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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 88 106
Rank change year-on-year +15 +18 +21
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 9 9 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.98% 0.61% 0.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.56% 2.81% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 2
10th Percentile £598 £415 £506
25th Percentile £650 - £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £450 £613
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -26.53% +19.40%
75th Percentile £716 £650 £684
90th Percentile £726 £670 £709
North West median daily rate £700 £475 £680
% change year-on-year +47.37% -30.15% +32.55%

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 253 320 448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 27.59% 21.68% 25.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 189 334
10th Percentile £331 £313 £363
25th Percentile £423 £425 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.44% -
75th Percentile £609 £675 £638
90th Percentile £731 £825 £700
North West median daily rate £485 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -3.00% -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 29 11
10th Percentile £31.00 £22.65 £18.50
25th Percentile £40.61 £25.50 £19.74
Median hourly rate £60.00 £35.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% +40.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £33.03
90th Percentile £73.75 £91.50 £37.50
North West median hourly rate £32.00 £16.06 £40.59
% change year-on-year +99.25% -60.43% +24.91%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 - 5 £700 - 2
Altrincham - 1 - -
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 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) GCP
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 3 (33.33%) GitHub
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (22.22%) Serverless
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Legal
2 5 (55.56%) Telecoms
3 1 (11.11%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Architect
2 5 (55.56%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Amplify
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Licensing
1 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Load Balancing
4 2 (22.22%) Microservices
4 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Agile
5 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
5 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (11.11%) High Availability
5 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 1 (11.11%) Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
5 1 (11.11%) Security Architecture
5 1 (11.11%) Software Licensing
5 1 (11.11%) UML
5 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Bash
1 2 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 6 (66.67%) Azure Certification
2 6 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (66.67%) Degree
3 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
3 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
4 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) CISM
5 1 (11.11%) CISSP
5 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (55.56%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (11.11%) IBM