AWS Contracts in the Midlands

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 25 16
Rank change year-on-year -7 -9 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 131 262 449
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.80% 7.62% 8.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.38% 21.30% 26.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 222 328
10th Percentile £324 £421 £405
25th Percentile £369 £489 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £631 £634 £603
90th Percentile £693 £700 £698
England median daily rate £550 £590 £590
% change year-on-year -6.78% - +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £21.51 - -
25th Percentile £23.85 - -
Median hourly rate £30.50 - -
75th Percentile £44.13 - -
90th Percentile £50.65 - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £72.75 £56.25
% change year-on-year -27.84% +29.33% -3.02%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 676 1,230 1,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.78% 35.76% 33.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 880 1,225
10th Percentile £199 £213 £204
25th Percentile £325 £370 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.05% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £575 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 34
10th Percentile - £14.76 £13.95
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £16.10
Median hourly rate £23.75 £18.86 £17.30
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% +9.00% +15.35%
75th Percentile £27.25 £24.47 £20.88
90th Percentile £50.04 £26.48 £23.75
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for AWS in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
West Midlands -21 73 £538 -0.46% 108
East Midlands +14 58 £475 -22.45% 71
AWS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 7 (5.34%) Confluence
2 5 (3.82%) JBoss
3 2 (1.53%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.53%) CMS
3 2 (1.53%) SAS
4 1 (0.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.76%) Apache
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.76%) Drupal
4 1 (0.76%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.76%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (2.29%) PeopleSoft HCM
1 3 (2.29%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.76%) Magento
2 1 (0.76%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 53 (40.46%) Azure
2 19 (14.50%) GCP
3 14 (10.69%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (9.92%) SaaS
5 7 (5.34%) OpenShift
6 6 (4.58%) Entra ID
6 6 (4.58%) Serverless
6 6 (4.58%) Snowflake
6 6 (4.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (3.82%) CloudFront
8 4 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.05%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.29%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.53%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.53%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.53%) GitHub
11 1 (0.76%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.63%) Network Security
2 9 (6.87%) Firewall
3 8 (6.11%) VPN
4 6 (4.58%) DNS
5 4 (3.05%) SAN
6 3 (2.29%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (1.53%) DMZ
7 2 (1.53%) LAN
7 2 (1.53%) WAN
8 1 (0.76%) DHCP
8 1 (0.76%) IPsec
8 1 (0.76%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.63%) Relational Database
2 8 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.34%) MySQL
3 7 (5.34%) NoSQL
3 7 (5.34%) RDBMS
4 6 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.82%) Big Data
5 5 (3.82%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (3.82%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.05%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.05%) Pentaho
6 4 (3.05%) Power BI
7 3 (2.29%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.29%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.29%) Data Vault
7 3 (2.29%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.53%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.53%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 12 (9.16%) JIRA
2 8 (6.11%) Sonatype Nexus
3 6 (4.58%) Git
3 6 (4.58%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.58%) TeamCity
4 5 (3.82%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (3.82%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (3.82%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.05%) Cypress.io
5 4 (3.05%) JMeter
6 3 (2.29%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.53%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.53%) GitLab
7 2 (1.53%) webpack
8 1 (0.76%) JUnit
General
1 33 (25.19%) Finance
2 17 (12.98%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (6.87%) Retail
4 8 (6.11%) Banking
4 8 (6.11%) Legal
