AWS Engineer Contracts in Cheshire

Amazon Web Services Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in Cheshire is £363, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 53 62
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 -9
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 7 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.56% 0.99% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.78% 1.06% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 1
10th Percentile £335 £122 -
25th Percentile £358 £244 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £363 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.14% -27.50% +26.26%
75th Percentile £394 £401 £510
90th Percentile £461 £403 -
North West median daily rate £414 £463 £500
% change year-on-year -10.59% -7.50% -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 394 472 477
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.75% 93.65% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 324 329
10th Percentile £313 £275 £263
25th Percentile £358 £374 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +9.20%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £640 £629 £651
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 36 20
10th Percentile £19.00 £14.00 £14.23
25th Percentile £26.71 £16.47 £19.71
Median hourly rate £47.50 £20.11 £29.26
Median % change year-on-year +136.20% -31.27% +19.43%
75th Percentile £86.00 £38.00 £35.00
90th Percentile - £43.75 £42.58
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in Cheshire

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in Cheshire

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in Cheshire

AWS Engineer
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 Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 -1 6 £363 -9.53%
AWS Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, AWS Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) SQL
3 4 (57.14%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Linux
4 3 (42.86%) Kibana
4 3 (42.86%) Performance Metrics
4 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (42.86%) MongoDB
4 3 (42.86%) High Availability
4 3 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
4 3 (42.86%) Process Improvement
4 3 (42.86%) GitHub
4 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
4 3 (42.86%) .NET
4 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
4 3 (42.86%) Apache
4 3 (42.86%) Tomcat
4 3 (42.86%) OAuth
4 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (42.86%) nginx
4 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
4 3 (42.86%) Service Catalogue
4 3 (42.86%) Blue-Green Deployment
4 3 (42.86%) AWS KMS
4 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline

AWS Engineer 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 3 (42.86%) Apache
1 3 (42.86%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (42.86%) nginx
1 3 (42.86%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (57.14%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
3 3 (42.86%) AWS KMS
3 3 (42.86%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Data Lake
1 3 (42.86%) MongoDB
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
1 3 (42.86%) OAuth
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (42.86%) Blue-Green Deployment
3 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
3 3 (42.86%) Customer Acquisition
3 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (42.86%) High Availability
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Metrics
3 3 (42.86%) Process Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) Resource Allocation
3 3 (42.86%) Secrets Management
3 3 (42.86%) Service Catalogue
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) OO
4 1 (14.29%) Pair Programming
4 1 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kibana
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) AppDynamics