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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 12 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 -7 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 266 337 597
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 9.72% 11.12% 14.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.37% 29.69% 41.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 259 453
10th Percentile £338 £410 £405
25th Percentile £409 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £638
90th Percentile £669 £675 £675
England median daily rate £560 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -32.55% +7.14% +16.67%

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 876 1,135 1,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.99% 37.45% 35.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 841 1,113
10th Percentile £283 £304 £213
25th Percentile £388 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 39 57
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.94 £14.70
25th Percentile - £17.56 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £27.20 £26.40
Median % change year-on-year -40.96% +3.05% +44.63%
75th Percentile £26.50 £59.70 £75.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.94% +62.79% +2.14%

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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 1 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 1 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 +4 202 £500 -6.98% 195
Cheshire 0 53 £448 -18.64% 39
Merseyside +14 5 £350 -24.32% 24
Lancashire -7 2 - - 14
Cumbria - 1 £528 - 2
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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 9 (3.38%) Confluence
2 8 (3.01%) Apache
2 8 (3.01%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.26%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (1.88%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.50%) Mule
6 3 (1.13%) nginx
7 2 (0.75%) CMS
7 2 (0.75%) Traefik
8 1 (0.38%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.38%) JBoss
8 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (2.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.01%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 76 (28.57%) Azure
2 36 (13.53%) Amazon EC2
3 35 (13.16%) Serverless
4 33 (12.41%) Amazon S3
5 31 (11.65%) AWS Lambda
6 30 (11.28%) GCP
7 21 (7.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 19 (7.14%) Snowflake
9 18 (6.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (6.39%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (6.02%) Amazon SQS
12 15 (5.64%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (4.51%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (4.14%) Route 53
14 11 (4.14%) SaaS
15 8 (3.01%) Amazon ECR
15 8 (3.01%) Amazon EMR
15 8 (3.01%) Power Platform
16 7 (2.63%) IaaS
16 7 (2.63%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.26%) VPN
2 11 (4.14%) OSPF
3 9 (3.38%) Network Security
3 9 (3.38%) TCP/IP
4 8 (3.01%) DNS
4 8 (3.01%) LAN
4 8 (3.01%) WAN
4 8 (3.01%) Wireless
5 7 (2.63%) Ethernet
5 7 (2.63%) Firewall
5 7 (2.63%) Wireless Security
6 6 (2.26%) VLAN
7 5 (1.88%) FTP
8 4 (1.50%) BGP
8 4 (1.50%) MPLS
8 4 (1.50%) Value-Added Service
8 4 (1.50%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.75%) MQTT
9 2 (0.75%) SAN
9 2 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.02%) Amazon Redshift
2 14 (5.26%) MongoDB
3 13 (4.89%) Data Lake
4 11 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (4.14%) DynamoDB
5 10 (3.76%) Big Data
6 9 (3.38%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (3.01%) Power BI
8 7 (2.63%) MySQL
8 7 (2.63%) NoSQL
8 7 (2.63%) OLAP
8 7 (2.63%) OLTP
8 7 (2.63%) SQL Server
9 6 (2.26%) Oracle OLAP
9 6 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (1.88%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (1.50%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.13%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 38 (14.29%) Git
2 28 (10.53%) GitLab
3 24 (9.02%) Jenkins
4 22 (8.27%) JIRA
5 8 (3.01%) webpack
6 7 (2.63%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.26%) Cypress.io
7 6 (2.26%) Hudson
8 5 (1.88%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.50%) Liquibase
9 4 (1.50%) Log4j
10 3 (1.13%) Burp Suite
10 3 (1.13%) Mocha
10 3 (1.13%) Mockito
11 2 (0.75%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.75%) GoCD
11 2 (0.75%) JUnit
11 2 (0.75%) Maven
11 2 (0.75%) Postman
11 2 (0.75%) TeamCity
General
1 47 (17.67%) Social Skills
2 27 (10.15%) Finance
3 23 (8.65%) Banking
4 18 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.77%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.14%) Retail
6 9 (3.38%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.26%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.13%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.75%) Automotive
10 1 (0.38%) Advertising
10 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.38%) Marketing
10 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.38%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 59 (22.18%) Developer
2 38 (14.29%) Architect
3 28 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (9.77%) Lead
5 25 (9.40%) AWS Engineer
5 25 (9.40%) Senior
6 22 (8.27%) Software Engineer
7 21 (7.89%) AWS DevOps
8 19 (7.14%) Java Developer
9 18 (6.77%) AWS Architect
10 16 (6.02%) Network Engineer
11 15 (5.64%) Data Engineer
12 14 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 14 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (4.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 10 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (3.76%) Consultant
14 10 (3.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 10 (3.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 9 (3.38%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (13.53%) React
2 33 (12.41%) Node.js
3 26 (9.77%) Spring
4 25 (9.40%) Spring Boot
5 16 (6.02%) REST
6 15 (5.64%) Kafka
7 14 (5.26%) Web Services
8 12 (4.51%) Hibernate
9 11 (4.14%) Redux
10 9 (3.38%) .NET
10 9 (3.38%) Express.js
10 9 (3.38%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (3.38%) SOAP
11 8 (3.01%) IBM Integration Bus
11 8 (3.01%) JPA
11 8 (3.01%) RESTful
11 8 (3.01%) Spring Security
12 7 (2.63%) AngularJS
12 7 (2.63%) J2EE
12 7 (2.63%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (3.38%) Public Cloud
3 7 (2.63%) DataPower
3 7 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (1.88%) Management Information System
4 5 (1.88%) PKI
5 4 (1.50%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.50%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.13%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.13%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.13%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.75%) Clustering
7 2 (0.75%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.75%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.75%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.38%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (0.38%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 24 (9.02%) Linux
2 15 (5.64%) Windows
3 8 (3.01%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.88%) Android
4 5 (1.88%) Unix
4 5 (1.88%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.50%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.13%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.75%) CentOS
8 1 (0.38%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (25.94%) Agile
1 69 (25.94%) CI/CD
2 64 (24.06%) DevOps
3 43 (16.17%) Containerisation
4 37 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (12.41%) Software Engineering
5 33 (12.41%) Test Automation
6 31 (11.65%) Infrastructure as Code
7 30 (11.28%) Microservices
8 29 (10.90%) Stakeholder Management
9 26 (9.77%) ETL
10 21 (7.89%) Front End Development
10 21 (7.89%) Full Stack Development
10 21 (7.89%) Migration
11 19 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 19 (7.14%) Scrum
12 18 (6.77%) SDLC
13 16 (6.02%) Design Patterns
14 15 (5.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 14 (5.26%) OO
Programming Languages
1 67 (25.19%) Java
2 58 (21.80%) Python
3 27 (10.15%) SQL
4 22 (8.27%) JavaScript
5 19 (7.14%) Bash
6 18 (6.77%) TypeScript
7 17 (6.39%) Go
8 15 (5.64%) PowerShell
9 10 (3.76%) PHP
10 8 (3.01%) C#
11 6 (2.26%) C
12 5 (1.88%) Ruby
13 4 (1.50%) Scala
14 2 (0.75%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.38%) Bicep
15 1 (0.38%) Perl
15 1 (0.38%) R
15 1 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 54 (20.30%) Security Cleared
2 49 (18.42%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 14 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (3.38%) CCNA
4 9 (3.38%) Degree
5 8 (3.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (2.26%) CCNP
6 6 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.88%) CCIE
8 4 (1.50%) CISSP
8 4 (1.50%) VCAP
9 3 (1.13%) CISM
9 3 (1.13%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.13%) MCSE
9 3 (1.13%) OSCP
10 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.75%) MCITP
11 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.02%) QA
2 9 (3.38%) PCI DSS
3 8 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.63%) NIST
5 6 (2.26%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.88%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (1.50%) SLA
8 3 (1.13%) ISO 22301
8 3 (1.13%) NCSC
9 2 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.38%) GDPR
10 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (15.79%) Docker
2 11 (4.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.38%) Hyper-V
4 8 (3.01%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 54 (20.30%) Kubernetes
2 52 (19.55%) Terraform
3 19 (7.14%) Ansible
4 7 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (2.26%) Grafana
5 6 (2.26%) HP Fortify
5 6 (2.26%) Progress Chef
5 6 (2.26%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.75%) Consul
6 2 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (0.75%) Graphite
6 2 (0.75%) HAProxy
6 2 (0.75%) Istio
6 2 (0.75%) Kibana
6 2 (0.75%) linkerd
6 2 (0.75%) Packer
6 2 (0.75%) Podman
6 2 (0.75%) Puppet
6 2 (0.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (6.39%) Microsoft
1 17 (6.39%) VMware
2 10 (3.76%) Splunk
3 9 (3.38%) Google
3 9 (3.38%) Oracle
4 8 (3.01%) IBM
5 7 (2.63%) TSYS
6 6 (2.26%) Sophos
7 5 (1.88%) Informatica
7 5 (1.88%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.88%) Talend
8 4 (1.50%) Cisco
8 4 (1.50%) Databricks
8 4 (1.50%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (1.50%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.50%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.13%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.13%) PagerDuty
9 3 (1.13%) Teradata
10 2 (0.75%) MuleSoft