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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 22 46
Rank change year-on-year +13 +24 -24
Contract jobs citing AWS 376 111 75
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.39% 7.56% 3.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.13% 24.18% 15.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 72 46
10th Percentile £350 £401 £311
25th Percentile £412 £454 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £503
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +4.48% -6.94%
75th Percentile £550 £578 £670
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £550 £538 £560
% change year-on-year +2.33% -4.02% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile £50.48 - £23.46
25th Percentile £65.00 - £28.71
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £37.48
75th Percentile £75.00 - £46.24
90th Percentile - - £51.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £71.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year -1.75% +54.29% -37.59%

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 986 459 489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 29.88% 31.25% 23.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 701 301 363
10th Percentile £306 £220 £203
25th Percentile £400 £388 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £611
90th Percentile £671 £675 £688
England median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 6 12
10th Percentile £22.50 £17.01 £14.14
25th Percentile £26.15 £21.88 £15.56
Median hourly rate £33.99 £34.43 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +53.02% +11.17%
75th Percentile £71.42 £40.22 £26.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £51.30 £33.19
England median hourly rate £42.59 £25.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +67.03% +15.91% -32.31%

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 21 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 21 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in the West Midlands

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 21 June 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
Shropshire +6 140 £470 +2.15% 16
Birmingham +7 94 £425 -15.00% 30
Coventry +1 34 £450 -13.25% 5
Solihull -3 33 £494 +9.72% 4
Warwickshire +4 31 £519 -17.00% 2
Worcestershire +2 10 £680 +23.64% 6
Staffordshire -4 3 £200 -63.64% 5
Herefordshire -6 3 £538 -23.21% 2
Bilston - 1 £550 -
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 78 (20.74%) Confluence
2 65 (17.29%) SAS
3 25 (6.65%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.66%) Apache
5 7 (1.86%) Tuxedo
5 7 (1.86%) WebLogic
6 6 (1.60%) Apache Spark
7 4 (1.06%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.53%) CloudStack
10 1 (0.27%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.27%) CMS
10 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.27%) nginx
10 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.27%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.27%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.53%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 154 (40.96%) Azure
2 63 (16.76%) Amazon S3
3 56 (14.89%) GCP
4 54 (14.36%) GitHub
5 44 (11.70%) Amazon EC2
6 43 (11.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 38 (10.11%) GitHub Actions
8 32 (8.51%) Serverless
9 29 (7.71%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (5.85%) Amazon SQS
10 22 (5.85%) AWS KMS
10 22 (5.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 20 (5.32%) Route 53
12 15 (3.99%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (3.99%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (3.99%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (3.46%) AWS CodePipeline
14 12 (3.19%) PaaS
14 12 (3.19%) Power Platform
15 11 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.66%) Firewall
2 8 (2.13%) SD-WAN
2 8 (2.13%) WAN
3 7 (1.86%) DHCP
3 7 (1.86%) DNS
4 6 (1.60%) VPN
5 5 (1.33%) BGP
5 5 (1.33%) OSPF
5 5 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.06%) Ethernet VPN
6 4 (1.06%) Network Security
6 4 (1.06%) VLAN
6 4 (1.06%) VSAN
6 4 (1.06%) VXLAN
7 3 (0.80%) BIG-IP
7 3 (0.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 3 (0.80%) WLAN
8 2 (0.53%) LAN
8 2 (0.53%) PBX
8 2 (0.53%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (10.90%) Amazon RDS
2 40 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (9.57%) Pentaho
4 33 (8.78%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (6.65%) DynamoDB
6 22 (5.85%) Oracle Database
7 21 (5.59%) Oracle Reports
8 20 (5.32%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 20 (5.32%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 19 (5.05%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (4.52%) Amazon Aurora
11 16 (4.26%) Relational Database
12 11 (2.93%) MongoDB
12 11 (2.93%) MySQL
13 10 (2.66%) Power BI
14 9 (2.39%) Data Lake
15 7 (1.86%) Ingres
15 7 (1.86%) SQL Server
16 6 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
16 6 (1.60%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 100 (26.60%) JIRA
2 87 (23.14%) Git
3 75 (19.95%) GitLab
4 74 (19.68%) Jenkins
5 40 (10.64%) JUnit
6 25 (6.65%) Selenium
7 22 (5.85%) Maven
7 22 (5.85%) Zephyr
8 21 (5.59%) SonarQube
9 20 (5.32%) Mockito
10 19 (5.05%) Cucumber
10 19 (5.05%) JMeter
10 19 (5.05%) Postman
11 17 (4.52%) WebDriver
12 13 (3.46%) Artifactory
12 13 (3.46%) DbUnit
12 13 (3.46%) jMock
13 11 (2.93%) Bitbucket
13 11 (2.93%) Bitbucket Server
14 8 (2.13%) REST Assured
General
1 127 (33.78%) Social Skills
2 88 (23.40%) Public Sector
3 44 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.38%) Finance
5 11 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (2.39%) Banking
6 9 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.06%) Retail
10 3 (0.80%) Legal
