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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 112 97
Rank change year-on-year -34 -15 +27
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 14 15 40
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.45% 0.77% 1.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 2.25% 4.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 34
10th Percentile £383 - £414
25th Percentile - £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £547 £525 £694
90th Percentile £582 £547 -
England median daily rate £530 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -11.67% +14.29% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
England median hourly rate £90.00 - -

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 1,008 666 908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.74% 33.98% 32.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 711 509 664
10th Percentile £220 £230 £300
25th Percentile £369 £393 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £568 £575 £551
90th Percentile £643 £650 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 16 72
10th Percentile £19.10 £22.61 £13.25
25th Percentile £25.38 £26.20 £16.06
Median hourly rate £62.50 £28.75 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year +117.39% +68.03% -51.11%
75th Percentile £77.50 £50.66 £24.33
90th Percentile £93.00 £76.88 £45.94
England median hourly rate £40.00 £26.81 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.18% +27.68% -16.00%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -20 13 £400 -20.00% 7
Cheshire - 1 £390 - 2
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 CloudWatch
4 5 (35.71%) Amazon ECR
5 4 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (21.43%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (21.43%) GitHub
6 3 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (28.57%) DocumentDB
2 4 (28.57%) DynamoDB
3 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
4 1 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
4 1 (7.14%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) GitLab
2 6 (42.86%) Git
2 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
3 3 (21.43%) Gradle
3 3 (21.43%) Maven
4 1 (7.14%) Mocha
General
1 6 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) Java Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Java Software Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) Software Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Lead Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Lead Software Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Node.js Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Project Manager
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%) Distributed Systems
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%) CI/CD
1 12 (85.71%) DevOps
2 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
4 4 (28.57%) Microservices
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%) Observability
5 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
6 2 (14.29%) Agile
6 2 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (14.29%) ETL
6 2 (14.29%) High Availability
6 2 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 2 (14.29%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) 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 11 (78.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (71.43%) Terraform
2 9 (64.29%) Kubernetes
3 4 (28.57%) Grafana
4 3 (21.43%) Prometheus
5 2 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft