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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 116 146
Rank change year-on-year 0 +30 +16
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 11 14 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.55% 0.50% 0.30%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.60% 1.82% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 6
10th Percentile £454 £430 £489
25th Percentile £650 £450 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £475 £680
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -30.15% +32.55%
75th Percentile £716 £650 £714
90th Percentile £723 £722 £743
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -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 688 769 904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.35% 27.24% 29.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 421 594
10th Percentile £280 £300 £363
25th Percentile £400 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £580 £608 £601
90th Percentile £700 £695 £699
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 133 63
10th Percentile £17.44 £10.95 £19.52
25th Percentile £21.02 £12.00 £26.30
Median hourly rate £32.00 £16.06 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year +99.25% -60.43% +24.91%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.10 £49.52
90th Percentile £76.16 £62.50 £64.45
England median hourly rate £30.00 £41.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -27.71% -24.55% +35.80%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +15 9 £700 +55.56% 106
Cheshire -10 2 £368 -37.89% 13
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 (9.09%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) GCP
3 4 (36.36%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (36.36%) Serverless
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
4 3 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (27.27%) GitHub
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 6 (54.55%) Legal
3 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (45.45%) Telecoms
4 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Architect
2 6 (54.55%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Architect
4 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Solution Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Amplify
1 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
1 1 (9.09%) Node.js
1 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Blockchain
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Licensing
2 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Computer Science
2 5 (45.45%) Software Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (27.27%) Microservices
5 2 (18.18%) Agile
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
5 2 (18.18%) Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Task Automation
6 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (9.09%) Pair Programming
6 1 (9.09%) Risk Assessment
6 1 (9.09%) Risk Management
6 1 (9.09%) Scrum
6 1 (9.09%) TDD
6 1 (9.09%) UML
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Bash
1 2 (18.18%) Java
1 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 6 (54.55%) Azure Certification
2 6 (54.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (54.55%) Degree
3 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) CISM
5 1 (9.09%) CISSP
5 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
5 1 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Grafana
2 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
2 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 5 (45.45%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (9.09%) IBM
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.09%) VMware