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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 8 16
Rank change year-on-year -21 +8 +6
Contract jobs citing AWS 65 96 68
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 5.60% 13.19% 8.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.40% 44.24% 31.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 87 42
10th Percentile £305 £354 £325
25th Percentile £413 £375 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £442 £445
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% -0.76% -11.00%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £490
90th Percentile £650 £565 £577
England median daily rate £550 £538 £563
% change year-on-year +2.33% -4.44% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £12.95 - -
25th Percentile £13.37 - -
Median hourly rate £13.51 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £71.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year -1.75% +54.29% -36.74%

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 335 217 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 28.88% 29.81% 25.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 160 138
10th Percentile £202 £308 £178
25th Percentile £370 £367 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £444 £445
Median % change year-on-year +5.78% -0.16% -1.11%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £569
90th Percentile £656 £545 £632
England median daily rate £520 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 10 12
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.96 -
25th Percentile £13.51 £16.89 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £20.95 £15.32
Median % change year-on-year -14.68% +36.76% -37.46%
75th Percentile £19.03 £21.39 £26.75
90th Percentile £24.44 £21.55 £27.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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
Nottinghamshire -5 28 £450 -9.09% 21
Northamptonshire -11 22 £447 +7.07% 14
Derbyshire -6 7 £650 -7.14% 8
Lincolnshire - 6 £569 - 9
Leicestershire -7 2 £470 -12.96% 15
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 4 (6.15%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (3.08%) Apache Pig
4 1 (1.54%) Apache
4 1 (1.54%) Confluence
4 1 (1.54%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.54%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (12.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Avolution ABACUS
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (44.62%) Azure
2 21 (32.31%) GCP
3 10 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (15.38%) Serverless
4 6 (9.23%) GitHub
5 4 (6.15%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (6.15%) Amazon S3
5 4 (6.15%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (6.15%) Azure AKS
5 4 (6.15%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (6.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (6.15%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.62%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (4.62%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.08%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.54%) Cloudflare
8 1 (1.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.62%) Network Security
1 3 (4.62%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (3.08%) BGP
2 2 (3.08%) OSPF
2 2 (3.08%) SD-WAN
2 2 (3.08%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.08%) VLAN
2 2 (3.08%) VPN
2 2 (3.08%) WAN
3 1 (1.54%) Firewall
3 1 (1.54%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.85%) MySQL
1 9 (13.85%) SQL Server
2 8 (12.31%) DynamoDB
2 8 (12.31%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (9.23%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (7.69%) Big Data
5 4 (6.15%) Power BI
6 3 (4.62%) Aerospike
6 3 (4.62%) Apache Hive
6 3 (4.62%) Relational Database
7 2 (3.08%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (3.08%) Hadoop
7 2 (3.08%) HBase
7 2 (3.08%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.08%) Redis
7 2 (3.08%) Sqoop
8 1 (1.54%) Flink
8 1 (1.54%) Metadata
8 1 (1.54%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 5 (7.69%) GitLab
2 3 (4.62%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.08%) JUnit
4 1 (1.54%) Git
4 1 (1.54%) JIRA
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle Forms
General
1 16 (24.62%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (13.85%) Finance
4 8 (12.31%) Retail
5 6 (9.23%) Public Sector
6 5 (7.69%) Banking
6 5 (7.69%) Police
7 4 (6.15%) Marketing
8 3 (4.62%) Fire and Rescue
8 3 (4.62%) Local Government
9 2 (3.08%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.54%) Aviation
10 1 (1.54%) Legal
10 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (23.08%) Architect
