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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 277 331
Rank change year-on-year -62 +54 +78
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 415 318 242
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.96% 0.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.35% 3.01% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 215 169
10th Percentile £404 £359 £381
25th Percentile £456 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% -5.83%
75th Percentile £672 £631 £625
90th Percentile £790 £740 £702
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £480 £450
% change year-on-year +19.79% +6.67% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £57.00 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £61.80 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £72.66 £45.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.47% -22.41% -
75th Percentile £84.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £53.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.00 - £58.00

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 17,680 10,576 11,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.97% 31.85% 29.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,674 6,634 6,698
10th Percentile £353 £285 £310
25th Percentile £447 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.24% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £630
90th Percentile £713 £706 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,508 889 573
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.59 £18.13
25th Percentile £24.84 £18.87 £25.36
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -47.05% -11.49%
75th Percentile £71.69 £40.00 £68.00
90th Percentile £88.85 £70.16 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -49.70% -3.65%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -34 366 £563 +12.50% 98
London -7 195 £550 +4.76% 47
UK excluding London -82 179 £575 +19.79% 68
Work from Home -41 142 £575 +26.10% 86
North of England -50 64 £599 +33.21% 19
South East -62 45 £568 +13.50% 9
North West -30 40 £525 +25.00% 12
Midlands -37 39 £470 -7.84% 14
West Midlands -34 35 £470 -9.62% 14
South West -29 23 £800 +23.08% 16
Yorkshire -40 18 £613 +36.11% 5
Scotland -38 10 £467 +1.19% 7
North East -31 9 £625 +34.12% 2
East Midlands -10 4 £404 -7.45%
East of England -28 3 £600 +23.08%
Northern Ireland +2 1 £600 -38.46%

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 27 (6.51%) Confluence
2 12 (2.89%) Apache
2 12 (2.89%) SAS
3 8 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.69%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.20%) nginx
6 3 (0.72%) CloudStack
6 3 (0.72%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.24%) Appian
8 1 (0.24%) CIMPLICITY
8 1 (0.24%) Predix
8 1 (0.24%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.96%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.48%) Gliffy
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.24%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Cloudability
2 3 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.24%) Actimize
4 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.24%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.24%) Maximo
4 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.24%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 415 (100.00%) AWS
2 228 (54.94%) Azure
3 112 (26.99%) GCP
4 100 (24.10%) Amazon S3
5 93 (22.41%) Serverless
6 87 (20.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 79 (19.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 77 (18.55%) AWS Lambda
9 74 (17.83%) Amazon EC2
10 73 (17.59%) Amazon EKS
11 69 (16.63%) GitHub
12 63 (15.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 53 (12.77%) Amazon ECS
14 45 (10.84%) GitHub Actions
15 34 (8.19%) AWS KMS
16 32 (7.71%) Azure DevOps
17 26 (6.27%) Power Platform
18 22 (5.30%) Amazon SQS
19 21 (5.06%) Amazon EMR
19 21 (5.06%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 52 (12.53%) Firewall
2 25 (6.02%) Network Security
3 24 (5.78%) DNS
4 12 (2.89%) TCP/IP
5 11 (2.65%) VPN
6 10 (2.41%) DHCP
7 9 (2.17%) LAN
7 9 (2.17%) VSAN
8 8 (1.93%) WAN
9 6 (1.45%) Internet
10 5 (1.20%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.96%) BGP
11 4 (0.96%) NGFW
11 4 (0.96%) SAN
