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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 101 100
Rank change year-on-year -67 -1 +38
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 9 27 19
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.23% 1.25% 0.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.75% 3.74% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 24 9
10th Percentile £406 £358 £361
25th Percentile £436 £422 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £488 £448
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% +8.94% -23.83%
75th Percentile £584 £584 £486
90th Percentile £663 £705 £573
England median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +9.09%

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 1,196 722 698
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 30.67% 33.47% 29.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 761 548 446
10th Percentile £230 £313 £303
25th Percentile £400 £380 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £608 £537 £575
90th Percentile £694 £638 £653
England median daily rate £525 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 25 12
10th Percentile £18.02 £12.82 £17.44
25th Percentile £28.50 £15.50 £26.49
Median hourly rate £55.00 £18.87 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +191.47% -59.14% +23.81%
75th Percentile £76.00 £60.00 £70.19
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.83 £74.20
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.73% -25.71% +6.06%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -45 8 £525 +5.00% 12
Cheshire -7 1 £425 +18.72% 1
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 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (77.78%) Amazon S3
3 6 (66.67%) Serverless
4 5 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (22.22%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (22.22%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (22.22%) Azure
7 1 (11.11%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (11.11%) AWS KMS
7 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (11.11%) dbt
7 1 (11.11%) GCP
7 1 (11.11%) GitHub
7 1 (11.11%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (22.22%) Big Data
1 2 (22.22%) DocumentDB
1 2 (22.22%) DynamoDB
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (11.11%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Maven
2 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Architect
2 2 (22.22%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Node.js
3 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) NHS
2 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (33.33%) Migration
5 2 (22.22%) Analytics
5 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 2 (22.22%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
6 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
6 1 (11.11%) Lakehouse
6 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (11.11%) Resource Allocation
6 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
6 1 (11.11%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 1 (11.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Argo
2 1 (11.11%) Packer
2 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Informatica
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) Talend
1 1 (11.11%) Tanium
1 1 (11.11%) Tenable
1 1 (11.11%) Trend Micro