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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 108 110
Rank change year-on-year -20 +2 +18
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 20 13 30
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.77% 0.62% 1.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.23% 1.96% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 27
10th Percentile £360 £384 £450
25th Percentile £392 £400 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% -22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £591 £525 £694
90th Percentile £666 £638 £711
England median daily rate £550 £608 £550
% change year-on-year -9.47% +10.45% -8.33%

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 897 664 965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.74% 31.85% 34.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 663 455 713
10th Percentile £215 £250 £265
25th Percentile £358 £391 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £475 £483
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% -1.66% -3.40%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £569
90th Percentile £627 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 11 55
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.59 £21.05 £17.72
Median hourly rate £41.34 £24.18 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.98% -7.00% -48.00%
75th Percentile £67.25 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.38 £77.50 £64.30
England median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £23.61
% change year-on-year +9.09% +16.48% +1.86%

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 January 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 January 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 -5 17 £550 +18.92% 4
Cheshire -21 3 £368 -4.42% 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 3 (15.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (5.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 19 (95.00%) AWS
2 15 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
2 15 (75.00%) Serverless
3 11 (55.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (45.00%) Amazon ECS
4 9 (45.00%) Amazon S3
5 8 (40.00%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (40.00%) GitHub
6 7 (35.00%) AWS Fargate
7 6 (30.00%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
8 5 (25.00%) Apigee
8 5 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (25.00%) Datadog
8 5 (25.00%) GCP
8 5 (25.00%) Loggly
8 5 (25.00%) Route 53
9 4 (20.00%) Azure
9 4 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.00%) DNS
3 1 (5.00%) Network Security
3 1 (5.00%) SSL
3 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (40.00%) DynamoDB
3 7 (35.00%) MySQL
3 7 (35.00%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (30.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (30.00%) NoSQL
4 6 (30.00%) Redis
5 5 (25.00%) BigQuery
5 5 (25.00%) RDBMS
5 5 (25.00%) Relational Database
6 2 (10.00%) Data Lake
6 2 (10.00%) DocumentDB
7 1 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
7 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (65.00%) Jenkins
2 11 (55.00%) Git
3 10 (50.00%) GitLab
4 5 (25.00%) Gradle
4 5 (25.00%) Maven
4 5 (25.00%) SonarLint
4 5 (25.00%) SonarQube
5 2 (10.00%) Bitbucket
5 2 (10.00%) JIRA
5 2 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (5.00%) Mocha
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (20.00%) Finance
4 3 (15.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Architect
1 5 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
1 5 (25.00%) Java Architect
1 5 (25.00%) Java Technical Architect
1 5 (25.00%) Technical Architect
2 3 (15.00%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (15.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Lead
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Data Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Java Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Python Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Junior Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) Node.js
1 6 (30.00%) RESTful
1 6 (30.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (25.00%) Dropwizard
2 5 (25.00%) J2EE
2 5 (25.00%) JWT
2 5 (25.00%) Micronaut
3 4 (20.00%) Celery
3 4 (20.00%) GraphQL
4 2 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (10.00%) React
4 2 (10.00%) REST
5 1 (5.00%) Jest
5 1 (5.00%) Next.js
5 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (5.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (25.00%) N-Tier
3 4 (20.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (65.00%) Containerisation
3 11 (55.00%) Microservices
4 10 (50.00%) Agile
5 9 (45.00%) DevOps
6 7 (35.00%) AI
6 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (35.00%) Mentoring
6 7 (35.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (30.00%) Design Patterns
7 6 (30.00%) Event-Driven
7 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (25.00%) API Design
8 5 (25.00%) Clean Code
8 5 (25.00%) CQRS
8 5 (25.00%) OOP
8 5 (25.00%) Risk Management
8 5 (25.00%) SDLC
8 5 (25.00%) TDD
8 5 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 16 (80.00%) Python
2 10 (50.00%) Java
3 4 (20.00%) Bash
3 4 (20.00%) SQL
4 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (10.00%) Perl
5 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (10.00%) Ruby
6 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
6 1 (5.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (75.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (60.00%) Terraform
3 4 (20.00%) Grafana
4 3 (15.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (10.00%) Ansible
6 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
6 1 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Gigya
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.00%) F5
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.00%) Splunk