AWS Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 16 16
Rank change year-on-year +9 0 -12
Contract jobs citing AWS 102 48 45
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 16.01% 10.53% 11.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 45.33% 35.04% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 35 35
10th Percentile £329 - £425
25th Percentile £381 £356 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.75% -20.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £495 £490 £574
90th Percentile £579 £548 £587
North West median daily rate £460 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -3.16% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
North West median hourly rate £54.00 £52.09 £46.18
% change year-on-year +3.67% +12.80% +31.94%

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 225 137 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 35.32% 30.04% 36.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 91 104
10th Percentile £251 £310 £216
25th Percentile £355 £361 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% - +7.95%
75th Percentile £492 £563 £525
90th Percentile £579 £638 £580
North West median daily rate £447 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.89% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 9
10th Percentile - £21.05 £17.48
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.83 £17.72
Median hourly rate £18.87 £24.18 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year -21.96% +2.41% +11.87%
75th Percentile £25.31 £64.17 £35.00
90th Percentile £59.08 £82.50 £50.00
North West median hourly rate £40.00 £30.00 £28.31
% change year-on-year +33.33% +5.99% -19.13%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Cheshire

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing AWS

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Cheshire over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Cheshire

AWS
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing AWS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing AWS

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 20 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 0 84 £446 +18.93% 1
Warrington 0 5 £388 -24.39% 6
Chester - 4 £500 - 2
Crewe - 2 £525 - 2
Ellesmere Port - 1 £325 -
Wilmslow - 1 £650 -
AWS
North West

