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 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 106 131
Rank change year-on-year -12 +25 +39
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 17 14 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.78% 0.59% 0.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.25% 2.18% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 6
10th Percentile £305 £404 £519
25th Percentile £359 £453 £551
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -8.70% +12.09%
75th Percentile £558 £583 £635
90th Percentile £710 £668 £688
England median daily rate £525 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -2.33% -6.52% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £58.00 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £58.00 £81.50
% change year-on-year -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 756 643 836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.49% 27.13% 29.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 357 535
10th Percentile £313 £294 £303
25th Percentile £409 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.48%
75th Percentile £634 £603 £630
90th Percentile £721 £691 £701
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 57 65
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.71 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.22 £19.35
Median hourly rate £27.00 £46.18 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -41.53% +0.65% +20.74%
75th Percentile £58.42 £55.79 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.75 £81.77 £56.84
England median hourly rate £25.15 £54.00 £54.44
% change year-on-year -53.43% -0.81% +20.98%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing AWS Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025. 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 -23 9 £394 -33.50% 7
Manchester +1 8 £528 +14.05% 25
AWS Certification
England

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (35.29%) Apache
1 6 (35.29%) IIS
1 6 (35.29%) JBoss
1 6 (35.29%) WebSphere
2 5 (29.41%) iPlanet
2 5 (29.41%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (29.41%) GCP
2 5 (29.41%) OpenShift
2 5 (29.41%) Serverless
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (17.65%) Azure
5 2 (11.76%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (11.76%) GitHub
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.88%) Apigee
6 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (5.88%) Datadog
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) Kerberos
2 1 (5.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle Database
2 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (11.76%) DynamoDB
3 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) Jenkins
2 8 (47.06%) Git
3 6 (35.29%) Bitbucket Server
3 6 (35.29%) CA Release Automation
4 3 (17.65%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (11.76%) GitLab
6 1 (5.88%) JIRA
6 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
6 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (47.06%) Finance
2 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Architect
2 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Java Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Java Technical Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Technical Architect
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Architect
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Security Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Security Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Security Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) OAuth
2 6 (35.29%) OpenID
2 6 (35.29%) SAML
3 5 (29.41%) LDAP
4 3 (17.65%) RESTful
5 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
5 1 (5.88%) JWT
5 1 (5.88%) Kafka
5 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
5 1 (5.88%) PySpark
5 1 (5.88%) pytest
5 1 (5.88%) Spring
5 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
5 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
1 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Blockchain
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Licensing
2 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Linux
2 6 (35.29%) Windows
2 6 (35.29%) Windows Server
3 3 (17.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
1 9 (52.94%) DevOps
2 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
3 4 (23.53%) Agile
3 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
3 4 (23.53%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
3 4 (23.53%) Microservices
3 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (17.65%) Clean Code
4 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (17.65%) Problem Management
4 3 (17.65%) Risk Management
4 3 (17.65%) SDLC
4 3 (17.65%) SOLID
4 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (17.65%) TOGAF
5 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven
5 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Groovy
2 4 (23.53%) Java
3 3 (17.65%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.88%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) Azure Certification
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.76%) CISSP
3 2 (11.76%) Master's Degree
3 2 (11.76%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (5.88%) CISM
4 1 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.88%) NIST
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Docker
2 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
3 3 (17.65%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) CA Single Sign-On
2 5 (29.41%) CA Wily
2 5 (29.41%) Progress Chef
2 5 (29.41%) Terraform
3 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
4 3 (17.65%) Tivoli
5 2 (11.76%) Ansible
6 1 (5.88%) Control-M
6 1 (5.88%) Grafana
6 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Broadcom
1 6 (35.29%) IBM
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle
2 5 (29.41%) AppDynamics
2 5 (29.41%) Splunk
3 1 (5.88%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (5.88%) Gigya
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.88%) VMware