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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 40 18
Rank change year-on-year +28 -22 -7
Contract jobs citing AWS 246 82 150
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 12.29% 4.35% 7.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.75% 14.44% 22.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 33 101
10th Percentile £368 £330 £325
25th Percentile £428 £409 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% -4.60% -7.41%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £600
90th Percentile £638 £640 £725
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%

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 708 568 677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 35.38% 30.15% 35.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 372 496
10th Percentile £300 £214 £200
25th Percentile £413 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year +0.85% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £600 £611 £588
90th Percentile £699 £687 £688
England median daily rate £500 £530 £535
% change year-on-year -5.66% -0.93% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 7
10th Percentile £25.82 £16.53 £17.50
25th Percentile £27.21 £28.14 £17.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.74 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.07% +82.35% +8.12%
75th Percentile £34.98 £35.00 £19.25
90th Percentile £40.45 - £19.45
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -29.15% +29.09% +22.22%

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 29 October 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 29 October 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 +31 84 £485 -2.95% 38
Shropshire -2 59 £515 +7.97% 13
Coventry +11 33 £406 -14.47% 25
Warwickshire +8 25 £623 -7.78% 21
Solihull - 13 £450 - 1
Worcestershire +1 11 £550 +57.14% 7
Staffordshire -5 2 £450 +4.35% 36
Wolverhampton - 2 £425 - 8
Herefordshire - 2 £525 - 4
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 29 (11.79%) Confluence
2 24 (9.76%) Apache
3 22 (8.94%) WebLogic
4 15 (6.10%) nginx
5 10 (4.07%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (4.07%) SAS
6 8 (3.25%) JBoss
7 6 (2.44%) OpenStack
8 4 (1.63%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (1.22%) Apache Spark
9 3 (1.22%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.81%) Drupal
11 1 (0.41%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 12 (4.88%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (2.44%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.41%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 126 (51.22%) Azure
2 64 (26.02%) GCP
3 51 (20.73%) Amazon S3
4 45 (18.29%) Amazon EC2
5 40 (16.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 39 (15.85%) AWS KMS
7 38 (15.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 28 (11.38%) Amazon ELB
8 28 (11.38%) Serverless
9 22 (8.94%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (8.13%) GitHub
11 19 (7.72%) Route 53
12 17 (6.91%) Amazon ECS
13 16 (6.50%) Azure Monitor
14 15 (6.10%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (5.69%) Amazon EKS
15 14 (5.69%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (5.28%) Datadog
17 12 (4.88%) Amazon Glacier
17 12 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 54 (21.95%) Firewall
2 42 (17.07%) DNS
3 25 (10.16%) HTTP
4 24 (9.76%) SMTP
5 22 (8.94%) FTP
5 22 (8.94%) SSH
6 14 (5.69%) DHCP
7 13 (5.28%) VPN
8 12 (4.88%) IMAP
8 12 (4.88%) OpenLDAP
9 9 (3.66%) Network Security
10 8 (3.25%) VLAN
10 8 (3.25%) Wireshark
11 7 (2.85%) BGP
11 7 (2.85%) LAN
11 7 (2.85%) OSPF
11 7 (2.85%) VSAN
11 7 (2.85%) Wireless
12 6 (2.44%) EIGRP
12 6 (2.44%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (16.26%) Amazon RDS
1 40 (16.26%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (8.54%) Amazon Aurora
3 14 (5.69%) MongoDB
3 14 (5.69%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.66%) DynamoDB
4 9 (3.66%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 9 (3.66%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 8 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.25%) Oracle Database
5 8 (3.25%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.44%) MySQL
6 6 (2.44%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.63%) SAS Data Integration Studio
8 3 (1.22%) Metadata
8 3 (1.22%) Power BI
9 2 (0.81%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.81%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 69 (28.05%) Git
2 68 (27.64%) Jenkins
3 42 (17.07%) GitLab
4 34 (13.82%) JIRA
5 26 (10.57%) JUnit
6 24 (9.76%) Vagrant
7 18 (7.32%) Maven
8 17 (6.91%) Selenium
9 13 (5.28%) SonarQube
10 12 (4.88%) Mockito
11 10 (4.07%) Liquibase
12 7 (2.85%) Cucumber
12 7 (2.85%) Eclipse
12 7 (2.85%) IntelliJ
13 6 (2.44%) Bitbucket
13 6 (2.44%) CircleCI
13 6 (2.44%) Cypress.io
13 6 (2.44%) Gradle
14 5 (2.03%) Bitbucket Server
14 5 (2.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 102 (41.46%) Social Skills
2 59 (23.98%) Public Sector
3 36 (14.63%) Finance
4 20 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.13%) Presentation Skills
5 16 (6.50%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (6.10%) Banking
7 10 (4.07%) Financial Institution
7 10 (4.07%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.63%) Retail
10 3 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.81%) Legal
11 2 (0.81%) Military
12 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.41%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 49 (19.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 37 (15.04%) AWS Engineer
3 31 (12.60%) Developer
4 30 (12.20%) Platform Engineer
4 30 (12.20%) Senior
5 28 (11.38%) Architect
6 25 (10.16%) AWS DevOps
6 25 (10.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 23 (9.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 19 (7.72%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (6.50%) Java Developer
10 15 (6.10%) Cloud Engineer
11 14 (5.69%) Analyst
12 13 (5.28%) Software Engineer
13 12 (4.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 12 (4.88%) Data Engineer
13 12 (4.88%) Lead
14 11 (4.47%) Infrastructure Analyst
14 11 (4.47%) Senior DevOps
14 11 (4.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (17.89%) REST
2 27 (10.98%) Spring
3 26 (10.57%) RESTful
4 22 (8.94%) Elastic Stack
5 21 (8.54%) Spring Boot
6 20 (8.13%) JSON
6 20 (8.13%) SOAP
7 15 (6.10%) HTML
8 14 (5.69%) React
9 13 (5.28%) Hibernate
9 13 (5.28%) JPA
10 12 (4.88%) LDAP
10 12 (4.88%) Web Services
10 12 (4.88%) XML
11 11 (4.47%) OAuth
12 9 (3.66%) ActiveMQ
12 9 (3.66%) AngularJS
13 7 (2.85%) EJB
13 7 (2.85%) Flash
13 7 (2.85%) J2SE
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.20%) Replication
2 25 (10.16%) Cloud Native
3 21 (8.54%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (7.32%) Linux Command Line
5 15 (6.10%) Security Posture
6 13 (5.28%) Public Cloud
7 8 (3.25%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.44%) SCADA
9 5 (2.03%) Data Centre
9 5 (2.03%) PKI
9 5 (2.03%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.63%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.63%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.63%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (1.22%) IVR
11 3 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.22%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 90 (36.59%) Linux
2 54 (21.95%) Windows
3 25 (10.16%) Amazon Linux
4 24 (9.76%) VMS
5 23 (9.35%) Unix
6 12 (4.88%) Ubuntu
7 7 (2.85%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.81%) Android
8 2 (0.81%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.41%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.41%) SUSE
9 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (44.31%) DevOps
2 105 (42.68%) CI/CD
3 85 (34.55%) Agile
4 54 (21.95%) Containerisation
5 51 (20.73%) Microservices
6 49 (19.92%) Infrastructure as Code
7 47 (19.11%) Change Management
7 47 (19.11%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (17.07%) Cloud Security
8 42 (17.07%) Configuration Management
9 39 (15.85%) Analytics
10 38 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (14.63%) Platform Engineering
12 34 (13.82%) Scrum
13 32 (13.01%) Continuous Integration
13 32 (13.01%) Software Engineering
14 30 (12.20%) Migration
15 29 (11.79%) Incident Response
16 28 (11.38%) High Availability
17 26 (10.57%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 68 (27.64%) Python
2 65 (26.42%) SQL
3 49 (19.92%) Java
4 36 (14.63%) PowerShell
5 24 (9.76%) Groovy
6 17 (6.91%) Go
7 13 (5.28%) Perl
8 12 (4.88%) Bash
9 11 (4.47%) Scala
10 9 (3.66%) JavaScript
11 6 (2.44%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.63%) PHP
13 3 (1.22%) Ruby
13 3 (1.22%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.81%) JSX
14 2 (0.81%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.41%) Korn
15 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 92 (37.40%) Security Cleared
2 74 (30.08%) SC Cleared
3 35 (14.23%) Degree
4 34 (13.82%) AWS Certification
5 22 (8.94%) Azure Certification
6 19 (7.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (4.47%) Master's Degree
8 9 (3.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (3.66%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (2.03%) CCNP
10 5 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (2.03%) CISSP
11 4 (1.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.63%) CCIE
11 4 (1.63%) CCSP
12 3 (1.22%) CCIE Security
13 2 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.81%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.28%) GDPR
1 13 (5.28%) QA
2 12 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.07%) NIST
4 7 (2.85%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.85%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.44%) WCAG
6 2 (0.81%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.81%) SLA
7 1 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.41%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 95 (38.62%) Docker
2 24 (9.76%) Active Directory
3 22 (8.94%) DFS Replication
4 21 (8.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (6.50%) Postfix
6 14 (5.69%) vSphere
7 12 (4.88%) Dovecot
7 12 (4.88%) Squid
8 7 (2.85%) GPFS
8 7 (2.85%) NFS
8 7 (2.85%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (2.03%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.81%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.41%) Snort
11 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 73 (29.67%) Terraform
2 57 (23.17%) Kubernetes
3 56 (22.76%) Grafana
4 52 (21.14%) Prometheus
5 35 (14.23%) Ansible
6 14 (5.69%) vRealize
7 13 (5.28%) Puppet
8 12 (4.88%) Nessus
9 10 (4.07%) Proxmox
10 8 (3.25%) CSIRT
11 7 (2.85%) Kibana
11 7 (2.85%) Progress Chef
12 6 (2.44%) VxRail
13 5 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (1.63%) Podman
14 4 (1.63%) QRadar
15 3 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 2 (0.81%) Nagios
17 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
17 1 (0.41%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 47 (19.11%) Splunk
2 43 (17.48%) Microsoft
3 42 (17.07%) Cisco
4 40 (16.26%) Oracle
4 40 (16.26%) ServiceNow
5 25 (10.16%) AppDynamics
6 23 (9.35%) VMware
7 19 (7.72%) Dynatrace
7 19 (7.72%) F5
8 18 (7.32%) IBM
9 17 (6.91%) Google
10 16 (6.50%) Jaspersoft
11 14 (5.69%) SolarWinds
12 9 (3.66%) Palo Alto
13 8 (3.25%) Commvault
14 7 (2.85%) Dell
14 7 (2.85%) Salesforce
14 7 (2.85%) webMethods
15 6 (2.44%) Fortinet
15 6 (2.44%) HP