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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -14 0 +10
Contract jobs citing AWS 63 46 67
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 6.21% 9.02% 8.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.39% 31.94% 29.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 38 52
10th Percentile £364 £356 £356
25th Percentile £395 £373 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £462 £481
Median % change year-on-year -6.01% -3.85% -15.89%
75th Percentile £450 £509 £556
90th Percentile £639 £547 £686
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
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 £72.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +3.45% +31.82% -19.71%

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 309 144 226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.47% 28.24% 29.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 106 169
10th Percentile £190 £197 £166
25th Percentile £327 £356 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.27% -2.22%
75th Percentile £540 £521 £550
90th Percentile £613 £553 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 4 14
10th Percentile £12.95 £13.17 -
25th Percentile £13.25 £13.54 £14.00
Median hourly rate £14.48 £14.80 £17.17
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% -13.83% +10.77%
75th Percentile £23.50 £17.19 £27.25
90th Percentile £26.27 £20.68 £31.53
England median hourly rate £40.78 £26.81 £21.00
% change year-on-year +52.09% +27.68% -18.32%

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 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 31 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 -8 37 £424 +5.57% 8
Nottinghamshire -21 13 £475 -5.00% 16
Derbyshire -1 10 £800 +60.00% 9
Leicestershire -7 2 £540 - 23
Lincolnshire - 1 £700 - 4
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 (12.70%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.59%) Confluence
3 1 (1.59%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 30 (47.62%) Azure
2 19 (30.16%) GCP
3 11 (17.46%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (17.46%) Serverless
4 10 (15.87%) GitHub
5 9 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (11.11%) Amazon S3
7 5 (7.94%) Entra ID
8 3 (4.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (3.17%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (3.17%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.59%) Cloudflare
10 1 (1.59%) Google Workspace
10 1 (1.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.76%) Network Security
1 3 (4.76%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.59%) BGP
2 1 (1.59%) Firewall
2 1 (1.59%) OSPF
2 1 (1.59%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.59%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.59%) VLAN
2 1 (1.59%) VPN
2 1 (1.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (25.40%) DynamoDB
2 11 (17.46%) Aerospike
3 10 (15.87%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (12.70%) Redis
6 6 (9.52%) Big Data
7 5 (7.94%) Data Lake
7 5 (7.94%) Metadata
8 4 (6.35%) MySQL
8 4 (6.35%) SQL Server
9 3 (4.76%) Hadoop
9 3 (4.76%) NoSQL
9 3 (4.76%) Relational Database
9 3 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (3.17%) Apache Hive
10 2 (3.17%) MongoDB
11 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (1.59%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 10 (15.87%) GitLab
1 10 (15.87%) Jenkins
2 6 (9.52%) JUnit
3 1 (1.59%) Git
3 1 (1.59%) JIRA
General
1 29 (46.03%) Social Skills
2 22 (34.92%) Finance
3 8 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.70%) Public Sector
4 7 (11.11%) Banking
5 5 (7.94%) Fire and Rescue
5 5 (7.94%) Local Government
5 5 (7.94%) Police
6 3 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.76%) Marketing
6 3 (4.76%) Retail
7 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (25.40%) Architect
2 9 (14.29%) Developer
3 8 (12.70%) Lead
4 7 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 6 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) AWS Developer
6 5 (7.94%) Data Scientist
6 5 (7.94%) Help Desk Technician
6 5 (7.94%) ICT Technician
6 5 (7.94%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (6.35%) AWS Data Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Senior
8 3 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support
9 2 (3.17%) Ab Initio Developer
9 2 (3.17%) Cloud Developer
9 2 (3.17%) Data Architect
9 2 (3.17%) Java Developer
9 2 (3.17%) Lead Architect
9 2 (3.17%) Project Manager
9 2 (3.17%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (25.40%) Kafka
2 12 (19.05%) Node.js
3 10 (15.87%) RESTful
4 9 (14.29%) pytest
5 7 (11.11%) Django
5 7 (11.11%) GraphQL
6 6 (9.52%) Jest
7 4 (6.35%) PySpark
8 3 (4.76%) J2EE
8 3 (4.76%) OAuth
8 3 (4.76%) OAuth2
8 3 (4.76%) OpenID
8 3 (4.76%) OSGi
8 3 (4.76%) Pandas
8 3 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (4.76%) SAML
8 3 (4.76%) scikit-learn
8 3 (4.76%) TensorFlow
9 2 (3.17%) REST
9 2 (3.17%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 18 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 10 (15.87%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (9.52%) Driving Licence
3 6 (9.52%) Product Ownership
4 4 (6.35%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.76%) Mobile Payment
5 3 (4.76%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.59%) Replication
6 1 (1.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.70%) Linux
1 8 (12.70%) Windows
2 3 (4.76%) Android
3 2 (3.17%) Mac OS
3 2 (3.17%) Unix
3 2 (3.17%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.59%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (57.14%) Agile
2 23 (36.51%) CI/CD
3 19 (30.16%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (28.57%) Data Protection
5 17 (26.98%) Analytics
6 15 (23.81%) Data Modelling
7 14 (22.22%) ETL
7 14 (22.22%) Microservices
8 13 (20.63%) Data Engineering
8 13 (20.63%) DevOps
8 13 (20.63%) Fraud Detection
9 12 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (17.46%) Backtesting
10 11 (17.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (15.87%) Test Automation
11 10 (15.87%) Unit Testing
12 9 (14.29%) Secure Coding
12 9 (14.29%) Service Delivery
12 9 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 9 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 25 (39.68%) Python
2 17 (26.98%) Java
3 15 (23.81%) SQL
4 4 (6.35%) R
5 3 (4.76%) Bicep
5 3 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.17%) Bash
7 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (12.70%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.94%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (7.94%) NVQ Level 3
3 3 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.59%) CCNA
4 1 (1.59%) CCNP
4 1 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.59%) Degree
4 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.46%) GDPR
2 8 (12.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (9.52%) Data Quality
4 5 (7.94%) PCI DSS
5 3 (4.76%) GRC
5 3 (4.76%) ISO 9001
5 3 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (4.76%) NIST
5 3 (4.76%) SOC 2
6 2 (3.17%) QA
7 1 (1.59%) COBIT
7 1 (1.59%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.59%) ISO 20022
7 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (1.59%) PMO
7 1 (1.59%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (7.94%) Hyper-V
3 4 (6.35%) Docker
4 2 (3.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (4.76%) Terraform
3 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.17%) SCCM
4 1 (1.59%) Ansible
4 1 (1.59%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 15 (23.81%) Databricks
2 10 (15.87%) Microsoft
3 7 (11.11%) Google
3 7 (11.11%) VMware
4 3 (4.76%) Adobe
4 3 (4.76%) Informatica
4 3 (4.76%) Splunk
4 3 (4.76%) Talend
5 2 (3.17%) Ab Initio
5 2 (3.17%) Citrix
6 1 (1.59%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.59%) Cisco
6 1 (1.59%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.59%) NetApp
6 1 (1.59%) Oracle