Amazon EC2 Contracts in the North of England

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Amazon EC2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 149 179
Rank change year-on-year +10 +30 -10
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 51 68 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.08% 1.17% 0.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.69% 3.21% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 50 47
10th Percentile £412 - £423
25th Percentile £450 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% -12.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £659 £647 £650
90th Percentile £694 £653 £688
England median daily rate £530 £613 £575
% change year-on-year -13.47% +6.52% +9.52%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

Amazon EC2 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 1,383 2,118 2,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.38% 36.47% 34.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 983 1,583 1,912
10th Percentile £263 £300 £190
25th Percentile £375 £415 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £597 £588
90th Percentile £638 £680 £662
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 37 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.22 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £39.60 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -59.44% +111.20% -1.32%
75th Percentile £20.77 £65.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £20.77 £30.50 £21.05
% change year-on-year -31.90% +44.89% -2.09%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the North of England

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the North of England

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the North of England

Amazon EC2
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 Amazon EC2 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 6 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 +37 41 £550 -15.38% 11
Yorkshire -7 10 £463 -15.91% 4
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
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 8 (15.69%) Apache
1 8 (15.69%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (9.80%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.92%) nginx
3 2 (3.92%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 51 (100.00%) AWS
2 34 (66.67%) Amazon S3
3 30 (58.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 24 (47.06%) AWS Lambda
4 24 (47.06%) Serverless
5 16 (31.37%) Route 53
6 14 (27.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 14 (27.45%) Amazon SQS
6 14 (27.45%) Snowflake
7 11 (21.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (19.61%) Amazon ELB
9 9 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (15.69%) Amazon ECR
11 5 (9.80%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (9.80%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (7.84%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (7.84%) AWS CodePipeline
12 4 (7.84%) AWS KMS
13 3 (5.88%) IaaS
13 3 (5.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.80%) FTP
2 2 (3.92%) DNS
2 2 (3.92%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (27.45%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (19.61%) DynamoDB
3 8 (15.69%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (13.73%) MySQL
5 6 (11.76%) Data Lake
5 6 (11.76%) NoSQL
6 5 (9.80%) Big Data
7 4 (7.84%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (43.14%) GitLab
2 21 (41.18%) Git
3 13 (25.49%) Jenkins
4 8 (15.69%) webpack
5 6 (11.76%) SonarQube
6 5 (9.80%) JIRA
General
1 8 (15.69%) Manufacturing
2 6 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.80%) Finance
3 5 (9.80%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (5.88%) Electronics
4 3 (5.88%) Marketing
4 3 (5.88%) Retail
4 3 (5.88%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.96%) Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (27.45%) Lead
3 12 (23.53%) AWS DevOps
4 10 (19.61%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (15.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 7 (13.73%) Architect
8 6 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (9.80%) Data Engineer
9 5 (9.80%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 4 (7.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 4 (7.84%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (7.84%) Technical Leader
11 3 (5.88%) AWS Architect
11 3 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
11 3 (5.88%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 3 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (5.88%) Lead Architect
11 3 (5.88%) Operations Engineer
11 3 (5.88%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.69%) Express.js
1 8 (15.69%) Node.js
1 8 (15.69%) React
1 8 (15.69%) Redux
2 5 (9.80%) JSON
2 5 (9.80%) XML
3 2 (3.92%) cloud-init
4 1 (1.96%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.84%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.92%) Clustering
2 2 (3.92%) PKI
3 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.69%) Linux
2 6 (11.76%) CentOS
2 6 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.92%) Windows
4 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (64.71%) CI/CD
2 31 (60.78%) DevOps
3 25 (49.02%) Containerisation
4 13 (25.49%) Agile
4 13 (25.49%) ETL
4 13 (25.49%) Test Automation
5 12 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (19.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 9 (17.65%) Scrum
8 8 (15.69%) API Development
8 8 (15.69%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 8 (15.69%) Customer Engagement
8 8 (15.69%) Data Management
8 8 (15.69%) End-to-End Testing
8 8 (15.69%) Front End Development
8 8 (15.69%) Full Stack Development
8 8 (15.69%) QA Automation
8 8 (15.69%) Software Engineering
9 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure Management
10 6 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 29 (56.86%) Python
2 17 (33.33%) Bash
3 14 (27.45%) SQL
4 8 (15.69%) Go
5 5 (9.80%) C#
5 5 (9.80%) Java
5 5 (9.80%) Ruby
6 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (39.22%) SC Cleared
1 20 (39.22%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.76%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.61%) QA
2 3 (5.88%) ISO 22301
2 3 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.92%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (35.29%) Docker
2 2 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (58.82%) Kubernetes
2 26 (50.98%) Terraform
3 12 (23.53%) Ansible
4 6 (11.76%) HP Fortify
4 6 (11.76%) Packer
4 6 (11.76%) Puppet
5 5 (9.80%) Prometheus
6 4 (7.84%) Rancher
7 3 (5.88%) Grafana
8 2 (3.92%) Consul
8 2 (3.92%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (3.92%) Graphite
8 2 (3.92%) HAProxy
8 2 (3.92%) Istio
8 2 (3.92%) linkerd
8 2 (3.92%) Podman
8 2 (3.92%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (15.69%) Informatica
1 8 (15.69%) Splunk
2 5 (9.80%) Talend
3 3 (5.88%) Salesforce
3 3 (5.88%) SAP
4 2 (3.92%) PagerDuty
4 2 (3.92%) VMware
5 1 (1.96%) Oracle