AWS Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 33 13
Rank change year-on-year +20 -20 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 339 133 249
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 10.97% 5.30% 9.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.14% 17.43% 26.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 77 202
10th Percentile £331 £334 £363
25th Percentile £413 £363 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% -4.60% -7.41%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £575
90th Percentile £705 £635 £698
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.75 - £27.75
Median hourly rate £76.50 - £30.50
75th Percentile £77.25 - £33.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £84.50 £46.18 £51.06
% change year-on-year +82.98% -9.55% -7.17%

All Cloud Skills
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,023 763 951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 33.10% 30.41% 35.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 721 490 730
10th Percentile £290 £210 £212
25th Percentile £406 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £568
90th Percentile £688 £685 £688
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 20 29
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.05 £12.60
25th Percentile £19.28 £16.94 £13.25
Median hourly rate £26.31 £25.56 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% +38.15% +13.08%
75th Percentile £31.50 £35.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £64.13 £41.21 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.47 £31.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.84% +24.00% +11.11%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

AWS job vacancy trend in the Midlands

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing AWS

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the Midlands

AWS
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing AWS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing AWS

AWS
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 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
West Midlands +26 275 £519 +5.32% 151
East Midlands 0 63 £433 -0.46% 111
AWS
England

AWS
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:

Application Platforms
1 32 (9.44%) Confluence
2 24 (7.08%) Apache
3 23 (6.78%) WebLogic
4 14 (4.13%) nginx
5 10 (2.95%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (2.95%) SAS
6 9 (2.65%) JBoss
7 8 (2.36%) Apache Spark
8 6 (1.77%) OpenStack
9 5 (1.47%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.88%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.59%) Drupal
12 1 (0.29%) Alfresco
12 1 (0.29%) CMS
12 1 (0.29%) Documentum
12 1 (0.29%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.29%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 11 (3.24%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 10 (2.95%) MS Visio
3 7 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.29%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.29%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.29%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 179 (52.80%) Azure
2 89 (26.25%) GCP
3 53 (15.63%) Amazon S3
4 39 (11.50%) Serverless
5 37 (10.91%) Amazon EC2
6 35 (10.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 34 (10.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 30 (8.85%) AWS KMS
9 26 (7.67%) Entra ID
10 25 (7.37%) Amazon ELB
10 25 (7.37%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (6.78%) GitHub
11 23 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
12 19 (5.60%) Datadog
13 17 (5.01%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (5.01%) Azure Monitor
13 17 (5.01%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (4.13%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (3.54%) OpenShift
15 12 (3.54%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 53 (15.63%) Firewall
2 37 (10.91%) DNS
3 21 (6.19%) HTTP
3 21 (6.19%) SMTP
4 20 (5.90%) FTP
4 20 (5.90%) SSH
5 17 (5.01%) VPN
6 15 (4.42%) Network Security
7 14 (4.13%) VSAN
8 12 (3.54%) DHCP
9 11 (3.24%) IMAP
9 11 (3.24%) OpenLDAP
10 9 (2.65%) LAN
11 8 (2.36%) SD-WAN
11 8 (2.36%) WAN
11 8 (2.36%) Wireshark
12 7 (2.06%) WLAN
13 6 (1.77%) TCP/IP
13 6 (1.77%) VLAN
14 5 (1.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (12.98%) Amazon RDS
2 32 (9.44%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (5.31%) MongoDB
4 16 (4.72%) NoSQL
5 12 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (3.54%) DynamoDB
6 11 (3.24%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (2.95%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (2.95%) Oracle Database
7 10 (2.95%) Relational Database
8 9 (2.65%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 9 (2.65%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 8 (2.36%) Big Data
9 8 (2.36%) Metadata
9 8 (2.36%) MySQL
10 7 (2.06%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.77%) Power BI
12 5 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (1.18%) SAS Data Integration Studio
14 3 (0.88%) Aerospike
Development Applications
1 61 (17.99%) Jenkins
2 59 (17.40%) Git
3 48 (14.16%) GitLab
4 35 (10.32%) JIRA
5 21 (6.19%) JUnit
5 21 (6.19%) Vagrant
6 18 (5.31%) Selenium
7 11 (3.24%) Maven
8 10 (2.95%) Liquibase
9 9 (2.65%) IntelliJ
10 8 (2.36%) Eclipse
11 7 (2.06%) Cucumber
11 7 (2.06%) Cypress.io
11 7 (2.06%) Mockito
11 7 (2.06%) SonarQube
12 6 (1.77%) CircleCI
12 6 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (1.47%) Bitbucket
13 5 (1.47%) Postman
14 4 (1.18%) Gradle
General
1 145 (42.77%) Social Skills
2 66 (19.47%) Finance
3 57 (16.81%) Public Sector
4 25 (7.37%) Banking
4 25 (7.37%) Presentation Skills
5 22 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (6.19%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (5.60%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (2.95%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.06%) Aeronautics
10 4 (1.18%) Legal
11 3 (0.88%) Military
12 2 (0.59%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.59%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.29%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.29%) Marketing
13 1 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 49 (14.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 47 (13.86%) AWS Engineer
3 42 (12.39%) Architect
4 36 (10.62%) Senior
5 31 (9.14%) Analyst
6 28 (8.26%) Lead
7 27 (7.96%) Platform Engineer
8 25 (7.37%) Cloud Engineer
8 25 (7.37%) Developer
9 24 (7.08%) AWS DevOps
9 24 (7.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 23 (6.78%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 22 (6.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 22 (6.49%) Solutions Architect
12 19 (5.60%) Data Engineer
13 15 (4.42%) Software Engineer
14 14 (4.13%) Storage Analyst
15 12 (3.54%) Senior DevOps
15 12 (3.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 11 (3.24%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (13.57%) REST
2 32 (9.44%) RESTful
3 29 (8.55%) Spring
4 22 (6.49%) JSON
5 21 (6.19%) Elastic Stack
6 18 (5.31%) Spring Boot
7 17 (5.01%) LDAP
7 17 (5.01%) OAuth
7 17 (5.01%) SOAP
8 16 (4.72%) HTML
9 14 (4.13%) Hibernate
9 14 (4.13%) React
10 13 (3.83%) Kafka
10 13 (3.83%) XML
11 12 (3.54%) Flash
11 12 (3.54%) SAML
12 11 (3.24%) SailPoint
13 10 (2.95%) OpenID
14 9 (2.65%) Node.js
14 9 (2.65%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 39 (11.50%) Cloud Native
2 35 (10.32%) Replication
3 30 (8.85%) Linux Command Line
4 21 (6.19%) Security Posture
5 18 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (3.54%) Public Cloud
7 11 (3.24%) Onboarding
8 10 (2.95%) Data Centre
9 7 (2.06%) SCADA
10 5 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.47%) PKI
11 4 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.18%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.18%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.18%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.18%) Security Operations Centre
12 3 (0.88%) Product Ownership
13 2 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 100 (29.50%) Linux
2 62 (18.29%) Windows
3 25 (7.37%) Unix
4 21 (6.19%) Amazon Linux
4 21 (6.19%) VMS
5 14 (4.13%) Windows Server
6 11 (3.24%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.47%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.88%) Android
10 1 (0.29%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.29%) SUSE
10 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (38.64%) CI/CD
2 126 (37.17%) Agile
3 113 (33.33%) DevOps
4 64 (18.88%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (16.81%) Containerisation
6 56 (16.52%) Microservices
7 55 (16.22%) Analytics
8 54 (15.93%) Infrastructure as Code
9 52 (15.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 47 (13.86%) Change Management
11 45 (13.27%) Cloud Security
12 44 (12.98%) Configuration Management
13 39 (11.50%) Migration
13 39 (11.50%) Software Engineering
14 37 (10.91%) Incident Response
15 36 (10.62%) Mentoring
16 35 (10.32%) Platform Engineering
17 34 (10.03%) Stakeholder Management
18 33 (9.73%) High Availability
19 31 (9.14%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 90 (26.55%) Python
2 77 (22.71%) SQL
3 63 (18.58%) Java
4 43 (12.68%) PowerShell
5 21 (6.19%) Go
5 21 (6.19%) Groovy
6 15 (4.42%) Bash
7 13 (3.83%) Shell Script
8 12 (3.54%) Perl
9 11 (3.24%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.24%) Scala
10 5 (1.47%) PHP
10 5 (1.47%) R
11 4 (1.18%) BeanShell
11 4 (1.18%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.88%) Ruby
13 2 (0.59%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.29%) Korn
14 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 106 (31.27%) Security Cleared
2 78 (23.01%) SC Cleared
3 43 (12.68%) Degree
4 41 (12.09%) AWS Certification
5 23 (6.78%) Azure Certification
6 20 (5.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (4.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 14 (4.13%) DV Cleared
9 13 (3.83%) CISSP
10 12 (3.54%) Master's Degree
11 10 (2.95%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (2.36%) CCNP
12 8 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (2.06%) CCIE
13 7 (2.06%) CISM
14 6 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (1.18%) CCSP
16 3 (0.88%) CCIE Security
16 3 (0.88%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.55%) GDPR
2 27 (7.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (5.01%) QA
4 15 (4.42%) NIST
5 12 (3.54%) Data Quality
6 11 (3.24%) PCI DSS
7 7 (2.06%) HIPAA
8 6 (1.77%) WCAG
9 4 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.88%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.88%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.88%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.59%) COBIT
11 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.29%) ISO 19650
12 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 94 (27.73%) Docker
2 40 (11.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (11.50%) Active Directory
4 27 (7.96%) vSphere
5 20 (5.90%) DFS Replication
6 12 (3.54%) GPFS
6 12 (3.54%) NFS
6 12 (3.54%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (3.24%) Dovecot
7 11 (3.24%) Postfix
7 11 (3.24%) Squid
8 5 (1.47%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.88%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.29%) Snort
10 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 80 (23.60%) Terraform
2 72 (21.24%) Kubernetes
3 53 (15.63%) Grafana
4 47 (13.86%) Prometheus
5 45 (13.27%) Ansible
6 27 (7.96%) vRealize
7 14 (4.13%) Puppet
8 13 (3.83%) Progress Chef
8 13 (3.83%) VxRail
9 11 (3.24%) Nessus
10 10 (2.95%) Kibana
10 10 (2.95%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (2.95%) Proxmox
11 8 (2.36%) CSIRT
12 6 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (1.47%) SCCM
13 5 (1.47%) Tivoli Identity Manager
14 4 (1.18%) Podman
14 4 (1.18%) QRadar
15 3 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 70 (20.65%) Microsoft
2 52 (15.34%) Cisco
3 49 (14.45%) Oracle
4 48 (14.16%) ServiceNow
5 47 (13.86%) Splunk
6 43 (12.68%) VMware
7 32 (9.44%) AppDynamics
7 32 (9.44%) IBM
8 19 (5.60%) Dynatrace
8 19 (5.60%) F5
8 19 (5.60%) SolarWinds
9 16 (4.72%) Google
10 15 (4.42%) Dell
11 14 (4.13%) Commvault
12 13 (3.83%) HP
13 12 (3.54%) Palo Alto
14 11 (3.24%) Jaspersoft
15 10 (2.95%) SAP
16 8 (2.36%) Fortinet
16 8 (2.36%) webMethods