Amazon EC2 Contracts in the North West

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 108 129
Rank change year-on-year +8 +21 -2
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 23 17 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.05% 0.71% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.36% 2.25% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 11 14
10th Percentile £358 £373 £486
25th Percentile £403 £407 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £448 £594
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% -24.63% -0.63%
75th Percentile £500 £486 £669
90th Percentile £551 £538 £696
England median daily rate £500 £570 £600
% change year-on-year -12.28% -5.00% -

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 684 754 1,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.13% 31.67% 37.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 515 863
10th Percentile £313 £300 £282
25th Percentile £391 £393 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £671
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 38 51
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 - £17.56
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £27.20
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -40.96% +17.98%
75th Percentile £47.12 £31.38 £46.18
90th Percentile £76.25 £71.61 £63.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £33.90
% change year-on-year +11.78% -33.62% +57.66%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the North West

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +16 19 £488 +8.33% 14
Cheshire -21 4 £358 -20.00% 5
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 (21.74%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (13.04%) Apache
2 3 (13.04%) nginx
2 3 (13.04%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.35%) Documentum
3 1 (4.35%) FileNet
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (69.57%) Amazon S3
3 9 (39.13%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (34.78%) Serverless
5 7 (30.43%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (26.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (21.74%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (21.74%) GitHub
7 5 (21.74%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (17.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (13.04%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (13.04%) AWS KMS
9 3 (13.04%) SaaS
10 2 (8.70%) AWS CodeBuild
11 1 (4.35%) Amazon Cognito
11 1 (4.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (4.35%) CloudFront
11 1 (4.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Relational Database
1 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
2 4 (17.39%) MongoDB
3 3 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (8.70%) DynamoDB
4 2 (8.70%) Redis
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.35%) InfluxDB
5 1 (4.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) GitLab
General
1 3 (13.04%) Finance
1 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Banking
2 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
2 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) AWS Engineer
1 8 (34.78%) Data Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Senior
3 5 (21.74%) Developer
3 5 (21.74%) Python Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) AWS Data Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Python Data Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Java Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Architect
6 2 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Digital Transformation
6 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) DevOps Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) .NET
1 3 (13.04%) OAuth
1 3 (13.04%) React
2 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
2 2 (8.70%) HTML
2 2 (8.70%) Node.js
2 2 (8.70%) RESTful
2 2 (8.70%) Spring
2 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Amplify
3 1 (4.35%) AWS CDK
3 1 (4.35%) Bootstrap
3 1 (4.35%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.35%) Java EE
3 1 (4.35%) Kafka
3 1 (4.35%) Laravel
3 1 (4.35%) Next.js
3 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) CSOC
1 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
1 2 (8.70%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Linux
1 4 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Containerisation
2 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
3 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (21.74%) Agile
4 5 (21.74%) DevOps
5 4 (17.39%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (17.39%) Feature Engineering
5 4 (17.39%) Microservices
6 3 (13.04%) Blue-Green Deployment
6 3 (13.04%) Data Modelling
6 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (13.04%) Scrum
6 3 (13.04%) Secrets Management
6 3 (13.04%) Service Catalogue
6 3 (13.04%) TDD
7 2 (8.70%) Computer Science
7 2 (8.70%) Mentoring
7 2 (8.70%) SIEM
7 2 (8.70%) Software Engineering
7 2 (8.70%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) Python
2 6 (26.09%) SQL
3 5 (21.74%) Java
4 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.35%) Bash
5 1 (4.35%) Korn
5 1 (4.35%) PHP
5 1 (4.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 13 (56.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (47.83%) Kubernetes
2 5 (21.74%) Terraform
3 3 (13.04%) Kibana
4 1 (4.35%) Ansible
4 1 (4.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) AppDynamics
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) Splunk
3 1 (4.35%) Google