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 22 August 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
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 84 80
Rank change year-on-year +17 -4 +13
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 17 3 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.67% 0.25% 1.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.81% 0.26% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 2 22
10th Percentile £385 £464 £454
25th Percentile £400 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £488 £572 £538
90th Percentile £570 £581 £593
North West median daily rate £401 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -17.74% -2.50% -9.09%

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 937 1,160 1,638
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 95.95% 94.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 742 1,205
10th Percentile £300 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £412 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £594
90th Percentile £650 £711 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 49 53
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.60 £15.72
25th Percentile £14.13 £22.00 £16.62
Median hourly rate £21.10 £42.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.35% +123.68% +8.57%
75th Percentile £50.00 £62.50 £37.50
90th Percentile £73.00 £85.00 £69.20
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year -26.03% +11.33% +35.73%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in Manchester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in Manchester

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 22 August 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 22 August 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 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (52.94%) TypeScript
3 8 (47.06%) Node.js
4 7 (41.18%) Python
5 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
5 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
5 6 (35.29%) React
6 5 (29.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (29.41%) DevOps
6 5 (29.41%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
6 5 (29.41%) Docker
6 5 (29.41%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
6 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (29.41%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
7 4 (23.53%) AWS CDK
7 4 (23.53%) Amazon S3
7 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
7 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
7 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
7 4 (23.53%) Terraform
8 3 (17.65%) GitLab
8 3 (17.65%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (11.76%) Go
9 2 (11.76%) Ansible
9 2 (11.76%) High Availability
9 2 (11.76%) Bash
9 2 (11.76%) Git

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 5 (29.41%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (29.41%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (29.41%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon S3
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (11.76%) Serverless
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon Neptune
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (5.88%) Azure
5 1 (5.88%) CloudFront
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub
5 1 (5.88%) Kong
5 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DHCP
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
1 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) GitLab
2 2 (11.76%) Git
General
1 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (47.06%) Node.js
2 6 (35.29%) React
3 4 (23.53%) AWS CDK
4 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.88%) Kafka
4 1 (5.88%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (5.88%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 3 (17.65%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
1 5 (29.41%) DevOps
1 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
2 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
2 2 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (11.76%) DevSecOps
2 2 (11.76%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (11.76%) High Availability
2 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
2 2 (11.76%) SDLC
2 2 (11.76%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (11.76%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (5.88%) Coaching
3 1 (5.88%) Microservices
3 1 (5.88%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (5.88%) Process Improvement
3 1 (5.88%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) TypeScript
2 7 (41.18%) Python
3 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.76%) Bash
4 2 (11.76%) Go
4 2 (11.76%) Perl
4 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.88%) Scala
5 1 (5.88%) SPARQL
5 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 4 (23.53%) Terraform
3 2 (11.76%) Ansible
3 2 (11.76%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft