AWS Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 7 5
Rank change year-on-year -11 -2 +7
Contract jobs citing AWS 14 16 20
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 7.14% 10.88% 12.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.92% 39.02% 34.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 20
10th Percentile - £450 £374
25th Percentile £380 £466 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year -12.90% +13.64% -37.14%
75th Percentile £469 £575 £517
90th Percentile £514 £600 £741
East Midlands median daily rate £431 £444 £500
% change year-on-year -2.87% -11.20% -10.71%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 52 41 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 26.53% 27.89% 35.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 25 47
10th Percentile £163 £186 £290
25th Percentile £213 £373 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +13.64% -16.19%
75th Percentile £469 £545 £575
90th Percentile £538 £600 £688
East Midlands median daily rate £425 £450 £453
% change year-on-year -5.56% -0.66% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 8
10th Percentile £14.08 - £10.76
25th Percentile £14.90 - £15.20
Median hourly rate £16.50 £12.92 £54.51
Median % change year-on-year +27.71% -76.30% -
75th Percentile £16.75 - £90.00
90th Percentile - - £93.75
East Midlands median hourly rate £19.25 £29.00 £17.71
% change year-on-year -33.62% +63.75% +14.26%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing AWS

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Nottinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Nottinghamshire over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Nottinghamshire

AWS
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Nottingham -8 14 £436 -12.90% 21
AWS
East Midlands

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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 7 (50.00%) Serverless
2 6 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (42.86%) Azure
3 5 (35.71%) Entra ID
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub
5 1 (7.14%) Google Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (42.86%) DynamoDB
2 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Lead
2 3 (21.43%) Head of IT
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Security Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Node.js Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 6 (42.86%) Django
2 6 (42.86%) RESTful
3 2 (14.29%) Node.js
3 2 (14.29%) React
4 1 (7.14%) Enzyme
4 1 (7.14%) Express.js
4 1 (7.14%) Jest
4 1 (7.14%) Kafka
4 1 (7.14%) MERN Stack
4 1 (7.14%) Redux
4 1 (7.14%) REST
4 1 (7.14%) Sass
4 1 (7.14%) SOAP
4 1 (7.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Android
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Agile
2 7 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 7 (50.00%) TDD
3 5 (35.71%) Identity Management
3 5 (35.71%) Incident Response
3 5 (35.71%) Patch Management
3 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) SDLC
5 3 (21.43%) Knowledge Management
5 3 (21.43%) Line Management
5 3 (21.43%) Service Delivery
6 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (14.29%) Microservices
6 2 (14.29%) Security Operations
6 2 (14.29%) SIEM
6 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 1 (7.14%) Clean Code
7 1 (7.14%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
1 3 (21.43%) Samsung
2 1 (7.14%) Adobe
2 1 (7.14%) Google