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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 33 13
Rank change year-on-year +11 -20 +9
Contract jobs citing AWS 31 27 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 6.14% 3.68% 9.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.00% 12.74% 25.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 18 67
10th Percentile £419 £312 £400
25th Percentile £432 £341 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £556 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.79% -11.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £700
90th Percentile £636 £750 -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% +3.77%
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 155 212 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 30.69% 28.88% 37.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 165 235
10th Percentile £170 £250 £313
25th Percentile £360 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £562 £625 £638
90th Percentile £638 £684 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 4
10th Percentile - £14.08 £15.54
25th Percentile £56.88 £16.00 £15.98
Median hourly rate £58.75 £22.50 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year +161.11% +11.17% +59.87%
75th Percentile £60.63 £26.50 £24.47
90th Percentile - £32.20 £25.31
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £20.24
% change year-on-year -19.42% +11.17% +15.66%

AWS
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 23 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 (12.90%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 10 (32.26%) Amazon S3
2 8 (25.81%) Azure
3 7 (22.58%) GCP
4 6 (19.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (19.35%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (16.13%) Serverless
5 5 (16.13%) Snowflake
6 4 (12.90%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (12.90%) Power Platform
7 3 (9.68%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (9.68%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (9.68%) AWS KMS
7 3 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (9.68%) Route 53
8 2 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (6.45%) GitHub
8 2 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (6.45%) IaaS
8 2 (6.45%) Power Automate
8 2 (6.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Firewall
1 2 (6.45%) Network Security
2 1 (3.23%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (3.23%) DHCP
2 1 (3.23%) DNS
2 1 (3.23%) DSL
2 1 (3.23%) HTTP
2 1 (3.23%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (3.23%) SAN
2 1 (3.23%) SSL
2 1 (3.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) DynamoDB
2 5 (16.13%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (12.90%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (12.90%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.45%) Data Lake
4 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.45%) Power BI
4 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.23%) Big Data
5 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (3.23%) Metadata
5 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.23%) MySQL
5 1 (3.23%) Power Query
5 1 (3.23%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 8 (25.81%) Jenkins
2 7 (22.58%) Git
3 6 (19.35%) JIRA
3 6 (19.35%) Maven
4 4 (12.90%) JUnit
4 4 (12.90%) SonarQube
5 3 (9.68%) Mockito
5 3 (9.68%) ScriptRunner
6 2 (6.45%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (6.45%) DbUnit
6 2 (6.45%) jMock
7 1 (3.23%) Ant
7 1 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
7 1 (3.23%) GitLab
7 1 (3.23%) Gradle
7 1 (3.23%) Snyk
7 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (22.58%) Finance
2 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
2 5 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Banking
4 3 (9.68%) Investment Banking
4 3 (9.68%) Legal
4 3 (9.68%) Retail
5 2 (6.45%) Back Office
6 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Developer
2 7 (22.58%) Java Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Architect
4 4 (12.90%) Data Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Lead
5 3 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Lead Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Data Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) JIRA Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Junior
6 2 (6.45%) Junior Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Junior Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Apigee Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) Spring
2 6 (19.35%) Spring Boot
3 5 (16.13%) REST
3 5 (16.13%) RESTful
3 5 (16.13%) SOAP
3 5 (16.13%) Web Services
4 4 (12.90%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (9.68%) Hibernate
5 3 (9.68%) JPA
5 3 (9.68%) Node.js
5 3 (9.68%) Spring Batch
5 3 (9.68%) Spring Integration
6 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
6 2 (6.45%) Bootstrap
6 2 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (6.45%) Kafka
6 2 (6.45%) Middleware
6 2 (6.45%) PowerMock
6 2 (6.45%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (6.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Onboarding
2 4 (12.90%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.23%) PKI
3 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.23%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Linux
2 2 (6.45%) Windows
3 1 (3.23%) CentOS
3 1 (3.23%) Debian
3 1 (3.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) Agile
2 10 (32.26%) CI/CD
3 9 (29.03%) DevOps
4 8 (25.81%) Scrum
4 8 (25.81%) TDD
5 6 (19.35%) Microservices
5 6 (19.35%) Migration
6 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (9.68%) BDD
7 3 (9.68%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (9.68%) Data Extraction
7 3 (9.68%) Data Integration
7 3 (9.68%) Integration Patterns
7 3 (9.68%) Kanban
7 3 (9.68%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (9.68%) Risk Management
7 3 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (6.45%) Cloud Security
8 2 (6.45%) Containerisation
8 2 (6.45%) Interface Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 10 (32.26%) Java
1 10 (32.26%) SQL
2 8 (25.81%) Python
3 3 (9.68%) Groovy
4 2 (6.45%) Bash
4 2 (6.45%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.23%) C#
5 1 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.23%) Rust
5 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 6 (19.35%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) Degree
3 2 (6.45%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (3.23%) CEH
4 1 (3.23%) CISA
4 1 (3.23%) CISM
4 1 (3.23%) CISSP
4 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.23%) GDPR
1 1 (3.23%) HIPAA
1 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.23%) NIST
1 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (25.81%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Terraform
2 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.68%) Prometheus
3 2 (6.45%) Ansible
3 2 (6.45%) Grafana
3 2 (6.45%) logstash
3 2 (6.45%) QRadar
4 1 (3.23%) Argo
4 1 (3.23%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.23%) Kibana
4 1 (3.23%) Nessus
4 1 (3.23%) Puppet
4 1 (3.23%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Atlassian
2 4 (12.90%) Databricks
3 3 (9.68%) Google
3 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.68%) Virgin Media
4 2 (6.45%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (6.45%) Splunk
5 1 (3.23%) Alibaba
5 1 (3.23%) Cisco
5 1 (3.23%) IBM
5 1 (3.23%) Informatica
5 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.23%) SendGrid
5 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.23%) Sophos
5 1 (3.23%) Sybase
5 1 (3.23%) VMware