AWS Developer Contracts in the West Midlands

Amazon Web Services Developer
England > West Midlands

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in the West Midlands is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 - 134
Rank change year-on-year - - +30
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 4 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.30% - 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% - 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £503 - -
25th Percentile £506 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £388
Median % change year-on-year - - -29.55%
75th Percentile £556 - £475
90th Percentile £568 - £550
England median daily rate £575 £601 £563
% change year-on-year -4.37% +6.89% -6.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,221 1,776 2,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 91.22% 94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 1,198 1,556
10th Percentile £200 £259 £250
25th Percentile £369 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -2.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £702 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 134 66
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.01 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £15.02
Median hourly rate £18.07 £22.25 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.81% +14.10% +12.85%
75th Percentile £28.18 £42.31 £26.82
90th Percentile £35.58 £55.88 £55.63
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

AWS Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured AWS Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Developer in the West Midlands

AWS Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Developer in the West Midlands

AWS Developer
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 Developer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Staffordshire - 2 £550 - 1
Solihull - 1 £500 -
Herefordshire - 1 - -
AWS Developer
England

AWS Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, AWS Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring AWS Developer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) CRM
3 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) NetSuite
3 2 (50.00%) JIRA
3 2 (50.00%) R
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) Django

AWS Developer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
3 2 (50.00%) AWS CodeCommit
3 2 (50.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 2 (50.00%) Boomi
3 2 (50.00%) OCI
3 2 (50.00%) PaaS
3 2 (50.00%) SaaS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (25.00%) AWS KMS
4 1 (25.00%) Route 53
4 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (25.00%) DbUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) jMock
2 1 (25.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Maven
2 1 (25.00%) Mockito
2 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Django
1 2 (50.00%) MACH
2 1 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) Bootstrap
2 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (25.00%) JPA
2 1 (25.00%) PowerMock
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Batch
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) API Development
3 2 (50.00%) API Integration
3 2 (50.00%) CRM
3 2 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Load Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (25.00%) Jaspersoft