AWS Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 36 19
Rank change year-on-year +25 -17 -9
Contract jobs citing AWS 264 84 151
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 12.39% 4.48% 7.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.58% 14.56% 22.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 38 106
10th Percentile £361 £359 £306
25th Percentile £429 £420 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -1.40% -7.41%
75th Percentile £575 £566 £600
90th Percentile £653 £691 £725
England median daily rate £525 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.75 - -
Median hourly rate £76.50 - -
75th Percentile £77.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £84.50 £46.18 £55.00
% change year-on-year +82.98% -16.04% +4.76%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 742 577 674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 34.84% 30.76% 34.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 383 497
10th Percentile £301 £213 £200
25th Percentile £424 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 8
10th Percentile £26.51 £20.24 £17.50
25th Percentile £27.21 £30.84 £17.69
Median hourly rate £31.94 £33.93 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.87% +83.41% +8.12%
75th Percentile £35.75 £35.00 £19.38
90th Percentile £60.15 - £30.33
England median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £29.72
% change year-on-year -27.23% +17.77% +35.09%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

AWS job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing AWS

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 19 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the West Midlands

AWS
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing AWS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing AWS

AWS
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 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 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
Birmingham +23 89 £500 -2.44% 55
Shropshire -9 62 £508 +3.57% 21
Coventry +12 42 £400 -15.79% 24
Warwickshire +10 25 £625 +6.38% 20
Worcestershire +3 16 £575 +64.29% 9
Solihull - 5 £450 - 2
Herefordshire -6 4 £550 - 6
Staffordshire -3 2 £450 -18.18% 29
Wolverhampton - 2 £425 - 10
AWS
England

