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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 258 423
Rank change year-on-year -92 +165 -26
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 294 305 165
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 1.05% 0.38%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.93% 3.40% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 219 123
10th Percentile £400 £368 £456
25th Percentile £460 £458 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £648 £694
90th Percentile £755 £738 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 0
10th Percentile £72.33 £38.35 -
25th Percentile £84.25 £43.38 -
Median hourly rate £93.75 £53.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.23% - -
75th Percentile £102.69 £77.63 -
90th Percentile £105.73 £91.05 -
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 15,210 8,977 13,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.05% 30.85% 30.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,117 5,651 8,118
10th Percentile £348 £285 £300
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £650
90th Percentile £721 £704 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £534
% change year-on-year - -6.30% +0.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,087 512 1,072
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.13 £13.85
25th Percentile £21.25 £21.49 £17.80
Median hourly rate £47.54 £38.27 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.22% -4.33% -25.93%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £61.53
90th Percentile £85.36 £79.87 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £40.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year +18.75% -2.30% -17.91%

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 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 8 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 8 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 -95 233 £553 -7.92% 271
UK excluding London -85 120 £550 - 242
London -82 117 £525 -12.50% 83
Work from Home -72 80 £565 -1.74% 84
North of England -41 45 £581 -17.94% 68
North West -17 34 £575 -18.79% 29
South East -48 27 £525 +5.00% 53
Midlands -60 19 £500 +3.63% 38
West Midlands -42 17 £500 - 17
East of England -23 9 £550 +4.76% 22
Scotland -34 9 £380 -30.91% 18
South West -42 9 £644 +4.04% 32
Yorkshire -48 8 £669 -7.76% 26
North East -17 3 £575 +21.05% 13
Wales -19 3 £250 -7.41% 10
East Midlands -34 1 £447 -3.87% 21

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 18 (6.12%) Confluence
2 7 (2.38%) Apache
3 5 (1.70%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.70%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.68%) nginx
4 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.68%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.68%) DELMIA
2 2 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 294 (100.00%) AWS
2 149 (50.68%) Azure
3 79 (26.87%) AWS CloudFormation
4 64 (21.77%) Serverless
5 63 (21.43%) GCP
6 56 (19.05%) Amazon EKS
7 54 (18.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 46 (15.65%) Amazon S3
8 46 (15.65%) GitHub
9 42 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
10 37 (12.59%) Amazon ECS
11 36 (12.24%) GitHub Actions
12 32 (10.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 29 (9.86%) Amazon EC2
14 27 (9.18%) AWS KMS
15 20 (6.80%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 18 (6.12%) AWS CodePipeline
17 17 (5.78%) Route 53
18 15 (5.10%) AWS CloudTrail
19 14 (4.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 36 (12.24%) Firewall
2 19 (6.46%) Network Security
3 17 (5.78%) VPN
4 16 (5.44%) DNS
5 10 (3.40%) WAN
6 7 (2.38%) 3GPP
6 7 (2.38%) BGP
7 6 (2.04%) DHCP
8 5 (1.70%) LAN
8 5 (1.70%) OSPF
8 5 (1.70%) SD-WAN
8 5 (1.70%) TCP/IP
9 4 (1.36%) IPv6
9 4 (1.36%) TETRA
10 3 (1.02%) IPv4
10 3 (1.02%) VLAN
11 2 (0.68%) 4G
11 2 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (0.68%) LTE
11 2 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (13.27%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (7.48%) DynamoDB
3 13 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (3.74%) Amazon Aurora
4 11 (3.74%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (3.74%) Power BI
5 10 (3.40%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (3.06%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.06%) Relational Database
7 8 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.38%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (2.38%) MySQL
9 6 (2.04%) Delta Lake
10 5 (1.70%) Metadata
11 4 (1.36%) Big Data
11 4 (1.36%) DataStage
12 3 (1.02%) DocumentDB
12 3 (1.02%) SQL Server
13 2 (0.68%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 40 (13.61%) Jenkins
2 34 (11.56%) GitLab
3 20 (6.80%) JIRA
4 17 (5.78%) Git
5 8 (2.72%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.04%) JUnit
6 6 (2.04%) MLflow
6 6 (2.04%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.70%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.36%) DbUnit
8 4 (1.36%) jMock
8 4 (1.36%) Maven
8 4 (1.36%) Mockito
8 4 (1.36%) Snyk
9 2 (0.68%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.68%) Bitbucket Server
10 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.34%) JMeter
10 1 (0.34%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.34%) Selenium
General
1 100 (34.01%) Social Skills
2 58 (19.73%) Finance
3 43 (14.63%) Public Sector
4 25 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.80%) Banking
6 15 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (4.08%) Legal
8 10 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.38%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.70%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.70%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.36%) Electronics
13 2 (0.68%) Aeronautics
13 2 (0.68%) Billing
13 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.68%) Marketing
14 1 (0.34%) Dutch Language
14 1 (0.34%) French Language
Job Titles
1 110 (37.41%) Architect
2 39 (13.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (12.24%) AWS Engineer
