AWS Certification Contracts

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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 441 413
Rank change year-on-year +184 -28 -105
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 303 160 326
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.04% 0.37% 0.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.39% 1.21% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 120 228
10th Percentile £368 £450 £434
25th Percentile £458 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £648 £691 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £766
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £38.35 - £80.30
25th Percentile £43.38 - £80.75
Median hourly rate £53.50 - £81.50
75th Percentile £77.63 - £82.25
90th Percentile £91.05 - £82.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 8,935 13,181 16,132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.73% 30.54% 27.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,636 8,133 10,753
10th Percentile £286 £300 £330
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £707 £744 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £530 £530
% change year-on-year -5.66% - +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 514 1,075 841
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.86 £15.25
25th Percentile £21.75 £17.84 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - -25.93% +27.06%
75th Percentile £65.94 £61.60 £68.25
90th Percentile £80.07 £75.25 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.72 £40.94 £49.72
% change year-on-year -0.55% -17.66% +44.65%

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 5 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS Certification over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Top 17 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 5 May 2025. 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 +124 213 £600 +4.35% 458
London +99 141 £600 +4.80% 266
Work from Home +106 125 £575 -4.17% 370
UK excluding London +102 107 £550 -8.33% 264
Scotland +43 37 £550 - 15
North of England +31 24 £708 +18.00% 75
South West +45 14 £619 -1.00% 24
Wales +20 13 £270 -57.98% 9
North West +12 12 £708 +8.92% 54
Midlands +20 10 £500 -23.08% 45
Yorkshire +22 8 £725 +45.00% 18
South East +38 6 £575 +7.48% 77
East Midlands +18 6 £503 -18.95% 11
West Midlands +15 4 £500 -23.08% 30
North East - 4 £475 - 3
East of England +26 2 £525 -12.50% 11
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 - 10