11 4 (0.96%) SSH
12 3 (0.72%) CTI
12 3 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
12 3 (0.72%) MPLS
12 3 (0.72%) NAS
12 3 (0.72%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (14.22%) Amazon RDS
2 31 (7.47%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (6.27%) Power BI
4 25 (6.02%) Amazon Aurora
4 25 (6.02%) Amazon Redshift
5 24 (5.78%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (4.82%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (4.34%) DynamoDB
7 18 (4.34%) SQL Server
8 17 (4.10%) Data Lake
8 17 (4.10%) MongoDB
9 14 (3.37%) MySQL
10 11 (2.65%) Redis
11 9 (2.17%) Metadata
11 9 (2.17%) Pentaho
12 7 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (1.45%) Hadoop
14 5 (1.20%) BigQuery
15 4 (0.96%) Amazon QuickSight
15 4 (0.96%) Flink
Development Applications
1 75 (18.07%) Jenkins
2 61 (14.70%) GitLab
3 50 (12.05%) Git
4 35 (8.43%) JIRA
5 8 (1.93%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.45%) JMeter
6 6 (1.45%) Selenium
7 5 (1.20%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.20%) Maven
8 4 (0.96%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.96%) Claude Code
8 4 (0.96%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.96%) JUnit
8 4 (0.96%) MLflow
8 4 (0.96%) Postman
9 3 (0.72%) LoadRunner
9 3 (0.72%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.72%) Snyk
10 2 (0.48%) jMock
10 2 (0.48%) SpecFlow
General
1 152 (36.63%) Social Skills
2 98 (23.61%) Public Sector
3 89 (21.45%) Finance
4 45 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (7.47%) Banking
6 16 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (1.93%) Billing
8 8 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.93%) Police
8 8 (1.93%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.69%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.45%) Military
11 5 (1.20%) Law
11 5 (1.20%) Retail
12 4 (0.96%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.96%) Local Government
13 3 (0.72%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 128 (30.84%) Architect
2 55 (13.25%) Senior
3 46 (11.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 44 (10.60%) Cloud Engineer
5 41 (9.88%) Lead
6 36 (8.67%) AWS Engineer
7 31 (7.47%) Technical Architect
8 29 (6.99%) Security Engineer
9 28 (6.75%) Security Architect
10 26 (6.27%) AWS Architect
10 26 (6.27%) Data Engineer
10 26 (6.27%) Solutions Architect
11 21 (5.06%) Cloud Architect
12 18 (4.34%) Consultant
12 18 (4.34%) Platform Engineer
13 17 (4.10%) AWS DevOps
13 17 (4.10%) DBA
14 16 (3.86%) Enterprise Architect
15 15 (3.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 13 (3.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (47.95%) Terraform
2 35 (8.43%) REST
3 21 (5.06%) OAuth
4 20 (4.82%) RESTful
5 18 (4.34%) OpenID
5 18 (4.34%) Spring Boot
6 17 (4.10%) Spring
7 15 (3.61%) AWS CDK
7 15 (3.61%) Kafka
8 14 (3.37%) PySpark
8 14 (3.37%) SOAP
9 13 (3.13%) SAML
10 11 (2.65%) .NET
10 11 (2.65%) Node.js
10 11 (2.65%) OAuth2
10 11 (2.65%) Web Services
11 10 (2.41%) LangChain
12 9 (2.17%) ARM Templates
12 9 (2.17%) React
13 7 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 136 (32.77%) Cloud Native
2 37 (8.92%) Security Posture
3 34 (8.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 33 (7.95%) Data Centre
5 28 (6.75%) Management Information System
6 27 (6.51%) Onboarding
7 24 (5.78%) Product Ownership
8 23 (5.54%) Public Cloud
9 22 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
9 22 (5.30%) Replication
10 15 (3.61%) PKI
11 14 (3.37%) Enterprise Cloud
12 11 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.93%) Cloud Security Posture
14 8 (1.93%) Cyber Threat
15 7 (1.69%) AI Agents
15 7 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
16 6 (1.45%) Mobile App
17 5 (1.20%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 79 (19.04%) Linux
2 56 (13.49%) Windows
3 29 (6.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (3.86%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.17%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.93%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (0.96%) Unix
8 3 (0.72%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.72%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.72%) macOS
9 2 (0.48%) CentOS
9 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.24%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (55.18%) CI/CD
2 222 (53.49%) DevOps
3 197 (47.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 156 (37.59%) Agile
5 113 (27.23%) Stakeholder Management
6 103 (24.82%) Cloud Security
7 98 (23.61%) Technical Leadership
8 89 (21.45%) Migration
9 87 (20.96%) Containerisation
9 87 (20.96%) Observability
10 84 (20.24%) AI
11 80 (19.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 77 (18.55%) Roadmaps
13 75 (18.07%) Microservices
14 71 (17.11%) DevSecOps
15 60 (14.46%) Platform Engineering
16 57 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
17 56 (13.49%) Software Engineering
18 55 (13.25%) Cybersecurity
19 54 (13.01%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 166 (40.00%) Python
2 73 (17.59%) Bash
3 72 (17.35%) PowerShell
4 71 (17.11%) Java
5 58 (13.98%) SQL
6 21 (5.06%) Bicep
6 21 (5.06%) JavaScript
7 14 (3.37%) TypeScript
8 11 (2.65%) Go
9 9 (2.17%) Groovy
10 7 (1.69%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.45%) Perl
12 5 (1.20%) Rust
13 3 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.72%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.48%) C#
14 2 (0.48%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.24%) CQL
15 1 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.24%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 176 (42.41%) Security Cleared
2 156 (37.59%) SC Cleared
3 126 (30.36%) Azure Certification
4 107 (25.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 77 (18.55%) CISSP
6 50 (12.05%) Degree
7 30 (7.23%) CISM
7 30 (7.23%) DV Cleared
8 28 (6.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 28 (6.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (6.02%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 23 (5.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (4.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 16 (3.86%) TOGAF Certification
13 14 (3.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 13 (3.13%) CCSP
15 11 (2.65%) PMI Certification
15 11 (2.65%) PMP
15 11 (2.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (10.36%) Data Quality
2 32 (7.71%) NIST
3 23 (5.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (5.30%) QA
5 21 (5.06%) NCSC
6 19 (4.58%) GDPR
7 7 (1.69%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.45%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.72%) EU AI Act
9 3 (0.72%) GRC
9 3 (0.72%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.72%) SLA
10 2 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.48%) HL7
10 2 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.24%) COBIT
11 1 (0.24%) FedRAMP
11 1 (0.24%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 128 (30.84%) Docker
2 32 (7.71%) Active Directory
3 21 (5.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (3.61%) vSphere
5 10 (2.41%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.96%) Postfix
7 3 (0.72%) DFS Replication
7 3 (0.72%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.72%) Squid
7 3 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.48%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.48%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.48%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 132 (31.81%) Kubernetes
2 59 (14.22%) Ansible
3 40 (9.64%) Grafana
4 36 (8.67%) Prometheus
5 29 (6.99%) Progress Chef
6 10 (2.41%) Puppet
7 9 (2.17%) Istio
8 8 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (1.69%) VxRail
10 5 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (1.20%) Argo
11 3 (0.72%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.72%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.72%) Packer
11 3 (0.72%) QRadar
12 2 (0.48%) Kibana
12 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.48%) Nagios
12 2 (0.48%) Nessus
12 2 (0.48%) SCCM
Vendors
1 83 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 53 (12.77%) Google
3 27 (6.51%) VMware
4 23 (5.54%) Splunk
5 20 (4.82%) Red Hat
6 16 (3.86%) Cisco
6 16 (3.86%) ServiceNow
7 15 (3.61%) Databricks
8 11 (2.65%) Informatica
9 10 (2.41%) Oracle
10 9 (2.17%) Denodo
10 9 (2.17%) Talend
11 8 (1.93%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.93%) Palo Alto
11 8 (1.93%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.69%) CrowdStrike
12 7 (1.69%) IBM
13 6 (1.45%) Commvault
13 6 (1.45%) Okta
13 6 (1.45%) OpenAI