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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 146 186
Rank change year-on-year -11 +40 +21
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 21 37 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.55% 0.80% 0.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.80% 3.22% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 35 17
10th Percentile £371 £288 £489
25th Percentile £384 £381 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -27.27% +7.21%
75th Percentile £700 £506 £619
90th Percentile £716 £645 £698
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -8.00%

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 1,166 1,149 1,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 30.37% 24.99% 24.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 703 671 869
10th Percentile £269 £275 £319
25th Percentile £400 £401 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 163 76
10th Percentile £17.44 £10.95 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.02 £15.00 £20.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £20.77 £40.54
Median % change year-on-year +21.09% -48.76% +30.77%
75th Percentile £49.56 £46.18 £46.39
90th Percentile £70.68 £63.75 £56.13
England median hourly rate £26.32 £43.00 £56.35
% change year-on-year -38.79% -23.68% +39.12%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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
Yorkshire -13 11 £420 +5.00% 58
North West +4 9 £675 +20.54% 78
North East 0 1 - - 19
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (52.38%) GCP
2 11 (52.38%) Serverless
3 6 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (28.57%) Azure
4 5 (23.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (23.81%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (23.81%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (23.81%) GitHub
5 4 (19.05%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 4 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (14.29%) Amazon S3
6 3 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
6 3 (14.29%) AWS KMS
7 2 (9.52%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 2 (9.52%) Amazon Macie
7 2 (9.52%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) DNS
1 3 (14.29%) Firewall
2 2 (9.52%) Network Security
2 2 (9.52%) SSL
2 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
2 2 (9.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 3 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (9.52%) DynamoDB
3 2 (9.52%) MongoDB
3 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.76%) Big Data
4 1 (4.76%) Data Hub
4 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 11 (52.38%) Jenkins
2 9 (42.86%) GitLab
3 5 (23.81%) Liquibase
4 3 (14.29%) Git
General
1 12 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Banking
2 6 (28.57%) Finance
3 4 (19.05%) Financial Institution
4 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Legal
5 2 (9.52%) Telecoms
6 1 (4.76%) Aerospace
6 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Architect
3 5 (23.81%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Lead
4 4 (19.05%) Python Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
5 3 (14.29%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Data Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Firewall Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Security Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Security Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (33.33%) RESTful
3 5 (23.81%) REST
4 2 (9.52%) Kafka
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Amplify
5 1 (4.76%) Celery
5 1 (4.76%) Django
5 1 (4.76%) FastAPI
5 1 (4.76%) Flask
5 1 (4.76%) GraphQL
5 1 (4.76%) gRPC
5 1 (4.76%) Node.js
5 1 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (4.76%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (23.81%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (23.81%) Public Cloud
3 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (9.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.76%) Blockchain
4 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Licensing
4 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 12 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (52.38%) DevOps
3 9 (42.86%) Computer Science
3 9 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 9 (42.86%) Cost Optimisation
4 8 (38.10%) Agile
4 8 (38.10%) Microservices
5 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 7 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 6 (28.57%) High Availability
7 5 (23.81%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (23.81%) Change Management
7 5 (23.81%) Cryptography
7 5 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (19.05%) Cloud Security
8 4 (19.05%) Data Security
8 4 (19.05%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (14.29%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) Python
2 5 (23.81%) Go
2 5 (23.81%) Java
3 2 (9.52%) Bash
3 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (57.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 9 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (42.86%) Degree
3 6 (28.57%) Master's Degree
4 5 (23.81%) Azure Certification
4 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
4 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
5 3 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (4.76%) CISM
7 1 (4.76%) CISSP
7 1 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) GDPR
1 4 (19.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (19.05%) NIST
2 3 (14.29%) QA
2 3 (14.29%) SOC 2
3 2 (9.52%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
4 1 (4.76%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (52.38%) Terraform
2 10 (47.62%) Ansible
2 10 (47.62%) Kubernetes
3 9 (42.86%) Prometheus
4 8 (38.10%) Grafana
5 2 (9.52%) Kustomize
5 2 (9.52%) Puppet
6 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Google
1 7 (33.33%) Splunk
2 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (4.76%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (4.76%) IBM
3 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.76%) Sage
3 1 (4.76%) VMware