AWS Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 15 5
Rank change year-on-year +12 -10 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 193 101 222
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 17.05% 8.84% 13.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.24% 24.75% 33.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 58 187
10th Percentile £363 £400 £325
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -0.05% -13.04%
75th Percentile £584 £561 £603
90th Percentile £650 £588 £700
North West median daily rate £460 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -3.16% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £29.20 - -
25th Percentile £38.50 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £54.00 £58.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% -22.67% +114.29%
75th Percentile £69.50 - £77.50
90th Percentile £78.80 - -
North West median hourly rate £54.00 £52.09 £46.18
% change year-on-year +3.67% +12.80% +31.94%

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

AWS 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 468 408 671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 41.34% 35.70% 41.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 270 533
10th Percentile £313 £317 £277
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.63% -1.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £642 £675 £650
North West median daily rate £447 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -5.89% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 16
10th Percentile £18.40 £29.15 £15.74
25th Percentile £21.46 £29.38 £15.75
Median hourly rate £23.00 £44.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -48.31% +151.13% -72.74%
75th Percentile £50.75 £60.94 £36.25
90th Percentile £76.00 £66.23 £78.13
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £23.61
% change year-on-year -16.17% +27.06% +4.93%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Manchester

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing AWS

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Manchester

AWS
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing AWS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing AWS

AWS
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in Manchester

AWS
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 AWS within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Oldham - 4 - -
Bolton - 1 £425 - 13
AWS
North West

AWS
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 15 (7.77%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.11%) Apache
3 5 (2.59%) Confluence
4 4 (2.07%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.07%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.55%) IIS
6 2 (1.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (1.04%) iPlanet
6 2 (1.04%) JBoss
6 2 (1.04%) Jupyter
6 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.04%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.04%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.52%) nginx
7 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 57 (29.53%) Azure
2 44 (22.80%) Serverless
3 41 (21.24%) GCP
4 37 (19.17%) AWS Lambda
5 28 (14.51%) GitHub
6 25 (12.95%) Amazon SQS
7 23 (11.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (10.36%) Amazon ECS
9 19 (9.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (8.81%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (8.29%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (6.74%) AWS Step Functions
13 12 (6.22%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (6.22%) Amazon EventBridge
13 12 (6.22%) Amazon S3
13 12 (6.22%) Datadog
14 8 (4.15%) AWS Fargate
14 8 (4.15%) SaaS
15 6 (3.11%) Apigee
16 5 (2.59%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.63%) Firewall
2 4 (2.07%) DNS
2 4 (2.07%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.55%) VPN
4 2 (1.04%) DHCP
4 2 (1.04%) Kerberos
4 2 (1.04%) Network Security
4 2 (1.04%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.52%) SSL
5 1 (0.52%) VLAN
5 1 (0.52%) VoIP
5 1 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.88%) DynamoDB
2 20 (10.36%) NoSQL
3 18 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (7.25%) Redis
5 13 (6.74%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (6.74%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (4.66%) DocumentDB
6 9 (4.66%) MongoDB
6 9 (4.66%) MySQL
7 8 (4.15%) Relational Database
8 6 (3.11%) BigQuery
8 6 (3.11%) Data Lake
8 6 (3.11%) Metadata
9 5 (2.59%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (1.04%) Oracle Database
12 2 (1.04%) Power BI
13 1 (0.52%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 29 (15.03%) GitLab
2 26 (13.47%) Jenkins
3 25 (12.95%) Git
4 14 (7.25%) SonarQube
5 10 (5.18%) JIRA
6 5 (2.59%) Gradle
6 5 (2.59%) Maven
6 5 (2.59%) SonarLint
7 2 (1.04%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.04%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (1.04%) CA Release Automation
7 2 (1.04%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.04%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.04%) Snyk
7 2 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.52%) Gatling
8 1 (0.52%) JUnit
8 1 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 48 (24.87%) Public Sector
2 40 (20.73%) Social Skills
3 39 (20.21%) Finance
4 10 (5.18%) Banking
5 4 (2.07%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (2.07%) Games
5 4 (2.07%) Marketing
6 3 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.55%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.55%) Retail
7 2 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.04%) Law
7 2 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.52%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.52%) Electronics
8 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (20.21%) Developer
2 31 (16.06%) Architect
3 24 (12.44%) AWS Engineer
4 20 (10.36%) Lead
5 18 (9.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (8.81%) Senior
7 15 (7.77%) Technical Architect
8 14 (7.25%) AWS DevOps
9 12 (6.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 12 (6.22%) Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (6.22%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (5.18%) AWS Developer
10 10 (5.18%) Java Architect
10 10 (5.18%) Java Technical Architect
11 9 (4.66%) Software Engineer
12 8 (4.15%) Data Engineer
12 8 (4.15%) Java Developer
13 7 (3.63%) JavaScript Developer
13 7 (3.63%) React Developer
13 7 (3.63%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (14.51%) Node.js
2 23 (11.92%) Spring Boot
3 22 (11.40%) Kafka
3 22 (11.40%) React
4 19 (9.84%) RESTful
5 17 (8.81%) Spring
6 11 (5.70%) REST
7 10 (5.18%) AngularJS
7 10 (5.18%) OAuth
8 8 (4.15%) GraphQL
9 7 (3.63%) JWT
9 7 (3.63%) NestJS
9 7 (3.63%) OAuth2
10 6 (3.11%) Dropwizard
10 6 (3.11%) HTML
10 6 (3.11%) J2EE
10 6 (3.11%) Micronaut
11 5 (2.59%) .NET
11 5 (2.59%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (2.59%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.40%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.66%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (4.15%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.15%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.11%) N-Tier
4 6 (3.11%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.07%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.55%) NHS
6 3 (1.55%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.04%) Synthetic Data
8 1 (0.52%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.52%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Licensing
8 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.29%) Linux
2 4 (2.07%) Windows
3 1 (0.52%) Unix
3 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (38.86%) DevOps
2 70 (36.27%) CI/CD
3 50 (25.91%) Microservices
4 40 (20.73%) Agile
5 39 (20.21%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (19.69%) Containerisation
7 29 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (12.95%) Event-Driven
9 24 (12.44%) Migration
10 22 (11.40%) Mentoring
11 21 (10.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 21 (10.88%) Full-Stack Development
11 21 (10.88%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (10.88%) TDD
12 19 (9.84%) Observability
13 18 (9.33%) AI
13 18 (9.33%) Design Patterns
13 18 (9.33%) Software Engineering
14 17 (8.81%) Clean Code
15 16 (8.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 62 (32.12%) Python
2 50 (25.91%) Java
3 31 (16.06%) SQL
4 23 (11.92%) TypeScript
5 16 (8.29%) Bash
6 12 (6.22%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.15%) Go
8 4 (2.07%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.07%) Ruby
8 4 (2.07%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.55%) Perl
9 3 (1.55%) Scala
10 2 (1.04%) AWK
10 2 (1.04%) Groovy
11 1 (0.52%) Clojure
11 1 (0.52%) PHP
11 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.52%) R
11 1 (0.52%) Rust
11 1 (0.52%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 48 (24.87%) Security Cleared
2 36 (18.65%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (4.66%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.59%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.59%) Degree
6 3 (1.55%) CCNP
6 3 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.55%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.52%) CISM
8 1 (0.52%) CISSP
8 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.52%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.15%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.59%) QA
3 3 (1.55%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.55%) GDPR
3 3 (1.55%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.04%) NIST
5 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 54 (27.98%) Docker
2 6 (3.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.59%) vSphere
4 2 (1.04%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.52%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 65 (33.68%) Terraform
2 53 (27.46%) Kubernetes
3 13 (6.74%) Ansible
4 11 (5.70%) Prometheus
5 10 (5.18%) Grafana
6 3 (1.55%) Packer
7 2 (1.04%) CA Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.04%) CA Wily
7 2 (1.04%) Control-M
7 2 (1.04%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.52%) Argo
8 1 (0.52%) Puppet
8 1 (0.52%) SCCM
8 1 (0.52%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 19 (9.84%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.15%) Oracle
3 7 (3.63%) Splunk
4 6 (3.11%) F5
4 6 (3.11%) Gigya
4 6 (3.11%) Google
4 6 (3.11%) Palo Alto
4 6 (3.11%) VMware
5 5 (2.59%) IBM
5 5 (2.59%) Ping Identity
6 4 (2.07%) Confluent
7 3 (1.55%) Citrix
7 3 (1.55%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.55%) SAP
8 2 (1.04%) Adobe
8 2 (1.04%) Blue Prism
8 2 (1.04%) Broadcom
8 2 (1.04%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.04%) Foundry
8 2 (1.04%) Salesforce