Amazon EC2 Contracts in Manchester

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EC2 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 59 67 90
Rank change year-on-year +8 +23 +7
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 20 29 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.16% 1.91% 1.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.26% 5.20% 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 23 20
10th Percentile £400 £430 £525
25th Percentile £413 £488 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £500 £694 £675
90th Percentile £541 £729 £688
North West median daily rate £475 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -13.64% -15.38% +4.00%

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 380 558 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 41.04% 36.78% 39.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 440 554
10th Percentile £313 £313 £325
25th Percentile £404 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £567 £570 £588
90th Percentile £654 £650 £650
North West median daily rate £473 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 18
10th Percentile £36.70 £18.18 £20.00
25th Percentile £48.25 £22.25 £28.44
Median hourly rate £70.00 £26.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +169.23% -60.00% +271.43%
75th Percentile £80.63 £71.87 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.50 £72.50 -
North West median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
% change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in Manchester

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in Manchester

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in Manchester

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the Manchester 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
Altrincham - 1 - - 4
Salford - 1 £300 -
Amazon EC2
North West

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 5 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (10.00%) IIS
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.00%) Documentum
3 1 (5.00%) FileNet
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (65.00%) Amazon S3
3 11 (55.00%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (50.00%) Serverless
5 9 (45.00%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (20.00%) GitHub
7 4 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (10.00%) AWS CodeBuild
9 2 (10.00%) Nutanix
9 2 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (5.00%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (5.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) DHCP
3 1 (5.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.00%) InfluxDB
3 1 (5.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Senior
3 5 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) AWS Data Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Python Data Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Python Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Software Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Java Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Digital Transformation
7 1 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Documentum Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Node.js
1 3 (15.00%) React
2 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (10.00%) AWS CDK
2 2 (10.00%) RESTful
2 2 (10.00%) Spring
2 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Amplify
3 1 (5.00%) HTML
3 1 (5.00%) Java EE
3 1 (5.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Clustering
1 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) CentOS
2 2 (10.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Containerisation
2 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (20.00%) Agile
3 4 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (20.00%) Feature Engineering
3 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (20.00%) Microservices
3 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) Scrum
4 3 (15.00%) TDD
5 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (10.00%) DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) ITIL
5 2 (10.00%) Load Balancing
5 2 (10.00%) Network Architecture
5 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (10.00%) SDLC
5 2 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) Python
2 5 (25.00%) Java
3 3 (15.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (10.00%) Bash
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (55.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (10.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.00%) Ansible
2 3 (15.00%) Terraform
3 2 (10.00%) Nagios
3 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (10.00%) ZABBIX
4 1 (5.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Dell
2 2 (10.00%) HP
2 2 (10.00%) IBM
2 2 (10.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (10.00%) VMware