AWS Certification Contracts in the West Midlands

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 109 -
Rank change year-on-year +16 - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 5 7 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.37% 0.37% -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.17% 1.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £329 - -
25th Percentile £353 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.54% - -
75th Percentile £478 £675 -
90th Percentile £506 - -
England median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

AWS Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 426 618 630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.19% 32.31% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 389 383
10th Percentile £150 £275 £300
25th Percentile £285 £359 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.91% -11.81% +10.53%
75th Percentile £598 £575 £616
90th Percentile £700 £682 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 34 28
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.00 £11.70
25th Percentile £18.22 £22.08 £13.31
Median hourly rate £22.50 £28.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +50.00% +9.95%
75th Percentile £40.79 £43.44 £27.54
90th Percentile £59.30 £58.75 £60.05
England median hourly rate £40.55 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +1.36% -23.81% +32.91%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing AWS Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in the West Midlands

AWS Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for AWS Certification in the West Midlands

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in the West Midlands

AWS Certification
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certification within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
Shropshire - 2 £325 - 10
Coventry +2 1 - - 3
Warwickshire -2 1 £500 - 3
Herefordshire - 1 - -
AWS Certification
England

AWS Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) General Ledger
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (60.00%) Microservices
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Quantitative Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (40.00%) Security Management
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Release Management
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Tech Ops
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Bloomberg
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) KANA
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk