AWS Certification Contracts with Work from Home Options

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) 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 275 303 265
Rank change year-on-year +28 -38 +46
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 69 174 442
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.45% 0.68% 0.99%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.65% 2.68% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 129 292
10th Percentile £500 £440 £435
25th Percentile £525 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £720 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +10.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate - £81.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +132.86% -12.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,176 6,498 8,854
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.43% 25.45% 19.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,635 4,367 6,217
10th Percentile £325 £381 £369
25th Percentile £440 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £730 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 285 226
10th Percentile £15.85 £19.35 £19.43
25th Percentile £24.25 £42.50 £38.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.85% +32.65% +22.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £65.53
90th Percentile £82.13 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +27.06% +12.43%

AWS Certification
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS Certification trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS Certification.

AWS Certification daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing AWS Certification over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

AWS Certification daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Certification
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS Certification.

AWS Certification hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (2.90%) Confluence
2 1 (1.45%) Apache
2 1 (1.45%) IIS
2 1 (1.45%) nginx
2 1 (1.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 69 (100.00%) AWS
2 26 (37.68%) Azure
3 18 (26.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 17 (24.64%) Amazon EC2
5 16 (23.19%) Entra ID
6 12 (17.39%) Amazon S3
7 11 (15.94%) Serverless
8 10 (14.49%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (14.49%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (13.04%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 9 (13.04%) Azure Sentinel
9 9 (13.04%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (8.70%) Amazon EMR
10 6 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (8.70%) IaaS
10 6 (8.70%) PaaS
11 5 (7.25%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (7.25%) AWS Fargate
11 5 (7.25%) CloudFront
12 4 (5.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.94%) Network Security
2 9 (13.04%) VPN
3 8 (11.59%) Firewall
4 5 (7.25%) DNS
5 4 (5.80%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (4.35%) CTI
6 3 (4.35%) VoIP
7 2 (2.90%) BGP
7 2 (2.90%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (2.90%) LAN
7 2 (2.90%) OSPF
7 2 (2.90%) SD-WAN
7 2 (2.90%) SSL
7 2 (2.90%) WAN
7 2 (2.90%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.45%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (28.99%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.25%) RDBMS
2 5 (7.25%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.80%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (5.80%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.35%) MySQL
5 2 (2.90%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.90%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (2.90%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (2.90%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.90%) GIS
5 2 (2.90%) Power BI
5 2 (2.90%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.90%) Tableau
6 1 (1.45%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 10 (14.49%) Git
2 8 (11.59%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.35%) JIRA
4 2 (2.90%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.45%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.45%) GitLab
5 1 (1.45%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (27.54%) Finance
2 12 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.39%) Telecoms
3 11 (15.94%) Retail
4 9 (13.04%) Marketing
4 9 (13.04%) Public Sector
5 8 (11.59%) Manufacturing
6 7 (10.14%) Electronics
7 4 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Banking
8 1 (1.45%) French Language
8 1 (1.45%) Spanish Language
8 1 (1.45%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 24 (34.78%) Architect
2 15 (21.74%) AWS Engineer
3 12 (17.39%) AWS Architect
4 10 (14.49%) Cloud Architect
4 10 (14.49%) Lead
5 8 (11.59%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (10.14%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (10.14%) AWS Specialist
6 7 (10.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (10.14%) Senior
7 6 (8.70%) Lead Architect
7 6 (8.70%) Lead Cloud Architect
7 6 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (7.25%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) AWS Consultant
8 5 (7.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Consultant
8 5 (7.25%) Security Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (5.80%) Azure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.25%) OAuth
1 5 (7.25%) OAuth2
1 5 (7.25%) SAML
2 3 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (4.35%) Middleware
2 3 (4.35%) Web Services
3 2 (2.90%) .NET
3 2 (2.90%) Kafka
3 2 (2.90%) PySpark
4 1 (1.45%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.45%) LDAP
4 1 (1.45%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.59%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.80%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.35%) IVR
3 3 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.90%) PKI
4 2 (2.90%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.90%) Video on Demand
4 2 (2.90%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.45%) Clustering
5 1 (1.45%) CMDB
5 1 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.04%) Windows
2 4 (5.80%) Linux
3 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (31.88%) DevOps
2 21 (30.43%) CI/CD
3 15 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (20.29%) Capacity Planning
4 14 (20.29%) Containerisation
5 10 (14.49%) Cloud Operations
6 9 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (13.04%) Cost Control
6 9 (13.04%) Roadmaps
7 8 (11.59%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (10.14%) Agile
8 7 (10.14%) Cloud Security
8 7 (10.14%) Digital Marketing
8 7 (10.14%) Programme Management
8 7 (10.14%) Service Management
9 6 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (8.70%) Identity Access Management
9 6 (8.70%) Incident Response
9 6 (8.70%) Planning and Forecasting
9 6 (8.70%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (28.99%) Python
2 11 (15.94%) Bash
3 5 (7.25%) JavaScript
3 5 (7.25%) SQL
4 3 (4.35%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.35%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (26.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 13 (18.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 13 (18.84%) Azure Certification
3 11 (15.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 10 (14.49%) Security Cleared
5 7 (10.14%) SC Cleared
6 4 (5.80%) DV Cleared
6 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (4.35%) Degree
7 3 (4.35%) Master's Degree
8 2 (2.90%) CISSP
8 2 (2.90%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (1.45%) CEH
9 1 (1.45%) CISM
9 1 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.45%) MCSE
9 1 (1.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.35%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.90%) GDPR
2 2 (2.90%) HIPAA
2 2 (2.90%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (30.43%) Docker
2 16 (23.19%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (30.43%) Kubernetes
1 21 (30.43%) Terraform
2 3 (4.35%) Ansible
2 3 (4.35%) Grafana
2 3 (4.35%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.90%) Puppet
4 1 (1.45%) Graylog
4 1 (1.45%) Nagios
4 1 (1.45%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.45%) Salt
Vendors
1 15 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 13 (18.84%) Oracle
3 10 (14.49%) SAP
4 7 (10.14%) Cisco
5 4 (5.80%) Google
5 4 (5.80%) Palo Alto
6 3 (4.35%) Avaya
6 3 (4.35%) Genesys
6 3 (4.35%) Splunk
7 2 (2.90%) ESRI
7 2 (2.90%) F5
7 2 (2.90%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.90%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.45%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.45%) Checkmarx
8 1 (1.45%) Databricks
8 1 (1.45%) Facebook
8 1 (1.45%) Instagram
8 1 (1.45%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.45%) VMware