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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 25 42
Rank change year-on-year +14 +17 -29
Contract jobs citing AWS 333 89 79
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 12.24% 6.43% 4.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.21% 18.16% 15.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 55 63
10th Percentile £315 £400 £315
25th Percentile £402 £439 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.41%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £681
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.75 - -
Median hourly rate £76.50 - £19.95
75th Percentile £77.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £55.50 £48.62
% change year-on-year +35.14% +14.16% -24.62%

All Cloud Computing 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 895 490 503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.89% 35.38% 26.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 664 340 388
10th Percentile £306 £200 £204
25th Percentile £406 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year - +9.89% -9.90%
75th Percentile £577 £600 £595
90th Percentile £688 £700 £683
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 19 11
10th Percentile £22.63 £15.27 £14.13
25th Percentile £25.55 £16.88 £17.63
Median hourly rate £27.21 £18.74 £19.95
Median % change year-on-year +45.20% -6.07% +21.50%
75th Percentile - £34.38 £26.50
90th Percentile £52.23 £36.39 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +45.45% +28.69% -14.52%

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 1 March 2026.

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 1 March 2026. 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 +10 89 £500 -9.09% 41
Shropshire -6 88 £465 -5.10% 39
Coventry +12 53 £402 -19.60% 19
Warwickshire +15 39 £550 +10.00% 8
Worcestershire +3 21 £680 -2.86% 12
Solihull -2 11 £500 +19.05% 6
Herefordshire -9 11 £550 -21.43% 4
Wolverhampton - 2 £425 - 10
Staffordshire -5 1 £338 -38.64% 19
Bilston - 1 £550 - 1
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 49 (14.71%) Confluence
2 20 (6.01%) SAS
3 17 (5.11%) Apache
3 17 (5.11%) WebLogic
4 8 (2.40%) JBoss
5 6 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.50%) Apache Spark
7 4 (1.20%) Anypoint
7 4 (1.20%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.90%) nginx
8 3 (0.90%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.60%) Drupal
10 1 (0.30%) CMS
10 1 (0.30%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 10 (3.00%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (2.40%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.30%) CATIA
3 1 (0.30%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.30%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 151 (45.35%) Azure
2 80 (24.02%) GCP
3 47 (14.11%) Amazon S3
4 33 (9.91%) Amazon EC2
5 26 (7.81%) Serverless
6 25 (7.51%) Datadog
7 24 (7.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 24 (7.21%) GitHub
8 21 (6.31%) AWS KMS
9 20 (6.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 18 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (4.50%) Entra ID
12 14 (4.20%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (4.20%) OpenShift
13 13 (3.90%) Amazon ELB
13 13 (3.90%) Route 53
14 10 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 28 (8.41%) Firewall
2 21 (6.31%) VPN
3 16 (4.80%) Network Security
4 15 (4.50%) DNS
4 15 (4.50%) VSAN
5 9 (2.70%) DHCP
6 8 (2.40%) SD-WAN
6 8 (2.40%) WAN
7 7 (2.10%) LAN
7 7 (2.10%) WLAN
8 6 (1.80%) BGP
8 6 (1.80%) MPLS
8 6 (1.80%) OSPF
8 6 (1.80%) VLAN
9 5 (1.50%) IPv4
9 5 (1.50%) IPv6
9 5 (1.50%) SSL
9 5 (1.50%) VXLAN
10 4 (1.20%) EIGRP
10 4 (1.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (12.31%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (12.01%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (7.51%) MongoDB
4 15 (4.50%) NoSQL
4 15 (4.50%) Pentaho
5 11 (3.30%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (3.00%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (3.00%) MySQL
6 10 (3.00%) Oracle Database
6 10 (3.00%) Oracle Reports
7 9 (2.70%) DynamoDB
7 9 (2.70%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (1.20%) InfluxDB
9 3 (0.90%) Big Data
9 3 (0.90%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.90%) Metadata
9 3 (0.90%) Power BI
10 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 78 (23.42%) Git
2 62 (18.62%) Jenkins
3 58 (17.42%) JIRA
4 48 (14.41%) GitLab
5 42 (12.61%) JUnit
6 30 (9.01%) Selenium
7 21 (6.31%) Maven
8 19 (5.71%) Cucumber
9 18 (5.41%) Mockito
10 14 (4.20%) SonarQube
11 12 (3.60%) Postman
12 11 (3.30%) JMeter
13 10 (3.00%) Liquibase
13 10 (3.00%) WebDriver
14 9 (2.70%) Zephyr
15 8 (2.40%) Eclipse
15 8 (2.40%) IntelliJ
16 7 (2.10%) DbUnit
16 7 (2.10%) jMock
17 6 (1.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 129 (38.74%) Social Skills
2 59 (17.72%) Finance
3 51 (15.32%) Public Sector
4 45 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.01%) Banking
6 18 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (3.00%) Financial Institution
10 9 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.10%) Aeronautics
12 4 (1.20%) Legal
13 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.60%) Military
13 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.30%) Advertising
14 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.30%) Marketing
14 1 (0.30%) Publishing
14 1 (0.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (15.02%) Analyst
2 42 (12.61%) Developer
3 40 (12.01%) Senior
4 35 (10.51%) Architect
5 28 (8.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 28 (8.41%) Data Engineer
