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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 252 388
Rank change year-on-year -88 +136 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 310 298 212
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.68% 1.02% 0.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.05% 3.31% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 223 169
10th Percentile £368 £400 £450
25th Percentile £447 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.93% +4.09%
75th Percentile £645 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -5.63% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 0
10th Percentile £72.33 £56.58 -
25th Percentile £84.25 £63.81 -
Median hourly rate £93.75 £76.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.15% - -
75th Percentile £102.69 £88.81 -
90th Percentile £105.73 £95.53 -
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 15,140 8,990 13,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.08% 30.76% 30.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,059 5,720 8,344
10th Percentile £343 £294 £300
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £536
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -2.05% -2.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.08% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,103 491 1,023
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.50 £13.69
25th Percentile £20.82 £23.00 £17.66
Median hourly rate £41.94 £45.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% +16.13% -26.19%
75th Percentile £69.44 £67.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.25 £81.01 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £47.81 £40.00
% change year-on-year -12.27% +19.51% -19.22%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -67 245 £525 -12.50% 276
UK excluding London -80 127 £519 -5.63% 248
London -83 124 £525 -12.50% 86
Work from Home -61 89 £525 -8.70% 57
North of England -52 41 £575 -17.86% 65
North West -12 29 £578 -17.43% 27
Midlands -46 28 £500 - 35
South East -33 26 £513 -10.87% 57
West Midlands -40 26 £525 +5.00% 17
Scotland -20 12 £358 -34.91% 10
East of England -24 9 £550 +4.76% 30
South West -38 9 £519 -15.31% 34
Yorkshire -53 8 £550 -21.43% 26
North East -16 4 £525 +10.53% 13
Wales -13 3 £250 - 12
East Midlands -45 1 £447 -11.04% 18

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 17 (5.48%) Confluence
2 9 (2.90%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.26%) Apache
4 6 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.94%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.65%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.65%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.32%) nginx
6 1 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) DELMIA
1 2 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 310 (100.00%) AWS
2 135 (43.55%) Azure
3 96 (30.97%) AWS CloudFormation
4 74 (23.87%) Serverless
5 64 (20.65%) GCP
6 61 (19.68%) Amazon EKS
7 60 (19.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 53 (17.10%) AWS Lambda
9 52 (16.77%) Amazon S3
9 52 (16.77%) GitHub
10 43 (13.87%) Amazon ECS
11 37 (11.94%) GitHub Actions
12 32 (10.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 32 (10.32%) Amazon EC2
13 25 (8.06%) AWS KMS
14 21 (6.77%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 20 (6.45%) AWS CodePipeline
15 20 (6.45%) AWS Control Tower
16 17 (5.48%) AWS CloudTrail
17 16 (5.16%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 46 (14.84%) Firewall
2 19 (6.13%) Network Security
2 19 (6.13%) VPN
3 17 (5.48%) DNS
4 13 (4.19%) WAN
5 11 (3.55%) BGP
6 9 (2.90%) LAN
7 8 (2.58%) DHCP
7 8 (2.58%) IPv6
7 8 (2.58%) OSPF
7 8 (2.58%) SD-WAN
8 7 (2.26%) 3GPP
8 7 (2.26%) IPv4
8 7 (2.26%) VLAN
9 5 (1.61%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (1.61%) MPLS
9 5 (1.61%) TCP/IP
9 5 (1.61%) VXLAN
9 5 (1.61%) WLAN
10 4 (1.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (13.55%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (6.45%) DynamoDB
3 19 (6.13%) Amazon Redshift
4 18 (5.81%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (4.84%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (4.52%) Power BI
7 13 (4.19%) NoSQL
7 13 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (3.55%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.90%) MySQL
10 8 (2.58%) Amazon QuickSight
10 8 (2.58%) Data Lake
10 8 (2.58%) Tableau
11 7 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (1.94%) DataStage
12 6 (1.94%) Metadata
13 5 (1.61%) Big Data
14 4 (1.29%) Delta Lake
14 4 (1.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 47 (15.16%) Jenkins
2 40 (12.90%) GitLab
3 26 (8.39%) JIRA
4 21 (6.77%) Git
5 14 (4.52%) Bitbucket
6 10 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (1.61%) JUnit
7 5 (1.61%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.29%) Maven
8 4 (1.29%) MLflow
8 4 (1.29%) Snyk
9 3 (0.97%) DbUnit
9 3 (0.97%) jMock
9 3 (0.97%) Mockito
10 2 (0.65%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.65%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.32%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.32%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.32%) Gradle
11 1 (0.32%) Selenium
General
1 106 (34.19%) Social Skills
2 64 (20.65%) Finance
3 49 (15.81%) Public Sector
4 36 (11.61%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.42%) Banking
6 14 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.87%) Legal
8 11 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (2.26%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.94%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.61%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.29%) Electronics
15 3 (0.97%) Marketing
16 2 (0.65%) Aeronautics
16 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.65%) Private Banking
17 1 (0.32%) Billing
17 1 (0.32%) Military
Job Titles
1 116 (37.42%) Architect
