AWS Certification Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for AWS Certification 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 184 277 297
Rank change year-on-year +93 +20 -24
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 120 68 184
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.21% 0.44% 0.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.34% 1.60% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 51 136
10th Percentile £325 £488 £440
25th Percentile £454 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £607 £675 £638
90th Percentile £731 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,762 4,242 6,586
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.88% 27.64% 25.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,865 2,651 4,417
10th Percentile £350 £325 £381
25th Percentile £425 £440 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £730 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 269 292
10th Percentile £19.10 £15.85 £20.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.51 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.76% -33.85% +33.22%
75th Percentile £67.75 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £85.78 £83.84 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

AWS Certification
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS Certification trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing AWS Certification over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 5 (4.17%) nginx
1 5 (4.17%) Traefik
2 3 (2.50%) Confluence
3 2 (1.67%) Apache
3 2 (1.67%) Camunda
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.83%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.83%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.83%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 120 (100.00%) AWS
2 50 (41.67%) Azure
2 50 (41.67%) Serverless
3 49 (40.83%) AWS Lambda
4 38 (31.67%) Amazon S3
5 35 (29.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 30 (25.00%) GCP
7 22 (18.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 21 (17.50%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (13.33%) PaaS
10 14 (11.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 13 (10.83%) AWS Fargate
12 12 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (10.00%) Entra ID
12 12 (10.00%) GitHub
13 10 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (8.33%) SaaS
14 7 (5.83%) IaaS
15 6 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (5.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 17 (14.17%) DNS
2 11 (9.17%) TCP/IP
3 9 (7.50%) VPN
4 7 (5.83%) DHCP
5 6 (5.00%) LAN
5 6 (5.00%) WAN
6 5 (4.17%) Firewall
6 5 (4.17%) SSL
7 2 (1.67%) DOCSIS
7 2 (1.67%) HTTP
7 2 (1.67%) VLAN
7 2 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.67%) X.509
8 1 (0.83%) BGP
8 1 (0.83%) Multicast
8 1 (0.83%) Network Security
8 1 (0.83%) OSPF
8 1 (0.83%) Unicast
8 1 (0.83%) VSAN
8 1 (0.83%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (18.33%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 12 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 9 (7.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.17%) Big Data
5 5 (4.17%) Metadata
5 5 (4.17%) Metadata Repository
5 5 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 5 (4.17%) Oracle Database
6 4 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.50%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.50%) MySQL
7 3 (2.50%) Parquet
8 2 (1.67%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.67%) Looker
8 2 (1.67%) Redis
8 2 (1.67%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (17.50%) Jenkins
2 20 (16.67%) GitLab
3 10 (8.33%) Git
4 6 (5.00%) JIRA
5 2 (1.67%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.67%) Terragrunt
5 2 (1.67%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.83%) MLflow
General
1 46 (38.33%) Social Skills
2 37 (30.83%) Public Sector
3 34 (28.33%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.50%) Finance
5 8 (6.67%) Legal
6 6 (5.00%) Telecoms
7 5 (4.17%) Banking
8 2 (1.67%) French Language
8 2 (1.67%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.67%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Billing
9 1 (0.83%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 60 (50.00%) Architect
2 26 (21.67%) AWS Architect
3 19 (15.83%) Solutions Architect
4 17 (14.17%) Senior
5 16 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
6 12 (10.00%) Developer
7 10 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (7.50%) Cloud Architect
8 9 (7.50%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (5.83%) AWS Developer
9 7 (5.83%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (5.83%) Lead
9 7 (5.83%) Technical Architect
10 6 (5.00%) AWS Solution Architect
10 6 (5.00%) Data Engineer
10 6 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (4.17%) Active Directory Architect
11 5 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 5 (4.17%) Wintel Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.83%) Kafka
