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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 +6
Contract jobs citing AWS 3 8 11
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 4.69% 7.02% 6.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.75% 22.86% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile £343 - £375
25th Percentile £361 £525 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -28.41% +29.41% +8.97%
75th Percentile £423 £575 £488
90th Percentile £439 - £540
West Midlands median daily rate £519 £493 £500
% change year-on-year +5.32% -1.40% -7.41%

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 16 35 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 25.00% 30.70% 26.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 34
10th Percentile £173 £279 £162
25th Percentile £213 £338 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £331 £438 £419
Median % change year-on-year -24.29% +4.48% +18.79%
75th Percentile £453 £534 £500
90th Percentile £590 £575 £625
West Midlands median daily rate £520 £500 £463
% change year-on-year +4.00% +8.11% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £18.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.61 £30.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -7.35% +66.89% +8.12%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Staffordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Staffordshire

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 29 November 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
Cannock - 1 £450 -
Stoke-on-Trent - 1 £338 - 9
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) Kong
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (33.33%) SSL
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DocumentDB
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) SignalR
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) API Design
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
1 1 (33.33%) Microservices
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Observability
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) RBAC
1 1 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
1 1 (33.33%) SIEM
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Korn
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) CCSA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 1 (33.33%) Meraki
1 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds