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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 96 128
Rank change year-on-year -9 +32 +4
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 28 22 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.28% 0.92% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.87% 3.06% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 12 8
10th Percentile £358 £376 £454
25th Percentile £413 £408 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £448 £588
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% -23.83% +2.17%
75th Percentile £538 £499 £691
90th Percentile £703 £583 £711
England median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -8.33%

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 724 720 996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 33.15% 30.11% 35.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 548 468 734
10th Percentile £313 £300 £265
25th Percentile £375 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £525 £575 £584
90th Percentile £630 £650 £674
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.71% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 57
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.09 £15.75
25th Percentile £14.75 £17.44 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.58% +2.86% +29.88%
75th Percentile £62.22 £58.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.52 £71.15 £70.00
England median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.21% - +53.49%

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
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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +14 23 £488 - 8
Cheshire -28 5 £358 -20.00% 1
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 (17.86%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (14.29%) Tomcat
3 3 (10.71%) Apache
3 3 (10.71%) nginx
4 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
4 1 (3.57%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 27 (96.43%) AWS
2 18 (64.29%) Amazon S3
3 11 (39.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (35.71%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (35.71%) Serverless
5 9 (32.14%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (28.57%) GitHub
7 7 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (25.00%) SaaS
8 6 (21.43%) AWS Fargate
8 6 (21.43%) GCP
9 5 (17.86%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (17.86%) Amazon EventBridge
9 5 (17.86%) Apigee
9 5 (17.86%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (17.86%) Azure
9 5 (17.86%) Datadog
9 5 (17.86%) Loggly
9 5 (17.86%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Firewall
1 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.57%) DNS
2 1 (3.57%) Network Security
2 1 (3.57%) SSL
2 1 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) DynamoDB
1 8 (28.57%) Redis
1 8 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 7 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (25.00%) MySQL
2 7 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (17.86%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (17.86%) BigQuery
3 5 (17.86%) NoSQL
3 5 (17.86%) RDBMS
4 3 (10.71%) MongoDB
4 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 13 (46.43%) Jenkins
2 8 (28.57%) Git
3 5 (17.86%) Gradle
3 5 (17.86%) Maven
3 5 (17.86%) SonarLint
3 5 (17.86%) SonarQube
4 3 (10.71%) GitLab
General
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.14%) Banking
3 2 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.57%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) AWS Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) Data Engineer
3 7 (25.00%) Architect
4 6 (21.43%) Python Engineer
4 6 (21.43%) Senior
5 5 (17.86%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (17.86%) Java Architect
5 5 (17.86%) Java Technical Architect
5 5 (17.86%) Technical Architect
6 4 (14.29%) AWS Data Engineer
6 4 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 4 (14.29%) Python Data Engineer
6 4 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Digital Transformation
7 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Java Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) RESTful
2 5 (17.86%) Dropwizard
2 5 (17.86%) J2EE
2 5 (17.86%) JWT
2 5 (17.86%) Micronaut
2 5 (17.86%) Spring Boot
3 4 (14.29%) Celery
4 3 (10.71%) .NET
4 3 (10.71%) GraphQL
4 3 (10.71%) OAuth
5 2 (7.14%) Node.js
5 2 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (7.14%) React
6 1 (3.57%) Bootstrap
6 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (3.57%) Kafka
6 1 (3.57%) Laravel
6 1 (3.57%) Next.js
6 1 (3.57%) REST
6 1 (3.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (17.86%) N-Tier
3 4 (14.29%) Product Ownership
4 3 (10.71%) Onboarding
5 2 (7.14%) CSOC
5 2 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Linux
2 3 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) Containerisation
2 15 (53.57%) CI/CD
3 9 (32.14%) Agile
4 7 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 7 (25.00%) Microservices
5 6 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (21.43%) DevOps
5 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (21.43%) TDD
6 5 (17.86%) API Design
6 5 (17.86%) Architectural Design
6 5 (17.86%) Clean Code
6 5 (17.86%) Design Patterns
6 5 (17.86%) Event-Driven
6 5 (17.86%) OOP
6 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (17.86%) Roadmaps
6 5 (17.86%) SDLC
6 5 (17.86%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 21 (75.00%) Python
2 8 (28.57%) Java
3 5 (17.86%) SQL
4 4 (14.29%) Bash
5 1 (3.57%) Korn
5 1 (3.57%) PHP
5 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.57%) Rust
5 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 18 (64.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (64.29%) Kubernetes
2 11 (39.29%) Terraform
3 3 (10.71%) Kibana
4 2 (7.14%) Ansible
5 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Gigya
2 4 (14.29%) AppDynamics
3 3 (10.71%) Splunk
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle
5 1 (3.57%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.57%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.57%) F5
5 1 (3.57%) Google
5 1 (3.57%) Palo Alto