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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 114 121
Rank change year-on-year -16 +7 +25
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 41 11 14
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.22% 0.56% 0.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.36% 1.58% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 9 13
10th Percentile £413 £454 £430
25th Percentile £447 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £475
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +47.37% -21.16%
75th Percentile £595 £716 £740
90th Percentile £631 £735 £750
England median daily rate £550 £550 £560
% change year-on-year - -1.79% +1.82%

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 940 695 768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 28.04% 35.68% 28.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 404 431
10th Percentile £336 £227 £300
25th Percentile £400 £388 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £491 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% -1.80% -0.84%
75th Percentile £590 £575 £641
90th Percentile £678 £665 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 44 131
10th Percentile £22.68 £18.21 £10.95
25th Percentile £28.50 £24.54 £11.89
Median hourly rate £44.90 £29.64 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +51.51% +84.53% -60.43%
75th Percentile £74.26 £59.93 £43.10
90th Percentile £111.15 £75.50 £68.88
England median hourly rate £47.50 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.15% -18.75% -27.27%

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 May 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 May 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 +3 20 £535 +45.25% 2
Manchester -35 16 £581 -17.94% 16
Merseyside - 5 £425 - 4
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 (7.32%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 41 (100.00%) AWS
2 28 (68.29%) Azure
3 17 (41.46%) GCP
4 12 (29.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 8 (19.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (14.63%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (14.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (14.63%) IaaS
6 6 (14.63%) PaaS
7 5 (12.20%) Power Platform
7 5 (12.20%) Serverless
8 3 (7.32%) Azure AKS
8 3 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (7.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (7.32%) GitHub
8 3 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (4.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (2.44%) Azure AI
10 1 (2.44%) IBM Watson
10 1 (2.44%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (26.83%) Firewall
2 3 (7.32%) DNS
2 3 (7.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.07%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (12.20%) Power BI
3 3 (7.32%) DocumentDB
3 3 (7.32%) DynamoDB
3 3 (7.32%) NoSQL
3 3 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) GitLab
1 6 (14.63%) Jenkins
2 4 (9.76%) JIRA
General
1 15 (36.59%) Finance
2 9 (21.95%) Social Skills
3 8 (19.51%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (19.51%) Banking
4 2 (4.88%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (36.59%) Security Engineer
2 9 (21.95%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (17.07%) Senior
3 7 (17.07%) Software Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Architect
5 4 (9.76%) AWS Architect
5 4 (9.76%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Integration Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (7.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Senior Integration Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Consultant
7 2 (4.88%) Python Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Splunk Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.32%) Kafka
2 2 (4.88%) AWS CDK
2 2 (4.88%) LangChain
2 2 (4.88%) Node.js
2 2 (4.88%) OAuth
2 2 (4.88%) OpenID
2 2 (4.88%) PyTorch
2 2 (4.88%) scikit-learn
3 1 (2.44%) .NET
3 1 (2.44%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.44%) Middleware
3 1 (2.44%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.44%) React
Miscellaneous
1 19 (46.34%) Cloud Native
2 10 (24.39%) Management Information System
3 9 (21.95%) Security Posture
4 6 (14.63%) Virtual Team
5 4 (9.76%) e-Learning
5 4 (9.76%) Private Cloud
6 3 (7.32%) Data Centre
6 3 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (7.32%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
8 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (39.02%) Linux
2 14 (34.15%) Windows
3 9 (21.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (12.20%) Apple iOS
4 5 (12.20%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (70.73%) DevOps
2 24 (58.54%) CI/CD
3 18 (43.90%) Agile
4 15 (36.59%) Observability
5 12 (29.27%) Infrastructure Automation
5 12 (29.27%) Roadmaps
6 11 (26.83%) Cloud Security
6 11 (26.83%) SIEM
7 10 (24.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (24.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (24.39%) Scrum
8 9 (21.95%) Change Management
8 9 (21.95%) Load Balancing
8 9 (21.95%) Machine Learning
9 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (19.51%) Product Roadmap
9 8 (19.51%) Software Engineering
10 7 (17.07%) Analytics
10 7 (17.07%) Information Security
10 7 (17.07%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 27 (65.85%) Python
2 17 (41.46%) Java
2 17 (41.46%) PowerShell
3 12 (29.27%) Bash
4 10 (24.39%) JavaScript
4 10 (24.39%) TypeScript
5 7 (17.07%) Rust
6 5 (12.20%) Bicep
7 1 (2.44%) C#
7 1 (2.44%) Go
Qualifications
1 22 (53.66%) Azure Certification
2 16 (39.02%) CISSP
3 13 (31.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 9 (21.95%) Degree
4 9 (21.95%) Security Cleared
5 5 (12.20%) DV Cleared
6 4 (9.76%) IBM Certification
6 4 (9.76%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (7.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (4.88%) CISA
8 2 (4.88%) CISM
8 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (4.88%) CRISC
8 2 (4.88%) PMI Certification
8 2 (4.88%) PMP
8 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
9 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
9 1 (2.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) GRC
1 2 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 2 (4.88%) NIST
2 1 (2.44%) GDPR
2 1 (2.44%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.44%) PSD2
System Software
1 16 (39.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (70.73%) Terraform
2 16 (39.02%) Kubernetes
3 9 (21.95%) Progress Chef
4 4 (9.76%) Ansible
5 3 (7.32%) Argo
5 3 (7.32%) Grafana
5 3 (7.32%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.88%) Istio
6 2 (4.88%) linkerd
Vendors
1 14 (34.15%) Google
2 9 (21.95%) Microsoft
2 9 (21.95%) Red Hat
3 8 (19.51%) Splunk
4 5 (12.20%) BeyondTrust
4 5 (12.20%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (12.20%) IBM
4 5 (12.20%) Remedy
4 5 (12.20%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.88%) Atlassian