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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 114 115
Rank change year-on-year -22 +1 +30
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 40 16 11
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.06% 0.72% 0.46%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.70% 2.14% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 13 6
10th Percentile £423 £305 £444
25th Percentile £453 £360 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £492 £518
Median % change year-on-year +11.79% -4.93% -7.59%
75th Percentile £617 £650 £619
90th Percentile £652 £716 £689
England median daily rate £575 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £58.00
England median hourly rate £88.75 £54.25 £58.00
% change year-on-year +63.59% -6.47% -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 1,082 749 681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 28.60% 33.91% 28.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 687 424 385
10th Percentile £318 £313 £260
25th Percentile £416 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £504
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% -0.79% -1.18%
75th Percentile £621 £619 £600
90th Percentile £691 £716 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 67 98
10th Percentile £17.25 £17.29 £10.95
25th Percentile £27.94 £21.02 £12.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £29.27 £16.52
Median % change year-on-year +50.19% +77.18% -61.13%
75th Percentile £67.37 £58.42 £50.13
90th Percentile £83.75 £74.57 £64.68
England median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +118.69% -47.05% -13.64%

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 12 August 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 12 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 +4 19 £575 +86.99% 19
Manchester -31 17 £475 -22.45% 78
Merseyside - 4 £425 - 10
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 (2.50%) Apache
1 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) AWS
2 31 (77.50%) Azure
3 19 (47.50%) GCP
4 18 (45.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 9 (22.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 8 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (17.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (15.00%) Azure AKS
9 5 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (12.50%) Power Platform
10 4 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (10.00%) Serverless
10 4 (10.00%) Vertex AI
11 3 (7.50%) Azure AI
11 3 (7.50%) GitHub
11 3 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (7.50%) IBM Watson
12 2 (5.00%) IaaS
12 2 (5.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (5.00%) DNS
2 2 (5.00%) Network Security
2 2 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (12.50%) Power BI
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.50%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.50%) Flink
3 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) GitLab
1 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (7.50%) JIRA
General
1 17 (42.50%) Finance
2 8 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (20.00%) Banking
3 4 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 11 (27.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Senior
3 6 (15.00%) Software Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Consultant
5 3 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Integration Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Lead
5 3 (7.50%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (7.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Integration Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) PowerShell Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Python Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) LangChain
1 4 (10.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (10.00%) scikit-learn
2 2 (5.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (5.00%) AWS CDK
2 2 (5.00%) Azure Blueprints
2 2 (5.00%) Node.js
2 2 (5.00%) OAuth
2 2 (5.00%) OpenID
3 1 (2.50%) Kafka
3 1 (2.50%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 23 (57.50%) Cloud Native
2 17 (42.50%) Security Posture
3 14 (35.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (7.50%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (5.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 21 (52.50%) Linux
2 20 (50.00%) Windows
3 15 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (12.50%) Apple iOS
4 5 (12.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (70.00%) DevOps
2 23 (57.50%) CI/CD
3 19 (47.50%) SIEM
4 18 (45.00%) Agile
4 18 (45.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 17 (42.50%) Cloud Security
6 16 (40.00%) Scrum
7 15 (37.50%) Change Management
8 14 (35.00%) Roadmaps
9 12 (30.00%) Load Balancing
10 11 (27.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (27.50%) Machine Learning
10 11 (27.50%) Observability
10 11 (27.50%) Product Roadmap
11 9 (22.50%) AI
11 9 (22.50%) Analytics
11 9 (22.50%) DevSecOps
12 8 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (20.00%) Risk Management
13 7 (17.50%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 34 (85.00%) Python
2 23 (57.50%) PowerShell
3 21 (52.50%) Java
4 18 (45.00%) Bash
5 9 (22.50%) Bicep
6 8 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 8 (20.00%) TypeScript
7 6 (15.00%) Rust
8 1 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (57.50%) Azure Certification
1 23 (57.50%) CISSP
2 11 (27.50%) Degree
3 8 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
5 3 (7.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) CISA
6 2 (5.00%) CISM
6 2 (5.00%) CRISC
6 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (5.00%) PMI Certification
6 2 (5.00%) PMP
6 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) GRC
1 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 2 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (47.50%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (67.50%) Terraform
2 19 (47.50%) Kubernetes
3 14 (35.00%) Progress Chef
4 3 (7.50%) Argo
4 3 (7.50%) Grafana
4 3 (7.50%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.00%) Istio
5 2 (5.00%) linkerd
Vendors
1 16 (40.00%) Google
2 15 (37.50%) Red Hat
3 11 (27.50%) Microsoft
4 8 (20.00%) Splunk
5 5 (12.50%) BeyondTrust
5 5 (12.50%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (12.50%) Remedy
5 5 (12.50%) ServiceNow
6 3 (7.50%) IBM
7 1 (2.50%) Databricks
7 1 (2.50%) OpenAI