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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 18 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 -11 +16
Contract jobs citing AWS 76 49 107
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 8.53% 7.07% 13.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.34% 27.37% 36.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 34 100
10th Percentile £353 £302 £374
25th Percentile £380 £356 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £435 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -13.10% -9.38%
75th Percentile £488 £534 £550
90th Percentile £620 £596 £638
England median daily rate £525 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% -5.83%

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 259 179 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.07% 25.83% 36.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 97 239
10th Percentile £259 £187 £213
25th Percentile £361 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £475 £453
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +4.86% -7.27%
75th Percentile £498 £588 £530
90th Percentile £625 £633 £615
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 21
10th Percentile £17.52 £13.16 £12.00
25th Percentile £19.28 £13.52 £13.00
Median hourly rate £20.95 £18.32 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.33% +18.19% -
75th Percentile £33.54 £39.68 £28.75
90th Percentile £55.42 £48.87 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.47 £33.93 £26.50
% change year-on-year -24.93% +28.04% +17.78%

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 25 November 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 25 November 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 +5 48 £425 +19.38% 22
Nottinghamshire -8 14 £436 -12.90% 34
Derbyshire - 7 £700 - 8
Leicestershire -8 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 5 (6.58%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.63%) CICS
3 1 (1.32%) Alfresco
3 1 (1.32%) CMS
3 1 (1.32%) Documentum
3 1 (1.32%) JBoss
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Siemens NX
2 1 (1.32%) FrameMaker
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (7.89%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (2.63%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 37 (48.68%) Azure
2 23 (30.26%) GCP
3 12 (15.79%) Serverless
4 11 (14.47%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (14.47%) Entra ID
5 9 (11.84%) Amazon S3
6 6 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (6.58%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (5.26%) GitHub
8 4 (5.26%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.95%) Amazon Bedrock
9 3 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (3.95%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (3.95%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (3.95%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (2.63%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.84%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (11.84%) DynamoDB
2 7 (9.21%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (7.89%) Big Data
4 5 (6.58%) Hadoop
4 5 (6.58%) Metadata
5 4 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (5.26%) Power BI
5 4 (5.26%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.95%) Aerospike
6 3 (3.95%) Data Mining
6 3 (3.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.63%) Apache Hive
7 2 (2.63%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.63%) DB2
8 1 (1.32%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.32%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.32%) Redis
8 1 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (7.89%) Git
1 6 (7.89%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.26%) Maven
3 3 (3.95%) GitLab
3 3 (3.95%) IntelliJ
4 2 (2.63%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (2.63%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.63%) Eclipse
4 2 (2.63%) JIRA
4 2 (2.63%) JUnit
4 2 (2.63%) Selenium
4 2 (2.63%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (2.63%) Subversion
5 1 (1.32%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.32%) Gradle
5 1 (1.32%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.32%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 26 (34.21%) Finance
3 14 (18.42%) Banking
4 8 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (7.89%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.32%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.32%) Military
7 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (21.05%) Architect
2 12 (15.79%) Lead
3 10 (13.16%) Developer
4 7 (9.21%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (9.21%) Data Engineer
4 7 (9.21%) Enterprise Architect
5 6 (7.89%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) Identity Management Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.26%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.95%) AWS Data Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Data Scientist
8 3 (3.95%) Head of IT
8 3 (3.95%) Programme Manager
8 3 (3.95%) Security Manager
8 3 (3.95%) Tester
9 2 (2.63%) AWS Solution Architect
9 2 (2.63%) Gen AI Engineer
9 2 (2.63%) Kafka Architect
9 2 (2.63%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.47%) Spring
2 10 (13.16%) Kafka
2 10 (13.16%) LDAP
3 9 (11.84%) OAuth
3 9 (11.84%) REST
3 9 (11.84%) SAML
4 8 (10.53%) Hibernate
4 8 (10.53%) OpenID
5 7 (9.21%) RESTful
6 6 (7.89%) GraphQL
7 5 (6.58%) Django
8 4 (5.26%) Node.js
8 4 (5.26%) Spring Boot
9 3 (3.95%) PySpark
9 3 (3.95%) pytest
9 3 (3.95%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (2.63%) AngularJS
10 2 (2.63%) Flask
10 2 (2.63%) HTML5
10 2 (2.63%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.21%) Data Centre
3 6 (7.89%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.95%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.63%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.63%) VSAM
7 1 (1.32%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.32%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.32%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.53%) Windows
2 5 (6.58%) Mac OS
3 4 (5.26%) Unix
4 3 (3.95%) Android
4 3 (3.95%) Linux
5 1 (1.32%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (32.89%) Agile
2 23 (30.26%) CI/CD
2 23 (30.26%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (22.37%) ETL
4 16 (21.05%) Enterprise Architecture
5 13 (17.11%) Microservices
6 12 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (15.79%) Roadmaps
7 11 (14.47%) Analytics
7 11 (14.47%) Business Strategy
7 11 (14.47%) Data Modelling
8 10 (13.16%) DevOps
8 10 (13.16%) Identity Access Management
8 10 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (13.16%) Strategic Roadmap
9 9 (11.84%) Data Engineering
9 9 (11.84%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (11.84%) Data Science
9 9 (11.84%) RBAC
9 9 (11.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 24 (31.58%) Python
2 21 (27.63%) Java
3 18 (23.68%) SQL
4 6 (7.89%) PowerShell
5 5 (6.58%) Bash
6 4 (5.26%) R
7 3 (3.95%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.95%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.63%) COBOL
8 2 (2.63%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.63%) JCL
9 1 (1.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (9.21%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.95%) CISA
3 3 (3.95%) CISSP
3 3 (3.95%) Degree
4 2 (2.63%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.63%) CISM
4 2 (2.63%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.32%) GIAC
5 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.32%) MCP
5 1 (1.32%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (19.74%) GDPR
2 13 (17.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (11.84%) HIPAA
4 5 (6.58%) Data Quality
5 4 (5.26%) QA
6 3 (3.95%) ISO 9001
6 3 (3.95%) NIST
6 3 (3.95%) NIST 800
7 2 (2.63%) COBIT
7 2 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (2.63%) PCI DSS
8 1 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (10.53%) Active Directory
1 8 (10.53%) Docker
2 5 (6.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (10.53%) Kubernetes
1 8 (10.53%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 7 (9.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (6.58%) SCCM
4 1 (1.32%) RSA Archer
4 1 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.53%) IBM
3 7 (9.21%) Ping Identity
4 5 (6.58%) Citrix
4 5 (6.58%) VMware
5 4 (5.26%) Databricks
6 3 (3.95%) Google
6 3 (3.95%) Informatica
6 3 (3.95%) Oracle
6 3 (3.95%) Samsung
6 3 (3.95%) Talend
7 2 (2.63%) Ab Initio
7 2 (2.63%) Rapid7
7 2 (2.63%) Siemens
8 1 (1.32%) Adobe
8 1 (1.32%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.32%) OpenText
8 1 (1.32%) SAP
8 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.32%) Workday