2 10 (15.38%) Data Engineer
3 9 (13.85%) Developer
4 8 (12.31%) 2nd Line Support
5 6 (9.23%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Senior
7 4 (6.15%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Data Architect
7 4 (6.15%) Software Developer
8 3 (4.62%) .NET Developer
8 3 (4.62%) .NET Software Developer
8 3 (4.62%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (4.62%) Help Desk Technician
8 3 (4.62%) ICT Technician
8 3 (4.62%) Site Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 2 (3.08%) Apache Spark Developer
9 2 (3.08%) AWS Data Engineer
9 2 (3.08%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (18.46%) Kafka
2 10 (15.38%) RESTful
3 8 (12.31%) Node.js
4 5 (7.69%) Django
4 5 (7.69%) GraphQL
5 4 (6.15%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (6.15%) REST
6 3 (4.62%) .NET
6 3 (4.62%) J2EE
6 3 (4.62%) OAuth
6 3 (4.62%) OAuth2
6 3 (4.62%) OpenID
6 3 (4.62%) OSGi
6 3 (4.62%) PySpark
6 3 (4.62%) pytest
6 3 (4.62%) SAML
7 2 (3.08%) Jest
8 1 (1.54%) AWS CDK
8 1 (1.54%) CSS
8 1 (1.54%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.85%) Cloud Native
2 8 (12.31%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (12.31%) Mobile Payment
3 6 (9.23%) Product Ownership
4 5 (7.69%) Driving Licence
5 3 (4.62%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.08%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.08%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (3.08%) IoT
7 1 (1.54%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.54%) Digital Signage
7 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.54%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.54%) Replication
7 1 (1.54%) SCADA
7 1 (1.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.31%) Android
1 8 (12.31%) Linux
2 6 (9.23%) Windows
3 3 (4.62%) CentOS
3 3 (4.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.54%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (1.54%) Tizen
4 1 (1.54%) Unix
4 1 (1.54%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (30.77%) Agile
2 19 (29.23%) CI/CD
3 14 (21.54%) Analytics
4 13 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (18.46%) Data Modelling
5 12 (18.46%) Service Delivery
6 11 (16.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (16.92%) ETL
6 11 (16.92%) Microservices
6 11 (16.92%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (15.38%) DevOps
8 9 (13.85%) Data Protection
9 8 (12.31%) Containerisation
9 8 (12.31%) Data Security
9 8 (12.31%) Mobile Device Management
9 8 (12.31%) Performance Optimisation
10 7 (10.77%) Data Engineering
10 7 (10.77%) Performance Tuning
11 6 (9.23%) Data Pipeline
11 6 (9.23%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (29.23%) Python
2 12 (18.46%) SQL
3 11 (16.92%) Java
4 4 (6.15%) C#
5 3 (4.62%) Bicep
6 2 (3.08%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.08%) R
6 2 (3.08%) Scala
7 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.54%) Rust
7 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (13.85%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (4.62%) Degree
2 3 (4.62%) NVQ Level 3
2 3 (4.62%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.08%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.08%) CCNA
3 2 (3.08%) CCNP
3 2 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.54%) CISM
4 1 (1.54%) CISSP
4 1 (1.54%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (18.46%) GDPR
2 4 (6.15%) GRC
2 4 (6.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.15%) PCI DSS
3 3 (4.62%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (4.62%) NIST
3 3 (4.62%) SOC 2
4 2 (3.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.54%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.54%) COBIT
5 1 (1.54%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.54%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (1.54%) PMO
5 1 (1.54%) QA
5 1 (1.54%) SEPA
System Software
1 10 (15.38%) Docker
2 3 (4.62%) Hyper-V
2 3 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.08%) Apache Flume
3 2 (3.08%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 10 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 6 (9.23%) Terraform
3 4 (6.15%) Ansible
3 4 (6.15%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (3.08%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.54%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 11 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.85%) Google
3 5 (7.69%) Databricks
4 3 (4.62%) Adobe
4 3 (4.62%) Splunk
4 3 (4.62%) VMware
5 2 (3.08%) Cisco
5 2 (3.08%) Fortinet
5 2 (3.08%) Oracle
6 1 (1.54%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.54%) NetApp
6 1 (1.54%) OneTrust
6 1 (1.54%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.54%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow