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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 18 11
Rank change year-on-year +10 -7 -7
Contract jobs citing AWS 335 168 314
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 13.29% 7.87% 11.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.55% 25.38% 32.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 104 240
10th Percentile £358 £356 £325
25th Percentile £400 £396 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £606
90th Percentile £641 £585 £688
England median daily rate £525 £575 £553
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.03% -7.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 18
10th Percentile £29.20 - -
25th Percentile £38.50 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £54.00 £52.09 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +3.67% +12.80% +31.94%
75th Percentile £69.50 £62.88 -
90th Percentile £78.80 £71.65 -
England median hourly rate £84.50 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +82.98% - -19.69%

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 869 662 956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.47% 31.01% 36.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 429 718
10th Percentile £219 £250 £265
25th Percentile £358 £375 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £539 £565 £575
90th Percentile £638 £646 £650
England median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 13 53
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.16 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.05 £17.72
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.00 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% +22.83% -32.54%
75th Percentile £69.25 £58.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.37 £75.95 £50.84
England median hourly rate £26.50 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -8.62% +16.00% +11.11%

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

AWS
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

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the North West over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the North West

AWS
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

AWS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in the North West over the 6 months to 23 December 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 23 December 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 +10 209 £475 -4.95% 321
Cheshire +8 102 £447 +11.75% 124
Merseyside -2 11 £513 +70.83% 59
Lancashire -10 7 £438 -12.50% 109
Cumbria +3 1 - - 2
AWS
England

