AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Contracts

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 681 808
Rank change year-on-year +110 +127 -121
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner 19 22 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.037% 0.059%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.14% 0.14% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 21 17
10th Percentile £331 - £496
25th Percentile £413 £525 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £581
Median % change year-on-year - -5.34% +16.20%
75th Percentile £584 £638 £788
90th Percentile £595 £675 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner 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 requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,258 16,187 19,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.56% 27.32% 21.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,176 10,805 12,557
10th Percentile £300 £328 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.92%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £743 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £530 £500
% change year-on-year - +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,080 847 775
10th Percentile £13.87 £15.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.86 £20.00 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +10.53%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £49.72 £34.69
% change year-on-year -17.66% +43.34% -0.89%

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner in the UK

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.

Daily rate trend for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner in the UK

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner in the UK

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
Work from Home +119 11 £550 - 4
England +114 11 £550 - 7
London +100 10 £561 -10.20% 4
UK excluding London +42 6 £550 - 3
Scotland - 5 £550 -
North of England +16 1 £400 -27.27% 2
North West - 1 £400 - 2

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 2 (10.53%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (89.47%) Azure
3 9 (47.37%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 9 (47.37%) Azure Sentinel
3 9 (47.37%) Dynamics 365
3 9 (47.37%) Entra ID
3 9 (47.37%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (26.32%) GitHub
5 4 (21.05%) AWS Direct Connect
5 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (21.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (10.53%) GCP
7 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (5.26%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (10.53%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (10.53%) DNS
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
1 2 (10.53%) HSRP
1 2 (10.53%) IPsec
1 2 (10.53%) LAN
1 2 (10.53%) OSPF
1 2 (10.53%) SD-WAN
1 2 (10.53%) SNMP
1 2 (10.53%) Spanning Tree
1 2 (10.53%) VPN
1 2 (10.53%) WAN
1 2 (10.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (47.37%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) GitLab
2 1 (5.26%) CircleCI
General
1 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) AWS Specialist
2 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Azure Specialist
2 4 (21.05%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Cloud Specialist
4 2 (10.53%) Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) E-Commerce Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) 802.1X
2 1 (5.26%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.26%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.53%) PKI
2 2 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Linux
2 4 (21.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Capacity Planning
1 9 (47.37%) Cloud Operations
1 9 (47.37%) Cost Control
2 5 (26.32%) DevOps
2 5 (26.32%) Service Delivery
3 4 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (21.05%) Planning and Forecasting
3 4 (21.05%) Security Hardening
3 4 (21.05%) Supplier Management
4 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (10.53%) Change Management
5 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
5 2 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (10.53%) ITIL
5 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.53%) Project Management
5 2 (10.53%) Resource Allocation
5 2 (10.53%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (10.53%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) Bash
Qualifications
1 17 (89.47%) AWS Certification
2 12 (63.16%) Azure Certification
3 2 (10.53%) CCNA
3 2 (10.53%) CCNP
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.53%) Degree
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Active Directory
2 4 (21.05%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
1 5 (26.32%) Terraform
2 2 (10.53%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) Microsoft
2 9 (47.37%) Oracle
3 2 (10.53%) CheckPoint
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco
3 2 (10.53%) Facebook
3 2 (10.53%) Instagram
3 2 (10.53%) Palo Alto
3 2 (10.53%) SolarWinds
3 2 (10.53%) SonicWALL
3 2 (10.53%) VMware