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 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 8 18
Rank change year-on-year -16 +10 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 73 88 59
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 5.87% 11.56% 7.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.47% 41.51% 30.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 80 41
10th Percentile £300 £350 £306
25th Percentile £386 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £433 £445
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% -2.70% -11.00%
75th Percentile £500 £511 £490
90th Percentile £666 £625 £577
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
Median hourly rate £13.51 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -37.59%

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 375 212 193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.17% 27.86% 25.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 160 124
10th Percentile £219 £308 £183
25th Percentile £381 £367 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £440 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.28% -2.33% -
75th Percentile £575 £500 £588
90th Percentile £656 £563 £643
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 9 6
10th Percentile £13.51 £16.10 £15.08
25th Percentile £14.69 £18.50 £17.01
Median hourly rate £17.87 £21.39 £21.66
Median % change year-on-year -16.46% -1.25% +8.30%
75th Percentile £19.03 - £45.80
90th Percentile £25.75 £21.71 £53.45
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £26.97
% change year-on-year +34.62% -3.60% -18.27%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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
Nottinghamshire -1 41 £425 -8.60% 18
Northamptonshire -6 21 £447 +6.43% 10
Lincolnshire - 6 £569 - 5
Derbyshire -13 3 - - 9
Leicestershire -10 2 £470 -12.96% 12
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 3 (4.11%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.74%) Apache Pig
3 1 (1.37%) Apache
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.37%) Confluence
3 1 (1.37%) SAS
3 1 (1.37%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.37%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (8.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (34.25%) Azure
2 21 (28.77%) AWS Lambda
2 21 (28.77%) Serverless
3 18 (24.66%) GCP
4 9 (12.33%) Amazon S3
4 9 (12.33%) GitHub
5 8 (10.96%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (8.22%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (6.85%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (6.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (5.48%) Azure AKS
8 4 (5.48%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (5.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (5.48%) Power Platform
9 3 (4.11%) dbt
9 3 (4.11%) Snowflake
9 3 (4.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.74%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) BGP
1 2 (2.74%) OSPF
1 2 (2.74%) SD-WAN
1 2 (2.74%) TCP/IP
1 2 (2.74%) VLAN
1 2 (2.74%) VPN
1 2 (2.74%) WAN
2 1 (1.37%) MQTT
2 1 (1.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.44%) MySQL
2 11 (15.07%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (10.96%) DynamoDB
4 7 (9.59%) SQL Server
5 6 (8.22%) Redis
6 5 (6.85%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (6.85%) Big Data
6 5 (6.85%) Relational Database
7 4 (5.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (5.48%) Power BI
8 3 (4.11%) Apache Hive
8 3 (4.11%) Hadoop
8 3 (4.11%) RDBMS
9 2 (2.74%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (2.74%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.74%) HBase
9 2 (2.74%) Sqoop
10 1 (1.37%) Metadata
10 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (9.59%) GitLab
2 4 (5.48%) Git
3 3 (4.11%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.74%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.37%) git-flow
5 1 (1.37%) Gradle
5 1 (1.37%) JIRA
5 1 (1.37%) JUnit
5 1 (1.37%) Maven
5 1 (1.37%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (1.37%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (1.37%) Selenium
5 1 (1.37%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (16.44%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (13.70%) Social Skills
3 8 (10.96%) Retail
4 4 (5.48%) Banking
4 4 (5.48%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.48%) Publishing
5 2 (2.74%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.74%) Finance
5 2 (2.74%) Marketing
5 2 (2.74%) Police
6 1 (1.37%) Aviation
6 1 (1.37%) Legal
6 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (28.77%) Data Engineer
2 14 (19.18%) Senior
3 13 (17.81%) AWS Engineer
4 12 (16.44%) Platform Engineer
5 10 (13.70%) Architect
5 10 (13.70%) Developer
5 10 (13.70%) Senior Data Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) 2nd Line Support
6 6 (8.22%) AWS Data Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Software Developer
9 3 (4.11%) .NET Developer
9 3 (4.11%) .NET Software Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Site Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
10 2 (2.74%) Lead
10 2 (2.74%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.07%) Kafka
2 10 (13.70%) RESTful
3 8 (10.96%) Django
4 6 (8.22%) Node.js
4 6 (8.22%) pytest
5 5 (6.85%) Celery
5 5 (6.85%) FastAPI
5 5 (6.85%) Playwright
5 5 (6.85%) REST
6 4 (5.48%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (5.48%) Terraform
7 3 (4.11%) .NET
7 3 (4.11%) GraphQL
8 2 (2.74%) AWS CDK
8 2 (2.74%) CSS
8 2 (2.74%) HTML
8 2 (2.74%) JWT
8 2 (2.74%) Middleware
8 2 (2.74%) PySpark
8 2 (2.74%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.22%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (8.22%) Mobile Payment
3 4 (5.48%) Reference Data
4 3 (4.11%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.74%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.74%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.74%) IoT
5 2 (2.74%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.37%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.37%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.37%) Digital Signage
6 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.37%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.37%) Replication
6 1 (1.37%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.59%) Linux
2 6 (8.22%) Android
3 3 (4.11%) CentOS
3 3 (4.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.11%) Unix
3 3 (4.11%) Windows
4 1 (1.37%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (1.37%) Tizen
4 1 (1.37%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (24.66%) CI/CD
2 14 (19.18%) Microservices
3 13 (17.81%) DevOps
3 13 (17.81%) Event-Driven
4 12 (16.44%) Agile
4 12 (16.44%) Analytics
4 12 (16.44%) Data Modelling
4 12 (16.44%) Platform Engineering
5 11 (15.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 10 (13.70%) Performance Optimisation
7 9 (12.33%) ETL
7 9 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (10.96%) Containerisation
8 8 (10.96%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (9.59%) Data Engineering
9 7 (9.59%) Decision-Making
10 6 (8.22%) API Development
10 6 (8.22%) Mobile Device Management
10 6 (8.22%) Service Delivery
11 5 (6.85%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 19 (26.03%) Python
2 13 (17.81%) SQL
3 7 (9.59%) Java
4 4 (5.48%) C#
5 3 (4.11%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.74%) R
6 2 (2.74%) Scala
6 2 (2.74%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.37%) Rust
7 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (10.96%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.48%) Degree
3 3 (4.11%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.74%) CCNA
4 2 (2.74%) CCNP
4 2 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.74%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.37%) CISM
5 1 (1.37%) CISSP
5 1 (1.37%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.22%) GDPR
2 4 (5.48%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (2.74%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.37%) GRC
4 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (20.55%) Docker
2 2 (2.74%) Apache Flume
2 2 (2.74%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (6.85%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.48%) Ansible
3 2 (2.74%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.37%) Grafana
4 1 (1.37%) RSA Archer
4 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (10.96%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.59%) Google
3 5 (6.85%) Databricks
4 3 (4.11%) Oracle
5 2 (2.74%) Cisco
5 2 (2.74%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.37%) NetApp
6 1 (1.37%) OneTrust
6 1 (1.37%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.37%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.37%) Teradata