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 21 (6.93%) Confluence
2 14 (4.62%) nginx
3 12 (3.96%) Traefik
4 6 (1.98%) Apache
5 5 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.65%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.65%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.66%) Camunda
6 2 (0.66%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.66%) Exstream
3 1 (0.33%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.33%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.33%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.33%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 303 (100.00%) AWS
2 133 (43.89%) Azure
3 103 (33.99%) Serverless
4 87 (28.71%) AWS Lambda
5 74 (24.42%) Amazon S3
6 61 (20.13%) GCP
7 57 (18.81%) AWS CloudFormation
8 56 (18.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 37 (12.21%) Amazon EC2
9 37 (12.21%) Entra ID
10 34 (11.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 31 (10.23%) Amazon EKS
12 26 (8.58%) GitHub
13 24 (7.92%) Amazon ECS
13 24 (7.92%) AWS Fargate
14 23 (7.59%) PaaS
15 19 (6.27%) SaaS
16 15 (4.95%) AWS KMS
17 14 (4.62%) AWS CloudTrail
18 13 (4.29%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (12.21%) DNS
2 27 (8.91%) VPN
3 22 (7.26%) TCP/IP
4 17 (5.61%) Firewall
5 16 (5.28%) WAN
6 13 (4.29%) DHCP
6 13 (4.29%) LAN
7 10 (3.30%) Network Security
8 7 (2.31%) BGP
9 6 (1.98%) OSPF
10 5 (1.65%) SSL
10 5 (1.65%) VLAN
11 3 (0.99%) DOCSIS
11 3 (0.99%) MPLS
11 3 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.99%) Wireless
12 2 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 2 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 2 (0.66%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.66%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (13.20%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (9.90%) MongoDB
3 27 (8.91%) DynamoDB
4 19 (6.27%) NoSQL
5 15 (4.95%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (4.62%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (4.29%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (3.96%) Oracle Database
9 9 (2.97%) Big Data
9 9 (2.97%) Metadata
10 7 (2.31%) Data Lake
10 7 (2.31%) MySQL
10 7 (2.31%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.31%) SQL Server
11 6 (1.98%) Parquet
12 5 (1.65%) Metadata Repository
13 4 (1.32%) Flink
13 4 (1.32%) GIS
13 4 (1.32%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 43 (14.19%) GitLab
2 41 (13.53%) Jenkins
3 26 (8.58%) JIRA
4 23 (7.59%) Git
5 14 (4.62%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.65%) MLflow
7 2 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.66%) Maven
7 2 (0.66%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.66%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.33%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.33%) JMeter
8 1 (0.33%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.33%) Postman
8 1 (0.33%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.33%) Selenium
8 1 (0.33%) WebDriver
General
1 120 (39.60%) Social Skills
2 51 (16.83%) Analytical Skills
2 51 (16.83%) Public Sector
3 39 (12.87%) Finance
4 19 (6.27%) Banking
5 12 (3.96%) Legal
5 12 (3.96%) Telecoms
6 5 (1.65%) Investment Banking
6 5 (1.65%) Military
7 4 (1.32%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (0.99%) Billing
9 2 (0.66%) Digital Health
9 2 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.66%) French Language
9 2 (0.66%) General Ledger
9 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.66%) Retail
Job Titles
1 126 (41.58%) Architect
2 49 (16.17%) Solutions Architect
3 40 (13.20%) AWS Engineer
3 40 (13.20%) Senior
4 36 (11.88%) Developer
5 35 (11.55%) AWS Architect
6 29 (9.57%) DevOps Engineer
7 23 (7.59%) Cloud Architect
8 19 (6.27%) Cloud Engineer
8 19 (6.27%) Lead
9 16 (5.28%) AWS DevOps
9 16 (5.28%) Security Architect
9 16 (5.28%) Senior DevOps
10 13 (4.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 12 (3.96%) Data Engineer
11 12 (3.96%) Technical Architect
12 11 (3.63%) AWS Solution Architect
12 11 (3.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 10 (3.30%) AWS Developer
13 10 (3.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (9.57%) Kafka
2 22 (7.26%) React
3 16 (5.28%) Keycloak
4 14 (4.62%) cloud-init
4 14 (4.62%) Node.js
5 12 (3.96%) Spring Boot
6 11 (3.63%) .NET
6 11 (3.63%) Spring
7 10 (3.30%) AWS CDK
7 10 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (2.97%) OAuth
8 9 (2.97%) REST
9 8 (2.64%) GraphQL
10 7 (2.31%) boto
10 7 (2.31%) JSON
11 6 (1.98%) AngularJS
11 6 (1.98%) CSS
11 6 (1.98%) NumPy
11 6 (1.98%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (1.98%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 41 (13.53%) Cloud Native
2 30 (9.90%) PKI
3 16 (5.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (3.96%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.30%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.31%) NHS
8 6 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.98%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.98%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.98%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.32%) Video\Live Streaming
10 3 (0.99%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.99%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.99%) Embedded Systems
10 3 (0.99%) IVR
10 3 (0.99%) Oracle Licensing
10 3 (0.99%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 43 (14.19%) Linux
2 27 (8.91%) Windows
3 18 (5.94%) Unix
4 17 (5.61%) CentOS
5 15 (4.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (4.29%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.66%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (38.28%) DevOps
2 112 (36.96%) CI/CD
3 90 (29.70%) Problem-Solving
4 88 (29.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 72 (23.76%) Computer Science
6 68 (22.44%) Agile
7 63 (20.79%) Containerisation
8 54 (17.82%) Cloud Security
9 50 (16.50%) Migration
10 43 (14.19%) Stakeholder Management
11 40 (13.20%) Microservices
12 37 (12.21%) High Availability
12 37 (12.21%) Roadmaps
13 32 (10.56%) Continuous Integration
13 32 (10.56%) Observability
14 31 (10.23%) Mentoring
15 30 (9.90%) Analytics
16 24 (7.92%) Event-Driven
17 23 (7.59%) Enterprise Architecture
17 23 (7.59%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 128 (42.24%) Python
2 44 (14.52%) Java
3 34 (11.22%) Bash
4 32 (10.56%) SQL
5 27 (8.91%) JavaScript
6 25 (8.25%) PowerShell
7 18 (5.94%) Go
7 18 (5.94%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.31%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.98%) Ruby
10 5 (1.65%) C
11 4 (1.32%) C#
11 4 (1.32%) PHP
12 3 (0.99%) C++
12 3 (0.99%) Scala
13 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.66%) R
14 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.33%) Groovy
14 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 127 (41.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 97 (32.01%) Security Cleared
3 91 (30.03%) Azure Certification
4 88 (29.04%) SC Cleared
5 82 (27.06%) Degree
6 55 (18.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 35 (11.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (6.93%) AWS Certified Developer
9 16 (5.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 14 (4.62%) CISSP
10 14 (4.62%) Master's Degree
11 13 (4.29%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (4.29%) DV Cleared
12 7 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (2.31%) CCNP
12 7 (2.31%) OCP
12 7 (2.31%) Oracle Certification
12 7 (2.31%) PMI Certification
12 7 (2.31%) PMP
12 7 (2.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.90%) QA
2 19 (6.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (5.28%) GDPR
3 16 (5.28%) NCSC
4 13 (4.29%) NIST
5 11 (3.63%) Data Quality
6 8 (2.64%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.65%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.66%) FIPS 140-2
8 2 (0.66%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.66%) SLA
8 2 (0.66%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 46 (15.18%) Docker
2 22 (7.26%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.32%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.32%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.66%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 86 (28.38%) Terraform
2 76 (25.08%) Kubernetes
3 33 (10.89%) Prometheus
4 32 (10.56%) Ansible
4 32 (10.56%) Grafana
5 16 (5.28%) Istio
5 16 (5.28%) linkerd
6 15 (4.95%) Consul
6 15 (4.95%) Packer
7 14 (4.62%) Jamf Pro
7 14 (4.62%) Rancher
7 14 (4.62%) ZABBIX
8 13 (4.29%) HAProxy
9 8 (2.64%) Puppet
10 5 (1.65%) Progress Chef
11 4 (1.32%) Oracle RMAN
11 4 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.99%) Argo
13 2 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.66%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 79 (26.07%) Microsoft
2 39 (12.87%) Google
3 27 (8.91%) Oracle
4 24 (7.92%) Splunk
5 21 (6.93%) Okta
6 12 (3.96%) Apple
6 12 (3.96%) ESET
7 11 (3.63%) Cisco
8 9 (2.97%) VMware
9 8 (2.64%) Databricks
10 7 (2.31%) Salesforce
10 7 (2.31%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.98%) SAP
12 5 (1.65%) Cloudera
12 5 (1.65%) Red Hat
13 4 (1.32%) Dataiku
13 4 (1.32%) DataRobot
13 4 (1.32%) Fortinet
13 4 (1.32%) Palo Alto
14 3 (0.99%) Ping Identity