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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 13 10
Rank change year-on-year -8 -3 +15
Contract jobs citing AWS 71 47 79
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 7.02% 8.74% 10.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.68% 30.92% 34.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 37 62
10th Percentile £362 £356 £356
25th Percentile £400 £391 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £488 £459
Median % change year-on-year -10.41% +6.21% -18.40%
75th Percentile £474 £510 £532
90th Percentile £645 £547 £631
England median daily rate £525 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.95 - £27.75
Median hourly rate £13.08 - £30.50
75th Percentile £13.20 - £33.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £65.25 £51.78
% change year-on-year +14.94% +26.02% -19.72%

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 313 152 231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.93% 28.25% 29.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 101 177
10th Percentile £190 £188 £183
25th Percentile £333 £356 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.27% -2.22%
75th Percentile £543 £510 £525
90th Percentile £625 £550 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 16
10th Percentile £12.95 £13.17 £12.38
25th Percentile £13.32 £13.54 £14.00
Median hourly rate £16.50 £14.80 £15.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.52% -6.06% +1.61%
75th Percentile £24.09 £17.19 £26.50
90th Percentile £26.76 £20.68 £27.50
England median hourly rate £37.58 £26.81 £21.00
% change year-on-year +40.16% +27.68% -16.00%

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 March 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 9 March 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 -7 42 £430 +13.46% 13
Nottinghamshire -19 14 £463 -7.50% 30
Derbyshire +5 10 £725 +45.00% 25
Leicestershire -5 3 £400 - 31
Lincolnshire -15 1 £700 +21.74% 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 8 (11.27%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 33 (46.48%) Azure
2 23 (32.39%) GCP
3 11 (15.49%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (15.49%) Entra ID
3 11 (15.49%) Serverless
4 10 (14.08%) GitHub
5 8 (11.27%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (9.86%) Amazon S3
6 7 (9.86%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (4.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (4.23%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (4.23%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (4.23%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.82%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.82%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.41%) Google Analytics
9 1 (1.41%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.23%) Network Security
1 3 (4.23%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (22.54%) DynamoDB
2 10 (14.08%) Aerospike
2 10 (14.08%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (11.27%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (9.86%) Big Data
4 7 (9.86%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (9.86%) Redis
5 5 (7.04%) Data Lake
5 5 (7.04%) Metadata
6 4 (5.63%) Hadoop
7 3 (4.23%) MySQL
7 3 (4.23%) NoSQL
7 3 (4.23%) SQL Server
7 3 (4.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.82%) Apache Hive
8 2 (2.82%) Data Mining
8 2 (2.82%) Power BI
8 2 (2.82%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.41%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (12.68%) GitLab
1 9 (12.68%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.04%) JUnit
3 1 (1.41%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.41%) Git
General
1 36 (50.70%) Social Skills
2 27 (38.03%) Finance
3 8 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (11.27%) Influencing Skills
3 8 (11.27%) Public Sector
4 7 (9.86%) Banking
5 5 (7.04%) Fire and Rescue
5 5 (7.04%) Local Government
5 5 (7.04%) Police
6 3 (4.23%) Marketing
6 3 (4.23%) Retail
7 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (25.35%) Architect
2 9 (12.68%) Developer
3 8 (11.27%) Data Engineer
3 8 (11.27%) Lead
4 6 (8.45%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (8.45%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (7.04%) AWS Developer
5 5 (7.04%) Data Scientist
5 5 (7.04%) Help Desk Technician
5 5 (7.04%) ICT Technician
6 4 (5.63%) AWS Data Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Senior
7 3 (4.23%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (4.23%) AWS Architect
7 3 (4.23%) Programme Manager
7 3 (4.23%) Security Architect
8 2 (2.82%) Ab Initio Developer
8 2 (2.82%) Java Developer
8 2 (2.82%) Project Manager
8 2 (2.82%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (22.54%) Kafka
2 12 (16.90%) Node.js
3 10 (14.08%) RESTful
4 8 (11.27%) GraphQL
4 8 (11.27%) pytest
5 7 (9.86%) Django
6 6 (8.45%) Jest
7 4 (5.63%) OAuth
7 4 (5.63%) REST
7 4 (5.63%) SAML
8 3 (4.23%) J2EE
8 3 (4.23%) OAuth2
8 3 (4.23%) OpenID
8 3 (4.23%) OSGi
8 3 (4.23%) Pandas
8 3 (4.23%) PySpark
8 3 (4.23%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (4.23%) scikit-learn
8 3 (4.23%) TensorFlow
9 2 (2.82%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 19 (26.76%) Cloud Native
2 9 (12.68%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (8.45%) Product Ownership
4 5 (7.04%) Driving Licence
5 4 (5.63%) Management Information System
6 3 (4.23%) Mobile Payment
7 2 (2.82%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.41%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.90%) Windows
2 7 (9.86%) Linux
2 7 (9.86%) Mac OS
3 3 (4.23%) Android
3 3 (4.23%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (53.52%) Agile
2 25 (35.21%) CI/CD
3 22 (30.99%) Data Protection
4 20 (28.17%) Analytics
4 20 (28.17%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (25.35%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (22.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (21.13%) Data Modelling
7 15 (21.13%) Microservices
8 14 (19.72%) DevOps
9 13 (18.31%) Data Engineering
9 13 (18.31%) ETL
10 12 (16.90%) Fraud Detection
10 12 (16.90%) Roadmaps
10 12 (16.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 10 (14.08%) Backtesting
11 10 (14.08%) Enterprise Architecture
11 10 (14.08%) ITIL
11 10 (14.08%) Test Automation
11 10 (14.08%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 26 (36.62%) Python
2 17 (23.94%) Java
3 16 (22.54%) SQL
4 8 (11.27%) PowerShell
5 7 (9.86%) Bash
6 5 (7.04%) R
7 3 (4.23%) Bicep
8 2 (2.82%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (9.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.04%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (7.04%) NVQ Level 3
3 3 (4.23%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.82%) CISA
4 2 (2.82%) CISSP
4 2 (2.82%) Degree
4 2 (2.82%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.41%) CISM
5 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.41%) GIAC
5 1 (1.41%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (23.94%) GDPR
2 14 (19.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (8.45%) Data Quality
3 6 (8.45%) PCI DSS
4 4 (5.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (5.63%) NIST
5 3 (4.23%) GRC
5 3 (4.23%) ISO 9001
5 3 (4.23%) SOC 2
6 2 (2.82%) COBIT
6 2 (2.82%) HIPAA
6 2 (2.82%) QA
7 1 (1.41%) ISO 20022
7 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (1.41%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.41%) PMO
7 1 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (1.41%) SEPA
System Software
1 12 (16.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (11.27%) Active Directory
3 5 (7.04%) Hyper-V
4 4 (5.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (9.86%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (9.86%) SCCM
2 6 (8.45%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.23%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (4.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (19.72%) Microsoft
2 13 (18.31%) Databricks
3 12 (16.90%) VMware
4 7 (9.86%) Citrix
4 7 (9.86%) Google
5 4 (5.63%) Adobe
6 3 (4.23%) Informatica
6 3 (4.23%) Splunk
6 3 (4.23%) Talend
7 2 (2.82%) Ab Initio
8 1 (1.41%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.41%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.41%) SAP
8 1 (1.41%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.41%) Workday