AWS Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 2 16
Rank change year-on-year 0 +14 -15
Contract jobs citing AWS 84 35 19
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 36.68% 28.46% 22.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 70.59% 66.04% 44.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 27 15
10th Percentile £326 £350 -
25th Percentile £375 £356 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £375 £525
Median % change year-on-year +18.93% -28.57% +7.14%
75th Percentile £492 £472 £582
90th Percentile £576 £508 £583
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +11.75% -20.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate - £75.00 -

All Cloud Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 119 53 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 51.97% 43.09% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 41 31
10th Percentile £319 £341 £450
25th Percentile £358 £356 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £385 £495
Median % change year-on-year +11.04% -22.22% +8.79%
75th Percentile £488 £506 £538
90th Percentile £539 £638 £582
Cheshire median daily rate £425 £478 £475
% change year-on-year -11.09% +0.63% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £18.87 £24.18 £22.81
% change year-on-year -21.96% +6.03% +8.05%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Knutsford

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing AWS

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Knutsford over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Knutsford

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 (16.67%) JBoss
2 10 (11.90%) WebSphere
3 9 (10.71%) Apache
3 9 (10.71%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (10.71%) IIS
4 8 (9.52%) iPlanet
4 8 (9.52%) WebSphere Application Server
5 7 (8.33%) SAS
6 2 (2.38%) Tomcat
7 1 (1.19%) Confluence
7 1 (1.19%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 5 (5.95%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 36 (42.86%) Azure
2 28 (33.33%) GCP
3 20 (23.81%) OpenShift
4 9 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (7.14%) Apigee
6 6 (7.14%) GitHub
7 5 (5.95%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.57%) Serverless
9 2 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.38%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (2.38%) Datadog
9 2 (2.38%) Kong
9 2 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (1.19%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (1.19%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.19%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.52%) Kerberos
2 7 (8.33%) Firewall
3 4 (4.76%) HTTP
3 4 (4.76%) HTTPS
3 4 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.52%) Oracle Database
2 7 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (5.95%) Big Data
3 5 (5.95%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.76%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.57%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.19%) DB2
7 1 (1.19%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 29 (34.52%) Git
1 29 (34.52%) Jenkins
2 19 (22.62%) GitLab
3 15 (17.86%) JIRA
4 13 (15.48%) Sonatype Nexus
5 11 (13.10%) Bitbucket Server
5 11 (13.10%) CA Release Automation
6 6 (7.14%) Bitbucket
7 5 (5.95%) MLflow
7 5 (5.95%) SonarQube
8 4 (4.76%) Postman
9 3 (3.57%) CircleCI
9 3 (3.57%) TeamCity
10 2 (2.38%) Snyk
11 1 (1.19%) Gradle
11 1 (1.19%) JUnit
11 1 (1.19%) Maven
11 1 (1.19%) Selenium
General
1 35 (41.67%) Finance
2 21 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 20 (23.81%) Banking
4 17 (20.24%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Marketing
6 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (23.81%) Architect
2 15 (17.86%) Developer
3 12 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (13.10%) Java Developer
5 10 (11.90%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (10.71%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (9.52%) Senior
8 7 (8.33%) Security Engineer
9 6 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (5.95%) Data Engineer
10 5 (5.95%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 4 (4.76%) Apigee Developer
11 4 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
11 4 (4.76%) Lead
11 4 (4.76%) Payments Architect
11 4 (4.76%) Payments Solutions Architect
12 3 (3.57%) AWS Architect
12 3 (3.57%) Cloud Consultant
12 3 (3.57%) DevOps Specialist
12 3 (3.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (29.76%) Spring Boot
2 22 (26.19%) Spring
3 16 (19.05%) OAuth
3 16 (19.05%) REST
4 10 (11.90%) SAML
5 9 (10.71%) JMS
5 9 (10.71%) LDAP
5 9 (10.71%) OpenID
5 9 (10.71%) RESTful
6 6 (7.14%) JSON
6 6 (7.14%) JWT
6 6 (7.14%) XML
7 5 (5.95%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (5.95%) Flask
7 5 (5.95%) HTML
7 5 (5.95%) PySpark
8 4 (4.76%) Hibernate
8 4 (4.76%) JAX-RS
8 4 (4.76%) OAuth2
8 4 (4.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.48%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (10.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 7 (8.33%) Credit Risk
4 4 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.38%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.38%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.19%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.19%) PMI
6 1 (1.19%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (20.24%) Linux
2 12 (14.29%) Windows
3 8 (9.52%) Unix
3 8 (9.52%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (55.95%) CI/CD
2 43 (51.19%) DevOps
3 23 (27.38%) Containerisation
3 23 (27.38%) Microservices
4 19 (22.62%) Agile
5 17 (20.24%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (16.67%) Machine Learning
6 14 (16.67%) SDLC
6 14 (16.67%) Test Automation
7 13 (15.48%) Analytics
7 13 (15.48%) Cloud Security
8 11 (13.10%) AI
8 11 (13.10%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (11.90%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (11.90%) DevSecOps
9 10 (11.90%) Requirements Gathering
9 10 (11.90%) User Acceptance Testing
10 9 (10.71%) Anti-Money Laundering
10 9 (10.71%) Data Science
11 8 (9.52%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 30 (35.71%) Java
2 24 (28.57%) Python
3 18 (21.43%) SQL
4 9 (10.71%) Groovy
5 8 (9.52%) Shell Script
6 7 (8.33%) R
7 5 (5.95%) Perl
7 5 (5.95%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.57%) Bash
9 2 (2.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (10.71%) AWS Certification
2 7 (8.33%) CISSP
3 6 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (7.14%) Degree
4 5 (5.95%) CISM
5 4 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.76%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.19%) CBAP
6 1 (1.19%) OSCP
6 1 (1.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (19.05%) ISO 20022
2 12 (14.29%) QA
3 9 (10.71%) PSD2
3 9 (10.71%) SEPA
4 5 (5.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (5.95%) NIST
5 4 (4.76%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.19%) GDPR
6 1 (1.19%) GRC
6 1 (1.19%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (47.62%) Docker
2 12 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 7 (8.33%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 2 (2.38%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 36 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 11 (13.10%) Progress Chef
3 9 (10.71%) CA Single Sign-On
4 8 (9.52%) CA Wily
4 8 (9.52%) Terraform
5 7 (8.33%) Tivoli
6 5 (5.95%) Fluentd
7 4 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (3.57%) Kibana
9 2 (2.38%) Ansible
9 2 (2.38%) Grafana
9 2 (2.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (25.00%) Oracle
2 20 (23.81%) Splunk
3 18 (21.43%) Microsoft
4 11 (13.10%) AppDynamics
5 9 (10.71%) Broadcom
6 8 (9.52%) IBM
7 7 (8.33%) Pega
8 6 (7.14%) Google
9 5 (5.95%) Cribl.io
10 4 (4.76%) Cloudera
11 3 (3.57%) Red Hat
12 2 (2.38%) Checkmarx
12 2 (2.38%) MuleSoft
12 2 (2.38%) ServiceNow
12 2 (2.38%) Veracode
13 1 (1.19%) CyberArk
13 1 (1.19%) Okta