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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 116 111
Rank change year-on-year -16 -5 +27
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 43 17 12
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.11% 0.77% 0.49%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.74% 2.23% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 14 6
10th Percentile £429 £305 £444
25th Percentile £456 £362 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £481 £543
Median % change year-on-year +14.35% -11.34% -3.13%
75th Percentile £613 £631 £619
90th Percentile £647 £716 £689
England median daily rate £575 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £72.66 - £58.00
England median hourly rate £85.00 £55.00 £58.00
% change year-on-year +54.55% -5.17% -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 1,151 764 694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 29.63% 34.48% 28.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 740 437 393
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
25th Percentile £418 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -1.38% +1.31%
75th Percentile £620 £621 £608
90th Percentile £688 £716 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 73 92
10th Percentile £17.25 £17.15 £10.95
25th Percentile £28.50 £21.02 £11.07
Median hourly rate £43.96 £29.27 £18.10
Median % change year-on-year +50.19% +61.74% -57.24%
75th Percentile £66.66 £58.58 £51.91
90th Percentile £83.75 £73.29 £69.03
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +108.75% -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 21 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 21 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 +5 20 £563 +66.54% 4
Manchester -32 16 £488 -20.41% 18
Merseyside - 6 £600 - 8
Lancashire - 1 - - 7
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 (2.33%) Apache
1 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.33%) Confluence
1 1 (2.33%) SAS
Business Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 43 (100.00%) AWS
2 36 (83.72%) Azure
3 19 (44.19%) GCP
4 17 (39.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 9 (20.93%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (18.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (16.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (13.95%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (13.95%) Azure AI
8 6 (13.95%) Azure AKS
8 6 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (13.95%) Power Platform
8 6 (13.95%) Serverless
9 4 (9.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (9.30%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (9.30%) Vertex AI
10 3 (6.98%) AWS CloudTrail
10 3 (6.98%) AWS KMS
10 3 (6.98%) Entra ID
10 3 (6.98%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 17 (39.53%) Firewall
2 7 (16.28%) Network Security
3 3 (6.98%) VPN
4 2 (4.65%) DNS
4 2 (4.65%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (2.33%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (2.33%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (2.33%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) Power BI
2 4 (9.30%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.33%) Big Data
4 1 (2.33%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.33%) Flink
4 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.33%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) GitLab
1 4 (9.30%) JIRA
2 3 (6.98%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.33%) Git
General
1 19 (44.19%) Finance
2 10 (23.26%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (23.26%) Banking
3 6 (13.95%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (51.16%) Security Engineer
2 11 (25.58%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) Architect
3 7 (16.28%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) Senior
4 4 (9.30%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (9.30%) Security Architect
4 4 (9.30%) Software Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Consultant
5 3 (6.98%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Integration Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Lead
5 3 (6.98%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (6.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Integration Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Information Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Information Security Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Lead Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Security Consultant
6 2 (4.65%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (60.47%) Terraform
2 4 (9.30%) LangChain
2 4 (9.30%) PyTorch
2 4 (9.30%) scikit-learn
3 3 (6.98%) ARM Templates
3 3 (6.98%) Azure Blueprints
4 2 (4.65%) AWS CDK
4 2 (4.65%) Node.js
4 2 (4.65%) OAuth
4 2 (4.65%) OpenID
5 1 (2.33%) Kafka
5 1 (2.33%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 25 (58.14%) Cloud Native
2 18 (41.86%) Security Posture
3 16 (37.21%) Management Information System
4 4 (9.30%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (4.65%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (46.51%) Windows
2 19 (44.19%) Linux
3 15 (34.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (11.63%) Apple iOS
4 5 (11.63%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (62.79%) DevOps
2 24 (55.81%) CI/CD
3 21 (48.84%) Cloud Security
4 19 (44.19%) Agile
4 19 (44.19%) SIEM
5 17 (39.53%) Infrastructure Automation
6 16 (37.21%) Change Management
6 16 (37.21%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (37.21%) Scrum
7 12 (27.91%) Machine Learning
7 12 (27.91%) Roadmaps
8 11 (25.58%) AI
8 11 (25.58%) DevSecOps
8 11 (25.58%) Load Balancing
9 10 (23.26%) Analytics
9 10 (23.26%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (20.93%) Information Security
10 9 (20.93%) Observability
10 9 (20.93%) Product Roadmap
11 8 (18.60%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 34 (79.07%) Python
2 24 (55.81%) PowerShell
3 19 (44.19%) Bash
3 19 (44.19%) Java
4 10 (23.26%) Bicep
5 6 (13.95%) JavaScript
5 6 (13.95%) TypeScript
6 4 (9.30%) Rust
7 2 (4.65%) SQL
8 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (62.79%) CISSP
2 23 (53.49%) Azure Certification
3 11 (25.58%) Degree
4 6 (13.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (11.63%) Security Cleared
6 4 (9.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (9.30%) CCSP
6 4 (9.30%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (6.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
8 2 (4.65%) CCIE
8 2 (4.65%) CCNP
8 2 (4.65%) CCSE
8 2 (4.65%) CISA
8 2 (4.65%) CRISC
8 2 (4.65%) GCIA
8 2 (4.65%) GCIH
8 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (4.65%) PMI Certification
8 2 (4.65%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (9.30%) NIST
2 2 (4.65%) GRC
2 2 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 2 (4.65%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 19 (44.19%) Docker
2 3 (6.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (44.19%) Kubernetes
2 15 (34.88%) Progress Chef
3 3 (6.98%) Argo
3 3 (6.98%) Grafana
3 3 (6.98%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.65%) Istio
4 2 (4.65%) linkerd
5 1 (2.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (37.21%) Google
2 15 (34.88%) Red Hat
3 14 (32.56%) Microsoft
4 8 (18.60%) Splunk
5 5 (11.63%) BeyondTrust
5 5 (11.63%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (11.63%) Remedy
5 5 (11.63%) ServiceNow
6 3 (6.98%) Cisco
6 3 (6.98%) IBM
7 2 (4.65%) AlgoSec
7 2 (4.65%) CheckPoint
7 2 (4.65%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.33%) Databricks
8 1 (2.33%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.33%) Informatica
8 1 (2.33%) OpenAI
8 1 (2.33%) Oracle