AWS DevOps Contracts in the North West

Amazon Web Services DevOps
England > North West

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in the North West is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 127 153
Rank change year-on-year +11 +26 -42
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 19 23 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.68% 0.76% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.81% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 20 24
10th Percentile £444 £463 £513
25th Percentile £450 £475 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £553 £569
90th Percentile £720 £650 £634
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 2,637 2,853 3,880
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.45% 94.72% 96.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,626 2,022 2,821
10th Percentile £268 £300 £220
25th Percentile £382 £406 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £576 £588 £575
90th Percentile £670 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 132 161
10th Percentile £11.77 £14.56 £12.02
25th Percentile £14.17 £17.65 £15.72
Median hourly rate £32.90 £28.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% +13.36% +38.45%
75th Percentile £47.88 £43.75 £52.56
90th Percentile £71.32 £57.39 £75.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

AWS DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured AWS DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps in the North West

AWS DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps in the North West

AWS DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps in the North West

AWS DevOps
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 DevOps 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 +9 19 £525 +5.00% 5
AWS DevOps
England

AWS DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, AWS DevOps contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring AWS DevOps in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) AWS
1 19 (100.00%) DevOps
1 19 (100.00%) Terraform
2 18 (94.74%) CI/CD
3 17 (89.47%) Kubernetes
3 17 (89.47%) Docker
4 16 (84.21%) Python
5 14 (73.68%) Containerisation
6 12 (63.16%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (57.89%) Bash
7 11 (57.89%) Git
8 10 (52.63%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (36.84%) Amazon S3
9 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
9 7 (36.84%) Security Cleared
9 7 (36.84%) Serverless
9 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (36.84%) Ansible
9 7 (36.84%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (36.84%) AWS Certification
9 7 (36.84%) GitLab
9 7 (36.84%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (36.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure Management
10 6 (31.58%) Software Delivery
11 5 (26.32%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (21.05%) Go
12 4 (21.05%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (21.05%) Software Deployment
12 4 (21.05%) Jenkins

AWS DevOps Skill Set
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 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (52.63%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (36.84%) Amazon S3
3 7 (36.84%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (36.84%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (36.84%) Serverless
4 4 (21.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon ELB
5 3 (15.79%) AWS CodePipeline
5 3 (15.79%) Snowflake
6 1 (5.26%) Azure
6 1 (5.26%) GCP
6 1 (5.26%) GitHub
6 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (15.79%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (15.79%) Data Lake
2 3 (15.79%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (57.89%) Git
2 7 (36.84%) GitLab
3 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
4 3 (15.79%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (94.74%) CI/CD
3 14 (73.68%) Containerisation
4 12 (63.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure Management
6 6 (31.58%) Software Delivery
7 4 (21.05%) Agile
7 4 (21.05%) Kanban
7 4 (21.05%) Refactoring
7 4 (21.05%) Scrum
7 4 (21.05%) Software Deployment
7 4 (21.05%) Software Testing
8 3 (15.79%) Cloud Operations
8 3 (15.79%) Configuration Management
8 3 (15.79%) High Availability
8 3 (15.79%) IT Strategy
8 3 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (15.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (15.79%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 16 (84.21%) Python
2 11 (57.89%) Bash
3 4 (21.05%) Go
4 3 (15.79%) Ruby
4 3 (15.79%) SQL
5 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.26%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) AWS Certification
1 7 (36.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
1 7 (36.84%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) NIST
1 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (89.47%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (100.00%) Terraform
2 17 (89.47%) Kubernetes
3 7 (36.84%) Ansible
4 3 (15.79%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Splunk
2 1 (5.26%) Atlassian