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 32 (12.12%) Confluence
2 24 (9.09%) Apache
2 24 (9.09%) WebLogic
3 15 (5.68%) nginx
4 10 (3.79%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (3.79%) SAS
5 9 (3.41%) JBoss
6 6 (2.27%) OpenStack
7 4 (1.52%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (1.14%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.76%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.76%) Drupal
10 1 (0.38%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 12 (4.55%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 8 (3.03%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.38%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 134 (50.76%) Azure
2 60 (22.73%) GCP
3 51 (19.32%) Amazon S3
4 43 (16.29%) Amazon EC2
5 39 (14.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 39 (14.77%) AWS KMS
6 37 (14.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 28 (10.61%) Amazon ELB
8 27 (10.23%) Serverless
9 21 (7.95%) GitHub
10 19 (7.20%) Route 53
11 18 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
12 16 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (5.68%) Datadog
14 14 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (4.92%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (4.55%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 54 (20.45%) Firewall
2 40 (15.15%) DNS
3 24 (9.09%) SMTP
4 23 (8.71%) HTTP
5 22 (8.33%) FTP
5 22 (8.33%) SSH
6 14 (5.30%) VPN
7 12 (4.55%) DHCP
7 12 (4.55%) IMAP
7 12 (4.55%) OpenLDAP
8 11 (4.17%) Network Security
9 10 (3.79%) VSAN
10 8 (3.03%) Wireshark
11 7 (2.65%) LAN
12 6 (2.27%) SD-WAN
12 6 (2.27%) TCP/IP
12 6 (2.27%) VLAN
12 6 (2.27%) WAN
13 5 (1.89%) IPv4
13 5 (1.89%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (15.53%) Amazon RDS
2 38 (14.39%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (6.82%) Amazon Aurora
4 17 (6.44%) MongoDB
5 14 (5.30%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.41%) Oracle Database
6 9 (3.41%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 9 (3.41%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 8 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (3.03%) DynamoDB
7 8 (3.03%) MySQL
7 8 (3.03%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.52%) SAS Data Integration Studio
10 4 (1.52%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.14%) Metadata
11 3 (1.14%) Power BI
12 2 (0.76%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.76%) DB2
Development Applications
1 66 (25.00%) Git
2 65 (24.62%) Jenkins
3 42 (15.91%) GitLab
4 36 (13.64%) JIRA
5 25 (9.47%) JUnit
6 24 (9.09%) Vagrant
7 18 (6.82%) Selenium
8 15 (5.68%) Maven
9 11 (4.17%) SonarQube
10 10 (3.79%) Liquibase
10 10 (3.79%) Mockito
11 8 (3.03%) Eclipse
11 8 (3.03%) IntelliJ
12 7 (2.65%) Cucumber
13 6 (2.27%) CircleCI
13 6 (2.27%) Cypress.io
13 6 (2.27%) Gradle
14 5 (1.89%) Bitbucket
14 5 (1.89%) Postman
14 5 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 110 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 54 (20.45%) Public Sector
3 35 (13.26%) Finance
4 23 (8.71%) Presentation Skills
5 20 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (6.82%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (5.68%) Banking
8 11 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (3.79%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.89%) Aeronautics
11 4 (1.52%) Legal
12 3 (1.14%) Retail
13 2 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.76%) Military
14 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.38%) Digital Healthcare
14 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.38%) Marketing
14 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (19.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 41 (15.53%) AWS Engineer
3 33 (12.50%) Senior
4 29 (10.98%) Architect
4 29 (10.98%) Platform Engineer
5 27 (10.23%) Developer
6 25 (9.47%) AWS DevOps
6 25 (9.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 23 (8.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 22 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
9 21 (7.95%) Analyst
10 17 (6.44%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (5.68%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 14 (5.30%) Lead
12 14 (5.30%) Software Engineer
13 13 (4.92%) Data Engineer
14 12 (4.55%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 12 (4.55%) Java Developer
14 12 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
14 12 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (17.05%) REST
2 28 (10.61%) RESTful
3 26 (9.85%) Spring
4 21 (7.95%) Elastic Stack
4 21 (7.95%) JSON
5 20 (7.58%) SOAP
6 19 (7.20%) Spring Boot
7 16 (6.06%) HTML
8 14 (5.30%) Hibernate
9 13 (4.92%) React
9 13 (4.92%) XML
10 12 (4.55%) LDAP
11 11 (4.17%) JPA
11 11 (4.17%) OAuth
12 10 (3.79%) Web Services
13 9 (3.41%) Flash
14 8 (3.03%) EJB
14 8 (3.03%) HTML5
14 8 (3.03%) J2EE
14 8 (3.03%) J2SE
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.50%) Replication
2 26 (9.85%) Cloud Native
3 23 (8.71%) Linux Command Line
4 19 (7.20%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (6.82%) Security Posture
6 13 (4.92%) Public Cloud
7 8 (3.03%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.65%) SCADA
9 6 (2.27%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.89%) PKI
11 4 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.52%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.52%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
12 3 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.14%) IVR
12 3 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.14%) Mobile App
13 2 (0.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 98 (37.12%) Linux
2 58 (21.97%) Windows
3 25 (9.47%) Amazon Linux
4 24 (9.09%) VMS
5 23 (8.71%) Unix
6 12 (4.55%) Ubuntu
6 12 (4.55%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.76%) Android
8 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.38%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.38%) SUSE
9 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (40.91%) DevOps
2 107 (40.53%) CI/CD
3 91 (34.47%) Agile
4 52 (19.70%) Containerisation
5 50 (18.94%) Microservices
6 49 (18.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 47 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (17.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 45 (17.05%) Change Management
9 45 (17.05%) Cloud Security
10 43 (16.29%) Configuration Management
11 42 (15.91%) Analytics
12 37 (14.02%) Software Engineering
13 35 (13.26%) Platform Engineering
14 32 (12.12%) Continuous Integration
14 32 (12.12%) Migration
15 30 (11.36%) Mentoring
16 29 (10.98%) Incident Response
17 28 (10.61%) High Availability
17 28 (10.61%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 70 (26.52%) Python
2 69 (26.14%) SQL
3 54 (20.45%) Java
4 39 (14.77%) PowerShell
5 24 (9.09%) Groovy
6 19 (7.20%) Go
7 14 (5.30%) Perl
8 11 (4.17%) Bash
8 11 (4.17%) Scala
9 10 (3.79%) JavaScript
10 6 (2.27%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.27%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.52%) PHP
12 3 (1.14%) Ruby
13 2 (0.76%) BeanShell
13 2 (0.76%) JSX
13 2 (0.76%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.38%) Korn
Qualifications
1 98 (37.12%) Security Cleared
2 79 (29.92%) SC Cleared
3 37 (14.02%) AWS Certification
4 36 (13.64%) Degree
5 20 (7.58%) Azure Certification
6 18 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (4.17%) Master's Degree
9 10 (3.79%) DV Cleared
10 8 (3.03%) CISSP
10 8 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (2.27%) CCNP
11 6 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.89%) CCIE
13 4 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.52%) CCSP
14 3 (1.14%) CCIE Security
14 3 (1.14%) CISM
15 2 (0.76%) JNCIE
15 2 (0.76%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.68%) QA
2 14 (5.30%) GDPR
3 13 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.17%) NIST
5 7 (2.65%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.65%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.27%) WCAG
7 3 (1.14%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.38%) ISO 19650
9 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 91 (34.47%) Docker
2 29 (10.98%) Active Directory
3 26 (9.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (8.33%) DFS Replication
5 19 (7.20%) vSphere
6 16 (6.06%) Postfix
7 12 (4.55%) Dovecot
7 12 (4.55%) Squid
8 9 (3.41%) GPFS
8 9 (3.41%) NFS
8 9 (3.41%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (1.89%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.76%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.38%) Snort
11 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 76 (28.79%) Terraform
2 59 (22.35%) Kubernetes
3 57 (21.59%) Grafana
4 51 (19.32%) Prometheus
5 37 (14.02%) Ansible
6 19 (7.20%) vRealize
7 13 (4.92%) Puppet
8 12 (4.55%) Nessus
9 10 (3.79%) Proxmox
10 9 (3.41%) Progress Chef
10 9 (3.41%) VxRail
11 8 (3.03%) CSIRT
11 8 (3.03%) Kibana
12 5 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.52%) Podman
13 4 (1.52%) QRadar
14 3 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 1 (0.38%) Argo
15 1 (0.38%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 47 (17.80%) Splunk
2 45 (17.05%) Oracle
3 44 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 43 (16.29%) Microsoft
5 42 (15.91%) Cisco
6 29 (10.98%) VMware
7 28 (10.61%) AppDynamics
8 22 (8.33%) IBM
9 19 (7.20%) Dynatrace
9 19 (7.20%) F5
10 16 (6.06%) Jaspersoft
11 15 (5.68%) SolarWinds
12 13 (4.92%) Google
13 11 (4.17%) Commvault
13 11 (4.17%) Dell
14 10 (3.79%) Palo Alto
15 9 (3.41%) HP
16 8 (3.03%) webMethods
17 6 (2.27%) Fortinet
17 6 (2.27%) SAP