AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Contracts

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 562 693
Rank change year-on-year +48 +131 +112
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner 6 20 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.046% 0.042%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.067% 0.15% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 24
10th Percentile £345 £328 £481
25th Percentile £375 £375 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -5.34%
75th Percentile - £584 £641
90th Percentile £676 £594 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £545 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -0.91% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner 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 8,993 13,316 16,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.72% 30.57% 27.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,686 8,190 10,861
10th Percentile £288 £300 £325
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 £743 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £533 £530
% change year-on-year -6.10% +0.57% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 509 1,076 849
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.87 £15.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.60 £68.25
90th Percentile £80.20 £75.24 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £40.94 £49.57
% change year-on-year +3.81% -17.41% +53.14%

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner in the UK

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.

Daily rate trend for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner in the UK

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner in the UK

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +51 5 £545 -0.91% 18
Work from Home +32 3 £563 +2.27% 21
London +31 3 £400 -28.73% 9
UK excluding London +59 2 £545 -0.91% 11
East Midlands - 2 £545 - 1
Midlands - 2 £545 - 3

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Exstream
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (33.33%) IaaS
3 2 (33.33%) PaaS
3 2 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon QuickSight
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Governance Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Compliance Audit
1 2 (33.33%) Data Mapping
1 2 (33.33%) Document Composition
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (33.33%) Resource Management
1 2 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (16.67%) Cost Management
2 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (16.67%) Economics
2 1 (16.67%) FinOps
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) ITSM
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (16.67%) CRISC
4 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
1 2 (33.33%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) OpenText