AWS DevOps Contracts in Cheshire

Amazon Web Services DevOps
North West > Cheshire

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in Cheshire is £393, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.66% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.86% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £316 - -
25th Percentile £358 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £426 - -
North West median daily rate £393 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -28.55% +10.00% -9.09%

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 539 448 389
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.53% 93.92% 88.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 304 244
10th Percentile £270 £298 £263
25th Percentile £358 £380 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £461 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.15% -7.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile £520 £567 £576
90th Percentile £651 £638 £617
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 21 28
10th Percentile £12.82 - £14.18
25th Percentile £25.49 £13.49 £20.88
Median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -10.01% +14.60% +36.40%
75th Percentile £39.30 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £47.50 £43.00
North West median hourly rate £27.00 £34.21 £29.65
% change year-on-year -21.08% +15.38% +23.03%

AWS DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps in Cheshire

AWS DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS DevOps in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps in Cheshire

AWS DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps in Cheshire over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps in Cheshire

AWS DevOps
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 DevOps within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 4 August 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 - 9 £393 -
AWS DevOps
North West

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 4 August 2025, AWS DevOps 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 Cheshire region featuring AWS DevOps in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) AWS
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) Kibana
2 7 (70.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (70.00%) AppDynamics
2 7 (70.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (70.00%) Linux
2 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (60.00%) SQL
4 4 (40.00%) Perl
4 4 (40.00%) JBoss
4 4 (40.00%) Python
4 4 (40.00%) RDBMS
4 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
4 4 (40.00%) Change Management
4 4 (40.00%) Windows
4 4 (40.00%) TeamCity
4 4 (40.00%) Git
4 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (40.00%) Splunk
4 4 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
4 4 (40.00%) SonarQube
4 4 (40.00%) Spring Boot
4 4 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (40.00%) Runbook
4 4 (40.00%) Microservices
4 4 (40.00%) Cloudera
4 4 (40.00%) Analytics

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 4 (40.00%) JBoss
2 3 (30.00%) Apache
2 3 (30.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (30.00%) nginx
2 3 (30.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) OpenShift
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (30.00%) AWS KMS
3 3 (30.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) RDBMS
1 4 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (30.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (30.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (30.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (40.00%) Git
2 4 (40.00%) SonarQube
2 4 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (40.00%) TeamCity
3 3 (30.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (30.00%) CA Release Automation
3 3 (30.00%) GitLab
3 3 (30.00%) JIRA
4 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (30.00%) .NET
2 3 (30.00%) OAuth
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Linux
1 7 (70.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Analytics
3 4 (40.00%) Change Management
3 4 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 4 (40.00%) Microservices
3 4 (40.00%) Runbook
3 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (30.00%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (30.00%) Build Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (30.00%) Customer Acquisition
4 3 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (30.00%) High Availability
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) Migration
4 3 (30.00%) Performance Metrics
4 3 (30.00%) Process Improvement
4 3 (30.00%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) Perl
2 4 (40.00%) Python
3 3 (30.00%) Java
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Kibana
2 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (40.00%) Progress Chef
3 3 (30.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) AppDynamics
2 4 (40.00%) Cloudera
2 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (40.00%) Splunk