AWS Contracts in West Yorkshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 7 11 8
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 74 91 208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 13.50% 9.11% 12.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.96% 31.16% 35.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 69 172
10th Percentile £325 £313 £428
25th Percentile £428 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +0.46%
75th Percentile £575 £615 £650
90th Percentile £725 £675 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +2.33%

All Cloud Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 239 292 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 43.61% 29.23% 35.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 203 432
10th Percentile £263 £280 £331
25th Percentile £375 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £595 £604
90th Percentile £684 £669 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 3
10th Percentile £29.90 - £35.40
25th Percentile £31.69 - £41.63
Median hourly rate £65.71 £15.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +338.05% -72.22% +170.00%
75th Percentile £99.42 - £68.00
90th Percentile £102.00 - £75.20
Yorkshire median hourly rate £65.71 £15.00 £43.25
% change year-on-year +338.05% -65.32% +129.14%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in West Yorkshire

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in West Yorkshire

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS in West Yorkshire

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in West Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in West Yorkshire

AWS
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Leeds 0 72 £500 -9.09% 104
Halifax - 2 £500 -
AWS
Yorkshire

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (6.76%) Confluence
1 5 (6.76%) nginx
1 5 (6.76%) Traefik
2 2 (2.70%) Apache
2 2 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.35%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 22 (29.73%) Azure
2 13 (17.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 13 (17.57%) GCP
3 10 (13.51%) Serverless
4 8 (10.81%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (10.81%) Amazon S3
4 8 (10.81%) Entra ID
5 7 (9.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (9.46%) AWS Fargate
6 6 (8.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (6.76%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.41%) IaaS
8 4 (5.41%) Power Platform
9 3 (4.05%) npm
9 3 (4.05%) PaaS
10 2 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.70%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (2.70%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.46%) TCP/IP
2 6 (8.11%) DNS
3 2 (2.70%) HTTP
4 1 (1.35%) Firewall
4 1 (1.35%) LAN
4 1 (1.35%) SSL
4 1 (1.35%) VLAN
4 1 (1.35%) VPN
4 1 (1.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.46%) MongoDB
2 6 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.76%) DynamoDB
4 4 (5.41%) Power BI
5 1 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.35%) Big Data
5 1 (1.35%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.35%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.35%) MySQL
5 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (20.27%) GitLab
1 15 (20.27%) Jenkins
2 11 (14.86%) JIRA
3 8 (10.81%) Selenium
4 6 (8.11%) Git
4 6 (8.11%) Postman
5 4 (5.41%) Cypress.io
5 4 (5.41%) ScriptRunner
5 4 (5.41%) SoapUI
6 3 (4.05%) webpack
7 1 (1.35%) Babel
7 1 (1.35%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.35%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.35%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (12.16%) Public Sector
2 8 (10.81%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.05%) Finance
4 2 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.70%) Military
5 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (27.03%) Senior
2 19 (25.68%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (20.27%) Developer
4 9 (12.16%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (12.16%) Senior DevOps
5 7 (9.46%) AWS DevOps
5 7 (9.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 7 (9.46%) Lead
5 7 (9.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 6 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Python Developer
7 4 (5.41%) Python Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) QA Tester
7 4 (5.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Tester
8 3 (4.05%) Analyst
8 3 (4.05%) JIRA Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) React Developer
8 3 (4.05%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.05%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.86%) cloud-init
2 7 (9.46%) Kafka
2 7 (9.46%) React
3 6 (8.11%) CSS
3 6 (8.11%) Keycloak
4 5 (6.76%) Lambda Expressions
4 5 (6.76%) RESTful
5 4 (5.41%) HTML
6 3 (4.05%) .NET
6 3 (4.05%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.05%) Node.js
6 3 (4.05%) pytest
7 2 (2.70%) Flask
7 2 (2.70%) Gherkin
7 2 (2.70%) REST
7 2 (2.70%) Tailwind CSS
7 2 (2.70%) Web Services
8 1 (1.35%) JSON
8 1 (1.35%) JWT
8 1 (1.35%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.11%) PKI
2 3 (4.05%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.70%) NHS
4 1 (1.35%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (25.68%) Linux
2 15 (20.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (17.57%) CentOS
4 12 (16.22%) Unix
5 4 (5.41%) Windows
6 2 (2.70%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (1.35%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.35%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (45.95%) DevOps
2 26 (35.14%) CI/CD
3 20 (27.03%) Agile
4 17 (22.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (14.86%) Test Automation
6 10 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (12.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (10.81%) Cloud Security
8 8 (10.81%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (9.46%) Incident Management
9 7 (9.46%) Secrets Management
10 6 (8.11%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 6 (8.11%) Identity Management
10 6 (8.11%) Mentoring
10 6 (8.11%) Migration
10 6 (8.11%) Observability
10 6 (8.11%) Static Application Security Testing
11 5 (6.76%) ETL
11 5 (6.76%) Mobile Device Management
11 5 (6.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (48.65%) Python
2 17 (22.97%) Bash
3 16 (21.62%) SQL
4 12 (16.22%) Go
5 7 (9.46%) JavaScript
5 7 (9.46%) TypeScript
6 5 (6.76%) Groovy
6 5 (6.76%) Java
7 4 (5.41%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.35%) C#
8 1 (1.35%) PHP
8 1 (1.35%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (48.65%) Security Cleared
2 35 (47.30%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.81%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.35%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.16%) QA
2 6 (8.11%) NCSC
3 5 (6.76%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.70%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.35%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (6.76%) Docker
2 3 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (45.95%) Terraform
2 12 (16.22%) Packer
3 11 (14.86%) Kubernetes
4 7 (9.46%) Grafana
4 7 (9.46%) Prometheus
5 6 (8.11%) Consul
5 6 (8.11%) Istio
5 6 (8.11%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (8.11%) linkerd
5 6 (8.11%) Rancher
5 6 (8.11%) ZABBIX
6 5 (6.76%) HAProxy
7 2 (2.70%) Ansible
8 1 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.35%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (8.11%) Okta
1 6 (8.11%) Splunk
2 5 (6.76%) Apple
2 5 (6.76%) ESET
3 4 (5.41%) Atlassian
3 4 (5.41%) Databricks
3 4 (5.41%) Google
4 3 (4.05%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.70%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.70%) Veeam
5 2 (2.70%) VMware
6 1 (1.35%) Brio
6 1 (1.35%) Cisco
6 1 (1.35%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.35%) Xamarin