AWS Contracts in the West Midlands

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 21 13
Rank change year-on-year -24 -8 +4
Contract jobs citing AWS 73 221 360
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.79% 9.24% 10.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.73% 24.10% 29.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 191 254
10th Percentile £312 £425 £413
25th Percentile £328 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £540 £528
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% +2.37% +8.54%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
England median daily rate £550 £591 £590
% change year-on-year -6.98% +0.21% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £23.46 - -
25th Percentile £28.71 - -
Median hourly rate £37.48 - -
75th Percentile £46.24 - -
90th Percentile £51.50 - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £72.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year -27.59% +28.89% -3.02%

All Cloud Skills
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 464 917 1,226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.07% 38.34% 34.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 647 900
10th Percentile £213 £300 £225
25th Percentile £350 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £501 £490
Median % change year-on-year -8.84% +2.14% +15.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £693 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 17
10th Percentile £14.08 £15.54 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.95 £15.98 £15.04
Median hourly rate £26.00 £20.24 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.46% +15.66% +9.38%
75th Percentile £26.50 £24.47 £20.51
90th Percentile £55.00 £25.31 £23.75
England median hourly rate £20.77 £30.38 £21.00
% change year-on-year -31.62% +44.64% -2.33%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the West Midlands

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in the West Midlands

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the West Midlands

AWS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in the West Midlands

AWS
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 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
Birmingham -22 32 £450 -25.00% 56
Coventry +12 22 £600 +25.00% 10
Staffordshire +5 5 £350 -36.36% 8
Worcestershire -3 3 £450 -30.77% 3
Warwickshire -8 3 £730 +46.00% 10
Shropshire -17 2 £450 -16.67% 3
Dudley - 1 £350 - 1
AWS
England

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 3 (4.11%) Confluence
2 2 (2.74%) CMS
3 1 (1.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.37%) Drupal
3 1 (1.37%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.37%) SAS
3 1 (1.37%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (4.11%) PeopleSoft HCM
1 3 (4.11%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.37%) Magento
2 1 (1.37%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 35 (47.95%) Azure
2 14 (19.18%) GCP
3 6 (8.22%) Entra ID
3 6 (8.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (6.85%) CloudFront
4 5 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.11%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.11%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.11%) SaaS
5 3 (4.11%) Serverless
5 3 (4.11%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.37%) Boomi
7 1 (1.37%) GitHub
7 1 (1.37%) PaaS
7 1 (1.37%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.70%) Network Security
2 8 (10.96%) VPN
3 6 (8.22%) DNS
4 5 (6.85%) Firewall
5 4 (5.48%) SAN
6 3 (4.11%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (2.74%) DMZ
7 2 (2.74%) LAN
7 2 (2.74%) WAN
8 1 (1.37%) DHCP
8 1 (1.37%) IPsec
8 1 (1.37%) Kerberos
8 1 (1.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.22%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.11%) Data Vault
2 3 (4.11%) MySQL
2 3 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.11%) Power BI
3 2 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.74%) Big Data
3 2 (2.74%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.74%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.74%) Hadoop
3 2 (2.74%) Metadata
3 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.37%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.37%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.37%) Impala
4 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.37%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 3 (4.11%) JIRA
1 3 (4.11%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (2.74%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.74%) GitLab
2 2 (2.74%) webpack
3 1 (1.37%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.37%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.37%) Git
3 1 (1.37%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.37%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (24.66%) Finance
2 12 (16.44%) Social Skills
3 9 (12.33%) Retail
4 3 (4.11%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.74%) Banking
6 1 (1.37%) Automotive
6 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 20 (27.40%) Developer
2 19 (26.03%) Architect
3 8 (10.96%) React Developer
3 8 (10.96%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (9.59%) Senior
5 6 (8.22%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) Data Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) Security Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Applications Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Network Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Data Architect
7 3 (4.11%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Full Stack Developer
7 3 (4.11%) Informatica Architect
7 3 (4.11%) Senior Architect
7 3 (4.11%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.74%) Data Migration Lead
8 2 (2.74%) Java Developer
8 2 (2.74%) Technical Architect
8 2 (2.74%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (19.18%) React
2 11 (15.07%) GraphQL
3 7 (9.59%) Node.js
4 5 (6.85%) Apollo GraphQL
4 5 (6.85%) Express.js
4 5 (6.85%) OAuth
4 5 (6.85%) OAuth2
4 5 (6.85%) SAML
5 3 (4.11%) RESTful
6 2 (2.74%) .NET
6 2 (2.74%) ADO
6 2 (2.74%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.74%) JSON
6 2 (2.74%) Kafka
6 2 (2.74%) Next.js
6 2 (2.74%) REST
6 2 (2.74%) Spring
7 1 (1.37%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.37%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.37%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.22%) Public Cloud
2 5 (6.85%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.11%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.11%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.74%) FMCG
4 2 (2.74%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.74%) PKI
4 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.37%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.33%) Windows
2 4 (5.48%) Linux
3 2 (2.74%) Unix
3 2 (2.74%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.37%) Android
4 1 (1.37%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (21.92%) CI/CD
2 14 (19.18%) Agile
3 10 (13.70%) Migration
4 8 (10.96%) Full Stack Development
5 7 (9.59%) Cloud Security
5 7 (9.59%) Data Modelling
5 7 (9.59%) Data Security
5 7 (9.59%) DevOps
6 6 (8.22%) ETL
6 6 (8.22%) Incident Response
6 6 (8.22%) Roadmaps
7 5 (6.85%) Application Security
7 5 (6.85%) Data Migration
7 5 (6.85%) DevSecOps
7 5 (6.85%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (6.85%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (6.85%) Infrastructure Management
7 5 (6.85%) Penetration Testing
7 5 (6.85%) Task Automation
7 5 (6.85%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 16 (21.92%) SQL
2 13 (17.81%) TypeScript
3 10 (13.70%) Python
4 9 (12.33%) JavaScript
5 8 (10.96%) Java
6 2 (2.74%) PHP
7 1 (1.37%) Bash
7 1 (1.37%) C#
7 1 (1.37%) HiveQL
7 1 (1.37%) Perl
7 1 (1.37%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.37%) Scala
7 1 (1.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (9.59%) AWS Certification
2 3 (4.11%) CCNA
2 3 (4.11%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (4.11%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.11%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.74%) Degree
3 2 (2.74%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.48%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.37%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (10.96%) Docker
2 7 (9.59%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.37%) HDFS
4 1 (1.37%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (10.96%) Terraform
2 6 (8.22%) Ansible
3 4 (5.48%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.37%) Argo
4 1 (1.37%) Istio
4 1 (1.37%) linkerd
4 1 (1.37%) SELinux
Vendors
1 7 (9.59%) Informatica
2 6 (8.22%) F5
3 5 (6.85%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.85%) Oracle
3 5 (6.85%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.11%) CheckPoint
4 3 (4.11%) Cisco
4 3 (4.11%) Google
4 3 (4.11%) PeopleSoft
4 3 (4.11%) Workday
5 2 (2.74%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.74%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.74%) SAP
5 2 (2.74%) Talend
5 2 (2.74%) VMware
6 1 (1.37%) Commvault
6 1 (1.37%) NetApp
6 1 (1.37%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.37%) Sage
6 1 (1.37%) Software AG