AWS Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 9 16
Rank change year-on-year -20 +7 +12
Contract jobs citing AWS 62 58 58
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 5.59% 10.74% 7.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.90% 37.42% 27.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 47 39
10th Percentile £382 £358 £356
25th Percentile £401 £410 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.31% +8.33% -24.21%
75th Percentile £497 £516 £522
90th Percentile £545 £547 £698
England median daily rate £530 £550 £558
% change year-on-year -3.64% -1.35% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.95 - £27.75
Median hourly rate £13.08 - £30.50
75th Percentile £13.20 - £33.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +7.14% +51.58% -38.43%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 328 155 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.55% 28.70% 27.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 116 147
10th Percentile £196 £250 £163
25th Percentile £358 £358 £299
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +8.82% -4.49%
75th Percentile £545 £511 £525
90th Percentile £616 £548 £655
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 6 13
10th Percentile £13.01 £13.34 -
25th Percentile £13.25 £14.09 £14.00
Median hourly rate £16.50 £17.05 £16.63
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +2.50% -11.82%
75th Percentile £19.03 £20.92 £27.50
90th Percentile £25.36 £22.20 £32.10
England median hourly rate £45.25 £26.45 £20.77
% change year-on-year +71.08% +27.35% -31.90%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

AWS job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing AWS

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 6 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the East Midlands

AWS
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing AWS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing AWS

AWS
Contract Job Locations in the East 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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 May 2026. 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
Northamptonshire -8 37 £431 -2.05% 12
Nottinghamshire -25 14 £514 +2.80% 34
Derbyshire -6 8 £650 +30.00% 19
Lincolnshire - 2 £619 - 6
Leicestershire -9 1 £540 - 23
AWS
England

