AWS Developer Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Amazon Web Services Developer
North West > Cheshire

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in Cheshire is £462, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 54 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.30% 0.21% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.24% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £454 - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.44% - -
75th Percentile £466 - -
90th Percentile £468 - -
North West median daily rate £400 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% -10.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 597 421 336
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.84% 88.82% 85.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 244 221
10th Percentile £271 £323 £265
25th Percentile £358 £377 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.55% -2.65% +11.11%
75th Percentile £551 £572 £550
90th Percentile £688 £639 £588
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 24 24
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.01 £17.14
25th Percentile £19.00 £15.84 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.50 £22.09 £28.31
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -21.96% +48.97%
75th Percentile £36.75 £30.67 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £73.33 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £25.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year +17.00% -27.71% +74.43%

AWS Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

AWS Developer job vacancy trend in Cheshire

AWS Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Developer job vacancies in Cheshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Developer job vacancies in Cheshire

AWS Developer
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Developer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 2025. 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
Knutsford - 2 £462 -
AWS Developer
North West

AWS Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, AWS Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cheshire region featuring AWS Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective

AWS Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft