AWS Engineer Contracts in the North West

Amazon Web Services Engineer
England > North West

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in the North West is £456, 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 111 116 137
Rank change year-on-year +5 +21 -56
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 24 34 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.86% 1.13% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 1.19% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 22 36
10th Percentile £324 £463 £413
25th Percentile £401 £475 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £550 £534 £563
90th Percentile £594 £583 £631
England median daily rate £573 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.58% - +11.63%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in the North West

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in the North West

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in the North West

AWS Engineer
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 Engineer 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 -2 19 £463 -7.50% 7
Cheshire 0 5 £363 -27.50%
AWS Engineer
England

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

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 West region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (66.67%) Terraform
3 15 (62.50%) Python
4 14 (58.33%) DevOps
5 13 (54.17%) CI/CD
6 12 (50.00%) Docker
6 12 (50.00%) Kubernetes
7 10 (41.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (37.50%) Containerisation
9 7 (29.17%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (25.00%) Amazon S3
10 6 (25.00%) Bash
10 6 (25.00%) Git
10 6 (25.00%) SQL
10 6 (25.00%) Snowflake
10 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
10 6 (25.00%) Software Delivery
10 6 (25.00%) Data Lake
11 5 (20.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (20.83%) AWS Certification
11 5 (20.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (20.83%) Go
12 4 (16.67%) Splunk
12 4 (16.67%) Jenkins
12 4 (16.67%) DynamoDB
12 4 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
12 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
12 4 (16.67%) Java

AWS Engineer 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 (4.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (41.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (29.17%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 6 (25.00%) Snowflake
5 5 (20.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
6 4 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (16.67%) Serverless
7 3 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (8.33%) OpenShift
9 1 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (4.17%) Azure
9 1 (4.17%) GCP
9 1 (4.17%) GitHub
9 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (16.67%) DynamoDB
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.17%) MySQL
5 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Git
2 4 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (16.67%) SonarQube
3 3 (12.50%) GitLab
4 2 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Banking
2 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.17%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) DevOps
2 13 (54.17%) CI/CD
3 9 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 9 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (25.00%) Software Delivery
5 4 (16.67%) ETL
5 4 (16.67%) Migration
5 4 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) Agile
6 3 (12.50%) Cloud Operations
6 3 (12.50%) Configuration Management
6 3 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 3 (12.50%) High Availability
6 3 (12.50%) IT Strategy
6 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
7 2 (8.33%) Data Migration
7 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
7 2 (8.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) Python
2 6 (25.00%) Bash
2 6 (25.00%) SQL
3 5 (20.83%) Go
4 4 (16.67%) Java
5 3 (12.50%) Ruby
6 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
7 1 (4.17%) PHP
7 1 (4.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) AWS Certification
1 5 (20.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.17%) ISO 22301
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) NIST
2 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (66.67%) Terraform
2 12 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (16.67%) Ansible
3 4 (16.67%) HP Fortify
4 2 (8.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.17%) Salesforce