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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 11 10
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 225 303 407
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 11.43% 11.00% 12.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.21% 34.28% 33.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 243 319
10th Percentile £363 £350 £413
25th Percentile £400 £413 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £575 £585 £624
90th Percentile £700 £650 £675
England median daily rate £550 £553 £593
% change year-on-year -0.50% -6.71% +0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £67.75 - £35.92
25th Percentile £68.13 £67.50 £37.30
Median hourly rate £72.50 £70.94 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% +79.13% -31.13%
75th Percentile £82.50 £72.50 £52.68
90th Percentile £86.25 - £60.52
England median hourly rate £71.25 £53.75 £72.75
% change year-on-year +32.56% -26.12% +29.33%

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 639 884 1,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.47% 32.09% 37.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 640 887
10th Percentile £244 £284 £311
25th Percentile £400 £391 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £558 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 65 32
10th Percentile - £13.00 £16.19
25th Percentile £26.88 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%
75th Percentile £50.66 £20.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.88 £43.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

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

AWS
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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the North West

AWS
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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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 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 0 151 £475 -5.00% 488
Cheshire 0 53 £393 -17.26% 58
Merseyside +5 6 £563 +60.71% 28
Lancashire +2 6 £553 -11.60% 154
Cumbria +5 5 - - 1
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 12 (5.33%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (4.44%) JBoss
3 8 (3.56%) Tomcat
3 8 (3.56%) WebSphere
4 6 (2.67%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.67%) Confluence
5 5 (2.22%) Apache
6 4 (1.78%) WebLogic
7 3 (1.33%) CMS
7 3 (1.33%) nginx
7 3 (1.33%) SAS
8 2 (0.89%) IIS
8 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.89%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.44%) Camunda
9 1 (0.44%) CICS
9 1 (0.44%) Documentum
9 1 (0.44%) FileNet
9 1 (0.44%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.22%) Kondor
2 1 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 53 (23.56%) Azure
2 41 (18.22%) GCP
3 35 (15.56%) Serverless
4 28 (12.44%) GitHub
5 24 (10.67%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (10.22%) Amazon EC2
6 23 (10.22%) Amazon EKS
6 23 (10.22%) Amazon S3
7 18 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (6.22%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (5.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (4.44%) dbt
11 8 (3.56%) OpenShift
12 7 (3.11%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (2.22%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (2.22%) Snowflake
14 4 (1.78%) Anthropic Claude
14 4 (1.78%) Azure AI
14 4 (1.78%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.00%) DNS
2 6 (2.67%) Network Security
3 5 (2.22%) Firewall
4 4 (1.78%) VPN
5 3 (1.33%) DHCP
5 3 (1.33%) HTTP
6 2 (0.89%) BGP
6 2 (0.89%) Calico
6 2 (0.89%) MPLS
6 2 (0.89%) NAS
6 2 (0.89%) OSPF
6 2 (0.89%) SAN
6 2 (0.89%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.89%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.89%) VLAN
6 2 (0.89%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.56%) SQL Server
2 15 (6.67%) Relational Database
3 14 (6.22%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (5.78%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.89%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (4.89%) DynamoDB
5 11 (4.89%) Hadoop
6 10 (4.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (4.00%) Big Data
7 9 (4.00%) NoSQL
8 8 (3.56%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (2.67%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.67%) DB2
10 5 (2.22%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.78%) Airbyte
11 4 (1.78%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.78%) MySQL
11 4 (1.78%) Neo4j
11 4 (1.78%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 29 (12.89%) GitLab
2 28 (12.44%) Git
2 28 (12.44%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.33%) JIRA
4 8 (3.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (3.11%) Maven
6 6 (2.67%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.67%) TeamCity
7 5 (2.22%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (2.22%) CA Release Automation
8 4 (1.78%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.33%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.33%) ScriptRunner
10 2 (0.89%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.89%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.89%) Postman
10 2 (0.89%) Selenium
11 1 (0.44%) Hudson
11 1 (0.44%) JUnit
11 1 (0.44%) Mockito
General
1 43 (19.11%) Social Skills
2 29 (12.89%) Finance
3 24 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (9.33%) Banking
4 21 (9.33%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.78%) Legal
6 7 (3.11%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.22%) Military
8 4 (1.78%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.78%) Retail
9 2 (0.89%) Marketing
10 1 (0.44%) Advertising
10 1 (0.44%) Billing
10 1 (0.44%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (22.22%) Senior
2 42 (18.67%) Developer
3 39 (17.33%) Architect
4 27 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 23 (10.22%) AWS Engineer
6 22 (9.78%) Solutions Architect
7 20 (8.89%) Data Engineer
8 19 (8.44%) Software Engineer
9 14 (6.22%) Lead
9 14 (6.22%) Senior Software Engineer
10 13 (5.78%) Senior Developer
11 11 (4.89%) AWS DevOps
11 11 (4.89%) Software Developer
12 9 (4.00%) AWS Architect
12 9 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (4.00%) Node.js Developer
13 8 (3.56%) AWS Developer
13 8 (3.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 8 (3.56%) Python Engineer
13 8 (3.56%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (17.33%) Node.js
2 32 (14.22%) Kafka
3 24 (10.67%) React
4 19 (8.44%) RESTful
5 17 (7.56%) Spring Boot
6 16 (7.11%) REST
7 11 (4.89%) Spring
8 10 (4.44%) SOAP
9 9 (4.00%) .NET
9 9 (4.00%) AngularJS
9 9 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (3.56%) OAuth
11 6 (2.67%) AWS CDK
11 6 (2.67%) Web Services
12 5 (2.22%) JSP
12 5 (2.22%) OpenID
12 5 (2.22%) PySpark
12 5 (2.22%) PyTorch
12 5 (2.22%) SAML
12 5 (2.22%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.33%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.44%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (3.11%) Mainframe
3 7 (3.11%) Onboarding
3 7 (3.11%) Private Cloud
3 7 (3.11%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.67%) Algorithms
4 6 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (2.67%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.22%) Derivative
5 5 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.78%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.78%) PKI
7 2 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.89%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (15.11%) Linux
2 15 (6.67%) Unix
3 13 (5.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (5.78%) Windows
4 8 (3.56%) CentOS
5 4 (1.78%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.89%) AIX
6 2 (0.89%) Android
6 2 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.89%) HPUX
6 2 (0.89%) Solaris
6 2 (0.89%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (32.44%) CI/CD
2 52 (23.11%) DevOps
3 49 (21.78%) Agile
4 42 (18.67%) Containerisation
4 42 (18.67%) Data Pipeline
5 40 (17.78%) Software Engineering
6 37 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (15.11%) Microservices
8 31 (13.78%) Infrastructure as Code
9 25 (11.11%) Migration
10 23 (10.22%) Analytics
10 23 (10.22%) Continuous Integration
11 20 (8.89%) SDLC
12 19 (8.44%) Stakeholder Management
13 18 (8.00%) ETL
13 18 (8.00%) Full-Stack Development
13 18 (8.00%) Visualisation
14 17 (7.56%) High Availability
15 15 (6.67%) Digital Twin
16 14 (6.22%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 75 (33.33%) Python
2 42 (18.67%) Java
3 40 (17.78%) SQL
4 36 (16.00%) JavaScript
5 26 (11.56%) TypeScript
6 11 (4.89%) Bash
7 8 (3.56%) Perl
8 7 (3.11%) Go
9 6 (2.67%) Scala
9 6 (2.67%) SPARQL
10 5 (2.22%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.33%) Clojure
11 3 (1.33%) Groovy
11 3 (1.33%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.89%) C#
12 2 (0.89%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.89%) Ruby
13 1 (0.44%) COBOL
13 1 (0.44%) PHP
13 1 (0.44%) REXX
Qualifications
1 64 (28.44%) Security Cleared
2 40 (17.78%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.22%) Degree
4 12 (5.33%) AWS Certification
4 12 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (3.11%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.22%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.33%) CCIE
8 3 (1.33%) CCNP
8 3 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.33%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.89%) JNCIE
10 1 (0.44%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.78%) QA
2 8 (3.56%) GDPR
3 7 (3.11%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.22%) Basel III
4 5 (2.22%) MiFID
5 4 (1.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.78%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.33%) SLA
7 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.89%) NCSC
7 2 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.44%) COBIT
8 1 (0.44%) NIST
System Software
1 45 (20.00%) Docker
2 9 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.89%) KVM
5 2 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.89%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 56 (24.89%) Kubernetes
2 37 (16.44%) Terraform
3 13 (5.78%) Ansible
4 11 (4.89%) Kibana
4 11 (4.89%) Progress Chef
5 7 (3.11%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.67%) Istio
7 5 (2.22%) Grafana
7 5 (2.22%) Packer
8 3 (1.33%) Kustomize
8 3 (1.33%) Puppet
8 3 (1.33%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.89%) Nagios
10 1 (0.44%) Consul
10 1 (0.44%) Graylog
10 1 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.44%) linkerd
10 1 (0.44%) Rancher
10 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (7.56%) Oracle
2 16 (7.11%) Google
3 13 (5.78%) IBM
3 13 (5.78%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.89%) Splunk
5 8 (3.56%) AppDynamics
5 8 (3.56%) Red Hat
6 7 (3.11%) Cloudera
7 5 (2.22%) Cisco
7 5 (2.22%) Sybase
7 5 (2.22%) VMware
8 4 (1.78%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.89%) Dell
9 2 (0.89%) F5
9 2 (0.89%) ForgeRock
9 2 (0.89%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.89%) HP
9 2 (0.89%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.89%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.89%) SolarWinds