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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 107 127
Rank change year-on-year -16 +20 +18
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 23 14 11
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.92% 0.65% 0.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.60% 2.01% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 9 11
10th Percentile £305 £451 £550
25th Percentile £358 £488 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £640 £700
Median % change year-on-year -34.38% -8.57% +57.30%
75th Percentile £541 £735 £744
90th Percentile £581 £738 £750
England median daily rate £488 £525 £558
% change year-on-year -7.14% -5.83% -3.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £58.00 -
England median hourly rate £90.00 £58.00 -
% change year-on-year +55.17% - -

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 883 697 835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 35.25% 32.42% 31.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 583 366 551
10th Percentile £221 £213 £255
25th Percentile £381 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +8.86%
75th Percentile £600 £576 £645
90th Percentile £688 £669 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 53 72
10th Percentile £18.96 £18.56 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.51 £22.72 £29.58
Median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +39.88% -29.62% +84.72%
75th Percentile £65.75 £52.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.90 £79.42 £63.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £51.90
% change year-on-year -45.54% -11.02% +15.33%

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 December 2025.

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 30 December 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
Cheshire -7 13 £378 -24.15% 16
Manchester -12 10 £528 -28.23% 26
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 6 (26.09%) Apache
1 6 (26.09%) IIS
1 6 (26.09%) JBoss
1 6 (26.09%) WebSphere
2 5 (21.74%) iPlanet
2 5 (21.74%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (34.78%) Azure
2 8 (34.78%) GCP
3 5 (21.74%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (21.74%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (21.74%) Serverless
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (17.39%) OpenShift
5 3 (13.04%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (13.04%) GitHub
5 3 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (8.70%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (8.70%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (4.35%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) Kerberos
2 2 (8.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Oracle Database
2 2 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (8.70%) DynamoDB
2 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 12 (52.17%) Git
2 11 (47.83%) Jenkins
3 6 (26.09%) Bitbucket Server
3 6 (26.09%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (21.74%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (13.04%) GitLab
5 3 (13.04%) JIRA
6 2 (8.70%) Bitbucket
7 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
7 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (52.17%) Finance
2 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Banking
4 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.35%) Electronics
6 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.35%) Marketing
6 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Architect
2 4 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Java Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Java Technical Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Lead
4 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) OAuth
2 6 (26.09%) OpenID
2 6 (26.09%) SAML
3 5 (21.74%) LDAP
4 2 (8.70%) Node.js
4 2 (8.70%) RESTful
5 1 (4.35%) .NET
5 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.35%) GraphQL
5 1 (4.35%) JWT
5 1 (4.35%) Middleware
5 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
5 1 (4.35%) PySpark
5 1 (4.35%) pytest
5 1 (4.35%) React
5 1 (4.35%) Spring
5 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) e-Learning
1 2 (8.70%) Private Cloud
1 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
1 2 (8.70%) Virtual Team
2 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.35%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 10 (43.48%) Linux
2 6 (26.09%) Windows
2 6 (26.09%) Windows Server
3 3 (13.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) DevOps
2 14 (60.87%) CI/CD
3 7 (30.43%) Containerisation
3 7 (30.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (26.09%) Agile
4 6 (26.09%) Microservices
5 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
5 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (21.74%) TOGAF
6 4 (17.39%) Computer Science
6 4 (17.39%) ITIL
6 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (13.04%) API Design
7 3 (13.04%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (13.04%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (13.04%) Problem Management
7 3 (13.04%) SDLC
7 3 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) Groovy
1 6 (26.09%) Python
2 5 (21.74%) Java
3 3 (13.04%) Shell Script
4 2 (8.70%) Bash
4 2 (8.70%) Perl
4 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.70%) Ruby
5 1 (4.35%) C#
5 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.35%) SQL
5 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Azure Certification
2 4 (17.39%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (17.39%) Degree
3 3 (13.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) IBM Certification
4 2 (8.70%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.35%) CISSP
5 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.35%) GDPR
1 1 (4.35%) ISO 20022
1 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.35%) PSD2
1 1 (4.35%) QA
1 1 (4.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (47.83%) Docker
2 5 (21.74%) Active Directory
3 3 (13.04%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 2 (8.70%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Terraform
2 8 (34.78%) Kubernetes
3 6 (26.09%) CA Single Sign-On
4 5 (21.74%) CA Wily
5 4 (17.39%) Progress Chef
6 3 (13.04%) Ansible
6 3 (13.04%) Tivoli
7 1 (4.35%) Control-M
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Oracle
2 7 (30.43%) IBM
3 6 (26.09%) Broadcom
4 5 (21.74%) AppDynamics
4 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
4 5 (21.74%) Splunk
5 2 (8.70%) Google
6 1 (4.35%) Gigya
6 1 (4.35%) SAP