5 28 (8.41%) Lead
6 25 (7.51%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 23 (6.91%) AWS Engineer
7 23 (6.91%) DevOps Engineer
7 23 (6.91%) Java Developer
8 20 (6.01%) Storage Analyst
9 17 (5.11%) Tester
10 16 (4.80%) Software Engineer
11 15 (4.50%) Business Analyst
12 14 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (3.60%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (3.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 12 (3.60%) Site Engineer
13 12 (3.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (14.71%) Spring
2 47 (14.11%) REST
3 31 (9.31%) Spring Boot
4 27 (8.11%) RESTful
5 23 (6.91%) SOAP
6 22 (6.61%) JSON
7 19 (5.71%) HTML
8 18 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
8 18 (5.41%) Hibernate
9 17 (5.11%) JPA
10 16 (4.80%) React
11 15 (4.50%) AngularJS
11 15 (4.50%) Flash
12 14 (4.20%) Node.js
12 14 (4.20%) WireMock
13 13 (3.90%) Web Services
14 11 (3.30%) Spring Batch
15 10 (3.00%) Playwright
15 10 (3.00%) SailPoint
15 10 (3.00%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.31%) Linux Command Line
2 30 (9.01%) Cloud Native
3 28 (8.41%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (5.71%) Replication
5 13 (3.90%) Onboarding
6 12 (3.60%) Public Cloud
7 11 (3.30%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.10%) Distributed Architecture
9 7 (2.10%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.10%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.50%) SCADA
11 4 (1.20%) PKI
11 4 (1.20%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
12 3 (0.90%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.90%) Distributed Applications
12 3 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 84 (25.23%) Linux
2 24 (7.21%) Windows
3 13 (3.90%) Unix
3 13 (3.90%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.60%) VMS
6 1 (0.30%) Android
6 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.30%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (48.05%) Agile
2 138 (41.44%) CI/CD
3 93 (27.93%) DevOps
4 71 (21.32%) Microservices
5 61 (18.32%) Containerisation
5 61 (18.32%) Stakeholder Management
6 57 (17.12%) Continuous Improvement
6 57 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (15.62%) Infrastructure as Code
8 50 (15.02%) Mentoring
9 49 (14.71%) Migration
10 43 (12.91%) Scrum
10 43 (12.91%) Software Engineering
11 41 (12.31%) Change Management
12 38 (11.41%) Test Automation
13 36 (10.81%) ETL
14 35 (10.51%) Analytics
15 34 (10.21%) TDD
16 31 (9.31%) Observability
17 29 (8.71%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 91 (27.33%) SQL
2 70 (21.02%) Python
3 68 (20.42%) Java
4 21 (6.31%) Bash
4 21 (6.31%) Shell Script
5 20 (6.01%) Go
6 17 (5.11%) PowerShell
7 11 (3.30%) JavaScript
7 11 (3.30%) Scala
8 7 (2.10%) Perl
9 5 (1.50%) PHP
10 4 (1.20%) BeanShell
10 4 (1.20%) Groovy
11 3 (0.90%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.90%) Ruby
11 3 (0.90%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.30%) C#
13 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 146 (43.84%) Security Cleared
2 115 (34.53%) SC Cleared
3 33 (9.91%) AWS Certification
4 25 (7.51%) Degree
5 16 (4.80%) Azure Certification
6 15 (4.50%) DV Cleared
7 13 (3.90%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (3.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (3.60%) CISSP
9 11 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (3.30%) Master's Degree
10 9 (2.70%) IIBA
10 9 (2.70%) ISTQB
11 8 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (2.10%) CCIE
12 7 (2.10%) CCNP
13 6 (1.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (1.50%) CCSP
14 5 (1.50%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.31%) QA
2 22 (6.61%) GDPR
3 15 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (3.90%) Data Quality
5 12 (3.60%) NIST
6 10 (3.00%) PCI DSS
7 7 (2.10%) WCAG
8 5 (1.50%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.60%) COBIT
9 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.60%) SLA
10 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 97 (29.13%) Docker
2 38 (11.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (9.01%) vSphere
4 20 (6.01%) Active Directory
5 15 (4.50%) GPFS
5 15 (4.50%) NFS
5 15 (4.50%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.10%) Postfix
7 4 (1.20%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.90%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.60%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.30%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.30%) HDFS
10 1 (0.30%) Squid
Systems Management
1 92 (27.63%) Kubernetes
2 66 (19.82%) Terraform
3 65 (19.52%) Grafana
4 51 (15.32%) Prometheus
5 43 (12.91%) Ansible
6 30 (9.01%) vRealize
7 15 (4.50%) Progress Chef
7 15 (4.50%) VxRail
8 13 (3.90%) Puppet
9 11 (3.30%) Kibana
10 6 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.20%) QRadar
11 4 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.90%) Podman
13 2 (0.60%) Argo
13 2 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.60%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.60%) Nessus
14 1 (0.30%) Control-M
14 1 (0.30%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 61 (18.32%) Oracle
2 49 (14.71%) Microsoft
3 43 (12.91%) Cisco
4 39 (11.71%) ServiceNow
4 39 (11.71%) VMware
5 33 (9.91%) IBM
5 33 (9.91%) Splunk
6 22 (6.61%) AppDynamics
7 19 (5.71%) SolarWinds
8 17 (5.11%) Talend
9 16 (4.80%) Google
10 15 (4.50%) Dell
10 15 (4.50%) Informatica
11 14 (4.20%) Commvault
12 13 (3.90%) Dynatrace
12 13 (3.90%) HP
13 12 (3.60%) Palo Alto
14 11 (3.30%) F5
14 11 (3.30%) SAP
15 10 (3.00%) Jaspersoft