AWS Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 10 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 +12
Contract jobs citing AWS 1 3 10
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 1.12% 5.17% 8.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.56% 27.27% 34.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £306
25th Percentile £306 £525 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £550 £350
Median % change year-on-year -43.18% +57.14% -36.36%
75th Percentile £319 £575 £375
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £512 £450
% change year-on-year -7.23% +13.78% -18.18%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18 11 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 20.22% 18.97% 25.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 21
10th Percentile £180 £315 £300
25th Percentile £183 £388 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £469 £469 £438
90th Percentile £575 £553 £488
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £495 £450
% change year-on-year -4.04% +10.00% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £33.93
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £18.74 £22.50
% change year-on-year +81.38% -16.71% +11.17%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing AWS

AWS
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
Stoke-on-Trent - 1 £313 - 3
AWS
West Midlands

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker