AWS Contract Job Trends in the North West

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 8 13
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 416 260 273
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 12.04% 13.05% 9.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.13% 39.82% 30.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 216 205
10th Percentile £374 £358 £350
25th Percentile £441 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year +13.68% -2.86% -11.09%
75th Percentile £625 £546 £575
90th Percentile £712 £679 £658
England median daily rate £550 £540 £560
% change year-on-year +1.85% -3.57% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 4 6
10th Percentile £61.93 £67.88 £65.00
25th Percentile £71.38 £68.44 £67.50
Median hourly rate £76.00 £77.50 £70.94
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% +9.25% +75.15%
75th Percentile £89.38 £90.31 £72.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £93.13 £73.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -36.30%

All Cloud Computing 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 1,063 653 887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 30.76% 32.78% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 683 497 625
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £400 £393 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £463 £488
Median % change year-on-year +4.86% -5.13% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 20 60
10th Percentile £25.38 £12.82 £13.00
25th Percentile £28.50 £23.36 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £34.67 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +80.27% +115.88% -28.34%
75th Percentile £77.50 £54.38 £26.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 £71.54
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +54.90% +18.60% -38.57%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

AWS job vacancy trend in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AWS

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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 13 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the North West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AWS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AWS

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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 13 June 2026.

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 13 June 2026. 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 -2 293 £550 +10.00% 196
Cheshire -3 84 £484 +23.85% 20
Lancashire +1 17 £588 +6.33% 50
Merseyside -5 16 £575 +15.00% 10
Cumbria -11 3 £525 +17.45%
AWS
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 19 (4.57%) Confluence
2 18 (4.33%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.92%) Apache
4 5 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.48%) CMS
5 2 (0.48%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.48%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.24%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.24%) Camunda
6 1 (0.24%) JBoss
6 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.48%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.44%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.48%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.24%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 200 (48.08%) Azure
2 87 (20.91%) GCP
3 63 (15.14%) Serverless
4 41 (9.86%) AWS Lambda
5 31 (7.45%) Amazon S3
6 21 (5.05%) Amazon EKS
6 21 (5.05%) GitHub
7 19 (4.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 17 (4.09%) OCI
8 17 (4.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 16 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (3.61%) Amazon SQS
10 15 (3.61%) OpenShift
10 15 (3.61%) SaaS
11 14 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (2.88%) Power Platform
14 11 (2.64%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 40 (9.62%) Firewall
2 27 (6.49%) DNS
3 14 (3.37%) BGP
3 14 (3.37%) OSPF
4 13 (3.13%) VPN
5 12 (2.88%) SD-WAN
5 12 (2.88%) WAN
6 11 (2.64%) BIG-IP
6 11 (2.64%) Ethernet VPN
6 11 (2.64%) VXLAN
7 10 (2.40%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 10 (2.40%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (2.40%) WLAN
8 8 (1.92%) Network Security
9 7 (1.68%) TCP/IP
10 5 (1.20%) HTTP
10 5 (1.20%) VSAN
11 4 (0.96%) DHCP
12 3 (0.72%) FTP
12 3 (0.72%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (5.77%) DynamoDB
3 19 (4.57%) NoSQL
4 18 (4.33%) SQL Server
5 17 (4.09%) Relational Database
6 15 (3.61%) MongoDB
7 11 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (2.64%) Hadoop
7 11 (2.64%) Power BI
8 10 (2.40%) Oracle Database
9 9 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (2.16%) DocumentDB
9 9 (2.16%) MySQL
10 8 (1.92%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.92%) Data Vault
11 6 (1.44%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.20%) BigQuery
12 5 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.96%) Big Data
13 4 (0.96%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 51 (12.26%) GitLab
2 32 (7.69%) JIRA
3 22 (5.29%) Git
3 22 (5.29%) Jenkins
4 14 (3.37%) Selenium
5 8 (1.92%) REST Assured
6 6 (1.44%) Gradle
7 5 (1.20%) Gatling
7 5 (1.20%) Serenity BDD
8 4 (0.96%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.96%) Maven
8 4 (0.96%) Postman
9 3 (0.72%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.72%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.72%) JMeter
9 3 (0.72%) JUnit
10 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.48%) Mocha
10 2 (0.48%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.48%) WebDriver
General
1 95 (22.84%) Finance
2 91 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 60 (14.42%) Public Sector
4 35 (8.41%) Banking
5 30 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.61%) Retail
7 9 (2.16%) Military
8 6 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.72%) Back Office
10 3 (0.72%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.72%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.48%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.48%) Games
11 2 (0.48%) Local Government
11 2 (0.48%) Marketing
12 1 (0.24%) Advertising
12 1 (0.24%) Automotive
12 1 (0.24%) Billing
12 1 (0.24%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 67 (16.11%) Senior
2 61 (14.66%) Architect
3 59 (14.18%) Developer
4 49 (11.78%) Software Engineer
5 46 (11.06%) Lead
6 41 (9.86%) Security Engineer
7 28 (6.73%) Data Engineer
8 27 (6.49%) Solutions Architect
9 26 (6.25%) Analyst
10 25 (6.01%) AWS Engineer
11 23 (5.53%) Java Developer
12 22 (5.29%) DevOps Engineer
13 19 (4.57%) Cloud Engineer
13 19 (4.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 16 (3.85%) Technical Architect
15 15 (3.61%) Java Engineer
16 14 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
16 14 (3.37%) Senior Software Engineer
17 13 (3.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 13 (3.13%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (16.59%) Spring
2 63 (15.14%) Spring Boot
3 45 (10.82%) Node.js
3 45 (10.82%) React
4 34 (8.17%) Kafka
5 31 (7.45%) REST
6 20 (4.81%) AngularJS
6 20 (4.81%) OAuth
7 17 (4.09%) AWS CDK
7 17 (4.09%) RESTful
8 13 (3.13%) GraphQL
9 12 (2.88%) OpenID
10 11 (2.64%) .NET
10 11 (2.64%) PySpark
11 10 (2.40%) Spring Cloud
12 9 (2.16%) LangChain
12 9 (2.16%) OAuth2
13 8 (1.92%) JSON
13 8 (1.92%) Nunjucks
13 8 (1.92%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 107 (25.72%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.53%) Data Centre
3 21 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (5.05%) Security Posture
4 17 (4.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (4.09%) Product Ownership
5 16 (3.85%) Management Information System
6 13 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.64%) Enterprise Cloud
8 10 (2.40%) Linux Command Line
8 10 (2.40%) Onboarding
8 10 (2.40%) Private Cloud
9 9 (2.16%) Mobile App
9 9 (2.16%) Public Cloud
9 9 (2.16%) Replication
10 7 (1.68%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.68%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.44%) Cloud Security Posture
11 6 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 49 (11.78%) Linux
2 28 (6.73%) Windows
3 17 (4.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.16%) Unix
5 7 (1.68%) AIX
6 5 (1.20%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.20%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.20%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.48%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (42.31%) CI/CD
2 140 (33.65%) DevOps
3 117 (28.13%) Agile
4 89 (21.39%) Microservices
5 87 (20.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 69 (16.59%) Software Engineering
7 67 (16.11%) Migration
8 60 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
9 51 (12.26%) Event-Driven
10 50 (12.02%) Observability
11 49 (11.78%) Roadmaps
12 46 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 45 (10.82%) Containerisation
13 45 (10.82%) Test Automation
14 43 (10.34%) Analytics
14 43 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
15 42 (10.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 41 (9.86%) Full-Stack Development
17 39 (9.38%) AI
17 39 (9.38%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 125 (30.05%) Java
2 112 (26.92%) Python
3 58 (13.94%) SQL
4 55 (13.22%) TypeScript
5 37 (8.89%) JavaScript
6 36 (8.65%) PowerShell
7 21 (5.05%) Bash
8 11 (2.64%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.16%) C#
10 8 (1.92%) Go
10 8 (1.92%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.68%) Rust
12 6 (1.44%) Bicep
13 2 (0.48%) BeanShell
13 2 (0.48%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.48%) ProC
14 1 (0.24%) Ruby
14 1 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 89 (21.39%) Security Cleared
2 57 (13.70%) SC Cleared
3 41 (9.86%) AWS Certification
4 28 (6.73%) CISSP
5 26 (6.25%) Degree
6 24 (5.77%) Azure Certification
7 22 (5.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (4.33%) DV Cleared
9 17 (4.09%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (2.40%) CCNA
12 7 (1.68%) CCNP
12 7 (1.68%) CISM
13 6 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
14 5 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.96%) IBM Certification
15 4 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.96%) PMI Certification
16 3 (0.72%) GIAC
16 3 (0.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.53%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.05%) GDPR
3 18 (4.33%) Accessibility
4 16 (3.85%) QA
5 15 (3.61%) NIST
6 13 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (1.44%) HIPAA
9 5 (1.20%) ISO 20022
9 5 (1.20%) PSD2
10 4 (0.96%) SEPA
11 3 (0.72%) GRC
11 3 (0.72%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 1 (0.24%) CDISC
13 1 (0.24%) COBIT
13 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 89 (21.39%) Docker
2 8 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (1.92%) vSphere
3 7 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.68%) NFS
4 5 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.96%) GPFS
5 4 (0.96%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.72%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 3 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.48%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.24%) Firmware
8 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.24%) Squid
8 1 (0.24%) zsh
Systems Management
1 106 (25.48%) Terraform
2 95 (22.84%) Kubernetes
3 32 (7.69%) Ansible
4 20 (4.81%) Grafana
5 17 (4.09%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.13%) Progress Chef
7 8 (1.92%) Oracle RMAN
8 7 (1.68%) Argo
9 5 (1.20%) vRealize
10 4 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.96%) Data Guard
11 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.72%) PowerBroker
11 3 (0.72%) SCCM
11 3 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.72%) Tivoli
11 3 (0.72%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 3 (0.72%) VxRail
12 2 (0.48%) PowerCLI
12 2 (0.48%) vMotion
Vendors
1 32 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.21%) Google
3 28 (6.73%) Oracle
4 18 (4.33%) ServiceNow
5 17 (4.09%) Splunk
6 14 (3.37%) F5
6 14 (3.37%) Infoblox
7 13 (3.13%) Palo Alto
7 13 (3.13%) Red Hat
8 12 (2.88%) Aruba
8 12 (2.88%) IBM
9 9 (2.16%) Arista
9 9 (2.16%) BeyondTrust
9 9 (2.16%) SAP
9 9 (2.16%) VMware
10 8 (1.92%) Databricks
11 7 (1.68%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (1.44%) CyberArk
12 6 (1.44%) OpenAI
12 6 (1.44%) Remedy