AWS Certification Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 23 85
Rank change year-on-year -50 +62 +33
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 6 53 4
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.72% 6.70% 0.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.70% 28.49% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 49 4
10th Percentile £515 £288 £398
25th Percentile £538 £381 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £425 £490
Median % change year-on-year +32.35% -13.27% +25.64%
75th Percentile £606 £475 £558
90th Percentile £663 £528 £595
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +25.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 222 186 231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 26.71% 23.51% 16.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 139 174
10th Percentile £350 £288 £343
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £530
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -15.09% +6.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £609
90th Percentile £675 £600 £714
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 3
10th Percentile - £23.95 £27.42
25th Percentile - £36.25 £28.39
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% -
75th Percentile - £42.50 £30.04
90th Percentile - £50.75 £30.06
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% +33.33% +60.00%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

AWS Certification job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing AWS Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing AWS Certification

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in West Yorkshire

AWS Certification
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Leeds -50 5 £563 +32.35% 15
Bradford - 1 - - 6
AWS Certification
Yorkshire

AWS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 3 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (33.33%) AWS KMS
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (16.67%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) SSL
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Gradle
2 1 (16.67%) JUnit
2 1 (16.67%) Log4j
2 1 (16.67%) Maven
2 1 (16.67%) Mockito
2 1 (16.67%) Subversion
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Lead DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Migration Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
1 2 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) Celery
2 1 (16.67%) Django
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) FastAPI
2 1 (16.67%) Flask
2 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
2 1 (16.67%) gRPC
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) PowerMock
2 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (16.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Spring WebFlux
2 1 (16.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) AI
3 2 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 2 (33.33%) FinOps
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
4 1 (16.67%) Data Discovery
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Key Management
4 1 (16.67%) Secrets Management
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) GDPR
2 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (33.33%) NIST
2 2 (33.33%) SOC 2
3 1 (16.67%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
3 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (16.67%) Grafana
4 1 (16.67%) Kustomize
4 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) CloudEndure
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk