AWS Contracts in the North West

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 10 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 292 406 537
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 10.74% 12.85% 13.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.52% 34.61% 38.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 317 407
10th Percentile £333 £413 £400
25th Percentile £409 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £638
90th Percentile £659 £675 £675
England median daily rate £556 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -7.29% +1.69% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile - £35.92 £24.98
25th Percentile £67.50 £37.30 £30.19
Median hourly rate £70.94 £39.60 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +79.13% -1.61% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £52.68 £50.19
90th Percentile - £60.52 £55.33
England median hourly rate £46.18 £74.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -37.59% +34.55% -5.17%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 871 1,173 1,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.05% 37.13% 34.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 630 871 1,072
10th Percentile £284 £313 £213
25th Percentile £386 £419 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £567 £575 £596
90th Percentile £638 £656 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 31 42
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.19 £14.25
25th Percentile - £18.88 £15.50
Median hourly rate £16.06 £35.00 £18.84
Median % change year-on-year -54.11% +85.75% +8.45%
75th Percentile £20.00 £65.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £59.88
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.02
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.66% -2.23%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the North West over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for AWS in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the North West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Manchester +2 223 £500 -7.41% 162
Cheshire -4 52 £449 -18.41% 37
Lancashire -1 7 £625 +13.64% 15
Merseyside +10 5 £350 -25.33% 9
Cumbria -24 1 £528 +23.94% 2
AWS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 8 (2.74%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.40%) Apache
2 7 (2.40%) Confluence
3 5 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (1.37%) Mule
4 4 (1.37%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.03%) nginx
6 2 (0.68%) CMS
6 2 (0.68%) Traefik
7 1 (0.34%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.34%) JBoss
7 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.05%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 78 (26.71%) Azure
2 41 (14.04%) Amazon EC2
3 37 (12.67%) Serverless
4 34 (11.64%) Amazon S3
5 33 (11.30%) AWS Lambda
6 31 (10.62%) GCP
7 26 (8.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 19 (6.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (6.51%) Snowflake
9 17 (5.82%) Amazon SQS
9 17 (5.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (4.79%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (4.45%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (4.11%) Route 53
13 11 (3.77%) GitHub
14 10 (3.42%) Power Platform
14 10 (3.42%) SaaS
15 9 (3.08%) IaaS
16 8 (2.74%) Amazon ECR
17 7 (2.40%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.82%) VPN
2 11 (3.77%) OSPF
3 10 (3.42%) Network Security
4 9 (3.08%) DNS
4 9 (3.08%) Firewall
4 9 (3.08%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.74%) LAN
5 8 (2.74%) WAN
5 8 (2.74%) Wireless
6 7 (2.40%) Ethernet
6 7 (2.40%) VLAN
6 7 (2.40%) Wireless Security
7 5 (1.71%) FTP
8 4 (1.37%) BGP
8 4 (1.37%) MPLS
8 4 (1.37%) Value-Added Service
8 4 (1.37%) Wireshark
9 3 (1.03%) DHCP
9 3 (1.03%) DSL
10 2 (0.68%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (9.59%) MongoDB
2 14 (4.79%) Amazon Redshift
3 12 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (3.77%) DynamoDB
5 10 (3.42%) Big Data
5 10 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (3.42%) Power BI
6 9 (3.08%) Data Lake
6 9 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.74%) MySQL
7 8 (2.74%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (2.74%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.71%) OLAP
8 5 (1.71%) OLTP
8 5 (1.71%) Oracle OLAP
9 4 (1.37%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.37%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.03%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 41 (14.04%) GitLab
2 35 (11.99%) Git
3 34 (11.64%) Jenkins
4 24 (8.22%) JIRA
5 11 (3.77%) Cucumber
6 8 (2.74%) webpack
7 7 (2.40%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.05%) Cypress.io
8 6 (2.05%) Hudson
9 4 (1.37%) Liquibase
9 4 (1.37%) Log4j
9 4 (1.37%) Maven
10 3 (1.03%) Burp Suite
10 3 (1.03%) Gatling
10 3 (1.03%) JUnit
10 3 (1.03%) Mocha
10 3 (1.03%) Mockito
10 3 (1.03%) Postman
11 2 (0.68%) GoCD
11 2 (0.68%) Selenium
General
1 60 (20.55%) Social Skills
2 31 (10.62%) Public Sector
3 27 (9.25%) Finance
4 23 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (5.82%) Banking
6 12 (4.11%) Manufacturing
6 12 (4.11%) Retail
7 7 (2.40%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (2.05%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.37%) Marketing
10 3 (1.03%) Electronics
11 1 (0.34%) Advertising
11 1 (0.34%) Automotive
11 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 77 (26.37%) Developer
2 33 (11.30%) Senior
3 29 (9.93%) Architect
3 29 (9.93%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (9.93%) Lead
4 26 (8.90%) AWS Engineer
5 25 (8.56%) Java Developer
