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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 10 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 282 380 548
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 10.56% 12.18% 13.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.10% 32.73% 39.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 297 419
10th Percentile £333 £412 £400
25th Percentile £409 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.59% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £650 £677 £675
England median daily rate £563 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.69% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile - £35.92 £24.98
25th Percentile £67.50 £37.30 £30.19
Median hourly rate £71.87 £39.60 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +81.49% -1.61% +114.67%
75th Percentile £72.50 £52.68 £50.19
90th Percentile £73.70 £60.52 £55.33
England median hourly rate £50.59 £75.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year -32.55% +33.33% -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 852 1,161 1,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.91% 37.20% 34.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 862 1,071
10th Percentile £282 £313 £225
25th Percentile £384 £413 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £570 £581 £600
90th Percentile £638 £673 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 31 42
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.19 £14.25
25th Percentile - £18.88 £15.50
Median hourly rate £16.06 £39.60 £18.84
Median % change year-on-year -59.44% +110.16% +8.45%
75th Percentile £23.69 £65.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £59.88
England median hourly rate £20.97 £32.30 £21.31
% change year-on-year -35.08% +51.55% +0.95%

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 7 May 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 7 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 +3 216 £500 -9.09% 186
Cheshire -4 49 £448 -18.64% 30
Lancashire -2 7 £625 +6.38% 20
Merseyside +10 5 £350 -25.33% 14
Cumbria -22 1 £528 +24.09% 2
AWS
England

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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 8 (2.84%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.48%) Apache
2 7 (2.48%) Confluence
3 5 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (1.42%) Mule
4 4 (1.42%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.06%) nginx
6 2 (0.71%) CMS
6 2 (0.71%) Traefik
7 1 (0.35%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.35%) JBoss
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.13%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 73 (25.89%) Azure
2 40 (14.18%) Amazon EC2
3 37 (13.12%) Serverless
4 34 (12.06%) Amazon S3
5 33 (11.70%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (10.28%) GCP
7 25 (8.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 19 (6.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (6.74%) Snowflake
9 17 (6.03%) Amazon SQS
9 17 (6.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (4.61%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (4.26%) Route 53
13 10 (3.55%) Power Platform
13 10 (3.55%) SaaS
14 9 (3.19%) GitHub
15 8 (2.84%) Amazon ECR
15 8 (2.84%) IaaS
16 7 (2.48%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.32%) VPN
2 11 (3.90%) OSPF
3 10 (3.55%) Network Security
4 9 (3.19%) DNS
4 9 (3.19%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.84%) LAN
5 8 (2.84%) WAN
5 8 (2.84%) Wireless
6 7 (2.48%) Ethernet
6 7 (2.48%) Firewall
6 7 (2.48%) VLAN
6 7 (2.48%) Wireless Security
7 5 (1.77%) FTP
8 4 (1.42%) BGP
8 4 (1.42%) MPLS
8 4 (1.42%) Value-Added Service
8 4 (1.42%) Wireshark
9 3 (1.06%) DHCP
10 2 (0.71%) DSL
10 2 (0.71%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (9.93%) MongoDB
2 14 (4.96%) Amazon Redshift
3 11 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (3.90%) DynamoDB
4 10 (3.55%) Big Data
4 10 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (3.55%) Power BI
5 9 (3.19%) Data Lake
5 9 (3.19%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (2.84%) MySQL
6 8 (2.84%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (2.48%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.77%) OLAP
8 5 (1.77%) OLTP
8 5 (1.77%) Oracle OLAP
9 4 (1.42%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.42%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.06%) DB2
10 3 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 41 (14.54%) GitLab
2 34 (12.06%) Git
3 28 (9.93%) Jenkins
4 20 (7.09%) JIRA
5 9 (3.19%) Cucumber
6 8 (2.84%) webpack
7 7 (2.48%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.13%) Cypress.io
8 6 (2.13%) Hudson
9 4 (1.42%) Liquibase
9 4 (1.42%) Log4j
10 3 (1.06%) Burp Suite
10 3 (1.06%) JUnit
10 3 (1.06%) Maven
10 3 (1.06%) Mocha
10 3 (1.06%) Mockito
11 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.71%) Gatling
11 2 (0.71%) Selenium
11 2 (0.71%) TeamCity
General
1 56 (19.86%) Social Skills
2 27 (9.57%) Public Sector
3 25 (8.87%) Finance
4 20 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.03%) Banking
6 12 (4.26%) Retail
7 11 (3.90%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.48%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (1.77%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.06%) Marketing
11 2 (0.71%) Electronics
12 1 (0.35%) Advertising
12 1 (0.35%) Automotive
12 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 71 (25.18%) Developer
2 32 (11.35%) Senior
3 29 (10.28%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (9.93%) Software Engineer
5 27 (9.57%) Architect
5 27 (9.57%) Lead
6 26 (9.22%) AWS Engineer
7 24 (8.51%) Java Developer
8 23 (8.16%) AWS DevOps
9 17 (6.03%) Network Engineer
10 15 (5.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 15 (5.32%) Data Engineer
11 11 (3.90%) AWS Architect
11 11 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (3.55%) Consultant
12 10 (3.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (3.55%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 10 (3.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 8 (2.84%) Senior DevOps
13 8 (2.84%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (16.31%) Node.js
2 37 (13.12%) React
3 33 (11.70%) RESTful
4 24 (8.51%) Spring Boot
5 23 (8.16%) Spring
6 18 (6.38%) REST
7 17 (6.03%) Web Services
8 13 (4.61%) Kafka
9 12 (4.26%) Hibernate
10 11 (3.90%) Redux
11 9 (3.19%) .NET
11 9 (3.19%) Express.js
12 8 (2.84%) AWS CDK
12 8 (2.84%) JPA
12 8 (2.84%) Spring Security
13 7 (2.48%) AngularJS
13 7 (2.48%) Jest
13 7 (2.48%) OAuth
13 7 (2.48%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (2.48%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (3.90%) Public Cloud
3 7 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (2.13%) Virtual Team
5 5 (1.77%) DataPower
5 5 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (1.77%) PKI
5 5 (1.77%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.42%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.06%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.06%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.06%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.71%) Clustering
8 2 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.71%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.71%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.71%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.35%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.35%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.93%) Linux
2 20 (7.09%) Windows
3 7 (2.48%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.13%) Unix
5 5 (1.77%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.42%) Android
6 4 (1.42%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.06%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.71%) CentOS
9 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (31.91%) CI/CD
2 87 (30.85%) Agile
3 63 (22.34%) DevOps
4 45 (15.96%) Microservices
5 43 (15.25%) Containerisation
5 43 (15.25%) Software Engineering
6 41 (14.54%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (12.41%) Test Automation
8 32 (11.35%) Infrastructure as Code
9 31 (10.99%) Design Patterns
10 25 (8.87%) ETL
11 24 (8.51%) Scrum
12 23 (8.16%) Front End Development
13 22 (7.80%) Full Stack Development
13 22 (7.80%) Migration
14 21 (7.45%) Stakeholder Management
15 17 (6.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 16 (5.67%) SDLC
17 15 (5.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 12 (4.26%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 75 (26.60%) Java
2 60 (21.28%) Python
3 27 (9.57%) SQL
4 20 (7.09%) Bash
4 20 (7.09%) JavaScript
4 20 (7.09%) TypeScript
5 18 (6.38%) Go
6 14 (4.96%) PowerShell
7 9 (3.19%) PHP
8 8 (2.84%) C#
8 8 (2.84%) Ruby
9 6 (2.13%) C
10 4 (1.42%) Scala
11 2 (0.71%) R
11 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.35%) Bicep
12 1 (0.35%) Julia
12 1 (0.35%) Perl
12 1 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 60 (21.28%) Security Cleared
2 49 (17.38%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.96%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (4.61%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.55%) Degree
6 9 (3.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (3.19%) CCNA
7 7 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.13%) CCNP
8 6 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.77%) CCIE
10 4 (1.42%) VCAP
11 3 (1.06%) CISM
11 3 (1.06%) CISSP
11 3 (1.06%) MCSE
11 3 (1.06%) OSCP
12 2 (0.71%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.71%) MCITP
13 1 (0.35%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.67%) QA
2 9 (3.19%) PCI DSS
3 7 (2.48%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.48%) NIST
4 5 (1.77%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (1.42%) SLA
6 3 (1.06%) ISO 22301
6 3 (1.06%) NCSC
7 2 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.35%) GDPR
8 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (13.48%) Docker
2 11 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.19%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 70 (24.82%) Terraform
2 55 (19.50%) Kubernetes
3 20 (7.09%) Ansible
4 7 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (2.48%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.13%) Grafana
5 6 (2.13%) HP Fortify
6 5 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.42%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.42%) Puppet
8 2 (0.71%) CFEngine
8 2 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.71%) Graphite
8 2 (0.71%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.71%) Istio
8 2 (0.71%) Kibana
8 2 (0.71%) linkerd
8 2 (0.71%) Packer
8 2 (0.71%) PowerBroker
8 2 (0.71%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (5.67%) VMware
2 15 (5.32%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.26%) Google
4 10 (3.55%) Splunk
5 8 (2.84%) Oracle
6 6 (2.13%) Databricks
6 6 (2.13%) IBM
6 6 (2.13%) SAP
6 6 (2.13%) Sophos
7 5 (1.77%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.77%) Informatica
7 5 (1.77%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.77%) Talend
7 5 (1.77%) TSYS
8 4 (1.42%) Cisco
8 4 (1.42%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (1.42%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.06%) PagerDuty
9 3 (1.06%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.06%) Teradata