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 11 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 267 407
Rank change year-on-year -98 +140 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 296 289 186
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.98% 0.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.89% 3.17% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 209 140
10th Percentile £400 £396 £400
25th Percentile £453 £450 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.12%
75th Percentile £681 £638 £650
90th Percentile £775 £700 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile £78.75 £40.03 -
25th Percentile £86.63 £47.56 -
Median hourly rate £95.25 £54.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.58% - -
75th Percentile £103.06 £66.44 -
90th Percentile £105.75 £86.58 -
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 15,671 9,112 13,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.41% 31.02% 29.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,398 5,673 8,090
10th Percentile £350 £275 £310
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £618 £638
90th Percentile £713 £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 1,159 565 1,118
10th Percentile £17.08 £17.69 £13.87
25th Percentile £22.63 £21.25 £18.32
Median hourly rate £50.00 £30.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.93% -23.75% -27.27%
75th Percentile £71.75 £64.52 £62.64
90th Percentile £85.25 £77.38 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £30.00 £41.27
% change year-on-year +58.33% -27.30% -21.40%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -76 243 £555 - 242
London -81 126 £544 -5.39% 75
UK excluding London -87 118 £538 +2.38% 207
Work from Home -77 84 £575 +9.52% 75
North of England -40 54 £566 -19.11% 57
North West -14 41 £550 -21.43% 25
South East -48 22 £575 +15.00% 54
Midlands -53 21 £425 -8.01% 31
West Midlands -45 18 £438 -20.45% 16
Yorkshire -46 11 £663 +32.50% 25
South West -29 10 £575 -8.00% 26
East of England -18 8 £550 +4.76% 23
Scotland -47 4 £450 -18.18% 9
Wales -20 3 £250 -42.33% 7
East Midlands -30 2 £424 -7.73% 15
North East - 2 £525 - 7

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 22 (7.43%) Confluence
2 6 (2.03%) Apache
3 4 (1.35%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.68%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.68%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.68%) nginx
5 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.68%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.68%) DELMIA
2 2 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 296 (100.00%) AWS
2 164 (55.41%) Azure
3 72 (24.32%) GCP
4 68 (22.97%) Serverless
5 60 (20.27%) AWS CloudFormation
6 53 (17.91%) Amazon EKS
7 52 (17.57%) Amazon S3
8 48 (16.22%) GitHub
9 46 (15.54%) AWS Lambda
9 46 (15.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 39 (13.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 37 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
12 35 (11.82%) Amazon EC2
13 34 (11.49%) Amazon ECS
14 19 (6.42%) Route 53
15 18 (6.08%) Power Platform
16 16 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
16 16 (5.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 14 (4.73%) AWS KMS
18 13 (4.39%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 40 (13.51%) Firewall
2 20 (6.76%) Network Security
3 15 (5.07%) VPN
4 13 (4.39%) WAN
5 11 (3.72%) DNS
6 8 (2.70%) BGP
6 8 (2.70%) LAN
6 8 (2.70%) SD-WAN
7 7 (2.36%) 3GPP
8 6 (2.03%) OSPF
9 4 (1.35%) Internet
9 4 (1.35%) IPv6
9 4 (1.35%) TETRA
9 4 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.01%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (1.01%) IPv4
10 3 (1.01%) MPLS
10 3 (1.01%) NGFW
10 3 (1.01%) VLAN
10 3 (1.01%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (12.16%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (7.09%) DynamoDB
3 18 (6.08%) Power BI
4 17 (5.74%) Amazon Redshift
5 13 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (4.05%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (4.05%) Amazon Aurora
7 11 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (3.04%) NoSQL
9 8 (2.70%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.36%) Data Lake
10 7 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.69%) Metadata
12 4 (1.35%) Big Data
13 3 (1.01%) Amazon QuickSight
13 3 (1.01%) DataStage
13 3 (1.01%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.01%) DocumentDB
13 3 (1.01%) MySQL
13 3 (1.01%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (14.19%) Jenkins
2 34 (11.49%) GitLab
3 21 (7.09%) JIRA
4 19 (6.42%) Git
5 8 (2.70%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.36%) JUnit
7 5 (1.69%) DbUnit
7 5 (1.69%) jMock
7 5 (1.69%) Maven
7 5 (1.69%) Mockito
7 5 (1.69%) Snyk
8 3 (1.01%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.01%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.01%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (1.01%) MLflow
8 3 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.68%) JMeter
9 2 (0.68%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.34%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.34%) Liquibase
General
1 109 (36.82%) Social Skills
2 47 (15.88%) Finance
3 44 (14.86%) Public Sector
4 32 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.76%) Banking
6 14 (4.73%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.04%) Legal
9 7 (2.36%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.69%) Law
12 3 (1.01%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.01%) Billing
12 3 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.01%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.01%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.01%) Retail
13 2 (0.68%) Electronics
14 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 109 (36.82%) Architect
2 41 (13.85%) AWS Engineer
3 38 (12.84%) DevOps Engineer
4 36 (12.16%) Cloud Engineer
5 30 (10.14%) AWS Architect
6 29 (9.80%) Senior
7 27 (9.12%) Security Engineer
8 24 (8.11%) Technical Architect
9 23 (7.77%) Lead
10 21 (7.09%) Cloud Architect
10 21 (7.09%) Solutions Architect
11 18 (6.08%) Platform Engineer
12 17 (5.74%) Developer
12 17 (5.74%) Security Architect
13 14 (4.73%) AWS DevOps
13 14 (4.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 14 (4.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 12 (4.05%) Data Engineer
15 9 (3.04%) AWS Platform Engineer
16 8 (2.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.11%) REST
2 18 (6.08%) Kafka
3 17 (5.74%) OAuth
4 16 (5.41%) AWS CDK
5 14 (4.73%) OpenID
6 12 (4.05%) Node.js
6 12 (4.05%) Web Services
7 11 (3.72%) OAuth2
7 11 (3.72%) SOAP
8 10 (3.38%) RESTful
8 10 (3.38%) SAML
9 9 (3.04%) .NET
9 9 (3.04%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (2.70%) AngularJS
11 7 (2.36%) Spring
11 7 (2.36%) Spring Boot
12 6 (2.03%) Middleware
13 5 (1.69%) ActiveMQ
13 5 (1.69%) Hibernate
13 5 (1.69%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 97 (32.77%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.45%) Data Centre
3 24 (8.11%) Management Information System
4 18 (6.08%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (6.08%) Security Posture
5 16 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 14 (4.73%) Enterprise Cloud
7 11 (3.72%) Product Ownership
8 9 (3.04%) Public Cloud
8 9 (3.04%) Virtual Team
9 8 (2.70%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (2.03%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.35%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.35%) e-Learning
11 4 (1.35%) IoT
11 4 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.01%) CMDB
12 3 (1.01%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.01%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 63 (21.28%) Linux
2 43 (14.53%) Windows
3 13 (4.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.69%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.69%) Mac OS
4 5 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.35%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.35%) VMS
6 3 (1.01%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.68%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (57.77%) CI/CD
2 165 (55.74%) DevOps
3 123 (41.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 86 (29.05%) Agile
5 70 (23.65%) Cloud Security
6 64 (21.62%) Containerisation
7 58 (19.59%) Microservices
8 54 (18.24%) Observability
9 49 (16.55%) Stakeholder Management
10 47 (15.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 46 (15.54%) Roadmaps
12 45 (15.20%) Migration
13 43 (14.53%) Technical Leadership
14 41 (13.85%) AI
14 41 (13.85%) DevSecOps
15 39 (13.18%) Event-Driven
16 37 (12.50%) Mentoring
16 37 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
16 37 (12.50%) Scrum
16 37 (12.50%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 109 (36.82%) Python
2 62 (20.95%) Java
3 46 (15.54%) Bash
4 42 (14.19%) PowerShell
5 30 (10.14%) SQL
6 19 (6.42%) JavaScript
7 17 (5.74%) TypeScript
8 10 (3.38%) Bicep
9 7 (2.36%) Rust
10 6 (2.03%) Perl
11 5 (1.69%) C#
11 5 (1.69%) Ruby
12 4 (1.35%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.01%) Go
13 3 (1.01%) Groovy
14 2 (0.68%) PHP
14 2 (0.68%) Scala
14 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 118 (39.86%) Security Cleared
2 100 (33.78%) SC Cleared
3 99 (33.45%) Azure Certification
4 82 (27.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 38 (12.84%) CISSP
6 34 (11.49%) Degree
7 29 (9.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 21 (7.09%) Cisco Certification
9 20 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 20 (6.76%) DV Cleared
10 18 (6.08%) TOGAF Certification
11 16 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (4.05%) AWS Certified Developer
13 11 (3.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 11 (3.72%) CISM
14 10 (3.38%) CCNP
14 10 (3.38%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (3.38%) PMI Certification
14 10 (3.38%) PMP
15 9 (3.04%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.11%) NIST
2 22 (7.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (5.07%) Data Quality
4 14 (4.73%) GDPR
5 11 (3.72%) NCSC
6 9 (3.04%) QA
7 6 (2.03%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.69%) GRC
9 3 (1.01%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.01%) HL7
9 3 (1.01%) ISO 20022
9 3 (1.01%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 2 (0.68%) PSD2
11 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.34%) DICOM
11 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 79 (26.69%) Docker
2 13 (4.39%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.69%) Postfix
5 2 (0.68%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.68%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.68%) vSphere
6 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.34%) Squid
6 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 140 (47.30%) Terraform
2 92 (31.08%) Kubernetes
3 36 (12.16%) Ansible
4 26 (8.78%) Grafana
4 26 (8.78%) Prometheus
5 18 (6.08%) Progress Chef
6 8 (2.70%) Puppet
7 7 (2.36%) Argo
8 4 (1.35%) Istio
8 4 (1.35%) linkerd
9 3 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.68%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.68%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.68%) Packer
10 2 (0.68%) QRadar
10 2 (0.68%) SCCM
10 2 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.34%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.34%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.34%) logstash
Vendors
1 48 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 30 (10.14%) Google
3 15 (5.07%) Splunk
4 14 (4.73%) Databricks
5 13 (4.39%) Red Hat
6 11 (3.72%) Cisco
6 11 (3.72%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.70%) Fortinet
7 8 (2.70%) VMware
8 7 (2.36%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.36%) CrowdStrike
8 7 (2.36%) IBM
8 7 (2.36%) Qualys
8 7 (2.36%) Tenable
9 6 (2.03%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.03%) Oracle
9 6 (2.03%) Palo Alto
9 6 (2.03%) Zscaler
10 5 (1.69%) Informatica
10 5 (1.69%) Remedy