AWS Certification Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 1.19% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 7.84% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £575 £708 £650
% change year-on-year -18.79% +8.92% +46.07%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 51 53 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 15.13% 31.18% 36.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 31 33
10th Percentile £154 £160 £166
25th Percentile £186 £203 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £523 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.66% +16.11% -12.20%
75th Percentile £639 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £665 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £496 £513
% change year-on-year -4.28% -3.17% +0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 16
10th Percentile £18.30 £14.52 £12.54
25th Percentile £20.25 - £14.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £17.44 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.61% -3.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £27.25 - £34.24
90th Percentile £28.90 £18.72 £44.16
North West median hourly rate £52.78 £32.50 £16.06
% change year-on-year +62.38% +102.37% -59.85%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in Merseyside

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

AWS Certification
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 6 May 2026. 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
Liverpool - 3 £425 - 4
AWS Certification
North West

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 3 (75.00%) IaaS
2 3 (75.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (75.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (25.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Architectural Design
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) Network Design
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CISSP
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) BeyondTrust
1 1 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Remedy
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk