Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in the North West

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 103 102
Rank change year-on-year -65 -1 +25
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 8 28 24
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.20% 1.25% 0.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.66% 3.89% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 24 12
10th Percentile £393 £325 £376
25th Percentile £426 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £475 £448
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% +6.15% -20.44%
75th Percentile £584 £513 £499
90th Percentile £663 £658 £583
England median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
North West

Amazon EC2 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,215 719 728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.07% 32.21% 29.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 787 534 495
10th Percentile £250 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £604 £538 £575
90th Percentile £693 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 27 21
10th Percentile £18.65 £12.82 -
25th Percentile £25.38 £18.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £46.15 £41.06 £17.44
Median % change year-on-year +12.40% +135.44% -35.88%
75th Percentile £76.00 £67.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £88.25 £74.75 £69.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £26.99
% change year-on-year +34.62% -3.65% -18.23%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in the North West

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the North West over the 6 months to 24 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the North West

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 24 August 2026. 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
Manchester -51 7 £525 +10.53% 5
Cheshire -3 1 £390 +8.94%
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (87.50%) Amazon S3
3 6 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (75.00%) Serverless
4 4 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (25.00%) Azure
6 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (12.50%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (12.50%) AWS KMS
7 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (12.50%) dbt
7 1 (12.50%) GCP
7 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (37.50%) DynamoDB
2 2 (25.00%) DocumentDB
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (12.50%) Big Data
3 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (12.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Architect
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Lead
1 2 (25.00%) Senior
1 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Data Architect
2 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead Software Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (12.50%) Spring
3 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) NHS
2 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
3 1 (12.50%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (12.50%) PMI
3 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Data Management
4 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
4 1 (12.50%) Open Source
4 1 (12.50%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) NCSC
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Argo
2 1 (12.50%) Packer
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Informatica
2 1 (12.50%) Talend
2 1 (12.50%) Tanium
2 1 (12.50%) Tenable
2 1 (12.50%) Trend Micro