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

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 105 141
Rank change year-on-year -11 +36 +20
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 21 15 6
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.91% 0.64% 0.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.69% 2.24% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 5
10th Percentile £305 £411 £513
25th Percentile £358 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -6.25% +16.30%
75th Percentile £504 £638 £590
90th Percentile £660 £660 £626
England median daily rate £500 £525 £554
% change year-on-year -4.76% -5.19% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £58.00 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £58.00 -
% change year-on-year -5.17% - -

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 782 671 843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.04% 28.49% 29.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 335 559
10th Percentile £214 £294 £270
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £630 £600 £638
90th Percentile £716 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 60 71
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.03 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £24.14 £29.15
Median hourly rate £27.19 £42.66 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -36.27% -7.62% +15.39%
75th Percentile £57.57 £56.34 -
90th Percentile £70.55 £79.31 £57.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £53.67
% change year-on-year -52.10% -2.17% +19.26%

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 23 October 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 23 October 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 -14 12 £378 -39.56% 12
Manchester +3 9 £499 +7.84% 33
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 (28.57%) Apache
1 6 (28.57%) IIS
1 6 (28.57%) JBoss
1 6 (28.57%) WebSphere
2 5 (23.81%) iPlanet
2 5 (23.81%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (23.81%) Amazon ECS
2 5 (23.81%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (23.81%) Azure
2 5 (23.81%) GCP
2 5 (23.81%) Serverless
3 4 (19.05%) GitHub
3 4 (19.05%) OpenShift
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon MSK
5 2 (9.52%) AWS CodeBuild
5 2 (9.52%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) Kerberos
2 2 (9.52%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Oracle Database
2 3 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (9.52%) DynamoDB
3 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 12 (57.14%) Git
2 11 (52.38%) Jenkins
3 6 (28.57%) Bitbucket Server
3 6 (28.57%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (23.81%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (19.05%) GitLab
6 3 (14.29%) JIRA
7 2 (9.52%) Bitbucket
8 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
8 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 10 (47.62%) Finance
2 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Banking
4 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Architect
2 4 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Lead
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Java Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Java Technical Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Lead Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Security Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Security Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Security Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) OAuth
2 6 (28.57%) OpenID
2 6 (28.57%) SAML
3 5 (23.81%) LDAP
4 2 (9.52%) Node.js
4 2 (9.52%) RESTful
5 1 (4.76%) GraphQL
5 1 (4.76%) JWT
5 1 (4.76%) OAuth2
5 1 (4.76%) PySpark
5 1 (4.76%) pytest
5 1 (4.76%) Spring
5 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Licensing
2 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (47.62%) Linux
2 6 (28.57%) Windows
2 6 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 3 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) DevOps
2 11 (52.38%) CI/CD
3 6 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (23.81%) Microservices
5 4 (19.05%) Cloud Security
5 4 (19.05%) Computer Science
5 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
5 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (19.05%) TOGAF
6 3 (14.29%) Agile
6 3 (14.29%) Clean Code
6 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (14.29%) Problem Management
6 3 (14.29%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) Groovy
2 5 (23.81%) Python
3 4 (19.05%) Java
4 3 (14.29%) Shell Script
5 2 (9.52%) Bash
5 2 (9.52%) Perl
5 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
5 2 (9.52%) Ruby
6 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (19.05%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 2 (9.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) CISSP
3 2 (9.52%) Master's Degree
3 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (4.76%) CISM
4 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.76%) NIST
1 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.76%) QA
1 1 (4.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (47.62%) Docker
2 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
3 3 (14.29%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 2 (9.52%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 7 (33.33%) Terraform
2 6 (28.57%) CA Single Sign-On
3 5 (23.81%) CA Wily
4 4 (19.05%) Progress Chef
5 3 (14.29%) Tivoli
6 1 (4.76%) Ansible
6 1 (4.76%) Control-M
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Oracle
2 6 (28.57%) Broadcom
2 6 (28.57%) IBM
2 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 5 (23.81%) AppDynamics
3 5 (23.81%) Splunk
4 1 (4.76%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (4.76%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (4.76%) Gigya