AWS Contracts in Cheshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 9 19
Rank change year-on-year -4 +10 -10
Contract jobs citing AWS 51 77 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 10.18% 14.53% 9.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.82% 34.22% 33.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 65 33
10th Percentile £311 £360 £315
25th Percentile £409 £445 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -11.09% +1.85% +38.11%
75th Percentile £515 £575 £630
90th Percentile £582 £638 £634
North West median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.50 -
North West median hourly rate £70.94 £39.60 £57.50
% change year-on-year +79.13% -31.13% -

All Cloud Skills
Cheshire

AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 171 225 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 34.13% 42.45% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 166 91
10th Percentile £289 £214 £163
25th Percentile £364 £385 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £533 £575 £538
90th Percentile £588 £638 £630
North West median daily rate £489 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.20% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 8
10th Percentile £16.98 £12.63 £18.18
25th Percentile - £15.50 £19.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £21.21 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.43% -18.44% +49.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £35.60 £39.00
90th Percentile - £52.88 £63.00
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £37.30 £18.59
% change year-on-year -56.94% +100.62% +2.07%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Cheshire

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for AWS in Cheshire

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Cheshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Cheshire

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in Cheshire

AWS
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
Knutsford -2 26 £489 -11.09% 1
Macclesfield - 8 £510 -
Warrington +12 7 £488 +116.67% 13
AWS
North West

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (11.76%) Apache
1 6 (11.76%) Apache Spark
2 5 (9.80%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (9.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (7.84%) Confluence
3 4 (7.84%) Mule
4 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (9.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (9.80%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.96%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 22 (43.14%) Azure
2 11 (21.57%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (19.61%) Snowflake
4 8 (15.69%) Amazon S3
4 8 (15.69%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (15.69%) Serverless
5 6 (11.76%) GCP
5 6 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (9.80%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (9.80%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (9.80%) Apigee
6 5 (9.80%) Kong
7 3 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (5.88%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (5.88%) AWS Direct Connect
7 3 (5.88%) GitHub
7 3 (5.88%) Route 53
8 2 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 10 (19.61%) VPN
2 7 (13.73%) DSL
3 6 (11.76%) TCP/IP
3 6 (11.76%) VLAN
4 5 (9.80%) Firewall
4 5 (9.80%) FTP
5 3 (5.88%) BGP
5 3 (5.88%) DHCP
5 3 (5.88%) DMZ
5 3 (5.88%) DNS
5 3 (5.88%) MPLS
5 3 (5.88%) OSPF
5 3 (5.88%) Value-Added Service
5 3 (5.88%) Wireshark
6 1 (1.96%) LAN
6 1 (1.96%) Network Security
6 1 (1.96%) WAN
6 1 (1.96%) Wireless
6 1 (1.96%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.69%) Big Data
2 5 (9.80%) MongoDB
2 5 (9.80%) OLAP
2 5 (9.80%) OLTP
2 5 (9.80%) Oracle OLAP
3 4 (7.84%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (5.88%) DynamoDB
4 3 (5.88%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.92%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.96%) Metadata
6 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.96%) Power BI
6 1 (1.96%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.96%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (45.10%) JIRA
2 10 (19.61%) Jenkins
3 5 (9.80%) Git
4 4 (7.84%) Liquibase
4 4 (7.84%) Log4j
5 2 (3.92%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 15 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (29.41%) Finance
3 10 (19.61%) Banking
3 10 (19.61%) Public Sector
4 6 (11.76%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (9.80%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
1 9 (17.65%) Data Engineer
2 7 (13.73%) Architect
2 7 (13.73%) Network Engineer
2 7 (13.73%) Windows Engineer
3 6 (11.76%) AWS Architect
3 6 (11.76%) Lead
4 5 (9.80%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) AWS Developer
5 4 (7.84%) Developer
5 4 (7.84%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Data Analyst
7 2 (3.92%) Principal Consultant
7 2 (3.92%) Principal Security Consultant
7 2 (3.92%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (17.65%) Kafka
1 9 (17.65%) Web Services
2 5 (9.80%) IBM Integration Bus
2 5 (9.80%) J2EE
2 5 (9.80%) JSON
2 5 (9.80%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (9.80%) SOAP
2 5 (9.80%) XML
3 4 (7.84%) Apache Camel
3 4 (7.84%) Hibernate
3 4 (7.84%) REST
3 4 (7.84%) Spring
3 4 (7.84%) Spring Boot
3 4 (7.84%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.65%) Virtual Team
2 7 (13.73%) Public Cloud
3 5 (9.80%) DataPower
4 2 (3.92%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.92%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.96%) PKI
5 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.61%) Windows
2 8 (15.69%) Unix
3 7 (13.73%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (37.25%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (35.29%) Agile
3 17 (33.33%) DevOps
4 14 (27.45%) CI/CD
5 13 (25.49%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (21.57%) Scrum
7 10 (19.61%) OO
8 9 (17.65%) Risk Management
9 8 (15.69%) ETL
9 8 (15.69%) Project Delivery
10 7 (13.73%) Knowledge Transfer
10 7 (13.73%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (13.73%) Server Building
11 6 (11.76%) Data Engineering
11 6 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
11 6 (11.76%) Identity Access Management
11 6 (11.76%) Microservices
12 5 (9.80%) CQRS
12 5 (9.80%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 5 (9.80%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 17 (33.33%) Java
2 9 (17.65%) Python
2 9 (17.65%) SQL
3 7 (13.73%) Ruby
4 5 (9.80%) C#
5 1 (1.96%) Bash
5 1 (1.96%) Julia
5 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.96%) R
5 1 (1.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (13.73%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.76%) Degree
2 6 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.88%) CCIE
3 3 (5.88%) CCNP
3 3 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.88%) VCAP
4 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (3.92%) NIST
1 2 (3.92%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (3.92%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.96%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (17.65%) Progress Chef
2 8 (15.69%) Ansible
3 7 (13.73%) CFEngine
3 7 (13.73%) PowerBroker
3 7 (13.73%) Puppet
4 4 (7.84%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (7.84%) Terraform
5 3 (5.88%) Grafana
5 3 (5.88%) Kubernetes
5 3 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (13.73%) Atlassian
2 6 (11.76%) Oracle
3 5 (9.80%) Databricks
3 5 (9.80%) Google
3 5 (9.80%) IBM
3 5 (9.80%) Informatica
3 5 (9.80%) Talend
3 5 (9.80%) TSYS
4 3 (5.88%) LogicMonitor
4 3 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.88%) SolarWinds
4 3 (5.88%) Teradata
5 2 (3.92%) SAP
6 1 (1.96%) Cisco
6 1 (1.96%) F5
6 1 (1.96%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.96%) Meraki
6 1 (1.96%) Ubiquiti
6 1 (1.96%) Veeam
6 1 (1.96%) VMware