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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 109 127
Rank change year-on-year -14 +18 +3
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 33 11 14
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.17% 0.53% 0.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.65% 1.56% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 11 14
10th Percentile £361 £475 £450
25th Percentile £412 £670 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -19.11% +7.69% +39.82%
75th Percentile £621 £726 £747
90th Percentile £652 £735 £750
England median daily rate £525 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -6.67% -0.40% +2.68%

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 904 704 835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.02% 33.83% 29.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 399 492
10th Percentile £252 £210 £248
25th Percentile £381 £361 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £649
90th Percentile £680 £658 £703
England median daily rate £520 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 41 111
10th Percentile £19.65 £24.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £27.82 £26.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year +39.88% +21.91% -25.94%
75th Percentile £67.90 £60.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.59 £63.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £49.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -48.67% +15.29% -10.53%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 -6 17 £519 +4.23% 7
Manchester -11 15 £581 -18.85% 14
Merseyside - 1 £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 3 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 33 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (51.52%) Azure
3 13 (39.39%) GCP
4 9 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (24.24%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (18.18%) GitHub
6 6 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (18.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 6 (18.18%) Serverless
7 5 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (15.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (12.12%) IaaS
8 4 (12.12%) PaaS
9 3 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (9.09%) Azure AKS
10 2 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (6.06%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (6.06%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (6.06%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.21%) Firewall
2 1 (3.03%) DNS
2 1 (3.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (9.09%) DocumentDB
2 3 (9.09%) DynamoDB
2 3 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 3 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 8 (24.24%) GitLab
1 8 (24.24%) Jenkins
2 7 (21.21%) JIRA
3 4 (12.12%) Git
4 2 (6.06%) Bitbucket
4 2 (6.06%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (36.36%) Finance
2 8 (24.24%) Banking
2 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.03%) Electronics
4 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.03%) Marketing
4 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) Architect
1 7 (21.21%) Software Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Senior
3 5 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Security Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) AWS Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Integration Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Lead
7 1 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) AWS Software Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Data Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Gen AI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) Kafka
2 2 (6.06%) LangChain
2 2 (6.06%) Node.js
2 2 (6.06%) PyTorch
2 2 (6.06%) scikit-learn
3 1 (3.03%) .NET
3 1 (3.03%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.03%) Middleware
3 1 (3.03%) PySpark
3 1 (3.03%) pytest
3 1 (3.03%) React
3 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 6 (18.18%) Virtual Team
3 4 (12.12%) e-Learning
3 4 (12.12%) Private Cloud
4 3 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (9.09%) Security Posture
5 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
6 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
6 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
6 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (42.42%) Linux
2 3 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (90.91%) DevOps
2 21 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 14 (42.42%) Agile
3 14 (42.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (30.30%) Observability
6 9 (27.27%) Infrastructure Automation
6 9 (27.27%) Machine Learning
7 7 (21.21%) Containerisation
7 7 (21.21%) Mentoring
7 7 (21.21%) Microservices
7 7 (21.21%) Software Engineering
8 6 (18.18%) Event-Driven
8 6 (18.18%) TOGAF
9 5 (15.15%) AI
9 5 (15.15%) Enterprise Architecture
9 5 (15.15%) ITIL
9 5 (15.15%) Roadmaps
9 5 (15.15%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (15.15%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 21 (63.64%) Python
2 13 (39.39%) Java
3 8 (24.24%) Bash
3 8 (24.24%) JavaScript
3 8 (24.24%) PowerShell
3 8 (24.24%) TypeScript
4 7 (21.21%) Rust
5 3 (9.09%) Bicep
6 2 (6.06%) Perl
6 2 (6.06%) Ruby
7 1 (3.03%) C#
7 1 (3.03%) Go
7 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (42.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 14 (42.42%) Azure Certification
2 9 (27.27%) Security Cleared
3 5 (15.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Degree
3 5 (15.15%) DV Cleared
4 4 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (12.12%) IBM Certification
4 4 (12.12%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (9.09%) CISSP
6 2 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
6 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
6 2 (6.06%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) GDPR
1 1 (3.03%) ISO 20022
1 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.03%) PSD2
1 1 (3.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (42.42%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 25 (75.76%) Terraform
2 15 (45.45%) Kubernetes
3 4 (12.12%) Ansible
4 3 (9.09%) Argo
4 3 (9.09%) Grafana
4 3 (9.09%) Progress Chef
4 3 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.06%) Istio
5 2 (6.06%) linkerd
6 1 (3.03%) Control-M
Vendors
1 8 (24.24%) Google
2 5 (15.15%) IBM
3 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
4 3 (9.09%) Oracle
4 3 (9.09%) Red Hat
4 3 (9.09%) Splunk
5 2 (6.06%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.03%) SAP