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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 20 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 -13 +11
Contract jobs citing AWS 60 41 98
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 6.79% 6.96% 13.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.39% 27.15% 37.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 31 90
10th Percentile £366 £260 £381
25th Percentile £392 £356 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £444 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% -11.20% -10.71%
75th Percentile £473 £541 £546
90th Percentile £616 £588 £638
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £27.75
Median hourly rate - - £30.50
75th Percentile - - £33.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £84.00 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +81.90% - -24.60%

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 268 151 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.32% 25.64% 36.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 88 217
10th Percentile £200 £184 £213
25th Percentile £352 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £450 £453
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -0.66% -7.27%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £530
90th Percentile £613 £604 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 15
10th Percentile £14.90 £14.49 £11.26
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.85 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.25 £29.00 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year -33.62% +63.75% +14.26%
75th Percentile £25.09 £43.51 £61.00
90th Percentile £47.81 £50.40 £91.75
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.46 £23.61
% change year-on-year -3.36% +20.52% +3.48%

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 31 December 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 31 December 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 0 34 £425 +19.38% 152
Nottinghamshire -12 14 £436 -12.90% 153
Derbyshire +6 5 £800 +60.00% 249
Leicestershire -8 5 £450 +149.31% 154
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 7 (11.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.67%) Alfresco
2 1 (1.67%) CMS
2 1 (1.67%) Documentum
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) FrameMaker
Cloud Services
1 31 (51.67%) Azure
2 19 (31.67%) GCP
3 13 (21.67%) Entra ID
4 12 (20.00%) Serverless
5 11 (18.33%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (13.33%) Amazon S3
6 8 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (11.67%) GitHub
8 6 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (5.00%) Amazon Bedrock
10 3 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (5.00%) Power Platform
11 2 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (3.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 2 (3.33%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (23.33%) DynamoDB
2 8 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (13.33%) Big Data
2 8 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (11.67%) Aerospike
4 5 (8.33%) Hadoop
4 5 (8.33%) Metadata
4 5 (8.33%) Redis
5 4 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (5.00%) Data Lake
6 3 (5.00%) Data Mining
6 3 (5.00%) Power BI
6 3 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (3.33%) Apache Hive
7 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.67%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (11.67%) GitLab
2 6 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.00%) JUnit
4 1 (1.67%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.67%) Git
4 1 (1.67%) SonarQube
General
1 37 (61.67%) Social Skills
2 21 (35.00%) Finance
3 8 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
4 7 (11.67%) Public Sector
5 6 (10.00%) Banking
6 3 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.67%) Military
7 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (20.00%) Architect
1 12 (20.00%) Lead
2 8 (13.33%) Developer
3 7 (11.67%) Data Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Data Scientist
5 4 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.00%) AWS Architect
6 3 (5.00%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) AWS Developer
6 3 (5.00%) Head of IT
6 3 (5.00%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.00%) Programme Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Senior
7 2 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) AWS Solution Architect
7 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native Developer
7 2 (3.33%) Gen AI Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Kafka Architect
7 2 (3.33%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.00%) Kafka
2 9 (15.00%) Node.js
3 7 (11.67%) GraphQL
3 7 (11.67%) RESTful
4 6 (10.00%) Django
5 5 (8.33%) pytest
5 5 (8.33%) REST
6 4 (6.67%) Jest
6 4 (6.67%) Spring
7 3 (5.00%) Pandas
7 3 (5.00%) PySpark
7 3 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (5.00%) scikit-learn
7 3 (5.00%) TensorFlow
8 2 (3.33%) Flask
8 2 (3.33%) LDAP
8 2 (3.33%) OAuth
8 2 (3.33%) React
8 2 (3.33%) SAML
8 2 (3.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.67%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.67%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.67%) Windows
2 7 (11.67%) Mac OS
3 3 (5.00%) Android
3 3 (5.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (3.33%) Linux
4 2 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (45.00%) Agile
2 20 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 14 (23.33%) Analytics
5 13 (21.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 12 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 12 (20.00%) Data Protection
7 11 (18.33%) Enterprise Architecture
7 11 (18.33%) Microservices
8 10 (16.67%) Data Engineering
8 10 (16.67%) Data Science
8 10 (16.67%) ETL
8 10 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (15.00%) Fraud Detection
10 8 (13.33%) Business Strategy
10 8 (13.33%) Roadmaps
10 8 (13.33%) Test Automation
10 8 (13.33%) User Experience
10 8 (13.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 24 (40.00%) Python
2 16 (26.67%) SQL
3 12 (20.00%) Java
4 8 (13.33%) PowerShell
5 7 (11.67%) Bash
6 6 (10.00%) R
7 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.67%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.33%) CISA
3 2 (3.33%) CISSP
3 2 (3.33%) Degree
3 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.67%) CISM
4 1 (1.67%) GIAC
4 1 (1.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.67%) MCP
4 1 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (21.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (18.33%) GDPR
3 5 (8.33%) Data Quality
4 3 (5.00%) ISO 9001
4 3 (5.00%) PCI DSS
5 2 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (3.33%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.67%) COBIT
6 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (1.67%) NIST
6 1 (1.67%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.67%) QA
6 1 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (15.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (11.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (11.67%) SCCM
3 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.67%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 15 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.67%) Databricks
3 7 (11.67%) Citrix
3 7 (11.67%) VMware
4 5 (8.33%) Google
5 3 (5.00%) Informatica
5 3 (5.00%) Samsung
5 3 (5.00%) Talend
6 2 (3.33%) Ab Initio
7 1 (1.67%) Adobe
7 1 (1.67%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.67%) IBM
7 1 (1.67%) OpenText
7 1 (1.67%) Oracle
7 1 (1.67%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.67%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.67%) SAP
7 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.67%) Workday