AWS Contract Job Trends in Stockport

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Manchester > Stockport

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Stockport requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 9 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Stockport 14.29% 5.00% 9.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.33% 11.11% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £625 - £575
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median daily rate £525 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -9.09%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Stockport

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 Stockport.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6 9 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stockport 42.86% 45.00% 36.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 4
10th Percentile £192 - £313
25th Percentile £251 - £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £406
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -1.54% -7.14%
75th Percentile £488 - £467
90th Percentile £570 £495 £532
Manchester median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Stockport

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Stockport.

AWS job vacancy trend in Stockport

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in Stockport

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stockport citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stockport citing AWS

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stockport 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 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring MVC
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform