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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 8 16
Rank change year-on-year -22 +8 +5
Contract jobs citing AWS 62 75 65
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 5.53% 12.44% 8.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.56% 41.21% 30.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 67 42
10th Percentile £391 £357 £328
25th Percentile £409 £397 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £459 £445
Median % change year-on-year -2.97% +3.15% -19.09%
75th Percentile £499 £503 £490
90th Percentile £556 £547 £570
England median daily rate £543 £545 £561
% change year-on-year -0.46% -2.90% -6.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.95 - -
Median hourly rate £13.51 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +27.27% -26.67%

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 334 182 213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.79% 30.18% 26.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 142 144
10th Percentile £190 £250 £163
25th Percentile £359 £363 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £513
90th Percentile £650 £545 £646
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 8 12
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.69 -
25th Percentile £13.51 £17.65 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £21.39 £15.32
Median % change year-on-year -16.46% +39.67% -23.43%
75th Percentile £19.03 - £26.75
90th Percentile £23.90 £21.87 £27.50
England median hourly rate £39.75 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +55.88% +19.33% -38.94%

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 30 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 30 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 -12 28 £437 +2.89% 5
Nottinghamshire -12 23 £463 -7.50% 43
Derbyshire -5 8 £650 -7.14% 8
Lincolnshire - 2 £619 - 1
Leicestershire -11 1 £540 - 17
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 5 (8.06%) 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 7 (11.29%) 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 27 (43.55%) Azure
2 20 (32.26%) GCP
3 10 (16.13%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (16.13%) GitHub
3 10 (16.13%) Serverless
4 6 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (8.06%) Entra ID
6 4 (6.45%) Amazon S3
6 4 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (4.84%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.23%) Azure AKS
8 2 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (3.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.23%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.61%) Google Workspace
9 1 (1.61%) SaaS
9 1 (1.61%) Salesforce Commerce 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
3 1 (1.61%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (22.58%) DynamoDB
2 11 (17.74%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (12.90%) Aerospike
3 8 (12.90%) MySQL
3 8 (12.90%) SQL Server
4 7 (11.29%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (11.29%) Redis
5 4 (6.45%) Big Data
6 3 (4.84%) Data Lake
6 3 (4.84%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (3.23%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.61%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.61%) HBase
8 1 (1.61%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.61%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.61%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 10 (16.13%) GitLab
2 7 (11.29%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.06%) 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 20 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.97%) Finance
3 12 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.29%) Retail
5 5 (8.06%) Banking
5 5 (8.06%) Fire and Rescue
5 5 (8.06%) Local Government
5 5 (8.06%) Police
6 4 (6.45%) Marketing
7 3 (4.84%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (25.81%) Architect
2 10 (16.13%) Developer
3 7 (11.29%) 2nd Line Support
4 6 (9.68%) Senior
4 6 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (8.06%) AWS Developer
5 5 (8.06%) Help Desk Technician
5 5 (8.06%) ICT Technician
6 4 (6.45%) Software Developer
7 3 (4.84%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Site Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) AWS Architect
8 2 (3.23%) AWS Data Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Cloud Native Developer
8 2 (3.23%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 2 (3.23%) Data Scientist
8 2 (3.23%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.58%) Kafka
2 13 (20.97%) Node.js
3 10 (16.13%) RESTful
4 6 (9.68%) Django
4 6 (9.68%) GraphQL
4 6 (9.68%) pytest
5 5 (8.06%) Jest
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%) PySpark
6 3 (4.84%) REST
6 3 (4.84%) SAML
7 2 (3.23%) Pandas
7 2 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (3.23%) scikit-learn
7 2 (3.23%) TensorFlow
8 1 (1.61%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.97%) Cloud Native
2 9 (14.52%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (11.29%) Driving Licence
3 7 (11.29%) Mobile Payment
4 6 (9.68%) Product Ownership
5 4 (6.45%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.23%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (3.23%) IoT
7 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.61%) Digital Signage
7 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.61%) Replication
7 1 (1.61%) SCADA
7 1 (1.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.13%) Linux
1 10 (16.13%) Windows
2 7 (11.29%) Android
3 3 (4.84%) CentOS
3 3 (4.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.23%) Mac OS
4 2 (3.23%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.61%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.61%) Tizen
5 1 (1.61%) Unix
5 1 (1.61%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (45.16%) Agile
2 22 (35.48%) CI/CD
3 16 (25.81%) Data Protection
4 15 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (22.58%) Analytics
5 14 (22.58%) Microservices
6 13 (20.97%) Service Delivery
7 12 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (17.74%) Data Modelling
9 10 (16.13%) DevOps
10 9 (14.52%) Fraud Detection
11 8 (12.90%) Backtesting
11 8 (12.90%) Containerisation
11 8 (12.90%) Migration
12 7 (11.29%) Mobile Device Management
12 7 (11.29%) Pair Programming
12 7 (11.29%) Secure Coding
12 7 (11.29%) TDD
13 6 (9.68%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 19 (30.65%) Python
2 14 (22.58%) Java
3 9 (14.52%) SQL
4 3 (4.84%) Bicep
4 3 (4.84%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.84%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.23%) Bash
5 2 (3.23%) C#
5 2 (3.23%) R
6 1 (1.61%) Rust
6 1 (1.61%) Scala
6 1 (1.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (11.29%) 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 11 (17.74%) GDPR
2 5 (8.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (8.06%) PCI DSS
3 3 (4.84%) GRC
3 3 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (4.84%) NIST
3 3 (4.84%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.61%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.61%) COBIT
4 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.61%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.61%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (1.61%) PMO
4 1 (1.61%) QA
4 1 (1.61%) SEPA
System Software
1 9 (14.52%) 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 6 (9.68%) Terraform
3 4 (6.45%) Ansible
3 4 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (3.23%) FortiGate
4 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (19.35%) Databricks
2 11 (17.74%) Microsoft
3 10 (16.13%) Google
4 7 (11.29%) VMware
5 3 (4.84%) Adobe
5 3 (4.84%) Splunk
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%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.61%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud