AWS Certification Contract Job Trends in the North West

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 114 113
Rank change year-on-year -20 -1 +23
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 43 16 11
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.11% 0.73% 0.46%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.84% 2.16% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 13 6
10th Percentile £432 £305 £444
25th Percentile £458 £360 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £492 £543
Median % change year-on-year +11.79% -9.31% -3.13%
75th Percentile £616 £650 £619
90th Percentile £645 £716 £689
England median daily rate £575 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £58.00
England median hourly rate £88.75 £55.00 £58.00
% change year-on-year +61.36% -5.17% -28.83%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,121 742 688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 29.03% 33.87% 28.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 726 417 386
10th Percentile £313 £313 £305
25th Percentile £418 £408 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £500 £509
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% -1.67% +1.70%
75th Percentile £620 £613 £608
90th Percentile £688 £716 £724
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 70 97
10th Percentile £17.25 £17.40 £10.95
25th Percentile £28.50 £21.30 £12.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.64 £18.07
Median % change year-on-year +43.50% +69.58% -57.15%
75th Percentile £66.46 £59.57 £51.88
90th Percentile £83.75 £73.95 £65.40
England median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +114.71% -47.05% -13.64%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in the North West

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in the North West over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in the North West

AWS Certification
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Cheshire +12 21 £575 +86.99% 5
Manchester -33 16 £488 -20.41% 19
Merseyside - 6 £600 - 8
AWS Certification
England

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.33%) Apache
1 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 43 (100.00%) AWS
2 36 (83.72%) Azure
3 20 (46.51%) GCP
4 19 (44.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 9 (20.93%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (20.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 8 (18.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (13.95%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (13.95%) Azure AKS
7 6 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (11.63%) Azure AI
8 5 (11.63%) Power Platform
8 5 (11.63%) Serverless
9 4 (9.30%) Vertex AI
10 3 (6.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (6.98%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (6.98%) AWS KMS
10 3 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (6.98%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (44.19%) Firewall
2 7 (16.28%) Network Security
3 3 (6.98%) VPN
4 2 (4.65%) DNS
4 2 (4.65%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (2.33%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (2.33%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (2.33%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.63%) Power BI
2 4 (9.30%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.33%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.33%) Flink
3 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) GitLab
1 3 (6.98%) Jenkins
1 3 (6.98%) JIRA
General
1 20 (46.51%) Finance
2 10 (23.26%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (23.26%) Banking
3 6 (13.95%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (53.49%) Security Engineer
2 12 (27.91%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) Architect
4 6 (13.95%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) Senior
5 4 (9.30%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (9.30%) Security Architect
5 4 (9.30%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Consultant
6 3 (6.98%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Integration Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Lead
6 3 (6.98%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (6.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Integration Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) LangChain
1 4 (9.30%) PyTorch
1 4 (9.30%) scikit-learn
2 3 (6.98%) ARM Templates
2 3 (6.98%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (4.65%) AWS CDK
3 2 (4.65%) Node.js
3 2 (4.65%) OAuth
3 2 (4.65%) OpenID
4 1 (2.33%) Kafka
4 1 (2.33%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 26 (60.47%) Cloud Native
2 19 (44.19%) Security Posture
3 17 (39.53%) Management Information System
4 4 (9.30%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (4.65%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 21 (48.84%) Windows
2 20 (46.51%) Linux
3 16 (37.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (11.63%) Apple iOS
4 5 (11.63%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (62.79%) DevOps
2 24 (55.81%) CI/CD
3 22 (51.16%) Cloud Security
4 20 (46.51%) SIEM
5 19 (44.19%) Agile
5 19 (44.19%) Infrastructure Automation
6 17 (39.53%) Change Management
6 17 (39.53%) Scrum
7 14 (32.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (32.56%) Roadmaps
8 13 (30.23%) Load Balancing
9 11 (25.58%) Machine Learning
9 11 (25.58%) Observability
9 11 (25.58%) Product Roadmap
10 10 (23.26%) AI
10 10 (23.26%) Analytics
10 10 (23.26%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (23.26%) DevSecOps
11 9 (20.93%) Information Security
12 8 (18.60%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (79.07%) Python
2 25 (58.14%) PowerShell
3 20 (46.51%) Bash
3 20 (46.51%) Java
4 10 (23.26%) Bicep
5 6 (13.95%) JavaScript
5 6 (13.95%) TypeScript
6 4 (9.30%) Rust
7 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (65.12%) CISSP
2 24 (55.81%) Azure Certification
3 12 (27.91%) Degree
4 6 (13.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (9.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (9.30%) CCSP
5 4 (9.30%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (9.30%) Security Cleared
6 3 (6.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) CCIE
7 2 (4.65%) CCIE Security
7 2 (4.65%) CCNP
7 2 (4.65%) CCSE
7 2 (4.65%) CISA
7 2 (4.65%) CISM
7 2 (4.65%) GCIA
7 2 (4.65%) GCIH
7 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (4.65%) PMI Certification
7 2 (4.65%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (9.30%) NIST
2 2 (4.65%) GRC
2 2 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 2 (4.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (46.51%) Docker
2 3 (6.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (62.79%) Terraform
2 20 (46.51%) Kubernetes
3 16 (37.21%) Progress Chef
4 3 (6.98%) Argo
4 3 (6.98%) Grafana
4 3 (6.98%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.65%) Istio
5 2 (4.65%) linkerd
6 1 (2.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (39.53%) Google
2 16 (37.21%) Red Hat
3 14 (32.56%) Microsoft
4 8 (18.60%) Splunk
5 5 (11.63%) BeyondTrust
5 5 (11.63%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (11.63%) Remedy
5 5 (11.63%) ServiceNow
6 3 (6.98%) Cisco
6 3 (6.98%) IBM
7 2 (4.65%) AlgoSec
7 2 (4.65%) CheckPoint
7 2 (4.65%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.33%) Databricks
8 1 (2.33%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.33%) OpenAI