AWS Contracts in Cheshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 12 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 +10
Contract jobs citing AWS 53 54 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 11.80% 10.71% 14.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 43.44% 30.86% 34.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 42 65
10th Percentile £357 £311 £360
25th Percentile £361 £409 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.26% -13.64% +1.85%
75th Percentile £492 £515 £575
90th Percentile £550 £582 £638
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £65.25
Median hourly rate - - £65.50
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £72.50 £70.94 £39.60
% change year-on-year +2.21% +79.13% -31.13%

All Cloud Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 122 175 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 27.17% 34.72% 42.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 118 166
10th Percentile £312 £281 £214
25th Percentile £364 £363 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £537 £530 £575
90th Percentile £638 £588 £638
North West median daily rate £473 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 6
10th Percentile - £16.98 £12.63
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate £12.82 £17.72 £21.21
Median % change year-on-year -27.65% -16.43% -18.44%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £35.60
90th Percentile - - £52.88
North West median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
% change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Cheshire

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Cheshire

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Cheshire

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in Cheshire

AWS
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 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 0 43 £392 -12.40% 6
Macclesfield +10 3 £520 +1.96% 2
Warrington -9 1 £525 +7.69% 14
AWS
North West

AWS
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 9 (16.98%) JBoss
2 7 (13.21%) Tomcat
3 5 (9.43%) WebSphere
4 4 (7.55%) Apache
4 4 (7.55%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (5.66%) nginx
5 3 (5.66%) WebLogic
6 2 (3.77%) CMS
7 1 (1.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (1.89%) Apache Spark
7 1 (1.89%) Camunda
7 1 (1.89%) CICS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (20.75%) Azure
2 10 (18.87%) GCP
3 8 (15.09%) OpenShift
4 7 (13.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (13.21%) Amazon S3
5 6 (11.32%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (11.32%) Serverless
6 5 (9.43%) GitHub
7 4 (7.55%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (7.55%) Amazon Glacier
7 4 (7.55%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (7.55%) Anthropic Claude
7 4 (7.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (7.55%) Azure AI
7 4 (7.55%) Google Gemini
8 3 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (5.66%) AWS KMS
8 3 (5.66%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.66%) Firewall
2 2 (3.77%) BGP
2 2 (3.77%) HTTP
2 2 (3.77%) MPLS
2 2 (3.77%) Network Security
2 2 (3.77%) OSPF
2 2 (3.77%) VLAN
2 2 (3.77%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.43%) DB2
1 5 (9.43%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (9.43%) RDBMS
1 5 (9.43%) Relational Database
2 4 (7.55%) Data Lake
2 4 (7.55%) DynamoDB
2 4 (7.55%) Hadoop
2 4 (7.55%) MongoDB
2 4 (7.55%) Neo4j
2 4 (7.55%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.89%) Big Data
4 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (30.19%) Git
2 15 (28.30%) Jenkins
3 6 (11.32%) GitLab
3 6 (11.32%) TeamCity
4 5 (9.43%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (9.43%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (9.43%) JIRA
4 5 (9.43%) SonarQube
4 5 (9.43%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (5.66%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.89%) Hudson
General
1 12 (22.64%) Finance
2 10 (18.87%) Banking
3 8 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (11.32%) Legal
5 4 (7.55%) Manufacturing
5 4 (7.55%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (7.55%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.77%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.89%) Billing
7 1 (1.89%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (26.42%) Architect
2 13 (24.53%) Solutions Architect
3 10 (18.87%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (16.98%) AWS DevOps
5 7 (13.21%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (11.32%) AWS Architect
6 6 (11.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 6 (11.32%) AWS Solution Architect
7 5 (9.43%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (9.43%) Developer
8 4 (7.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (7.55%) Senior
9 3 (5.66%) Integration Engineer
9 3 (5.66%) Scrum Master
9 3 (5.66%) Security Architect
9 3 (5.66%) Security Solutions Architect
10 2 (3.77%) Java Architect
10 2 (3.77%) Network Designer
10 2 (3.77%) Security Engineer
10 2 (3.77%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.87%) Spring Boot
2 7 (13.21%) Kafka
3 6 (11.32%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (11.32%) RESTful
4 5 (9.43%) Spring
4 5 (9.43%) Web Services
5 4 (7.55%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (7.55%) JSP
5 4 (7.55%) PyTorch
5 4 (7.55%) REST
5 4 (7.55%) Servlets
5 4 (7.55%) SOAP
5 4 (7.55%) TensorFlow
6 3 (5.66%) .NET
6 3 (5.66%) EJB
6 3 (5.66%) J2EE
6 3 (5.66%) OAuth
6 3 (5.66%) PySpark
6 3 (5.66%) RAML
6 3 (5.66%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.75%) Product Ownership
2 7 (13.21%) Mainframe
3 6 (11.32%) Private Cloud
3 6 (11.32%) Public Cloud
4 4 (7.55%) Algorithms
4 4 (7.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (5.66%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (3.77%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.77%) PKI
7 1 (1.89%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.89%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.87%) Linux
2 8 (15.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (11.32%) Windows
4 3 (5.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (41.51%) CI/CD
2 16 (30.19%) DevOps
3 14 (26.42%) Agile
3 14 (26.42%) Microservices
3 14 (26.42%) SDLC
4 13 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (20.75%) Containerisation
5 11 (20.75%) Data Pipeline
6 9 (16.98%) Migration
7 8 (15.09%) Artificial Intelligence
7 8 (15.09%) Machine Learning
8 7 (13.21%) Budget Control
8 7 (13.21%) Cloud Security
8 7 (13.21%) Generative AI
9 6 (11.32%) Code Quality
9 6 (11.32%) High Availability
9 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (11.32%) Validation
10 5 (9.43%) Penetration Testing
10 5 (9.43%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 18 (33.96%) Java
2 16 (30.19%) Python
3 14 (26.42%) SQL
4 7 (13.21%) JavaScript
5 5 (9.43%) Perl
6 3 (5.66%) Scala
7 2 (3.77%) Ruby
8 1 (1.89%) COBOL
8 1 (1.89%) JCL
8 1 (1.89%) R
8 1 (1.89%) REXX
Qualifications
1 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
1 2 (3.77%) CCIE
1 2 (3.77%) CCNP
1 2 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (3.77%) Degree
1 2 (3.77%) JNCIE
1 2 (3.77%) Master's Degree
1 2 (3.77%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (1.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 3 (5.66%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (28.30%) Docker
2 6 (11.32%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (9.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (20.75%) Kubernetes
2 9 (16.98%) Progress Chef
3 8 (15.09%) Kibana
4 5 (9.43%) Terraform
5 2 (3.77%) Ansible
6 1 (1.89%) Grafana
6 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (15.09%) AppDynamics
1 8 (15.09%) IBM
2 6 (11.32%) Red Hat
2 6 (11.32%) Splunk
3 4 (7.55%) Cloudera
3 4 (7.55%) Oracle
4 2 (3.77%) Cisco
4 2 (3.77%) F5
4 2 (3.77%) ForgeRock
4 2 (3.77%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.89%) Adobe
5 1 (1.89%) Ariba
5 1 (1.89%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.89%) Imperva
5 1 (1.89%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.89%) SAP
5 1 (1.89%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.89%) VMware