AWS Certification Contracts in England

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 404 396 299
Rank change year-on-year -8 -97 +44
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 145 270 647
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.55% 0.92%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.27% 2.00% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 204 400
10th Percentile £450 £429 £437
25th Percentile £513 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £681 £650 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £81.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £81.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +132.86% -12.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,420 13,530 15,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.07% 27.63% 21.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,032 9,064 10,005
10th Percentile £313 £335 £320
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £717
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 980 713 679
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.00 £20.22 £18.76
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £39.29
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +33.62% +4.77%
75th Percentile £61.82 £68.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +27.06% +13.33%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing AWS Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in England

AWS Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification in England.

Daily rate trend for AWS Certification in England

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in England

AWS Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification in England.

Hourly rate trend for AWS Certification in England

AWS Certification
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certification within the England region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
London +41 90 £566 -5.63% 136
North of England +9 15 £600 +9.09% 55
North West +15 13 £600 +34.83% 30
South East +16 10 £535 +7.00% 25
Midlands +34 9 £650 +18.18% 50
East of England +18 8 £600 +6.67% 13
West Midlands - 7 £650 - 37
South West -22 4 £625 +11.11% 25
East Midlands +23 2 £620 +12.73% 13
Yorkshire +3 2 £500 -9.09% 16
AWS Certification
UK

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (2.07%) Apache
1 3 (2.07%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.07%) Confluence
1 3 (2.07%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 1 (0.69%) IIS
2 1 (0.69%) nginx
2 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (3.45%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.76%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 145 (100.00%) AWS
2 58 (40.00%) Azure
3 37 (25.52%) Serverless
4 35 (24.14%) AWS Lambda
5 26 (17.93%) GCP
6 24 (16.55%) Amazon EC2
7 20 (13.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 19 (13.10%) Amazon S3
9 11 (7.59%) Entra ID
9 11 (7.59%) GitHub
10 10 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (5.52%) Amazon EMR
12 6 (4.14%) CloudFront
13 5 (3.45%) Amazon EventBridge
13 5 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (3.45%) AWS CodePipeline
13 5 (3.45%) OCI
13 5 (3.45%) PaaS
13 5 (3.45%) Snowflake
14 4 (2.76%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (11.72%) Network Security
2 16 (11.03%) Firewall
3 11 (7.59%) DNS
4 9 (6.21%) Cisco ASA
4 9 (6.21%) Cisco Nexus
4 9 (6.21%) VPN
5 8 (5.52%) BGP
5 8 (5.52%) IPv4
5 8 (5.52%) LAN
5 8 (5.52%) OSPF
6 6 (4.14%) DHCP
6 6 (4.14%) IPv6
6 6 (4.14%) MPLS
6 6 (4.14%) VLAN
6 6 (4.14%) Wireless
7 5 (3.45%) EIGRP
7 5 (3.45%) HSRP
7 5 (3.45%) IPsec
7 5 (3.45%) TACACS
7 5 (3.45%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.48%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (11.72%) Big Data
2 17 (11.72%) Data Lake
3 10 (6.90%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (6.21%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (3.45%) MySQL
6 4 (2.76%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.76%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.76%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.76%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.76%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.07%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (2.07%) GIS
7 3 (2.07%) Metadata
8 2 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.38%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.38%) Parquet
8 2 (1.38%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 14 (9.66%) Git
2 13 (8.97%) Jenkins
3 10 (6.90%) GitLab
4 4 (2.76%) JIRA
4 4 (2.76%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (2.07%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.38%) Artifactory
General
1 37 (25.52%) Finance
2 32 (22.07%) Social Skills
3 14 (9.66%) Retail
4 13 (8.97%) Telecoms
5 10 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.21%) Banking
6 9 (6.21%) Marketing
7 8 (5.52%) Manufacturing
8 6 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (4.14%) Electronics
9 2 (1.38%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.69%) French Language
10 1 (0.69%) Military
10 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.69%) Swedish Language
10 1 (0.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 49 (33.79%) Architect
2 30 (20.69%) AWS Engineer
3 27 (18.62%) Solutions Architect
4 21 (14.48%) Cloud Architect
4 21 (14.48%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (13.79%) AWS Architect
5 20 (13.79%) Cloud Engineer
6 19 (13.10%) Senior
7 14 (9.66%) AWS DevOps
8 12 (8.28%) Lead
9 11 (7.59%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 11 (7.59%) Principal Architect
9 11 (7.59%) Principal Solutions Architect
10 10 (6.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 10 (6.90%) Consultant
10 10 (6.90%) Data Engineer
11 9 (6.21%) Security Engineer
12 8 (5.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (5.52%) Network Engineer
13 7 (4.83%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.90%) React
2 9 (6.21%) GraphQL
3 7 (4.83%) SAML
4 6 (4.14%) .NET
4 6 (4.14%) OAuth
4 6 (4.14%) Web Services
5 5 (3.45%) 802.1X
5 5 (3.45%) Node.js
5 5 (3.45%) OAuth2
6 4 (2.76%) Middleware
6 4 (2.76%) REST
7 3 (2.07%) JDBC
7 3 (2.07%) LDAP
7 3 (2.07%) ODBC
8 2 (1.38%) AWS CDK
8 2 (1.38%) JSON
8 2 (1.38%) OpenID
8 2 (1.38%) SailPoint
8 2 (1.38%) SQLAlchemy
8 2 (1.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.21%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (2.76%) Clustering
3 4 (2.76%) IVR
3 4 (2.76%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.76%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.07%) PKI
4 3 (2.07%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.07%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.07%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.38%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.38%) Life Science
5 2 (1.38%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.38%) Replication
5 2 (1.38%) Video on Demand
6 1 (0.69%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.69%) CMDB
6 1 (0.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 30 (20.69%) Linux
2 22 (15.17%) Windows
3 4 (2.76%) Unix
4 2 (1.38%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.69%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (39.31%) DevOps
2 39 (26.90%) CI/CD
3 33 (22.76%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (21.38%) Agile
5 22 (15.17%) Containerisation
6 17 (11.72%) Scrum
6 17 (11.72%) SDLC
7 16 (11.03%) Machine Learning
7 16 (11.03%) Service Management
8 15 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
8 15 (10.34%) Data Modelling
8 15 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (9.66%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 14 (9.66%) Technical Architecture
10 13 (8.97%) Computer Science
10 13 (8.97%) ITIL
11 12 (8.28%) Analytics
11 12 (8.28%) Cloud Security
12 11 (7.59%) Data Governance
13 10 (6.90%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 55 (37.93%) Python
2 19 (13.10%) Bash
3 18 (12.41%) PowerShell
4 13 (8.97%) SQL
5 8 (5.52%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.76%) Java
6 4 (2.76%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.07%) C#
7 3 (2.07%) Ruby
8 1 (0.69%) Groovy
8 1 (0.69%) Scala
8 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (28.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 29 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 28 (19.31%) Security Cleared
4 26 (17.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 25 (17.24%) SC Cleared
6 16 (11.03%) DV Cleared
7 13 (8.97%) Degree
8 10 (6.90%) CISSP
8 10 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (5.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (5.52%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (5.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (4.83%) CCNA
11 6 (4.14%) CCNP
12 5 (3.45%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (3.45%) CISM
13 4 (2.76%) Master's Degree
14 3 (2.07%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (1.38%) CISA
16 1 (0.69%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.45%) GDPR
1 5 (3.45%) PCI DSS
2 4 (2.76%) HIPAA
2 4 (2.76%) SOC 2
3 3 (2.07%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.38%) NIST
5 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 31 (21.38%) Docker
2 13 (8.97%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.38%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.69%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.69%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 52 (35.86%) Terraform
2 35 (24.14%) Kubernetes
3 20 (13.79%) Ansible
4 17 (11.72%) Puppet
5 5 (3.45%) SolarWinds Orion
6 3 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.69%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.69%) Grafana
7 1 (0.69%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.69%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.69%) Salt
Vendors
1 22 (15.17%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.72%) Cisco
3 15 (10.34%) Google
4 12 (8.28%) Palo Alto
4 12 (8.28%) SAP
5 11 (7.59%) Oracle
6 9 (6.21%) F5
7 6 (4.14%) CheckPoint
8 5 (3.45%) Infoblox
8 5 (3.45%) SolarWinds
8 5 (3.45%) VMware
9 4 (2.76%) Avaya
9 4 (2.76%) Genesys
10 3 (2.07%) ESRI
10 3 (2.07%) Sage
10 3 (2.07%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.38%) CyberArk
11 2 (1.38%) Databricks
11 2 (1.38%) Instagram
11 2 (1.38%) Zscaler