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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 18 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 -9 +12
Contract jobs citing AWS 71 44 93
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 7.43% 7.75% 12.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.32% 29.93% 34.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 34 79
10th Percentile £390 - £373
25th Percentile £402 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -3.75% -13.79%
75th Percentile £473 £534 £534
90th Percentile £624 £576 £639
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
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 £76.00 £50.84 £46.18
% change year-on-year +49.49% +10.09% -28.95%

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 292 147 272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.54% 25.88% 35.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 87 219
10th Percentile £190 £199 £187
25th Percentile £339 £356 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £532 £532 £530
90th Percentile £613 £593 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 17
10th Percentile - £18.27 £11.51
25th Percentile £12.95 £26.30 -
Median hourly rate £16.50 £39.68 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.42% +183.43% -9.68%
75th Percentile £23.50 £47.34 £18.75
90th Percentile £34.50 £51.94 £26.50
England median hourly rate £33.09 £27.50 £23.23
% change year-on-year +20.31% +18.39% -3.30%

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 29 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 29 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 41 £431 +21.14% 25
Nottinghamshire -17 14 £463 -7.50% 34
Derbyshire +7 10 £800 +60.00% 24
Leicestershire - 4 £450 - 26
Lincolnshire -13 1 £700 +21.74% 19
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 (9.86%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.41%) Alfresco
3 1 (1.41%) CMS
3 1 (1.41%) Documentum
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.41%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 39 (54.93%) Azure
2 23 (32.39%) GCP
3 16 (22.54%) Entra ID
4 8 (11.27%) GitHub
4 8 (11.27%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (11.27%) Serverless
5 7 (9.86%) Amazon S3
5 7 (9.86%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (9.86%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (4.23%) Amazon Bedrock
6 3 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (4.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (4.23%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (4.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (4.23%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (2.82%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (2.82%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.23%) Network Security
1 3 (4.23%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.49%) DynamoDB
2 10 (14.08%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (11.27%) Aerospike
4 7 (9.86%) Big Data
5 6 (8.45%) Metadata
5 6 (8.45%) Redis
6 5 (7.04%) Data Lake
6 5 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (5.63%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (5.63%) Hadoop
8 3 (4.23%) MySQL
8 3 (4.23%) NoSQL
8 3 (4.23%) SQL Server
8 3 (4.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.82%) Apache Hive
9 2 (2.82%) Data Mining
9 2 (2.82%) Power BI
9 2 (2.82%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.41%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 8 (11.27%) GitLab
2 7 (9.86%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.63%) JUnit
4 1 (1.41%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.41%) Git
General
1 36 (50.70%) Social Skills
2 24 (33.80%) Finance
3 9 (12.68%) Public Sector
4 8 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.27%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (8.45%) Banking
6 5 (7.04%) Fire and Rescue
6 5 (7.04%) Local Government
6 5 (7.04%) Police
7 3 (4.23%) Marketing
7 3 (4.23%) Retail
8 1 (1.41%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.41%) Military
8 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 22 (30.99%) Architect
2 8 (11.27%) Developer
2 8 (11.27%) Lead
2 8 (11.27%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (8.45%) Data Engineer
4 5 (7.04%) Data Scientist
4 5 (7.04%) Help Desk Technician
4 5 (7.04%) ICT Technician
5 4 (5.63%) AWS Architect
5 4 (5.63%) AWS Developer
5 4 (5.63%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Security Architect
6 3 (4.23%) 2nd Line Support
6 3 (4.23%) Data Architect
6 3 (4.23%) Head of IT
6 3 (4.23%) Programme Manager
6 3 (4.23%) Security Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.23%) Senior
7 2 (2.82%) Java Developer
7 2 (2.82%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (21.13%) Kafka
2 10 (14.08%) Node.js
3 6 (8.45%) pytest
4 5 (7.04%) Jest
4 5 (7.04%) REST
4 5 (7.04%) RESTful
5 4 (5.63%) OAuth
5 4 (5.63%) SAML
6 3 (4.23%) GraphQL
6 3 (4.23%) J2EE
6 3 (4.23%) OAuth2
6 3 (4.23%) OpenID
6 3 (4.23%) OSGi
6 3 (4.23%) Pandas
6 3 (4.23%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (4.23%) scikit-learn
6 3 (4.23%) TensorFlow
7 2 (2.82%) Django
7 2 (2.82%) Flask
7 2 (2.82%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.35%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.86%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (8.45%) Product Ownership
4 5 (7.04%) Driving Licence
5 4 (5.63%) Management Information System
6 3 (4.23%) Mobile Payment
6 3 (4.23%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.41%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.41%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.41%) Smart City
7 1 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 15 (21.13%) Windows
2 7 (9.86%) Linux
2 7 (9.86%) Mac OS
3 6 (8.45%) Android
4 3 (4.23%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (43.66%) Agile
2 24 (33.80%) CI/CD
3 21 (29.58%) Data Protection
4 20 (28.17%) Analytics
5 19 (26.76%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (25.35%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (22.54%) Data Modelling
8 15 (21.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (21.13%) Microservices
9 13 (18.31%) Data Engineering
9 13 (18.31%) DevOps
9 13 (18.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (16.90%) ETL
11 11 (15.49%) Enterprise Architecture
11 11 (15.49%) Roadmaps
11 11 (15.49%) Service Delivery
12 10 (14.08%) Data Science
12 10 (14.08%) Fraud Detection
12 10 (14.08%) Zero Trust
13 9 (12.68%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (29.58%) Python
2 16 (22.54%) Java
2 16 (22.54%) SQL
3 8 (11.27%) PowerShell
4 7 (9.86%) Bash
5 5 (7.04%) R
6 3 (4.23%) Bicep
7 2 (2.82%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (11.27%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (7.04%) NVQ Level 3
4 3 (4.23%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.23%) Degree
5 2 (2.82%) CISA
5 2 (2.82%) CISSP
5 2 (2.82%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.82%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.41%) CISM
6 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.41%) GIAC
6 1 (1.41%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (1.41%) MCP
6 1 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (23.94%) GDPR
2 16 (22.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (8.45%) Data Quality
3 6 (8.45%) PCI DSS
4 4 (5.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (5.63%) NIST
5 3 (4.23%) GRC
5 3 (4.23%) ISO 9001
5 3 (4.23%) SOC 2
6 2 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (2.82%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.41%) COBIT
7 1 (1.41%) ISO 20022
7 1 (1.41%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.41%) QA
7 1 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (1.41%) SEPA
System Software
1 12 (16.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (12.68%) Active Directory
3 5 (7.04%) Hyper-V
4 4 (5.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (12.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (9.86%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.86%) SCCM
3 3 (4.23%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (4.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (23.94%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.90%) VMware
3 11 (15.49%) Databricks
4 8 (11.27%) Google
5 7 (9.86%) Citrix
6 4 (5.63%) Adobe
7 3 (4.23%) Informatica
7 3 (4.23%) Samsung
7 3 (4.23%) Splunk
7 3 (4.23%) Talend
8 2 (2.82%) Ab Initio
9 1 (1.41%) OpenText
9 1 (1.41%) Oracle
9 1 (1.41%) Rapid7
9 1 (1.41%) SAP
9 1 (1.41%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.41%) Workday