AWS Certification Contract Job Trends 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 21 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 46 46
Rank change year-on-year -20 0 +21
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 8 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.23% 0.95% 0.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.62% 4.17% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile £305 £416 £551
25th Percentile £305 £505 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £593 £560
Median % change year-on-year -29.11% +5.80% -5.77%
75th Percentile £471 £663 £578
90th Percentile £595 £709 £585
North West median daily rate £460 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -12.38% -8.70% +12.09%

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 221 120 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 34.05% 22.68% 28.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 75 54
10th Percentile £305 £349 £406
25th Percentile £356 £390 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £530 £530
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% - +6.00%
75th Percentile £630 £575 £587
90th Percentile £716 £638 £675
North West median daily rate £503 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.62% -4.76% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 6
10th Percentile - - £21.38
25th Percentile £15.50 - £27.65
Median hourly rate £28.58 - £37.04
Median % change year-on-year - - +41.10%
75th Percentile £67.25 - £40.00
90th Percentile £89.98 - £57.50
North West median hourly rate £27.19 £46.18 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.13% +8.66% +18.06%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing AWS Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing AWS Certification

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in Cheshire over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 21 September 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 -12 7 £364 -41.80%
Chester - 1 £750 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (62.50%) Apache
1 5 (62.50%) IIS
1 5 (62.50%) JBoss
1 5 (62.50%) WebSphere
2 4 (50.00%) iPlanet
2 4 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) OpenShift
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Bitbucket Server
1 5 (62.50%) CA Release Automation
1 5 (62.50%) Git
1 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (87.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Architect
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Solution Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) OAuth
1 5 (62.50%) OpenID
1 5 (62.50%) SAML
2 4 (50.00%) LDAP
3 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Blockchain
1 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
1 5 (62.50%) Windows Server
2 3 (37.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (37.50%) Problem Management
5 2 (25.00%) Architectural Design
5 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (25.00%) Microservices
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) SDLC
6 1 (12.50%) API Design
6 1 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 1 (12.50%) Business Strategy
6 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
6 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
6 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (12.50%) Generative AI
6 1 (12.50%) GitOps
6 1 (12.50%) Observability
6 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Groovy
2 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
3 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Docker
2 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (37.50%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) CA Single Sign-On
2 4 (50.00%) CA Wily
2 4 (50.00%) Progress Chef
3 3 (37.50%) Tivoli
4 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (12.50%) Ansible
5 1 (12.50%) Grafana
5 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Broadcom
2 4 (50.00%) AppDynamics
2 4 (50.00%) IBM
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 4 (50.00%) Splunk
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 1 (12.50%) VMware