5 4 (3.05%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.76%) Advertising
7 1 (0.76%) Automotive
7 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.76%) Law
7 1 (0.76%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 32 (24.43%) Developer
2 30 (22.90%) Architect
3 17 (12.98%) Solutions Architect
4 11 (8.40%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (8.40%) React Developer
5 10 (7.63%) Data Engineer
5 10 (7.63%) Senior
6 9 (6.87%) IT Manager
7 8 (6.11%) Delivery Manager
7 8 (6.11%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (6.11%) IT Services Delivery Manager
7 8 (6.11%) IT Services Manager
7 8 (6.11%) Service Delivery Manager
7 8 (6.11%) Service Manager
8 6 (4.58%) Security Engineer
9 5 (3.82%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (3.82%) AWS Architect
9 5 (3.82%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (3.82%) Network Engineer
9 5 (3.82%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.98%) React
2 13 (9.92%) GraphQL
3 10 (7.63%) RESTful
4 9 (6.87%) Node.js
5 8 (6.11%) OAuth
5 8 (6.11%) OAuth2
5 8 (6.11%) SAML
6 6 (4.58%) Express.js
6 6 (4.58%) RAML
6 6 (4.58%) REST
6 6 (4.58%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.82%) Apollo GraphQL
7 5 (3.82%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (3.82%) JSON
7 5 (3.82%) LDAP
7 5 (3.82%) OpenAPI
7 5 (3.82%) Swagger
8 4 (3.05%) AngularJS
8 4 (3.05%) Next.js
9 3 (2.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.58%) Public Cloud
2 5 (3.82%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.05%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.29%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.53%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.53%) FMCG
5 2 (1.53%) IoT
5 2 (1.53%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.53%) PKI
5 2 (1.53%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.76%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 21 (16.03%) Windows
2 13 (9.92%) Linux
3 9 (6.87%) Apple iOS
4 5 (3.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.29%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.53%) Unix
7 1 (0.76%) Android
7 1 (0.76%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (22.14%) Migration
2 23 (17.56%) CI/CD
3 21 (16.03%) DevOps
4 20 (15.27%) Agile
5 16 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (9.16%) Decision-Making
6 12 (9.16%) Service Delivery
7 10 (7.63%) ETL
7 10 (7.63%) Performance Metrics
7 10 (7.63%) Service Management
8 9 (6.87%) Architectural Design
8 9 (6.87%) Business Analysis
8 9 (6.87%) People Management
9 8 (6.11%) Change Management
9 8 (6.11%) Data Modelling
9 8 (6.11%) Information Security
9 8 (6.11%) IT Governance
9 8 (6.11%) ITSM
9 8 (6.11%) Problem Management
9 8 (6.11%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 28 (21.37%) Python
2 24 (18.32%) Java
3 23 (17.56%) SQL
4 20 (15.27%) TypeScript
5 12 (9.16%) JavaScript
6 8 (6.11%) Swift
7 7 (5.34%) C#
8 6 (4.58%) Perl
9 5 (3.82%) Scala
10 4 (3.05%) PHP
11 3 (2.29%) BeanShell
12 1 (0.76%) Bash
12 1 (0.76%) C
12 1 (0.76%) C++
12 1 (0.76%) HiveQL
12 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.76%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.76%) Rust
12 1 (0.76%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 10 (7.63%) AWS Certification
1 10 (7.63%) SC Cleared
1 10 (7.63%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.82%) Degree
3 4 (3.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.05%) TOGAF Certification
4 3 (2.29%) CCNA
4 3 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.82%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.53%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.53%) GDPR
4 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.76%) NIST
4 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (13.74%) Docker
2 12 (9.16%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.29%) OpenAM
3 3 (2.29%) OpenIDM
3 3 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.76%) HDFS
4 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 17 (12.98%) Kubernetes
2 14 (10.69%) Terraform
3 10 (7.63%) Ansible
4 5 (3.82%) Kibana
4 5 (3.82%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.76%) Argo
5 1 (0.76%) Istio
5 1 (0.76%) linkerd
5 1 (0.76%) SELinux
Vendors
1 13 (9.92%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.63%) Informatica
3 8 (6.11%) Okta
4 6 (4.58%) F5
4 6 (4.58%) Oracle
4 6 (4.58%) Red Hat
4 6 (4.58%) Splunk
5 5 (3.82%) AppDynamics
5 5 (3.82%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.82%) Talend
6 4 (3.05%) Google
7 3 (2.29%) CheckPoint
7 3 (2.29%) Cisco
7 3 (2.29%) ForgeRock
7 3 (2.29%) PeopleSoft
7 3 (2.29%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.29%) VMware
7 3 (2.29%) Workday
8 2 (1.53%) Databricks
8 2 (1.53%) Palo Alto