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 13 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 112 123
Rank change year-on-year -22 +11 +5
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 29 13 14
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.91% 0.67% 0.51%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.13% 1.84% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 11 14
10th Percentile £444 £475 £450
25th Percentile £517 £670 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -17.43% +7.69% +39.82%
75th Percentile £621 £726 £747
90th Percentile £652 £735 £750
England median daily rate £525 £600 £573
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.80% +4.09%

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 926 706 818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 29.09% 36.60% 29.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 409 467
10th Percentile £313 £229 £245
25th Percentile £394 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £490 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -4.39% +0.49%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £656
90th Percentile £680 £651 £725
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 44 121
10th Percentile £22.68 £18.21 £10.95
25th Percentile £31.49 £24.99 £11.77
Median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +39.88% +102.37% -57.17%
75th Percentile £71.50 £60.00 £38.43
90th Percentile £79.03 £82.56 £50.00
England median hourly rate £45.46 £50.00 £39.44
% change year-on-year -9.08% +26.79% -24.16%

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 13 April 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 13 April 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 -10 15 £550 +9.13% 4
Manchester -21 13 £581 -18.85% 14
Merseyside - 1 £425 - 5
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 3 (10.34%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 29 (100.00%) AWS
2 18 (62.07%) Azure
3 12 (41.38%) GCP
4 6 (20.69%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (20.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (20.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (13.79%) IaaS
5 4 (13.79%) PaaS
6 3 (10.34%) Azure AKS
6 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (10.34%) GitHub
6 3 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (10.34%) Serverless
6 3 (10.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.45%) Azure AI
8 1 (3.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (3.45%) IBM Watson
8 1 (3.45%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) DNS
2 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (10.34%) DocumentDB
2 3 (10.34%) DynamoDB
2 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
2 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.90%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) GitLab
1 6 (20.69%) Jenkins
2 4 (13.79%) JIRA
General
1 10 (34.48%) Finance
2 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Banking
4 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.45%) Electronics
6 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.45%) Marketing
6 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Security Engineer
1 7 (24.14%) Software Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Architect
2 5 (17.24%) Senior
3 4 (13.79%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) AWS Architect
4 3 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Integration Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (10.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Senior Integration Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Risk Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Risk Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) Kafka
2 2 (6.90%) LangChain
2 2 (6.90%) PyTorch
2 2 (6.90%) scikit-learn
3 1 (3.45%) .NET
3 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.45%) Middleware
3 1 (3.45%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (31.03%) Cloud Native
2 6 (20.69%) Virtual Team
3 4 (13.79%) e-Learning
3 4 (13.79%) Private Cloud
4 3 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (10.34%) Management Information System
4 3 (10.34%) Security Posture
5 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
6 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (34.48%) Linux
2 5 (17.24%) Windows
3 3 (10.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (6.90%) Apple iOS
4 2 (6.90%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (82.76%) DevOps
2 16 (55.17%) CI/CD
3 12 (41.38%) Agile
4 10 (34.48%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (34.48%) Observability
5 9 (31.03%) Machine Learning
6 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (24.14%) Mentoring
6 7 (24.14%) Software Engineering
7 6 (20.69%) Containerisation
7 6 (20.69%) Event-Driven
7 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (17.24%) AI
8 5 (17.24%) Cloud Security
8 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (17.24%) Risk Management
8 5 (17.24%) Roadmaps
8 5 (17.24%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (17.24%) SIEM
8 5 (17.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (62.07%) Python
2 11 (37.93%) Java
3 8 (27.59%) JavaScript
3 8 (27.59%) PowerShell
3 8 (27.59%) TypeScript
4 7 (24.14%) Rust
5 6 (20.69%) Bash
6 3 (10.34%) Bicep
7 1 (3.45%) C#
7 1 (3.45%) Go
Qualifications
1 15 (51.72%) Azure Certification
2 12 (41.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 8 (27.59%) Security Cleared
4 7 (24.14%) CISSP
5 5 (17.24%) DV Cleared
6 4 (13.79%) IBM Certification
6 4 (13.79%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (10.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (10.34%) Degree
8 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (6.90%) CISA
8 2 (6.90%) CISM
8 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (6.90%) CRISC
8 2 (6.90%) PMI Certification
8 2 (6.90%) PMP
9 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
9 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
9 1 (3.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) GRC
1 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 2 (6.90%) NIST
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.45%) PSD2
System Software
1 10 (34.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (72.41%) Terraform
2 10 (34.48%) Kubernetes
3 4 (13.79%) Ansible
4 3 (10.34%) Argo
4 3 (10.34%) Grafana
4 3 (10.34%) Progress Chef
4 3 (10.34%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.90%) Istio
5 2 (6.90%) linkerd
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Google
2 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
3 5 (17.24%) IBM
3 5 (17.24%) Splunk
4 3 (10.34%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.90%) Atlassian
5 2 (6.90%) BeyondTrust
5 2 (6.90%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (6.90%) Remedy
5 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.45%) SAP