AWS Contracts in the North of England

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 11 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 432 707 941
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 9.25% 12.43% 13.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.40% 33.93% 37.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 555 707
10th Percentile £350 £414 £408
25th Percentile £419 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £630
90th Percentile £668 £700 £675
England median daily rate £563 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.69% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 16
10th Percentile £55.97 £35.92 £60.63
25th Percentile £65.00 £37.30 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £39.60 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.77% -47.20% +200.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £52.68 £78.38
90th Percentile £73.30 £60.52 £81.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +20.69%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,376 2,084 2,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.45% 36.65% 35.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 978 1,555 1,892
10th Percentile £263 £300 £193
25th Percentile £386 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £588
90th Percentile £643 £680 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 37 75
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.22 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £39.60 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.44% +98.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £22.00 £65.00 £59.38
90th Percentile £44.24 £70.00 £76.50
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% +1.84%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for AWS in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
North West -4 280 £492 -10.50% 210
Yorkshire -9 133 £550 - 112
North East -8 21 £575 -8.00% 37
AWS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 18 (4.17%) Apache
2 15 (3.47%) Confluence
3 11 (2.55%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (1.16%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.93%) CMS
6 4 (0.93%) Mule
7 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.69%) nginx
8 2 (0.46%) Traefik
9 1 (0.23%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.23%) Drupal
9 1 (0.23%) JBoss
9 1 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.16%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.39%) Temenos T24
2 2 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 138 (31.94%) Azure
2 67 (15.51%) GCP
3 53 (12.27%) Serverless
4 50 (11.57%) Amazon S3
5 49 (11.34%) Amazon EC2
6 41 (9.49%) AWS Lambda
7 34 (7.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 30 (6.94%) GitHub
9 28 (6.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 24 (5.56%) Snowflake
11 19 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
13 16 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
13 16 (3.70%) Route 53
14 15 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
14 15 (3.47%) SaaS
15 14 (3.24%) Apigee
16 13 (3.01%) Kong
16 13 (3.01%) Power Platform
17 12 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.56%) VPN
2 20 (4.63%) Firewall
3 19 (4.40%) DNS
4 17 (3.94%) TCP/IP
5 11 (2.55%) LAN
5 11 (2.55%) OSPF
5 11 (2.55%) WAN
6 10 (2.31%) Network Security
7 9 (2.08%) HTTP
8 8 (1.85%) Wireless
9 7 (1.62%) Ethernet
9 7 (1.62%) SSL
9 7 (1.62%) VLAN
9 7 (1.62%) Wireless Security
10 5 (1.16%) DHCP
10 5 (1.16%) FTP
10 5 (1.16%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.93%) BGP
11 4 (0.93%) MPLS
11 4 (0.93%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (9.03%) MongoDB
2 19 (4.40%) MySQL
3 18 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (3.94%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (3.24%) Big Data
7 13 (3.01%) Data Lake
7 13 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (3.01%) Power BI
7 13 (3.01%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.55%) DynamoDB
8 11 (2.55%) NoSQL
8 11 (2.55%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.62%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.39%) Flink
11 5 (1.16%) OLAP
11 5 (1.16%) OLTP
11 5 (1.16%) Oracle OLAP
12 4 (0.93%) DB2
Development Applications
1 67 (15.51%) GitLab
2 58 (13.43%) Git
3 55 (12.73%) Jenkins
4 31 (7.18%) JIRA
5 12 (2.78%) SonarQube
6 9 (2.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (2.08%) Cucumber
6 9 (2.08%) Cypress.io
6 9 (2.08%) Travis CI
7 8 (1.85%) CircleCI
7 8 (1.85%) webpack
8 7 (1.62%) Burp Suite
9 6 (1.39%) Hudson
9 6 (1.39%) Maven
10 5 (1.16%) Liquibase
10 5 (1.16%) Selenium
11 4 (0.93%) AppScan
11 4 (0.93%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.93%) Log4j
12 3 (0.69%) JMeter
General
1 86 (19.91%) Social Skills
2 39 (9.03%) Public Sector
3 38 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (6.48%) Finance
5 17 (3.94%) Banking
6 13 (3.01%) Retail
7 11 (2.55%) Manufacturing
8 7 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (1.16%) Marketing
9 5 (1.16%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.93%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.46%) Electronics
11 2 (0.46%) Games
11 2 (0.46%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.23%) Advertising
12 1 (0.23%) Automotive
12 1 (0.23%) Back Office
12 1 (0.23%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 114 (26.39%) Developer
2 53 (12.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 47 (10.88%) Architect
4 46 (10.65%) Lead
5 40 (9.26%) Senior
6 35 (8.10%) Java Developer
6 35 (8.10%) Software Engineer
