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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 18 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 -10 +12
Contract jobs citing AWS 62 40 93
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 6.73% 7.21% 12.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.63% 27.78% 35.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 30 84
10th Percentile £369 £336 £377
25th Percentile £395 £356 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.74% -3.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £474 £543 £534
90th Percentile £619 £589 £638
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 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 £76.59 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +65.84% - -26.11%

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 274 144 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.75% 25.95% 36.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 82 219
10th Percentile £192 £188 £205
25th Percentile £338 £352 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -5.76%
75th Percentile £500 £537 £532
90th Percentile £613 £600 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 13
10th Percentile £12.95 £14.49 £10.75
25th Percentile £13.39 £16.85 £12.00
Median hourly rate £16.50 £29.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.10% +87.10% -
75th Percentile £24.03 £43.51 £18.75
90th Percentile £38.94 £50.40 £25.95
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.21 £24.02
% change year-on-year +6.36% +17.42% +6.14%

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 18 January 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 18 January 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 -6 34 £425 +19.38% 40
Nottinghamshire -14 14 £456 -8.75% 51
Derbyshire +5 8 £800 +60.00% 53
Leicestershire -5 4 £450 +149.31% 49
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 7 (11.29%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.61%) Alfresco
2 1 (1.61%) CMS
2 1 (1.61%) Documentum
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.61%) FrameMaker
Cloud Services
1 34 (54.84%) Azure
2 21 (33.87%) GCP
3 14 (22.58%) Entra ID
4 9 (14.52%) Serverless
5 8 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (12.90%) GitHub
5 8 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (11.29%) Amazon S3
6 7 (11.29%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (4.84%) Amazon Bedrock
7 3 (4.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (4.84%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (4.84%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (4.84%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.23%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (3.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (3.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.61%) Network Security
1 1 (1.61%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.35%) DynamoDB
2 8 (12.90%) Aerospike
2 8 (12.90%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (11.29%) Big Data
4 6 (9.68%) Redis
5 5 (8.06%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (8.06%) Metadata
5 5 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (6.45%) Hadoop
7 3 (4.84%) Data Lake
7 3 (4.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (3.23%) Apache Hive
8 2 (3.23%) Data Mining
8 2 (3.23%) MySQL
8 2 (3.23%) NoSQL
8 2 (3.23%) Power BI
8 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
8 2 (3.23%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.61%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 8 (12.90%) GitLab
2 7 (11.29%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.45%) JUnit
4 1 (1.61%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.61%) Git
4 1 (1.61%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (54.84%) Social Skills
2 21 (33.87%) Finance
3 8 (12.90%) Influencing Skills
4 7 (11.29%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.06%) Banking
6 3 (4.84%) Fire and Rescue
6 3 (4.84%) Local Government
6 3 (4.84%) Police
7 2 (3.23%) Retail
8 1 (1.61%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.61%) Military
8 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (22.58%) Architect
2 9 (14.52%) Developer
2 9 (14.52%) Lead
3 6 (9.68%) Data Engineer
4 5 (8.06%) Data Scientist
5 4 (6.45%) AWS Architect
5 4 (6.45%) AWS Developer
5 4 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.84%) Head of IT
6 3 (4.84%) Help Desk Technician
6 3 (4.84%) ICT Technician
6 3 (4.84%) Java Developer
6 3 (4.84%) Programme Manager
6 3 (4.84%) Security Architect
6 3 (4.84%) Senior
7 2 (3.23%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) AWS Solution Architect
7 2 (3.23%) Cloud Native Developer
7 2 (3.23%) Kafka Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (25.81%) Kafka
2 10 (16.13%) Node.js
3 6 (9.68%) pytest
4 5 (8.06%) Jest
4 5 (8.06%) REST
5 4 (6.45%) GraphQL
5 4 (6.45%) RESTful
6 3 (4.84%) Django
6 3 (4.84%) Pandas
6 3 (4.84%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (4.84%) scikit-learn
6 3 (4.84%) Spring
6 3 (4.84%) TensorFlow
7 2 (3.23%) FastAPI
7 2 (3.23%) Flask
7 2 (3.23%) OAuth
7 2 (3.23%) PySpark
7 2 (3.23%) React
7 2 (3.23%) SAML
7 2 (3.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (25.81%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.29%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.84%) Driving Licence
3 3 (4.84%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.84%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.23%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (1.61%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.61%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 13 (20.97%) Windows
2 7 (11.29%) Mac OS
3 5 (8.06%) Android
3 5 (8.06%) Linux
4 3 (4.84%) Windows 10
5 2 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (45.16%) Agile
2 20 (32.26%) CI/CD
3 18 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (27.42%) Data Protection
5 15 (24.19%) Analytics
6 13 (20.97%) Data Modelling
7 12 (19.35%) Microservices
7 12 (19.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 11 (17.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (17.74%) Data Engineering
8 11 (17.74%) Enterprise Architecture
8 11 (17.74%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (16.13%) Data Science
9 10 (16.13%) ETL
9 10 (16.13%) Fraud Detection
10 9 (14.52%) DevOps
10 9 (14.52%) Migration
10 9 (14.52%) Test Automation
11 8 (12.90%) Service Delivery
11 8 (12.90%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 20 (32.26%) Python
2 15 (24.19%) SQL
3 12 (19.35%) Java
4 8 (12.90%) PowerShell
5 7 (11.29%) Bash
6 5 (8.06%) R
7 2 (3.23%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.61%) Bicep
8 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.06%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.84%) NVQ Level 3
4 2 (3.23%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.23%) CISA
4 2 (3.23%) CISSP
4 2 (3.23%) Degree
4 2 (3.23%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.61%) CISM
5 1 (1.61%) GIAC
5 1 (1.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.61%) MCP
5 1 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (22.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (17.74%) GDPR
3 6 (9.68%) Data Quality
4 4 (6.45%) PCI DSS
5 3 (4.84%) ISO 9001
6 2 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (3.23%) NIST
7 1 (1.61%) COBIT
7 1 (1.61%) GRC
7 1 (1.61%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.61%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.61%) QA
7 1 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (1.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (16.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (14.52%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.84%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (14.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (11.29%) SCCM
3 3 (4.84%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (24.19%) Microsoft
2 11 (17.74%) Databricks
3 10 (16.13%) VMware
4 7 (11.29%) Citrix
4 7 (11.29%) Google
5 3 (4.84%) Informatica
5 3 (4.84%) Samsung
5 3 (4.84%) Talend
6 2 (3.23%) Ab Initio
7 1 (1.61%) Adobe
7 1 (1.61%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.61%) OpenText
7 1 (1.61%) Oracle
7 1 (1.61%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.61%) SAP
7 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.61%) Splunk
7 1 (1.61%) Workday