Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in Chester

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 0.80% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £434 £385 -
% change year-on-year +12.73% - -

All Cloud Skills
Chester

Amazon EC2 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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 31 13 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 24.80% 18.31% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 1
10th Percentile £190 £405 -
25th Percentile £350 £432 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +4.76% +41.89%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £538
90th Percentile £731 £589 -
Cheshire median daily rate £425 £478 £475
% change year-on-year -11.09% +0.63% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £20.35 - £24.55
25th Percentile £22.38 - £25.96
Median hourly rate £26.50 - £28.31
75th Percentile £33.63 - £30.65
90th Percentile £37.45 - £32.06
Cheshire median hourly rate £18.87 £24.18 £22.81
% change year-on-year -21.96% +6.03% +8.05%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in Chester

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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 1 (100.00%) OpenStack
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk