AWS Contracts in Cheshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 9 19
Rank change year-on-year -3 +10 -11
Contract jobs citing AWS 53 68 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 10.27% 12.81% 8.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.99% 31.63% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 58 34
10th Percentile £311 £417 £315
25th Percentile £409 £467 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -18.64% +0.92% +36.59%
75th Percentile £515 £575 £632
90th Percentile £586 £638 £634
North West median daily rate £489 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -11.09% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £65.25 £21.50
Median hourly rate - £65.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year - +184.78% +53.33%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £24.50
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £70.94 £40.05 £75.00
% change year-on-year +77.12% -46.60% +400.00%

All Cloud Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 171 215 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 33.14% 40.49% 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 159 92
10th Percentile £279 £215 £163
25th Percentile £363 £385 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £485 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +14.06% +6.25%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £538
90th Percentile £635 £638 £632
North West median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 10
10th Percentile £16.98 £12.90 £18.73
25th Percentile - £17.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.72 £22.41 £22.39
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +0.09% +49.27%
75th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £31.00
90th Percentile - £50.30 £63.00
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £35.00 £24.03
% change year-on-year -54.11% +45.67% +38.73%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Cheshire

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Cheshire

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Cheshire over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Cheshire

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for AWS in Cheshire

AWS
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 17 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
Knutsford -1 30 £445 -19.09% 4
Macclesfield -4 7 £510 +6.25%
Warrington +11 4 £475 +111.11% 9
Crewe - 1 - -
AWS
North West

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 7 (13.21%) Apache Spark
2 6 (11.32%) Apache
2 6 (11.32%) Confluence
2 6 (11.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (9.43%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (7.55%) Mule
5 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (13.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (13.21%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.89%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.74%) Azure
2 11 (20.75%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (16.98%) Snowflake
4 8 (15.09%) Amazon S3
4 8 (15.09%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (15.09%) Serverless
5 7 (13.21%) Apigee
5 7 (13.21%) GCP
5 7 (13.21%) Kong
6 6 (11.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (9.43%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (9.43%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (7.55%) SaaS
9 3 (5.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (5.66%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (5.66%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (5.66%) AWS Direct Connect
9 3 (5.66%) Route 53
10 2 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (3.77%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.09%) VPN
2 7 (13.21%) TCP/IP
2 7 (13.21%) VLAN
3 5 (9.43%) FTP
4 4 (7.55%) BGP
4 4 (7.55%) MPLS
4 4 (7.55%) OSPF
4 4 (7.55%) Value-Added Service
4 4 (7.55%) Wireshark
5 3 (5.66%) DHCP
5 3 (5.66%) DNS
6 2 (3.77%) Firewall
7 1 (1.89%) DSL
7 1 (1.89%) LAN
7 1 (1.89%) WAN
7 1 (1.89%) Wireless
7 1 (1.89%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.98%) Big Data
2 7 (13.21%) MongoDB
2 7 (13.21%) OLAP
2 7 (13.21%) OLTP
3 6 (11.32%) Oracle OLAP
4 4 (7.55%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (7.55%) Data Lake
4 4 (7.55%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (5.66%) DB2
5 3 (5.66%) DynamoDB
5 3 (5.66%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.77%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.89%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.89%) Impala
7 1 (1.89%) MySQL
7 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.89%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (39.62%) JIRA
2 9 (16.98%) Git
3 8 (15.09%) Jenkins
4 4 (7.55%) Liquibase
4 4 (7.55%) Log4j
5 2 (3.77%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (35.85%) Banking
2 14 (26.42%) Finance
3 10 (18.87%) Social Skills
4 7 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (13.21%) Public Sector
5 6 (11.32%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (9.43%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.89%) Automotive
7 1 (1.89%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (32.08%) Architect
2 10 (18.87%) Solutions Architect
3 9 (16.98%) AWS Architect
3 9 (16.98%) Data Engineer
4 8 (15.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (13.21%) Network Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Developer
6 5 (9.43%) Lead
6 5 (9.43%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) AWS Developer
7 4 (7.55%) Java Developer
8 3 (5.66%) AWS Data Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) AWS Solution Architect
8 3 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) Design Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) Principal Consultant
9 2 (3.77%) Principal Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.75%) Kafka
1 11 (20.75%) Web Services
2 7 (13.21%) IBM Integration Bus
2 7 (13.21%) J2EE
2 7 (13.21%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (13.21%) SOAP
3 6 (11.32%) Apache Camel
3 6 (11.32%) Spring
3 6 (11.32%) Spring Boot
3 6 (11.32%) Spring Integration
4 5 (9.43%) JSON
4 5 (9.43%) XML
5 4 (7.55%) Hibernate
5 4 (7.55%) REST
6 3 (5.66%) .NET
6 3 (5.66%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.21%) DataPower
2 5 (9.43%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (7.55%) Public Cloud
3 4 (7.55%) Virtual Team
4 3 (5.66%) Mainframe
5 2 (3.77%) Credit Risk
5 2 (3.77%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.77%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.66%) Android
1 3 (5.66%) Apple iOS
1 3 (5.66%) Unix
2 2 (3.77%) Windows
3 1 (1.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (35.85%) Agile
2 17 (32.08%) DevOps
3 15 (28.30%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (22.64%) Microservices
4 12 (22.64%) OO
5 11 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (16.98%) ETL
6 9 (16.98%) Risk Management
6 9 (16.98%) Scrum
7 8 (15.09%) Containerisation
7 8 (15.09%) Identity Access Management
7 8 (15.09%) SDLC
8 7 (13.21%) Architectural Design
8 7 (13.21%) CQRS
8 7 (13.21%) Data Engineering
8 7 (13.21%) Design Patterns
8 7 (13.21%) Enterprise Architecture
8 7 (13.21%) Event-Driven
8 7 (13.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 7 (13.21%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 22 (41.51%) Java
2 8 (15.09%) Python
2 8 (15.09%) SQL
3 5 (9.43%) C#
4 3 (5.66%) C
5 1 (1.89%) Bash
5 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.89%) Ruby
5 1 (1.89%) Scala
5 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (11.32%) Degree
2 5 (9.43%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.55%) CCIE
3 4 (7.55%) CCNP
3 4 (7.55%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.55%) VCAP
4 3 (5.66%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.66%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (3.77%) NIST
1 2 (3.77%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (3.77%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.77%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (13.21%) Progress Chef
2 6 (11.32%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (5.66%) Grafana
3 3 (5.66%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.66%) Prometheus
3 3 (5.66%) Terraform
4 1 (1.89%) Ansible
4 1 (1.89%) CFEngine
4 1 (1.89%) PowerBroker
4 1 (1.89%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (15.09%) Oracle
2 7 (13.21%) IBM
2 7 (13.21%) TSYS
3 5 (9.43%) Informatica
3 5 (9.43%) Talend
4 4 (7.55%) Google
4 4 (7.55%) LogicMonitor
4 4 (7.55%) SolarWinds
5 3 (5.66%) Databricks
5 3 (5.66%) Teradata
6 1 (1.89%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.89%) Cisco
6 1 (1.89%) Meraki
6 1 (1.89%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.89%) Ubiquiti
6 1 (1.89%) Veeam
6 1 (1.89%) VMware