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (12.90%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.61%) Apache
3 1 (1.61%) Apache Pig
3 1 (1.61%) Confluence
3 1 (1.61%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.61%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Avolution ABACUS
1 1 (1.61%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 33 (53.23%) Azure
2 22 (35.48%) GCP
3 12 (19.35%) GitHub
4 9 (14.52%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (12.90%) Serverless
6 5 (8.06%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (8.06%) Entra ID
7 4 (6.45%) Amazon S3
7 4 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (4.84%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (4.84%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.23%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.23%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.61%) Cloudflare
10 1 (1.61%) OCI
10 1 (1.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.84%) Network Security
1 3 (4.84%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (3.23%) BGP
2 2 (3.23%) OSPF
2 2 (3.23%) SD-WAN
2 2 (3.23%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.23%) VLAN
2 2 (3.23%) VPN
2 2 (3.23%) WAN
3 1 (1.61%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (22.58%) DynamoDB
2 11 (17.74%) Aerospike
3 9 (14.52%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (12.90%) Redis
5 7 (11.29%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (8.06%) Big Data
8 4 (6.45%) Data Lake
8 4 (6.45%) Metadata
8 4 (6.45%) MySQL
8 4 (6.45%) SQL Server
9 3 (4.84%) NoSQL
9 3 (4.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (3.23%) MongoDB
11 1 (1.61%) Apache Hive
11 1 (1.61%) Flink
11 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
11 1 (1.61%) Metadata Repository
11 1 (1.61%) RDBMS
11 1 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (19.35%) GitLab
2 10 (16.13%) Jenkins
3 6 (9.68%) JUnit
4 2 (3.23%) Git
5 1 (1.61%) JIRA
5 1 (1.61%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (1.61%) Oracle Forms
General
1 26 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 20 (32.26%) Finance
3 7 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.06%) Banking
4 5 (8.06%) Fire and Rescue
4 5 (8.06%) Local Government
4 5 (8.06%) Police
5 4 (6.45%) Marketing
5 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.84%) Retail
7 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (25.81%) Architect
2 9 (14.52%) Developer
3 8 (12.90%) Senior
4 6 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (8.06%) AWS Developer
5 5 (8.06%) Data Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Data Scientist
5 5 (8.06%) Help Desk Technician
5 5 (8.06%) ICT Technician
5 5 (8.06%) Lead
6 4 (6.45%) AWS Data Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Software Developer
7 3 (4.84%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (4.84%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (3.23%) AWS Architect
8 2 (3.23%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 2 (3.23%) Security Architect
8 2 (3.23%) Senior Architect
8 2 (3.23%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (32.26%) Kafka
2 13 (20.97%) Node.js
3 9 (14.52%) pytest
3 9 (14.52%) RESTful
4 6 (9.68%) Django
4 6 (9.68%) GraphQL
4 6 (9.68%) Jest
5 5 (8.06%) PySpark
5 5 (8.06%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (4.84%) J2EE
6 3 (4.84%) OAuth
6 3 (4.84%) OAuth2
6 3 (4.84%) OpenID
6 3 (4.84%) OSGi
6 3 (4.84%) Pandas
6 3 (4.84%) SAML
6 3 (4.84%) scikit-learn
6 3 (4.84%) TensorFlow
7 2 (3.23%) REST
8 1 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 17 (27.42%) Cloud Native
2 11 (17.74%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (11.29%) Driving Licence
4 6 (9.68%) Product Ownership
5 4 (6.45%) Management Information System
5 4 (6.45%) Onboarding
6 3 (4.84%) Mobile Payment
7 2 (3.23%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.61%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.61%) Replication
8 1 (1.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.13%) Windows
2 9 (14.52%) Linux
3 3 (4.84%) Android
4 2 (3.23%) CentOS
4 2 (3.23%) Mac OS
4 2 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.23%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.61%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (53.23%) Agile
2 24 (38.71%) CI/CD
3 21 (33.87%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (30.65%) Analytics
5 18 (29.03%) Data Protection
6 15 (24.19%) Microservices
7 13 (20.97%) Fraud Detection
8 12 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (17.74%) Backtesting
9 11 (17.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (17.74%) Data Engineering
9 11 (17.74%) Data Modelling
9 11 (17.74%) ETL
10 10 (16.13%) DevOps
10 10 (16.13%) Secure Coding
11 9 (14.52%) Clean Code
11 9 (14.52%) Migration
11 9 (14.52%) Service Delivery
11 9 (14.52%) Test Automation
11 9 (14.52%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (40.32%) Python
2 15 (24.19%) Java
3 11 (17.74%) SQL
4 3 (4.84%) Bicep
4 3 (4.84%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.84%) R
5 2 (3.23%) Bash
5 2 (3.23%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.61%) C#
6 1 (1.61%) Rust
6 1 (1.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.06%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (8.06%) NVQ Level 3
3 4 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.23%) CCNA
4 2 (3.23%) CCNP
4 2 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.61%) Degree
5 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (19.35%) GDPR
2 6 (9.68%) PCI DSS
3 5 (8.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (6.45%) Data Quality
5 3 (4.84%) GRC
5 3 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (4.84%) NIST
5 3 (4.84%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.61%) COBIT
6 1 (1.61%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.61%) ISO 20022
6 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (1.61%) PMO
6 1 (1.61%) QA
6 1 (1.61%) SEPA
System Software
1 8 (12.90%) Docker
2 7 (11.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (8.06%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.23%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.61%) Apache Flume
5 1 (1.61%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (12.90%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.06%) Terraform
3 4 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (4.84%) Ansible
5 2 (3.23%) FortiGate
5 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (24.19%) Databricks
2 13 (20.97%) Microsoft
3 7 (11.29%) VMware
4 6 (9.68%) Google
5 3 (4.84%) Adobe
5 3 (4.84%) Informatica
5 3 (4.84%) Splunk
5 3 (4.84%) Talend
6 2 (3.23%) Cisco
6 2 (3.23%) Citrix
6 2 (3.23%) Fortinet
6 2 (3.23%) Oracle
7 1 (1.61%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.61%) NetApp
7 1 (1.61%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud