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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 12 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 -7 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 275 336 597
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 9.90% 11.11% 14.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.00% 29.79% 41.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 259 456
10th Percentile £350 £410 £403
25th Percentile £410 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £638
90th Percentile £669 £676 £675
England median daily rate £563 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.69% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 18
10th Percentile £65.00 £36.10 £62.38
25th Percentile £67.50 £37.75 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.94 £40.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.15% -46.00% +275.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £46.18 £77.50
90th Percentile £73.50 £57.92 £81.00
England median hourly rate £50.59 £72.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -30.22% +3.57% +13.82%

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 887 1,128 1,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.93% 37.31% 35.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 839 1,114
10th Percentile £282 £302 £213
25th Percentile £393 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £595
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 37 58
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.89 £14.78
25th Percentile - £16.62 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £22.53 £26.95
Median % change year-on-year -28.72% -16.39% +41.83%
75th Percentile £26.50 £46.18 £75.00
90th Percentile £71.54 £67.45 £77.50
England median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +2.14%

AWS
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 8 June 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 8 June 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 +2 198 £500 -6.98% 212
Cheshire +1 62 £465 -15.45% 37
Merseyside +14 8 £350 -24.32% 25
Lancashire -9 3 - - 15
Cumbria - 1 £528 - 2
AWS
England

AWS
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 10 (3.64%) Confluence
2 8 (2.91%) Apache
2 8 (2.91%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (1.82%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.45%) Mule
6 3 (1.09%) nginx
7 2 (0.73%) CMS
8 1 (0.36%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.36%) JBoss
8 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.36%) Traefik
Applications
1 7 (2.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.91%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 90 (32.73%) Azure
2 36 (13.09%) Serverless
3 35 (12.73%) Amazon EC2
4 33 (12.00%) Amazon S3
5 31 (11.27%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (10.55%) GCP
7 19 (6.91%) Snowflake
8 18 (6.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 17 (6.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 17 (6.18%) SaaS
10 16 (5.82%) Amazon SQS
10 16 (5.82%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
12 12 (4.36%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (4.00%) Route 53
14 8 (2.91%) Amazon ECR
14 8 (2.91%) Amazon EMR
14 8 (2.91%) Power Platform
15 7 (2.55%) IaaS
15 7 (2.55%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.36%) VPN
2 11 (4.00%) OSPF
3 9 (3.27%) Network Security
4 8 (2.91%) LAN
4 8 (2.91%) WAN
4 8 (2.91%) Wireless
5 7 (2.55%) Ethernet
5 7 (2.55%) Firewall
5 7 (2.55%) Wireless Security
6 6 (2.18%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.82%) DNS
7 5 (1.82%) FTP
8 4 (1.45%) BGP
8 4 (1.45%) MPLS
8 4 (1.45%) Value-Added Service
8 4 (1.45%) VLAN
8 4 (1.45%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.73%) MQTT
9 2 (0.73%) SSL
9 2 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.82%) Amazon Redshift
2 14 (5.09%) MongoDB
3 13 (4.73%) Data Lake
4 11 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (4.00%) DynamoDB
5 10 (3.64%) Big Data
6 9 (3.27%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (2.91%) Power BI
8 7 (2.55%) MySQL
8 7 (2.55%) NoSQL
8 7 (2.55%) OLAP
8 7 (2.55%) OLTP
8 7 (2.55%) SQL Server
9 6 (2.18%) Oracle OLAP
9 6 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (1.82%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (1.45%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 39 (14.18%) Git
2 28 (10.18%) GitLab
3 23 (8.36%) Jenkins
3 23 (8.36%) JIRA
4 8 (2.91%) SonarQube
4 8 (2.91%) webpack
5 6 (2.18%) Cypress.io
5 6 (2.18%) Hudson
6 5 (1.82%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.45%) Liquibase
7 4 (1.45%) Log4j
8 3 (1.09%) Burp Suite
8 3 (1.09%) Mocha
8 3 (1.09%) Mockito
9 2 (0.73%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.73%) GoCD
9 2 (0.73%) JUnit
9 2 (0.73%) Maven
9 2 (0.73%) Postman
9 2 (0.73%) TeamCity
General
1 48 (17.45%) Social Skills
2 36 (13.09%) Finance
3 27 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.36%) Banking
5 18 (6.55%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.27%) Manufacturing
6 9 (3.27%) Retail
7 6 (2.18%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (1.82%) Publishing
9 3 (1.09%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.73%) Automotive
11 1 (0.36%) Advertising
11 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Marketing
11 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 58 (21.09%) Developer
2 40 (14.55%) Architect
3 28 (10.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (9.82%) Lead
5 25 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 25 (9.09%) Senior
6 22 (8.00%) Software Engineer
7 21 (7.64%) AWS DevOps
8 19 (6.91%) Java Developer
9 18 (6.55%) AWS Architect
10 16 (5.82%) Consultant
11 15 (5.45%) Data Engineer
12 14 (5.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 14 (5.09%) Network Engineer
12 14 (5.09%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 10 (3.64%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 9 (3.27%) Cloud Engineer
15 9 (3.27%) Senior DevOps
15 9 (3.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.73%) React
2 32 (11.64%) Node.js
3 26 (9.45%) Spring
4 25 (9.09%) Spring Boot
5 16 (5.82%) REST
6 15 (5.45%) Kafka
7 14 (5.09%) Web Services
8 12 (4.36%) Hibernate
9 11 (4.00%) Redux
10 9 (3.27%) .NET
10 9 (3.27%) Express.js
10 9 (3.27%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (3.27%) SOAP
11 8 (2.91%) IBM Integration Bus
11 8 (2.91%) JPA
11 8 (2.91%) RESTful
11 8 (2.91%) Spring Security
12 7 (2.55%) AWS CDK
12 7 (2.55%) Jest
12 7 (2.55%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.09%) Enterprise Software
1 14 (5.09%) Public Cloud
2 7 (2.55%) DataPower
2 7 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (2.55%) Security Posture
3 6 (2.18%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.45%) PKI
5 4 (1.45%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.45%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.09%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (1.09%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.73%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.73%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.73%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.36%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.36%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.36%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.73%) Linux
2 15 (5.45%) Windows
3 8 (2.91%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.82%) Android
4 5 (1.82%) Unix
4 5 (1.82%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.45%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.09%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.36%) CentOS
7 1 (0.36%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.36%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (24.73%) Agile
1 68 (24.73%) CI/CD
2 66 (24.00%) DevOps
3 42 (15.27%) Containerisation
3 42 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (15.27%) Test Automation
4 34 (12.36%) Software Engineering
5 31 (11.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (10.91%) Microservices
7 29 (10.55%) Stakeholder Management
8 26 (9.45%) ETL
9 22 (8.00%) Migration
10 21 (7.64%) Front End Development
11 20 (7.27%) Full Stack Development
12 18 (6.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 18 (6.55%) Scrum
12 18 (6.55%) SDLC
13 16 (5.82%) Design Patterns
14 14 (5.09%) Computer Science
14 14 (5.09%) OO
Programming Languages
1 67 (24.36%) Java
2 57 (20.73%) Python
3 27 (9.82%) SQL
4 21 (7.64%) JavaScript
5 19 (6.91%) Bash
6 16 (5.82%) TypeScript
7 15 (5.45%) PowerShell
8 14 (5.09%) Go
9 11 (4.00%) PHP
10 8 (2.91%) C#
11 6 (2.18%) C
12 4 (1.45%) Ruby
12 4 (1.45%) Scala
13 2 (0.73%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.36%) Bicep
14 1 (0.36%) Perl
14 1 (0.36%) R
14 1 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 54 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 49 (17.82%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.55%) Degree
4 15 (5.45%) AWS Certification
4 15 (5.45%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (3.27%) CCNA
6 8 (2.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (2.18%) CCNP
7 6 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.82%) CCIE
8 5 (1.82%) CISSP
9 4 (1.45%) VCAP
10 3 (1.09%) CISM
10 3 (1.09%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.09%) MCSE
10 3 (1.09%) OSCP
11 2 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.73%) MCITP
12 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.82%) QA
2 12 (4.36%) NIST
3 9 (3.27%) PCI DSS
4 8 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.55%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.82%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (1.45%) SLA
8 3 (1.09%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.73%) NCSC
9 2 (0.73%) WCAG
10 1 (0.36%) GDPR
10 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (15.27%) Docker
2 10 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.27%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.27%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.18%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 55 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 50 (18.18%) Terraform
3 19 (6.91%) Ansible
4 7 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (2.55%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (2.18%) Grafana
5 6 (2.18%) HP Fortify
5 6 (2.18%) Progress Chef
6 5 (1.82%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.73%) Istio
7 2 (0.73%) Kibana
7 2 (0.73%) Podman
8 1 (0.36%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.36%) Consul
8 1 (0.36%) Graphite
8 1 (0.36%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.36%) Nessus
8 1 (0.36%) Packer
8 1 (0.36%) Puppet
8 1 (0.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (8.73%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.82%) VMware
3 10 (3.64%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.27%) Google
4 9 (3.27%) Oracle
4 9 (3.27%) ServiceNow
4 9 (3.27%) Splunk
5 8 (2.91%) IBM
5 8 (2.91%) Zscaler
6 7 (2.55%) TSYS
7 6 (2.18%) Sophos
7 6 (2.18%) Tanium
8 5 (1.82%) Informatica
8 5 (1.82%) Talend
9 4 (1.45%) Cisco
9 4 (1.45%) Databricks
9 4 (1.45%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (1.45%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.09%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.09%) Teradata