AWS Contracts in Birmingham

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 36 12
Rank change year-on-year +15 -24 +11
Contract jobs citing AWS 30 31 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 5.75% 4.01% 9.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.44% 14.62% 23.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 22 70
10th Percentile £413 £310 £411
25th Percentile £432 £318 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £606
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -19.59% +14.12%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £700
90th Percentile £700 £740 -
West Midlands median daily rate £520 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -5.45% +1.85% +1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £37.48 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £37.48 -

All Cloud Skills
Birmingham

AWS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 172 212 349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 32.95% 27.43% 38.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 162 252
10th Percentile £190 £250 £313
25th Percentile £381 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £638
90th Percentile £648 £673 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £457 £500
% change year-on-year +9.53% -8.75% +2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 4
10th Percentile - £14.05 £15.54
25th Percentile £56.88 £18.49 £15.98
Median hourly rate £58.75 £26.00 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year +125.96% +28.46% +57.45%
75th Percentile £60.63 £33.63 £24.47
90th Percentile - £55.00 £25.31
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.07 £26.00 £20.24
% change year-on-year -30.52% +28.46% +15.66%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (13.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) Azure
2 9 (30.00%) GCP
3 6 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 5 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 5 (16.67%) Snowflake
5 4 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (13.33%) Power Automate
5 4 (13.33%) PowerApps
6 3 (10.00%) Serverless
7 2 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (6.67%) IaaS
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (3.33%) Apigee
8 1 (3.33%) Datadog
8 1 (3.33%) GitHub
8 1 (3.33%) Route 53
8 1 (3.33%) SonarCloud
8 1 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Firewall
1 2 (6.67%) Network Security
2 1 (3.33%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (3.33%) DHCP
2 1 (3.33%) DNS
2 1 (3.33%) DSL
2 1 (3.33%) HTTP
2 1 (3.33%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (3.33%) SAN
2 1 (3.33%) SSL
2 1 (3.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) Data Lake
2 3 (10.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.67%) Power BI
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.33%) Big Data
4 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.33%) Metadata
4 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.33%) MySQL
4 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.33%) Power Query
4 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.33%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) JIRA
2 3 (10.00%) Git
2 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.00%) Maven
2 3 (10.00%) ScriptRunner
3 2 (6.67%) JUnit
3 2 (6.67%) Mockito
3 2 (6.67%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.33%) Ant
4 1 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.33%) DbUnit
4 1 (3.33%) GitLab
4 1 (3.33%) Gradle
4 1 (3.33%) jMock
4 1 (3.33%) Snyk
4 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (20.00%) Finance
4 5 (16.67%) Legal
5 4 (13.33%) Banking
6 3 (10.00%) Investment Banking
6 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (6.67%) Back Office
7 2 (6.67%) Retail
8 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
8 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Architect
2 6 (20.00%) Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (13.33%) Data Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Junior
4 4 (13.33%) Junior Architect
4 4 (13.33%) Junior Solutions Architect
5 3 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Lead
5 3 (10.00%) Security Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Data Architect
6 2 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) JIRA Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Lead Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Security Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) Middleware
2 3 (10.00%) RESTful
2 3 (10.00%) Spring
3 2 (6.67%) Node.js
3 2 (6.67%) SOAP
3 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
3 2 (6.67%) YAML
4 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.33%) Bootstrap
4 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.33%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.33%) Kafka
4 1 (3.33%) LDAP
4 1 (3.33%) Next.js
4 1 (3.33%) PowerMock
4 1 (3.33%) REST
4 1 (3.33%) Spring Batch
4 1 (3.33%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Spring Integration
4 1 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.33%) PKI
2 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.33%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Windows
3 1 (3.33%) CentOS
3 1 (3.33%) Debian
3 1 (3.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Agile
1 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 10 (33.33%) Migration
2 9 (30.00%) DevOps
3 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (16.67%) Data Extraction
4 5 (16.67%) Data Integration
4 5 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
4 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (13.33%) B2B
5 4 (13.33%) Data Governance
5 4 (13.33%) Decision-Making
5 4 (13.33%) ERP
5 4 (13.33%) Interface Catalogue
5 4 (13.33%) Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (13.33%) Scrum
5 4 (13.33%) TDD
5 4 (13.33%) TOGAF
6 3 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (10.00%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) SQL
2 7 (23.33%) Python
3 6 (20.00%) Java
4 3 (10.00%) Groovy
5 2 (6.67%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.33%) Bash
6 1 (3.33%) C#
6 1 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.33%) Rust
6 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (13.33%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (6.67%) Degree
5 1 (3.33%) CEH
5 1 (3.33%) CISA
5 1 (3.33%) CISM
5 1 (3.33%) CISSP
5 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.33%) GDPR
1 1 (3.33%) HIPAA
1 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.33%) NIST
1 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (6.67%) Ansible
2 2 (6.67%) logstash
2 2 (6.67%) Prometheus
2 2 (6.67%) QRadar
3 1 (3.33%) Argo
3 1 (3.33%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.33%) Grafana
3 1 (3.33%) Kibana
3 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.33%) Nessus
3 1 (3.33%) Puppet
3 1 (3.33%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) Atlassian
2 4 (13.33%) Databricks
3 3 (10.00%) Google
3 3 (10.00%) Virgin Media
4 2 (6.67%) Splunk
5 1 (3.33%) Alibaba
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco
5 1 (3.33%) IBM
5 1 (3.33%) Informatica
5 1 (3.33%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.33%) SendGrid
5 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.33%) Sophos
5 1 (3.33%) Sybase
5 1 (3.33%) VMware