AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Contract Job Trends

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 12 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 555 625
Rank change year-on-year +6 +70 +178
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified SysOps Administrator 8 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.024% 0.003% 0.004%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.076% 0.009% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile £371 - -
25th Percentile £380 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -14.29% -16.00%
75th Percentile £688 - £538
90th Percentile £691 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 - £525
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

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 10,518 11,058 13,632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.94% 29.28% 28.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,584 6,703 8,771
10th Percentile £283 £310 £320
25th Percentile £413 £419 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £706 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £538
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.26% +2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 890 577 743
10th Percentile £17.54 £18.03 £16.62
25th Percentile £18.87 £25.35 £26.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £53.70
Median % change year-on-year -47.05% -11.55% +19.33%
75th Percentile £40.46 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £79.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £51.90
% change year-on-year -49.70% -3.66% +15.33%

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS Certified SysOps Administrator relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS Certified SysOps Administrator.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS Certified SysOps Administrator

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified SysOps Administrator over the 6 months to 12 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certified SysOps Administrator in the UK

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Top 7 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 Certified SysOps Administrator within the UK over the 6 months to 12 October 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 +25 7 £550 +22.22% 5
London +21 4 £675 +50.00%
Work from Home - 3 £388 - 2
UK excluding London - 3 £475 - 5
Midlands - 2 £458 -
West Midlands - 2 £458 -
East of England - 1 £475 - 1

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (50.00%) Route 53
2 4 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (25.00%) Azure
4 2 (25.00%) GitHub
4 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (25.00%) Serverless
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (12.50%) AWS KMS
5 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) DNS
2 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 4 (50.00%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) DHCP
3 1 (12.50%) iSCSI
3 1 (12.50%) Kerberos
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (12.50%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (12.50%) VLAN
3 1 (12.50%) VSAN
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (37.50%) Git
2 3 (37.50%) GitLab
3 2 (25.00%) Artifactory
3 2 (25.00%) Maven
3 2 (25.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (12.50%) JIRA
4 1 (12.50%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Specialist
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps Specialist
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (12.50%) LDAP
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
1 1 (12.50%) OpenID
1 1 (12.50%) React
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
1 1 (12.50%) SAML
1 1 (12.50%) Spring
1 1 (12.50%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (37.50%) Distributed Architecture
1 3 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (25.00%) Distributed Applications
2 2 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (12.50%) PKI
3 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Unix
2 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (12.50%) SUSE
3 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Containerisation
1 7 (87.50%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (50.00%) High Availability
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Deployment
4 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
4 3 (37.50%) Load Balancing
4 3 (37.50%) Log Aggregation
4 3 (37.50%) Microservices
4 3 (37.50%) Migration
5 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
5 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Project Management
5 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (12.50%) Change Management
6 1 (12.50%) Reverse Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (37.50%) Bash
3 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
4 2 (25.00%) Groovy
5 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 5 (62.50%) AWS Certified Developer
2 5 (62.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
5 1 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 4 (50.00%) Puppet
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Grafana
3 1 (12.50%) Nagios
3 1 (12.50%) PowerCLI
3 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Veeam
2 1 (12.50%) Commvault
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) SaltStack
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) VMware