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 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 262 309
Rank change year-on-year +71 +47 -28
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 116 82 143
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.18% 0.56% 0.60%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.07% 2.16% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 55 110
10th Percentile £364 £493 £436
25th Percentile £425 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £647
90th Percentile £700 £690 £789
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - -12.00%

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 2,852 3,789 5,894
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.99% 25.79% 24.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,867 2,431 3,987
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £425 £429 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +1.89%
75th Percentile £619 £637 £650
90th Percentile £701 £725 £745
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 253 236
10th Percentile £15.20 £15.98 £19.00
25th Percentile £27.14 £25.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £53.50 £43.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.42% -28.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.79 £85.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £28.34 £40.94 £55.25
% change year-on-year -30.78% -25.90% +24.16%

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 26 June 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 2 (1.72%) Apache
1 2 (1.72%) Camunda
1 2 (1.72%) Confluence
2 1 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.86%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.86%) CMS
2 1 (0.86%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.86%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (4.31%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.86%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.86%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 116 (100.00%) AWS
2 56 (48.28%) Serverless
3 55 (47.41%) AWS Lambda
4 47 (40.52%) Amazon S3
5 44 (37.93%) Azure
6 30 (25.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 29 (25.00%) GCP
8 24 (20.69%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (13.79%) GitHub
10 15 (12.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (12.07%) PaaS
12 13 (11.21%) SaaS
13 10 (8.62%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (7.76%) AWS Step Functions
14 9 (7.76%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (7.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (6.90%) AWS CloudTrail
15 8 (6.90%) AWS Fargate
16 7 (6.03%) Amazon ECS
16 7 (6.03%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.17%) Firewall
2 4 (3.45%) SSL
3 3 (2.59%) VPN
4 2 (1.72%) DNS
4 2 (1.72%) X.509
5 1 (0.86%) BGP
5 1 (0.86%) LAN
5 1 (0.86%) Multicast
5 1 (0.86%) Network Security
5 1 (0.86%) OSPF
5 1 (0.86%) SMS
5 1 (0.86%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.86%) Unicast
5 1 (0.86%) VLAN
5 1 (0.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (24.14%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (15.52%) DynamoDB
3 9 (7.76%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (6.03%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.31%) Oracle Database
7 4 (3.45%) Big Data
7 4 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.59%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.59%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.59%) MySQL
8 3 (2.59%) Parquet
9 2 (1.72%) Metadata
9 2 (1.72%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (1.72%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.86%) Data Hub
10 1 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.86%) Flink
10 1 (0.86%) GIS
10 1 (0.86%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (14.66%) Jenkins
2 13 (11.21%) GitLab
3 9 (7.76%) Git
4 3 (2.59%) JIRA
5 2 (1.72%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.86%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.86%) MLflow
General
1 56 (48.28%) Social Skills
2 34 (29.31%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (25.86%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.48%) Finance
5 10 (8.62%) Banking
6 6 (5.17%) Legal
7 5 (4.31%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.59%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.72%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.72%) Retail
11 1 (0.86%) Billing
11 1 (0.86%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (43.97%) Architect
2 28 (24.14%) AWS Architect
3 21 (18.10%) AWS Engineer
4 19 (16.38%) Solutions Architect
5 14 (12.07%) Developer
6 13 (11.21%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (11.21%) Senior
7 10 (8.62%) Cloud Architect
8 8 (6.90%) AWS DevOps
8 8 (6.90%) AWS Solution Architect
8 8 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (6.03%) AWS Developer
9 7 (6.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 7 (6.03%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) Lead
10 6 (5.17%) Technical Architect
11 5 (4.31%) Analyst
11 5 (4.31%) Cloud Solutions Architect
11 5 (4.31%) Senior Developer
12 4 (3.45%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.90%) AWS CDK
1 8 (6.90%) Kafka
2 6 (5.17%) GraphQL
2 6 (5.17%) React
3 5 (4.31%) Node.js
3 5 (4.31%) REST
4 4 (3.45%) OAuth
5 3 (2.59%) .NET
5 3 (2.59%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.59%) JSON
5 3 (2.59%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.72%) Keycloak
6 2 (1.72%) OpenJDK
6 2 (1.72%) RESTful
6 2 (1.72%) Spring
7 1 (0.86%) ADO
7 1 (0.86%) NumPy
7 1 (0.86%) OpenID
7 1 (0.86%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.38%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.17%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.31%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.31%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.31%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.31%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.45%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (2.59%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.59%) Life Science
5 3 (2.59%) NHS
5 3 (2.59%) PKI
6 2 (1.72%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.72%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.72%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.86%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.86%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.86%) Oracle Licensing
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.62%) Linux
2 2 (1.72%) Windows
3 1 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (40.52%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (37.07%) DevOps
3 39 (33.62%) CI/CD
4 32 (27.59%) Containerisation
5 26 (22.41%) Computer Science
6 25 (21.55%) Agile
6 25 (21.55%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (18.97%) Stakeholder Management
8 20 (17.24%) Cloud Security
8 20 (17.24%) High Availability
8 20 (17.24%) Migration
8 20 (17.24%) Open Source
9 19 (16.38%) Mentoring
10 15 (12.93%) Analytics
11 14 (12.07%) Artificial Intelligence
12 12 (10.34%) Data Analytics
12 12 (10.34%) Data Science
13 11 (9.48%) Event-Driven
13 11 (9.48%) Roadmaps
13 11 (9.48%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 33 (28.45%) Python
2 18 (15.52%) Java
3 14 (12.07%) JavaScript
4 12 (10.34%) SQL
5 11 (9.48%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.45%) Bash
6 4 (3.45%) Scala
7 2 (1.72%) C
7 2 (1.72%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.72%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.86%) PHP
8 1 (0.86%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.86%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 56 (48.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 34 (29.31%) Degree
3 33 (28.45%) Security Cleared
4 32 (27.59%) SC Cleared
5 31 (26.72%) Azure Certification
6 24 (20.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (11.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (7.76%) Master's Degree
9 8 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (5.17%) CISSP
10 6 (5.17%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (4.31%) OCP
11 5 (4.31%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (3.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (2.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (2.59%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (2.59%) CITP
14 2 (1.72%) CISM
15 1 (0.86%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.03%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.17%) GDPR
2 6 (5.17%) NIST
3 5 (4.31%) QA
4 4 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.59%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.59%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.72%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.72%) FIPS 140-2
6 2 (1.72%) GRC
6 2 (1.72%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.72%) NCSC
6 2 (1.72%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.72%) SLA
7 1 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (18.10%) Docker
2 5 (4.31%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.86%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (21.55%) Kubernetes
2 24 (20.69%) Terraform
3 12 (10.34%) Ansible
4 6 (5.17%) Grafana
4 6 (5.17%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.45%) Puppet
6 2 (1.72%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.86%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.86%) Icinga
7 1 (0.86%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.86%) Nagios
7 1 (0.86%) Observium
7 1 (0.86%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 26 (22.41%) Microsoft
2 18 (15.52%) Google
3 7 (6.03%) Oracle
4 2 (1.72%) Cisco
4 2 (1.72%) Cloudera
4 2 (1.72%) Databricks
4 2 (1.72%) Pega
4 2 (1.72%) VMware
5 1 (0.86%) Arista
5 1 (0.86%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (0.86%) Gemalto
5 1 (0.86%) IBM
5 1 (0.86%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.86%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.86%) Sage
5 1 (0.86%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.86%) Splunk
5 1 (0.86%) Sybase
5 1 (0.86%) Thales
5 1 (0.86%) Zuora