AWS Contract Job Trends in Blackpool

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Lancashire > Blackpool

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Blackpool requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 5 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing AWS 12 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Blackpool 33.33% 20.00% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 92.31% 66.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile £688 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £588 £553 -
% change year-on-year +6.33% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Blackpool

AWS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Blackpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13 3 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Blackpool 36.11% 30.00% 54.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 6
10th Percentile - - £200
25th Percentile £563 - £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £380
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +38.16% -41.54%
75th Percentile £638 - £623
90th Percentile £688 - £650
Lancashire median daily rate £575 £540 £593
% change year-on-year +6.48% -8.86% +58.00%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackpool

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Blackpool.

AWS job vacancy trend in Blackpool

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in Blackpool

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Blackpool citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Blackpool citing AWS

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Blackpool by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) OCI
2 9 (75.00%) Azure
2 9 (75.00%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) BrowserStack
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) Firewall
1 9 (75.00%) SD-WAN
1 9 (75.00%) WAN
1 9 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
1 9 (75.00%) WLAN
2 8 (66.67%) BGP
2 8 (66.67%) BIG-IP
2 8 (66.67%) Ethernet VPN
2 8 (66.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 8 (66.67%) OSPF
2 8 (66.67%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (16.67%) RDBMS
3 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (91.67%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) Gatling
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) REST Assured
2 1 (8.33%) Selenium
2 1 (8.33%) Serenity BDD
General
1 5 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 10 (83.33%) Senior
1 10 (83.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Lead
2 1 (8.33%) Lead Test Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) Playwright
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 8 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 8 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) AIX
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 9 (75.00%) DevOps
3 9 (75.00%) High Availability
3 9 (75.00%) Zero Trust
4 8 (66.67%) Load Balancing
4 8 (66.67%) Network Architecture
4 8 (66.67%) Network Design
4 8 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 2 (16.67%) Migration
6 1 (8.33%) BDD
6 1 (8.33%) Build Automation
6 1 (8.33%) Component Testing
6 1 (8.33%) Microservices
6 1 (8.33%) Observability
6 1 (8.33%) Performance Testing
6 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
6 1 (8.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Ansible
1 11 (91.67%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Data Guard
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (8.33%) Grafana
3 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Aruba
1 9 (75.00%) Palo Alto
2 8 (66.67%) Arista
2 8 (66.67%) F5
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) Splunk