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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 12 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 +11
Contract jobs citing AWS 85 64 105
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 9.82% 8.71% 13.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.20% 32.32% 35.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 45 96
10th Percentile £350 £306 £381
25th Percentile £375 £356 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £444 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -11.20% -9.38%
75th Percentile £492 £500 £539
90th Percentile £625 £588 £631
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%

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 256 198 296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.56% 26.94% 36.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 109 239
10th Percentile £278 £248 £213
25th Percentile £363 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £450 £453
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% -0.66% -9.40%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £530
90th Percentile £625 £620 £615
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 22
10th Percentile £17.91 £14.91 £12.08
25th Percentile £20.25 £17.00 £13.04
Median hourly rate £21.39 £29.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.24% +75.76% +6.45%
75th Percentile - £43.51 £59.69
90th Percentile - £50.40 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

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 November 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 8 November 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 +2 55 £415 -4.49% 48
Nottinghamshire -5 14 £436 -12.90% 51
Derbyshire +8 9 £700 +111.32% 21
Leicestershire -8 5 £450 +149.31% 29
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 3 (3.53%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.35%) CICS
2 2 (2.35%) JBoss
2 2 (2.35%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.18%) Alfresco
3 1 (1.18%) CMS
3 1 (1.18%) Documentum
3 1 (1.18%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.18%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Siemens NX
2 1 (1.18%) FrameMaker
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (7.06%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (4.71%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 44 (51.76%) Azure
2 26 (30.59%) GCP
3 12 (14.12%) Serverless
4 11 (12.94%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (12.94%) Entra ID
5 7 (8.24%) Amazon S3
6 6 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
7 5 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (4.71%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (4.71%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.53%) Amazon Bedrock
9 3 (3.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (2.35%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (2.35%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.35%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.18%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) DMZ
1 2 (2.35%) Firewall
1 2 (2.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.41%) DynamoDB
2 7 (8.24%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (7.06%) Big Data
3 6 (7.06%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (5.88%) Hadoop
5 4 (4.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (4.71%) Power BI
5 4 (4.71%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.53%) Data Mining
6 3 (3.53%) DB2
6 3 (3.53%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.35%) Apache Hive
7 2 (2.35%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.35%) Metadata
7 2 (2.35%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.18%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.18%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.18%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (10.59%) Git
2 6 (7.06%) Maven
3 5 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.53%) Gradle
4 3 (3.53%) IntelliJ
5 2 (2.35%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (2.35%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.35%) Eclipse
5 2 (2.35%) JIRA
5 2 (2.35%) Selenium
5 2 (2.35%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.35%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.35%) Subversion
6 1 (1.18%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.18%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.18%) JUnit
6 1 (1.18%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.18%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (43.53%) Social Skills
2 25 (29.41%) Finance
3 17 (20.00%) Banking
4 13 (15.29%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (9.41%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.18%) Military
7 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 20 (23.53%) Architect
2 11 (12.94%) Developer
3 9 (10.59%) Lead
4 7 (8.24%) Enterprise Architect
4 7 (8.24%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
4 7 (8.24%) Identity Management Engineer
4 7 (8.24%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (5.88%) Data Engineer
6 4 (4.71%) Java Developer
7 3 (3.53%) Analyst
7 3 (3.53%) Business Analyst
7 3 (3.53%) CAD Developer
7 3 (3.53%) Head of IT
7 3 (3.53%) Product Owner
7 3 (3.53%) Programme Manager
7 3 (3.53%) Security Manager
7 3 (3.53%) Tester
8 2 (2.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (2.35%) Payments Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (21.18%) LDAP
2 14 (16.47%) Spring
3 13 (15.29%) REST
4 12 (14.12%) OAuth
4 12 (14.12%) SAML
5 11 (12.94%) Hibernate
5 11 (12.94%) OpenID
6 9 (10.59%) RESTful
7 6 (7.06%) GraphQL
8 5 (5.88%) Django
9 4 (4.71%) Kafka
9 4 (4.71%) Spring Boot
10 3 (3.53%) FIDO
10 3 (3.53%) SOAP
10 3 (3.53%) Web Services
11 2 (2.35%) CSS
11 2 (2.35%) HTML
11 2 (2.35%) HTML5
11 2 (2.35%) jQuery
11 2 (2.35%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.24%) Data Centre
2 6 (7.06%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.06%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.71%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.53%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.35%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.35%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.35%) VSAM
6 1 (1.18%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.18%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.18%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.41%) Windows
2 5 (5.88%) Mac OS
3 4 (4.71%) Unix
4 3 (3.53%) Android
4 3 (3.53%) Linux
5 1 (1.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (29.41%) Agile
2 24 (28.24%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (27.06%) CI/CD
4 18 (21.18%) Enterprise Architecture
4 18 (21.18%) Identity Access Management
5 16 (18.82%) Microservices
6 14 (16.47%) ETL
7 13 (15.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (14.12%) DevOps
8 12 (14.12%) Roadmaps
8 12 (14.12%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (12.94%) Business Strategy
9 11 (12.94%) Scrum
10 10 (11.76%) Data Modelling
10 10 (11.76%) RBAC
10 10 (11.76%) SDLC
10 10 (11.76%) Strategic Roadmap
11 9 (10.59%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (10.59%) Data Analysis
11 9 (10.59%) Digital Identity
Programming Languages
1 27 (31.76%) Java
2 21 (24.71%) SQL
3 19 (22.35%) Python
4 6 (7.06%) PowerShell
5 5 (5.88%) Bash
6 4 (4.71%) R
7 3 (3.53%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.53%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.35%) COBOL
8 2 (2.35%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.35%) JCL
9 1 (1.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (9.41%) BPSS Clearance
1 8 (9.41%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.53%) CISA
2 3 (3.53%) CISSP
2 3 (3.53%) Degree
3 2 (2.35%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.35%) CISM
3 2 (2.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.18%) GIAC
4 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.18%) MCP
4 1 (1.18%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (21.18%) GDPR
2 15 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (11.76%) HIPAA
4 7 (8.24%) NIST
4 7 (8.24%) QA
5 5 (5.88%) NIST 800
6 3 (3.53%) ISO 9001
7 2 (2.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (2.35%) COBIT
7 2 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (2.35%) Data Quality
7 2 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (2.35%) PCI DSS
8 1 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (12.94%) Active Directory
2 10 (11.76%) Docker
3 5 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (12.94%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 8 (9.41%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (5.88%) SCCM
5 3 (3.53%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.18%) RSA Archer
6 1 (1.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (30.59%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.94%) IBM
3 10 (11.76%) Ping Identity
4 5 (5.88%) Citrix
4 5 (5.88%) VMware
5 4 (4.71%) Oracle
5 4 (4.71%) Siemens
6 3 (3.53%) Google
6 3 (3.53%) Samsung
7 2 (2.35%) Ab Initio
7 2 (2.35%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.18%) Adobe
8 1 (1.18%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.18%) Checkmarx
8 1 (1.18%) Databricks
8 1 (1.18%) OpenText
8 1 (1.18%) SAP
8 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.18%) Workday