AWS Contracts in Salford

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Manchester > Salford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Salford 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 2 1 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing AWS 11 9 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Salford 55.00% 34.62% 20.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 100.00% 56.25% 80.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 7
10th Percentile £380 £375 £593
25th Percentile £450 £400 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £425 £650
Median % change year-on-year +64.71% -34.62% +35.77%
75th Percentile £716 £438 £681
90th Percentile £735 £460 £693
Manchester median daily rate £475 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
Manchester median hourly rate £76.25 £70.94 £37.30
% change year-on-year +7.49% +90.17% -

All Cloud Skills
Salford

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 Salford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11 16 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Salford 55.00% 61.54% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 8
10th Percentile £380 £248 £598
25th Percentile £450 £375 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £425 £650
Median % change year-on-year +64.71% -34.62% +38.67%
75th Percentile £716 - £691
90th Percentile £735 £455 £711
Manchester median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
Manchester median hourly rate £70.00 £26.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +169.23% -60.00% +271.43%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Salford

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Salford.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Salford

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Salford

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in Salford.

Daily rate trend for AWS in Salford

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Salford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Salford over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Salford

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Salford 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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
1 7 (63.64%) GCP
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (18.18%) SaaS
2 2 (18.18%) Serverless
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Neptune
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 8 (72.73%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (63.64%) Legal
2 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 7 (63.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Architect
1 7 (63.64%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
1 1 (9.09%) HTML
1 1 (9.09%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (9.09%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Software Engineering
2 8 (72.73%) Computer Science
3 2 (18.18%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 1 (9.09%) Coaching
4 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
4 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
2 1 (9.09%) Scala
2 1 (9.09%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (72.73%) Degree
2 7 (63.64%) AWS Certification
2 7 (63.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 7 (63.64%) Azure Certification
2 7 (63.64%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
3 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) QA
2 2 (18.18%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Google
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft