Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 71 93
Rank change year-on-year +1 +22 -4
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 18 9 11
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.67% 0.78% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.12% 2.27% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 8
10th Percentile £374 £354 £394
25th Percentile £403 £416 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% - -15.22%
75th Percentile £597 £581 £538
90th Percentile £756 £660 £598
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% -15.22%

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 437 396 707
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 40.61% 34.17% 43.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 252 562
10th Percentile £319 £356 £271
25th Percentile £400 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £575
90th Percentile £641 £675 £650
North West median daily rate £449 £489 £488
% change year-on-year -8.23% +0.31% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 17
10th Percentile £18.87 £40.90 £15.72
25th Percentile £21.46 £58.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £66.50 £16.86
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +294.42% -75.91%
75th Percentile £66.88 £71.50 £23.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £73.30 £78.00
North West median hourly rate £32.58 £36.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -9.51% +9.09% -49.23%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in Manchester

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in Manchester over the 6 months to 4 November 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 4 November 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
Salford - 2 £750 - 1
Bolton - 1 £425 - 1
Amazon EC2
North West

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) AWS
2 12 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 12 (66.67%) Serverless
3 10 (55.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (50.00%) Amazon S3
5 8 (44.44%) GitHub
6 7 (38.89%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (38.89%) AWS Fargate
6 7 (38.89%) SaaS
7 6 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
7 6 (33.33%) GCP
8 5 (27.78%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (27.78%) Amazon EventBridge
8 5 (27.78%) Apigee
8 5 (27.78%) Azure
8 5 (27.78%) Datadog
8 5 (27.78%) Loggly
8 5 (27.78%) Route 53
9 4 (22.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) DNS
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) Network Security
1 1 (5.56%) SSL
1 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (61.11%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (44.44%) DynamoDB
2 8 (44.44%) MySQL
3 7 (38.89%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (33.33%) NoSQL
4 6 (33.33%) Redis
5 5 (27.78%) BigQuery
5 5 (27.78%) RDBMS
5 5 (27.78%) Relational Database
6 2 (11.11%) Data Lake
7 1 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
7 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 8 (44.44%) Git
3 5 (27.78%) GitLab
3 5 (27.78%) Gradle
3 5 (27.78%) Maven
3 5 (27.78%) SonarLint
3 5 (27.78%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Architect
2 5 (27.78%) Java Architect
2 5 (27.78%) Java Technical Architect
2 5 (27.78%) Technical Architect
3 4 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) AWS Data Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Java Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Lead
5 2 (11.11%) Python Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior
6 1 (5.56%) Backend Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Rust Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Rust Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Dropwizard
1 5 (27.78%) J2EE
1 5 (27.78%) JWT
1 5 (27.78%) Micronaut
1 5 (27.78%) RESTful
1 5 (27.78%) Spring Boot
2 4 (22.22%) Celery
3 3 (16.67%) GraphQL
3 3 (16.67%) React
4 2 (11.11%) Node.js
5 1 (5.56%) Bootstrap
5 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (5.56%) HTML
5 1 (5.56%) Laravel
5 1 (5.56%) Next.js
5 1 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (5.56%) REST
5 1 (5.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (27.78%) N-Tier
3 4 (22.22%) Product Ownership
4 2 (11.11%) CSOC
4 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
4 2 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) CI/CD
2 9 (50.00%) Agile
2 9 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 7 (38.89%) AI
3 7 (38.89%) Mentoring
3 7 (38.89%) Microservices
3 7 (38.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (33.33%) Design Patterns
4 6 (33.33%) DevOps
4 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (27.78%) API Design
5 5 (27.78%) Architectural Design
5 5 (27.78%) BDD
5 5 (27.78%) Clean Code
5 5 (27.78%) Domain-Driven Design
5 5 (27.78%) Event-Driven
5 5 (27.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 5 (27.78%) OWASP
5 5 (27.78%) Roadmaps
5 5 (27.78%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) Python
2 8 (44.44%) Java
3 4 (22.22%) SQL
4 3 (16.67%) Bash
5 1 (5.56%) PHP
5 1 (5.56%) Rust
5 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 12 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 9 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (11.11%) Ansible
3 2 (11.11%) Grafana
3 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Gigya
2 2 (11.11%) Splunk
3 1 (5.56%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.56%) F5
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto