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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 18 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -12 +14
Contract jobs citing AWS 63 47 104
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 7.33% 7.11% 13.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.90% 27.17% 37.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 34 97
10th Percentile £363 £302 £379
25th Percentile £385 £356 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £435 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% -13.10% -11.11%
75th Percentile £489 £543 £550
90th Percentile £613 £596 £641
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £27.75
Median hourly rate - - £30.50
75th Percentile - - £33.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £84.50 £46.18 £51.06
% change year-on-year +82.98% -9.55% -7.17%

All Cloud 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 253 173 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.45% 26.17% 37.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 96 228
10th Percentile £206 £189 £221
25th Percentile £360 £356 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £475 £454
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% +4.58% -9.16%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £531
90th Percentile £615 £629 £616
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 21
10th Percentile £15.44 £13.16 £12.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £13.52 £13.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 £18.32 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.98% +4.69% +12.90%
75th Percentile £24.03 £39.68 £33.25
90th Percentile £38.94 £48.87 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.47 £31.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.84% +24.00% +11.11%

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 9 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the East Midlands

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 9 December 2025. 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 +4 36 £430 +20.65% 19
Nottinghamshire -8 15 £436 -12.90% 22
Leicestershire -9 5 £450 +149.31% 19
Derbyshire - 5 £800 - 10
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 6 (9.52%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.59%) Alfresco
2 1 (1.59%) CMS
2 1 (1.59%) Documentum
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) FrameMaker
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 34 (53.97%) Azure
2 20 (31.75%) GCP
3 12 (19.05%) Serverless
4 11 (17.46%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (17.46%) Entra ID
5 8 (12.70%) Amazon S3
6 6 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (6.35%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (6.35%) GitHub
7 4 (6.35%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.76%) Amazon Bedrock
8 3 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (4.76%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (3.17%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (3.17%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.87%) DynamoDB
2 8 (12.70%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (12.70%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (11.11%) Big Data
4 5 (7.94%) Hadoop
4 5 (7.94%) Metadata
5 4 (6.35%) Power BI
6 3 (4.76%) Aerospike
6 3 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (4.76%) Data Lake
6 3 (4.76%) Data Mining
6 3 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (3.17%) Apache Hive
7 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.59%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.59%) Redis
8 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (4.76%) GitLab
1 3 (4.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.17%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.59%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.59%) Git
3 1 (1.59%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.59%) JIRA
3 1 (1.59%) JUnit
3 1 (1.59%) Maven
3 1 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.59%) TeamCity
General
1 34 (53.97%) Social Skills
2 23 (36.51%) Finance
3 9 (14.29%) Banking
4 8 (12.70%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.59%) Military
7 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (20.63%) Architect
2 12 (19.05%) Lead
3 7 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 6 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (7.94%) Developer
5 5 (7.94%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.35%) Data Scientist
6 4 (6.35%) Enterprise Architect
6 4 (6.35%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Identity Management Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) AWS Data Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Head of IT
7 3 (4.76%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Programme Manager
7 3 (4.76%) Security Manager
8 2 (3.17%) Ab Initio Developer
8 2 (3.17%) Infrastructure Manager
8 2 (3.17%) Lead Architect
8 2 (3.17%) Security Architect
8 2 (3.17%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.87%) Kafka
2 8 (12.70%) RESTful
3 7 (11.11%) GraphQL
3 7 (11.11%) Spring
4 6 (9.52%) Django
4 6 (9.52%) LDAP
4 6 (9.52%) OAuth
4 6 (9.52%) SAML
5 5 (7.94%) Hibernate
5 5 (7.94%) OpenID
5 5 (7.94%) REST
6 4 (6.35%) Node.js
7 3 (4.76%) PySpark
7 3 (4.76%) pytest
7 3 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (4.76%) Spring Boot
8 2 (3.17%) FastAPI
8 2 (3.17%) Flask
8 2 (3.17%) Jest
8 2 (3.17%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.35%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.35%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (6.35%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.76%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.59%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.59%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.70%) Windows
2 5 (7.94%) Mac OS
3 3 (4.76%) Android
3 3 (4.76%) Unix
4 2 (3.17%) Linux
5 1 (1.59%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (39.68%) Agile
2 19 (30.16%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 13 (20.63%) ETL
5 12 (19.05%) Analytics
5 12 (19.05%) Enterprise Architecture
6 10 (15.87%) Data Modelling
6 10 (15.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 9 (14.29%) Business Strategy
7 9 (14.29%) Data Engineering
7 9 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
7 9 (14.29%) Data Science
7 9 (14.29%) Microservices
7 9 (14.29%) Roadmaps
8 8 (12.70%) Data Analysis
8 8 (12.70%) Data Protection
8 8 (12.70%) DevOps
8 8 (12.70%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
9 7 (11.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 23 (36.51%) Python
2 15 (23.81%) SQL
3 12 (19.05%) Java
4 6 (9.52%) PowerShell
5 5 (7.94%) Bash
5 5 (7.94%) R
6 2 (3.17%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.17%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.59%) PHP
7 1 (1.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (6.35%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.76%) CISA
2 3 (4.76%) CISSP
2 3 (4.76%) Degree
3 2 (3.17%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.17%) CISM
3 2 (3.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.59%) GIAC
4 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.59%) MCP
4 1 (1.59%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.63%) GDPR
1 13 (20.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (9.52%) HIPAA
3 5 (7.94%) Data Quality
4 3 (4.76%) ISO 9001
4 3 (4.76%) NIST
4 3 (4.76%) NIST 800
4 3 (4.76%) PCI DSS
5 2 (3.17%) COBIT
5 2 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (3.17%) QA
6 1 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.94%) Docker
2 5 (7.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (7.94%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.94%) SCCM
2 5 (7.94%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 1 (1.59%) RSA Archer
3 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (30.16%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.94%) Citrix
2 5 (7.94%) Databricks
2 5 (7.94%) IBM
2 5 (7.94%) Ping Identity
2 5 (7.94%) VMware
3 3 (4.76%) Google
3 3 (4.76%) Informatica
3 3 (4.76%) Samsung
3 3 (4.76%) Talend
4 2 (3.17%) Ab Initio
4 2 (3.17%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.59%) Adobe
5 1 (1.59%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.59%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.59%) OpenText
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle
5 1 (1.59%) SAP
5 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.59%) Workday