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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 38 20
Rank change year-on-year +27 -18 -10
Contract jobs citing AWS 269 87 151
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 12.57% 4.54% 7.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.91% 14.65% 22.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 41 107
10th Percentile £372 £360 £306
25th Percentile £442 £409 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% -1.40% -7.41%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £600
90th Percentile £726 £688 £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 £85.00 £46.18 £52.50
% change year-on-year +84.06% -12.04% +7.69%

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 749 594 669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 35.00% 30.97% 34.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 390 494
10th Percentile £300 £212 £200
25th Percentile £425 £363 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £461
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +8.40% -7.75%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £588
90th Percentile £700 £689 £688
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 16 8
10th Percentile £26.51 £16.51 £17.50
25th Percentile £27.21 £17.00 £17.69
Median hourly rate £31.94 £31.69 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +71.28% +4.40%
75th Percentile £35.75 £35.00 £19.38
90th Percentile £60.15 - £30.33
England median hourly rate £25.47 £33.93 £26.75
% change year-on-year -24.93% +26.84% +18.89%

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 23 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 23 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 +25 86 £500 - 37
Shropshire -10 61 £515 +5.10% 16
Coventry +12 44 £394 -17.11% 18
Warwickshire +13 25 £625 +25.00% 12
Worcestershire +4 20 £594 +69.64% 8
Herefordshire -5 7 £550 - 7
Solihull - 5 £450 -
Staffordshire -2 2 £450 -18.18% 25
Wolverhampton - 2 £425 - 8
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 (11.90%) Confluence
2 24 (8.92%) Apache
3 23 (8.55%) WebLogic
4 15 (5.58%) nginx
5 10 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (3.72%) SAS
6 9 (3.35%) JBoss
7 6 (2.23%) OpenStack
8 4 (1.49%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (1.12%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.74%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.74%) Drupal
11 1 (0.37%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 12 (4.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 8 (2.97%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.86%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.37%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 139 (51.67%) Azure
2 61 (22.68%) GCP
3 51 (18.96%) Amazon S3
4 43 (15.99%) Amazon EC2
5 37 (13.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 37 (13.75%) AWS KMS
5 37 (13.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 28 (10.41%) Amazon ELB
6 28 (10.41%) Serverless
7 20 (7.43%) GitHub
8 18 (6.69%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (6.32%) Route 53
10 16 (5.95%) Azure Monitor
11 15 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (5.58%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (5.58%) Datadog
11 15 (5.58%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (4.83%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (4.46%) Amazon Glacier
13 12 (4.46%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 54 (20.07%) Firewall
2 40 (14.87%) DNS
3 24 (8.92%) SMTP
4 23 (8.55%) HTTP
5 22 (8.18%) FTP
5 22 (8.18%) SSH
6 14 (5.20%) VPN
7 13 (4.83%) Network Security
8 12 (4.46%) DHCP
8 12 (4.46%) IMAP
8 12 (4.46%) OpenLDAP
9 10 (3.72%) VSAN
10 8 (2.97%) Wireshark
11 7 (2.60%) LAN
12 6 (2.23%) SD-WAN
12 6 (2.23%) TCP/IP
12 6 (2.23%) VLAN
12 6 (2.23%) WAN
13 5 (1.86%) VXLAN
13 5 (1.86%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (15.61%) Amazon RDS
2 36 (13.38%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (6.32%) MongoDB
4 16 (5.95%) Amazon Aurora
5 14 (5.20%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.72%) Oracle Database
6 10 (3.72%) Relational Database
7 9 (3.35%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 9 (3.35%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 8 (2.97%) MySQL
9 7 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.23%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.49%) SAS Data Integration Studio
12 4 (1.49%) SQL Server
13 3 (1.12%) InfluxDB
13 3 (1.12%) Metadata
14 2 (0.74%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.74%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 64 (23.79%) Git
1 64 (23.79%) Jenkins
2 45 (16.73%) GitLab
3 36 (13.38%) JIRA
4 24 (8.92%) JUnit
4 24 (8.92%) Vagrant
5 18 (6.69%) Selenium
6 14 (5.20%) Maven
7 10 (3.72%) Liquibase
7 10 (3.72%) Mockito
8 9 (3.35%) SonarQube
9 8 (2.97%) Eclipse
9 8 (2.97%) IntelliJ
10 7 (2.60%) Cucumber
11 6 (2.23%) CircleCI
11 6 (2.23%) Cypress.io
11 6 (2.23%) Gradle
12 5 (1.86%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.86%) Postman
12 5 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 109 (40.52%) Social Skills
2 54 (20.07%) Public Sector
3 38 (14.13%) Finance
4 23 (8.55%) Presentation Skills
5 19 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (7.06%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (5.95%) Banking
7 11 (4.09%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (3.72%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.60%) Aeronautics
10 4 (1.49%) Legal
11 3 (1.12%) Retail
12 2 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.74%) Military
12 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.37%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.37%) Marketing
13 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (18.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 42 (15.61%) AWS Engineer
3 34 (12.64%) Senior
