Amazon EC2 Contracts in the North West

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 109 128
Rank change year-on-year +9 +19 0
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 25 29 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.23% 1.05% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.78% 3.27% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 24 15
10th Percentile £358 £409 £490
25th Percentile £400 £439 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% -18.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £500 £556 £663
90th Percentile £551 £694 £695
England median daily rate £525 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -2.33% -10.42% +3.90%

All Cloud 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 661 888 1,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.40% 32.13% 37.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 629 842
10th Percentile £313 £284 £300
25th Percentile £397 £388 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £545 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £656
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 60 36
10th Percentile £12.82 £15.25 £15.72
25th Percentile £16.33 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £22.21
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -27.67% -15.87%
75th Percentile £47.12 £26.50 £40.81
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.54 £64.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +52.81%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the North West

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the North West

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 30 June 2025.

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 30 June 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
Manchester +18 22 £475 -13.64% 60
Cheshire -18 3 £358 -25.42% 11
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (12.00%) Apache
2 3 (12.00%) nginx
2 3 (12.00%) Tomcat
3 2 (8.00%) IIS
4 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
4 1 (4.00%) Documentum
4 1 (4.00%) FileNet
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (68.00%) Amazon S3
3 10 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
3 10 (40.00%) Serverless
4 9 (36.00%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (24.00%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (24.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (12.00%) AWS KMS
7 3 (12.00%) GitHub
7 3 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (8.00%) AWS CodeBuild
8 2 (8.00%) Nutanix
8 2 (8.00%) SaaS
8 2 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (4.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (4.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) DNS
2 2 (8.00%) DHCP
3 1 (4.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 5 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.00%) InfluxDB
4 1 (4.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Data Engineer
2 7 (28.00%) AWS Engineer
2 7 (28.00%) Senior
3 5 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) AWS Data Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Python Data Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Python Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (12.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Java Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Architect
6 2 (8.00%) Digital Transformation
7 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) React
2 3 (12.00%) .NET
2 3 (12.00%) Node.js
2 3 (12.00%) OAuth
3 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (8.00%) AWS CDK
3 2 (8.00%) RESTful
3 2 (8.00%) Spring
3 2 (8.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Amplify
4 1 (4.00%) HTML
4 1 (4.00%) Java EE
4 1 (4.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Clustering
1 2 (8.00%) CSOC
1 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (8.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Linux
2 4 (16.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (8.00%) CentOS
3 2 (8.00%) Windows
3 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Containerisation
2 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 4 (16.00%) Agile
5 4 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (16.00%) DevOps
5 4 (16.00%) Feature Engineering
6 3 (12.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
6 3 (12.00%) Data Modelling
6 3 (12.00%) Microservices
6 3 (12.00%) Scrum
6 3 (12.00%) Secrets Management
6 3 (12.00%) Service Catalogue
6 3 (12.00%) TDD
7 2 (8.00%) Computer Science
7 2 (8.00%) ITIL
7 2 (8.00%) Network Architecture
7 2 (8.00%) SIEM
7 2 (8.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) Python
2 7 (28.00%) SQL
3 6 (24.00%) Java
4 3 (12.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.00%) Bash
6 1 (4.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (44.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (36.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (24.00%) Terraform
3 3 (12.00%) Ansible
3 3 (12.00%) Kibana
4 2 (8.00%) Nagios
4 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.00%) ZABBIX
5 1 (4.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle
2 2 (8.00%) Dell
2 2 (8.00%) HP
2 2 (8.00%) IBM
2 2 (8.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (8.00%) Splunk
2 2 (8.00%) VMware