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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 264 387
Rank change year-on-year -63 +123 +7
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 325 281 212
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.74% 0.97% 0.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.20% 3.16% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 211 170
10th Percentile £361 £400 £450
25th Percentile £425 £461 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.93% +4.09%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £684
90th Percentile £728 £738 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 0
10th Percentile £72.33 - -
25th Percentile £84.25 £51.75 -
Median hourly rate £93.75 £53.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.23% - -
75th Percentile £102.69 £55.25 -
90th Percentile £105.73 - -
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 14,764 8,899 13,577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.64% 30.60% 30.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,723 5,660 8,406
10th Percentile £336 £290 £300
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £650
90th Percentile £721 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,082 482 1,012
10th Percentile £16.18 £18.51 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.35 £24.18 £17.74
Median hourly rate £35.00 £42.50 £37.83
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +12.35% -26.90%
75th Percentile £68.00 £67.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £81.01 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.18 £50.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -37.65% +33.33% -23.47%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -63 257 £525 -4.55% 269
UK excluding London -70 136 £500 -9.09% 246
London -61 125 £525 -2.33% 80
Work from Home -27 96 £525 -4.55% 59
North of England -54 41 £550 -21.43% 64
Midlands -49 32 £500 - 35
North West -17 31 £566 -19.11% 25
West Midlands -29 30 £520 +4.00% 17
South East -25 28 £525 -8.70% 55
Scotland -13 13 £358 -34.91% 10
East of England -24 10 £531 - 30
South West -26 10 £500 -18.37% 35
Yorkshire -64 6 £525 -22.22% 27
North East -11 4 £525 +10.53% 13
Wales -14 3 £250 - 12
East Midlands -38 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 (5.23%) Confluence
2 12 (3.69%) Apache Spark
3 11 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.77%) Apache
5 5 (1.54%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.62%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.62%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.31%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.31%) nginx
7 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) DELMIA
2 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 325 (100.00%) AWS
2 144 (44.31%) Azure
3 98 (30.15%) AWS CloudFormation
4 79 (24.31%) Serverless
5 66 (20.31%) GCP
5 66 (20.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 65 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
7 60 (18.46%) AWS Lambda
8 58 (17.85%) GitHub
9 57 (17.54%) Amazon S3
10 46 (14.15%) Amazon ECS
11 41 (12.62%) GitHub Actions
12 36 (11.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 35 (10.77%) Amazon EC2
14 25 (7.69%) AWS KMS
15 21 (6.46%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 21 (6.46%) AWS Control Tower
16 20 (6.15%) AWS CodePipeline
17 18 (5.54%) Entra ID
18 17 (5.23%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 48 (14.77%) Firewall
2 20 (6.15%) Network Security
3 19 (5.85%) VPN
4 18 (5.54%) DNS
5 13 (4.00%) WAN
6 11 (3.38%) BGP
7 9 (2.77%) LAN
8 8 (2.46%) DHCP
8 8 (2.46%) IPv6
8 8 (2.46%) OSPF
8 8 (2.46%) SD-WAN
9 7 (2.15%) 3GPP
9 7 (2.15%) IPv4
9 7 (2.15%) VLAN
10 5 (1.54%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (1.54%) MPLS
10 5 (1.54%) TCP/IP
10 5 (1.54%) VXLAN
10 5 (1.54%) WLAN
11 4 (1.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (13.54%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (7.08%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (6.15%) DynamoDB
4 19 (5.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (5.54%) NoSQL
6 16 (4.92%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (3.38%) Power BI
9 10 (3.08%) MySQL
10 9 (2.77%) Amazon QuickSight
11 8 (2.46%) Data Lake
11 8 (2.46%) Relational Database
11 8 (2.46%) Tableau
12 7 (2.15%) Big Data
12 7 (2.15%) DataStage
12 7 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.85%) Metadata
14 5 (1.54%) Oracle Database
15 4 (1.23%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 50 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 42 (12.92%) GitLab
3 31 (9.54%) JIRA
4 27 (8.31%) Git
5 16 (4.92%) Bitbucket
6 12 (3.69%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.85%) JUnit
8 5 (1.54%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.23%) Maven
9 4 (1.23%) MLflow
9 4 (1.23%) Mockito
9 4 (1.23%) Snyk
10 3 (0.92%) DbUnit
10 3 (0.92%) jMock
11 2 (0.62%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.62%) Liquibase
12 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket Server
12 1 (0.31%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.31%) Claude Code
12 1 (0.31%) Postman
General
1 106 (32.62%) Social Skills
2 66 (20.31%) Finance
3 52 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 36 (11.08%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (7.69%) Banking
6 15 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.69%) Legal
8 9 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.15%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.85%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.23%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.23%) Electronics
13 3 (0.92%) Marketing
14 2 (0.62%) Aeronautics
14 2 (0.62%) Private Banking
