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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 11 18
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 +4
Contract jobs citing AWS 4 10 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire 6.78% 7.75% 5.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.36% 30.30% 19.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - - £418
25th Percentile - £306 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £313 £500
Median % change year-on-year +44.00% -37.50% +1.01%
75th Percentile - £447 £600
90th Percentile - £524 £660
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

All Cloud 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 11 33 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 18.64% 25.58% 26.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 39
10th Percentile £204 £218 £160
25th Percentile £225 £306 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -17.65% +13.33%
75th Percentile £463 £438 £500
90th Percentile £718 £468 £605
West Midlands median daily rate £513 £484 £475
% change year-on-year +5.89% +1.89% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £34.47 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £35.49 £33.74 £18.50
% change year-on-year +5.20% +82.35% +8.82%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS 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 17 September 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
Lichfield 0 1 - -
Stafford - 1 - - 2
Cannock - 1 £450 -
AWS
West Midlands

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeCommit
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Boomi
1 1 (25.00%) OCI
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) HTTP
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Django
1 1 (25.00%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (25.00%) API Development
2 1 (25.00%) API Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Korn
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) CCSA
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (25.00%) Meraki
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds