AWS Contracts in Manchester

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 6 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 235 289 426
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 15.33% 15.23% 16.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.67% 38.84% 44.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 227 334
10th Percentile £350 £413 £408
25th Percentile £413 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% +11.39%
75th Percentile £588 £634 £638
90th Percentile £693 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - £35.46 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £36.15 -
Median hourly rate £70.94 £37.30 -
Median % change year-on-year +90.17% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 £38.45 -
90th Percentile - £39.14 -
North West median hourly rate £70.94 £39.60 £57.50
% change year-on-year +79.13% -31.13% -

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 564 744 960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 36.79% 39.22% 36.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 560 781
10th Percentile £313 £325 £281
25th Percentile £406 £425 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +13.51%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £619
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
North West median daily rate £489 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.20% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 17
10th Percentile £18.18 £20.00 -
25th Percentile £22.25 £28.44 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £65.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +271.43% +9.38%
75th Percentile £71.87 £70.00 £25.00
90th Percentile £72.50 - £39.75
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 Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Manchester

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Manchester

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for AWS in Manchester

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Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 27 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
Salford +2 9 £425 -34.62% 8
Wigan - 6 £400 - 2
Stockport 0 1 £550 - 2
Oldham - 1 £275 -
AWS
North West

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (1.28%) Confluence
1 3 (1.28%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.85%) CMS
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.85%) nginx
2 2 (0.85%) Traefik
3 1 (0.43%) Alfresco
3 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 53 (22.55%) Azure
2 29 (12.34%) Amazon EC2
3 26 (11.06%) Amazon S3
3 26 (11.06%) Serverless
4 24 (10.21%) GCP
5 23 (9.79%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (8.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 15 (6.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 15 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (5.53%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (5.11%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (5.11%) Amazon SQS
10 11 (4.68%) IaaS
11 9 (3.83%) Power Platform
11 9 (3.83%) Snowflake
12 8 (3.40%) Amazon ECR
12 8 (3.40%) Route 53
13 7 (2.98%) GitHub
13 7 (2.98%) SaaS
14 6 (2.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.68%) Network Security
2 7 (2.98%) Ethernet
2 7 (2.98%) LAN
2 7 (2.98%) OSPF
2 7 (2.98%) VPN
2 7 (2.98%) WAN
2 7 (2.98%) Wireless
2 7 (2.98%) Wireless Security
3 4 (1.70%) DNS
4 3 (1.28%) Firewall
5 2 (0.85%) MQTT
5 2 (0.85%) SSL
5 2 (0.85%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.43%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.43%) SAN
6 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.09%) MongoDB
2 10 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (3.83%) Data Lake
3 9 (3.83%) DynamoDB
3 9 (3.83%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (3.83%) NoSQL
3 9 (3.83%) Power BI
4 8 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.55%) MySQL
7 3 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.28%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.85%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.85%) Tableau
9 1 (0.43%) Big Data
9 1 (0.43%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.43%) Redis
9 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 36 (15.32%) GitLab
2 29 (12.34%) Git
3 27 (11.49%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.26%) Cucumber
5 8 (3.40%) webpack
6 7 (2.98%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.55%) Hudson
8 5 (2.13%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.13%) JIRA
9 4 (1.70%) Maven
10 3 (1.28%) Burp Suite
10 3 (1.28%) Gatling
10 3 (1.28%) JUnit
10 3 (1.28%) Mocha
10 3 (1.28%) Mockito
10 3 (1.28%) Postman
11 2 (0.85%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.85%) GoCD
11 2 (0.85%) Selenium
12 1 (0.43%) ERwin
General
1 46 (19.57%) Social Skills
2 18 (7.66%) Public Sector
3 11 (4.68%) Retail
4 10 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (4.26%) Finance
5 7 (2.98%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.55%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.70%) Banking
7 4 (1.70%) Marketing
8 3 (1.28%) Electronics
9 1 (0.43%) Advertising
9 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.43%) Law
9 1 (0.43%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 73 (31.06%) Developer
2 31 (13.19%) Senior
3 26 (11.06%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (10.21%) Software Engineer