5 25 (8.56%) Software Engineer
6 23 (7.88%) AWS DevOps
7 17 (5.82%) Network Engineer
8 15 (5.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 15 (5.14%) Data Engineer
9 12 (4.11%) AWS Architect
9 12 (4.11%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (3.42%) Consultant
10 10 (3.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (3.42%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 10 (3.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 9 (3.08%) AWS Developer
11 9 (3.08%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (15.07%) Node.js
2 36 (12.33%) RESTful
3 35 (11.99%) React
4 21 (7.19%) Spring Boot
5 20 (6.85%) Spring
6 19 (6.51%) Web Services
7 18 (6.16%) REST
8 13 (4.45%) Kafka
9 12 (4.11%) Hibernate
10 11 (3.77%) Redux
11 10 (3.42%) OAuth
11 10 (3.42%) OAuth2
11 10 (3.42%) OpenID
12 9 (3.08%) .NET
12 9 (3.08%) Express.js
13 8 (2.74%) JPA
13 8 (2.74%) Spring Security
14 7 (2.40%) Jest
14 7 (2.40%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (2.40%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.11%) Enterprise Software
1 12 (4.11%) Public Cloud
2 7 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (2.40%) Virtual Team
3 5 (1.71%) DataPower
3 5 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (1.71%) PKI
3 5 (1.71%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.37%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.03%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.03%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.03%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.68%) Clustering
6 2 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.68%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.68%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.68%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.34%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 29 (9.93%) Linux
2 23 (7.88%) Windows
3 7 (2.40%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.40%) Unix
4 5 (1.71%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.37%) Android
5 4 (1.37%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.03%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.68%) CentOS
8 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (30.82%) Agile
1 90 (30.82%) CI/CD
2 65 (22.26%) DevOps
3 44 (15.07%) Containerisation
3 44 (15.07%) Microservices
3 44 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (14.04%) Software Engineering
5 33 (11.30%) Test Automation
6 31 (10.62%) Design Patterns
7 29 (9.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 27 (9.25%) Scrum
9 25 (8.56%) ETL
10 24 (8.22%) Front End Development
11 23 (7.88%) Full Stack Development
12 22 (7.53%) Migration
13 21 (7.19%) Stakeholder Management
14 17 (5.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 16 (5.48%) SDLC
16 15 (5.14%) Continuous Integration
16 15 (5.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 76 (26.03%) Java
2 61 (20.89%) Python
3 28 (9.59%) SQL
4 20 (6.85%) Bash
4 20 (6.85%) JavaScript
5 19 (6.51%) TypeScript
6 18 (6.16%) Go
7 14 (4.79%) PowerShell
8 10 (3.42%) PHP
9 9 (3.08%) Ruby
10 8 (2.74%) C#
11 6 (2.05%) C
12 5 (1.71%) Scala
13 2 (0.68%) R
13 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.34%) Bicep
14 1 (0.34%) Julia
14 1 (0.34%) Perl
14 1 (0.34%) Rust
Qualifications
1 62 (21.23%) Security Cleared
2 51 (17.47%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.79%) AWS Certification
3 14 (4.79%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (3.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 9 (3.08%) CCNA
4 9 (3.08%) Degree
5 7 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.05%) CCNP
6 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.71%) CCIE
7 5 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.37%) CISM
8 4 (1.37%) CISSP
8 4 (1.37%) VCAP
9 3 (1.03%) MCSE
9 3 (1.03%) OSCP
10 2 (0.68%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.68%) MCITP
11 1 (0.34%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.48%) QA
2 9 (3.08%) PCI DSS
3 7 (2.40%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.40%) NIST
4 5 (1.71%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (1.37%) SLA
6 3 (1.03%) ISO 22301
6 3 (1.03%) NCSC
7 2 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.34%) GDPR
8 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (13.01%) Docker
2 11 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.08%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 71 (24.32%) Terraform
2 53 (18.15%) Kubernetes
3 21 (7.19%) Ansible
4 7 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (2.40%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.05%) Grafana
5 6 (2.05%) HP Fortify
6 5 (1.71%) Progress Chef
6 5 (1.71%) Puppet
6 5 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.03%) CFEngine
7 3 (1.03%) PowerBroker
8 2 (0.68%) Consul
8 2 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.68%) Graphite
8 2 (0.68%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.68%) Kibana
8 2 (0.68%) linkerd
8 2 (0.68%) Packer
8 2 (0.68%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (6.16%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.48%) VMware
3 12 (4.11%) Google
4 10 (3.42%) Splunk
5 8 (2.74%) Oracle
6 7 (2.40%) SAP
7 6 (2.05%) Atlassian
7 6 (2.05%) Databricks
7 6 (2.05%) IBM
7 6 (2.05%) Sophos
8 5 (1.71%) Informatica
8 5 (1.71%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.71%) Talend
8 5 (1.71%) TSYS
9 4 (1.37%) Cisco
9 4 (1.37%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (1.37%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.03%) PagerDuty
10 3 (1.03%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.03%) Teradata