AWS Contracts in Merseyside

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 28 34
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 -7
Contract jobs citing AWS 6 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 3.57% 2.19% 3.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.33% 10.64% 10.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 13
10th Percentile £463 - £370
25th Percentile £466 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £350 £450
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -22.22% +25.87%
75th Percentile £638 - £519
90th Percentile £644 - £604
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -

All Cloud Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 45 47 125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 26.79% 20.61% 36.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 27 97
10th Percentile £133 £143 £343
25th Percentile £150 £181 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £248 £500
Median % change year-on-year +31.31% -50.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £513 £388 £675
90th Percentile £638 £443 £700
North West median daily rate £473 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 5
10th Percentile - - £16.21
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - -8.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £17.63 £19.25
90th Percentile - £18.80 £21.95
North West median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
% change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Merseyside

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Merseyside

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Merseyside

AWS
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Liverpool +7 4 £625 +78.57% 23
AWS
North West

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) GCP
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Snowflake
3 2 (33.33%) dbt
4 1 (16.67%) Google Ads
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Big Data
3 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Advertising
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Principal DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (33.33%) ITSM
3 2 (33.33%) Workflow
4 1 (16.67%) Data Science
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Inventory Management
4 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
4 1 (16.67%) Monetization
4 1 (16.67%) Predictive Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Apple
3 1 (16.67%) Criteo
3 1 (16.67%) Databricks