AWS Contracts in Manchester

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 6 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 198 258 479
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 13.68% 14.68% 18.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.50% 35.54% 47.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 199 370
10th Percentile £350 £410 £408
25th Percentile £417 £464 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £634 £625
90th Percentile £693 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £490 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -11.00% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 10
10th Percentile £65.00 £35.46 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £36.15 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.94 £37.30 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +90.17% -50.27% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £38.45 £81.00
90th Percentile £73.50 £39.14 -
North West median hourly rate £70.94 £40.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +75.15% -46.00% +275.00%

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 528 726 1,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 36.49% 41.30% 38.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 557 812
10th Percentile £313 £325 £271
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +13.51%
75th Percentile £575 £583 £613
90th Percentile £650 £659 £675
North West median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 26
10th Percentile £22.90 £15.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £25.50 £17.09 £15.50
Median hourly rate £67.00 £23.75 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year +182.11% -9.52% +59.09%
75th Percentile £72.50 £58.65 £75.00
90th Percentile £74.10 £70.00 £81.00
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £22.47 £26.40
% change year-on-year -28.53% -14.87% +38.92%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Manchester

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for AWS in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Manchester over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Manchester

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in Manchester

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Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 9 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
Wigan - 6 £400 - 1
Salford -2 2 £425 -35.85% 5
Stockport 0 1 £550 - 8
Oldham - 1 £275 - 1
AWS
North West