5 23 (9.79%) AWS DevOps
6 21 (8.94%) AWS Engineer
6 21 (8.94%) Java Developer
7 19 (8.09%) Lead
8 17 (7.23%) Architect
9 15 (6.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 10 (4.26%) Network Engineer
10 10 (4.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 10 (4.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 9 (3.83%) Full Stack Developer
11 9 (3.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.40%) Consultant
12 8 (3.40%) Python Developer
12 8 (3.40%) Senior DevOps
12 8 (3.40%) Test Engineer
13 7 (2.98%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (17.45%) Node.js
2 38 (16.17%) React
3 33 (14.04%) RESTful
4 17 (7.23%) Spring Boot
5 16 (6.81%) Spring
6 14 (5.96%) REST
7 11 (4.68%) OAuth
7 11 (4.68%) OAuth2
7 11 (4.68%) OpenID
7 11 (4.68%) Redux
7 11 (4.68%) Web Services
8 9 (3.83%) Express.js
9 8 (3.40%) Hibernate
9 8 (3.40%) JPA
9 8 (3.40%) Spring Security
10 7 (2.98%) AngularJS
10 7 (2.98%) Jest
11 6 (2.55%) CSS
11 6 (2.55%) Django
11 6 (2.55%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (2.55%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.13%) Public Cloud
4 4 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.70%) PKI
5 3 (1.28%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.28%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.85%) Clustering
6 2 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.85%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.85%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.43%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.43%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.43%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.43%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.43%) NHS
7 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.21%) Linux
2 15 (6.38%) Windows
3 4 (1.70%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.70%) Mac OS
3 4 (1.70%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.28%) Kali Linux
4 3 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.85%) CentOS
6 1 (0.43%) Android
6 1 (0.43%) Unix
6 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (31.91%) CI/CD
2 68 (28.94%) Agile
3 50 (21.28%) DevOps
4 37 (15.74%) Containerisation
5 34 (14.47%) Software Engineering
6 33 (14.04%) Microservices
7 29 (12.34%) Infrastructure as Code
8 28 (11.91%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (11.91%) Test Automation
9 26 (11.06%) Full Stack Development
10 25 (10.64%) Front End Development
11 23 (9.79%) Design Patterns
12 17 (7.23%) Scrum
13 16 (6.81%) ETL
13 16 (6.81%) Migration
14 15 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 12 (5.11%) Continuous Integration
15 12 (5.11%) E-Commerce
15 12 (5.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 10 (4.26%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 56 (23.83%) Java
2 51 (21.70%) Python
3 21 (8.94%) TypeScript
4 20 (8.51%) JavaScript
5 18 (7.66%) Bash
5 18 (7.66%) Go
5 18 (7.66%) SQL
6 12 (5.11%) PowerShell
7 8 (3.40%) PHP
8 5 (2.13%) Ruby
9 4 (1.70%) Scala
10 3 (1.28%) C
10 3 (1.28%) C#
11 1 (0.43%) Bicep
11 1 (0.43%) Perl
11 1 (0.43%) R
11 1 (0.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 54 (22.98%) Security Cleared
2 45 (19.15%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.53%) AWS Certification
4 11 (4.68%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (3.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 9 (3.83%) CCNA
6 6 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.70%) CISM
7 4 (1.70%) CISSP
8 3 (1.28%) CCNP
8 3 (1.28%) MCSE
8 3 (1.28%) OSCP
9 2 (0.85%) BC Cleared
9 2 (0.85%) CCIE
9 2 (0.85%) Degree
9 2 (0.85%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.85%) MCITP
10 1 (0.43%) RHCE
10 1 (0.43%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.81%) QA
2 7 (2.98%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.98%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.13%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.13%) NIST
4 4 (1.70%) SLA
5 3 (1.28%) ISO 22301
5 3 (1.28%) NCSC
6 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.43%) GDPR
7 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (16.17%) Docker
2 12 (5.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.40%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (26.38%) Terraform
2 49 (20.85%) Kubernetes
3 18 (7.66%) Ansible
4 7 (2.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (2.55%) HP Fortify
6 4 (1.70%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.28%) Grafana
8 2 (0.85%) Consul
8 2 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.85%) Graphite
8 2 (0.85%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.85%) Istio
8 2 (0.85%) Kibana
8 2 (0.85%) linkerd
8 2 (0.85%) Packer
8 2 (0.85%) Podman
8 2 (0.85%) Puppet
8 2 (0.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (6.81%) VMware
2 12 (5.11%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.26%) Splunk
4 6 (2.55%) Sophos
5 5 (2.13%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.13%) SAP
6 4 (1.70%) Google
7 3 (1.28%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.28%) Cisco
7 3 (1.28%) PagerDuty
8 2 (0.85%) Brocade
8 2 (0.85%) Facebook
8 2 (0.85%) Sage
8 2 (0.85%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.85%) Tufin
8 2 (0.85%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.43%) Embarcadero
9 1 (0.43%) NetIQ
9 1 (0.43%) Qualys
9 1 (0.43%) Red Hat