AWS Contracts in the North of England

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 11 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 441 688 951
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 9.51% 12.28% 13.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.93% 33.87% 37.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 541 717
10th Percentile £350 £415 £404
25th Percentile £425 £490 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.82% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £563 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -6.21% +2.13% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 17
10th Percentile £55.97 £35.83 £61.50
25th Percentile £65.00 £37.06 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £40.05 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.78% -46.60% +275.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £48.88 £77.50
90th Percentile £73.30 £59.00 £81.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +20.69%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,381 2,031 2,518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.80% 36.25% 35.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 980 1,514 1,915
10th Percentile £268 £300 £189
25th Percentile £400 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £588
90th Percentile £650 £686 £662
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 39 75
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.09 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.11% +66.67% +10.53%
75th Percentile £22.00 £65.00 £60.88
90th Percentile £44.24 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £21.00 £34.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.24% +58.14% +2.14%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in the North of England

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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 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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 -2 277 £489 -11.09% 241
Yorkshire -6 145 £525 -4.55% 131
North East -10 21 £575 -11.54% 46
AWS
England

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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 19 (4.31%) Apache
1 19 (4.31%) Apache Spark
2 18 (4.08%) Confluence
3 10 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (1.13%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.91%) CMS
6 4 (0.91%) Mule
7 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.68%) nginx
8 2 (0.45%) Traefik
9 1 (0.23%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.23%) Drupal
9 1 (0.23%) JBoss
9 1 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.59%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.81%) Temenos T24
2 2 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 149 (33.79%) Azure
2 81 (18.37%) GCP
3 58 (13.15%) Serverless
4 56 (12.70%) Amazon S3
5 49 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
6 40 (9.07%) AWS Lambda
7 33 (7.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 30 (6.80%) GitHub
9 28 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 23 (5.22%) Snowflake
11 20 (4.54%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (4.08%) Cloud Computing
13 17 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
14 16 (3.63%) Amazon EKS
14 16 (3.63%) Apigee
14 16 (3.63%) Kong
14 16 (3.63%) Route 53
14 16 (3.63%) SaaS
15 15 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
16 12 (2.72%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.44%) VPN
2 21 (4.76%) Firewall
3 19 (4.31%) DNS
4 18 (4.08%) TCP/IP
5 11 (2.49%) OSPF
6 10 (2.27%) HTTP
6 10 (2.27%) LAN
6 10 (2.27%) Network Security
6 10 (2.27%) WAN
7 8 (1.81%) SSL
7 8 (1.81%) Wireless
8 7 (1.59%) Ethernet
8 7 (1.59%) VLAN
8 7 (1.59%) Wireless Security
9 5 (1.13%) FTP
9 5 (1.13%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.91%) BGP
10 4 (0.91%) DHCP
10 4 (0.91%) MPLS
10 4 (0.91%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (9.30%) MongoDB
2 25 (5.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 23 (5.22%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (5.22%) Data Lake
4 22 (4.99%) Big Data
5 20 (4.54%) Elasticsearch
6 19 (4.31%) MySQL
7 17 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (3.17%) Hadoop
9 13 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (2.95%) SQL Server
10 12 (2.72%) Power BI
11 11 (2.49%) DynamoDB
11 11 (2.49%) NoSQL
11 11 (2.49%) Relational Database
12 10 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
13 9 (2.04%) BigQuery
14 7 (1.59%) Flink
14 7 (1.59%) OLAP
14 7 (1.59%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 74 (16.78%) Git
2 67 (15.19%) GitLab
3 64 (14.51%) Jenkins
4 36 (8.16%) JIRA
5 12 (2.72%) SonarQube
6 10 (2.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 10 (2.27%) Travis CI
7 9 (2.04%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.04%) Cypress.io
8 8 (1.81%) webpack
9 7 (1.59%) Burp Suite
9 7 (1.59%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.36%) Hudson
10 6 (1.36%) Maven
11 5 (1.13%) Liquibase
11 5 (1.13%) Selenium
12 4 (0.91%) AppScan
12 4 (0.91%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.91%) Log4j
13 3 (0.68%) Mockito
General
1 81 (18.37%) Social Skills
2 41 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (8.62%) Public Sector
4 27 (6.12%) Finance
5 26 (5.90%) Banking
6 13 (2.95%) Retail
7 10 (2.27%) Manufacturing
8 7 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (0.91%) Health Technology
10 4 (0.91%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.68%) Marketing
12 2 (0.45%) Automotive
12 2 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.45%) Games
13 1 (0.23%) Advertising
13 1 (0.23%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.23%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.23%) Retail Finance
