Hybrid/Remote AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Contract Job Trends

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 305 346
Rank change year-on-year -28 +41 +125
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner 5 2 11
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.043% 0.020% 0.068%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.12% 0.073% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 6
10th Percentile £434 - £350
25th Percentile £448 - £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +5.88% -22.73%
75th Percentile £551 - £488
90th Percentile £689 - £525
UK median daily rate £463 £545 £455
% change year-on-year -15.14% +19.78% -17.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £97.50 - -
Median hourly rate £100.00 - -
75th Percentile £102.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £95.50 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner 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 4,094 2,744 4,546
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 35.57% 26.91% 28.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,819 1,837 2,803
10th Percentile £354 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £604 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 107 235
10th Percentile £21.80 £21.25 £14.51
25th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £22.73
Median hourly rate £53.00 £54.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% +21.11% -30.77%
75th Percentile £80.20 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £97.00 £85.55 £78.52
UK median hourly rate £29.61 £42.50 £38.16
% change year-on-year -30.33% +11.39% -23.69%

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) 3GPP
1 2 (40.00%) TETRA
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Scrum Master
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) DevSecOps
1 4 (80.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) ArchiMate
3 2 (40.00%) Backlog Refinement
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Conflict Resolution
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) MODAF
3 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (40.00%) SAFe Practitioner
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (40.00%) SAFe Agilist
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (20.00%) Degree
4 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) DICOM
1 1 (20.00%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle