AWS Contracts in the East Midlands

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 17 29
Rank change year-on-year +4 +12 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 48 60 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.96% 7.76% 5.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.80% 28.30% 20.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 41 51
10th Percentile £357 £356 £425
25th Percentile £410 £393 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £613
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -26.53% +22.50%
75th Percentile £537 £525 £700
90th Percentile £564 £738 -
England median daily rate £550 £553 £593
% change year-on-year -0.50% -6.71% +0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.50 -
England median hourly rate £71.25 £53.75 £72.75
% change year-on-year +32.56% -26.12% +29.33%

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 142 212 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 26.49% 27.43% 28.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 149 231
10th Percentile £240 £163 £181
25th Percentile £356 £310 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £440
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -3.41% -2.22%
75th Percentile £525 £525 £538
90th Percentile £558 £663 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 12
10th Percentile £13.25 - £14.57
25th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £15.19
Median hourly rate £15.09 £16.63 £18.86
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% -11.82% +10.26%
75th Percentile £19.50 £27.50 £24.43
90th Percentile £21.60 £32.10 £26.48
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the East Midlands

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for AWS in the East Midlands

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 -3 22 £420 -10.06% 95
Nottinghamshire +5 19 £500 +11.11% 146
Derbyshire +11 4 £600 +20.00% 174
Leicestershire 0 3 £540 +13.68% 107
AWS
England

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.17%) Apache
2 2 (4.17%) JBoss
2 2 (4.17%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Exstream
1 2 (4.17%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.08%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 15 (31.25%) Azure
2 9 (18.75%) GCP
3 7 (14.58%) Serverless
4 5 (10.42%) Amazon Kinesis
4 5 (10.42%) Amazon S3
4 5 (10.42%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (10.42%) Power Platform
5 4 (8.33%) Asana
5 4 (8.33%) AWS CodeBuild
6 3 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (6.25%) Amazon Glacier
6 3 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.25%) OpenShift
6 3 (6.25%) Snowflake
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (4.17%) GitHub
8 1 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) HTTP
2 1 (2.08%) DHCP
2 1 (2.08%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) Big Data
1 5 (10.42%) Power BI
1 5 (10.42%) Relational Database
2 4 (8.33%) DynamoDB
2 4 (8.33%) Hadoop
2 4 (8.33%) MySQL
2 4 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 4 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (4.17%) Apache Hudi
4 2 (4.17%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (4.17%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.17%) Delta Lake
4 2 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.17%) Flink
4 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.17%) Parquet
5 1 (2.08%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 15 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 10 (20.83%) JIRA
3 8 (16.67%) Git
4 3 (6.25%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.17%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (4.17%) CA Release Automation
5 2 (4.17%) GitLab
5 2 (4.17%) Introscope
5 2 (4.17%) LoadRunner
5 2 (4.17%) Maven
5 2 (4.17%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (4.17%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.08%) IntelliJ
General
1 14 (29.17%) Banking
1 14 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 13 (27.08%) Finance
3 6 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Law
6 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (29.17%) Architect
2 10 (20.83%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (12.50%) AWS Architect
3 6 (12.50%) Developer
4 5 (10.42%) AWS Solution Architect
4 5 (10.42%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) IT Manager
5 4 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) IT Project Manager
5 4 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Project Manager
5 4 (8.33%) Senior
5 4 (8.33%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Lead
6 3 (6.25%) Python Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Python Data Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.75%) Kafka
2 7 (14.58%) .NET
3 6 (12.50%) REST
4 4 (8.33%) React
4 4 (8.33%) Spring Boot
5 3 (6.25%) .NET Core
5 3 (6.25%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (6.25%) RESTful
6 2 (4.17%) Apache Avro
6 2 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (4.17%) HTML
6 2 (4.17%) J2EE
6 2 (4.17%) JSON
6 2 (4.17%) OAuth
6 2 (4.17%) Spring
6 2 (4.17%) Web Services
7 1 (2.08%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.08%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (2.08%) RAML
7 1 (2.08%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.58%) Linux
2 5 (10.42%) Windows
3 4 (8.33%) Unix
4 3 (6.25%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.17%) AIX
5 2 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.17%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.08%) VMS
6 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (41.67%) Agile
1 20 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 11 (22.92%) Microservices
3 10 (20.83%) DevOps
4 9 (18.75%) Data Governance
4 9 (18.75%) Migration
4 9 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (14.58%) Analytics
6 7 (14.58%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (14.58%) Containerisation
6 7 (14.58%) Data Modelling
6 7 (14.58%) ETL
6 7 (14.58%) Risk Management
6 7 (14.58%) Software Engineering
7 6 (12.50%) Data Analytics
7 6 (12.50%) Event-Driven
7 6 (12.50%) Scrum
8 5 (10.42%) Data Migration
8 5 (10.42%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 18 (37.50%) Python
2 13 (27.08%) Java
3 11 (22.92%) SQL
4 5 (10.42%) C#
5 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.33%) Scala
5 4 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.17%) Bash
6 2 (4.17%) C
6 2 (4.17%) Perl
7 1 (2.08%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.08%) Bicep
7 1 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.08%) R
7 1 (2.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 3 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.17%) Degree
4 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 12 (25.00%) Docker
2 3 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.17%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 6 (12.50%) Terraform
3 2 (4.17%) Ansible
3 2 (4.17%) CA Wily
3 2 (4.17%) Kibana
3 2 (4.17%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.08%) Podman
4 1 (2.08%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 6 (12.50%) Oracle
2 5 (10.42%) Google
2 5 (10.42%) Splunk
3 4 (8.33%) AppDynamics
3 4 (8.33%) Databricks
3 4 (8.33%) VMware
4 2 (4.17%) Ab Initio
4 2 (4.17%) MuleSoft
4 2 (4.17%) OpenText
4 2 (4.17%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.08%) Cisco
5 1 (2.08%) HP
5 1 (2.08%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.08%) Siemens
5 1 (2.08%) Veracode