AWS Contracts in the North West

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 11 10 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 305 413 530
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 11.04% 12.85% 13.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.42% 34.19% 38.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 325 402
10th Percentile £330 £408 £400
25th Percentile £411 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £585 £620 £638
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £550 £590 £590
% change year-on-year -6.78% - +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile - £35.92 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £37.30 £56.25
Median hourly rate £70.94 £39.60 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +79.13% -31.13% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £52.68 £58.75
90th Percentile - £60.52 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £72.75 £56.25
% change year-on-year -27.84% +29.33% -3.02%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 886 1,208 1,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.07% 37.60% 34.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 896 1,071
10th Percentile £284 £310 £213
25th Percentile £393 £417 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £672
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 32 42
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.19 £14.25
25th Percentile - £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £16.06 £37.30 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -56.94% +100.62% +2.07%
75th Percentile £20.00 £65.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £59.88
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in the North West

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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 within the North West 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
Manchester +2 235 £500 -7.41% 171
Cheshire -4 51 £489 -11.09% 36
Lancashire -5 7 £625 +13.64% 13
Merseyside +11 5 £350 -22.22% 11
Cumbria -27 1 £528 +23.94% 2
AWS
England

AWS
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 7 (2.30%) Apache
1 7 (2.30%) Apache Spark
1 7 (2.30%) Confluence
2 5 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (1.31%) Mule
3 4 (1.31%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.98%) nginx
5 2 (0.66%) CMS
5 2 (0.66%) Traefik
6 1 (0.33%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.33%) JBoss
6 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.97%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 81 (26.56%) Azure
2 42 (13.77%) Amazon EC2
3 39 (12.79%) Serverless
4 35 (11.48%) Amazon S3
4 35 (11.48%) AWS Lambda
5 32 (10.49%) GCP
6 26 (8.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 20 (6.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (6.23%) Snowflake
9 17 (5.57%) Amazon SQS
9 17 (5.57%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (3.93%) Route 53
13 11 (3.61%) GitHub
13 11 (3.61%) IaaS
14 10 (3.28%) Power Platform
15 9 (2.95%) Amazon ECR
16 7 (2.30%) Amazon EMR
16 7 (2.30%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.57%) VPN
2 12 (3.93%) Network Security
3 10 (3.28%) Firewall
3 10 (3.28%) OSPF
4 9 (2.95%) DNS
5 8 (2.62%) LAN
5 8 (2.62%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.62%) WAN
5 8 (2.62%) Wireless
6 7 (2.30%) DSL
6 7 (2.30%) Ethernet
6 7 (2.30%) Wireless Security
7 6 (1.97%) VLAN
8 5 (1.64%) FTP
9 3 (0.98%) BGP
9 3 (0.98%) DHCP
9 3 (0.98%) DMZ
9 3 (0.98%) MPLS
9 3 (0.98%) Value-Added Service
9 3 (0.98%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (9.51%) MongoDB
2 14 (4.59%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (4.59%) Amazon Redshift
3 13 (4.26%) DynamoDB
4 10 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (3.28%) Power BI
5 9 (2.95%) Big Data
5 9 (2.95%) Data Lake
5 9 (2.95%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (2.95%) NoSQL
5 9 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.30%) MySQL
7 5 (1.64%) OLAP
7 5 (1.64%) OLTP
7 5 (1.64%) Oracle OLAP
7 5 (1.64%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.31%) Hadoop
8 4 (1.31%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.98%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 41 (13.44%) GitLab
2 38 (12.46%) Jenkins
3 36 (11.80%) Git
4 28 (9.18%) JIRA
5 11 (3.61%) Cucumber
6 8 (2.62%) webpack
7 7 (2.30%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.97%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.97%) Hudson
9 4 (1.31%) Liquibase
9 4 (1.31%) Log4j
9 4 (1.31%) Maven
10 3 (0.98%) Burp Suite
10 3 (0.98%) Gatling
10 3 (0.98%) JUnit
10 3 (0.98%) Mocha
10 3 (0.98%) Mockito
10 3 (0.98%) Postman
11 2 (0.66%) GoCD
11 2 (0.66%) TeamCity
General
1 65 (21.31%) Social Skills
2 33 (10.82%) Public Sector
3 27 (8.85%) Finance
4 26 (8.52%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.59%) Banking
6 12 (3.93%) Manufacturing
6 12 (3.93%) Retail
7 6 (1.97%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (1.97%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.31%) Marketing
9 3 (0.98%) Electronics
10 1 (0.33%) Advertising
10 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.33%) Law
10 1 (0.33%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 82 (26.89%) Developer
2 33 (10.82%) Senior
3 32 (10.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 29 (9.51%) Lead
5 28 (9.18%) AWS Engineer
6 26 (8.52%) Architect
6 26 (8.52%) Java Developer
6 26 (8.52%) Software Engineer
7 25 (8.20%) AWS DevOps
