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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 262 411
Rank change year-on-year -119 +149 -10
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 265 292 170
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.00% 0.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.73% 3.24% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 207 123
10th Percentile £400 £367 £451
25th Percentile £463 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% -3.93% +4.09%
75th Percentile £684 £638 £675
90th Percentile £759 £713 £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 6 3 0
10th Percentile £78.75 £38.35 -
25th Percentile £86.63 £43.38 -
Median hourly rate £95.25 £53.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +78.04% - -
75th Percentile £103.06 £77.63 -
90th Percentile £105.75 £91.05 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.25 - -

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 15,276 9,009 12,782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.66% 30.95% 30.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,147 5,671 7,961
10th Percentile £350 £281 £306
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £646
90th Percentile £721 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +0.10% -5.66% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,080 516 1,058
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.13 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.33 £21.63 £17.80
Median hourly rate £47.80 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.56% -12.50% -27.26%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.25 £78.55 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £32.50 £40.94
% change year-on-year +46.15% -20.62% -18.12%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -88 216 £558 -3.04% 261
London -76 112 £541 -9.92% 85
UK excluding London -103 105 £550 +0.46% 226
Work from Home -94 69 £575 +2.22% 68
North of England -41 46 £581 -17.00% 63
North West -15 35 £566 -20.02% 29
South East -45 18 £525 +5.00% 45
Midlands -51 18 £425 -11.92% 34
West Midlands -46 16 £425 -15.00% 14
South West -37 10 £575 -7.07% 33
East of England -17 9 £550 +4.76% 22
Yorkshire -49 9 £663 +26.19% 25
Wales -19 3 £250 -7.41% 10
Scotland -35 3 £394 -28.36% 15
North East - 2 £525 - 9
East Midlands -33 1 £447 -3.87% 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 20 (7.55%) Confluence
2 7 (2.64%) Apache
3 4 (1.51%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.13%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.75%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.75%) nginx
5 2 (0.75%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.75%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.89%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.75%) DELMIA
2 2 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 265 (100.00%) AWS
2 137 (51.70%) Azure
3 65 (24.53%) AWS CloudFormation
4 60 (22.64%) GCP
5 57 (21.51%) Serverless
6 47 (17.74%) Amazon EKS
7 45 (16.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 42 (15.85%) GitHub
9 40 (15.09%) Amazon S3
10 34 (12.83%) AWS Lambda
11 32 (12.08%) GitHub Actions
12 30 (11.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 29 (10.94%) Amazon ECS
14 27 (10.19%) Amazon EC2
15 26 (9.81%) AWS KMS
16 19 (7.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 17 (6.42%) AWS CodePipeline
17 17 (6.42%) Route 53
18 16 (6.04%) AWS CloudTrail
18 16 (6.04%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 34 (12.83%) Firewall
2 17 (6.42%) VPN
3 16 (6.04%) Network Security
4 12 (4.53%) DNS
5 11 (4.15%) WAN
6 8 (3.02%) BGP
7 7 (2.64%) 3GPP
8 6 (2.26%) LAN
8 6 (2.26%) OSPF
8 6 (2.26%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.51%) IPv6
9 4 (1.51%) TETRA
10 3 (1.13%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (1.13%) IPv4
10 3 (1.13%) MPLS
10 3 (1.13%) VLAN
10 3 (1.13%) VXLAN
11 2 (0.75%) DHCP
11 2 (0.75%) SAN
11 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.45%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (8.68%) DynamoDB
3 13 (4.91%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (4.91%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (4.53%) Power BI
5 9 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (3.40%) NoSQL
6 8 (3.02%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.64%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.26%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.89%) Metadata
10 4 (1.51%) Big Data
10 4 (1.51%) Delta Lake
10 4 (1.51%) MySQL
11 3 (1.13%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (1.13%) DataStage
11 3 (1.13%) DocumentDB
11 3 (1.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 37 (13.96%) Jenkins
2 24 (9.06%) GitLab
3 20 (7.55%) JIRA
4 15 (5.66%) Git
5 7 (2.64%) JUnit
6 6 (2.26%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.89%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.89%) DbUnit
7 5 (1.89%) jMock
7 5 (1.89%) Maven
7 5 (1.89%) Mockito
8 4 (1.51%) MLflow
8 4 (1.51%) Snyk
9 3 (1.13%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (0.75%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.38%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.38%) Postman
11 1 (0.38%) Selenium
General
1 89 (33.58%) Social Skills
2 46 (17.36%) Finance
3 39 (14.72%) Public Sector
4 29 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.79%) Banking
6 10 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.40%) Legal
8 6 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.89%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.13%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.13%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.75%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.75%) Billing
11 2 (0.75%) Electronics
12 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.38%) Law
12 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 100 (37.74%) Architect
2 34 (12.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (11.32%) AWS Architect
3 30 (11.32%) AWS Engineer
4 29 (10.94%) Cloud Architect
