoT
14 5 (1.44%) AI Agents
14 5 (1.44%) NHS
15 4 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
15 4 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
15 4 (1.15%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 71 (20.46%) Linux
2 55 (15.85%) Windows
3 26 (7.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.88%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.73%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (1.73%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.44%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.44%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.86%) Unix
8 2 (0.58%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.29%) CentOS
9 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (53.89%) DevOps
2 184 (53.03%) CI/CD
3 160 (46.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 118 (34.01%) Agile
5 88 (25.36%) Cloud Security
6 80 (23.05%) Technical Leadership
7 74 (21.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 72 (20.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 67 (19.31%) Migration
9 67 (19.31%) Roadmaps
10 66 (19.02%) AI
10 66 (19.02%) Microservices
11 64 (18.44%) DevSecOps
12 62 (17.87%) Containerisation
13 60 (17.29%) Observability
14 49 (14.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 48 (13.83%) Platform Engineering
16 46 (13.26%) Cybersecurity
17 45 (12.97%) Machine Learning
17 45 (12.97%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 141 (40.63%) Python
2 72 (20.75%) Bash
2 72 (20.75%) PowerShell
3 63 (18.16%) Java
4 40 (11.53%) SQL
5 20 (5.76%) Bicep
6 16 (4.61%) JavaScript
7 13 (3.75%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.02%) Groovy
9 6 (1.73%) Kotlin
9 6 (1.73%) Perl
9 6 (1.73%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.44%) Rust
11 3 (0.86%) Go
11 3 (0.86%) Ruby
12 1 (0.29%) C#
12 1 (0.29%) CQL
12 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 138 (39.77%) Security Cleared
2 121 (34.87%) SC Cleared
3 118 (34.01%) Azure Certification
4 99 (28.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 61 (17.58%) CISSP
6 40 (11.53%) Degree
7 27 (7.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 24 (6.92%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (6.34%) DV Cleared
10 21 (6.05%) CISM
11 20 (5.76%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
13 17 (4.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 15 (4.32%) Microsoft Certification
15 14 (4.03%) TOGAF Certification
16 12 (3.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 12 (3.46%) CCNP
17 10 (2.88%) CCSP
18 9 (2.59%) AWS Certified Developer
19 8 (2.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.36%) Data Quality
1 29 (8.36%) NIST
2 23 (6.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (4.90%) QA
4 14 (4.03%) GDPR
5 11 (3.17%) NCSC
6 8 (2.31%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.15%) GRC
7 4 (1.15%) HL7
8 3 (0.86%) SLA
8 3 (0.86%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.58%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.58%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.29%) DICOM
10 1 (0.29%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 94 (27.09%) Docker
2 26 (7.49%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (3.46%) vSphere
5 8 (2.31%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.58%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.58%) Postfix
6 2 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.58%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.29%) Squid
7 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 103 (29.68%) Kubernetes
2 47 (13.54%) Ansible
3 37 (10.66%) Grafana
4 34 (9.80%) Prometheus
5 29 (8.36%) Progress Chef
6 10 (2.88%) Puppet
7 8 (2.31%) Istio
8 7 (2.02%) Argo
8 7 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (2.02%) VxRail
9 4 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.15%) linkerd
10 3 (0.86%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.86%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.86%) QRadar
11 2 (0.58%) Packer
11 2 (0.58%) SCCM
12 1 (0.29%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.29%) Nagios
Vendors
1 73 (21.04%) Microsoft
2 44 (12.68%) Google
3 20 (5.76%) VMware
4 19 (5.48%) Red Hat
5 18 (5.19%) Splunk
6 15 (4.32%) ServiceNow
7 14 (4.03%) Cisco
8 11 (3.17%) Informatica
9 9 (2.59%) Databricks
9 9 (2.59%) Dynatrace
9 9 (2.59%) Palo Alto
10 8 (2.31%) CrowdStrike
11 7 (2.02%) IBM
11 7 (2.02%) Oracle
12 6 (1.73%) Fortinet
12 6 (1.73%) Zscaler
13 5 (1.44%) BeyondTrust
13 5 (1.44%) Remedy
13 5 (1.44%) Salesforce
14 4 (1.15%) Veeam