13 1 (0.23%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 112 (25.40%) Developer
2 60 (13.61%) Architect
3 52 (11.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 43 (9.75%) Lead
5 40 (9.07%) Senior
6 37 (8.39%) Software Engineer
7 33 (7.48%) Java Developer
8 31 (7.03%) AWS Engineer
9 27 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
10 26 (5.90%) AWS DevOps
11 18 (4.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 17 (3.85%) AWS Architect
12 17 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
12 17 (3.85%) Data Engineer
12 17 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 17 (3.85%) Network Engineer
13 16 (3.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 15 (3.40%) Python Developer
15 13 (2.95%) Site Engineer
16 11 (2.49%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (13.38%) Node.js
2 45 (10.20%) React
2 45 (10.20%) RESTful
3 35 (7.94%) Spring
4 34 (7.71%) Spring Boot
5 27 (6.12%) Kafka
6 25 (5.67%) Web Services
7 18 (4.08%) OAuth
7 18 (4.08%) REST
8 17 (3.85%) JSON
9 16 (3.63%) XML
10 15 (3.40%) .NET
11 13 (2.95%) Elastic Stack
11 13 (2.95%) OpenID
12 12 (2.72%) Hibernate
12 12 (2.72%) SOAP
13 11 (2.49%) AngularJS
13 11 (2.49%) Redux
14 10 (2.27%) Express.js
14 10 (2.27%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 17 (3.85%) Public Cloud
2 15 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (2.04%) Data Structures
5 7 (1.59%) DataPower
5 7 (1.59%) Virtual Team
6 6 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.36%) NHS
6 6 (1.36%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.36%) Replication
7 5 (1.13%) PKI
7 5 (1.13%) Product Ownership
8 4 (0.91%) Cloud Native
8 4 (0.91%) Mainframe
8 4 (0.91%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.68%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.68%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (0.68%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 52 (11.79%) Linux
2 25 (5.67%) Windows
3 18 (4.08%) Unix
4 10 (2.27%) Apple iOS
4 10 (2.27%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.81%) Android
5 8 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.36%) CentOS
7 4 (0.91%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.68%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (32.43%) CI/CD
2 128 (29.02%) Agile
3 123 (27.89%) DevOps
4 76 (17.23%) Containerisation
5 62 (14.06%) Software Engineering
6 60 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (13.15%) Infrastructure as Code
8 56 (12.70%) Microservices
9 49 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 42 (9.52%) Scrum
11 40 (9.07%) Test Automation
12 38 (8.62%) Data Modelling
13 37 (8.39%) Design Patterns
14 36 (8.16%) ETL
15 32 (7.26%) Full Stack Development
16 31 (7.03%) Continuous Integration
17 30 (6.80%) Migration
18 25 (5.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 25 (5.67%) SDLC
19 24 (5.44%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 136 (30.84%) Python
2 120 (27.21%) Java
3 52 (11.79%) SQL
4 51 (11.56%) Bash
5 41 (9.30%) JavaScript
6 31 (7.03%) TypeScript
7 28 (6.35%) PowerShell
8 20 (4.54%) Go
9 11 (2.49%) PHP
9 11 (2.49%) Scala
10 10 (2.27%) C#
11 9 (2.04%) C
12 7 (1.59%) Ruby
13 3 (0.68%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.45%) Bicep
14 2 (0.45%) Perl
14 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.23%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.23%) R
15 1 (0.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 88 (19.95%) Security Cleared
2 75 (17.01%) SC Cleared
3 16 (3.63%) AWS Certification
4 15 (3.40%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (3.17%) Degree
6 10 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (2.27%) CCNA
7 9 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.36%) CCNP
9 6 (1.36%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.13%) CCIE
11 4 (0.91%) VCAP
12 3 (0.68%) CISM
12 3 (0.68%) CISSP
12 3 (0.68%) MCSE
12 3 (0.68%) OSCP
13 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.45%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.71%) QA
2 13 (2.95%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.04%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.59%) NIST
5 5 (1.13%) GDPR
5 5 (1.13%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 4 (0.91%) SLA
7 3 (0.68%) ISO 22301
7 3 (0.68%) NCSC
8 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 80 (18.14%) Docker
2 14 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.49%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.04%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.45%) HDFS
6 1 (0.23%) ACF2
6 1 (0.23%) IAG
6 1 (0.23%) RACF
6 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.23%) vSphere
6 1 (0.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 111 (25.17%) Terraform
2 110 (24.94%) Kubernetes
3 40 (9.07%) Ansible
4 27 (6.12%) Prometheus
5 26 (5.90%) Grafana
6 21 (4.76%) Progress Chef
6 21 (4.76%) Puppet
7 12 (2.72%) Docker Swarm
7 12 (2.72%) Kibana
8 10 (2.27%) HP Fortify
9 9 (2.04%) logstash
10 8 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (1.59%) Packer
12 4 (0.91%) Graylog
12 4 (0.91%) Nessus
12 4 (0.91%) Rancher
12 4 (0.91%) WebInspect
13 3 (0.68%) Istio
14 2 (0.45%) Podman
Vendors
1 34 (7.71%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.03%) Google
3 29 (6.58%) Splunk
4 20 (4.54%) VMware
5 13 (2.95%) Oracle
6 8 (1.81%) IBM
6 8 (1.81%) Informatica
7 7 (1.59%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.59%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.59%) Sophos
7 7 (1.59%) TSYS
8 6 (1.36%) Cisco
8 6 (1.36%) PagerDuty
9 5 (1.13%) Brio
9 5 (1.13%) Databricks
9 5 (1.13%) Talend
10 4 (0.91%) Checkmarx
10 4 (0.91%) F5
10 4 (0.91%) LogicMonitor
10 4 (0.91%) Veracode