Amazon EC2 Contracts in the North West

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Amazon EC2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 125 134
Rank change year-on-year +26 +9 -18
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 42 33 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.51% 1.03% 1.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.73% 2.71% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 21 32
10th Percentile £409 £525 £439
25th Percentile £450 £556 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +26.26%
75th Percentile £694 £675 £650
90th Percentile - £688 £686
England median daily rate £528 £616 £575
% change year-on-year -14.40% +7.17% +9.52%

All Cloud Skills
North West

Amazon EC2 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 888 1,219 1,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.98% 37.95% 33.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 652 907 1,041
10th Percentile £300 £306 £213
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £595
90th Percentile £638 £675 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 33 44
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.20 £14.25
25th Percentile - £20.00 £15.19
Median hourly rate £16.06 £35.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.11% +89.19% +6.14%
75th Percentile £21.13 £65.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £59.63
England median hourly rate £20.97 £29.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -28.92% +40.48% -2.33%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the North West

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the North West

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the North West over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the North West

Amazon EC2
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 Amazon EC2 within the North West region over the 6 months to 23 April 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 +20 29 £575 -11.54% 5
Cheshire - 11 £480 - 3
Lancashire - 1 £525 - 3
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
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 5 (11.90%) Apache
1 5 (11.90%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (11.90%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.76%) nginx
2 2 (4.76%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 42 (100.00%) AWS
2 28 (66.67%) Amazon S3
3 23 (54.76%) AWS Lambda
3 23 (54.76%) Serverless
4 21 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 13 (30.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 13 (30.95%) Amazon SQS
6 12 (28.57%) Route 53
7 11 (26.19%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (26.19%) Snowflake
8 9 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (19.05%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
11 5 (11.90%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (11.90%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (9.52%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (9.52%) AWS CodePipeline
13 3 (7.14%) IaaS
13 3 (7.14%) PaaS
14 2 (4.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.90%) FTP
2 2 (4.76%) DNS
2 2 (4.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.19%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (23.81%) DynamoDB
3 8 (19.05%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (14.29%) Data Lake
4 6 (14.29%) NoSQL
5 5 (11.90%) Big Data
6 4 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (9.52%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (40.48%) Git
1 17 (40.48%) GitLab
2 9 (21.43%) Jenkins
3 8 (19.05%) webpack
4 6 (14.29%) SonarQube
5 5 (11.90%) JIRA
General
1 8 (19.05%) Manufacturing
2 6 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 5 (11.90%) Finance
3 5 (11.90%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (9.52%) Social Skills
5 3 (7.14%) Electronics
5 3 (7.14%) Marketing
5 3 (7.14%) Retail
5 3 (7.14%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.38%) Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (30.95%) Lead
2 12 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (26.19%) AWS DevOps
4 8 (19.05%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 7 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (11.90%) Architect
7 5 (11.90%) Data Engineer
7 5 (11.90%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 4 (9.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (9.52%) Technical Leader
9 3 (7.14%) AWS Architect
9 3 (7.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 3 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (7.14%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 3 (7.14%) Lead Cloud Architect
9 3 (7.14%) Operations Engineer
9 3 (7.14%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.43%) Node.js
1 9 (21.43%) React
2 8 (19.05%) Express.js
2 8 (19.05%) Redux
3 5 (11.90%) JSON
3 5 (11.90%) XML
4 2 (4.76%) cloud-init
5 1 (2.38%) AWS CDK
5 1 (2.38%) CSS
5 1 (2.38%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.76%) Clustering
2 2 (4.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.14%) Linux
2 2 (4.76%) CentOS
2 2 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (69.05%) CI/CD
2 26 (61.90%) DevOps
3 25 (59.52%) Containerisation
4 13 (30.95%) Agile
4 13 (30.95%) ETL
4 13 (30.95%) Test Automation
5 11 (26.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (23.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 9 (21.43%) Full Stack Development
7 9 (21.43%) Scrum
8 8 (19.05%) API Development
8 8 (19.05%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 8 (19.05%) Customer Engagement
8 8 (19.05%) End-to-End Testing
8 8 (19.05%) Front End Development
8 8 (19.05%) QA Automation
8 8 (19.05%) Software Engineering
9 7 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (11.90%) Data Pipeline
10 5 (11.90%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (47.62%) Python
2 13 (30.95%) Bash
3 11 (26.19%) SQL
4 8 (19.05%) Go
5 5 (11.90%) C#
5 5 (11.90%) Java
5 5 (11.90%) Ruby
6 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 15 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 6 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 3 (7.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (23.81%) QA
2 3 (7.14%) ISO 22301
2 3 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.76%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (42.86%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (61.90%) Kubernetes
2 21 (50.00%) Terraform
3 12 (28.57%) Ansible
4 6 (14.29%) HP Fortify
5 5 (11.90%) Prometheus
6 3 (7.14%) Grafana
7 2 (4.76%) Consul
7 2 (4.76%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (4.76%) Graphite
7 2 (4.76%) HAProxy
7 2 (4.76%) Istio
7 2 (4.76%) linkerd
7 2 (4.76%) Packer
7 2 (4.76%) Podman
7 2 (4.76%) Puppet
7 2 (4.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Splunk
2 5 (11.90%) Informatica
2 5 (11.90%) Talend
3 3 (7.14%) Salesforce
3 3 (7.14%) SAP
4 2 (4.76%) PagerDuty
4 2 (4.76%) VMware