AWS Certification Contracts in Manchester

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 69 83 105
Rank change year-on-year +14 +22 +30
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 10 13 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.08% 0.86% 0.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.80% 3.60% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 6
10th Percentile £655 - £505
25th Percentile £700 £450 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £716 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.29% +33.35% -12.51%
75th Percentile £735 £750 £525
90th Percentile £738 - £625
North West median daily rate £708 £650 £485
% change year-on-year +8.92% +34.09% -19.21%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 263 361 502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 28.40% 23.80% 26.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 214 369
10th Percentile £300 £313 £338
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £619
90th Percentile £713 £805 £700
North West median daily rate £494 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -3.66% -1.44% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 25 17
10th Percentile - £24.14 -
25th Percentile £31.25 £25.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £46.25 £49.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% +96.00% +54.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £73.75 £37.50
90th Percentile £74.13 £94.50 £70.00
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 Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in Manchester

AWS Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Certification in Manchester

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in Manchester

AWS Certification
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester 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
Salford - 7 £716 - 2
Altrincham - 1 - - 2
AWS Certification
North West

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 7 (70.00%) GCP
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (20.00%) Serverless
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (70.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (70.00%) Legal
2 7 (70.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Architect
1 7 (70.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Amplify
1 1 (10.00%) cloud-init
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) Keycloak
1 1 (10.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) CentOS
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Computer Science
1 7 (70.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (20.00%) Microservices
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (10.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (10.00%) High Availability
4 1 (10.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (10.00%) Observability
4 1 (10.00%) Secrets Management
4 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Bash
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 7 (70.00%) Azure Certification
2 7 (70.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (70.00%) Degree
2 7 (70.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Consul
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Istio
2 1 (10.00%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (10.00%) linkerd
2 1 (10.00%) Packer
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (10.00%) Rancher
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Google
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Okta
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk