AWS Contracts in the North of England

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 10 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 11 12
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 454 473 621
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 11.98% 9.92% 11.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.06% 32.18% 31.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 341 473
10th Percentile £358 £350 £413
25th Percentile £400 £406 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -11.09% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £638
90th Percentile £668 £638 £700
England median daily rate £538 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -4.44% -6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 9
10th Percentile £67.88 £46.18 £31.85
25th Percentile £68.44 £58.42 £35.00
Median hourly rate £77.50 £70.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% +72.84% -46.00%
75th Percentile £90.31 £72.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £93.13 £73.10 £50.09
England median hourly rate £71.25 £46.18 £73.00
% change year-on-year +54.29% -36.74% +11.38%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,259 1,470 1,984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.21% 30.84% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 914 1,025 1,463
10th Percentile £288 £268 £286
25th Percentile £388 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £591
90th Percentile £638 £643 £679
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 75 51
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.10 £15.75
25th Percentile £12.82 £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -28.34% +4.23%
75th Percentile £46.19 £26.50 £41.63
90th Percentile £82.50 £60.32 £56.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +14.32% -33.33% +53.49%

AWS
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 July 2025.

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 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in the North of England

AWS
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 July 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
North West +3 260 £475 -2.86% 430
Yorkshire -2 148 £500 +2.56% 261
North East +5 57 £500 - 77
AWS
England

