AWS Contracts in the East Midlands

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 15 23
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 +10
Contract jobs citing AWS 94 70 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.06% 8.07% 7.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.34% 31.82% 23.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 44 59
10th Percentile £352 £325 £393
25th Percentile £375 £372 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £445 £505
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -11.88% +1.00%
75th Percentile £500 £489 £700
90th Percentile £547 £576 -
England median daily rate £537 £564 £600
% change year-on-year -4.79% -6.00% -

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 212 220 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.44% 25.37% 29.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 141 225
10th Percentile £308 £180 £202
25th Percentile £366 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £445 £425
Median % change year-on-year -0.16% +4.71% -5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £538
90th Percentile £541 £638 £695
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 18
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.62 £13.11
25th Percentile £16.89 - £13.57
Median hourly rate £20.95 £14.00 £24.49
Median % change year-on-year +49.61% -42.83% +24.79%
75th Percentile £21.39 £26.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £21.55 £27.50 £90.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +14.32% -33.33% +54.48%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for AWS in the East Midlands

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the East Midlands

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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 5 July 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 +2 67 £415 -6.74% 62
Nottinghamshire -6 16 £500 +11.11% 119
Derbyshire +12 8 £700 +111.32% 91
Leicestershire +1 3 £540 +57.66% 66
AWS
England