AWS
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 24 (7.16%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (4.78%) JBoss
3 15 (4.48%) Apache
4 12 (3.58%) IIS
4 12 (3.58%) WebSphere
5 10 (2.99%) iPlanet
5 10 (2.99%) WebSphere Application Server
6 8 (2.39%) SAS
7 6 (1.79%) Confluence
8 4 (1.19%) Apache Spark
8 4 (1.19%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.60%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.60%) NetWeaver
10 2 (0.60%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.30%) nginx
11 1 (0.30%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.49%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.60%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 130 (38.81%) Azure
2 86 (25.67%) GCP
3 54 (16.12%) Serverless
4 43 (12.84%) AWS Lambda
4 43 (12.84%) GitHub
5 33 (9.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 29 (8.66%) Amazon ECS
7 25 (7.46%) Amazon SQS
7 25 (7.46%) OpenShift
8 24 (7.16%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (6.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 20 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
11 19 (5.67%) Amazon EC2
12 17 (5.07%) Amazon S3
13 16 (4.78%) Datadog
14 14 (4.18%) AWS Step Functions
15 13 (3.88%) Apigee
16 12 (3.58%) Amazon EventBridge
17 11 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
18 8 (2.39%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.67%) Firewall
2 10 (2.99%) Kerberos
3 8 (2.39%) VPN
4 6 (1.79%) DNS
4 6 (1.79%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.19%) DHCP
5 4 (1.19%) HTTP
5 4 (1.19%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.60%) NetScaler
6 2 (0.60%) Network Security
6 2 (0.60%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.60%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.30%) SSL
7 1 (0.30%) VLAN
7 1 (0.30%) VoIP
7 1 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.30%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.87%) DynamoDB
2 21 (6.27%) NoSQL
3 18 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (4.78%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (4.18%) Redis
6 13 (3.88%) Amazon Aurora
6 13 (3.88%) Relational Database
7 11 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (3.28%) MongoDB
7 11 (3.28%) Oracle Database
8 10 (2.99%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.69%) DocumentDB
9 9 (2.69%) MySQL
10 8 (2.39%) RDBMS
11 7 (2.09%) Metadata
12 6 (1.79%) Big Data
12 6 (1.79%) BigQuery
13 5 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (1.19%) Power BI
15 3 (0.90%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 61 (18.21%) Jenkins
2 60 (17.91%) Git
3 56 (16.72%) GitLab
4 28 (8.36%) JIRA
5 20 (5.97%) SonarQube
6 14 (4.18%) Sonatype Nexus
7 13 (3.88%) Bitbucket Server
7 13 (3.88%) CA Release Automation
8 9 (2.69%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.79%) Gradle
9 6 (1.79%) Maven
10 5 (1.49%) MLflow
10 5 (1.49%) Snyk
10 5 (1.49%) SonarLint
11 4 (1.19%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.19%) Postman
12 3 (0.90%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.90%) Jasmine
12 3 (0.90%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.60%) Cucumber
General
1 88 (26.27%) Finance
2 71 (21.19%) Social Skills
3 64 (19.10%) Public Sector
4 34 (10.15%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (9.85%) Banking
6 6 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.49%) Marketing
8 4 (1.19%) Games
8 4 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.19%) Military
9 3 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.90%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.90%) Retail
10 2 (0.60%) Japanese Language
10 2 (0.60%) Law
10 2 (0.60%) Local Government
10 2 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.30%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.30%) Legal
Job Titles
1 63 (18.81%) Architect
2 62 (18.51%) Developer
3 38 (11.34%) DevOps Engineer
4 36 (10.75%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (10.45%) Senior
6 30 (8.96%) Lead
7 22 (6.57%) Solutions Architect
8 20 (5.97%) Java Developer
9 19 (5.67%) AWS DevOps
10 16 (4.78%) Platform Engineer
11 15 (4.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 15 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
11 15 (4.48%) Technical Architect
12 14 (4.18%) Security Engineer
13 13 (3.88%) AWS Developer
13 13 (3.88%) Data Engineer
13 13 (3.88%) Full-Stack Developer
14 12 (3.58%) Software Engineer
15 11 (3.28%) Analyst
15 11 (3.28%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (14.63%) Spring Boot
2 41 (12.24%) Spring
3 32 (9.55%) Node.js
4 31 (9.25%) REST
5 30 (8.96%) RESTful
6 29 (8.66%) React
7 27 (8.06%) OAuth
8 25 (7.46%) Kafka
9 17 (5.07%) AngularJS
10 15 (4.48%) HTML
11 14 (4.18%) JWT
12 12 (3.58%) SAML
13 11 (3.28%) LDAP
13 11 (3.28%) OAuth2
13 11 (3.28%) OpenID
14 10 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
15 9 (2.69%) JMS
15 9 (2.69%) JSON
15 9 (2.69%) XML
16 8 (2.39%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 37 (11.04%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.78%) Data Protection Act
3 14 (4.18%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.88%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.69%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 8 (2.39%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.09%) Credit Risk
8 6 (1.79%) N-Tier
9 4 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.19%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.90%) Legacy Code
10 3 (0.90%) NHS
10 3 (0.90%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.90%) Synthetic Data
10 3 (0.90%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.60%) PKI
11 2 (0.60%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (10.75%) Linux
2 25 (7.46%) Windows
3 13 (3.88%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.69%) Unix
5 4 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.90%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.90%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (42.09%) DevOps
2 139 (41.49%) CI/CD
3 81 (24.18%) Microservices
4 71 (21.19%) Containerisation
5 69 (20.60%) Agile
6 60 (17.91%) Infrastructure as Code
7 58 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (11.64%) Migration
9 37 (11.04%) Stakeholder Management
10 35 (10.45%) AI
10 35 (10.45%) Analytics
11 34 (10.15%) Mentoring
11 34 (10.15%) SDLC
12 32 (9.55%) Machine Learning
13 31 (9.25%) Cloud Security
14 29 (8.66%) Event-Driven
14 29 (8.66%) Test Automation
15 28 (8.36%) Observability
16 27 (8.06%) Full-Stack Development
17 24 (7.16%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 98 (29.25%) Python
2 86 (25.67%) Java
3 60 (17.91%) SQL
4 26 (7.76%) TypeScript
5 24 (7.16%) Bash
6 22 (6.57%) JavaScript
7 15 (4.48%) Shell Script
8 12 (3.58%) PowerShell
9 11 (3.28%) Groovy
10 10 (2.99%) Go
11 8 (2.39%) Perl
11 8 (2.39%) R
12 7 (2.09%) Ruby
13 4 (1.19%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.19%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.90%) C#
14 3 (0.90%) ProC
14 3 (0.90%) Scala
15 2 (0.60%) C
15 2 (0.60%) PHP
Qualifications
1 67 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 46 (13.73%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.27%) AWS Certification
4 19 (5.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (5.07%) Degree
6 16 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (3.28%) CISSP
8 7 (2.09%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.09%) CISM
9 4 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.90%) CCNP
10 3 (0.90%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.60%) GIAC
12 1 (0.30%) CBAP
12 1 (0.30%) CEH
12 1 (0.30%) OSCP
12 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.37%) QA
2 17 (5.07%) ISO 20022
3 11 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.99%) GDPR
4 10 (2.99%) PSD2
5 9 (2.69%) Data Quality
5 9 (2.69%) SEPA
6 8 (2.39%) NIST
6 8 (2.39%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.19%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.60%) GRC
8 2 (0.60%) SLA
8 2 (0.60%) WCAG
9 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.30%) SOC 1
9 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 106 (31.64%) Docker
2 24 (7.16%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.39%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 7 (2.09%) vSphere
6 3 (0.90%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 101 (30.15%) Kubernetes
2 84 (25.07%) Terraform
3 17 (5.07%) Ansible
4 16 (4.78%) Prometheus
5 13 (3.88%) Progress Chef
6 12 (3.58%) Grafana
7 11 (3.28%) CA Single Sign-On
8 10 (2.99%) CA Wily
9 8 (2.39%) Tivoli
10 7 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.79%) SCCM
12 5 (1.49%) Fluentd
12 5 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.90%) Kibana
13 3 (0.90%) Packer
14 2 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.60%) Control-M
15 1 (0.30%) Argo
15 1 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 45 (13.43%) Microsoft
2 33 (9.85%) Oracle
3 30 (8.96%) Splunk
4 17 (5.07%) Google
5 13 (3.88%) AppDynamics
6 12 (3.58%) IBM
6 12 (3.58%) VMware
7 11 (3.28%) Broadcom
8 8 (2.39%) F5
8 8 (2.39%) Pega
9 6 (1.79%) Citrix
9 6 (1.79%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.79%) Gigya
9 6 (1.79%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.49%) Checkmarx
10 5 (1.49%) Cribl.io
10 5 (1.49%) Ping Identity
10 5 (1.49%) SAP
10 5 (1.49%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.49%) Veracode