AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Contracts

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Certified SysOps Administrator 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 516 581 697
Rank change year-on-year +65 +116 +116
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified SysOps Administrator 4 1 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.002% 0.035%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.044% 0.008% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 19
10th Percentile £674 - £523
25th Percentile £691 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile - - £575
90th Percentile - - £584
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £550
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator 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 SysOps Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS Certified SysOps Administrator as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certified SysOps Administrator in the UK

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Certified SysOps Administrator.

Daily rate trend for AWS Certified SysOps Administrator in the UK

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Top 3 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 SysOps Administrator 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 +60 4 £700 - 9
London +41 4 £700 - 6
Work from Home +41 1 £700 - 7

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon Macie
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (50.00%) AWS KMS
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Architect
1 2 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Security Architect
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Specialist
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Specialist
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Security Technical Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (25.00%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Log Aggregation
2 2 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 2 (50.00%) Puppet
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform