AWS Engineer Contracts in the North West

Amazon Web Services Engineer
England > North West

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in the North West is £463 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 122 132
Rank change year-on-year +13 +10 -57
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 28 31 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.01% 0.96% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 1.02% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 22 38
10th Percentile £340 £475 £399
25th Percentile £413 £478 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £550 £547 £563
90th Percentile £585 £593 £624
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 2,607 3,043 3,930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 94.71% 96.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,702 2,182 2,880
10th Percentile £280 £300 £207
25th Percentile £390 £403 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +6.38% +10.59%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £563
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 135 174
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.10 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.31
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +50.37% +10.74%
75th Percentile £46.18 £47.25 £43.50
90th Percentile £64.00 £65.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in the North West

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in the North West.

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in the North West

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in the North West

AWS Engineer
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 AWS Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +9 21 £463 -7.50% 5
Cheshire +9 5 £363 -27.50%
AWS Engineer
England

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, AWS Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (71.43%) Terraform
3 18 (64.29%) DevOps
4 15 (53.57%) Python
5 14 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 14 (50.00%) Docker
6 13 (46.43%) Kubernetes
7 10 (35.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (32.14%) Containerisation
9 8 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (25.00%) Snowflake
10 7 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (21.43%) Software Delivery
11 6 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
11 6 (21.43%) Serverless
11 6 (21.43%) Data Lake
11 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (21.43%) Amazon S3
11 6 (21.43%) Git
11 6 (21.43%) Bash
11 6 (21.43%) SQL
12 5 (17.86%) Jenkins
12 5 (17.86%) DynamoDB
12 5 (17.86%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (17.86%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (17.86%) AWS CodePipeline
12 5 (17.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 5 (17.86%) AWS Certification

AWS Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 28 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (35.71%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (25.00%) Snowflake
5 6 (21.43%) Amazon S3
5 6 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (21.43%) Serverless
6 5 (17.86%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (17.86%) AWS CodePipeline
7 4 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (7.14%) GitHub
8 2 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
9 1 (3.57%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (3.57%) AWS CodeBuild
9 1 (3.57%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 1 (3.57%) GCP
9 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) Data Lake
2 5 (17.86%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (17.86%) DynamoDB
3 3 (10.71%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (7.14%) MySQL
5 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Git
2 5 (17.86%) Jenkins
3 4 (14.29%) SonarQube
4 3 (10.71%) GitLab
5 2 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Banking
2 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.57%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.57%) AWS SAM
2 1 (3.57%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) DevOps
2 14 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (32.14%) Containerisation
5 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (21.43%) Software Delivery
6 5 (17.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (14.29%) ETL
7 4 (14.29%) Migration
8 3 (10.71%) Agile
8 3 (10.71%) Cloud Operations
8 3 (10.71%) Configuration Management
8 3 (10.71%) Data Modelling
8 3 (10.71%) High Availability
8 3 (10.71%) IT Strategy
8 3 (10.71%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (10.71%) Technology Strategy
9 2 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
9 2 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
9 2 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) Python
2 6 (21.43%) Bash
2 6 (21.43%) SQL
3 5 (17.86%) Go
4 4 (14.29%) Java
5 3 (10.71%) Ruby
6 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.57%) PHP
7 1 (3.57%) Scala
7 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) AWS Certification
1 5 (17.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.57%) ISO 22301
2 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.57%) NIST
2 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (71.43%) Terraform
2 13 (46.43%) Kubernetes
3 4 (14.29%) Ansible
3 4 (14.29%) HP Fortify
4 2 (7.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Splunk
2 1 (3.57%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.57%) VMware