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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 398 407 305
Rank change year-on-year +9 -102 +61
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 180 299 790
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.53% 0.90%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.40% 1.96% 4.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 217 485
10th Percentile £450 £446 £436
25th Percentile £500 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -10.20% +11.36%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +3.29%
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 12,872 15,254 19,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.89% 27.21% 21.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,011 10,183 12,699
10th Percentile £310 £338 £345
25th Percentile £425 £450 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £630
90th Percentile £738 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,100 745 759
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.67 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.24 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.32 £79.19 £67.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.25 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +50.00% +16.67%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -15 151 £550 - 193
London +46 95 £550 -8.33% 84
Work from Home +43 81 £575 - 99
UK excluding London -9 55 £600 +9.09% 144
North of England +12 18 £475 -13.64% 46
North West +24 14 £475 -30.15% 29
South East +5 11 £535 +7.00% 12
East of England +8 8 £600 +6.67% 4
Midlands +29 7 £650 +18.18% 32
Scotland +41 6 £550 +40.13% 20
West Midlands - 5 £650 - 29
Yorkshire +5 4 £388 -29.55% 8
South West -38 4 £600 +9.09% 9
East Midlands +13 2 £620 +12.73% 3
Wales - 1 £643 - 2

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 (2.22%) Apache Spark
1 4 (2.22%) Confluence
1 4 (2.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 3 (1.67%) Apache
3 1 (0.56%) IIS
3 1 (0.56%) nginx
3 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (5.00%) Chatbot
2 6 (3.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Maximo
1 1 (0.56%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 180 (100.00%) AWS
2 76 (42.22%) Azure
3 36 (20.00%) Serverless
4 35 (19.44%) AWS Lambda
4 35 (19.44%) GCP
5 28 (15.56%) Amazon EC2
6 27 (15.00%) Amazon S3
7 22 (12.22%) Entra ID
8 20 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 18 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (7.22%) Cloud Computing
11 11 (6.11%) GitHub
11 11 (6.11%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (5.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 9 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (5.00%) Twilio
13 8 (4.44%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (12.22%) Firewall
2 19 (10.56%) Network Security
3 16 (8.89%) DNS
4 13 (7.22%) Cisco Nexus
4 13 (7.22%) VPN
5 9 (5.00%) BGP
5 9 (5.00%) Cisco ASA
5 9 (5.00%) CTI
5 9 (5.00%) DHCP
5 9 (5.00%) LAN
5 9 (5.00%) OSPF
5 9 (5.00%) VoIP
6 8 (4.44%) IPv4
6 8 (4.44%) Wireless
7 7 (3.89%) MPLS
7 7 (3.89%) VLAN
7 7 (3.89%) WAN
8 6 (3.33%) Internet
8 6 (3.33%) IPv6
9 5 (2.78%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (17.22%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (9.44%) Big Data
3 13 (7.22%) Data Lake
4 11 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (4.44%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (3.89%) MySQL
8 6 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (3.33%) Relational Database
8 6 (3.33%) SQL Server
9 5 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (2.78%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.22%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (2.22%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.67%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (1.67%) GIS
11 3 (1.67%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.67%) Metadata
12 2 (1.11%) DynamoDB
12 2 (1.11%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 16 (8.89%) Git
2 13 (7.22%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.56%) GitLab
4 8 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (2.78%) JIRA
6 2 (1.11%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.11%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.56%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.56%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.56%) JUnit
7 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 43 (23.89%) Finance
2 42 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 23 (12.78%) Retail
4 17 (9.44%) Banking
5 15 (8.33%) Telecoms
6 9 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.89%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.33%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.22%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.22%) Marketing
10 2 (1.11%) Electronics
10 2 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Automotive
11 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.56%) French Language
11 1 (0.56%) Local Government
11 1 (0.56%) Military
11 1 (0.56%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.56%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 59 (32.78%) Architect
2 34 (18.89%) AWS Engineer
3 33 (18.33%) Solutions Architect
4 26 (14.44%) DevOps Engineer
5 25 (13.89%) AWS Architect
6 21 (11.67%) Senior
7 18 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
7 18 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 18 (10.00%) Consultant
8 17 (9.44%) Cloud Architect
9 15 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 13 (7.22%) Network Engineer
11 11 (6.11%) Cloud Solutions Architect
12 10 (5.56%) Principal Architect
12 10 (5.56%) Principal Solutions Architect
12 10 (5.56%) Security Engineer
13 9 (5.00%) AWS Consultant
13 9 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (5.00%) Lead
14 8 (4.44%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.22%) Web Services
2 12 (6.67%) React
3 9 (5.00%) GraphQL
3 9 (5.00%) Middleware
4 8 (4.44%) SAML
5 7 (3.89%) .NET
6 6 (3.33%) OAuth
7 5 (2.78%) 802.1X
7 5 (2.78%) OAuth2
8 4 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (2.22%) LDAP
8 4 (2.22%) Node.js
9 3 (1.67%) OpenID
9 3 (1.67%) REST
9 3 (1.67%) SailPoint
9 3 (1.67%) Spring
9 3 (1.67%) Spring Boot
10 2 (1.11%) Kafka
10 2 (1.11%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.11%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.56%) Cloud Native
1 10 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.00%) IVR
3 7 (3.89%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.33%) Hedge funds
4 6 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.78%) Clustering
5 5 (2.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (2.22%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.22%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.22%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.67%) PKI
7 3 (1.67%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.11%) Life Science
8 2 (1.11%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.11%) Replication
8 2 (1.11%) Video on Demand
9 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.56%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 33 (18.33%) Linux
2 25 (13.89%) Windows
3 9 (5.00%) Unix
4 3 (1.67%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (38.33%) DevOps
2 45 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 40 (22.22%) Agile
3 40 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (16.11%) Containerisation
5 25 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (11.67%) Capacity Planning
6 21 (11.67%) Computer Science
7 19 (10.56%) Cybersecurity
8 18 (10.00%) Application Security
9 17 (9.44%) SDLC
10 15 (8.33%) Analytics
10 15 (8.33%) Machine Learning
10 15 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (7.78%) Data Modelling
11 14 (7.78%) Scrum
12 13 (7.22%) Cloud Security
12 13 (7.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 13 (7.22%) Technical Architecture
13 12 (6.67%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 65 (36.11%) Python
2 22 (12.22%) Bash
3 19 (10.56%) PowerShell
4 13 (7.22%) SQL
5 8 (4.44%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.33%) Java
7 4 (2.22%) Ruby
7 4 (2.22%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.11%) C#
8 2 (1.11%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.56%) Groovy
9 1 (0.56%) PHP
9 1 (0.56%) Rust
9 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 53 (29.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 40 (22.22%) Azure Certification
3 30 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 28 (15.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 25 (13.89%) SC Cleared
6 21 (11.67%) Degree
7 18 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (8.89%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (8.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 15 (8.33%) DV Cleared
10 13 (7.22%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (7.22%) CISSP
11 10 (5.56%) Master's Degree
12 9 (5.00%) CCNA
12 9 (5.00%) CCNP
13 6 (3.33%) CISM
14 4 (2.22%) MCSE
15 3 (1.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (1.67%) CISA
15 3 (1.67%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.67%) PCI DSS
2 10 (5.56%) GDPR
3 9 (5.00%) HIPAA
4 8 (4.44%) SOC 2
5 4 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.11%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.11%) NIST
7 1 (0.56%) COBIT
7 1 (0.56%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 40 (22.22%) Docker
2 25 (13.89%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.22%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.11%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (1.11%) XenApp
5 2 (1.11%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.56%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.56%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 60 (33.33%) Terraform
2 42 (23.33%) Kubernetes
3 27 (15.00%) Ansible
4 20 (11.11%) Puppet
5 5 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (2.78%) SolarWinds Orion
6 4 (2.22%) Grafana
6 4 (2.22%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.11%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (1.11%) Karpenter
8 1 (0.56%) Graylog
8 1 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.56%) Nagios
8 1 (0.56%) Nessus
8 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.56%) Salt
Vendors
1 37 (20.56%) Microsoft
2 28 (15.56%) Cisco
3 22 (12.22%) Google
4 20 (11.11%) Oracle
5 17 (9.44%) Palo Alto
6 13 (7.22%) F5
7 9 (5.00%) Avaya
7 9 (5.00%) Genesys
8 7 (3.89%) Juniper
8 7 (3.89%) SAP
8 7 (3.89%) VMware
9 6 (3.33%) CheckPoint
9 6 (3.33%) Fortinet
10 5 (2.78%) Infoblox
10 5 (2.78%) SolarWinds
11 4 (2.22%) Databricks
11 4 (2.22%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.67%) CyberArk
12 3 (1.67%) ESRI
12 3 (1.67%) Splunk