AWS Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Amazon Web Services Engineer
England > North of England

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £414, 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 148 141 176
Rank change year-on-year -7 +35 -79
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 37 61 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.76% 1.12% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 1.18% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 45 58
10th Percentile £288 £457 £413
25th Percentile £381 £488 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -19.66% -1.90% +9.09%
75th Percentile £481 £625 £563
90th Percentile £550 £645 £608
England median daily rate £573 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.58% - +11.63%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 4,496 5,185 6,867
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 95.28% 96.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,721 3,630 5,013
10th Percentile £263 £263 £206
25th Percentile £385 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £569
90th Percentile £663 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 165 268
10th Percentile £11.12 £14.10 £11.28
25th Percentile £13.19 £17.50 £14.82
Median hourly rate £23.48 £27.20 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.69% +36.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £47.63 £43.75 £33.96
90th Percentile £66.61 £57.06 £63.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in the North of England

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in the North of England

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in the North of England

AWS Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Engineer within the North of England 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
North West +5 24 £456 -8.75% 9
Yorkshire +3 13 £400 -33.33% 4
AWS Engineer
England

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, AWS Engineer 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 of England region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 37 (100.00%) AWS
2 28 (75.68%) Terraform
3 26 (70.27%) DevOps
4 24 (64.86%) Kubernetes
4 24 (64.86%) CI/CD
5 23 (62.16%) Docker
6 20 (54.05%) Python
7 19 (51.35%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (51.35%) Containerisation
8 15 (40.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 15 (40.54%) AWS Certification
9 13 (35.14%) High Availability
9 13 (35.14%) Security Cleared
10 12 (32.43%) SC Cleared
11 11 (29.73%) Bash
12 10 (27.03%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (27.03%) Infrastructure Automation
13 9 (24.32%) Jenkins
14 8 (21.62%) GitLab
14 8 (21.62%) Configuration Management
15 7 (18.92%) Amazon EC2
16 6 (16.22%) Amazon S3
16 6 (16.22%) Git
16 6 (16.22%) SQL
16 6 (16.22%) Data Lake
16 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
16 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
16 6 (16.22%) Snowflake
16 6 (16.22%) Software Delivery
17 5 (13.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (2.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 37 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (27.03%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (18.92%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (16.22%) Amazon S3
4 6 (16.22%) Snowflake
5 5 (13.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (13.51%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (10.81%) Amazon ELB
6 4 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (10.81%) Serverless
7 3 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (8.11%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (5.41%) Azure
8 2 (5.41%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.70%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (2.70%) GCP
9 1 (2.70%) GitHub
9 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) Data Lake
2 4 (10.81%) DynamoDB
3 3 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (8.11%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.70%) MySQL
5 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (24.32%) Jenkins
2 8 (21.62%) GitLab
3 6 (16.22%) Git
4 4 (10.81%) SonarQube
5 2 (5.41%) JIRA
6 1 (2.70%) JMeter
6 1 (2.70%) Selenium
General
1 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.70%) Banking
2 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
2 1 (2.70%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) ARM Templates
1 1 (2.70%) Kafka
1 1 (2.70%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (70.27%) DevOps
2 24 (64.86%) CI/CD
3 19 (51.35%) Containerisation
3 19 (51.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (35.14%) High Availability
5 10 (27.03%) Infrastructure Automation
6 8 (21.62%) Configuration Management
7 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (16.22%) Software Delivery
8 4 (10.81%) ETL
8 4 (10.81%) Migration
8 4 (10.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 3 (8.11%) Agile
9 3 (8.11%) Cloud Operations
9 3 (8.11%) Data Modelling
9 3 (8.11%) IT Strategy
9 3 (8.11%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (8.11%) Technology Strategy
10 2 (5.41%) Data Pipeline
10 2 (5.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 20 (54.05%) Python
2 11 (29.73%) Bash
3 6 (16.22%) SQL
4 5 (13.51%) Go
4 5 (13.51%) Java
5 3 (8.11%) Ruby
6 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.70%) Bicep
7 1 (2.70%) PHP
7 1 (2.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (40.54%) AWS Certification
1 15 (40.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 13 (35.14%) Security Cleared
3 12 (32.43%) SC Cleared
4 5 (13.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.41%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.70%) ISO 22301
3 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.70%) NIST
3 1 (2.70%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (62.16%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (75.68%) Terraform
2 24 (64.86%) Kubernetes
3 4 (10.81%) Ansible
3 4 (10.81%) HP Fortify
4 2 (5.41%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) Splunk
2 1 (2.70%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.70%) Salesforce