AWS Certification Contract Job Trends in the North East

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 36 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.19% 0.36% -
As % of the Qualifications category 3.25% 0.93% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 - -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 123 107 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 36.61% 38.63% 26.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 50 37
10th Percentile £170 £310 £288
25th Percentile £400 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -19.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £583 £600
90th Percentile £725 £657 £720
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 9
10th Percentile £47.20 £26.45 £18.00
25th Percentile £51.25 - £18.75
Median hourly rate £52.50 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +13.69% - -30.03%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £66.56 £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £52.19 £52.50
% change year-on-year -51.81% -0.59% +16.67%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in the North East

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing AWS Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing AWS Certification

AWS Certification
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Tyne and Wear -9 4 £466 - 15
AWS Certification
England

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Intacct
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (25.00%) AWS KMS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) Data Hub
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) CloudOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (25.00%) Data Encryption
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) DataOps
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Key Management
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (25.00%) QA
1 1 (25.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Sage