AWS
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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (13.73%) JBoss
2 10 (9.80%) WebSphere
3 9 (8.82%) Apache
3 9 (8.82%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (8.82%) IIS
4 8 (7.84%) iPlanet
4 8 (7.84%) WebSphere Application Server
5 7 (6.86%) SAS
6 2 (1.96%) Confluence
6 2 (1.96%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.98%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 5 (4.90%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 49 (48.04%) Azure
2 34 (33.33%) GCP
3 20 (19.61%) OpenShift
4 10 (9.80%) GitHub
5 9 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (6.86%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (6.86%) Apigee
7 5 (4.90%) Amazon SageMaker
8 4 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.94%) Datadog
9 3 (2.94%) Kong
9 3 (2.94%) Serverless
9 3 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.96%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (1.96%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.82%) Firewall
2 8 (7.84%) Kerberos
3 4 (3.92%) HTTP
3 4 (3.92%) HTTPS
3 4 (3.92%) VPN
4 2 (1.96%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.98%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.84%) Oracle Database
2 7 (6.86%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (4.90%) Big Data
3 5 (4.90%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.92%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.94%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.98%) DB2
7 1 (0.98%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 32 (31.37%) Git
2 31 (30.39%) Jenkins
3 19 (18.63%) GitLab
4 17 (16.67%) JIRA
5 13 (12.75%) Sonatype Nexus
6 11 (10.78%) Bitbucket Server
6 11 (10.78%) CA Release Automation
7 6 (5.88%) Bitbucket
8 5 (4.90%) MLflow
8 5 (4.90%) SonarQube
9 4 (3.92%) Postman
10 3 (2.94%) CircleCI
10 3 (2.94%) TeamCity
11 2 (1.96%) Fiddler
11 2 (1.96%) Snyk
12 1 (0.98%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.98%) Gradle
12 1 (0.98%) JUnit
12 1 (0.98%) Selenium
12 1 (0.98%) SpecFlow
General
1 42 (41.18%) Finance
2 26 (25.49%) Social Skills
3 24 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (22.55%) Banking
5 5 (4.90%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.96%) Japanese Language
7 1 (0.98%) Automotive
7 1 (0.98%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.98%) Legal
7 1 (0.98%) Marketing
7 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.98%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (22.55%) Architect
2 15 (14.71%) Developer
3 14 (13.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (10.78%) Java Developer
6 10 (9.80%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (7.84%) Analyst
7 8 (7.84%) Senior
8 7 (6.86%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (6.86%) Security Engineer
9 5 (4.90%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.90%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 4 (3.92%) Apigee Developer
10 4 (3.92%) Business Analyst
10 4 (3.92%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (3.92%) Lead
10 4 (3.92%) Payments Architect
10 4 (3.92%) Payments Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.92%) Project Manager
11 3 (2.94%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (24.51%) Spring Boot
2 22 (21.57%) Spring
3 18 (17.65%) REST
4 17 (16.67%) OAuth
5 10 (9.80%) SAML
6 9 (8.82%) JMS
6 9 (8.82%) LDAP
6 9 (8.82%) OpenID
6 9 (8.82%) RESTful
7 8 (7.84%) HTML
7 8 (7.84%) JSON
7 8 (7.84%) XML
8 7 (6.86%) JWT
9 6 (5.88%) SOAP
10 5 (4.90%) AngularJS
10 5 (4.90%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (4.90%) Flask
10 5 (4.90%) PySpark
11 4 (3.92%) JAX-RS
11 4 (3.92%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.75%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (8.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 7 (6.86%) Credit Risk
4 4 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.92%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.98%) CMDB
6 1 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.98%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (0.98%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.98%) PKI
6 1 (0.98%) PMI
6 1 (0.98%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (18.63%) Linux
2 14 (13.73%) Windows
3 10 (9.80%) Windows Server
4 8 (7.84%) Unix
5 4 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (53.92%) CI/CD
2 49 (48.04%) DevOps
3 27 (26.47%) Microservices
4 26 (25.49%) Containerisation
5 24 (23.53%) Agile
5 24 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (15.69%) Cloud Security
6 16 (15.69%) SDLC
7 15 (14.71%) Machine Learning
7 15 (14.71%) Test Automation
8 14 (13.73%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (12.75%) AI
9 13 (12.75%) Analytics
10 11 (10.78%) Requirements Gathering
11 10 (9.80%) Data Pipeline
11 10 (9.80%) Deployment Automation
11 10 (9.80%) DevSecOps
11 10 (9.80%) Incident Response
11 10 (9.80%) Migration
11 10 (9.80%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (30.39%) Java
2 28 (27.45%) Python
3 19 (18.63%) SQL
4 9 (8.82%) Groovy
5 8 (7.84%) Shell Script
6 7 (6.86%) R
7 6 (5.88%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.90%) Bash
8 5 (4.90%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.90%) Perl
9 2 (1.96%) C#
9 2 (1.96%) Ruby
10 1 (0.98%) Korn
10 1 (0.98%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (12.75%) AWS Certification
2 9 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (8.82%) Degree
3 8 (7.84%) CISSP
4 7 (6.86%) Security Cleared
5 5 (4.90%) CISM
6 4 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.96%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.96%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.98%) CBAP
8 1 (0.98%) CEH
8 1 (0.98%) GIAC
8 1 (0.98%) OSCP
8 1 (0.98%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (16.67%) ISO 20022
2 12 (11.76%) QA
3 10 (9.80%) PSD2
4 9 (8.82%) SEPA
5 5 (4.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (4.90%) NIST
6 4 (3.92%) PCI DSS
7 3 (2.94%) GDPR
8 2 (1.96%) GRC
9 1 (0.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.98%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.98%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (42.16%) Docker
2 14 (13.73%) Active Directory
3 7 (6.86%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 2 (1.96%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 42 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.78%) Progress Chef
2 11 (10.78%) Terraform
3 9 (8.82%) CA Single Sign-On
4 8 (7.84%) CA Wily
5 7 (6.86%) Tivoli
6 5 (4.90%) Fluentd
7 4 (3.92%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (2.94%) Kibana
9 2 (1.96%) Ansible
9 2 (1.96%) Grafana
9 2 (1.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (21.57%) Microsoft
2 21 (20.59%) Oracle
2 21 (20.59%) Splunk
3 11 (10.78%) AppDynamics
4 9 (8.82%) Broadcom
5 8 (7.84%) IBM
6 7 (6.86%) Pega
7 6 (5.88%) Google
8 5 (4.90%) Cribl.io
9 4 (3.92%) Cloudera
10 3 (2.94%) MuleSoft
10 3 (2.94%) Red Hat
10 3 (2.94%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.96%) Checkmarx
11 2 (1.96%) Veracode
12 1 (0.98%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.98%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.98%) Okta