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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 95 110
Rank change year-on-year -62 +15 +21
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 15 25 19
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.40% 1.15% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 3.67% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 23 13
10th Percentile £399 £358 £406
25th Percentile £400 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +5.56% -28.00%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £515
90th Percentile £613 £551 £548
England median daily rate £500 £500 £564
% change year-on-year - -11.31% -6.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
England median hourly rate £95.00 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year +18.75% - -

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 1,170 682 797
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.56% 31.36% 31.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 751 503 550
10th Percentile £282 £313 £284
25th Percentile £400 £388 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £545 £575
90th Percentile £688 £638 £643
England median daily rate £524 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.24% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 22 48
10th Percentile £18.25 £12.82 £13.00
25th Percentile £28.50 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £40.59 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +53.98% +152.74% -28.53%
75th Percentile £77.00 £58.13 £19.06
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.88 £70.28
England median hourly rate £38.25 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +52.09% +14.32% -36.77%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -52 14 £510 +7.37% 4
Cheshire -7 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 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (93.33%) Amazon S3
3 11 (73.33%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (73.33%) Serverless
4 6 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (26.67%) Amazon ECR
5 4 (26.67%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (26.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (13.33%) Azure
8 1 (6.67%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (6.67%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (6.67%) AWS KMS
8 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (6.67%) dbt
8 1 (6.67%) GCP
8 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (40.00%) DynamoDB
2 4 (26.67%) DocumentDB
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (6.67%) Big Data
3 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (6.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) GitLab
2 4 (26.67%) Git
3 3 (20.00%) Gradle
3 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (20.00%) Maven
4 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 7 (46.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Senior
2 4 (26.67%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Software Developer
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Java Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Lead
4 2 (13.33%) Architect
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Architect
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Lead Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Lead Software Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Java Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Node.js
1 4 (26.67%) Spring
1 4 (26.67%) Spring Boot
2 3 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 3 (20.00%) React
2 3 (20.00%) Spring Security
3 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (26.67%) NHS
2 4 (26.67%) Product Ownership
3 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
4 1 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (6.67%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (6.67%) PMI
4 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) DevOps
2 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
3 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
5 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (20.00%) Micro Frontends
6 2 (13.33%) API Design
6 2 (13.33%) Code Quality
6 2 (13.33%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (13.33%) Migration
6 2 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
6 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
7 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security
7 1 (6.67%) RBAC
7 1 (6.67%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Java
1 4 (26.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
2 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.67%) NCSC
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Terraform
2 7 (46.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (20.00%) Ansible
4 1 (6.67%) Argo
4 1 (6.67%) Packer
4 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Informatica
2 1 (6.67%) Talend
2 1 (6.67%) Tanium
2 1 (6.67%) Tenable
2 1 (6.67%) Trend Micro