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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -17 +6 +5
Contract jobs citing AWS 63 96 65
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 5.49% 12.90% 7.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.86% 41.92% 31.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 86 42
10th Percentile £305 £350 £307
25th Percentile £412 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £445
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -1.63% -11.00%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £490
90th Percentile £577 £569 £577
England median daily rate £550 £537 £575
% change year-on-year +2.42% -6.61% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
Median hourly rate £13.51 - -
England median hourly rate £72.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -0.69% +56.99% -37.59%

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 334 229 206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.09% 30.78% 25.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 169 135
10th Percentile £200 £308 £180
25th Percentile £360 £367 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £442 £445
Median % change year-on-year +6.43% -0.76% -1.11%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £556
90th Percentile £652 £541 £638
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.05% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 10 7
10th Percentile £13.48 £14.96 £13.81
25th Percentile £13.53 £16.89 £15.32
Median hourly rate £17.87 £20.95 £18.32
Median % change year-on-year -14.68% +14.33% -14.85%
75th Percentile £19.03 £21.39 £27.50
90th Percentile £25.88 £21.55 £37.26
England median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +55.07% +14.32% -36.96%

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 24 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 24 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 -4 30 £425 -13.27% 31
Northamptonshire -10 20 £449 +6.79% 9
Derbyshire -8 6 £650 -7.14% 6
Lincolnshire - 5 £538 - 6
Leicestershire -7 2 £470 -12.96% 19
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 (6.35%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (3.17%) Apache Pig
4 1 (1.59%) Apache
4 1 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.59%) Confluence
4 1 (1.59%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.59%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 27 (42.86%) Azure
2 17 (26.98%) GCP
3 12 (19.05%) AWS Lambda
3 12 (19.05%) Serverless
4 6 (9.52%) Amazon S3
4 6 (9.52%) GitHub
5 4 (6.35%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (6.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (6.35%) Azure AKS
5 4 (6.35%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (6.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (6.35%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (4.76%) Snowflake
7 2 (3.17%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (3.17%) dbt
7 2 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) BGP
1 2 (3.17%) OSPF
1 2 (3.17%) SD-WAN
1 2 (3.17%) TCP/IP
1 2 (3.17%) VLAN
1 2 (3.17%) VPN
1 2 (3.17%) WAN
2 1 (1.59%) Firewall
2 1 (1.59%) MQTT
2 1 (1.59%) Network Security
2 1 (1.59%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.70%) DynamoDB
1 8 (12.70%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (11.11%) MySQL
2 7 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 6 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (7.94%) Big Data
5 4 (6.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (6.35%) Power BI
6 3 (4.76%) Aerospike
6 3 (4.76%) Apache Hive
6 3 (4.76%) Relational Database
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (3.17%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (3.17%) Hadoop
7 2 (3.17%) HBase
7 2 (3.17%) Redis
7 2 (3.17%) Sqoop
8 1 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.59%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (7.94%) GitLab
2 3 (4.76%) Git
2 3 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.17%) JUnit
3 2 (3.17%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.59%) JIRA
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle Forms
General
1 12 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
1 12 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.70%) Finance
3 6 (9.52%) Banking
3 6 (9.52%) Retail
4 5 (7.94%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.35%) Marketing
5 4 (6.35%) Police
6 2 (3.17%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.17%) Fire and Rescue
6 2 (3.17%) Local Government
7 1 (1.59%) Aviation
7 1 (1.59%) Legal
7 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (23.81%) Data Engineer
2 10 (15.87%) Architect
3 9 (14.29%) Developer
3 9 (14.29%) Senior
4 8 (12.70%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (12.70%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (9.52%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (6.35%) AWS Data Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Software Developer
7 3 (4.76%) .NET Developer
7 3 (4.76%) .NET Software Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Site Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.17%) Apache Spark Developer
8 2 (3.17%) Hadoop Developer
8 2 (3.17%) ICT Technician
8 2 (3.17%) Scala Developer
8 2 (3.17%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.05%) Kafka
2 10 (15.87%) RESTful
3 8 (12.70%) Node.js
4 5 (7.94%) Django
4 5 (7.94%) GraphQL
5 4 (6.35%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (6.35%) REST
6 3 (4.76%) .NET
6 3 (4.76%) Jakarta EE
6 3 (4.76%) OSGi
6 3 (4.76%) PySpark
6 3 (4.76%) pytest
7 2 (3.17%) AWS CDK
7 2 (3.17%) Jest
8 1 (1.59%) CSS
8 1 (1.59%) HTML
8 1 (1.59%) Middleware
8 1 (1.59%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.59%) OpenID
8 1 (1.59%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.70%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 6 (9.52%) Mobile Payment
4 4 (6.35%) Driving Licence
4 4 (6.35%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.76%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.17%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.17%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (3.17%) IoT
7 1 (1.59%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.59%) Digital Signage
7 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.59%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.59%) Replication
7 1 (1.59%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.29%) Linux
2 6 (9.52%) Android
3 5 (7.94%) Windows
4 3 (4.76%) CentOS
4 3 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.76%) Unix
5 1 (1.59%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.59%) Tizen
5 1 (1.59%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 17 (26.98%) Agile
3 14 (22.22%) Analytics
4 10 (15.87%) ETL
4 10 (15.87%) Microservices
4 10 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 9 (14.29%) DevOps
5 9 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
5 9 (14.29%) Service Delivery
6 8 (12.70%) Containerisation
6 8 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (12.70%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (9.52%) Data Engineering
8 6 (9.52%) Data Protection
8 6 (9.52%) Data Security
8 6 (9.52%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (28.57%) Python
2 11 (17.46%) SQL
3 9 (14.29%) Java
4 4 (6.35%) C#
5 2 (3.17%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.17%) R
5 2 (3.17%) Scala
5 2 (3.17%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.59%) Bicep
6 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.59%) Rust
6 1 (1.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (12.70%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.35%) Degree
3 3 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.17%) CCNA
4 2 (3.17%) CCNP
4 2 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.17%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.17%) NVQ Level 3
5 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.59%) CISM
5 1 (1.59%) CISSP
5 1 (1.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.29%) GDPR
2 4 (6.35%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (3.17%) GRC
3 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.17%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.59%) COBIT
4 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (1.59%) NIST
4 1 (1.59%) PMO
4 1 (1.59%) QA
4 1 (1.59%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (15.87%) Docker
2 2 (3.17%) Apache Flume
2 2 (3.17%) HDFS
2 2 (3.17%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (12.70%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.94%) Terraform
3 4 (6.35%) Ansible
4 2 (3.17%) FortiGate
4 2 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.59%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 9 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.11%) Google
3 6 (9.52%) Databricks
4 3 (4.76%) Adobe
5 2 (3.17%) Cisco
5 2 (3.17%) Fortinet
5 2 (3.17%) Oracle
5 2 (3.17%) VMware
6 1 (1.59%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.59%) NetApp
6 1 (1.59%) OneTrust
6 1 (1.59%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.59%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.59%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.59%) Splunk