15 1 (0.31%) Aviation
15 1 (0.31%) Billing
15 1 (0.31%) Law
Job Titles
1 116 (35.69%) Architect
2 45 (13.85%) DevOps Engineer
3 44 (13.54%) AWS Engineer
4 38 (11.69%) AWS Architect
5 35 (10.77%) Senior
6 34 (10.46%) Cloud Engineer
7 31 (9.54%) Solutions Architect
8 27 (8.31%) Cloud Architect
9 21 (6.46%) Data Engineer
10 18 (5.54%) AWS DevOps
11 17 (5.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 17 (5.23%) Lead
11 17 (5.23%) Platform Engineer
11 17 (5.23%) Security Engineer
11 17 (5.23%) Technical Architect
12 16 (4.92%) Security Architect
13 15 (4.62%) Developer
14 13 (4.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 11 (3.38%) Network Architect
16 9 (2.77%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.77%) Kafka
2 19 (5.85%) Node.js
3 13 (4.00%) REST
4 12 (3.69%) AWS CDK
5 11 (3.38%) AngularJS
6 9 (2.77%) RESTful
7 8 (2.46%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (2.46%) XML
8 6 (1.85%) .NET
8 6 (1.85%) Middleware
8 6 (1.85%) SOAP
8 6 (1.85%) Spring
8 6 (1.85%) Spring Boot
9 5 (1.54%) boto
9 5 (1.54%) Web Services
10 4 (1.23%) Hibernate
10 4 (1.23%) JPA
10 4 (1.23%) PySpark
10 4 (1.23%) React
10 4 (1.23%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 77 (23.69%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.15%) Data Centre
3 16 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (4.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.38%) Enterprise Cloud
6 10 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.77%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.77%) Virtual Team
8 8 (2.46%) Security Posture
9 7 (2.15%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.85%) PKI
11 5 (1.54%) Cloud Security Posture
11 5 (1.54%) IoT
11 5 (1.54%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.54%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.54%) SCADA
12 4 (1.23%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 59 (18.15%) Linux
2 31 (9.54%) Windows
3 8 (2.46%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.23%) VMS
5 3 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (52.31%) CI/CD
2 144 (44.31%) DevOps
3 140 (43.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 91 (28.00%) Agile
5 79 (24.31%) Containerisation
6 69 (21.23%) Cloud Security
7 59 (18.15%) Migration
8 58 (17.85%) Microservices
9 52 (16.00%) Roadmaps
10 51 (15.69%) DevSecOps
11 48 (14.77%) TOGAF
12 45 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
13 43 (13.23%) Continuous Improvement
13 43 (13.23%) Observability
14 40 (12.31%) Mentoring
15 36 (11.08%) Cost Optimisation
15 36 (11.08%) Incident Response
16 35 (10.77%) Data Governance
16 35 (10.77%) ETL
17 34 (10.46%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (37.54%) Python
2 64 (19.69%) Java
3 43 (13.23%) Bash
4 42 (12.92%) SQL
5 31 (9.54%) PowerShell
6 17 (5.23%) JavaScript
7 16 (4.92%) TypeScript
8 13 (4.00%) Perl
8 13 (4.00%) Ruby
9 7 (2.15%) C#
9 7 (2.15%) Rust
10 6 (1.85%) Bicep
10 6 (1.85%) Scala
11 5 (1.54%) Go
12 3 (0.92%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.92%) PHP
13 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 137 (42.15%) Security Cleared
2 110 (33.85%) SC Cleared
3 103 (31.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 91 (28.00%) Azure Certification
5 34 (10.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 32 (9.85%) Degree
7 26 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
8 24 (7.38%) CISSP
9 23 (7.08%) TOGAF Certification
10 19 (5.85%) DV Cleared
11 16 (4.92%) AWS Certified Developer
11 16 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (3.38%) CCNP
12 11 (3.38%) CCSP
13 10 (3.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 9 (2.77%) CCNA
14 9 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (2.15%) Master's Degree
15 7 (2.15%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (10.15%) GDPR
3 29 (8.92%) NIST
4 23 (7.08%) Data Quality
5 15 (4.62%) NCSC
6 14 (4.31%) PCI DSS
6 14 (4.31%) QA
7 7 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.54%) PSD2
9 4 (1.23%) HIPAA
9 4 (1.23%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.92%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.92%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.62%) GRC
11 2 (0.62%) HL7
11 2 (0.62%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.31%) DICOM
12 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 90 (27.69%) Docker
2 17 (5.23%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.77%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.46%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.92%) Postfix
7 3 (0.92%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.62%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 159 (48.92%) Terraform
2 115 (35.38%) Kubernetes
3 43 (13.23%) Ansible
4 27 (8.31%) Prometheus
5 22 (6.77%) Grafana
6 8 (2.46%) Progress Chef
7 7 (2.15%) Argo
8 5 (1.54%) Puppet
9 3 (0.92%) Istio
9 3 (0.92%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.92%) linkerd
10 2 (0.62%) CASB
10 2 (0.62%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.62%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.31%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.31%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.31%) logstash
11 1 (0.31%) QRadar
11 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.31%) Suricata
Vendors
1 40 (12.31%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.00%) Oracle
3 20 (6.15%) Google
4 17 (5.23%) Databricks
4 17 (5.23%) VMware
5 14 (4.31%) Cisco
6 12 (3.69%) Splunk
7 10 (3.08%) Palo Alto
8 9 (2.77%) Fortinet
9 8 (2.46%) IBM
10 7 (2.15%) Citrix
10 7 (2.15%) CloudEndure
11 6 (1.85%) Dynatrace
12 5 (1.54%) Atlassian
12 5 (1.54%) Meraki
12 5 (1.54%) SAP
12 5 (1.54%) Zscaler
13 4 (1.23%) F5
13 4 (1.23%) Qualys
13 4 (1.23%) SolarWinds