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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 103 99
Rank change year-on-year -44 -4 +26
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 14 23 42
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.44% 1.19% 1.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.38% 3.62% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 21 35
10th Percentile £399 £358 £409
25th Percentile £400 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £569 £500 £694
90th Percentile £652 £537 -
England median daily rate £525 £575 £530
% change year-on-year -8.70% +8.49% -13.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
England median hourly rate £92.50 - -

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 1,017 635 882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.78% 32.77% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 695 493 642
10th Percentile £227 £234 £285
25th Percentile £375 £400 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% -2.86% -2.20%
75th Percentile £578 £563 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £638
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 11 66
10th Percentile £23.71 - £13.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £62.25 £29.00 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +114.66% +80.57% -54.11%
75th Percentile £78.38 £57.94 £21.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £76.25 £43.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.99
% change year-on-year +70.13% +26.04% -30.63%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -36 13 £525 +10.53% 3
Cheshire -22 1 £390 +8.94% 5
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 2 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 12 (85.71%) Amazon S3
3 10 (71.43%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (71.43%) Serverless
4 5 (35.71%) Amazon ECR
4 5 (35.71%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (35.71%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (21.43%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (21.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (14.29%) GitHub
7 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (7.14%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (7.14%) Azure
8 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (7.14%) dbt
8 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (35.71%) DynamoDB
3 4 (28.57%) DocumentDB
4 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) GitLab
2 6 (42.86%) Git
3 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
4 3 (21.43%) Gradle
4 3 (21.43%) Maven
5 1 (7.14%) JIRA
5 1 (7.14%) Mocha
General
1 6 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Developer
1 3 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Java Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Lead
1 3 (21.43%) Senior
1 3 (21.43%) Software Developer
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Lead Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Lead Software Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Architect
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Spring
1 5 (35.71%) Spring Boot
2 4 (28.57%) GraphQL
2 4 (28.57%) Node.js
3 3 (21.43%) React
3 3 (21.43%) Spring Security
4 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (7.14%) Jest
4 1 (7.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (64.29%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) NHS
2 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (7.14%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) DevOps
2 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
3 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 3 (21.43%) Code Quality
5 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
5 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
5 3 (21.43%) Micro Frontends
5 3 (21.43%) Microservices
5 3 (21.43%) Migration
5 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
6 2 (14.29%) Agile
6 2 (14.29%) API Design
6 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven
6 2 (14.29%) Observability
6 2 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
6 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 1 (7.14%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 10 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Terraform
2 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 3 (21.43%) Grafana
4 2 (14.29%) Ansible
4 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft