AWS Certification Contracts

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 400 410 307
Rank change year-on-year +10 -103 +54
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 174 313 803
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.55% 0.92%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.36% 2.02% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 223 500
10th Percentile £453 £440 £446
25th Percentile £513 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £764
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £81.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +132.86% -12.50%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,821 15,525 18,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.13% 27.19% 21.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,940 10,364 12,432
10th Percentile £307 £330 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £626
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,052 789 770
10th Percentile £13.69 £15.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.72 £20.47 £19.77
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £43.85
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +23.15% +13.90%
75th Percentile £61.35 £67.50 £58.66
90th Percentile £76.15 £79.30 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.63 £49.94 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.63% +42.68% -1.41%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for AWS Certification in the UK

AWS Certification
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 15 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
England -13 147 £573 +4.09% 332
London +49 91 £555 -7.50% 147
Work from Home +43 73 £588 +6.82% 112
UK excluding London -4 54 £600 +9.09% 243
North of England -1 17 £600 +9.09% 71
North West +13 14 £600 +34.83% 37
South East +15 10 £535 +7.00% 26
Midlands +40 9 £650 +18.18% 54
East of England +15 8 £600 +6.67% 12
West Midlands - 7 £650 - 40
Scotland +51 6 £550 - 25
Yorkshire +5 3 £488 -11.36% 18
South West -25 3 £550 - 25
East Midlands +16 2 £620 +12.73% 13
Wales - 1 £643 - 7