5 24 (9.06%) Lead
6 23 (8.68%) Senior
7 21 (7.92%) Cloud Engineer
8 20 (7.55%) Security Engineer
9 18 (6.79%) Solutions Architect
9 18 (6.79%) Technical Architect
10 17 (6.42%) Developer
11 13 (4.91%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (4.91%) Security Architect
12 11 (4.15%) Lead Architect
13 10 (3.77%) AWS DevOps
13 10 (3.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 10 (3.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 8 (3.02%) Data Engineer
15 7 (2.64%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.79%) Kafka
1 18 (6.79%) REST
2 14 (5.28%) AWS CDK
3 12 (4.53%) Node.js
4 11 (4.15%) OAuth
4 11 (4.15%) Web Services
5 10 (3.77%) RESTful
5 10 (3.77%) SOAP
6 8 (3.02%) AngularJS
6 8 (3.02%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (3.02%) OpenID
7 7 (2.64%) OAuth2
7 7 (2.64%) Spring
7 7 (2.64%) Spring Boot
8 6 (2.26%) .NET
8 6 (2.26%) Middleware
9 5 (1.89%) ActiveMQ
9 5 (1.89%) Hibernate
9 5 (1.89%) JPA
9 5 (1.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 75 (28.30%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.17%) Data Centre
3 17 (6.42%) Management Information System
4 15 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (5.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (4.91%) Enterprise Cloud
7 11 (4.15%) Product Ownership
8 10 (3.77%) Virtual Team
9 9 (3.40%) Public Cloud
10 8 (3.02%) Onboarding
11 7 (2.64%) Security Posture
12 6 (2.26%) Private Cloud
13 5 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (1.51%) e-Learning
14 4 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (1.51%) Replication
15 3 (1.13%) AI Agents
15 3 (1.13%) Cloud Security Posture
15 3 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
15 3 (1.13%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 45 (16.98%) Linux
2 30 (11.32%) Windows
3 5 (1.89%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.89%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.51%) VMS
4 4 (1.51%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.13%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.75%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (56.23%) CI/CD
2 134 (50.57%) DevOps
3 106 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (26.42%) Agile
5 53 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 51 (19.25%) Cloud Security
7 49 (18.49%) Microservices
8 46 (17.36%) Migration
9 43 (16.23%) Stakeholder Management
10 42 (15.85%) Observability
11 41 (15.47%) DevSecOps
12 40 (15.09%) Roadmaps
13 38 (14.34%) Continuous Improvement
14 36 (13.58%) Technical Leadership
15 35 (13.21%) TOGAF
16 33 (12.45%) Event-Driven
17 32 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
18 30 (11.32%) Mentoring
18 30 (11.32%) Scrum
19 29 (10.94%) AI
Programming Languages
1 87 (32.83%) Python
2 48 (18.11%) Java
3 30 (11.32%) Bash
4 26 (9.81%) SQL
5 24 (9.06%) PowerShell
6 18 (6.79%) JavaScript
6 18 (6.79%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.64%) Bicep
7 7 (2.64%) Rust
8 6 (2.26%) Perl
9 5 (1.89%) C#
9 5 (1.89%) Ruby
10 4 (1.51%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.13%) Go
11 3 (1.13%) Groovy
12 2 (0.75%) PHP
12 2 (0.75%) Scala
13 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 110 (41.51%) Security Cleared
2 93 (35.09%) SC Cleared
3 83 (31.32%) Azure Certification
4 82 (30.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 27 (10.19%) CISSP
5 27 (10.19%) Degree
6 25 (9.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 22 (8.30%) Cisco Certification
8 19 (7.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (6.79%) TOGAF Certification
10 17 (6.42%) DV Cleared
11 12 (4.53%) AWS Certified Developer
12 11 (4.15%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (3.77%) CCNP
13 10 (3.77%) PMI Certification
13 10 (3.77%) PMP
14 9 (3.40%) CCNA
14 9 (3.40%) Master's Degree
15 8 (3.02%) CISM
16 7 (2.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.06%) NIST
2 23 (8.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (6.42%) NCSC
4 12 (4.53%) GDPR
5 10 (3.77%) Data Quality
6 9 (3.40%) QA
7 6 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.89%) GRC
8 5 (1.89%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.13%) HL7
9 3 (1.13%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.75%) DICOM
10 2 (0.75%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 2 (0.75%) PSD2
10 2 (0.75%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 67 (25.28%) Docker
2 11 (4.15%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.02%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.89%) Postfix
6 2 (0.75%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.75%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.75%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.75%) vSphere
7 1 (0.38%) Squid
7 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 119 (44.91%) Terraform
2 79 (29.81%) Kubernetes
3 25 (9.43%) Ansible
4 24 (9.06%) Grafana
5 22 (8.30%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.64%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.26%) Argo
8 4 (1.51%) linkerd
8 4 (1.51%) Puppet
9 3 (1.13%) Istio
10 2 (0.75%) CASB
10 2 (0.75%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.75%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.75%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.75%) Packer
10 2 (0.75%) SCCM
11 1 (0.38%) CloudForms
11 1 (0.38%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.38%) logstash
11 1 (0.38%) QRadar
Vendors
1 38 (14.34%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.17%) Google
3 14 (5.28%) Splunk
4 13 (4.91%) Databricks
5 11 (4.15%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.40%) Cisco
7 8 (3.02%) Citrix
7 8 (3.02%) Fortinet
8 7 (2.64%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.64%) IBM
8 7 (2.64%) Oracle
8 7 (2.64%) Zscaler
9 6 (2.26%) CloudEndure
9 6 (2.26%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.26%) VMware
10 5 (1.89%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (1.89%) Jaspersoft
10 5 (1.89%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.89%) Qualys
10 5 (1.89%) Remedy