AWS Contracts in the North West

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 -6 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 277 359 578
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 10.38% 11.66% 14.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.21% 31.14% 40.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 276 429
10th Percentile £348 £412 £400
25th Percentile £412 £468 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.09% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £638
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
England median daily rate £563 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -6.21% +2.13% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 17
10th Percentile £65.00 £35.83 £61.50
25th Percentile £67.50 £37.06 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.94 £40.05 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.12% -46.60% +400.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £48.88 £77.50
90th Percentile £73.50 £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 West

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 West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 860 1,153 1,412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.22% 37.45% 34.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 621 850 1,080
10th Percentile £300 £313 £225
25th Percentile £400 £413 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £596
90th Percentile £650 £651 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 34 56
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.86 £14.63
25th Percentile - £17.09 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £31.25 £25.70
Median % change year-on-year -48.61% +21.61% +47.60%
75th Percentile £26.50 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £60.40 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for AWS in the North West

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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 within the North West 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
Manchester +4 208 £500 -9.09% 191
Cheshire -4 53 £448 -18.64% 29
Lancashire -1 6 £625 +13.64% 13
Merseyside +12 5 £350 -24.32% 12
Cumbria -19 1 £528 - 2
AWS
England

AWS
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 9 (3.25%) Confluence
2 8 (2.89%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.53%) Apache
4 6 (2.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.44%) Mule
6 4 (1.44%) SharePoint
7 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.08%) nginx
8 2 (0.72%) CMS
8 2 (0.72%) Traefik
9 1 (0.36%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.36%) JBoss
9 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (2.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.89%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 72 (25.99%) Azure
2 38 (13.72%) Amazon EC2
3 35 (12.64%) Serverless
4 32 (11.55%) Amazon S3
5 31 (11.19%) AWS Lambda
6 30 (10.83%) GCP
7 24 (8.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 19 (6.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (6.50%) Snowflake
10 17 (6.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (5.78%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (4.69%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (4.33%) Route 53
15 11 (3.97%) SaaS
16 9 (3.25%) Power Platform
17 8 (2.89%) Amazon ECR
17 8 (2.89%) GitHub
17 8 (2.89%) IaaS
18 7 (2.53%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.42%) VPN
2 11 (3.97%) OSPF
3 10 (3.61%) Network Security
4 9 (3.25%) DNS
4 9 (3.25%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.89%) LAN
5 8 (2.89%) WAN
5 8 (2.89%) Wireless
6 7 (2.53%) Ethernet
6 7 (2.53%) Firewall
6 7 (2.53%) VLAN
6 7 (2.53%) Wireless Security
7 5 (1.81%) FTP
8 4 (1.44%) BGP
8 4 (1.44%) MPLS
8 4 (1.44%) Value-Added Service
8 4 (1.44%) Wireshark
9 3 (1.08%) DHCP
10 2 (0.72%) MQTT
10 2 (0.72%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.83%) MongoDB
2 15 (5.42%) Amazon Redshift
3 13 (4.69%) Data Lake
4 11 (3.97%) DynamoDB
5 10 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (3.61%) Big Data
5 10 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (3.25%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (3.25%) Power BI
7 8 (2.89%) MySQL
8 7 (2.53%) NoSQL
8 7 (2.53%) OLAP
8 7 (2.53%) OLTP
8 7 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (2.53%) SQL Server
9 6 (2.17%) Oracle OLAP
10 4 (1.44%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.44%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.08%) DB2
11 3 (1.08%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 41 (14.80%) GitLab
2 38 (13.72%) Git
3 28 (10.11%) Jenkins
4 24 (8.66%) JIRA
5 8 (2.89%) webpack
6 7 (2.53%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.17%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.17%) Cypress.io
7 6 (2.17%) Hudson
8 4 (1.44%) Liquibase
8 4 (1.44%) Log4j
9 3 (1.08%) Burp Suite
9 3 (1.08%) Mocha
10 2 (0.72%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.72%) GoCD
10 2 (0.72%) Maven
10 2 (0.72%) Mockito
10 2 (0.72%) Postman
10 2 (0.72%) Selenium
10 2 (0.72%) TeamCity
General
1 51 (18.41%) Social Skills
2 24 (8.66%) Finance
2 24 (8.66%) Public Sector
3 23 (8.30%) Banking
4 18 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.97%) Retail
6 10 (3.61%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (1.44%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.72%) Automotive
9 2 (0.72%) Marketing
10 1 (0.36%) Advertising
10 1 (0.36%) Electronics
10 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.36%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 67 (24.19%) Developer
2 33 (11.91%) Architect
3 32 (11.55%) Senior
4 31 (11.19%) Software Engineer
5 27 (9.75%) DevOps Engineer
6 26 (9.39%) AWS Engineer