4 33 (11.22%) AWS Architect
5 30 (10.20%) Cloud Architect
6 29 (9.86%) Senior
7 27 (9.18%) Lead
8 26 (8.84%) Cloud Engineer
9 22 (7.48%) Technical Architect
10 21 (7.14%) Security Engineer
11 20 (6.80%) Solutions Architect
12 18 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
13 15 (5.10%) Developer
13 15 (5.10%) Security Architect
14 13 (4.42%) AWS DevOps
14 13 (4.42%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 12 (4.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 11 (3.74%) Data Engineer
16 11 (3.74%) Lead Architect
17 8 (2.72%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.12%) Kafka
2 16 (5.44%) REST
3 13 (4.42%) AWS CDK
3 13 (4.42%) Node.js
4 11 (3.74%) RESTful
5 10 (3.40%) Web Services
6 8 (2.72%) OAuth
6 8 (2.72%) SOAP
7 7 (2.38%) AngularJS
7 7 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (2.38%) OAuth2
7 7 (2.38%) OpenID
8 6 (2.04%) .NET
8 6 (2.04%) Middleware
8 6 (2.04%) Spring
8 6 (2.04%) Spring Boot
9 5 (1.70%) boto
9 5 (1.70%) React
9 5 (1.70%) XML
10 4 (1.36%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 83 (28.23%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.46%) Data Centre
3 16 (5.44%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.10%) Management Information System
5 13 (4.42%) Enterprise Cloud
5 13 (4.42%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (4.42%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.40%) Virtual Team
7 9 (3.06%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.38%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.04%) PKI
9 6 (2.04%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.70%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.36%) e-Learning
11 4 (1.36%) Replication
12 3 (1.02%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.02%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 51 (17.35%) Linux
2 34 (11.56%) Windows
3 5 (1.70%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.36%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.36%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.36%) VMS
5 3 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.68%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 139 (47.28%) DevOps
3 130 (44.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 83 (28.23%) Agile
5 71 (24.15%) Containerisation
6 57 (19.39%) Cloud Security
7 54 (18.37%) DevSecOps
8 53 (18.03%) Microservices
8 53 (18.03%) Migration
9 45 (15.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 45 (15.31%) Observability
9 45 (15.31%) Roadmaps
10 41 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
11 39 (13.27%) TOGAF
12 38 (12.93%) Problem-Solving
13 36 (12.24%) Technical Leadership
14 32 (10.88%) Cybersecurity
14 32 (10.88%) Event-Driven
14 32 (10.88%) Mentoring
15 31 (10.54%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 100 (34.01%) Python
2 57 (19.39%) Java
3 37 (12.59%) Bash
4 30 (10.20%) PowerShell
5 26 (8.84%) SQL
6 19 (6.46%) JavaScript
7 18 (6.12%) TypeScript
8 8 (2.72%) Perl
8 8 (2.72%) Ruby
9 7 (2.38%) Bicep
9 7 (2.38%) Rust
10 6 (2.04%) C#
11 4 (1.36%) Go
11 4 (1.36%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.02%) PHP
12 3 (1.02%) Scala
13 2 (0.68%) Groovy
14 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 128 (43.54%) Security Cleared
2 107 (36.39%) SC Cleared
3 95 (32.31%) Azure Certification
4 93 (31.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 30 (10.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 28 (9.52%) Degree
7 26 (8.84%) CISSP
8 24 (8.16%) TOGAF Certification
9 19 (6.46%) Cisco Certification
9 19 (6.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (6.12%) DV Cleared
11 11 (3.74%) AWS Certified Developer
11 11 (3.74%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (3.06%) CCNA
12 9 (3.06%) Master's Degree
12 9 (3.06%) PMI Certification
12 9 (3.06%) PMP
13 7 (2.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (2.38%) CCNP
13 7 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (8.16%) NIST
3 15 (5.10%) GDPR
4 14 (4.76%) NCSC
5 12 (4.08%) Data Quality
6 11 (3.74%) QA
7 8 (2.72%) PCI DSS
8 6 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.36%) GRC
10 3 (1.02%) HL7
10 3 (1.02%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.68%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.68%) DICOM
11 2 (0.68%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 2 (0.68%) PSD2
11 2 (0.68%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.34%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 77 (26.19%) Docker
2 16 (5.44%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.72%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.72%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.36%) Postfix
6 2 (0.68%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.68%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 136 (46.26%) Terraform
2 94 (31.97%) Kubernetes
3 31 (10.54%) Ansible
4 23 (7.82%) Grafana
4 23 (7.82%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.72%) Argo
6 7 (2.38%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.36%) linkerd
7 4 (1.36%) Puppet
8 3 (1.02%) Istio
8 3 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.68%) CASB
9 2 (0.68%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.68%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.68%) Packer
9 2 (0.68%) SCCM
10 1 (0.34%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.34%) logstash
10 1 (0.34%) QRadar
10 1 (0.34%) Suricata
Vendors
1 40 (13.61%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.78%) Google
3 15 (5.10%) Databricks
3 15 (5.10%) VMware
4 14 (4.76%) Splunk
5 13 (4.42%) Oracle
6 11 (3.74%) Cisco
7 8 (2.72%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.72%) IBM
7 8 (2.72%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.38%) Citrix
9 6 (2.04%) Atlassian
9 6 (2.04%) CloudEndure
9 6 (2.04%) Fortinet
9 6 (2.04%) SAP
9 6 (2.04%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.36%) BeyondTrust
10 4 (1.36%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (1.36%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.36%) Tenable