2 9 (7.50%) Keycloak
3 7 (5.83%) cloud-init
4 6 (5.00%) AWS CDK
4 6 (5.00%) React
5 5 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (3.33%) GraphQL
6 4 (3.33%) Node.js
6 4 (3.33%) REST
6 4 (3.33%) RESTful
7 3 (2.50%) .NET
7 3 (2.50%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.50%) boto
7 3 (2.50%) CSS
7 3 (2.50%) HTML
7 3 (2.50%) JSON
7 3 (2.50%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.67%) Flask
8 2 (1.67%) OpenJDK
8 2 (1.67%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 15 (12.50%) PKI
3 6 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 5 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.33%) NHS
5 4 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.33%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.50%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.50%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.67%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.67%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.67%) IoT
7 2 (1.67%) Life Science
7 2 (1.67%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.83%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 21 (17.50%) Linux
2 10 (8.33%) Unix
3 9 (7.50%) Windows
4 7 (5.83%) CentOS
4 7 (5.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (38.33%) CI/CD
2 40 (33.33%) DevOps
3 37 (30.83%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 30 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (24.17%) Computer Science
6 24 (20.00%) Agile
7 23 (19.17%) Cloud Security
8 21 (17.50%) High Availability
9 20 (16.67%) Open Source
9 20 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (15.00%) Analytics
10 18 (15.00%) Migration
10 18 (15.00%) Observability
11 15 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (11.67%) Data Analytics
13 13 (10.83%) Microservices
14 12 (10.00%) Mentoring
14 12 (10.00%) Roadmaps
15 11 (9.17%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 42 (35.00%) Python
2 14 (11.67%) Java
3 12 (10.00%) SQL
4 11 (9.17%) Bash
4 11 (9.17%) JavaScript
5 9 (7.50%) Go
5 9 (7.50%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.83%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.33%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.67%) C
8 2 (1.67%) C#
8 2 (1.67%) C++
8 2 (1.67%) R
8 2 (1.67%) Scala
9 1 (0.83%) PHP
9 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.83%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 56 (46.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 44 (36.67%) Security Cleared
3 43 (35.83%) SC Cleared
4 38 (31.67%) Azure Certification
5 35 (29.17%) Degree
6 27 (22.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (15.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (10.00%) Master's Degree
9 6 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (4.17%) OCP
10 5 (4.17%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (3.33%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (2.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (2.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (2.50%) CITP
13 2 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.83%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.00%) QA
2 9 (7.50%) NCSC
3 6 (5.00%) Data Quality
4 5 (4.17%) GDPR
5 4 (3.33%) NIST
6 3 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (2.50%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.67%) FIPS 140-2
7 2 (1.67%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.67%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.67%) SLA
7 2 (1.67%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.83%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (13.33%) Docker
2 7 (5.83%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.83%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.83%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (24.17%) Terraform
2 26 (21.67%) Kubernetes
3 16 (13.33%) Grafana
4 14 (11.67%) Ansible
4 14 (11.67%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.83%) Consul
5 7 (5.83%) Istio
5 7 (5.83%) Jamf Pro
5 7 (5.83%) linkerd
5 7 (5.83%) Packer
5 7 (5.83%) Rancher
5 7 (5.83%) ZABBIX
6 5 (4.17%) HAProxy
7 2 (1.67%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.83%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.83%) Icinga
8 1 (0.83%) Nagios
8 1 (0.83%) Observium
8 1 (0.83%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.83%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (31.67%) Microsoft
2 21 (17.50%) Google
3 10 (8.33%) Splunk
4 7 (5.83%) Okta
5 6 (5.00%) Oracle
6 5 (4.17%) Apple
6 5 (4.17%) Cloudera
6 5 (4.17%) Databricks
6 5 (4.17%) ESET
7 3 (2.50%) Cisco
7 3 (2.50%) VMware
8 2 (1.67%) New Relic
8 2 (1.67%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.67%) Sage
9 1 (0.83%) Arista
9 1 (0.83%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.83%) Remedy
9 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.83%) Thales
9 1 (0.83%) Zuora