4 30 (11.15%) Architect
4 30 (11.15%) Platform Engineer
5 26 (9.67%) Developer
6 25 (9.29%) Cloud Engineer
7 24 (8.92%) AWS DevOps
7 24 (8.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 23 (8.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 22 (8.18%) Analyst
10 18 (6.69%) Solutions Architect
11 16 (5.95%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 14 (5.20%) Lead
12 14 (5.20%) Software Engineer
13 12 (4.46%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 12 (4.46%) Data Engineer
13 12 (4.46%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (4.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 11 (4.09%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (16.73%) REST
2 27 (10.04%) RESTful
3 25 (9.29%) Spring
4 22 (8.18%) JSON
5 21 (7.81%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (7.06%) SOAP
7 18 (6.69%) Spring Boot
8 16 (5.95%) HTML
9 13 (4.83%) Hibernate
9 13 (4.83%) React
10 12 (4.46%) LDAP
10 12 (4.46%) XML
11 11 (4.09%) OAuth
12 10 (3.72%) Flash
12 10 (3.72%) JPA
13 8 (2.97%) EJB
13 8 (2.97%) HTML5
13 8 (2.97%) J2EE
13 8 (2.97%) J2SE
13 8 (2.97%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.64%) Replication
2 26 (9.67%) Cloud Native
3 24 (8.92%) Linux Command Line
4 18 (6.69%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (6.69%) Security Posture
5 13 (4.83%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.97%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.60%) SCADA
8 6 (2.23%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.86%) PKI
10 4 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.49%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.49%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.12%) IVR
11 3 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.12%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.74%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 100 (37.17%) Linux
2 60 (22.30%) Windows
3 24 (8.92%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (8.92%) VMS
4 22 (8.18%) Unix
5 15 (5.58%) Windows Server
6 11 (4.09%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.74%) Android
8 2 (0.74%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.37%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.37%) SUSE
9 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (41.64%) CI/CD
2 108 (40.15%) DevOps
3 94 (34.94%) Agile
4 55 (20.45%) Containerisation
5 53 (19.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 49 (18.22%) Microservices
7 48 (17.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 47 (17.47%) Cloud Security
9 46 (17.10%) Configuration Management
9 46 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
10 45 (16.73%) Change Management
11 42 (15.61%) Analytics
12 38 (14.13%) Software Engineering
13 35 (13.01%) Platform Engineering
14 32 (11.90%) Migration
15 31 (11.52%) Incident Response
15 31 (11.52%) Mentoring
16 30 (11.15%) Continuous Integration
16 30 (11.15%) High Availability
17 27 (10.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 71 (26.39%) Python
2 69 (25.65%) SQL
3 55 (20.45%) Java
4 40 (14.87%) PowerShell
5 24 (8.92%) Groovy
6 21 (7.81%) Go
7 14 (5.20%) Perl
8 11 (4.09%) Bash
8 11 (4.09%) Scala
9 10 (3.72%) JavaScript
9 10 (3.72%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.23%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.49%) PHP
12 3 (1.12%) BeanShell
12 3 (1.12%) Ruby
13 2 (0.74%) JSX
13 2 (0.74%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.37%) Korn
Qualifications
1 103 (38.29%) Security Cleared
2 81 (30.11%) SC Cleared
3 40 (14.87%) AWS Certification
4 38 (14.13%) Degree
5 23 (8.55%) Azure Certification
6 19 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (5.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 14 (5.20%) DV Cleared
9 11 (4.09%) Master's Degree
10 10 (3.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (3.35%) CISSP
12 6 (2.23%) CCNP
12 6 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (1.86%) CCIE
14 4 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (1.49%) CCSP
14 4 (1.49%) CISM
15 3 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (1.12%) CCIE Security
16 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.20%) GDPR
1 14 (5.20%) QA
2 13 (4.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.09%) NIST
4 7 (2.60%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.60%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.23%) WCAG
6 3 (1.12%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.37%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 93 (34.57%) Docker
2 31 (11.52%) Active Directory
3 28 (10.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (8.18%) DFS Replication
5 20 (7.43%) vSphere
6 15 (5.58%) Postfix
7 12 (4.46%) Dovecot
7 12 (4.46%) Squid
8 10 (3.72%) GPFS
8 10 (3.72%) NFS
8 10 (3.72%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (1.86%) VMware NSX
10 3 (1.12%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.37%) Snort
11 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 79 (29.37%) Terraform
2 65 (24.16%) Kubernetes
3 59 (21.93%) Grafana
4 53 (19.70%) Prometheus
5 42 (15.61%) Ansible
6 20 (7.43%) vRealize
7 14 (5.20%) Puppet
8 12 (4.46%) Nessus
8 12 (4.46%) Progress Chef
9 10 (3.72%) Proxmox
10 9 (3.35%) Kibana
10 9 (3.35%) VxRail
11 8 (2.97%) CSIRT
12 5 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.49%) Podman
13 4 (1.49%) QRadar
14 3 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 1 (0.37%) Argo
15 1 (0.37%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 47 (17.47%) Microsoft
1 47 (17.47%) Oracle
1 47 (17.47%) Splunk
2 46 (17.10%) ServiceNow
3 43 (15.99%) Cisco
4 31 (11.52%) VMware
5 28 (10.41%) AppDynamics
6 23 (8.55%) IBM
7 19 (7.06%) Dynatrace
7 19 (7.06%) F5
8 15 (5.58%) Jaspersoft
8 15 (5.58%) SolarWinds
9 13 (4.83%) Google
10 11 (4.09%) Commvault
10 11 (4.09%) Dell
11 10 (3.72%) Palo Alto
12 9 (3.35%) HP
13 8 (2.97%) webMethods
14 6 (2.23%) Fortinet
14 6 (2.23%) SAP