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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 18 7
Rank change year-on-year -7 -11 +9
Contract jobs citing AWS 61 41 97
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 6.77% 7.19% 13.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.43% 27.33% 36.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 31 88
10th Percentile £366 £260 £381
25th Percentile £393 £356 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £444 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% -11.20% -11.11%
75th Percentile £473 £541 £539
90th Percentile £616 £588 £640
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 £80.00 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +73.24% - -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 272 150 267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.19% 26.32% 37.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 86 221
10th Percentile £195 £183 £213
25th Percentile £346 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £468
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -3.74% -3.46%
75th Percentile £500 £533 £534
90th Percentile £613 £600 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 12
10th Percentile £14.90 £14.49 £10.89
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.85 £12.56
Median hourly rate £19.25 £29.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.62% +75.76% +6.45%
75th Percentile £25.09 £43.51 £22.47
90th Percentile £47.81 £50.40 £32.30
England median hourly rate £27.71 £28.46 £22.75
% change year-on-year -2.62% +25.08% +0.79%

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 8 January 2026.

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 8 January 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 -2 35 £425 +19.38% 33
Nottinghamshire -14 13 £450 -10.00% 32
Derbyshire +4 6 £800 +60.00% 30
Leicestershire -6 5 £450 +149.31% 30
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 (11.48%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.64%) Alfresco
2 1 (1.64%) CMS
2 1 (1.64%) Documentum
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) FrameMaker
Cloud Services
1 32 (52.46%) Azure
2 19 (31.15%) GCP
3 13 (21.31%) Entra ID
4 11 (18.03%) Serverless
5 10 (16.39%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (13.11%) Amazon S3
6 8 (13.11%) GitHub
6 8 (13.11%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (11.48%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.56%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (4.92%) Amazon Bedrock
9 3 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (4.92%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (4.92%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (4.92%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (4.92%) Power Platform
10 2 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (3.28%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (3.28%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (3.28%) Azure Sentinel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (22.95%) DynamoDB
2 8 (13.11%) Aerospike
2 8 (13.11%) Big Data
2 8 (13.11%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (11.48%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (9.84%) Redis
5 5 (8.20%) Hadoop
5 5 (8.20%) Metadata
5 5 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (4.92%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (4.92%) Data Lake
6 3 (4.92%) Data Mining
6 3 (4.92%) Power BI
6 3 (4.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (3.28%) Apache Hive
7 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.28%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.64%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.64%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (13.11%) GitLab
2 7 (11.48%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.56%) JUnit
4 1 (1.64%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.64%) Git
4 1 (1.64%) SonarQube
General
1 37 (60.66%) Social Skills
2 22 (36.07%) Finance
3 8 (13.11%) Influencing Skills
4 7 (11.48%) Public Sector
5 6 (9.84%) Banking
6 3 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.64%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.64%) Local Government
7 1 (1.64%) Military
7 1 (1.64%) Police
7 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (21.31%) Architect
2 11 (18.03%) Lead
3 9 (14.75%) Developer
4 7 (11.48%) Data Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Data Scientist
6 4 (6.56%) AWS Architect
6 4 (6.56%) AWS Developer
6 4 (6.56%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.92%) AWS Data Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Head of IT
7 3 (4.92%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Programme Manager
7 3 (4.92%) Senior
8 2 (3.28%) Ab Initio Developer
8 2 (3.28%) AWS Solution Architect
8 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native Developer
8 2 (3.28%) Gen AI Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Infrastructure Manager
8 2 (3.28%) Kafka Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (26.23%) Kafka
2 10 (16.39%) Node.js
3 6 (9.84%) GraphQL
3 6 (9.84%) pytest
3 6 (9.84%) RESTful
4 5 (8.20%) Django
4 5 (8.20%) Jest
4 5 (8.20%) REST
5 4 (6.56%) Spring
6 3 (4.92%) Pandas
6 3 (4.92%) PySpark
6 3 (4.92%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (4.92%) scikit-learn
6 3 (4.92%) TensorFlow
7 2 (3.28%) FastAPI
7 2 (3.28%) Flask
7 2 (3.28%) OAuth
7 2 (3.28%) React
7 2 (3.28%) SAML
7 2 (3.28%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (26.23%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.48%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.92%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.92%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.64%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.64%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.64%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.64%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.03%) Windows
2 7 (11.48%) Mac OS
3 3 (4.92%) Android
3 3 (4.92%) Linux
3 3 (4.92%) Windows 10
4 2 (3.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (45.90%) Agile
2 20 (32.79%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (31.15%) CI/CD
4 14 (22.95%) Analytics
4 14 (22.95%) Data Protection
5 13 (21.31%) Data Modelling
5 13 (21.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 12 (19.67%) Microservices
7 11 (18.03%) Enterprise Architecture
8 10 (16.39%) Data Engineering
8 10 (16.39%) Data Science
8 10 (16.39%) ETL
8 10 (16.39%) Fraud Detection
8 10 (16.39%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (14.75%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (14.75%) Test Automation
10 8 (13.11%) Data Analysis
10 8 (13.11%) Migration
10 8 (13.11%) Unit Testing
10 8 (13.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 23 (37.70%) Python
2 16 (26.23%) SQL
3 13 (21.31%) Java
4 8 (13.11%) PowerShell
5 7 (11.48%) Bash
6 6 (9.84%) R
7 2 (3.28%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (9.84%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.28%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.28%) CISA
3 2 (3.28%) CISSP
3 2 (3.28%) Degree
3 2 (3.28%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.64%) CISM
4 1 (1.64%) GIAC
4 1 (1.64%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.64%) MCP
4 1 (1.64%) NVQ Level 3
4 1 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (21.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (18.03%) GDPR
3 5 (8.20%) Data Quality
4 3 (4.92%) ISO 9001
4 3 (4.92%) PCI DSS
5 2 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (3.28%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.64%) COBIT
6 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (1.64%) NIST
6 1 (1.64%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.64%) QA
6 1 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (14.75%) Active Directory
2 8 (13.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.28%) Docker
4 1 (1.64%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (14.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (11.48%) SCCM
3 2 (3.28%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.64%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 15 (24.59%) Microsoft
2 11 (18.03%) Databricks
3 8 (13.11%) VMware
4 7 (11.48%) Citrix
5 5 (8.20%) Google
6 3 (4.92%) Informatica
6 3 (4.92%) Samsung
6 3 (4.92%) Talend
7 2 (3.28%) Ab Initio
8 1 (1.64%) Adobe
8 1 (1.64%) Checkmarx
8 1 (1.64%) IBM
8 1 (1.64%) OpenText
8 1 (1.64%) Oracle
8 1 (1.64%) Ping Identity
8 1 (1.64%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.64%) SAP
8 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.64%) Workday