AWS Contracts in the Midlands

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 30 25
Rank change year-on-year +16 -5 -7
Contract jobs citing AWS 198 141 223
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.05% 4.74% 6.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.60% 19.45% 20.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 85 175
10th Percentile £358 £325 £363
25th Percentile £408 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +0.48%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £638
90th Percentile £700 £683 £700
England median daily rate £540 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -3.57% -6.67% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £37.48 -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £46.18 £72.75
% change year-on-year +56.99% -36.52% +3.93%

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 669 725 1,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.58% 24.39% 34.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 514 789
10th Percentile £234 £200 £213
25th Percentile £367 £320 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £562 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
England median daily rate £516 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.71% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 25 18
10th Percentile £15.17 £13.93 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £15.06
Median hourly rate £21.39 £19.95 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% -6.12% +10.39%
75th Percentile £23.00 £26.50 £26.48
90th Percentile £37.78 £31.36 £42.00
England median hourly rate £25.01 £21.46 £34.90
% change year-on-year +16.52% -38.51% +62.31%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in the Midlands

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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 17 June 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 +24 110 £515 +1.98% 2,033
East Midlands +8 85 £450 +1.12% 1,600
AWS
England

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 18 (9.09%) Confluence
2 6 (3.03%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.02%) Apache
3 4 (2.02%) JBoss
4 3 (1.52%) CICS
4 3 (1.52%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.01%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.51%) nginx
6 1 (0.51%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.51%) SAS
6 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (2.02%) Siemens NX
2 1 (0.51%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 5 (2.53%) Payment Gateway
1 5 (2.53%) Teamcenter
2 2 (1.01%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 73 (36.87%) Azure
2 44 (22.22%) GCP
3 35 (17.68%) Amazon S3
4 26 (13.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 26 (13.13%) Amazon EC2
5 20 (10.10%) Serverless
6 18 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
7 16 (8.08%) AWS KMS
8 15 (7.58%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (6.57%) Route 53
10 10 (5.05%) GitHub
11 9 (4.55%) Snowflake
12 8 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (3.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (3.03%) Amazon Glacier
14 6 (3.03%) Amazon Kinesis
14 6 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (3.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.07%) Firewall
2 10 (5.05%) Network Security
3 9 (4.55%) DNS
4 8 (4.04%) HTTP
5 5 (2.53%) DHCP
6 4 (2.02%) SMTP
6 4 (2.02%) SSL
6 4 (2.02%) VLAN
7 3 (1.52%) FTP
7 3 (1.52%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (1.52%) SSH
7 3 (1.52%) VPN
8 2 (1.01%) DMZ
8 2 (1.01%) EIGRP
8 2 (1.01%) Internet
8 2 (1.01%) IPsec
8 2 (1.01%) SAN
8 2 (1.01%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (1.01%) TACACS
8 2 (1.01%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (12.63%) Amazon RDS
1 25 (12.63%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (11.11%) DynamoDB
3 19 (9.60%) Relational Database
4 16 (8.08%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (5.05%) NoSQL
7 8 (4.04%) SQL Server
8 7 (3.54%) Big Data
8 7 (3.54%) MySQL
9 6 (3.03%) Data Lake
9 6 (3.03%) DB2
10 5 (2.53%) Hadoop
10 5 (2.53%) MongoDB
10 5 (2.53%) Power BI
10 5 (2.53%) RDBMS
11 4 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.52%) Oracle Database
13 2 (1.01%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 53 (26.77%) Jenkins
2 45 (22.73%) Git
3 32 (16.16%) JIRA
4 26 (13.13%) Maven
5 19 (9.60%) JUnit
6 17 (8.59%) GitLab
7 14 (7.07%) Mockito
7 14 (7.07%) SonarQube
8 11 (5.56%) Bitbucket Server
9 10 (5.05%) Bitbucket
10 7 (3.54%) DbUnit
10 7 (3.54%) jMock
11 6 (3.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (3.03%) Gradle
12 5 (2.53%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (2.02%) Cucumber
13 4 (2.02%) IntelliJ
13 4 (2.02%) Vagrant
14 3 (1.52%) Eclipse
14 3 (1.52%) Selenium
General
1 45 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.71%) Finance
3 29 (14.65%) Banking
4 27 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 26 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.54%) Retail
8 3 (1.52%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.01%) Law
9 2 (1.01%) Legal
9 2 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Back Office
10 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.51%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 49 (24.75%) Developer
2 42 (21.21%) Architect
3 27 (13.64%) Solutions Architect
4 22 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 14 (7.07%) Senior
6 13 (6.57%) Data Engineer
7 12 (6.06%) Lead
