AWS Certification Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 123 127
Rank change year-on-year +15 +4 +37
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 12 14 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.61% 0.51% 0.94%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.70% 1.69% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 21
10th Percentile £464 £450 £415
25th Percentile £700 £453 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £708 £650 £485
Median % change year-on-year +8.92% +34.09% -19.21%
75th Percentile £730 £747 £525
90th Percentile £737 £750 £680
England median daily rate £600 £588 £550
% change year-on-year +2.13% +6.82% -12.00%

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 706 829 1,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 35.87% 30.09% 31.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 474 683
10th Percentile £230 £268 £325
25th Percentile £398 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.66% -1.44% +4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £602
90th Percentile £650 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 124 67
10th Percentile £17.70 £10.95 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.26 £11.77 £25.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% -5.60%
75th Percentile £60.00 £39.54 £49.52
90th Percentile £83.13 £62.50 £66.13
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification in the North West.

Daily rate trend for AWS Certification in the North West

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 1 May 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 1 May 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
Manchester +14 10 £716 +2.29% 44
Cheshire +1 2 £368 -22.53% 4
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) GCP
3 4 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (33.33%) Serverless
4 3 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (16.67%) GitHub
5 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
6 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 8 (66.67%) Legal
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (58.33%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (58.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Architect
1 8 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Architect
3 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Amplify
2 1 (8.33%) cloud-init
2 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) Keycloak
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
2 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Blockchain
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (8.33%) PKI
1 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) CentOS
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Computer Science
1 7 (58.33%) Software Engineering
2 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (25.00%) Microservices
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) Load Balancing
4 2 (16.67%) Observability
4 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
5 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (8.33%) Identity Management
5 1 (8.33%) Migration
5 1 (8.33%) Pair Programming
5 1 (8.33%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (8.33%) Scrum
5 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
5 1 (8.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Bash
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 7 (58.33%) Azure Certification
2 7 (58.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (58.33%) Degree
2 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Grafana
2 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Consul
3 1 (8.33%) Istio
3 1 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (8.33%) linkerd
3 1 (8.33%) Packer
3 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (8.33%) Rancher
3 1 (8.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Google
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Okta
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk
2 1 (8.33%) VMware