AWS Certification Contracts in the North of England

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 142 169 172
Rank change year-on-year +27 +3 +23
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 24 16 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.73% 0.34% 0.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.24% 1.29% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 15 38
10th Percentile £453 £450 £414
25th Percentile £494 £456 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £708 £600 £533
Median % change year-on-year +18.00% +12.68% +1.43%
75th Percentile £738 £744 £575
90th Percentile £750 £750 £637
England median daily rate £600 £588 £550
% change year-on-year +2.13% +6.82% -12.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,070 1,240 1,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 32.47% 26.01% 25.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 684 1,063
10th Percentile £230 £300 £325
25th Percentile £375 £415 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% -2.38% +9.38%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £652 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 165 70
10th Percentile £17.44 £10.95 £20.00
25th Percentile £22.61 £12.75 £25.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% +15.62%
75th Percentile £59.24 £38.43 £49.52
90th Percentile £80.59 £61.50 £65.84
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing AWS Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in the North of England

AWS Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for AWS Certification in the North of England

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in the North of England

AWS Certification
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +15 12 £708 +8.92% 50
Yorkshire +14 8 £725 +45.00% 19
North East - 4 £475 - 3
AWS Certification
England

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (29.17%) nginx
1 7 (29.17%) Traefik
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) AWS
2 12 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 12 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 11 (45.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (37.50%) AWS Fargate
4 9 (37.50%) Azure
4 9 (37.50%) Entra ID
4 9 (37.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 7 (29.17%) GCP
6 5 (20.83%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (20.83%) Serverless
7 2 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (8.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
7 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (8.33%) GitHub
7 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (45.83%) DNS
2 9 (37.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (54.17%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (45.83%) Jenkins
2 9 (37.50%) GitLab
3 3 (12.50%) JIRA
4 2 (8.33%) Git
4 2 (8.33%) Visual Studio
4 2 (8.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (33.33%) Legal
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Telecoms
3 2 (8.33%) French Language
3 2 (8.33%) Military
3 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Senior
2 8 (33.33%) Architect
2 8 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 8 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (29.17%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) C# Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Lead
6 1 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Solution Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Lead C# Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (41.67%) Kafka
2 9 (37.50%) cloud-init
2 9 (37.50%) Keycloak
3 3 (12.50%) RESTful
4 2 (8.33%) .NET
4 2 (8.33%) CSS
4 2 (8.33%) HTML
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Amplify
5 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (4.17%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) PKI
2 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.17%) Blockchain
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (41.67%) Linux
2 9 (37.50%) CentOS
2 9 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (37.50%) Unix
3 1 (4.17%) Mac OS
3 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 13 (54.17%) DevOps
2 13 (54.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (41.67%) Cloud Security
3 10 (41.67%) Observability
4 9 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (37.50%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 9 (37.50%) Identity Management
4 9 (37.50%) Secrets Management
4 9 (37.50%) Static Application Security Testing
5 7 (29.17%) Computer Science
5 7 (29.17%) Mobile Device Management
5 7 (29.17%) Software Engineering
6 6 (25.00%) Agile
7 5 (20.83%) Microservices
8 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (12.50%) SDLC
10 2 (8.33%) API Integration
10 2 (8.33%) Data Protection
10 2 (8.33%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) Python
2 11 (45.83%) Bash
3 9 (37.50%) Go
4 2 (8.33%) C#
4 2 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 14 (58.33%) SC Cleared
3 9 (37.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 9 (37.50%) Azure Certification
4 7 (29.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (29.17%) Degree
4 7 (29.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (37.50%) NCSC
1 9 (37.50%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (45.83%) Kubernetes
1 11 (45.83%) Terraform
2 10 (41.67%) Grafana
2 10 (41.67%) Prometheus
3 9 (37.50%) Consul
3 9 (37.50%) Istio
3 9 (37.50%) Jamf Pro
3 9 (37.50%) linkerd
3 9 (37.50%) Packer
3 9 (37.50%) Rancher
3 9 (37.50%) ZABBIX
4 7 (29.17%) HAProxy
5 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (4.17%) Ansible
5 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 9 (37.50%) Okta
1 9 (37.50%) Splunk
2 7 (29.17%) Apple
2 7 (29.17%) ESET
2 7 (29.17%) Google
3 2 (8.33%) New Relic
4 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.17%) VMware