8 11 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (5.05%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (4.04%) AWS Developer
12 7 (3.54%) AWS Architect
12 7 (3.54%) Lead Developer
12 7 (3.54%) Security Architect
12 7 (3.54%) Senior Developer
13 6 (3.03%) Analyst
13 6 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
13 6 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (3.03%) Lead Java Developer
13 6 (3.03%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (19.19%) REST
2 33 (16.67%) Spring
3 25 (12.63%) Spring Boot
4 24 (12.12%) Hibernate
5 22 (11.11%) Web Services
6 19 (9.60%) SOAP
7 18 (9.09%) ActiveMQ
7 18 (9.09%) LDAP
7 18 (9.09%) RESTful
8 14 (7.07%) AngularJS
8 14 (7.07%) JPA
9 12 (6.06%) Kafka
10 11 (5.56%) Bootstrap
10 11 (5.56%) OAuth
10 11 (5.56%) Spring Batch
10 11 (5.56%) Spring Cloud
10 11 (5.56%) Spring Integration
11 10 (5.05%) OpenID
11 10 (5.05%) React
11 10 (5.05%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.06%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.05%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.05%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.54%) Security Posture
5 6 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.03%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.53%) Operational Technology
6 5 (2.53%) Replication
6 5 (2.53%) SCADA
7 4 (2.02%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.52%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.52%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.52%) IVR
8 3 (1.52%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.52%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.52%) VSAM
9 2 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.51%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (18.18%) Linux
2 21 (10.61%) Windows
3 10 (5.05%) Unix
4 8 (4.04%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.53%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.53%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.53%) VMS
6 2 (1.01%) Android
6 2 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.01%) CentOS
6 2 (1.01%) Debian
7 1 (0.51%) AIX
7 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (35.86%) Agile
2 67 (33.84%) CI/CD
3 52 (26.26%) DevOps
4 45 (22.73%) Microservices
4 45 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (21.21%) Scrum
6 30 (15.15%) Containerisation
7 23 (11.62%) ETL
8 22 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (11.11%) TDD
9 21 (10.61%) Continuous Integration
10 20 (10.10%) Cloud Security
10 20 (10.10%) Migration
11 19 (9.60%) Identity Access Management
12 18 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
13 17 (8.59%) SDLC
14 16 (8.08%) Risk Management
15 15 (7.58%) Cybersecurity
15 15 (7.58%) Data Modelling
15 15 (7.58%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 66 (33.33%) Java
2 58 (29.29%) SQL
3 43 (21.72%) Python
4 16 (8.08%) JavaScript
5 13 (6.57%) TypeScript
6 12 (6.06%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.04%) C#
7 8 (4.04%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.54%) Bash
8 7 (3.54%) Groovy
9 5 (2.53%) Perl
9 5 (2.53%) Scala
10 4 (2.02%) COBOL
10 4 (2.02%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.52%) JCL
11 3 (1.52%) R
12 2 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (1.01%) Go
12 2 (1.01%) JSX
13 1 (0.51%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 50 (25.25%) Security Cleared
2 38 (19.19%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.05%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (3.03%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.53%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.53%) Degree
6 5 (2.53%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.51%) CEH
9 1 (0.51%) CISA
9 1 (0.51%) CISM
9 1 (0.51%) CISSP
9 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.57%) GDPR
1 13 (6.57%) NIST
2 8 (4.04%) HIPAA
3 7 (3.54%) QA
4 6 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.53%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (1.01%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.01%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.51%) HL7
8 1 (0.51%) NCSC
8 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (30.30%) Docker
2 15 (7.58%) Active Directory
3 9 (4.55%) Postfix
4 3 (1.52%) DFS Replication
5 2 (1.01%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.51%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.51%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.51%) Squid
6 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (17.68%) Kubernetes
2 28 (14.14%) Terraform
3 18 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 17 (8.59%) Grafana
5 13 (6.57%) Ansible
6 9 (4.55%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 3 (1.52%) Kibana
7 3 (1.52%) Nessus
7 3 (1.52%) Opsview
7 3 (1.52%) Puppet
8 2 (1.01%) logstash
8 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.01%) Nagios
8 2 (1.01%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.01%) QRadar
8 2 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.51%) Argo
9 1 (0.51%) CASB
9 1 (0.51%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.51%) Podman
Vendors
1 26 (13.13%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.59%) Atlassian
2 17 (8.59%) IBM
3 16 (8.08%) Oracle
4 13 (6.57%) Google
5 12 (6.06%) Databricks
6 10 (5.05%) Jaspersoft
7 9 (4.55%) Salesforce
8 8 (4.04%) Cisco
8 8 (4.04%) Ping Identity
8 8 (4.04%) Splunk
9 7 (3.54%) ServiceNow
10 6 (3.03%) VMware
11 5 (2.53%) Siemens
12 4 (2.02%) Red Hat
13 3 (1.52%) AppDynamics
13 3 (1.52%) PagerDuty
13 3 (1.52%) Virgin Media
14 2 (1.01%) MuleSoft
14 2 (1.01%) Talend