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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 385 308
Rank change year-on-year -6 -77 +25
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 151 268 639
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.41% 0.56% 0.90%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.34% 2.04% 4.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 205 392
10th Percentile £436 £439 £425
25th Percentile £488 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £555 £556 £625
% change year-on-year -0.22% -11.00% +13.64%
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% -47.64%

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 11,283 13,151 15,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.55% 27.54% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,990 8,833 10,320
10th Percentile £313 £349 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £745 £745 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,005 654 675
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +39.24% +8.22%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.18 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.84%

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 2 June 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 2 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
London +47 95 £550 -8.33% 90
North of England +18 18 £475 -13.64% 50
North West +19 14 £475 -30.15% 31
South East +4 11 £535 +7.00% 11
East of England +11 8 £600 +6.67% 4
Midlands +31 7 £650 +18.18% 38
West Midlands - 5 £650 - 35
Yorkshire +8 4 £388 -29.55% 7
South West -34 4 £600 +9.09% 14
East Midlands +11 2 £620 +12.73% 3
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 4 (2.65%) Apache Spark
1 4 (2.65%) Confluence
1 4 (2.65%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 3 (1.99%) Apache
3 1 (0.66%) IIS
3 1 (0.66%) nginx
3 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.97%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.65%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Maximo
1 1 (0.66%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 151 (100.00%) AWS
2 57 (37.75%) Azure
3 30 (19.87%) Serverless
4 29 (19.21%) AWS Lambda
5 27 (17.88%) GCP
6 21 (13.91%) Amazon EC2
7 19 (12.58%) Amazon S3
8 17 (11.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 13 (8.61%) Entra ID
10 10 (6.62%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (6.62%) GitHub
11 6 (3.97%) Amazon EMR
11 6 (3.97%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (3.97%) CloudFront
12 5 (3.31%) OCI
13 4 (2.65%) Amazon EventBridge
13 4 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (2.65%) SaaS
13 4 (2.65%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.25%) Firewall
2 19 (12.58%) Network Security
3 15 (9.93%) DNS
4 13 (8.61%) Cisco Nexus
5 10 (6.62%) VPN
6 9 (5.96%) BGP
6 9 (5.96%) Cisco ASA
6 9 (5.96%) DHCP
6 9 (5.96%) LAN
6 9 (5.96%) OSPF
7 8 (5.30%) IPv4
7 8 (5.30%) Wireless
8 7 (4.64%) MPLS
8 7 (4.64%) VLAN
9 6 (3.97%) Internet
9 6 (3.97%) IPv6
9 6 (3.97%) WAN
10 5 (3.31%) EIGRP
10 5 (3.31%) IPsec
10 5 (3.31%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.25%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (10.60%) Big Data
3 13 (8.61%) Data Lake
4 11 (7.28%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (5.96%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (3.97%) MySQL
7 5 (3.31%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.65%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.65%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.65%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.99%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.99%) GIS
9 3 (1.99%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.99%) Metadata
10 2 (1.32%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.32%) Sisense
11 1 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 14 (9.27%) Git
2 11 (7.28%) Jenkins
3 10 (6.62%) GitLab
4 8 (5.30%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (3.31%) JIRA
6 2 (1.32%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.32%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.66%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.66%) Terragrunt
General
1 38 (25.17%) Social Skills
2 37 (24.50%) Finance
3 18 (11.92%) Retail
4 14 (9.27%) Banking
5 10 (6.62%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.64%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.97%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.65%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.65%) Marketing
9 2 (1.32%) Electronics
9 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Automotive
10 1 (0.66%) French Language
10 1 (0.66%) Local Government
10 1 (0.66%) Military
10 1 (0.66%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.66%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 50 (33.11%) Architect
2 30 (19.87%) AWS Engineer
3 27 (17.88%) Solutions Architect
4 24 (15.89%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (13.91%) AWS Architect
6 18 (11.92%) Cloud Engineer
6 18 (11.92%) Senior
7 16 (10.60%) AWS DevOps
7 16 (10.60%) Cloud Architect
8 13 (8.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 13 (8.61%) Network Engineer
9 11 (7.28%) Consultant
10 10 (6.62%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 10 (6.62%) Principal Architect
10 10 (6.62%) Principal Solutions Architect
11 9 (5.96%) Security Engineer
12 8 (5.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (5.30%) Lead
13 7 (4.64%) Senior DevOps
13 7 (4.64%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.62%) React
2 9 (5.96%) GraphQL
3 8 (5.30%) SAML
3 8 (5.30%) Web Services
4 7 (4.64%) .NET
5 6 (3.97%) OAuth
6 5 (3.31%) 802.1X
6 5 (3.31%) OAuth2
7 4 (2.65%) LDAP
7 4 (2.65%) Middleware
7 4 (2.65%) Node.js
8 3 (1.99%) OpenID
8 3 (1.99%) REST
8 3 (1.99%) SailPoint
9 2 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.32%) Kafka
9 2 (1.32%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.32%) Spring
9 2 (1.32%) Spring Boot
9 2 (1.32%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.62%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.97%) Hedge funds
2 6 (3.97%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (3.31%) Clustering
3 5 (3.31%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.65%) IVR
4 4 (2.65%) Security Posture
4 4 (2.65%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.99%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.99%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.99%) PKI
6 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.32%) Life Science
6 2 (1.32%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.32%) Replication
6 2 (1.32%) Video on Demand
7 1 (0.66%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.66%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 31 (20.53%) Linux
2 24 (15.89%) Windows
3 8 (5.30%) Unix
4 3 (1.99%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (39.74%) DevOps
2 40 (26.49%) CI/CD
3 35 (23.18%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (22.52%) Agile
5 22 (14.57%) Containerisation
6 17 (11.26%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (10.60%) Application Security
7 16 (10.60%) SDLC
8 14 (9.27%) Computer Science
8 14 (9.27%) Cybersecurity
8 14 (9.27%) Data Modelling
8 14 (9.27%) Machine Learning
8 14 (9.27%) Scrum
9 13 (8.61%) Cloud Security
9 13 (8.61%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 13 (8.61%) Technical Architecture
10 12 (7.95%) ITIL
11 11 (7.28%) Data Governance
11 11 (7.28%) Service Management
12 10 (6.62%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 61 (40.40%) Python
2 21 (13.91%) Bash
3 19 (12.58%) PowerShell
4 12 (7.95%) SQL
5 8 (5.30%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.31%) Java
7 4 (2.65%) Ruby
7 4 (2.65%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.32%) C#
9 1 (0.66%) Groovy
9 1 (0.66%) Scala
9 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (30.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 27 (17.88%) Azure Certification
2 27 (17.88%) Security Cleared
3 26 (17.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 24 (15.89%) SC Cleared
5 15 (9.93%) DV Cleared
6 14 (9.27%) Degree
7 12 (7.95%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (7.28%) CISSP
8 11 (7.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (7.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (5.96%) CCNA
9 9 (5.96%) CCNP
10 8 (5.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 6 (3.97%) CISM
12 4 (2.65%) Master's Degree
12 4 (2.65%) MCSE
13 3 (1.99%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (1.99%) CISA
13 3 (1.99%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.64%) PCI DSS
2 5 (3.31%) GDPR
3 4 (2.65%) HIPAA
3 4 (2.65%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.32%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.32%) NIST
6 1 (0.66%) COBIT
System Software
1 32 (21.19%) Docker
2 17 (11.26%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.65%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.32%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (1.32%) XenApp
5 2 (1.32%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.66%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.66%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 51 (33.77%) Terraform
2 35 (23.18%) Kubernetes
3 26 (17.22%) Ansible
4 20 (13.25%) Puppet
5 5 (3.31%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (3.31%) SolarWinds Orion
6 2 (1.32%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (1.32%) Grafana
6 2 (1.32%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.66%) Karpenter
7 1 (0.66%) Nessus
7 1 (0.66%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.66%) Salt
Vendors
1 24 (15.89%) Microsoft
2 23 (15.23%) Cisco
3 17 (11.26%) Palo Alto
4 15 (9.93%) Google
5 13 (8.61%) F5
6 12 (7.95%) Oracle
7 7 (4.64%) Juniper
7 7 (4.64%) SAP
7 7 (4.64%) VMware
8 6 (3.97%) CheckPoint
8 6 (3.97%) Fortinet
9 5 (3.31%) Infoblox
9 5 (3.31%) SolarWinds
10 4 (2.65%) Avaya
10 4 (2.65%) Genesys
10 4 (2.65%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.99%) CyberArk
11 3 (1.99%) ESRI
11 3 (1.99%) IBM
12 2 (1.32%) Sage