AWS DevOps Contracts in the West Midlands

Amazon Web Services DevOps
England > West Midlands

The median Amazon Web Services DevOps daily rate in the West Midlands is £469, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 August 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
2 Aug 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 106 121
Rank change year-on-year +7 +15 +59
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps 14 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.84% 0.054% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 0.059% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile £443 - -
25th Percentile £450 £335 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £350 £450
Median % change year-on-year +33.93% -22.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £488 £365 £475
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% -

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 1,516 1,697 2,065
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.94% 91.83% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 961 1,177 1,440
10th Percentile £225 £250 £256
25th Percentile £363 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £600
90th Percentile £650 £715 £714
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 76 55
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.87 £13.38
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.98 £15.94
Median hourly rate £24.34 £19.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.25% -2.05% +12.04%
75th Percentile £34.54 £37.50 £28.38
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £49.15
England median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +68.63%

AWS DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps in the West Midlands

AWS DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps in the West Midlands

AWS DevOps
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 DevOps within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Birmingham +15 11 £475 +35.71% 1
Solihull - 2 £450 -
AWS DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 August 2025, AWS DevOps 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 DevOps in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) AWS
1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (85.71%) Docker
2 12 (85.71%) Python
3 11 (78.57%) SC Cleared
3 11 (78.57%) Security Cleared
3 11 (78.57%) Amazon S3
3 11 (78.57%) Jenkins
3 11 (78.57%) Platform Engineering
4 10 (71.43%) Terraform
4 10 (71.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (71.43%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (71.43%) PowerShell
5 9 (64.29%) Git
5 9 (64.29%) Groovy
5 9 (64.29%) Linux
5 9 (64.29%) JIRA
5 9 (64.29%) Configuration Management
5 9 (64.29%) Change Management
5 9 (64.29%) VMS
5 9 (64.29%) SMTP
5 9 (64.29%) Amazon Linux
5 9 (64.29%) Grafana
5 9 (64.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 9 (64.29%) Confluence
5 9 (64.29%) Amazon ELB
5 9 (64.29%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (64.29%) Vagrant
5 9 (64.29%) ServiceNow
5 9 (64.29%) Public Sector

AWS DevOps 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 9 (64.29%) Confluence
2 5 (35.71%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (78.57%) Amazon S3
3 10 (71.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 10 (71.43%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (64.29%) Amazon ELB
4 9 (64.29%) AWS KMS
4 9 (64.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (42.86%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (35.71%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (35.71%) Route 53
7 4 (28.57%) Amazon Glacier
7 4 (28.57%) Azure
8 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (14.29%) Serverless
9 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (7.14%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (7.14%) GitHub
9 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (64.29%) SMTP
2 7 (50.00%) DNS
2 7 (50.00%) Firewall
2 7 (50.00%) FTP
2 7 (50.00%) HTTP
2 7 (50.00%) SSH
3 5 (35.71%) IMAP
3 5 (35.71%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (35.71%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 11 (78.57%) Jenkins
2 9 (64.29%) Git
2 9 (64.29%) JIRA
2 9 (64.29%) Vagrant
General
1 9 (64.29%) Public Sector
2 3 (21.43%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) Amazon Linux
1 9 (64.29%) Linux
1 9 (64.29%) VMS
2 7 (50.00%) Windows
3 3 (21.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (78.57%) Platform Engineering
3 9 (64.29%) Change Management
3 9 (64.29%) Cloud Security
3 9 (64.29%) Configuration Management
4 7 (50.00%) Patch Management
5 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
6 5 (35.71%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (7.14%) Analytics
7 1 (7.14%) Architecture Roadmap
7 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (7.14%) Machine Learning
7 1 (7.14%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Python
2 10 (71.43%) PowerShell
3 9 (64.29%) Groovy
4 6 (42.86%) SQL
5 4 (28.57%) Java
5 4 (28.57%) Perl
6 1 (7.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 11 (78.57%) SC Cleared
1 11 (78.57%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Certification
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Certification
2 3 (21.43%) Degree
System Software
1 12 (85.71%) Docker
2 7 (50.00%) DFS Replication
3 5 (35.71%) Dovecot
3 5 (35.71%) Postfix
3 5 (35.71%) Squid
4 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (71.43%) Terraform
2 9 (64.29%) Grafana
2 9 (64.29%) Prometheus
3 5 (35.71%) Nessus
4 3 (21.43%) Proxmox
5 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) ServiceNow
2 5 (35.71%) Jaspersoft
20 AWS DevOps jobs in England