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 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 4
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 234 131 242
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 17.94% 12.66% 15.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 43.09% 31.57% 38.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 97 207
10th Percentile £375 £400 £325
25th Percentile £414 £425 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.90% -0.10% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £588
90th Percentile £644 £713 £694
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 2
10th Percentile £61.50 - £67.94
25th Percentile £72.50 - £68.59
Median hourly rate £76.00 - £70.94
75th Percentile £85.00 - £72.34
90th Percentile £95.00 - £72.44
North West median hourly rate £76.00 £75.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +1.33% +62.41% +31.94%

All Cloud Computing 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 543 415 623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 41.64% 40.10% 38.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 305 496
10th Percentile £313 £325 £300
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £550
90th Percentile £628 £700 £650
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £485
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 1 17
10th Percentile £18.86 - £17.13
25th Percentile £25.15 - £19.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £29.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +141.38% +11.54% -60.00%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £72.50
90th Percentile £91.00 - £80.25
North West median hourly rate £45.23 £24.18 £21.00
% change year-on-year +87.06% +15.14% -58.00%

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 10 February 2026.

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 10 February 2026.

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 10 February 2026. 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 - -
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 (6.41%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.14%) Apache
2 5 (2.14%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.71%) Confluence
3 4 (1.71%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.85%) IIS
5 2 (0.85%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.43%) iPlanet
6 1 (0.43%) JBoss
6 1 (0.43%) SAS
6 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.43%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 70 (29.91%) Azure
2 51 (21.79%) Serverless
3 47 (20.09%) GCP
4 41 (17.52%) AWS Lambda
5 29 (12.39%) GitHub
6 24 (10.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (9.83%) Amazon S3
8 22 (9.40%) Amazon SQS
9 19 (8.12%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (7.26%) Amazon EC2
10 17 (7.26%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (6.41%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (5.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (4.27%) AWS Step Functions
14 7 (2.99%) Amazon EventBridge
14 7 (2.99%) AWS Fargate
14 7 (2.99%) Datadog
15 6 (2.56%) OpenShift
16 5 (2.14%) Amazon ECR
16 5 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.56%) Firewall
2 4 (1.71%) VPN
3 2 (0.85%) Network Security
3 2 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (0.85%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.43%) DNS
4 1 (0.43%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.43%) SSL
4 1 (0.43%) VLAN
4 1 (0.43%) VoIP
4 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.26%) DynamoDB
1 17 (7.26%) NoSQL
2 13 (5.56%) DocumentDB
3 12 (5.13%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.70%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.99%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.99%) MySQL
6 7 (2.99%) Redis
7 6 (2.56%) Metadata
8 5 (2.14%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.28%) OLTP
10 3 (1.28%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.85%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.85%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 38 (16.24%) GitLab
2 22 (9.40%) Git
3 19 (8.12%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.85%) SonarQube
5 8 (3.42%) JIRA
6 4 (1.71%) Selenium
7 3 (1.28%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.28%) Gradle
7 3 (1.28%) Jasmine
7 3 (1.28%) JMeter
7 3 (1.28%) Maven
7 3 (1.28%) Postman
7 3 (1.28%) Snyk
8 2 (0.85%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.85%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.85%) Gatling
8 2 (0.85%) JUnit
8 2 (0.85%) Mocha
8 2 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.43%) Mockito
General
1 52 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 47 (20.09%) Finance
3 43 (18.38%) Social Skills
4 10 (4.27%) Banking
5 9 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.71%) Games
8 3 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.85%) Law
9 2 (0.85%) Local Government
9 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.85%) Marketing
9 2 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Automotive
10 1 (0.43%) Electronics
10 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (26.50%) Developer
2 33 (14.10%) Senior
3 27 (11.54%) Architect
4 23 (9.83%) Lead
5 22 (9.40%) AWS Engineer
6 21 (8.97%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (8.97%) Software Engineer
7 20 (8.55%) Full-Stack Developer
8 15 (6.41%) AWS DevOps
9 13 (5.56%) AWS Developer
9 13 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 13 (5.56%) Java Developer
10 11 (4.70%) Node.js Developer
10 11 (4.70%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.27%) Backend Developer
11 10 (4.27%) Senior Developer
11 10 (4.27%) Senior Software Engineer
12 9 (3.85%) Data Engineer
13 8 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
14 7 (2.99%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (16.24%) Spring
1 38 (16.24%) Spring Boot
2 37 (15.81%) Node.js
2 37 (15.81%) React
3 27 (11.54%) Kafka
4 20 (8.55%) AngularJS
4 20 (8.55%) RESTful
5 16 (6.84%) REST
6 10 (4.27%) GraphQL
7 8 (3.42%) NestJS
8 7 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (2.99%) Jest
8 7 (2.99%) Playwright
9 6 (2.56%) Lambda Expressions
9 6 (2.56%) OAuth
9 6 (2.56%) XGBoost
10 5 (2.14%) CSS3
10 5 (2.14%) HTML5
10 5 (2.14%) Sass
10 5 (2.14%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.25%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.27%) Mobile App
3 9 (3.85%) Data Centre
3 9 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.42%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.99%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.14%) NHS
7 3 (1.28%) e-Learning
7 3 (1.28%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.28%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.28%) Taxonomies
7 3 (1.28%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.43%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.43%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.43%) IBM XIV
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.40%) Linux
2 7 (2.99%) Windows
3 3 (1.28%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.28%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (38.46%) DevOps
2 83 (35.47%) CI/CD
3 65 (27.78%) Microservices
4 47 (20.09%) Agile
5 44 (18.80%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (16.24%) Containerisation
6 38 (16.24%) Full-Stack Development
7 34 (14.53%) Software Engineering
8 28 (11.97%) Migration
8 28 (11.97%) Observability
9 27 (11.54%) Event-Driven
10 26 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (10.26%) Machine Learning
11 24 (10.26%) Mentoring
12 23 (9.83%) TDD
13 22 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (8.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 21 (8.97%) Test Automation
15 19 (8.12%) Analytics
16 17 (7.26%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (32.91%) Java
2 65 (27.78%) Python
3 37 (15.81%) TypeScript
4 36 (15.38%) SQL
5 19 (8.12%) Bash
6 18 (7.69%) JavaScript
7 11 (4.70%) Go
8 10 (4.27%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.14%) Rust
9 5 (2.14%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.71%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.71%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.71%) Ruby
11 3 (1.28%) ProC
11 3 (1.28%) Scala
12 2 (0.85%) AWK
12 2 (0.85%) C
13 1 (0.43%) C#
13 1 (0.43%) C++
13 1 (0.43%) Perl
Qualifications
1 50 (21.37%) Security Cleared
2 35 (14.96%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (4.27%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.99%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.14%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.14%) Degree
8 3 (1.28%) CCNP
8 3 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.28%) IBM Certification
8 3 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.85%) CISM
9 2 (0.85%) CISSP
10 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.43%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.56%) GDPR
4 5 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.28%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.85%) NIST
6 2 (0.85%) QA
6 2 (0.85%) WCAG
7 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 60 (25.64%) Docker
2 9 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.99%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.14%) vSphere
5 3 (1.28%) ISA Server
6 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.43%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 67 (28.63%) Terraform
2 61 (26.07%) Kubernetes
3 18 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 16 (6.84%) Grafana
5 13 (5.56%) Ansible
6 4 (1.71%) SCCM
7 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.85%) Control-M
8 2 (0.85%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.43%) Argo
9 1 (0.43%) CA Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.43%) CA Wily
9 1 (0.43%) Packer
9 1 (0.43%) Puppet
9 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.43%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 20 (8.55%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.70%) Google
2 11 (4.70%) Oracle
3 10 (4.27%) VMware
4 8 (3.42%) Splunk
5 6 (2.56%) Citrix
5 6 (2.56%) F5
5 6 (2.56%) IBM
5 6 (2.56%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.14%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.14%) Ping Identity
7 4 (1.71%) Confluent
8 3 (1.28%) Adobe
8 3 (1.28%) Checkmarx
8 3 (1.28%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.28%) SAP
8 3 (1.28%) Veracode
9 2 (0.85%) Blue Prism
9 2 (0.85%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.85%) Salesforce