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 15 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 116 122
Rank change year-on-year -12 +6 +21
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 41 9 10
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.12% 0.42% 0.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.03% 1.26% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 6 9
10th Percentile £413 £419 £415
25th Percentile £447 £515 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £560
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +20.54% -9.68%
75th Percentile £613 £716 £650
90th Percentile £628 £733 £668
England median daily rate £575 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -4.35%

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 1,018 717 767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 27.71% 33.29% 28.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 406 425
10th Percentile £344 £308 £259
25th Percentile £401 £405 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £613 £602 £600
90th Percentile £700 £716 £689
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.16% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 67 138
10th Percentile £17.25 £17.44 £10.95
25th Percentile £28.63 £22.16 £14.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £17.78
Median % change year-on-year +46.53% +68.71% -56.19%
75th Percentile £71.50 £59.95 £43.10
90th Percentile £93.63 £74.57 £62.50
England median hourly rate £54.25 £27.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +97.27% -36.05% -21.82%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +14 22 £550 +49.46% 5
Manchester -36 14 £516 -26.25% 17
Merseyside - 5 £425 - 7
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 (7.32%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 41 (100.00%) AWS
2 28 (68.29%) Azure
3 15 (36.59%) GCP
4 14 (34.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 9 (21.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (17.07%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (14.63%) IaaS
7 6 (14.63%) PaaS
7 6 (14.63%) Serverless
8 5 (12.20%) Power Platform
9 4 (9.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (7.32%) Azure AI
10 3 (7.32%) Azure AKS
10 3 (7.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (7.32%) GitHub
10 3 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (7.32%) IBM Watson
10 3 (7.32%) Vertex AI
11 2 (4.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 15 (36.59%) Firewall
2 3 (7.32%) DNS
2 3 (7.32%) VPN
3 1 (2.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.07%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (12.20%) Power BI
3 3 (7.32%) DocumentDB
3 3 (7.32%) DynamoDB
3 3 (7.32%) NoSQL
3 3 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) GitLab
1 6 (14.63%) Jenkins
1 6 (14.63%) JIRA
General
1 17 (41.46%) Finance
2 7 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (17.07%) Banking
3 5 (12.20%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (39.02%) Security Engineer
2 10 (24.39%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (17.07%) Architect
3 7 (17.07%) Senior
3 7 (17.07%) Software Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) AWS Architect
4 4 (9.76%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Consultant
5 3 (7.32%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Integration Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (7.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Senior Integration Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Lead
6 2 (4.88%) PowerShell Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Python Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.76%) LangChain
1 4 (9.76%) PyTorch
1 4 (9.76%) scikit-learn
2 3 (7.32%) Kafka
3 2 (4.88%) AWS CDK
3 2 (4.88%) Node.js
3 2 (4.88%) OAuth
3 2 (4.88%) OpenID
4 1 (2.44%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.44%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (2.44%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 23 (56.10%) Cloud Native
2 13 (31.71%) Management Information System
2 13 (31.71%) Security Posture
3 3 (7.32%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.32%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (7.32%) Virtual Team
4 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.44%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.44%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (43.90%) Linux
2 16 (39.02%) Windows
3 11 (26.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (12.20%) Apple iOS
4 5 (12.20%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (70.73%) DevOps
2 24 (58.54%) CI/CD
3 18 (43.90%) Agile
4 15 (36.59%) Roadmaps
4 15 (36.59%) SIEM
5 14 (34.15%) Infrastructure Automation
5 14 (34.15%) Scrum
6 13 (31.71%) Cloud Security
6 13 (31.71%) Observability
7 11 (26.83%) Change Management
7 11 (26.83%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (26.83%) Load Balancing
7 11 (26.83%) Machine Learning
7 11 (26.83%) Product Roadmap
8 8 (19.51%) Analytics
8 8 (19.51%) Risk Management
8 8 (19.51%) Software Engineering
9 7 (17.07%) DevSecOps
9 7 (17.07%) Information Security
9 7 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 30 (73.17%) Python
2 19 (46.34%) PowerShell
3 18 (43.90%) Java
4 14 (34.15%) Bash
5 9 (21.95%) JavaScript
5 9 (21.95%) TypeScript
6 7 (17.07%) Rust
7 6 (14.63%) Bicep
8 1 (2.44%) Go
Qualifications
1 20 (48.78%) Azure Certification
2 19 (46.34%) CISSP
3 13 (31.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 11 (26.83%) Degree
5 9 (21.95%) Security Cleared
6 5 (12.20%) DV Cleared
7 3 (7.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (4.88%) CISA
8 2 (4.88%) CISM
8 2 (4.88%) CRISC
8 2 (4.88%) PMI Certification
8 2 (4.88%) PMP
8 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
9 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (2.44%) IBM Certification
9 1 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) GRC
1 2 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 2 (4.88%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (41.46%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (68.29%) Terraform
2 17 (41.46%) Kubernetes
3 11 (26.83%) Progress Chef
4 3 (7.32%) Argo
4 3 (7.32%) Grafana
4 3 (7.32%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.88%) Istio
5 2 (4.88%) linkerd
6 1 (2.44%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (36.59%) Google
2 11 (26.83%) Red Hat
3 10 (24.39%) Microsoft
4 8 (19.51%) Splunk
5 5 (12.20%) BeyondTrust
5 5 (12.20%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (12.20%) Remedy
5 5 (12.20%) ServiceNow
6 4 (9.76%) IBM
7 2 (4.88%) Atlassian