AWS Certification Contracts in Cheshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 57 47
Rank change year-on-year +1 -10 +6
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 2 1 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.45% 0.20% 3.02%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.55% 0.81% 10.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 14
10th Percentile - - £416
25th Percentile - £463 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £475 £445
Median % change year-on-year -22.53% +6.74% -27.31%
75th Percentile - £488 £504
90th Percentile - - £680
North West median daily rate £708 £650 £485
% change year-on-year +8.92% +34.09% -19.21%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cheshire

AWS Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 129 123 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 28.73% 24.40% 29.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 83 96
10th Percentile £230 £132 £283
25th Percentile £325 £344 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £422 £448 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% -10.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £522 £538 £575
90th Percentile £582 £672 £665
North West median daily rate £494 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -3.66% -1.44% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 5
10th Percentile £28.43 - -
25th Percentile £31.25 - £36.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £14.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +132.14% -65.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £85.63 £26.66 £65.75
90th Percentile £86.00 - £66.50
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
% change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% -5.60%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in Cheshire

AWS Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Certification in Cheshire

AWS Certification
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Knutsford - 2 £368 - 1
AWS Certification
North West

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Solution Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Blockchain
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Fraud Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) SOLID
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) VMware