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 30 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 111 109
Rank change year-on-year -35 -2 +24
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 37 16 13
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.94% 0.72% 0.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.14% 2.13% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 13 7
10th Percentile £422 £305 £448
25th Percentile £453 £360 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.37% -14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £541 £601
90th Percentile £618 £635 £679
England median daily rate £575 £525 £536
% change year-on-year +9.52% -2.10% -6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £72.66 - £58.00
England median hourly rate £85.00 £55.00 £58.00
% change year-on-year +54.55% -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 1,179 752 682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 29.83% 34.00% 28.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 762 441 393
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
25th Percentile £418 £409 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £504
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -0.79% -3.08%
75th Percentile £618 £619 £603
90th Percentile £688 £716 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 74 73
10th Percentile £17.25 £16.85 £10.95
25th Percentile £28.59 £20.26 £12.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.64 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.50% -2.75% -25.88%
75th Percentile £66.46 £58.50 £54.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £73.06 £77.29
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -49.70% -9.09%

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 30 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in the North West

AWS Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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 30 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 +5 15 £550 +49.46% 6
Manchester -28 14 £475 -13.83% 23
Merseyside - 7 £600 - 9
Lancashire - 1 - - 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 1 (2.70%) Apache
1 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.70%) Confluence
1 1 (2.70%) SAS
Business Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 37 (100.00%) AWS
2 32 (86.49%) Azure
3 15 (40.54%) GCP
4 13 (35.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 6 (16.22%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (16.22%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (16.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (16.22%) Azure AI
5 6 (16.22%) Power Platform
5 6 (16.22%) Serverless
5 6 (16.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (10.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (8.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 3 (8.11%) AWS CloudTrail
7 3 (8.11%) Azure AKS
7 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (8.11%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (8.11%) Entra ID
7 3 (8.11%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (37.84%) Firewall
2 8 (21.62%) Network Security
3 3 (8.11%) VPN
4 2 (5.41%) DNS
4 2 (5.41%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (2.70%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (2.70%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (2.70%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) Power BI
2 3 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.70%) Big Data
4 1 (2.70%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.70%) Flink
4 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.70%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Git
2 1 (2.70%) GitLab
General
1 17 (45.95%) Finance
2 10 (27.03%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (18.92%) Banking
4 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (51.35%) Security Engineer
2 10 (27.03%) Cloud Engineer
3 8 (21.62%) Architect
4 7 (18.92%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Cloud Architect
5 5 (13.51%) Security Architect
6 3 (8.11%) Consultant
6 3 (8.11%) Information Architect
6 3 (8.11%) Information Security Architect
6 3 (8.11%) Lead
6 3 (8.11%) Senior
6 3 (8.11%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Cloud Consultant
7 2 (5.41%) Lead Architect
7 2 (5.41%) PowerShell Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Python Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (56.76%) Terraform
2 3 (8.11%) ARM Templates
2 3 (8.11%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (5.41%) AWS CDK
3 2 (5.41%) LangChain
3 2 (5.41%) Node.js
3 2 (5.41%) OAuth
3 2 (5.41%) OpenID
3 2 (5.41%) PyTorch
3 2 (5.41%) scikit-learn
4 1 (2.70%) Kafka
4 1 (2.70%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 23 (62.16%) Cloud Native
2 17 (45.95%) Security Posture
3 16 (43.24%) Management Information System
4 4 (10.81%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (5.41%) Data Centre
5 2 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (51.35%) Windows
2 17 (45.95%) Linux
3 14 (37.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (13.51%) Apple iOS
4 5 (13.51%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (56.76%) Cloud Security
2 20 (54.05%) DevOps
3 19 (51.35%) CI/CD
4 17 (45.95%) Agile
5 16 (43.24%) SIEM
6 15 (40.54%) Change Management
7 14 (37.84%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (37.84%) Scrum
8 13 (35.14%) Infrastructure Automation
9 10 (27.03%) AI
9 10 (27.03%) Analytics
9 10 (27.03%) Information Security
9 10 (27.03%) Load Balancing
9 10 (27.03%) Machine Learning
9 10 (27.03%) Roadmaps
10 8 (21.62%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (21.62%) Migration
10 8 (21.62%) Observability
10 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (21.62%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 27 (72.97%) Python
2 20 (54.05%) PowerShell
3 17 (45.95%) Java
4 15 (40.54%) Bash
5 8 (21.62%) Bicep
6 5 (13.51%) JavaScript
6 5 (13.51%) TypeScript
7 3 (8.11%) Rust
8 2 (5.41%) SQL
9 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (70.27%) CISSP
2 19 (51.35%) Azure Certification
3 11 (29.73%) Degree
4 5 (13.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 5 (13.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (13.51%) CCSP
4 5 (13.51%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (10.81%) Security Cleared
6 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
7 2 (5.41%) CCIE
7 2 (5.41%) CCNP
7 2 (5.41%) CCSA
7 2 (5.41%) CCSE
7 2 (5.41%) CISA
7 2 (5.41%) CISM
7 2 (5.41%) CRISC
7 2 (5.41%) GIAC
7 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (5.41%) PMI Certification
7 2 (5.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (10.81%) NIST
2 2 (5.41%) GRC
2 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 2 (5.41%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 15 (40.54%) Docker
2 3 (8.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (40.54%) Kubernetes
2 14 (37.84%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (37.84%) Google
1 14 (37.84%) Red Hat
2 12 (32.43%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.51%) BeyondTrust
3 5 (13.51%) CrowdStrike
3 5 (13.51%) Remedy
3 5 (13.51%) ServiceNow
3 5 (13.51%) Splunk
4 4 (10.81%) Cisco
5 2 (5.41%) AlgoSec
5 2 (5.41%) CheckPoint
5 2 (5.41%) IBM
5 2 (5.41%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.70%) Databricks
6 1 (2.70%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.70%) Informatica
6 1 (2.70%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.70%) Oracle