Amazon EC2 Contracts in the North West

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 127 123
Rank change year-on-year +27 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 35 23 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.25% 0.76% 1.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.95% 2.05% 4.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 16 40
10th Percentile £409 £494 £413
25th Percentile £450 £522 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £594 £625
Median % change year-on-year -14.11% -5.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £694 £656 £650
90th Percentile - £694 £676
England median daily rate £525 £609 £575
% change year-on-year -13.76% +5.87% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £67.25
25th Percentile - - £70.63
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £78.38
90th Percentile - - £79.95
England median hourly rate - £50.00 £77.00
% change year-on-year - -35.06% -

All Cloud Skills
North West

Amazon EC2 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 887 1,122 1,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.77% 37.25% 35.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 836 1,101
10th Percentile £281 £300 £213
25th Percentile £393 £413 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
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 35 57
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.83 £14.70
25th Percentile - £16.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £22.41 £26.40
Median % change year-on-year -28.34% -15.10% +38.92%
75th Percentile £26.50 £41.63 £75.00
90th Percentile £71.54 £64.65 £77.50
England median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +2.14%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the North West

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the North West

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the North West

Amazon EC2
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 Amazon EC2 within the North West region over the 6 months to 12 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 +11 24 £550 -7.37% 3
Cheshire - 11 £480 - 2
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
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 5 (14.29%) Apache
1 5 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.86%) nginx
2 1 (2.86%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 35 (100.00%) AWS
2 26 (74.29%) Amazon S3
3 20 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
3 20 (57.14%) Serverless
4 16 (45.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 13 (37.14%) Amazon SQS
6 11 (31.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (31.43%) Route 53
6 11 (31.43%) Snowflake
7 10 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (22.86%) Amazon ECR
8 8 (22.86%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (17.14%) Amazon ELB
10 5 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (11.43%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (11.43%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (8.57%) AWS CodePipeline
13 1 (2.86%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.29%) FTP
2 1 (2.86%) DNS
2 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (28.57%) DynamoDB
2 8 (22.86%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (17.14%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (17.14%) Data Lake
3 6 (17.14%) NoSQL
4 5 (14.29%) Big Data
5 4 (11.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (8.57%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (45.71%) Git
1 16 (45.71%) GitLab
2 8 (22.86%) webpack
3 6 (17.14%) SonarQube
4 5 (14.29%) JIRA
5 4 (11.43%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (14.29%) Manufacturing
1 5 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (8.57%) Retail
2 3 (8.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.86%) Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) AWS DevOps
1 10 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 10 (28.57%) Lead
2 7 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Snowflake Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Technical Leader
6 3 (8.57%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Operations Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Site Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.86%) Express.js
1 8 (22.86%) Node.js
1 8 (22.86%) React
1 8 (22.86%) Redux
2 5 (14.29%) JSON
2 5 (14.29%) XML
3 1 (2.86%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.86%) Clustering
2 1 (2.86%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) CentOS
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
1 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (77.14%) CI/CD
2 24 (68.57%) Containerisation
2 24 (68.57%) DevOps
3 13 (37.14%) ETL
3 13 (37.14%) Test Automation
4 12 (34.29%) Agile
5 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 9 (25.71%) Scrum
7 8 (22.86%) API Development
7 8 (22.86%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 8 (22.86%) Customer Engagement
7 8 (22.86%) End-to-End Testing
7 8 (22.86%) Front End Development
7 8 (22.86%) Full Stack Development
7 8 (22.86%) QA Automation
8 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
9 5 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 19 (54.29%) Python
2 11 (31.43%) Bash
2 11 (31.43%) SQL
3 7 (20.00%) Go
4 5 (14.29%) C#
4 5 (14.29%) Java
5 4 (11.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (37.14%) SC Cleared
1 13 (37.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) AWS Certification
2 3 (8.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (28.57%) QA
2 3 (8.57%) ISO 22301
2 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.86%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (48.57%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 15 (42.86%) Terraform
3 11 (31.43%) Ansible
4 6 (17.14%) HP Fortify
5 4 (11.43%) Prometheus
6 3 (8.57%) Grafana
7 1 (2.86%) Consul
7 1 (2.86%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (2.86%) Graphite
7 1 (2.86%) HAProxy
7 1 (2.86%) Istio
7 1 (2.86%) linkerd
7 1 (2.86%) Packer
7 1 (2.86%) Podman
7 1 (2.86%) Puppet
7 1 (2.86%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) Splunk
2 5 (14.29%) Informatica
2 5 (14.29%) Talend
3 3 (8.57%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.86%) PagerDuty
4 1 (2.86%) VMware