AWS DevOps Engineer Contracts in the North West

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
England > North West

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in the North West is £481 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 132 154
Rank change year-on-year +12 +22 -44
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 15 22 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.55% 0.69% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.73% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 22
10th Percentile £444 £475 £483
25th Percentile £445 £478 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £563
90th Percentile £620 £583 £588
England median daily rate £538 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% +9.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 2,569 3,005 3,909
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.38% 94.77% 96.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,673 2,153 2,861
10th Percentile £281 £300 £208
25th Percentile £390 £403 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £564
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 129 174
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.63 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +49.01% +13.86%
75th Percentile £46.18 £48.75 £42.69
90th Percentile £67.25 £65.80 £56.25
England median hourly rate £36.34 £44.77 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.83% +98.96% +0.36%

AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in the North West

AWS DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in the North West

AWS DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in the North West

AWS DevOps Engineer
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 DevOps Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Manchester +12 14 £463 -7.50% 3
AWS DevOps Engineer
England

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, AWS DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) AWS
1 15 (100.00%) DevOps
1 15 (100.00%) Terraform
2 13 (86.67%) CI/CD
3 12 (80.00%) Kubernetes
3 12 (80.00%) Docker
4 10 (66.67%) Python
5 9 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (53.33%) Containerisation
7 7 (46.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (46.67%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (40.00%) Software Delivery
9 5 (33.33%) AWS Certification
9 5 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (33.33%) Bash
9 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
9 5 (33.33%) Git
9 5 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 4 (26.67%) AWS CodePipeline
10 4 (26.67%) Snowflake
10 4 (26.67%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (26.67%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (26.67%) Serverless
10 4 (26.67%) Go
10 4 (26.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (20.00%) HP Fortify
11 3 (20.00%) SonarQube
11 3 (20.00%) Ansible

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (46.67%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (46.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (26.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (26.67%) AWS CodePipeline
4 4 (26.67%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (26.67%) Serverless
4 4 (26.67%) Snowflake
5 3 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
5 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
6 2 (13.33%) GitHub
6 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (6.67%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 1 (6.67%) Azure
7 1 (6.67%) GCP
7 1 (6.67%) Pulumi
7 1 (6.67%) Route 53
7 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (20.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (6.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Git
1 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (20.00%) GitLab
2 3 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (86.67%) CI/CD
3 9 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (53.33%) Containerisation
5 6 (40.00%) Software Delivery
6 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
8 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
8 3 (20.00%) High Availability
8 3 (20.00%) IT Strategy
8 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
9 2 (13.33%) Data Migration
9 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Management
9 2 (13.33%) Migration
10 1 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
10 1 (6.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 1 (6.67%) E-Commerce
10 1 (6.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) Bash
3 4 (26.67%) Go
4 3 (20.00%) Ruby
4 3 (20.00%) SQL
5 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (6.67%) Java
6 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 5 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) NIST
1 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (80.00%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (100.00%) Terraform
2 12 (80.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (20.00%) Ansible
3 3 (20.00%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (6.67%) Atlassian