AWS Certification Contracts

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 413 414 304
Rank change year-on-year +1 -110 +60
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 166 326 816
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.55% 0.92%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.25% 2.02% 4.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 228 504
10th Percentile £451 £434 £447
25th Percentile £513 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +10.09%
75th Percentile £694 £650 £688
90th Percentile £763 £766 £754
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £81.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +132.86% -12.50%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

AWS Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,248 16,120 19,069
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.53% 27.29% 21.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,185 10,751 12,592
10th Percentile £300 £330 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £627
90th Percentile £745 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £531 £530 £500
% change year-on-year +0.19% +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,078 840 769
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.25 £13.75
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.17 £19.35
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +27.06% +12.43%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.33 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £66.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £49.88 £32.50
% change year-on-year -17.91% +53.49% -5.92%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification.

Daily rate trend for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification.

Hourly rate trend for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Top 15 Contract 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 6 May 2024. 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 -13 143 £588 +6.82% 206
London +56 87 £573 -2.97% 95
Work from Home +28 69 £600 +9.09% 108
UK excluding London -1 55 £600 +9.09% 151
North of England 0 16 £600 +9.09% 38
North West +16 14 £650 +46.07% 19
South East +15 11 £535 +7.00% 14
Midlands +39 9 £650 +18.18% 36
East of England +12 8 £600 +6.67% 5
West Midlands - 7 £650 - 30
Scotland +40 6 £550 -26.67% 18
South West -16 4 £625 +11.11% 16
East Midlands +20 2 £620 +12.73% 6
Yorkshire +5 2 £500 -9.09% 11
Wales - 1 £643 - 1

