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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 15 9
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +18
Contract jobs citing AWS 95 63 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.10% 8.04% 12.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 42.04% 30.14% 33.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 42 90
10th Percentile £354 £306 £363
25th Percentile £375 £356 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -11.00% -9.50%
75th Percentile £500 £498 £563
90th Percentile £619 £597 £650
England median daily rate £525 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -8.70% -1.71% -2.50%

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 226 209 315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 28.79% 26.66% 36.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 120 235
10th Percentile £334 £188 £213
25th Percentile £375 £352 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £455
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -1.19% +1.20%
75th Percentile £500 £598 £530
90th Percentile £568 £649 £625
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 24
10th Percentile £17.64 £14.76 £12.23
25th Percentile £19.38 £16.63 £13.12
Median hourly rate £21.39 £18.32 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.76% +11.03% -20.96%
75th Percentile - £39.68 £40.00
90th Percentile - £48.87 £88.75
England median hourly rate £26.30 £32.75 £33.00
% change year-on-year -19.69% -0.76% +53.49%

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

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +1 63 £425 -4.61% 27
Nottinghamshire 0 17 £463 -22.92% 40
Derbyshire +7 10 £700 +111.32% 25
Leicestershire -1 4 £500 +177.01% 22
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 3 (3.16%) CICS
1 3 (3.16%) JBoss
2 2 (2.11%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.11%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.05%) Alfresco
3 1 (1.05%) CMS
3 1 (1.05%) Documentum
3 1 (1.05%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.05%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.05%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (4.21%) Siemens NX
2 1 (1.05%) FrameMaker
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (6.32%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (5.26%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 40 (42.11%) Azure
2 29 (30.53%) GCP
3 11 (11.58%) Entra ID
4 10 (10.53%) Serverless
5 8 (8.42%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (7.37%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (5.26%) Amazon S3
8 4 (4.21%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (4.21%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (4.21%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (3.16%) AWS CodeBuild
9 3 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.16%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.11%) Amazon Bedrock
10 2 (2.11%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (2.11%) Amazon Glacier
10 2 (2.11%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (2.11%) OpenShift
11 1 (1.05%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.11%) DMZ
1 2 (2.11%) Firewall
1 2 (2.11%) Internet
2 1 (1.05%) DHCP
2 1 (1.05%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.42%) DynamoDB
2 6 (6.32%) Relational Database
3 5 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (4.21%) DB2
4 4 (4.21%) Hadoop
4 4 (4.21%) Power BI
5 3 (3.16%) Big Data
5 3 (3.16%) MySQL
5 3 (3.16%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.11%) Data Mining
6 2 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.11%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.11%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.11%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.11%) Tableau
7 1 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (14.74%) Git
2 11 (11.58%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.37%) Maven
4 6 (6.32%) JIRA
5 4 (4.21%) IntelliJ
6 3 (3.16%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (3.16%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.16%) Eclipse
6 3 (3.16%) Gradle
6 3 (3.16%) Selenium
6 3 (3.16%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.16%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.11%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.11%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.11%) Subversion
7 2 (2.11%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.05%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (1.05%) GitLab
8 1 (1.05%) JUnit
General
1 35 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 28 (29.47%) Finance
3 22 (23.16%) Banking
4 14 (14.74%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.05%) Military
7 1 (1.05%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.05%) Publishing
7 1 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (25.26%) Architect
2 14 (14.74%) Solutions Architect
3 11 (11.58%) Developer
4 8 (8.42%) Lead
5 7 (7.37%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
5 7 (7.37%) Identity Management Engineer
6 6 (6.32%) Data Engineer
6 6 (6.32%) Enterprise Architect
7 4 (4.21%) Analyst
7 4 (4.21%) Payments Architect
8 3 (3.16%) AWS Architect
8 3 (3.16%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (3.16%) AWS Solution Architect
8 3 (3.16%) Business Analyst
8 3 (3.16%) CAD Developer
8 3 (3.16%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (3.16%) Head of IT
8 3 (3.16%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.16%) Payments Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.16%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (21.05%) LDAP
2 16 (16.84%) Spring
3 15 (15.79%) OAuth
4 14 (14.74%) OpenID
4 14 (14.74%) SAML
5 13 (13.68%) Hibernate
5 13 (13.68%) REST
6 10 (10.53%) RESTful
7 5 (5.26%) Kafka
7 5 (5.26%) Spring Boot
8 4 (4.21%) Django
8 4 (4.21%) GraphQL
8 4 (4.21%) React
9 3 (3.16%) .NET
9 3 (3.16%) FIDO
9 3 (3.16%) RAML
9 3 (3.16%) SOAP
9 3 (3.16%) Web Services
10 2 (2.11%) React Native
10 2 (2.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.47%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.42%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (7.37%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.21%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.21%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.16%) Mainframe
5 3 (3.16%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.16%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.16%) VSAM
6 2 (2.11%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.05%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.05%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.05%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.53%) Windows
2 5 (5.26%) Mac OS
3 3 (3.16%) Android
3 3 (3.16%) Linux
4 2 (2.11%) Unix
5 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.05%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.05%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (30.53%) CI/CD
2 27 (28.42%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (22.11%) Agile
4 20 (21.05%) Identity Access Management
4 20 (21.05%) Microservices
5 17 (17.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (16.84%) Enterprise Architecture
7 14 (14.74%) ETL
7 14 (14.74%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (13.68%) Roadmaps
9 12 (12.63%) Containerisation
9 12 (12.63%) DevOps
9 12 (12.63%) RBAC
9 12 (12.63%) SDLC
10 11 (11.58%) Scrum
11 10 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (10.53%) Strategic Roadmap
12 9 (9.47%) DevSecOps
12 9 (9.47%) Digital Identity
13 8 (8.42%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 33 (34.74%) Java
2 21 (22.11%) Python
3 18 (18.95%) SQL
4 8 (8.42%) PowerShell
5 7 (7.37%) Bash
6 5 (5.26%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.21%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.16%) C#
8 3 (3.16%) COBOL
8 3 (3.16%) JCL
8 3 (3.16%) R
9 2 (2.11%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.05%) Bicep
10 1 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.05%) Perl
10 1 (1.05%) PHP
10 1 (1.05%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.42%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (4.21%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.11%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.11%) CISA
4 2 (2.11%) CISSP
4 2 (2.11%) Degree
4 2 (2.11%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.05%) CISM
5 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.05%) GIAC
5 1 (1.05%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.05%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (20.00%) GDPR
2 12 (12.63%) HIPAA
3 11 (11.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (6.32%) NIST
4 6 (6.32%) QA
5 4 (4.21%) NIST 800
6 2 (2.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.05%) COBIT
7 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (1.05%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (17.89%) Docker
2 13 (13.68%) Active Directory
3 7 (7.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.05%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (13.68%) Kubernetes
1 13 (13.68%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 8 (8.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (6.32%) SCCM
4 3 (3.16%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.11%) Terraform
6 1 (1.05%) Kibana
6 1 (1.05%) Podman
6 1 (1.05%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.05%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 28 (29.47%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.68%) IBM
3 12 (12.63%) Ping Identity
4 8 (8.42%) Oracle
5 7 (7.37%) VMware
6 5 (5.26%) Citrix
6 5 (5.26%) Siemens
7 3 (3.16%) Google
7 3 (3.16%) Samsung
8 2 (2.11%) Splunk
9 1 (1.05%) Alteryx
9 1 (1.05%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.05%) Cisco
9 1 (1.05%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.05%) OpenText
9 1 (1.05%) Rapid7
9 1 (1.05%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.05%) SAP
9 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.05%) Workday