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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 14 38
Rank change year-on-year +1 +24 -19
Contract jobs citing AWS 376 172 75
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.90% 9.68% 3.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.74% 30.77% 14.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 106 40
10th Percentile £371 £400 £310
25th Percentile £425 £450 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £610 £572 £577
90th Percentile £675 £638 £675
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £50.48 - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.11% +58.08% -38.43%

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 1,052 559 527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.49% 31.46% 27.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 712 360 361
10th Percentile £306 £300 £213
25th Percentile £406 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £514 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.54% +8.16% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £612
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 6 8
10th Percentile £17.66 £31.94 £15.48
25th Percentile £21.25 £34.16 £19.94
Median hourly rate £33.99 £35.49 £32.21
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% +10.19% +69.51%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.69 £34.20
90th Percentile £75.00 £59.44 £41.00
England median hourly rate £34.13 £26.38 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.38% -12.08% -9.09%

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 6 September 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 6 September 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 6 September 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 +1 156 £500 -6.37% 17
Birmingham -2 75 £425 -10.53% 85
Solihull +5 38 £488 +8.33% 4
Warwickshire +8 34 £477 -23.68% 9
Coventry -10 32 £475 -8.43% 6
Worcestershire +3 10 £613 +11.36% 9
Staffordshire -8 4 £200 -55.56% 6
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 47 (12.50%) Confluence
2 46 (12.23%) SAS
3 22 (5.85%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.86%) Tuxedo
5 5 (1.33%) Apache
6 4 (1.06%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.06%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.53%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.53%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.27%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.27%) CMS
9 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.27%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.27%) Maximo
3 1 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 153 (40.69%) Azure
2 63 (16.76%) GitHub
3 52 (13.83%) Amazon S3
4 45 (11.97%) GCP
5 43 (11.44%) GitHub Actions
6 40 (10.64%) Amazon EC2
7 38 (10.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 38 (10.11%) Serverless
8 34 (9.04%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (7.45%) Amazon EKS
10 23 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (5.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 18 (4.79%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
14 14 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (3.72%) GitHub Copilot
15 13 (3.46%) SaaS
16 11 (2.93%) AWS CodePipeline
16 11 (2.93%) PaaS
17 10 (2.66%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.39%) DHCP
1 9 (2.39%) DNS
1 9 (2.39%) Firewall
1 9 (2.39%) SD-WAN
1 9 (2.39%) WAN
2 6 (1.60%) BGP
2 6 (1.60%) Network Security
2 6 (1.60%) OSPF
3 5 (1.33%) LAN
3 5 (1.33%) VXLAN
3 5 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.06%) NetScaler
4 4 (1.06%) VLAN
4 4 (1.06%) VPN
5 3 (0.80%) BIG-IP
5 3 (0.80%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (0.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.80%) MPLS
5 3 (0.80%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.80%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.78%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (8.24%) Pentaho
3 30 (7.98%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (5.85%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (5.32%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 20 (5.32%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 19 (5.05%) Metadata
6 19 (5.05%) MongoDB
6 19 (5.05%) Oracle Database
6 19 (5.05%) Relational Database
7 17 (4.52%) DynamoDB
8 16 (4.26%) Oracle Reports
9 15 (3.99%) MySQL
10 10 (2.66%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (2.66%) Data Lake
10 10 (2.66%) SQL Server
11 9 (2.39%) Power BI
12 8 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (2.13%) NoSQL
13 7 (1.86%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 100 (26.60%) GitLab
2 76 (20.21%) Git
3 72 (19.15%) Jenkins
4 67 (17.82%) JIRA
5 48 (12.77%) JUnit
6 29 (7.71%) Maven
6 29 (7.71%) Selenium
6 29 (7.71%) SonarQube
7 25 (6.65%) Mockito
8 23 (6.12%) Cucumber
9 20 (5.32%) Zephyr
10 18 (4.79%) Postman
11 17 (4.52%) Gatling
12 13 (3.46%) Artifactory
13 12 (3.19%) Bitbucket
14 8 (2.13%) JMeter
15 7 (1.86%) WebDriver
16 6 (1.60%) DbUnit
16 6 (1.60%) jMock
16 6 (1.60%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 125 (33.24%) Social Skills
2 95 (25.27%) Public Sector
3 29 (7.71%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (1.86%) Finance
5 7 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (1.60%) Legal
7 5 (1.33%) Banking
7 5 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.33%) Military
8 4 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (0.80%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.80%) Retail