AWS
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 22 (4.85%) JBoss
2 18 (3.96%) Confluence
3 16 (3.52%) Tomcat
4 15 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (2.42%) WebSphere
6 8 (1.76%) Apache Spark
7 6 (1.32%) Apache
8 5 (1.10%) WebLogic
9 4 (0.88%) CMS
9 4 (0.88%) nginx
9 4 (0.88%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.88%) WebSphere Application Server
10 3 (0.66%) CICS
10 3 (0.66%) Documentum
10 3 (0.66%) FileNet
10 3 (0.66%) SAS
11 2 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.44%) IIS
12 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.10%) Kondor
2 1 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.22%) Magento
2 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 142 (31.28%) Azure
2 104 (22.91%) GCP
3 71 (15.64%) Serverless
4 47 (10.35%) AWS Lambda
5 44 (9.69%) Amazon S3
6 40 (8.81%) GitHub
7 35 (7.71%) Amazon EC2
8 32 (7.05%) Amazon EKS
9 29 (6.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (4.85%) Amazon ECS
11 21 (4.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (4.19%) OpenShift
13 18 (3.96%) SaaS
14 15 (3.30%) Amazon SQS
14 15 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
15 13 (2.86%) Entra ID
16 9 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
16 9 (1.98%) dbt
16 9 (1.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.63%) Firewall
2 13 (2.86%) DNS
3 10 (2.20%) Network Security
3 10 (2.20%) VPN
4 9 (1.98%) DHCP
4 9 (1.98%) MPLS
4 9 (1.98%) VLAN
5 8 (1.76%) BGP
5 8 (1.76%) HTTP
5 8 (1.76%) OSPF
6 7 (1.54%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.10%) 4G
7 5 (1.10%) SSL
8 4 (0.88%) 3GPP
8 4 (0.88%) 5G
8 4 (0.88%) Calico
8 4 (0.88%) IPsec
8 4 (0.88%) Radio Access Network
8 4 (0.88%) WAN
8 4 (0.88%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (10.35%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (10.13%) MongoDB
3 31 (6.83%) NoSQL
4 23 (5.07%) MySQL
4 23 (5.07%) SQL Server
5 21 (4.63%) DynamoDB
6 19 (4.19%) Amazon Redshift
6 19 (4.19%) Relational Database
7 12 (2.64%) Big Data
7 12 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (2.20%) Hadoop
10 9 (1.98%) DB2
10 9 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.98%) RDBMS
11 7 (1.54%) Power BI
12 6 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (1.32%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.10%) BigQuery
14 4 (0.88%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 79 (17.40%) Jenkins
2 73 (16.08%) Git
3 65 (14.32%) GitLab
4 56 (12.33%) JIRA
5 25 (5.51%) Sonatype Nexus
6 20 (4.41%) Maven
6 20 (4.41%) SonarQube
7 14 (3.08%) Postman
8 11 (2.42%) TeamCity
9 9 (1.98%) Artifactory
9 9 (1.98%) JUnit
9 9 (1.98%) Selenium
9 9 (1.98%) SoapUI
10 8 (1.76%) Bitbucket Server
10 8 (1.76%) CA Release Automation
11 7 (1.54%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.54%) Gradle
12 5 (1.10%) Cucumber
12 5 (1.10%) REST Assured
12 5 (1.10%) ScriptRunner
General
1 96 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 59 (13.00%) Public Sector
3 55 (12.11%) Finance
4 40 (8.81%) Banking
5 39 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.20%) Retail
7 9 (1.98%) Legal
8 6 (1.32%) Military
9 5 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.88%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.66%) Japanese Language
11 3 (0.66%) Marketing
12 2 (0.44%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.44%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.44%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.44%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 96 (21.15%) Developer
2 72 (15.86%) Architect
3 66 (14.54%) Senior
4 51 (11.23%) DevOps Engineer
5 39 (8.59%) AWS Engineer
6 32 (7.05%) Lead
7 27 (5.95%) Full-Stack Developer
8 26 (5.73%) Data Engineer
8 26 (5.73%) Software Engineer
9 25 (5.51%) AWS DevOps
10 23 (5.07%) Solutions Architect
11 22 (4.85%) Analyst
12 20 (4.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 18 (3.96%) AWS Developer
13 18 (3.96%) Security Architect
14 17 (3.74%) Java Developer
15 16 (3.52%) AWS Architect
15 16 (3.52%) Software Developer
16 15 (3.30%) Senior Developer
16 15 (3.30%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (14.10%) Node.js
2 44 (9.69%) React
3 41 (9.03%) RESTful
3 41 (9.03%) Spring Boot
4 36 (7.93%) REST
5 35 (7.71%) Kafka
6 30 (6.61%) Spring
7 20 (4.41%) AngularJS
8 18 (3.96%) SOAP
8 18 (3.96%) Web Services
9 16 (3.52%) .NET
9 16 (3.52%) Elastic Stack
9 16 (3.52%) HTML
10 15 (3.30%) CSS
11 14 (3.08%) OAuth
11 14 (3.08%) SAML
12 12 (2.64%) JSON
13 10 (2.20%) AWS CDK
13 10 (2.20%) Express.js
13 10 (2.20%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.15%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.41%) Product Ownership
3 17 (3.74%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (3.08%) Onboarding
4 14 (3.08%) Public Cloud
5 12 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (1.98%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.76%) NHS
7 8 (1.76%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.32%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.32%) Mainframe
8 6 (1.32%) Operational Technology
9 5 (1.10%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.10%) Derivative
9 5 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 70 (15.42%) Linux
2 23 (5.07%) Windows
3 22 (4.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (4.63%) Unix
5 11 (2.42%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.88%) Android
6 4 (0.88%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.66%) CentOS
7 3 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.22%) AIX
8 1 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.22%) Solaris
8 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (30.40%) CI/CD
2 131 (28.85%) DevOps
3 120 (26.43%) Agile
4 92 (20.26%) Microservices
5 79 (17.40%) Problem-Solving
6 66 (14.54%) Infrastructure as Code
7 55 (12.11%) Containerisation
8 51 (11.23%) Migration
9 48 (10.57%) Full-Stack Development
10 47 (10.35%) Software Engineering
11 45 (9.91%) Stakeholder Management
12 35 (7.71%) Data Pipeline
12 35 (7.71%) Test Automation
13 32 (7.05%) SDLC
14 31 (6.83%) Mentoring
15 29 (6.39%) Cloud Security
15 29 (6.39%) Machine Learning
15 29 (6.39%) Scrum
16 26 (5.73%) Artificial Intelligence
17 25 (5.51%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 132 (29.07%) Python
2 97 (21.37%) Java
3 85 (18.72%) SQL
4 67 (14.76%) JavaScript
5 45 (9.91%) TypeScript
6 17 (3.74%) Bash
6 17 (3.74%) Shell Script
7 13 (2.86%) Perl
8 9 (1.98%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.54%) Groovy
10 6 (1.32%) Go
10 6 (1.32%) PHP
10 6 (1.32%) Scala
11 5 (1.10%) C#
11 5 (1.10%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.88%) COBOL
13 3 (0.66%) JCL
13 3 (0.66%) Ruby
13 3 (0.66%) Rust
13 3 (0.66%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 107 (23.57%) Security Cleared
2 93 (20.48%) SC Cleared
3 26 (5.73%) Degree
4 22 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.74%) AWS Certification
6 16 (3.52%) CISSP
7 10 (2.20%) CISM
8 9 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (1.76%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.54%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.54%) ISTQB
11 6 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.10%) CCIE
12 5 (1.10%) CCNP
13 4 (0.88%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.88%) JNCIE
14 3 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 2 (0.44%) CTC Cleared
15 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.71%) QA
2 21 (4.63%) GDPR
3 14 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.86%) NIST
5 10 (2.20%) Data Quality
5 10 (2.20%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.98%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.10%) Basel III
7 5 (1.10%) MiFID
8 4 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.88%) NCSC
8 4 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.66%) SEPA
9 3 (0.66%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.44%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.22%) COBIT
11 1 (0.22%) GxP
11 1 (0.22%) SLA
11 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 86 (18.94%) Docker
2 26 (5.73%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.88%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 112 (24.67%) Terraform
2 98 (21.59%) Kubernetes
3 33 (7.27%) Ansible
4 15 (3.30%) Progress Chef
5 13 (2.86%) Grafana
5 13 (2.86%) Kibana
6 12 (2.64%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.64%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.10%) Puppet
8 4 (0.88%) Istio
8 4 (0.88%) Packer
9 3 (0.66%) Nagios
10 2 (0.44%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.44%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.44%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.44%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.22%) Graylog
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.22%) NetApp OnCommand
11 1 (0.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 41 (9.03%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.27%) Google
3 30 (6.61%) Oracle
4 22 (4.85%) Splunk
5 20 (4.41%) IBM
6 18 (3.96%) Red Hat
7 13 (2.86%) AppDynamics
8 12 (2.64%) Databricks
9 10 (2.20%) Cisco
9 10 (2.20%) Cloudera
9 10 (2.20%) CyberArk
9 10 (2.20%) Thycotic
10 8 (1.76%) Alibaba
11 7 (1.54%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.54%) BeyondTrust
11 7 (1.54%) Dell
11 7 (1.54%) VMware
12 5 (1.10%) SAP
12 5 (1.10%) Sybase
13 4 (0.88%) Fortinet