6 26 (9.39%) Lead
7 23 (8.30%) AWS DevOps
8 22 (7.94%) Java Developer
9 17 (6.14%) Network Engineer
10 15 (5.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 15 (5.42%) Data Engineer
11 14 (5.05%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (4.69%) AWS Architect
13 10 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
13 10 (3.61%) Consultant
13 10 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (3.61%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 10 (3.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 9 (3.25%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (16.97%) Node.js
2 36 (13.00%) React
3 28 (10.11%) RESTful
4 26 (9.39%) Spring
5 25 (9.03%) Spring Boot
6 17 (6.14%) REST
7 16 (5.78%) Web Services
8 14 (5.05%) Kafka
9 12 (4.33%) Hibernate
10 11 (3.97%) Redux
11 10 (3.61%) .NET
12 9 (3.25%) Express.js
12 9 (3.25%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (3.25%) SOAP
13 8 (2.89%) AWS CDK
13 8 (2.89%) IBM Integration Bus
13 8 (2.89%) JPA
13 8 (2.89%) Spring Security
14 7 (2.53%) AngularJS
14 7 (2.53%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.05%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (3.61%) Public Cloud
3 7 (2.53%) DataPower
3 7 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (1.81%) PKI
4 5 (1.81%) Virtual Team
5 4 (1.44%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.44%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.44%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.08%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.08%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.72%) Clustering
7 2 (0.72%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.72%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.72%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.72%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.36%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.36%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (9.03%) Linux
2 17 (6.14%) Windows
3 7 (2.53%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.81%) Unix
4 5 (1.81%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.44%) Android
5 4 (1.44%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.08%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.72%) CentOS
8 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.36%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (31.41%) CI/CD
2 82 (29.60%) Agile
3 65 (23.47%) DevOps
4 47 (16.97%) Microservices
5 44 (15.88%) Software Engineering
6 43 (15.52%) Containerisation
7 38 (13.72%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (12.27%) Test Automation
9 33 (11.91%) Design Patterns
10 31 (11.19%) Infrastructure as Code
11 25 (9.03%) ETL
12 23 (8.30%) Stakeholder Management
13 22 (7.94%) Front End Development
13 22 (7.94%) Scrum
14 21 (7.58%) Full Stack Development
15 20 (7.22%) Migration
16 18 (6.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 18 (6.50%) SDLC
17 15 (5.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 14 (5.05%) OO
Programming Languages
1 73 (26.35%) Java
2 60 (21.66%) Python
3 25 (9.03%) SQL
4 21 (7.58%) JavaScript
5 20 (7.22%) TypeScript
6 19 (6.86%) Bash
7 18 (6.50%) Go
8 14 (5.05%) PowerShell
9 9 (3.25%) C#
9 9 (3.25%) PHP
10 7 (2.53%) Ruby
11 6 (2.17%) C
12 3 (1.08%) Scala
13 2 (0.72%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.36%) Bicep
14 1 (0.36%) Perl
14 1 (0.36%) R
14 1 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 59 (21.30%) Security Cleared
2 49 (17.69%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.05%) AWS Certification
3 14 (5.05%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (3.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 9 (3.25%) CCNA
4 9 (3.25%) Degree
5 7 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.17%) CCNP
6 6 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.81%) CCIE
8 4 (1.44%) VCAP
9 3 (1.08%) CISM
9 3 (1.08%) CISSP
9 3 (1.08%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.08%) MCSE
9 3 (1.08%) OSCP
10 2 (0.72%) MCITP
11 1 (0.36%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.78%) QA
2 9 (3.25%) PCI DSS
3 7 (2.53%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.53%) NIST
4 5 (1.81%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (1.44%) SLA
6 3 (1.08%) ISO 22301
6 3 (1.08%) NCSC
7 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.36%) GDPR
8 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (14.80%) Docker
2 11 (3.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.25%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 69 (24.91%) Terraform
2 55 (19.86%) Kubernetes
3 19 (6.86%) Ansible
4 7 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (2.53%) Progress Chef
4 7 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (2.17%) Grafana
5 6 (2.17%) HP Fortify
5 6 (2.17%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.08%) Puppet
7 2 (0.72%) Consul
7 2 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.72%) Graphite
7 2 (0.72%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.72%) Istio
7 2 (0.72%) Kibana
7 2 (0.72%) linkerd
7 2 (0.72%) Packer
7 2 (0.72%) Podman
7 2 (0.72%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (5.78%) VMware
2 15 (5.42%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.61%) Google
3 10 (3.61%) Splunk
4 9 (3.25%) Oracle
5 8 (2.89%) IBM
6 7 (2.53%) TSYS
7 6 (2.17%) Sophos
8 5 (1.81%) Informatica
8 5 (1.81%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.81%) Talend
9 4 (1.44%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.44%) Cisco
9 4 (1.44%) Databricks
9 4 (1.44%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (1.44%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.08%) PagerDuty
10 3 (1.08%) SAP
10 3 (1.08%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.08%) Teradata