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 £414, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 110 126
Rank change year-on-year +13 +16 -2
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 23 27 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.17% 0.98% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 1.04% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 23 22
10th Percentile £358 £340 £475
25th Percentile £389 £413 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% -7.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £547
90th Percentile £517 £585 £593
England median daily rate £600 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,821 2,603 3,030
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 94.48% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,205 1,698 2,172
10th Percentile £250 £281 £300
25th Percentile £378 £393 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £588
90th Percentile £652 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 266 133
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.07 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%
75th Percentile £59.24 £46.18 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.41 £63.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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 +9 13 £450 -2.70% 32
Cheshire +2 7 £363 +0.14% 4
Merseyside - 2 £488 -
AWS Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (39.13%) DevOps
2 9 (39.13%) SQL
3 8 (34.78%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (34.78%) Amazon S3
3 8 (34.78%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (30.43%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (26.09%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (26.09%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (26.09%) TypeScript
5 6 (26.09%) Node.js
5 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
5 6 (26.09%) JavaScript
6 5 (21.74%) Python
6 5 (21.74%) Software Engineering
6 5 (21.74%) Docker
6 5 (21.74%) GitHub
6 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
6 5 (21.74%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (17.39%) GitLab
7 4 (17.39%) Cloud Native
7 4 (17.39%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (17.39%) Data Lake
7 4 (17.39%) Resource Allocation
7 4 (17.39%) Customer Acquisition
7 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
7 4 (17.39%) Cloud Security

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 8 (34.78%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (13.04%) Apache
2 3 (13.04%) nginx
2 3 (13.04%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (34.78%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (34.78%) Amazon S3
3 7 (30.43%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (26.09%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (21.74%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (21.74%) GitHub
6 4 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (13.04%) AWS KMS
8 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (8.70%) dbt
8 2 (8.70%) GCP
8 2 (8.70%) Serverless
8 2 (8.70%) Snowflake
9 1 (4.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (4.35%) Amazon MSK
9 1 (4.35%) Amazon Neptune
9 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (4.35%) Azure
9 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Data Lake
1 4 (17.39%) MongoDB
2 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (8.70%) BigQuery
3 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) GitLab
1 4 (17.39%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Finance
2 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) Node.js
2 4 (17.39%) React
3 3 (13.04%) .NET
3 3 (13.04%) OAuth
4 2 (8.70%) AWS CDK
5 1 (4.35%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (4.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.04%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Linux
2 3 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) DevOps
2 6 (26.09%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
3 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (21.74%) Software Engineering
4 4 (17.39%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (17.39%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (17.39%) Cloud Security
4 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
4 4 (17.39%) Customer Acquisition
4 4 (17.39%) High Availability
4 4 (17.39%) Performance Metrics
4 4 (17.39%) Process Improvement
4 4 (17.39%) Resource Allocation
5 3 (13.04%) Blue-Green Deployment
5 3 (13.04%) Secrets Management
5 3 (13.04%) Service Catalogue
6 2 (8.70%) Data Engineering
6 2 (8.70%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) SQL
2 6 (26.09%) JavaScript
2 6 (26.09%) TypeScript
3 5 (21.74%) Python
4 3 (13.04%) Bash
5 1 (4.35%) Java
5 1 (4.35%) Scala
5 1 (4.35%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.04%) Kibana
2 3 (13.04%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) AppDynamics
2 2 (8.70%) Google