AWS Contracts in Manchester

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 4 7 3
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 208 262 467
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 14.63% 14.51% 17.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.54% 35.65% 47.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 201 356
10th Percentile £350 £413 £408
25th Percentile £413 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £626
90th Percentile £694 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £489 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -11.09% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 10
10th Percentile £65.00 £35.46 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £36.15 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.94 £37.30 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +90.17% -50.27% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £38.45 £81.00
90th Percentile £73.50 £39.14 -
North West median hourly rate £70.94 £40.05 £75.00
% change year-on-year +77.12% -46.60% +400.00%

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 526 735 984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 36.99% 40.70% 37.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 552 786
10th Percentile £313 £325 £300
25th Percentile £408 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +13.51%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £619
90th Percentile £650 £655 £671
North West median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 26
10th Percentile £22.90 £16.26 £14.25
25th Percentile £25.50 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £67.00 £65.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% +136.36% +71.88%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £74.10 - £81.00
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 Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Manchester

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Manchester

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Manchester

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for AWS in Manchester

AWS
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Manchester 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
Wigan - 6 £400 - 1
Salford 0 4 £425 -33.33% 9
Stockport +1 1 £550 - 6
Oldham - 1 £275 -
AWS
North West

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (1.44%) Confluence
1 3 (1.44%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.96%) CMS
2 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.96%) nginx
2 2 (0.96%) Traefik
3 1 (0.48%) Alfresco
3 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 46 (22.12%) Azure
2 26 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 24 (11.54%) Amazon S3
3 24 (11.54%) Serverless
4 21 (10.10%) AWS Lambda
4 21 (10.10%) GCP
5 17 (8.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 15 (7.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 15 (7.21%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (5.77%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (5.29%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (4.33%) Power Platform
10 9 (4.33%) Snowflake
11 8 (3.85%) Amazon ECR
11 8 (3.85%) Route 53
12 7 (3.37%) IaaS
12 7 (3.37%) SaaS
13 6 (2.88%) Amazon ELB
13 6 (2.88%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.81%) Network Security
2 7 (3.37%) Ethernet
2 7 (3.37%) LAN
2 7 (3.37%) OSPF
2 7 (3.37%) VPN
2 7 (3.37%) WAN
2 7 (3.37%) Wireless
2 7 (3.37%) Wireless Security
3 4 (1.92%) DNS
4 3 (1.44%) Firewall
5 2 (0.96%) MQTT
5 2 (0.96%) SSL
5 2 (0.96%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.48%) SAN
6 1 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.65%) MongoDB
2 11 (5.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (4.33%) Data Lake
3 9 (4.33%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (4.33%) Power BI
4 8 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (3.85%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.37%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (2.88%) MySQL
7 5 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.96%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.96%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.96%) Tableau
10 1 (0.48%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.48%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 36 (17.31%) GitLab
2 27 (12.98%) Git
3 19 (9.13%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.85%) webpack
5 7 (3.37%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.88%) Hudson
7 5 (2.40%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.40%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.44%) Burp Suite
8 3 (1.44%) JIRA
8 3 (1.44%) Mocha
9 2 (0.96%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.96%) GoCD
9 2 (0.96%) JUnit
9 2 (0.96%) Maven
9 2 (0.96%) Mockito
9 2 (0.96%) Postman
9 2 (0.96%) Selenium
10 1 (0.48%) ERwin
10 1 (0.48%) JMeter
General
1 39 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 12 (5.77%) Public Sector
3 10 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (4.81%) Retail
4 8 (3.85%) Finance
5 5 (2.40%) Manufacturing
6 4 (1.92%) Banking
6 4 (1.92%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.96%) Marketing
8 1 (0.48%) Advertising
8 1 (0.48%) Automotive
8 1 (0.48%) Electronics
8 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.48%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 57 (27.40%) Developer
2 30 (14.42%) Senior
3 29 (13.94%) Software Engineer
4 22 (10.58%) AWS DevOps
4 22 (10.58%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (9.62%) AWS Engineer
6 17 (8.17%) Java Developer
6 17 (8.17%) Lead
7 14 (6.73%) Architect
7 14 (6.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 10 (4.81%) Network Engineer
8 10 (4.81%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 10 (4.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (4.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (3.85%) Consultant
10 8 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (3.37%) Site Engineer
11 7 (3.37%) Test Engineer
12 6 (2.88%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (20.19%) Node.js
2 33 (15.87%) React
3 24 (11.54%) RESTful
4 20 (9.62%) Spring
5 19 (9.13%) Spring Boot
6 12 (5.77%) REST
7 11 (5.29%) Redux
8 9 (4.33%) Express.js
9 8 (3.85%) Hibernate
9 8 (3.85%) JPA
9 8 (3.85%) Spring Security
10 7 (3.37%) .NET
10 7 (3.37%) AngularJS
10 7 (3.37%) Jest
11 6 (2.88%) AWS CDK
12 5 (2.40%) Django
12 5 (2.40%) Web Services
13 4 (1.92%) Lambda Expressions
13 4 (1.92%) OAuth
13 4 (1.92%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (2.40%) Public Cloud
3 4 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (1.92%) Onboarding
3 4 (1.92%) PKI
3 4 (1.92%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.44%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.96%) Clustering
5 2 (0.96%) Management Information System
5 2 (0.96%) Security Posture
5 2 (0.96%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.48%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.48%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.48%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (0.48%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.48%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (11.06%) Linux
2 14 (6.73%) Windows
3 4 (1.92%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.92%) Mac OS
3 4 (1.92%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.44%) Kali Linux
4 3 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.96%) CentOS
6 1 (0.48%) Android
6 1 (0.48%) Unix
6 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.48%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (35.10%) CI/CD
2 59 (28.37%) Agile
3 42 (20.19%) DevOps
4 35 (16.83%) Containerisation
4 35 (16.83%) Software Engineering
5 31 (14.90%) Microservices
6 30 (14.42%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (13.46%) Test Automation
8 26 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (10.58%) Design Patterns
9 22 (10.58%) Front End Development
10 21 (10.10%) Full Stack Development
11 16 (7.69%) ETL
11 16 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 13 (6.25%) E-Commerce
12 13 (6.25%) Migration
12 13 (6.25%) Scrum
13 12 (5.77%) Customer Service
13 12 (5.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 9 (4.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (24.04%) Java
1 50 (24.04%) Python
2 19 (9.13%) JavaScript
2 19 (9.13%) TypeScript
3 18 (8.65%) Bash
3 18 (8.65%) Go
4 17 (8.17%) SQL
5 12 (5.77%) PowerShell
6 7 (3.37%) PHP
7 5 (2.40%) Ruby
8 4 (1.92%) C#
9 3 (1.44%) C
10 2 (0.96%) Scala
11 1 (0.48%) Bicep
11 1 (0.48%) Perl
11 1 (0.48%) R
11 1 (0.48%) Rust
Qualifications
1 50 (24.04%) Security Cleared
2 43 (20.67%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.29%) AWS Certification
4 10 (4.81%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (4.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 9 (4.33%) CCNA
6 6 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.44%) CISM
7 3 (1.44%) CISSP
7 3 (1.44%) Degree
7 3 (1.44%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.44%) MCSE
7 3 (1.44%) OSCP
8 2 (0.96%) CCNP
8 2 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.96%) MCITP
9 1 (0.48%) CCIE
9 1 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.48%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.69%) QA
2 7 (3.37%) PCI DSS
3 6 (2.88%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.40%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.40%) NIST
5 4 (1.92%) SLA
6 3 (1.44%) ISO 22301
6 3 (1.44%) NCSC
7 2 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.48%) GDPR
8 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (18.27%) Docker
2 11 (5.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.85%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 60 (28.85%) Terraform
2 50 (24.04%) Kubernetes
3 18 (8.65%) Ansible
4 7 (3.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (2.88%) HP Fortify
6 3 (1.44%) Grafana
6 3 (1.44%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.96%) Consul
7 2 (0.96%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.96%) Graphite
7 2 (0.96%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.96%) Istio
7 2 (0.96%) Kibana
7 2 (0.96%) linkerd
7 2 (0.96%) Packer
7 2 (0.96%) Podman
7 2 (0.96%) Puppet
7 2 (0.96%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (7.21%) VMware
2 11 (5.29%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.81%) Splunk
4 6 (2.88%) Sophos
5 5 (2.40%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.92%) Google
7 3 (1.44%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.44%) Cisco
7 3 (1.44%) PagerDuty
7 3 (1.44%) SAP
8 2 (0.96%) Brocade
8 2 (0.96%) Facebook
8 2 (0.96%) Sage
8 2 (0.96%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.96%) Tufin
8 2 (0.96%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.48%) Dell
9 1 (0.48%) Embarcadero
9 1 (0.48%) Qualys
9 1 (0.48%) Red Hat