AWS Contracts in the North West

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 11 12
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 -8
Contract jobs citing AWS 256 275 340
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 12.45% 9.90% 11.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.55% 30.83% 30.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 205 262
10th Percentile £358 £350 £410
25th Percentile £400 £409 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -11.82% -
75th Percentile £538 £564 £625
90th Percentile £663 £645 £688
England median daily rate £538 £565 £600
% change year-on-year -4.87% -5.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 5
10th Percentile £67.88 £65.00 £36.10
25th Percentile £68.44 £67.50 £37.75
Median hourly rate £77.50 £70.94 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.25% +75.15% -46.00%
75th Percentile £90.31 £72.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £93.13 £73.50 £57.92
England median hourly rate £71.25 £46.18 £73.00
% change year-on-year +54.29% -36.74% +4.29%

All Cloud Skills
North West

AWS 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 664 892 1,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.28% 32.10% 37.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 631 845
10th Percentile £313 £284 £300
25th Percentile £393 £388 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.21% -5.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £545 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £660
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 60 36
10th Percentile £12.82 £15.25 £15.72
25th Percentile £16.33 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £22.21
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -27.67% -15.87%
75th Percentile £47.12 £26.50 £40.81
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.54 £64.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +50.23%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the North West over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in the North West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in the North West over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in the North West

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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 within the North West region over the 6 months to 2 July 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 +1 147 £500 - 1,060
Cheshire -1 82 £393 -15.48% 178
Merseyside +5 10 £475 +35.71% 130
Cumbria +12 7 £442 -16.24% 25
Lancashire +4 7 £530 - 249
AWS
England