10 3 (0.80%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.53%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.53%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.27%) Advertising
12 1 (0.27%) Military
12 1 (0.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 55 (14.63%) Data Engineer
2 53 (14.10%) Architect
3 42 (11.17%) Developer
3 42 (11.17%) Senior
4 32 (8.51%) Tester
5 29 (7.71%) Analyst
5 29 (7.71%) Lead
6 28 (7.45%) AWS Engineer
7 27 (7.18%) Java Developer
8 17 (4.52%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (4.52%) QA Tester
9 15 (3.99%) Scrum Master
10 14 (3.72%) AWS Data Engineer
10 14 (3.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (3.46%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (3.19%) Cloud Architect
12 12 (3.19%) Technical Architect
13 11 (2.93%) Business Analyst
13 11 (2.93%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (12.50%) Spring
2 31 (8.24%) Spring Boot
3 29 (7.71%) REST
4 22 (5.85%) AngularJS
4 22 (5.85%) SOAP
5 20 (5.32%) JPA
5 20 (5.32%) Node.js
6 19 (5.05%) Spring Cloud
6 19 (5.05%) Web Services
7 18 (4.79%) WireMock
8 17 (4.52%) ActiveMQ
8 17 (4.52%) Hibernate
8 17 (4.52%) Spring Batch
8 17 (4.52%) Spring Integration
9 14 (3.72%) RESTful
10 13 (3.46%) PowerMock
11 12 (3.19%) Flash
12 11 (2.93%) Bootstrap
13 10 (2.66%) AWS CDK
14 9 (2.39%) React
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.78%) Cloud Native
2 32 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (5.59%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.72%) Data Centre
5 14 (3.72%) Distributed Architecture
5 14 (3.72%) Replication
6 12 (3.19%) Linux Command Line
7 11 (2.93%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
9 8 (2.13%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.60%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.60%) Operational Technology
10 6 (1.60%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.80%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.80%) Data Fabric
12 3 (0.80%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 58 (15.43%) Linux
2 25 (6.65%) Windows
3 21 (5.59%) Unix
4 11 (2.93%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.80%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.53%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.27%) AIX
8 1 (0.27%) Android
8 1 (0.27%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.27%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (50.00%) Agile
2 151 (40.16%) CI/CD
3 123 (32.71%) DevOps
4 104 (27.66%) Migration
5 87 (23.14%) Test Automation
6 73 (19.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 70 (18.62%) Containerisation
8 67 (17.82%) ETL
9 65 (17.29%) Scrum
10 60 (15.96%) Analytics
10 60 (15.96%) Stakeholder Management
11 58 (15.43%) Microservices
12 56 (14.89%) Infrastructure as Code
13 49 (13.03%) Validation
14 46 (12.23%) TDD
15 45 (11.97%) Data Integration
15 45 (11.97%) Data Modelling
16 44 (11.70%) Observability
16 44 (11.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 41 (10.90%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 134 (35.64%) SQL
2 68 (18.09%) Python
3 51 (13.56%) Java
4 21 (5.59%) Bash
5 13 (3.46%) PowerShell
6 12 (3.19%) PL/SQL
7 11 (2.93%) Shell Script
8 9 (2.39%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.86%) VB
9 7 (1.86%) VB6
10 6 (1.60%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.33%) C
11 5 (1.33%) Perl
12 4 (1.06%) Go
13 2 (0.53%) Bicep
13 2 (0.53%) Groovy
13 2 (0.53%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.27%) Scala
14 1 (0.27%) Swift
Qualifications
1 226 (60.11%) Security Cleared
2 193 (51.33%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.85%) ISTQB
4 18 (4.79%) AWS Certification
5 16 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (3.46%) Degree
7 11 (2.93%) SAFe Agilist
8 10 (2.66%) Azure Certification
9 9 (2.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 9 (2.39%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (2.39%) DV Cleared
9 9 (2.39%) IIBA
10 5 (1.33%) CCNA
10 5 (1.33%) CISSP
11 4 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.06%) SAS Certification
12 3 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.53%) CCNP
13 2 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (11.70%) QA
2 15 (3.99%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.46%) GDPR
4 9 (2.39%) NIST
5 8 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.13%) SLA
6 6 (1.60%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.33%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.53%) COBIT
8 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.53%) WCAG
9 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 95 (25.27%) Docker
2 18 (4.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (4.79%) vSphere
3 16 (4.26%) VMware ESXi
4 13 (3.46%) Active Directory
5 12 (3.19%) GPFS
5 12 (3.19%) NFS
6 11 (2.93%) Postfix
7 5 (1.33%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.53%) Firmware
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 74 (19.68%) Kubernetes
2 66 (17.55%) Grafana
3 55 (14.63%) Terraform
4 43 (11.44%) Prometheus
5 18 (4.79%) Ansible
6 11 (2.93%) vRealize
7 8 (2.13%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.06%) Puppet
9 4 (1.06%) VxRail
10 3 (0.80%) Kibana
10 3 (0.80%) SCCM
11 2 (0.53%) Argo
11 2 (0.53%) Check_MK
12 1 (0.27%) Control-M
12 1 (0.27%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.27%) Istio
12 1 (0.27%) Nessus
12 1 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 116 (30.85%) Oracle
2 52 (13.83%) Talend
3 38 (10.11%) Microsoft
4 34 (9.04%) ServiceNow
5 32 (8.51%) Informatica
6 31 (8.24%) Denodo
7 23 (6.12%) VMware
8 18 (4.79%) Cisco
9 17 (4.52%) Jaspersoft
10 16 (4.26%) Splunk
11 14 (3.72%) Atlassian
11 14 (3.72%) Databricks
11 14 (3.72%) IBM
12 11 (2.93%) Cloudera
12 11 (2.93%) Dynatrace
13 7 (1.86%) Red Hat
13 7 (1.86%) SAP
14 6 (1.60%) Google
15 5 (1.33%) Actian
16 4 (1.06%) AppDynamics