8 17 (5.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 17 (5.57%) Network Engineer
9 15 (4.92%) Data Engineer
10 12 (3.93%) AWS Architect
10 12 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (3.61%) AWS Developer
12 10 (3.28%) Consultant
12 10 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (3.28%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 10 (3.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 9 (2.95%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (15.08%) Node.js
2 38 (12.46%) React
3 37 (12.13%) RESTful
4 21 (6.89%) Spring Boot
5 20 (6.56%) Spring
5 20 (6.56%) Web Services
6 19 (6.23%) REST
7 13 (4.26%) Kafka
8 12 (3.93%) Hibernate
9 11 (3.61%) OAuth
9 11 (3.61%) OAuth2
9 11 (3.61%) OpenID
9 11 (3.61%) Redux
10 9 (2.95%) Express.js
11 8 (2.62%) JPA
11 8 (2.62%) Spring Security
12 7 (2.30%) AngularJS
12 7 (2.30%) Jest
12 7 (2.30%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (2.30%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.26%) Public Cloud
2 10 (3.28%) Virtual Team
3 9 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (1.97%) PKI
5 6 (1.97%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.64%) DataPower
6 5 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.31%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.98%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.98%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.66%) Clustering
9 2 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.66%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.66%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.33%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.33%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.33%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 33 (10.82%) Linux
2 27 (8.85%) Windows
3 10 (3.28%) Unix
4 5 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.31%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.31%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.98%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.66%) CentOS
8 1 (0.33%) Android
8 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (31.80%) CI/CD
2 90 (29.51%) Agile
3 74 (24.26%) DevOps
4 48 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (14.10%) Microservices
5 43 (14.10%) Software Engineering
6 42 (13.77%) Containerisation
7 34 (11.15%) Test Automation
8 32 (10.49%) Design Patterns
9 31 (10.16%) Infrastructure as Code
10 28 (9.18%) Scrum
11 26 (8.52%) Full Stack Development
12 25 (8.20%) Front End Development
13 24 (7.87%) ETL
13 24 (7.87%) Migration
14 21 (6.89%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (6.23%) Platform Engineering
16 17 (5.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 15 (4.92%) Continuous Integration
17 15 (4.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 74 (24.26%) Java
2 62 (20.33%) Python
3 27 (8.85%) SQL
4 23 (7.54%) JavaScript
5 22 (7.21%) TypeScript
6 20 (6.56%) Bash
7 18 (5.90%) Go
8 14 (4.59%) PowerShell
9 13 (4.26%) Ruby
10 10 (3.28%) PHP
11 8 (2.62%) C#
12 5 (1.64%) Scala
13 3 (0.98%) C
14 2 (0.66%) R
15 1 (0.33%) Bicep
15 1 (0.33%) Julia
15 1 (0.33%) Perl
15 1 (0.33%) Rust
15 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 65 (21.31%) Security Cleared
2 54 (17.70%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.59%) AWS Certification
3 14 (4.59%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (2.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 9 (2.95%) CCNA
5 8 (2.62%) Degree
6 7 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.97%) CCNP
7 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.64%) CCIE
9 4 (1.31%) CISM
9 4 (1.31%) CISSP
9 4 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.98%) MCSE
10 3 (0.98%) OSCP
10 3 (0.98%) VCAP
11 2 (0.66%) BC Cleared
11 2 (0.66%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.66%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.25%) QA
2 9 (2.95%) PCI DSS
3 8 (2.62%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.30%) NIST
5 5 (1.64%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 4 (1.31%) SLA
7 3 (0.98%) ISO 22301
7 3 (0.98%) NCSC
8 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.33%) GDPR
9 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (13.11%) Docker
2 12 (3.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (2.95%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 74 (24.26%) Terraform
2 54 (17.70%) Kubernetes
3 26 (8.52%) Ansible
4 9 (2.95%) Progress Chef
4 9 (2.95%) Puppet
5 7 (2.30%) CFEngine
5 7 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (2.30%) PowerBroker
5 7 (2.30%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.97%) Grafana
6 6 (1.97%) HP Fortify
7 5 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.66%) Consul
8 2 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.66%) Graphite
8 2 (0.66%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.66%) Istio
8 2 (0.66%) linkerd
8 2 (0.66%) Packer
8 2 (0.66%) Podman
Vendors
1 18 (5.90%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.57%) VMware
3 11 (3.61%) Google
4 10 (3.28%) Atlassian
4 10 (3.28%) Splunk
5 7 (2.30%) Oracle
5 7 (2.30%) SAP
6 6 (1.97%) Databricks
6 6 (1.97%) IBM
6 6 (1.97%) Sophos
7 5 (1.64%) Informatica
7 5 (1.64%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.64%) Talend
7 5 (1.64%) TSYS
8 4 (1.31%) Cisco
9 3 (0.98%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.98%) PagerDuty
9 3 (0.98%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.98%) SolarWinds
9 3 (0.98%) Teradata