9 3 (0.80%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.53%) Advertising
10 2 (0.53%) Front Office
10 2 (0.53%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 67 (17.82%) Architect
2 53 (14.10%) Data Engineer
3 49 (13.03%) Senior
4 32 (8.51%) Developer
5 29 (7.71%) AWS Engineer
6 26 (6.91%) Lead
7 25 (6.65%) Java Developer
7 25 (6.65%) Scrum Master
8 20 (5.32%) Tester
9 17 (4.52%) DevOps Engineer
9 17 (4.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 16 (4.26%) Data Architect
11 15 (3.99%) Solutions Architect
12 14 (3.72%) Quality Engineer
12 14 (3.72%) Senior Developer
13 13 (3.46%) Senior Java Developer
13 13 (3.46%) Technical Architect
14 11 (2.93%) Cloud Engineer
14 11 (2.93%) QA Tester
15 10 (2.66%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (16.22%) Spring
2 56 (14.89%) Terraform
3 45 (11.97%) Spring Boot
4 31 (8.24%) REST
5 27 (7.18%) RESTful
6 24 (6.38%) JPA
7 23 (6.12%) Playwright
8 21 (5.59%) SOAP
9 17 (4.52%) AngularJS
9 17 (4.52%) Spring Cloud
10 16 (4.26%) ActiveMQ
10 16 (4.26%) Hibernate
10 16 (4.26%) React
10 16 (4.26%) Web Services
11 15 (3.99%) WireMock
12 13 (3.46%) JSON
13 12 (3.19%) Kafka
13 12 (3.19%) Node.js
14 11 (2.93%) Elastic Stack
15 10 (2.66%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 56 (14.89%) Cloud Native
2 36 (9.57%) Product Ownership
3 25 (6.65%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (5.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (3.19%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (3.19%) Private Cloud
6 11 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.93%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.93%) Public Cloud
7 10 (2.66%) Data Fabric
8 9 (2.39%) Operational Technology
8 9 (2.39%) Replication
9 8 (2.13%) Data Centre
9 8 (2.13%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (1.60%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.33%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (9.57%) Linux
2 23 (6.12%) Windows
3 22 (5.85%) Unix
4 13 (3.46%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.60%) AIX
6 2 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.53%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.53%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.27%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (48.40%) Agile
2 156 (41.49%) CI/CD
3 124 (32.98%) DevOps
4 105 (27.93%) Test Automation
5 101 (26.86%) Migration
6 90 (23.94%) Scrum
7 82 (21.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 74 (19.68%) Containerisation
9 71 (18.88%) Stakeholder Management
10 70 (18.62%) Infrastructure as Code
11 69 (18.35%) Microservices
12 57 (15.16%) Technical Leadership
13 56 (14.89%) ETL
14 54 (14.36%) Data Integration
15 50 (13.30%) Analytics
16 47 (12.50%) Observability
17 45 (11.97%) Test Strategy
18 41 (10.90%) Data Engineering
18 41 (10.90%) Data Pipeline
18 41 (10.90%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 110 (29.26%) SQL
2 80 (21.28%) Java
3 60 (15.96%) Python
4 22 (5.85%) JavaScript
5 20 (5.32%) Bash
6 14 (3.72%) PowerShell
6 14 (3.72%) TypeScript
7 12 (3.19%) PL/SQL
8 7 (1.86%) VB
8 7 (1.86%) VB6
9 6 (1.60%) Go
9 6 (1.60%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.33%) C
11 3 (0.80%) R
12 2 (0.53%) Bicep
12 2 (0.53%) Groovy
12 2 (0.53%) Scala
13 1 (0.27%) C#
13 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 200 (53.19%) Security Cleared
2 172 (45.74%) SC Cleared
3 31 (8.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 23 (6.12%) AWS Certification
5 20 (5.32%) ISTQB
6 14 (3.72%) Degree
7 11 (2.93%) Azure Certification
7 11 (2.93%) SAFe Agilist
8 10 (2.66%) DV Cleared
9 9 (2.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (1.06%) SAS Certification
12 3 (0.80%) CCNP
12 3 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.80%) CISSP
13 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.53%) OCP
13 2 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (12.50%) QA
2 21 (5.59%) Accessibility
3 16 (4.26%) WCAG
4 12 (3.19%) Data Quality
5 11 (2.93%) NIST
6 6 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.60%) SLA
7 5 (1.33%) GDPR
8 4 (1.06%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.27%) GRC
9 1 (0.27%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 90 (23.94%) Docker
2 15 (3.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (3.72%) vSphere
4 13 (3.46%) Active Directory
5 12 (3.19%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (1.33%) GPFS
6 5 (1.33%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.33%) NFS
6 5 (1.33%) Postfix
7 2 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.27%) Firmware
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 75 (19.95%) Kubernetes
2 50 (13.30%) Grafana
3 36 (9.57%) Prometheus
4 19 (5.05%) Ansible
5 9 (2.39%) Kibana
6 8 (2.13%) Progress Chef
6 8 (2.13%) Puppet
7 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.06%) SCCM
8 4 (1.06%) vRealize
9 2 (0.53%) Argo
9 2 (0.53%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.53%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.53%) VxRail
10 1 (0.27%) Istio
10 1 (0.27%) Podman
10 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 101 (26.86%) Oracle
2 38 (10.11%) Talend
3 32 (8.51%) Microsoft
4 25 (6.65%) Denodo
5 24 (6.38%) VMware
6 20 (5.32%) Databricks
7 18 (4.79%) Cisco
7 18 (4.79%) ServiceNow
8 17 (4.52%) Informatica
9 14 (3.72%) Splunk
10 9 (2.39%) Google
10 9 (2.39%) SAP
11 8 (2.13%) IBM
11 8 (2.13%) Jaspersoft
11 8 (2.13%) Palo Alto
12 7 (1.86%) Atlassian
13 5 (1.33%) Actian
13 5 (1.33%) Cloudera
13 5 (1.33%) Dynatrace
14 4 (1.06%) OpenAI