AWS Certification
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.30%) Apache Spark
1 4 (2.30%) Confluence
2 3 (1.72%) Apache
2 3 (1.72%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 1 (0.57%) IIS
3 1 (0.57%) nginx
3 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (5.17%) Chatbot
2 6 (3.45%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Maximo
1 1 (0.57%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 174 (100.00%) AWS
2 76 (43.68%) Azure
3 41 (23.56%) Serverless
4 40 (22.99%) AWS Lambda
5 32 (18.39%) GCP
6 27 (15.52%) Amazon EC2
6 27 (15.52%) Amazon S3
7 21 (12.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 20 (11.49%) Entra ID
9 16 (9.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (6.90%) GitHub
11 11 (6.32%) Cloud Computing
11 11 (6.32%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (5.75%) Amazon EMR
13 9 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (5.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 9 (5.17%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (5.17%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (5.17%) Twilio
14 8 (4.60%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.92%) Firewall
2 18 (10.34%) Network Security
3 12 (6.90%) DNS
3 12 (6.90%) VPN
4 11 (6.32%) Cisco Nexus
5 9 (5.17%) Cisco ASA
5 9 (5.17%) CTI
5 9 (5.17%) VoIP
6 8 (4.60%) BGP
6 8 (4.60%) IPv4
6 8 (4.60%) LAN
6 8 (4.60%) OSPF
7 6 (3.45%) DHCP
7 6 (3.45%) IPv6
7 6 (3.45%) MPLS
7 6 (3.45%) VLAN
7 6 (3.45%) Wireless
8 5 (2.87%) EIGRP
8 5 (2.87%) IPsec
8 5 (2.87%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (10.92%) Big Data
3 18 (10.34%) Data Lake
4 10 (5.75%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (5.75%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (5.17%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (3.45%) MySQL
6 6 (3.45%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.87%) RDBMS
7 5 (2.87%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.30%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.72%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (1.72%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.72%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.72%) GIS
9 3 (1.72%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.72%) Metadata
10 2 (1.15%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 18 (10.34%) Git
2 15 (8.62%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.75%) GitLab
4 6 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (2.87%) JIRA
6 3 (1.72%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.15%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.57%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.57%) JUnit
8 1 (0.57%) SonarQube
General
1 41 (23.56%) Finance
2 38 (21.84%) Social Skills
3 21 (12.07%) Retail
4 16 (9.20%) Telecoms
5 15 (8.62%) Banking
6 8 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.60%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.02%) Marketing
8 6 (3.45%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.30%) Electronics
9 4 (2.30%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.57%) Automotive
11 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.57%) French Language
11 1 (0.57%) Military
11 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.57%) Swedish Language
11 1 (0.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 59 (33.91%) Architect
2 35 (20.11%) AWS Engineer
3 34 (19.54%) Solutions Architect
4 25 (14.37%) AWS Architect
5 24 (13.79%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (11.49%) Cloud Architect
6 20 (11.49%) Senior
7 19 (10.92%) Cloud Engineer
8 17 (9.77%) AWS DevOps
9 14 (8.05%) Consultant
10 13 (7.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 13 (7.47%) Data Engineer
11 12 (6.90%) Cloud Solutions Architect
12 11 (6.32%) Lead
12 11 (6.32%) Principal Architect
12 11 (6.32%) Principal Solutions Architect
13 10 (5.75%) Network Engineer
13 10 (5.75%) Security Engineer
14 9 (5.17%) AWS Consultant
14 9 (5.17%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.47%) Web Services
2 12 (6.90%) React
3 9 (5.17%) GraphQL
3 9 (5.17%) Middleware
4 7 (4.02%) .NET
4 7 (4.02%) SAML
5 6 (3.45%) OAuth
6 5 (2.87%) 802.1X
6 5 (2.87%) Node.js
6 5 (2.87%) OAuth2
7 4 (2.30%) Kafka
7 4 (2.30%) REST
8 3 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.72%) JDBC
8 3 (1.72%) LDAP
8 3 (1.72%) ODBC
8 3 (1.72%) Spring
8 3 (1.72%) Spring Boot
9 2 (1.15%) J2EE
9 2 (1.15%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.17%) Cloud Native
1 9 (5.17%) IVR
1 9 (5.17%) Management Information System
2 6 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (2.87%) Data Centre
3 5 (2.87%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.30%) Clustering
4 4 (2.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (2.30%) Hedge funds
5 3 (1.72%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.72%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.72%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.72%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.15%) Life Science
6 2 (1.15%) PKI
6 2 (1.15%) Replication
6 2 (1.15%) Video on Demand
7 1 (0.57%) CMDB
7 1 (0.57%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 33 (18.97%) Linux
2 23 (13.22%) Windows
3 7 (4.02%) Unix
4 2 (1.15%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.57%) AIX
5 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (40.23%) DevOps
2 44 (25.29%) CI/CD
3 40 (22.99%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (22.41%) Agile
5 29 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 21 (12.07%) Capacity Planning
6 21 (12.07%) Computer Science
6 21 (12.07%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (10.92%) Cybersecurity
7 19 (10.92%) SDLC
8 18 (10.34%) Data Modelling
9 17 (9.77%) Machine Learning
9 17 (9.77%) Scrum
10 16 (9.20%) Analytics
11 15 (8.62%) Application Security
12 14 (8.05%) Data Governance
12 14 (8.05%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 14 (8.05%) Service Management
12 14 (8.05%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (8.05%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 64 (36.78%) Python
2 20 (11.49%) Bash
3 18 (10.34%) PowerShell
4 14 (8.05%) SQL
5 8 (4.60%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.45%) Java
7 4 (2.30%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.72%) Ruby
9 2 (1.15%) C#
9 2 (1.15%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.57%) Groovy
10 1 (0.57%) PHP
10 1 (0.57%) Rust
10 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 51 (29.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 40 (22.99%) Azure Certification
3 30 (17.24%) Security Cleared
4 28 (16.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 25 (14.37%) SC Cleared
6 21 (12.07%) Degree
7 18 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (9.20%) DV Cleared
9 15 (8.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 13 (7.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (6.90%) CISSP
12 10 (5.75%) Master's Degree
13 8 (4.60%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (4.02%) CCNA
15 6 (3.45%) CCNP
15 6 (3.45%) CISM
16 4 (2.30%) AWS Certified Developer
17 3 (1.72%) CISA
17 3 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
18 2 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.75%) GDPR
1 10 (5.75%) PCI DSS
2 9 (5.17%) HIPAA
3 8 (4.60%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.72%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.15%) NIST
6 1 (0.57%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 40 (22.99%) Docker
2 19 (10.92%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.15%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.57%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.57%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 59 (33.91%) Terraform
2 42 (24.14%) Kubernetes
3 24 (13.79%) Ansible
4 19 (10.92%) Puppet
5 5 (2.87%) SolarWinds Orion
6 4 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.72%) Grafana
7 3 (1.72%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.57%) Graylog
8 1 (0.57%) Nagios
8 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.57%) Salt
Vendors
1 35 (20.11%) Microsoft
2 24 (13.79%) Cisco
3 21 (12.07%) Google
4 19 (10.92%) Oracle
5 14 (8.05%) Palo Alto
6 11 (6.32%) F5
7 10 (5.75%) SAP
8 9 (5.17%) Avaya
8 9 (5.17%) Genesys
9 6 (3.45%) CheckPoint
10 5 (2.87%) Infoblox
10 5 (2.87%) SolarWinds
10 5 (2.87%) VMware
11 4 (2.30%) Databricks
11 4 (2.30%) Fortinet
11 4 (2.30%) Juniper
12 3 (1.72%) ESRI
12 3 (1.72%) IBM
12 3 (1.72%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.72%) Splunk