AWS Contracts in Shropshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 28 11
Rank change year-on-year +12 -17 -8
Contract jobs citing AWS 14 2 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 10.61% 1.40% 33.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.57% 33.33% 79.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 37
10th Percentile £427 - £449
25th Percentile £455 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -16.67% +0.93%
75th Percentile £537 - -
90th Percentile £538 - £555
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +1.60%

All Cloud Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 49 6 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 37.12% 4.20% 41.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 4 44
10th Percentile £420 - £413
25th Percentile £455 £117 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £284 £538
Median % change year-on-year +84.30% -47.30% +3.66%
75th Percentile £538 £471 £540
90th Percentile £552 £509 £553
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +1.01%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Shropshire

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Shropshire

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Shropshire over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Shropshire

AWS
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Telford +10 13 £460 +2.22% 20
AWS
West Midlands

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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 6 (42.86%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 10 (71.43%) GitLab
2 6 (42.86%) JIRA
3 5 (35.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (35.71%) Bitbucket
4 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Data Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Data Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Test Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Data Manager
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Engagement Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Engagement Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Linux
2 5 (35.71%) Unix
3 3 (21.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Agile
1 5 (35.71%) DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
2 4 (28.57%) Data Transformation
2 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) Cost Reduction
3 3 (21.43%) Migration
3 3 (21.43%) Process Improvement
3 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Data Migration
4 2 (14.29%) High Availability
5 1 (7.14%) Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (7.14%) Data Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) Data Integration
5 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
5 1 (7.14%) Project Management
5 1 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (7.14%) Scrum
5 1 (7.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) PL/SQL
2 4 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) COBOL
4 1 (7.14%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) NCSC
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Ansible
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 3 (21.43%) Opsview
3 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 1 (7.14%) Grafana
4 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Atlassian
2 5 (35.71%) IBM
3 3 (21.43%) PagerDuty
4 2 (14.29%) Talend
5 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace
5 1 (7.14%) KANA
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle
5 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 1 (7.14%) Splunk