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (2.02%) Confluence
1 4 (2.02%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.01%) CMS
3 2 (1.01%) nginx
4 1 (0.51%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.51%) Apache
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.51%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 55 (27.78%) Azure
2 25 (12.63%) Amazon S3
2 25 (12.63%) Serverless
3 24 (12.12%) Amazon EC2
4 22 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 21 (10.61%) GCP
6 15 (7.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 14 (7.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 14 (7.07%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
10 10 (5.05%) Snowflake
11 8 (4.04%) Amazon ECR
11 8 (4.04%) Power Platform
11 8 (4.04%) Route 53
11 8 (4.04%) SaaS
12 6 (3.03%) Amazon ELB
12 6 (3.03%) IaaS
12 6 (3.03%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.55%) Network Security
2 7 (3.54%) Ethernet
2 7 (3.54%) LAN
2 7 (3.54%) OSPF
2 7 (3.54%) VPN
2 7 (3.54%) WAN
2 7 (3.54%) Wireless
2 7 (3.54%) Wireless Security
3 3 (1.52%) DNS
3 3 (1.52%) Firewall
4 2 (1.01%) MQTT
4 2 (1.01%) SAN
4 2 (1.01%) SSL
4 2 (1.01%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.51%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (4.55%) Data Lake
2 9 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (4.04%) DynamoDB
3 8 (4.04%) Power BI
4 7 (3.54%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.03%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.03%) MySQL
6 5 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.02%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.52%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.01%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.51%) DataStage
10 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.51%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 27 (13.64%) Git
1 27 (13.64%) GitLab
2 16 (8.08%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.04%) SonarQube
3 8 (4.04%) webpack
4 6 (3.03%) Hudson
5 5 (2.53%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.02%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.52%) Burp Suite
7 3 (1.52%) JIRA
7 3 (1.52%) Mocha
7 3 (1.52%) Mockito
8 2 (1.01%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.01%) GoCD
8 2 (1.01%) JUnit
8 2 (1.01%) Maven
8 2 (1.01%) Postman
9 1 (0.51%) ERwin
9 1 (0.51%) JMeter
9 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 12 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (5.56%) Finance
4 9 (4.55%) Retail
5 8 (4.04%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.02%) Banking
6 4 (2.02%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.52%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.51%) Advertising
8 1 (0.51%) Automotive
8 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.51%) Marketing
8 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.51%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 48 (24.24%) Developer
2 25 (12.63%) Senior
3 24 (12.12%) DevOps Engineer
4 22 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 21 (10.61%) AWS DevOps
6 20 (10.10%) AWS Engineer
7 17 (8.59%) Architect
7 17 (8.59%) Lead
8 15 (7.58%) Java Developer
9 14 (7.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 10 (5.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (5.05%) Network Engineer
10 10 (5.05%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 9 (4.55%) Consultant
11 9 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
11 9 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 8 (4.04%) AWS Architect
13 6 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
13 6 (3.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.03%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (16.16%) React
2 31 (15.66%) Node.js
3 20 (10.10%) Spring
4 19 (9.60%) Spring Boot
5 12 (6.06%) REST
6 11 (5.56%) Redux
7 9 (4.55%) Express.js
8 8 (4.04%) Hibernate
8 8 (4.04%) JPA
8 8 (4.04%) RESTful
8 8 (4.04%) Spring Security
9 7 (3.54%) Jest
10 6 (3.03%) .NET
10 6 (3.03%) AngularJS
10 6 (3.03%) AWS CDK
10 6 (3.03%) HTML
11 5 (2.53%) CSS
11 5 (2.53%) Django
12 4 (2.02%) Kafka
12 4 (2.02%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (3.03%) Public Cloud
3 5 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.02%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.52%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (1.52%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.52%) PKI
5 3 (1.52%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.01%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.01%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.51%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.51%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.51%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.51%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.51%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (11.62%) Linux
2 13 (6.57%) Windows
3 4 (2.02%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.02%) Mac OS
3 4 (2.02%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.52%) Kali Linux
4 3 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.01%) Unix
6 1 (0.51%) Android
6 1 (0.51%) CentOS
6 1 (0.51%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.51%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (30.81%) CI/CD
2 48 (24.24%) Agile
3 45 (22.73%) DevOps
4 34 (17.17%) Containerisation
5 31 (15.66%) Infrastructure as Code
6 29 (14.65%) Test Automation
7 26 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (13.13%) Software Engineering
8 21 (10.61%) Front End Development
9 20 (10.10%) Full Stack Development
10 18 (9.09%) Microservices
11 17 (8.59%) ETL
11 17 (8.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 15 (7.58%) Migration
13 12 (6.06%) Customer Service
13 12 (6.06%) E-Commerce
14 11 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 11 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
15 10 (5.05%) Cybersecurity
15 10 (5.05%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 46 (23.23%) Python
2 45 (22.73%) Java
3 20 (10.10%) JavaScript
4 19 (9.60%) SQL
5 18 (9.09%) Bash
6 16 (8.08%) TypeScript
7 14 (7.07%) Go
8 13 (6.57%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.54%) PHP
10 4 (2.02%) Ruby
11 3 (1.52%) C
11 3 (1.52%) C#
11 3 (1.52%) Scala
12 1 (0.51%) Bicep
12 1 (0.51%) Perl
12 1 (0.51%) R
12 1 (0.51%) Rust
Qualifications
1 45 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 42 (21.21%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 10 (5.05%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (4.55%) CCNA
6 8 (4.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.02%) CISSP
8 4 (2.02%) Degree
9 3 (1.52%) CISM
9 3 (1.52%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.52%) MCSE
9 3 (1.52%) OSCP
10 2 (1.01%) CCNP
10 2 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.01%) MCITP
11 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.08%) QA
2 7 (3.54%) PCI DSS
3 6 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.03%) NIST
4 5 (2.53%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.02%) SLA
6 3 (1.52%) ISO 22301
7 2 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (1.01%) NCSC
7 2 (1.01%) WCAG
8 1 (0.51%) GDPR
8 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (19.70%) Docker
2 10 (5.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.04%) Hyper-V
4 6 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 49 (24.75%) Kubernetes
2 46 (23.23%) Terraform
3 19 (9.60%) Ansible
4 7 (3.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (3.03%) HP Fortify
6 3 (1.52%) Grafana
7 2 (1.01%) Istio
7 2 (1.01%) Kibana
7 2 (1.01%) Podman
7 2 (1.01%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.51%) Consul
8 1 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.51%) Graphite
8 1 (0.51%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.51%) linkerd
8 1 (0.51%) Nessus
8 1 (0.51%) Packer
8 1 (0.51%) Puppet
8 1 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (7.58%) VMware
2 14 (7.07%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.55%) Splunk
4 6 (3.03%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.03%) Sophos
5 4 (2.02%) Google
5 4 (2.02%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.52%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.52%) Cisco
6 3 (1.52%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.01%) Brocade
7 2 (1.01%) Facebook
7 2 (1.01%) Imperva
7 2 (1.01%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.01%) Sage
7 2 (1.01%) Tufin
7 2 (1.01%) Verint
7 2 (1.01%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.51%) Instagram