AWS Consultant Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Amazon Web Services Consultant
England > Midlands

The median Amazon Web Services Consultant daily rate in the Midlands is £393, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 - 134
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Consultant 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.031% - 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% - 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £420
25th Percentile - - £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 - £563
75th Percentile - - £656
90th Percentile - - £705
England median daily rate £500 £513 £650
% change year-on-year -2.44% -21.15% +13.04%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,846 2,029 2,350
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.97% 92.73% 93.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,802 1,269 1,589
10th Percentile £213 £206 £206
25th Percentile £380 £356 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.73% -2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £660 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 82 124
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.01 £14.79
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £23.71 £22.19
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% +6.86% +25.92%
75th Percentile £27.00 £30.51 £34.50
90th Percentile £38.75 £49.38 £67.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £44.78
% change year-on-year -21.43% -21.83% +27.93%

AWS Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

AWS Consultant job vacancy trend in the Midlands

AWS Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Consultant job vacancies in the Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Consultant job vacancies in the Midlands

AWS Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Consultant within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 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
East Midlands - 1 £393 -
AWS Consultant
England

AWS Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 9 January 2026, AWS Consultant contract job roles required 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 Midlands region featuring AWS Consultant in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Aerospike
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Backtesting
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Fraud Detection
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) Redis

AWS Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospike
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backtesting
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Fraud Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks