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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 113 107
Rank change year-on-year -29 -6 +33
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 42 21 14
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.06% 0.96% 0.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.35% 2.81% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 19 8
10th Percentile £413 £305 £404
25th Percentile £450 £358 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £420 £525
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £517 £583
90th Percentile £630 £670 £668
England median daily rate £575 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +15.00% -5.66% -5.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £72.66 - £58.00
England median hourly rate £77.33 £55.00 £58.00
% change year-on-year +40.60% -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 1,252 748 669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.68% 34.20% 27.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 793 470 348
10th Percentile £305 £310 £294
25th Percentile £420 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £600
90th Percentile £675 £720 £677
England median daily rate £533 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.43% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 74 59
10th Percentile £17.69 £15.50 £17.80
25th Percentile £28.50 £18.90 £23.20
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.19 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +61.69% -41.13% +0.33%
75th Percentile £63.21 £62.12 £56.89
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.06 £81.18
England median hourly rate £51.25 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +103.78% -52.10% -0.94%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -28 19 £500 -5.21% 87
Cheshire -3 14 £550 +45.60% 12
Merseyside - 7 £600 - 4
Lancashire - 1 - - 11
Cumbria - 1 £395 - 2
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 (2.38%) Apache
1 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.38%) Confluence
1 1 (2.38%) nginx
1 1 (2.38%) SAS
1 1 (2.38%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 42 (100.00%) AWS
2 32 (76.19%) Azure
3 17 (40.48%) GCP
4 14 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 10 (23.81%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (19.05%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (19.05%) Serverless
8 7 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (14.29%) AWS KMS
9 6 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (14.29%) Azure AI
10 5 (11.90%) Entra ID
10 5 (11.90%) Power Platform
11 4 (9.52%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (9.52%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (7.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 3 (7.14%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 15 (35.71%) Firewall
2 9 (21.43%) Network Security
3 3 (7.14%) DNS
3 3 (7.14%) VPN
4 2 (4.76%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (2.38%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (2.38%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (2.38%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.90%) Power BI
2 3 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.38%) Big Data
4 1 (2.38%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.38%) Flink
4 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.38%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 3 (7.14%) JIRA
2 2 (4.76%) GitLab
3 1 (2.38%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.38%) Git
3 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.38%) Selenium
General
1 17 (40.48%) Finance
2 8 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 6 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 5 (11.90%) Banking
6 2 (4.76%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (47.62%) Security Engineer
2 12 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
3 11 (26.19%) Architect
4 8 (19.05%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 7 (16.67%) Security Architect
6 5 (11.90%) Cloud Architect
7 4 (9.52%) Senior
8 3 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (7.14%) Information Architect
8 3 (7.14%) Information Security Architect
8 3 (7.14%) Software Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) Cloud Consultant
9 2 (4.76%) Consultant
9 2 (4.76%) Lead Architect
9 2 (4.76%) PowerShell Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) Security Consultant
9 2 (4.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) Splunk Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (59.52%) Terraform
2 4 (9.52%) ARM Templates
2 4 (9.52%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (4.76%) AWS CDK
3 2 (4.76%) Kafka
3 2 (4.76%) LangChain
3 2 (4.76%) Node.js
3 2 (4.76%) OAuth
3 2 (4.76%) OpenID
3 2 (4.76%) PyTorch
3 2 (4.76%) scikit-learn
4 1 (2.38%) cloud-init
4 1 (2.38%) Keycloak
4 1 (2.38%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.38%) PySpark
4 1 (2.38%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 26 (61.90%) Cloud Native
2 18 (42.86%) Security Posture
3 15 (35.71%) Management Information System
4 5 (11.90%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (4.76%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.38%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 20 (47.62%) Linux
1 20 (47.62%) Windows
2 17 (40.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (9.52%) Apple iOS
3 4 (9.52%) Mac OS
4 2 (4.76%) Unix
5 1 (2.38%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (59.52%) DevOps
2 24 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 22 (52.38%) Cloud Security
4 21 (50.00%) Agile
5 19 (45.24%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (42.86%) SIEM
7 17 (40.48%) Change Management
8 15 (35.71%) Infrastructure Automation
8 15 (35.71%) Scrum
9 12 (28.57%) Roadmaps
10 11 (26.19%) AI
10 11 (26.19%) Load Balancing
11 10 (23.81%) Machine Learning
11 10 (23.81%) Observability
12 9 (21.43%) Product Roadmap
12 9 (21.43%) Threat Modelling
13 8 (19.05%) Analytics
13 8 (19.05%) DevSecOps
13 8 (19.05%) SDLC
14 7 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 29 (69.05%) Python
2 21 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 20 (47.62%) Java
4 18 (42.86%) Bash
5 9 (21.43%) Bicep
6 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
6 5 (11.90%) TypeScript
7 3 (7.14%) Rust
8 2 (4.76%) SQL
9 1 (2.38%) Go
9 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (64.29%) CISSP
2 20 (47.62%) Azure Certification
3 12 (28.57%) Degree
4 7 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 6 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (11.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 5 (11.90%) CCSP
6 5 (11.90%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (11.90%) SC Cleared
7 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (4.76%) CCIE
8 2 (4.76%) CCIE Security
8 2 (4.76%) CCNP
8 2 (4.76%) CCSA
8 2 (4.76%) CCSE
8 2 (4.76%) CISM
8 2 (4.76%) GCIA
8 2 (4.76%) GCIH
8 2 (4.76%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (9.52%) NIST
2 3 (7.14%) NCSC
3 2 (4.76%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.76%) QA
4 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 18 (42.86%) Docker
2 4 (9.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (45.24%) Kubernetes
2 15 (35.71%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.38%) Ansible
3 1 (2.38%) Consul
3 1 (2.38%) Grafana
3 1 (2.38%) HAProxy
3 1 (2.38%) Istio
3 1 (2.38%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (2.38%) linkerd
3 1 (2.38%) Packer
3 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.38%) Rancher
3 1 (2.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (38.10%) Red Hat
2 15 (35.71%) Google
3 12 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 5 (11.90%) Splunk
5 4 (9.52%) BeyondTrust
5 4 (9.52%) Cisco
5 4 (9.52%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (9.52%) Remedy
5 4 (9.52%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.76%) AlgoSec
6 2 (4.76%) CheckPoint
6 2 (4.76%) IBM
6 2 (4.76%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.38%) Apple
7 1 (2.38%) Databricks
7 1 (2.38%) ESET
7 1 (2.38%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.38%) Informatica
7 1 (2.38%) Okta
7 1 (2.38%) Oracle