AWS Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineer - Amazon Web Services
North West > Manchester

The median Infrastructure Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in Manchester is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 September 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
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 - 111
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Infrastructure Engineer 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.30% - 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% - 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £455 - -
25th Percentile £509 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £525
75th Percentile £613 - £538
90th Percentile £620 - -
North West median daily rate £600 - £525

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 935 1,123 1,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 95.17% 94.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 595 700 1,166
10th Percentile £300 £340 £294
25th Percentile £390 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £594
90th Percentile £656 £713 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 39 56
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.60 £15.19
25th Percentile £14.20 £20.63 £16.54
Median hourly rate £21.71 £31.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.98% +63.16% +6.68%
75th Percentile £33.00 £61.25 £38.96
90th Percentile £72.88 £78.20 £67.50
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year -32.04% +21.15% +27.54%

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 10 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 10 September 2025, AWS Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (66.67%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Packer
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 2 (66.67%) Go
2 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CDK
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Linux

AWS Infrastructure 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) AWS CDK
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
1 2 (66.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
1 2 (66.67%) Static Application Security Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Go
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Packer
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) VMware