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

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 551 672 773
Rank change year-on-year +121 +101 -79
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner 18 23 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.041% 0.067%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.14% 0.15% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 22
10th Percentile £303 - £508
25th Percentile £375 £525 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £578
Median % change year-on-year - -4.84% +15.60%
75th Percentile £584 £666 £797
90th Percentile - £675 £856
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £520
% change year-on-year - +5.77% -15.10%
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 12,739 15,389 18,926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.90% 27.24% 21.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,940 10,267 12,566
10th Percentile £309 £335 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.60%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £630
90th Percentile £738 £743 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,072 756 771
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.24 £19.96
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +23.61%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.56 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.47 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.63 £51.82 £35.10
% change year-on-year -21.58% +47.62% +6.36%

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 24 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 24 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 +115 11 £550 - 7
England +90 11 £475 -13.64% 10
London +97 10 £550 -12.00% 5
UK excluding London +34 6 £550 - 9
Scotland - 5 £550 -
North of England +22 1 £400 -27.27%
North West - 1 £400 -

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (94.44%) Azure
3 10 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 9 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 9 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
4 9 (50.00%) Entra ID
5 4 (22.22%) AWS Direct Connect
5 4 (22.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (16.67%) GitHub
7 2 (11.11%) GCP
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) DNS
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (11.11%) Firewall
2 2 (11.11%) HSRP
2 2 (11.11%) IPsec
2 2 (11.11%) LAN
2 2 (11.11%) OSPF
2 2 (11.11%) SD-WAN
2 2 (11.11%) SNMP
2 2 (11.11%) Spanning Tree
2 2 (11.11%) VPN
2 2 (11.11%) WAN
2 2 (11.11%) Wireless
3 1 (5.56%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (11.11%) Finance
1 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) AWS Specialist
1 4 (22.22%) Azure Specialist
2 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Cloud Specialist
2 3 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (5.56%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Desktop Support
4 1 (5.56%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Remote Desktop Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Remote Desktop Support
4 1 (5.56%) Remote Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (11.11%) PKI
3 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Linux
3 2 (11.11%) Mac OS
4 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 9 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
1 9 (50.00%) Cost Control
2 5 (27.78%) Service Delivery
3 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (22.22%) Planning and Forecasting
3 4 (22.22%) Supplier Management
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) ITIL
4 3 (16.67%) Project Management
4 3 (16.67%) Security Hardening
5 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (11.11%) Change Management
5 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
5 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.11%) Resource Allocation
5 2 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (11.11%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (83.33%) AWS Certification
2 11 (61.11%) Azure Certification
3 3 (16.67%) CCNA
3 3 (16.67%) CCNP
3 3 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (11.11%) Degree
4 2 (11.11%) MCSA
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) CISA
5 1 (5.56%) CISM
5 1 (5.56%) MCSE
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) Active Directory
2 4 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (11.11%) WhatsUp Gold
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (11.11%) CheckPoint
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco
3 2 (11.11%) Facebook
3 2 (11.11%) Instagram
3 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
3 2 (11.11%) SolarWinds
3 2 (11.11%) SonicWALL
3 2 (11.11%) VMware
4 1 (5.56%) Okta