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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 108 123
Rank change year-on-year -24 +15 +12
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 28 12 14
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.90% 0.61% 0.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.08% 1.68% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 11 14
10th Percentile £413 £475 £450
25th Percentile £501 £670 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +7.69% +39.82%
75th Percentile £621 £726 £747
90th Percentile £652 £735 £750
England median daily rate £525 £575 £573
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.44% +4.09%

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 908 715 854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 29.31% 36.15% 30.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 599 406 497
10th Percentile £279 £211 £261
25th Percentile £380 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £477 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -6.57% +0.49%
75th Percentile £578 £575 £650
90th Percentile £675 £650 £725
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 45 129
10th Percentile £21.46 £22.59 £10.95
25th Percentile £29.99 £25.26 £11.77
Median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +39.88% +102.37% -57.17%
75th Percentile £70.47 £60.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £82.28 £50.30
England median hourly rate £35.91 £50.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -28.18% +33.33% -25.00%

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 March 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 30 March 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
Manchester -15 14 £581 -18.85% 10
Cheshire -10 13 £575 +14.09% 2
Merseyside - 1 £425 - 6
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 (10.71%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 28 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (57.14%) Azure
3 12 (42.86%) GCP
4 7 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (21.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (14.29%) IaaS
6 4 (14.29%) PaaS
7 3 (10.71%) Azure AKS
7 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (10.71%) GitHub
7 3 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (10.71%) Serverless
7 3 (10.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (7.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (3.57%) Azure AI
9 1 (3.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (3.57%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (3.57%) IBM Watson
9 1 (3.57%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) Firewall
2 1 (3.57%) DNS
2 1 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (10.71%) DocumentDB
2 3 (10.71%) DynamoDB
2 3 (10.71%) NoSQL
2 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) GitLab
1 6 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 11 (39.29%) Finance
2 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 6 (21.43%) Banking
4 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.57%) Electronics
6 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.57%) Marketing
6 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Architect
2 5 (17.86%) Security Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Senior
3 4 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) AWS Architect
4 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Integration Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (10.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Integration Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Lead
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Risk Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) Kafka
2 2 (7.14%) LangChain
2 2 (7.14%) PyTorch
2 2 (7.14%) scikit-learn
3 1 (3.57%) .NET
3 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.57%) Middleware
3 1 (3.57%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Cloud Native
2 6 (21.43%) Virtual Team
3 4 (14.29%) e-Learning
3 4 (14.29%) Private Cloud
4 3 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (10.71%) Management Information System
4 3 (10.71%) Security Posture
5 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
6 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Linux
2 3 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (10.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (89.29%) DevOps
2 17 (60.71%) CI/CD
3 12 (42.86%) Agile
4 11 (39.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (35.71%) Observability
6 9 (32.14%) Machine Learning
7 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 7 (25.00%) Mentoring
8 7 (25.00%) Software Engineering
9 6 (21.43%) Containerisation
9 6 (21.43%) Event-Driven
10 5 (17.86%) AI
10 5 (17.86%) Cloud Security
10 5 (17.86%) Roadmaps
10 5 (17.86%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (17.86%) SIEM
10 5 (17.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 4 (14.29%) Coaching
11 4 (14.29%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 16 (57.14%) Python
2 11 (39.29%) Java
3 8 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 8 (28.57%) TypeScript
4 7 (25.00%) Rust
5 6 (21.43%) Bash
5 6 (21.43%) PowerShell
6 3 (10.71%) Bicep
7 1 (3.57%) C#
7 1 (3.57%) Go
Qualifications
1 15 (53.57%) Azure Certification
2 13 (46.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 5 (17.86%) CISSP
4 5 (17.86%) DV Cleared
5 4 (14.29%) IBM Certification
5 4 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (10.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Degree
7 2 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (7.14%) CISA
7 2 (7.14%) CISM
7 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (7.14%) CRISC
7 2 (7.14%) PMI Certification
7 2 (7.14%) PMP
8 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
8 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
8 1 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) GRC
1 2 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 2 (7.14%) NIST
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.57%) PSD2
2 1 (3.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (78.57%) Terraform
2 10 (35.71%) Kubernetes
3 4 (14.29%) Ansible
4 3 (10.71%) Argo
4 3 (10.71%) Grafana
4 3 (10.71%) Progress Chef
4 3 (10.71%) Prometheus
5 2 (7.14%) Istio
5 2 (7.14%) linkerd
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Google
2 5 (17.86%) IBM
3 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 3 (10.71%) Red Hat
4 3 (10.71%) Splunk
5 2 (7.14%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.57%) SAP