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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 14 9
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 +11
Contract jobs citing AWS 95 66 96
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 11.15% 8.72% 11.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.40% 32.04% 31.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 47 84
10th Percentile £350 £306 £363
25th Percentile £375 £356 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% -11.00% -9.30%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £550
90th Percentile £616 £588 £625
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%

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 254 206 302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.81% 27.21% 36.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 116 237
10th Percentile £314 £226 £213
25th Percentile £367 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £500 £560 £534
90th Percentile £623 £619 £605
England median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 22
10th Percentile £18.30 £14.91 £12.08
25th Percentile £20.54 £17.00 £13.04
Median hourly rate £21.39 £29.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.24% +87.10% -
75th Percentile - £43.51 £59.69
90th Percentile - £50.40 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

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 23 October 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 23 October 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 63 £429 -3.60% 13
Nottinghamshire -6 16 £463 -7.50% 43
Derbyshire +8 9 £700 +111.32% 19
Leicestershire -5 5 £450 +149.31% 18
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 3 (3.16%) CICS
2 2 (2.11%) JBoss
2 2 (2.11%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.05%) Alfresco
3 1 (1.05%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.05%) CMS
3 1 (1.05%) Documentum
3 1 (1.05%) Oracle Workflow
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 4 (4.21%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 41 (43.16%) Azure
2 27 (28.42%) GCP
3 13 (13.68%) Serverless
4 12 (12.63%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (11.58%) Entra ID
6 9 (9.47%) Amazon S3
7 7 (7.37%) Amazon Kinesis
8 6 (6.32%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (6.32%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (4.21%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (4.21%) AWS CodeBuild
10 4 (4.21%) Power Platform
11 3 (3.16%) Amazon Bedrock
11 3 (3.16%) Amazon Glacier
12 2 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (2.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 2 (2.11%) Anthropic Claude
12 2 (2.11%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (2.11%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.11%) DMZ
1 2 (2.11%) Firewall
1 2 (2.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.47%) DynamoDB
2 8 (8.42%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.32%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (4.21%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (4.21%) Data Warehouse
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%) Data Mining
5 3 (3.16%) MySQL
5 3 (3.16%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.11%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.11%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.11%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.05%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.05%) Metadata
7 1 (1.05%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (13.68%) Git
2 8 (8.42%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.37%) Maven
4 5 (5.26%) JIRA
5 4 (4.21%) IntelliJ
6 3 (3.16%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.16%) Eclipse
6 3 (3.16%) Gradle
6 3 (3.16%) Selenium
7 2 (2.11%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (2.11%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.11%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.11%) Subversion
8 1 (1.05%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.05%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.05%) JUnit
8 1 (1.05%) TeamCity
General
1 38 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 28 (29.47%) Finance
3 21 (22.11%) Banking
4 15 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.37%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.16%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.05%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.05%) Military
7 1 (1.05%) Publishing
7 1 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (27.37%) 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 5 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) AWS Architect
8 4 (4.21%) AWS Solution Architect
8 4 (4.21%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.21%) Payments Architect
8 4 (4.21%) Tester
9 3 (3.16%) Analyst
9 3 (3.16%) Business Analyst
9 3 (3.16%) CAD Developer
9 3 (3.16%) Head of IT
9 3 (3.16%) Payments Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.16%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (21.05%) LDAP
2 16 (16.84%) Spring
3 15 (15.79%) REST
4 14 (14.74%) OAuth
4 14 (14.74%) SAML
5 13 (13.68%) Hibernate
5 13 (13.68%) OpenID
6 10 (10.53%) RESTful
7 6 (6.32%) Kafka
8 5 (5.26%) GraphQL
8 5 (5.26%) React
9 4 (4.21%) Django
9 4 (4.21%) Spring Boot
10 3 (3.16%) .NET
10 3 (3.16%) ActiveMQ
10 3 (3.16%) FIDO
10 3 (3.16%) SOAP
10 3 (3.16%) Web Services
11 2 (2.11%) React Native
11 2 (2.11%) RxJS
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%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.16%) VSAM
6 2 (2.11%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.11%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.05%) AI Agents
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 8 (8.42%) Windows
2 5 (5.26%) Mac OS
3 3 (3.16%) Android
4 2 (2.11%) Unix
5 1 (1.05%) Linux
5 1 (1.05%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (30.53%) CI/CD
1 29 (30.53%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (27.37%) Agile
3 21 (22.11%) Microservices
4 20 (21.05%) Identity Access Management
5 17 (17.89%) Enterprise Architecture
6 16 (16.84%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (14.74%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (13.68%) ETL
8 13 (13.68%) Roadmaps
8 13 (13.68%) SDLC
9 12 (12.63%) RBAC
10 11 (11.58%) Containerisation
10 11 (11.58%) DevOps
11 10 (10.53%) Scrum
11 10 (10.53%) Strategic Roadmap
12 9 (9.47%) Business Strategy
12 9 (9.47%) Data Analysis
12 9 (9.47%) DevSecOps
12 9 (9.47%) Digital Identity
Programming Languages
1 35 (36.84%) Java
2 20 (21.05%) SQL
3 18 (18.95%) Python
4 6 (6.32%) PowerShell
4 6 (6.32%) TypeScript
5 5 (5.26%) Bash
5 5 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.16%) C#
6 3 (3.16%) COBOL
6 3 (3.16%) JCL
6 3 (3.16%) R
7 2 (2.11%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.05%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (8.42%) BPSS Clearance
1 8 (8.42%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.16%) AWS Certification
2 3 (3.16%) CISA
2 3 (3.16%) CISSP
2 3 (3.16%) Degree
3 2 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (2.11%) CISM
3 2 (2.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 2 (2.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.11%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.05%) GIAC
4 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.05%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (20.00%) GDPR
2 14 (14.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (12.63%) HIPAA
4 7 (7.37%) NIST
5 6 (6.32%) QA
6 5 (5.26%) NIST 800
7 2 (2.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (2.11%) COBIT
7 2 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (2.11%) ISO 9001
7 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
8 1 (1.05%) PCI DSS
8 1 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (14.74%) Docker
2 11 (11.58%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (13.68%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 10 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 7 (7.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (5.26%) SCCM
5 3 (3.16%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.05%) RSA Archer
6 1 (1.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (28.42%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.68%) IBM
3 12 (12.63%) Ping Identity
4 8 (8.42%) Oracle
5 5 (5.26%) Citrix
5 5 (5.26%) VMware
6 4 (4.21%) Siemens
7 3 (3.16%) Google
7 3 (3.16%) Samsung
8 2 (2.11%) Rapid7
9 1 (1.05%) Adobe
9 1 (1.05%) Alteryx
9 1 (1.05%) Checkmarx
9 1 (1.05%) OpenText
9 1 (1.05%) SAP
9 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.05%) Workday