AWS
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 21 (8.20%) JBoss
2 16 (6.25%) Tomcat
3 13 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (4.30%) WebSphere
5 10 (3.91%) Confluence
6 6 (2.34%) Apache Spark
7 5 (1.95%) Apache
7 5 (1.95%) WebLogic
8 4 (1.56%) OpenStack
8 4 (1.56%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (1.17%) CICS
9 3 (1.17%) CMS
9 3 (1.17%) nginx
9 3 (1.17%) SAS
10 2 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.78%) IIS
11 1 (0.39%) Camunda
11 1 (0.39%) Documentum
11 1 (0.39%) FileNet
11 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Kondor
2 1 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 64 (25.00%) Azure
2 41 (16.02%) GCP
3 39 (15.23%) Serverless
4 28 (10.94%) Amazon S3
5 27 (10.55%) AWS Lambda
5 27 (10.55%) GitHub
6 25 (9.77%) Amazon EC2
7 18 (7.03%) Amazon EKS
7 18 (7.03%) OpenShift
8 13 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (4.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (3.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (3.13%) dbt
13 7 (2.73%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (2.73%) SaaS
14 6 (2.34%) Snowflake
15 5 (1.95%) Amazon Kinesis
15 5 (1.95%) Azure AI
15 5 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.08%) Firewall
2 10 (3.91%) DNS
3 8 (3.13%) BGP
3 8 (3.13%) DHCP
3 8 (3.13%) MPLS
3 8 (3.13%) Network Security
3 8 (3.13%) OSPF
3 8 (3.13%) VLAN
4 6 (2.34%) VPN
5 4 (1.56%) 3GPP
5 4 (1.56%) 4G
5 4 (1.56%) 5G
5 4 (1.56%) Calico
5 4 (1.56%) IPsec
5 4 (1.56%) Radio Access Network
5 4 (1.56%) Wireshark
6 3 (1.17%) HTTP
7 2 (0.78%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.78%) WAN
8 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.03%) Relational Database
2 17 (6.64%) SQL Server
3 12 (4.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 12 (4.69%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.30%) DynamoDB
4 11 (4.30%) Hadoop
5 10 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (3.52%) DB2
7 8 (3.13%) Big Data
7 8 (3.13%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.13%) RDBMS
8 6 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.34%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.56%) BigQuery
9 4 (1.56%) Neo4j
10 3 (1.17%) MySQL
10 3 (1.17%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 44 (17.19%) Jenkins
2 43 (16.80%) Git
3 31 (12.11%) JIRA
4 29 (11.33%) GitLab
5 16 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 15 (5.86%) Maven
7 9 (3.52%) JUnit
7 9 (3.52%) SonarQube
7 9 (3.52%) TeamCity
8 8 (3.13%) Bitbucket Server
8 8 (3.13%) CA Release Automation
9 7 (2.73%) Gradle
10 5 (1.95%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.95%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.95%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.56%) Selenium
12 3 (1.17%) ScriptRunner
13 2 (0.78%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.78%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.78%) IntelliJ
General
1 49 (19.14%) Social Skills
2 37 (14.45%) Finance
3 29 (11.33%) Banking
4 28 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.59%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.52%) Legal
7 8 (3.13%) Retail
8 5 (1.95%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.56%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.56%) Military
9 4 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.17%) Marketing
10 3 (1.17%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.78%) Japanese Language
11 2 (0.78%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.39%) Aviation
12 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (21.09%) Developer
2 44 (17.19%) Senior
3 38 (14.84%) Architect
4 21 (8.20%) AWS Engineer
5 20 (7.81%) Lead
5 20 (7.81%) Software Engineer
6 19 (7.42%) Data Engineer
6 19 (7.42%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (7.03%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (5.47%) AWS Developer
8 14 (5.47%) Java Developer
9 12 (4.69%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (4.30%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (4.30%) Full-Stack Developer
10 11 (4.30%) Senior Developer
10 11 (4.30%) Software Developer
11 9 (3.52%) AWS Architect
11 9 (3.52%) Designer
11 9 (3.52%) Node.js Developer
12 8 (3.13%) Network Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (15.23%) Node.js
2 31 (12.11%) Spring Boot
3 28 (10.94%) Kafka
4 26 (10.16%) REST
5 24 (9.38%) React
6 21 (8.20%) Spring
7 19 (7.42%) RESTful
8 18 (7.03%) SOAP
9 11 (4.30%) .NET
9 11 (4.30%) Elastic Stack
10 9 (3.52%) AngularJS
10 9 (3.52%) Web Services
11 7 (2.73%) AWS CDK
11 7 (2.73%) HTML
11 7 (2.73%) OAuth
12 6 (2.34%) Playwright
12 6 (2.34%) PySpark
12 6 (2.34%) PyTorch
12 6 (2.34%) Spring Cloud
12 6 (2.34%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.64%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.08%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.91%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (3.13%) Private Cloud
4 8 (3.13%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.73%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.34%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.34%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.34%) Mainframe
6 6 (2.34%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.95%) Derivative
7 5 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.56%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.56%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.56%) PKI
9 3 (1.17%) VSAM
10 2 (0.78%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 41 (16.02%) Linux
2 17 (6.64%) Windows
3 16 (6.25%) Unix
4 12 (4.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.73%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.56%) Android
6 4 (1.56%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.78%) CentOS
7 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (28.52%) CI/CD
2 64 (25.00%) Agile
3 60 (23.44%) DevOps
4 46 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (17.58%) Microservices
6 36 (14.06%) Containerisation
7 35 (13.67%) Software Engineering
8 34 (13.28%) Data Pipeline
8 34 (13.28%) Migration
9 28 (10.94%) Infrastructure as Code
10 25 (9.77%) Stakeholder Management
11 24 (9.38%) SDLC
12 22 (8.59%) Full-Stack Development
13 19 (7.42%) Analytics
14 18 (7.03%) Test Automation
15 16 (6.25%) High Availability
15 16 (6.25%) Scrum
16 15 (5.86%) Artificial Intelligence
16 15 (5.86%) Continuous Integration
16 15 (5.86%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 70 (27.34%) Java
2 68 (26.56%) Python
3 48 (18.75%) SQL
4 37 (14.45%) JavaScript
5 23 (8.98%) TypeScript
6 12 (4.69%) Shell Script
7 9 (3.52%) Perl
8 6 (2.34%) Scala
9 4 (1.56%) Bash
9 4 (1.56%) C#
9 4 (1.56%) SPARQL
10 3 (1.17%) Clojure
10 3 (1.17%) COBOL
10 3 (1.17%) Groovy
10 3 (1.17%) JCL
10 3 (1.17%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.78%) Go
11 2 (0.78%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 50 (19.53%) Security Cleared
2 37 (14.45%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.08%) Degree
4 11 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.13%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (2.34%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.95%) CCIE
7 5 (1.95%) CCNP
7 5 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.56%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.56%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.56%) JNCIE
9 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.78%) CISM
10 2 (0.78%) CISSP
11 1 (0.39%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.39%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.91%) QA
2 9 (3.52%) GDPR
3 7 (2.73%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.95%) Basel III
4 5 (1.95%) MiFID
5 4 (1.56%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.56%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.17%) NIST
6 3 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.17%) SEPA
6 3 (1.17%) SLA
7 2 (0.78%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.78%) NCSC
8 1 (0.39%) COBIT
8 1 (0.39%) GRC
8 1 (0.39%) GxP
System Software
1 55 (21.48%) Docker
2 15 (5.86%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.78%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 52 (20.31%) Kubernetes
2 33 (12.89%) Terraform
3 13 (5.08%) Kibana
3 13 (5.08%) Progress Chef
4 11 (4.30%) Ansible
5 6 (2.34%) Grafana
6 5 (1.95%) Istio
7 4 (1.56%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.78%) Nagios
8 2 (0.78%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.39%) Graylog
9 1 (0.39%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.39%) Packer
9 1 (0.39%) Puppet
9 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (9.38%) Oracle
2 23 (8.98%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.86%) IBM
4 14 (5.47%) Splunk
5 13 (5.08%) Google
6 11 (4.30%) AppDynamics
7 9 (3.52%) Cloudera
7 9 (3.52%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.73%) Cisco
9 6 (2.34%) Dell
10 5 (1.95%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.95%) Sybase
11 4 (1.56%) F5
11 4 (1.56%) Fortinet
12 3 (1.17%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.17%) VMware
13 2 (0.78%) ForgeRock
13 2 (0.78%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.78%) SAP
13 2 (0.78%) SolarWinds