7 31 (7.18%) AWS Engineer
8 26 (6.02%) AWS DevOps
9 18 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 17 (3.94%) Cloud Engineer
10 17 (3.94%) Data Engineer
10 17 (3.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (3.94%) Network Engineer
11 16 (3.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 15 (3.47%) Python Developer
13 14 (3.24%) AWS Architect
13 14 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (3.01%) Site Engineer
15 11 (2.55%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (13.43%) Node.js
2 46 (10.65%) RESTful
3 45 (10.42%) React
4 32 (7.41%) Spring
4 32 (7.41%) Spring Boot
5 26 (6.02%) Web Services
6 18 (4.17%) REST
7 17 (3.94%) Kafka
7 17 (3.94%) OAuth
8 16 (3.70%) JSON
8 16 (3.70%) OpenID
9 15 (3.47%) .NET
9 15 (3.47%) XML
10 12 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (2.78%) Hibernate
11 11 (2.55%) AngularJS
11 11 (2.55%) Redux
12 10 (2.31%) Express.js
12 10 (2.31%) Lambda Expressions
12 10 (2.31%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.17%) Public Cloud
2 13 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (1.85%) Data Structures
4 8 (1.85%) Virtual Team
5 7 (1.62%) NHS
6 6 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.39%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.39%) Replication
7 5 (1.16%) DataPower
7 5 (1.16%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.16%) PKI
8 4 (0.93%) Cloud Native
8 4 (0.93%) Mainframe
8 4 (0.93%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.69%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (0.69%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 55 (12.73%) Linux
2 28 (6.48%) Windows
3 19 (4.40%) Unix
4 11 (2.55%) Windows Server
5 10 (2.31%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.85%) Android
6 8 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.39%) CentOS
8 4 (0.93%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.69%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (32.41%) CI/CD
2 131 (30.32%) Agile
3 112 (25.93%) DevOps
4 65 (15.05%) Containerisation
5 61 (14.12%) Software Engineering
6 58 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (12.50%) Microservices
8 50 (11.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 46 (10.65%) Stakeholder Management
10 43 (9.95%) Scrum
11 41 (9.49%) Test Automation
12 35 (8.10%) Design Patterns
13 32 (7.41%) Full Stack Development
14 31 (7.18%) Continuous Integration
15 30 (6.94%) Migration
16 29 (6.71%) ETL
17 27 (6.25%) Data Modelling
18 25 (5.79%) Roadmaps
19 24 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 24 (5.56%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 124 (28.70%) Python
2 111 (25.69%) Java
3 50 (11.57%) Bash
4 48 (11.11%) SQL
5 39 (9.03%) JavaScript
6 32 (7.41%) TypeScript
7 27 (6.25%) PowerShell
8 20 (4.63%) Go
9 12 (2.78%) Scala
10 11 (2.55%) PHP
11 10 (2.31%) C#
12 9 (2.08%) C
13 8 (1.85%) Ruby
14 2 (0.46%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.46%) Bicep
14 2 (0.46%) Perl
14 2 (0.46%) R
14 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.23%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 90 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 77 (17.82%) SC Cleared
3 15 (3.47%) AWS Certification
3 15 (3.47%) Cisco Certification
3 15 (3.47%) Degree
4 10 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (2.31%) CCNA
5 9 (2.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 7 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.39%) CCNP
8 5 (1.16%) CCIE
8 5 (1.16%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.93%) VCAP
10 3 (0.69%) CISM
10 3 (0.69%) CISSP
10 3 (0.69%) MCSE
10 3 (0.69%) OSCP
11 2 (0.46%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.46%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.64%) QA
2 13 (3.01%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.08%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.08%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.62%) NIST
5 4 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (0.93%) SLA
6 3 (0.69%) ISO 22301
6 3 (0.69%) NCSC
7 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.23%) GDPR
8 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 72 (16.67%) Docker
2 15 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.78%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.31%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.46%) HDFS
6 1 (0.23%) ACF2
6 1 (0.23%) IAG
6 1 (0.23%) RACF
6 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.23%) vSphere
6 1 (0.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 103 (23.84%) Kubernetes
1 103 (23.84%) Terraform
2 40 (9.26%) Ansible
3 26 (6.02%) Prometheus
4 25 (5.79%) Grafana
5 21 (4.86%) Puppet
6 17 (3.94%) Progress Chef
7 11 (2.55%) Docker Swarm
7 11 (2.55%) Kibana
8 10 (2.31%) HP Fortify
9 8 (1.85%) logstash
10 7 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (1.62%) Packer
10 7 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.93%) Graylog
11 4 (0.93%) Nessus
11 4 (0.93%) Rancher
11 4 (0.93%) WebInspect
12 3 (0.69%) Istio
13 2 (0.46%) Consul
Vendors
1 29 (6.71%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.48%) Splunk
3 23 (5.32%) Google
4 21 (4.86%) VMware
5 12 (2.78%) Oracle
6 8 (1.85%) Informatica
7 7 (1.62%) Databricks
7 7 (1.62%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.62%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.62%) Sophos
8 6 (1.39%) Cisco
8 6 (1.39%) IBM
8 6 (1.39%) PagerDuty
8 6 (1.39%) SAP
9 5 (1.16%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.16%) Brio
9 5 (1.16%) Talend
9 5 (1.16%) TSYS
10 4 (0.93%) SolarWinds
10 4 (0.93%) Veracode