2 42 (13.55%) AWS Engineer
3 41 (13.23%) DevOps Engineer
4 39 (12.58%) AWS Architect
5 32 (10.32%) Senior
6 29 (9.35%) Cloud Engineer
7 28 (9.03%) Cloud Architect
8 25 (8.06%) Solutions Architect
9 19 (6.13%) Lead
9 19 (6.13%) Security Engineer
10 18 (5.81%) Platform Engineer
10 18 (5.81%) Technical Architect
11 17 (5.48%) AWS DevOps
12 16 (5.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 16 (5.16%) Data Engineer
13 15 (4.84%) Developer
13 15 (4.84%) Security Architect
14 13 (4.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 11 (3.55%) Network Architect
16 9 (2.90%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.10%) Kafka
2 18 (5.81%) Node.js
3 16 (5.16%) REST
4 14 (4.52%) AWS CDK
5 11 (3.55%) RESTful
6 10 (3.23%) AngularJS
7 9 (2.90%) Web Services
8 8 (2.58%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (2.26%) XML
10 6 (1.94%) SOAP
11 5 (1.61%) .NET
11 5 (1.61%) boto
11 5 (1.61%) Middleware
11 5 (1.61%) React
11 5 (1.61%) Spring
11 5 (1.61%) Spring Boot
12 4 (1.29%) ARM Templates
12 4 (1.29%) PySpark
13 3 (0.97%) Spark Streaming
13 3 (0.97%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 77 (24.84%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.45%) Data Centre
3 16 (5.16%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (4.19%) Product Ownership
5 13 (4.19%) Public Cloud
6 12 (3.87%) Management Information System
7 11 (3.55%) Enterprise Cloud
8 9 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (2.90%) Virtual Team
9 8 (2.58%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.94%) PKI
11 5 (1.61%) Cloud Security Posture
11 5 (1.61%) IoT
11 5 (1.61%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.61%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.61%) SCADA
12 4 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.29%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 51 (16.45%) Linux
2 32 (10.32%) Windows
3 7 (2.26%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.29%) VMS
5 3 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (53.23%) CI/CD
2 141 (45.48%) DevOps
3 139 (44.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 88 (28.39%) Agile
5 73 (23.55%) Containerisation
6 60 (19.35%) Cloud Security
7 57 (18.39%) Microservices
8 55 (17.74%) Migration
9 50 (16.13%) DevSecOps
10 49 (15.81%) Roadmaps
11 47 (15.16%) TOGAF
12 45 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
13 44 (14.19%) Observability
14 43 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
15 38 (12.26%) Mentoring
16 36 (11.61%) Cybersecurity
16 36 (11.61%) Stakeholder Management
16 36 (11.61%) Technical Leadership
17 33 (10.65%) Cost Optimisation
18 31 (10.00%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 109 (35.16%) Python
2 59 (19.03%) Java
3 39 (12.58%) Bash
4 35 (11.29%) SQL
5 32 (10.32%) PowerShell
6 17 (5.48%) JavaScript
6 17 (5.48%) TypeScript
7 13 (4.19%) Ruby
8 11 (3.55%) Perl
9 7 (2.26%) C#
9 7 (2.26%) Rust
10 6 (1.94%) Bicep
11 5 (1.61%) Go
12 4 (1.29%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.29%) Scala
13 3 (0.97%) PHP
14 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 133 (42.90%) Security Cleared
2 108 (34.84%) SC Cleared
3 101 (32.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 88 (28.39%) Azure Certification
5 37 (11.94%) Degree
6 31 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 28 (9.03%) CISSP
8 24 (7.74%) Cisco Certification
8 24 (7.74%) TOGAF Certification
9 21 (6.77%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (5.81%) DV Cleared
11 17 (5.48%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (3.87%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (3.55%) CCNP
13 11 (3.55%) Master's Degree
14 10 (3.23%) CCSP
15 9 (2.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 9 (2.90%) CCNA
16 8 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
16 8 (2.58%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (11.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (9.68%) NIST
3 29 (9.35%) GDPR
4 18 (5.81%) Data Quality
5 14 (4.52%) NCSC
5 14 (4.52%) PCI DSS
6 12 (3.87%) QA
7 7 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.61%) PSD2
9 3 (0.97%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.97%) GRC
9 3 (0.97%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.97%) HL7
9 3 (0.97%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.97%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.65%) DICOM
10 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.32%) JSP 440
System Software
1 84 (27.10%) Docker
2 16 (5.16%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.90%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (1.94%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.97%) Postfix
6 3 (0.97%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.65%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 152 (49.03%) Terraform
2 107 (34.52%) Kubernetes
3 41 (13.23%) Ansible
4 24 (7.74%) Prometheus
5 22 (7.10%) Grafana
6 8 (2.58%) Argo
7 7 (2.26%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.29%) Puppet
9 3 (0.97%) Istio
9 3 (0.97%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.97%) linkerd
10 2 (0.65%) CASB
10 2 (0.65%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.65%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.32%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.32%) logstash
11 1 (0.32%) QRadar
11 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.32%) Suricata
Vendors
1 41 (13.23%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.77%) Oracle
3 19 (6.13%) Google
4 17 (5.48%) Databricks
4 17 (5.48%) VMware
5 14 (4.52%) Cisco
5 14 (4.52%) Splunk
6 9 (2.90%) Fortinet
7 8 (2.58%) IBM
7 8 (2.58%) Palo Alto
8 7 (2.26%) Citrix
8 7 (2.26%) CloudEndure
9 6 (1.94%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.94%) Zscaler
10 5 (1.61%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.61%) Meraki
11 4 (1.29%) AVEVA
11 4 (1.29%) F5
11 4 (1.29%) Qualys
11 4 (1.29%) SolarWinds