AWS Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Amazon Web Services Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 75 90
Rank change year-on-year +9 +15 +8
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 13 21 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.40% 1.38% 1.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.50% 1.44% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 19
10th Percentile £388 £418 £471
25th Percentile £400 £444 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £563
90th Percentile - £606 £595
North West median daily rate £414 £463 £500
% change year-on-year -10.59% -7.50% -9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 867 1,456 1,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 95.98% 96.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 1,007 1,360
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £588
90th Percentile £674 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 84 55
10th Percentile - £12.07 £14.10
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £25.10 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -28.30% +100.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £48.13
90th Percentile £74.38 £73.75 £68.40
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in Manchester

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in Manchester

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in Manchester

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, AWS Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
2 6 (46.15%) Node.js
2 6 (46.15%) TypeScript
2 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
3 5 (38.46%) Docker
3 5 (38.46%) Python
3 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
3 5 (38.46%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (38.46%) Amazon S3
4 4 (30.77%) React
4 4 (30.77%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
5 3 (23.08%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
5 3 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (23.08%) Bash
6 2 (15.38%) DevOps
6 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
6 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
6 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (15.38%) AWS CDK
7 1 (7.69%) Amazon Neptune
7 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (7.69%) Task Automation
7 1 (7.69%) Serverless
7 1 (7.69%) Lambda Expressions

AWS Engineer Skill Set
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 4 (30.77%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (38.46%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (38.46%) Amazon S3
4 3 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Neptune
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.69%) Azure
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) Node.js
2 4 (30.77%) React
3 2 (15.38%) AWS CDK
4 1 (7.69%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
1 3 (23.08%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
2 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
3 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
4 1 (7.69%) Coaching
4 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (7.69%) Load Balancing
4 1 (7.69%) Microservices
4 1 (7.69%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
1 6 (46.15%) TypeScript
2 5 (38.46%) Python
3 3 (23.08%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) Scala
4 1 (7.69%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes