AWS Specialist Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Amazon Web Services Specialist
England > North of England

The median Amazon Web Services Specialist daily rate in the North of England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Specialist 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.023% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
England median daily rate £538 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -6.52% +15.00% -16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 3,929 3,689 4,730
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.46% 92.02% 93.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,619 1,993 3,220
10th Percentile £220 £263 £263
25th Percentile £369 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.88% -4.40% -
75th Percentile £564 £575 £600
90th Percentile £671 £650 £675
England median daily rate £512 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.57% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 226 217
10th Percentile £14.13 £15.36 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.33 £18.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.41% +16.36% +29.66%
75th Percentile £51.14 £48.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £70.00 £61.99
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.55
% change year-on-year -40.82% -6.69% +57.49%

AWS Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Specialist' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

AWS Specialist job vacancy trend in the North of England

AWS Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Specialist job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Specialist job vacancies in the North of England

AWS Specialist
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 Specialist within the North of England region over the 6 months to 24 October 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
Yorkshire - 1 £550 -
AWS Specialist
England

AWS Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 24 October 2025, AWS Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring AWS Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Application Discovery
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Business Case
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) CloudEndure
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python

AWS Specialist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Application Discovery
1 1 (100.00%) Business Case
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CloudEndure