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.26%) Apache Spark
1 4 (4.26%) JBoss
2 3 (3.19%) CICS
2 3 (3.19%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.13%) Apache
4 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.06%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.06%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (4.26%) Siemens NX
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (8.51%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (5.32%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 32 (34.04%) Azure
2 23 (24.47%) GCP
3 9 (9.57%) Serverless
4 7 (7.45%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (6.38%) Amazon Kinesis
5 6 (6.38%) Amazon S3
5 6 (6.38%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (5.32%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.26%) AWS CodeBuild
7 4 (4.26%) OpenShift
8 3 (3.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (3.19%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (3.19%) Amazon Glacier
8 3 (3.19%) Snowflake
9 2 (2.13%) GitHub
9 2 (2.13%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.06%) Apigee
10 1 (1.06%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (1.06%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.13%) DMZ
1 2 (2.13%) Firewall
1 2 (2.13%) Internet
2 1 (1.06%) DHCP
2 1 (1.06%) DNS
2 1 (1.06%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.51%) Relational Database
2 6 (6.38%) NoSQL
3 5 (5.32%) Big Data
3 5 (5.32%) DynamoDB
3 5 (5.32%) Hadoop
4 4 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.26%) DB2
4 4 (4.26%) MySQL
4 4 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.26%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.19%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (3.19%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.19%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.13%) Apache Hudi
6 2 (2.13%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (2.13%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.13%) Delta Lake
6 2 (2.13%) Flink
6 2 (2.13%) Parquet
6 2 (2.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (22.34%) Jenkins
2 18 (19.15%) Git
3 9 (9.57%) Maven
4 8 (8.51%) JIRA
5 5 (5.32%) IntelliJ
6 4 (4.26%) Bitbucket
6 4 (4.26%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (4.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (3.19%) Cucumber
7 3 (3.19%) Eclipse
7 3 (3.19%) Gradle
7 3 (3.19%) Selenium
7 3 (3.19%) SonarQube
7 3 (3.19%) TeamCity
8 2 (2.13%) CA Release Automation
8 2 (2.13%) GitLab
8 2 (2.13%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.13%) Subversion
9 1 (1.06%) Introscope
9 1 (1.06%) LoadRunner
General
1 30 (31.91%) Finance
2 28 (29.79%) Banking
3 26 (27.66%) Social Skills
4 15 (15.96%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.38%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.13%) Retail
7 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.06%) Law
Job Titles
1 29 (30.85%) Architect
2 18 (19.15%) Solutions Architect
3 14 (14.89%) Developer
4 6 (6.38%) AWS Architect
4 6 (6.38%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
4 6 (6.38%) Identity Management Engineer
5 5 (5.32%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (5.32%) AWS Solution Architect
5 5 (5.32%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (5.32%) Enterprise Architect
5 5 (5.32%) Lead
6 4 (4.26%) Analyst
6 4 (4.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (4.26%) Data Engineer
6 4 (4.26%) Payments Architect
6 4 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (3.19%) CAD Developer
7 3 (3.19%) Payments Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.19%) Python Engineer
7 3 (3.19%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (19.15%) LDAP
2 15 (15.96%) Spring
3 14 (14.89%) OAuth
3 14 (14.89%) REST
4 13 (13.83%) OpenID
4 13 (13.83%) SAML
5 12 (12.77%) Hibernate
6 9 (9.57%) Kafka
7 7 (7.45%) RESTful
8 6 (6.38%) .NET
8 6 (6.38%) Spring Boot
9 5 (5.32%) React
10 4 (4.26%) Web Services
11 3 (3.19%) .NET Core
11 3 (3.19%) ActiveMQ
11 3 (3.19%) AngularJS
11 3 (3.19%) FIDO
11 3 (3.19%) HTML
11 3 (3.19%) SOAP
12 2 (2.13%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.57%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.45%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (6.38%) Data Centre
3 6 (6.38%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.26%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.19%) Mainframe
5 3 (3.19%) VSAM
6 2 (2.13%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.06%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.06%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.51%) Linux
2 5 (5.32%) Unix
2 5 (5.32%) Windows
3 3 (3.19%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.13%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.06%) AIX
5 1 (1.06%) VMS
5 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (38.30%) CI/CD
2 26 (27.66%) Agile
3 25 (26.60%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (23.40%) Microservices
5 17 (18.09%) ETL
5 17 (18.09%) Identity Access Management
6 16 (17.02%) DevOps
7 14 (14.89%) Containerisation
7 14 (14.89%) Scrum
8 13 (13.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (10.64%) Enterprise Architecture
9 10 (10.64%) RBAC
9 10 (10.64%) SDLC
10 9 (9.57%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (9.57%) Digital Identity
10 9 (9.57%) High Availability
10 9 (9.57%) Migration
10 9 (9.57%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (8.51%) Business Strategy
11 8 (8.51%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 37 (39.36%) Java
2 20 (21.28%) Python
3 18 (19.15%) SQL
4 6 (6.38%) TypeScript
5 5 (5.32%) C#
5 5 (5.32%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.26%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.26%) Scala
7 3 (3.19%) COBOL
7 3 (3.19%) JCL
8 2 (2.13%) Bash
8 2 (2.13%) Perl
8 2 (2.13%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.06%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.06%) Bicep
9 1 (1.06%) C
9 1 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.06%) PHP
9 1 (1.06%) R
9 1 (1.06%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (9.57%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (5.32%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (4.26%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.19%) Degree
6 2 (2.13%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.06%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.06%) CISA
7 1 (1.06%) CISM
7 1 (1.06%) CISSP
7 1 (1.06%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.77%) GDPR
2 10 (10.64%) HIPAA
3 6 (6.38%) NIST
3 6 (6.38%) QA
4 4 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.26%) NIST 800
5 3 (3.19%) Data Quality
6 2 (2.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (1.06%) COBIT
7 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 23 (24.47%) Docker
2 7 (7.45%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.13%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.06%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (18.09%) Kubernetes
2 12 (12.77%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 7 (7.45%) Terraform
4 3 (3.19%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.13%) Ansible
5 2 (2.13%) Kibana
5 2 (2.13%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.06%) CA Wily
6 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.06%) Podman
6 1 (1.06%) RSA Archer
6 1 (1.06%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (20.21%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.77%) IBM
3 11 (11.70%) Ping Identity
4 10 (10.64%) Oracle
5 5 (5.32%) Siemens
6 4 (4.26%) Databricks
6 4 (4.26%) Google
6 4 (4.26%) Splunk
7 3 (3.19%) AppDynamics
7 3 (3.19%) VMware
8 2 (2.13%) Ab Initio
8 2 (2.13%) MuleSoft
8 2 (2.13%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.06%) Alteryx
9 1 (1.06%) Cisco
9 1 (1.06%) HP
9 1 (1.06%) Rapid7
9 1 (1.06%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.06%) Veracode