AWS Contracts in Lancashire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 27 25
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -10
Contract jobs citing AWS 6 6 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 3.23% 2.86% 5.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.91% 8.45% 26.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile £513 £599 £388
25th Percentile £514 £616 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £625 £588
Median % change year-on-year -11.60% +6.38% -9.62%
75th Percentile £588 - £663
90th Percentile - - £688
North West median daily rate £475 £489 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -11.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.75
Median hourly rate - - £40.50
75th Percentile - - £43.25
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £77.50 £70.94 £40.05
% change year-on-year +9.25% +77.12% -46.60%

All Cloud Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 55 71 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 29.57% 33.81% 22.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 38 32
10th Percentile £390 £214 £147
25th Percentile £475 £481 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £607 £458
Median % change year-on-year -11.37% +32.68% -2.66%
75th Percentile £615 £649 £630
90th Percentile £630 £710 £698
North West median daily rate £466 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -4.41% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 21 4
10th Percentile - - £24.28
25th Percentile £26.88 - £32.94
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £45.04
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -64.34% +143.43%
75th Percentile £30.63 - £53.84
90th Percentile £37.01 - £55.38
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £35.00
% change year-on-year +79.02% -54.11% +45.67%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Lancashire

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Lancashire

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for AWS in Lancashire

AWS
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 17 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
Blackpool +4 2 - - 4
Lancaster - 1 £530 - 1
AWS
North West

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Data Pipeline
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) ScriptRunner
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (50.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
4 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 1 (16.67%) Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
5 1 (16.67%) Data Management
5 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (16.67%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (16.67%) Virgin Media