AWS Contracts in the North West

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 11 4
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 280 372 570
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 10.46% 11.90% 14.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.63% 31.69% 40.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 286 425
10th Percentile £333 £411 £400
25th Percentile £409 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £588 £624 £638
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £563 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -6.25% +2.13% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 16
10th Percentile £65.00 £35.83 £60.63
25th Percentile £67.50 £37.06 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.94 £40.05 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.12% -46.60% +300.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £48.88 £78.38
90th Percentile £73.50 £59.00 £81.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £74.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -25.68% +5.71% +18.64%

All Cloud Skills
North West

AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 858 1,174 1,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.04% 37.54% 34.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 868 1,077
10th Percentile £284 £307 £230
25th Percentile £388 £413 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 33 57
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.81 £14.70
25th Percentile - £16.62 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £35.00 £23.06
Median % change year-on-year -54.11% +51.81% +33.11%
75th Percentile £26.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £60.40 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £21.50
% change year-on-year -34.98% +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 12 May 2024.

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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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 12 May 2024. 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 +3 215 £500 -7.83% 163
Cheshire -4 49 £448 -18.64% 28
Lancashire -6 6 £625 +6.38% 16
Merseyside +13 5 £350 -17.65% 9
Cumbria -20 1 £528 - 2
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 8 (2.86%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.50%) Apache
2 7 (2.50%) Confluence
3 5 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (1.43%) Mule
4 4 (1.43%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.07%) nginx
6 2 (0.71%) CMS
6 2 (0.71%) Traefik
7 1 (0.36%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.36%) JBoss
7 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.14%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 72 (25.71%) Azure
2 39 (13.93%) Amazon EC2
3 36 (12.86%) Serverless
4 33 (11.79%) Amazon S3
5 32 (11.43%) AWS Lambda
6 28 (10.00%) GCP
7 25 (8.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 19 (6.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (6.79%) Snowflake
9 17 (6.07%) Amazon SQS
9 17 (6.07%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (4.64%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (4.29%) Route 53
13 10 (3.57%) Power Platform
13 10 (3.57%) SaaS
14 8 (2.86%) Amazon ECR
14 8 (2.86%) GitHub
14 8 (2.86%) IaaS
15 7 (2.50%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.36%) VPN
2 11 (3.93%) OSPF
3 10 (3.57%) Network Security
4 9 (3.21%) DNS
4 9 (3.21%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.86%) LAN
5 8 (2.86%) WAN
5 8 (2.86%) Wireless
6 7 (2.50%) Ethernet
6 7 (2.50%) Firewall
6 7 (2.50%) VLAN
6 7 (2.50%) Wireless Security
7 5 (1.79%) FTP
8 4 (1.43%) BGP
8 4 (1.43%) MPLS
8 4 (1.43%) Value-Added Service
8 4 (1.43%) Wireshark
9 3 (1.07%) DHCP
10 2 (0.71%) DSL
10 2 (0.71%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 14 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 11 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (3.93%) DynamoDB
4 10 (3.57%) Big Data
4 10 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (3.57%) Power BI
5 9 (3.21%) Data Lake
5 9 (3.21%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (2.86%) MySQL
7 7 (2.50%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (2.50%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.79%) OLAP
8 5 (1.79%) OLTP
8 5 (1.79%) Oracle OLAP
9 4 (1.43%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.43%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.07%) DB2
10 3 (1.07%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 41 (14.64%) GitLab
2 34 (12.14%) Git
3 28 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 20 (7.14%) JIRA
5 8 (2.86%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.86%) webpack
6 7 (2.50%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.14%) Cypress.io
7 6 (2.14%) Hudson
8 4 (1.43%) Liquibase
8 4 (1.43%) Log4j
9 3 (1.07%) Burp Suite
9 3 (1.07%) Mocha
10 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.71%) Gatling
10 2 (0.71%) JUnit
10 2 (0.71%) Maven
10 2 (0.71%) Mockito
10 2 (0.71%) Selenium
10 2 (0.71%) TeamCity
General
1 56 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 26 (9.29%) Public Sector
3 25 (8.93%) Finance
4 20 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.07%) Banking
6 11 (3.93%) Manufacturing
6 11 (3.93%) Retail
7 7 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (1.79%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.07%) Marketing
10 2 (0.71%) Electronics
11 1 (0.36%) Advertising
11 1 (0.36%) Automotive
11 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 70 (25.00%) Developer
2 32 (11.43%) Senior
3 29 (10.36%) Software Engineer
4 28 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (10.00%) Lead
5 27 (9.64%) Architect
6 26 (9.29%) AWS Engineer
7 24 (8.57%) Java Developer
8 23 (8.21%) AWS DevOps
9 17 (6.07%) Network Engineer
10 15 (5.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 15 (5.36%) Data Engineer
11 11 (3.93%) AWS Architect
12 10 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (3.57%) Consultant
12 10 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (3.57%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 10 (3.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 9 (3.21%) Test Engineer
14 8 (2.86%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (16.43%) Node.js
2 37 (13.21%) React
3 33 (11.79%) RESTful
4 23 (8.21%) Spring
4 23 (8.21%) Spring Boot
5 17 (6.07%) REST
5 17 (6.07%) Web Services
6 12 (4.29%) Hibernate
6 12 (4.29%) Kafka
7 11 (3.93%) Redux
8 10 (3.57%) .NET
9 9 (3.21%) Express.js
10 8 (2.86%) AWS CDK
10 8 (2.86%) JPA
10 8 (2.86%) Spring Security
11 7 (2.50%) AngularJS
11 7 (2.50%) Jest
11 7 (2.50%) OAuth
11 7 (2.50%) OpenID
11 7 (2.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (3.93%) Public Cloud
3 7 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (2.14%) Virtual Team
5 5 (1.79%) DataPower
5 5 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (1.79%) PKI
5 5 (1.79%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.43%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.07%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.07%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.07%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.71%) Clustering
8 2 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.71%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.71%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.71%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.36%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.36%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 27 (9.64%) Linux
2 19 (6.79%) Windows
3 7 (2.50%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.14%) Unix
5 5 (1.79%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.43%) Android
6 4 (1.43%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.07%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.71%) CentOS
9 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.36%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (31.79%) CI/CD
2 86 (30.71%) Agile
3 62 (22.14%) DevOps
4 45 (16.07%) Microservices
5 43 (15.36%) Containerisation
5 43 (15.36%) Software Engineering
6 41 (14.64%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (12.50%) Test Automation
8 31 (11.07%) Design Patterns
8 31 (11.07%) Infrastructure as Code
9 25 (8.93%) ETL
10 24 (8.57%) Scrum
11 23 (8.21%) Front End Development
12 21 (7.50%) Full Stack Development
12 21 (7.50%) Migration
12 21 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
13 17 (6.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 16 (5.71%) SDLC
15 15 (5.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 12 (4.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 75 (26.79%) Java
2 60 (21.43%) Python
3 27 (9.64%) SQL
4 21 (7.50%) TypeScript
5 19 (6.79%) Bash
5 19 (6.79%) JavaScript
6 18 (6.43%) Go
7 14 (5.00%) PowerShell
8 9 (3.21%) C#
8 9 (3.21%) PHP
9 8 (2.86%) Ruby
10 6 (2.14%) C
11 4 (1.43%) Scala
12 2 (0.71%) R
12 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.36%) Bicep
13 1 (0.36%) Julia
13 1 (0.36%) Perl
13 1 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 59 (21.07%) Security Cleared
2 49 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (4.64%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.57%) Degree
6 9 (3.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (3.21%) CCNA
7 7 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.14%) CCNP
8 6 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.79%) CCIE
10 4 (1.43%) VCAP
11 3 (1.07%) CISM
11 3 (1.07%) CISSP
11 3 (1.07%) MCSE
11 3 (1.07%) OSCP
12 2 (0.71%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.71%) MCITP
13 1 (0.36%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.71%) QA
2 9 (3.21%) PCI DSS
3 7 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.50%) NIST
4 5 (1.79%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (1.43%) SLA
6 3 (1.07%) ISO 22301
6 3 (1.07%) NCSC
7 2 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.36%) GDPR
8 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (13.57%) Docker
2 11 (3.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.21%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 69 (24.64%) Terraform
2 54 (19.29%) Kubernetes
3 20 (7.14%) Ansible
4 7 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (2.14%) Grafana
5 6 (2.14%) HP Fortify
5 6 (2.14%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.43%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.43%) Puppet
8 2 (0.71%) CFEngine
8 2 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.71%) Graphite
8 2 (0.71%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.71%) Istio
8 2 (0.71%) Kibana
8 2 (0.71%) linkerd
8 2 (0.71%) Packer
8 2 (0.71%) PowerBroker
8 2 (0.71%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (5.71%) VMware
2 15 (5.36%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.29%) Google
4 10 (3.57%) Splunk
5 8 (2.86%) Oracle
6 6 (2.14%) Databricks
6 6 (2.14%) IBM
6 6 (2.14%) SAP
6 6 (2.14%) Sophos
7 5 (1.79%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.79%) Informatica
7 5 (1.79%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.79%) Talend
7 5 (1.79%) TSYS
8 4 (1.43%) Cisco
8 4 (1.43%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (1.43%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.07%) PagerDuty
9 3 (1.07%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.07%) Teradata