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 citing AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 24 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	23	11	14
Rank change year-on-year	-12	+3	-7
Contract jobs citing AWS	85	93	66
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands	6.08%	10.98%	8.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category	22.37%	36.90%	32.04%
Number of daily rates quoted	40	86	47
10^th Percentile	£300	£350	£306
25^th Percentile	£371	£375	£356
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£425	£438	£445
Median % change year-on-year	-2.91%	-1.63%	-11.00%
75^th Percentile	£538	£500	£500
90^th Percentile	£671	£619	£588
England median daily rate	£550	£525	£575
% change year-on-year	+4.76%	-8.70%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	6	0	0
Median hourly rate	£13.51	-	-
England median hourly rate	£70.00	£75.00	£46.18
% change year-on-year	-6.67%	+62.41%	-9.55%

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 citing cloud computing skills in the East Midlands.

	6 months to 24 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills	380	252	206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands	27.16%	29.75%	27.21%
Number of daily rates quoted	187	191	116
10^th Percentile	£225	£308	£226
25^th Percentile	£357	£363	£356
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£450	£442	£450
Median % change year-on-year	+1.90%	-1.87%	-
75^th Percentile	£563	£500	£560
90^th Percentile	£650	£625	£619
England median daily rate	£525	£500	£530
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-5.66%	-1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted	59	6	4
10^th Percentile	£14.30	£18.30	£14.91
25^th Percentile	£16.72	£20.54	£17.00
Median hourly rate	£17.97	£21.39	£29.00
Median % change year-on-year	-15.99%	-26.24%	+87.10%
75^th Percentile	£25.75	-	£43.51
90^th Percentile	-	-	£50.40
England median hourly rate	£32.50	£25.15	£35.50
% change year-on-year	+29.22%	-29.15%	+29.09%

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 Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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 October 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.

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 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Nottinghamshire	+12	58	£425	-6.85%	78
Northamptonshire	-7	17	£404	-5.94%	13
Lincolnshire	-	6	£569	-	6
Leicestershire	-12	2	£356	-20.83%	15
Derbyshire	-18	2	£575	-17.86%	4
AWS England

AWS Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 24 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing AWS also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East Midlands region citing AWS.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Analytics	27.1%	23
2	Platform Engineering	22.4%	19
3	Azure	21.2%	18
4	AWS Lambda	20.0%	17
4	CI/CD	20.0%	17
4	Serverless	20.0%	17
7	DevOps	17.6%	15
8	GCP	16.5%	14
9	Microservices	15.3%	13
9	SQL	15.3%	13
11	Python	14.1%	12
12	Data Modelling	12.9%	11
12	Docker	12.9%	11
12	Event-Driven	12.9%	11
12	MySQL	12.9%	11
16	Amazon S3	11.8%	10
17	Data Engineering	10.6%	9
17	Decision-Making	10.6%	9
17	ETL	10.6%	9
17	Event-Driven Architecture	10.6%	9
17	PostgreSQL	10.6%	9
17	Security Cleared	10.6%	9
23	Amazon SQS	9.4%	8
23	GitHub	9.4%	8
23	Performance Optimisation	9.4%	8
23	RESTful	9.4%	8
27	Containerisation	8.2%	7
27	GitLab	8.2%	7
29	Android	7.1%	6
29	API Development	7.1%	6

AWS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	21.2%	18
2	AWS Lambda	20.0%	17
2	Serverless	20.0%	17
4	GCP	16.5%	14
5	Amazon S3	11.8%	10
6	Amazon SQS	9.4%	8
6	GitHub	9.4%	8
8	GitHub Actions	5.9%	5
9	AWS CloudFormation	4.7%	4
9	Power Platform	4.7%	4
11	Amazon EKS	3.5%	3
11	dbt	3.5%	3
11	Virtual Private Cloud	3.5%	3
14	Amazon CloudWatch	2.4%	2
14	Amazon ECS	2.4%	2
14	Amazon EMR	2.4%	2
14	AWS Step Functions	2.4%	2
14	Azure AKS	2.4%	2
14	Azure Data Factory	2.4%	2
14	Azure Service Bus	2.4%	2