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.81%) Apache
1 3 (1.81%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.81%) Confluence
2 1 (0.60%) IIS
2 1 (0.60%) nginx
2 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.61%) Chatbot
2 5 (3.01%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 166 (100.00%) AWS
2 69 (41.57%) Azure
3 44 (26.51%) Serverless
4 41 (24.70%) AWS Lambda
5 32 (19.28%) Amazon EC2
6 26 (15.66%) Amazon S3
6 26 (15.66%) GCP
7 25 (15.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 17 (10.24%) Entra ID
9 16 (9.64%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (7.83%) GitHub
11 12 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (6.02%) Amazon EMR
13 9 (5.42%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 9 (5.42%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (5.42%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (4.82%) Amazon Kinesis
15 7 (4.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (4.22%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (4.22%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.84%) Firewall
2 16 (9.64%) Network Security
3 13 (7.83%) DNS
4 12 (7.23%) VPN
5 9 (5.42%) Cisco ASA
5 9 (5.42%) Cisco Nexus
6 8 (4.82%) BGP
6 8 (4.82%) IPv4
6 8 (4.82%) LAN
6 8 (4.82%) OSPF
7 7 (4.22%) DHCP
8 6 (3.61%) CTI
8 6 (3.61%) IPv6
8 6 (3.61%) MPLS
8 6 (3.61%) VLAN
8 6 (3.61%) VoIP
8 6 (3.61%) Wireless
9 5 (3.01%) EIGRP
9 5 (3.01%) IPsec
9 5 (3.01%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (18.07%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (12.05%) Data Lake
3 18 (10.84%) Big Data
4 11 (6.63%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (6.02%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (4.82%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (3.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (3.61%) Relational Database
9 5 (3.01%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.41%) DynamoDB
10 4 (2.41%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.81%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (1.81%) GIS
11 3 (1.81%) Metadata
11 3 (1.81%) MySQL
12 2 (1.20%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (1.20%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.20%) SQL Server
12 2 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (9.04%) Git
1 15 (9.04%) Jenkins
2 11 (6.63%) GitLab
3 4 (2.41%) JIRA
3 4 (2.41%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.81%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.20%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.60%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.60%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.60%) JUnit
6 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.60%) Terragrunt
General
1 40 (24.10%) Finance
2 34 (20.48%) Social Skills
3 16 (9.64%) Retail
3 16 (9.64%) Telecoms
4 11 (6.63%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.02%) Banking
5 10 (6.02%) Marketing
6 9 (5.42%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (4.22%) Electronics
9 2 (1.20%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) French Language
10 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.60%) Military
10 1 (0.60%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.60%) Swedish Language
10 1 (0.60%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 56 (33.73%) Architect
2 34 (20.48%) AWS Engineer
3 29 (17.47%) Solutions Architect
4 26 (15.66%) Cloud Architect
5 25 (15.06%) AWS Architect
6 23 (13.86%) DevOps Engineer
7 20 (12.05%) Cloud Engineer
7 20 (12.05%) Senior
8 16 (9.64%) AWS DevOps
8 16 (9.64%) Lead
9 13 (7.83%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 13 (7.83%) Data Engineer
10 12 (7.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 12 (7.23%) Principal Architect
10 12 (7.23%) Principal Solutions Architect
11 10 (6.02%) Consultant
12 9 (5.42%) AWS Data Engineer
13 8 (4.82%) AWS Consultant
13 8 (4.82%) AWS Specialist
13 8 (4.82%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.63%) React
2 9 (5.42%) GraphQL
3 7 (4.22%) Web Services
4 6 (3.61%) Middleware
4 6 (3.61%) OAuth
4 6 (3.61%) SAML
5 5 (3.01%) .NET
5 5 (3.01%) 802.1X
5 5 (3.01%) Node.js
5 5 (3.01%) OAuth2
6 4 (2.41%) REST
7 3 (1.81%) AWS CDK
7 3 (1.81%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.81%) JDBC
7 3 (1.81%) ODBC
8 2 (1.20%) Kafka
8 2 (1.20%) LDAP
8 2 (1.20%) PySpark
8 2 (1.20%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.20%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.42%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (3.61%) IVR
2 6 (3.61%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.41%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.41%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (1.81%) PKI
4 3 (1.81%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.81%) Security Posture
4 3 (1.81%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.20%) Clustering
5 2 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.20%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.20%) Life Science
5 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.20%) Replication
5 2 (1.20%) Video on Demand
6 1 (0.60%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.60%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 30 (18.07%) Linux
2 20 (12.05%) Windows
3 5 (3.01%) Unix
4 2 (1.20%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.60%) AIX
5 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (37.35%) DevOps
2 42 (25.30%) CI/CD
3 37 (22.29%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (21.08%) Agile
5 29 (17.47%) Containerisation
6 21 (12.65%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (12.05%) Cybersecurity
8 19 (11.45%) SDLC
8 19 (11.45%) Service Management
9 18 (10.84%) Capacity Planning
9 18 (10.84%) Scrum
10 17 (10.24%) Data Modelling
11 16 (9.64%) Machine Learning
12 15 (9.04%) Computer Science
12 15 (9.04%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 14 (8.43%) Analytics
13 14 (8.43%) Data Governance
13 14 (8.43%) ITIL
13 14 (8.43%) Technical Architecture
14 12 (7.23%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 62 (37.35%) Python
2 21 (12.65%) Bash
3 18 (10.84%) PowerShell
4 14 (8.43%) SQL
5 8 (4.82%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.01%) Java
7 4 (2.41%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.81%) C#
8 3 (1.81%) Ruby
9 1 (0.60%) Groovy
9 1 (0.60%) PHP
9 1 (0.60%) Scala
9 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 48 (28.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 37 (22.29%) Azure Certification
3 29 (17.47%) Security Cleared
4 27 (16.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 25 (15.06%) SC Cleared
6 17 (10.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 17 (10.24%) DV Cleared
7 15 (9.04%) Degree
8 12 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (6.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (4.82%) CISSP
11 7 (4.22%) CCNA
11 7 (4.22%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (3.61%) CCNP
12 6 (3.61%) Master's Degree
13 5 (3.01%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (2.41%) CISM
15 3 (1.81%) TOGAF Certification
16 2 (1.20%) Oracle Certification
17 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.61%) PCI DSS
2 5 (3.01%) GDPR
2 5 (3.01%) HIPAA
2 5 (3.01%) SOC 2
3 3 (1.81%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.60%) NIST
System Software
1 38 (22.89%) Docker
2 18 (10.84%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.20%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.60%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.60%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 62 (37.35%) Terraform
2 42 (25.30%) Kubernetes
3 22 (13.25%) Ansible
4 18 (10.84%) Puppet
5 5 (3.01%) SolarWinds Orion
6 3 (1.81%) Grafana
6 3 (1.81%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.60%) Graylog
8 1 (0.60%) Nagios
8 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.60%) Salt
Vendors
1 33 (19.88%) Microsoft
2 19 (11.45%) Cisco
3 18 (10.84%) Google
4 16 (9.64%) Oracle
5 13 (7.83%) SAP
6 12 (7.23%) Palo Alto
7 9 (5.42%) F5
8 6 (3.61%) Avaya
8 6 (3.61%) Genesys
9 5 (3.01%) CheckPoint
9 5 (3.01%) Infoblox
9 5 (3.01%) SolarWinds
9 5 (3.01%) VMware
10 3 (1.81%) Databricks
10 3 (1.81%) ESRI
10 3 (1.81%) Sage
10 3 (1.81%) Splunk
11 2 (1.20%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (1.20%) Instagram
11 2 (1.20%) Zscaler