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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 21 49
Rank change year-on-year +9 +28 -26
Contract jobs citing AWS 346 97 65
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.71% 6.94% 3.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.97% 21.75% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 61 44
10th Percentile £329 £400 £311
25th Percentile £404 £425 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £512 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.23% +13.78% -18.18%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £661
90th Percentile £650 £638 £688
England median daily rate £543 £545 £561
% change year-on-year -0.46% -2.90% -6.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £48.15 - £23.46
25th Percentile £58.13 - £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 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +27.27% -26.67%

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 936 446 460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 28.97% 31.93% 23.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 659 298 357
10th Percentile £313 £200 £211
25th Percentile £401 £377 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +10.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £611
90th Percentile £675 £658 £688
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 9 12
10th Percentile £22.50 £15.27 £14.14
25th Percentile £24.38 £18.13 £15.56
Median hourly rate £33.99 £18.74 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.38% -16.71% +11.17%
75th Percentile £67.84 £34.98 £26.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £45.70 £33.19
England median hourly rate £39.75 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +55.88% +19.33% -38.94%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +4 119 £469 +1.96% 11
Birmingham +8 85 £425 -15.00% 35
Coventry +7 40 £450 -26.53% 6
Warwickshire +8 32 £513 -17.34% 9
Solihull -2 31 £494 +7.34% 6
Worcestershire +4 10 £628 +0.40% 6
Herefordshire -7 4 £538 -23.21% 4
Staffordshire -5 1 £313 -43.18% 9
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 74 (21.39%) Confluence
2 55 (15.90%) SAS
3 18 (5.20%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.31%) Apache
5 7 (2.02%) WebLogic
6 5 (1.45%) Anypoint
7 4 (1.16%) Apache Spark
7 4 (1.16%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.87%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.58%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.58%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.29%) CMS
10 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.29%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.58%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.29%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.29%) CATIA
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.29%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.29%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.58%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 140 (40.46%) Azure
2 60 (17.34%) Amazon S3
3 52 (15.03%) GCP
4 46 (13.29%) GitHub
5 41 (11.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 41 (11.85%) Amazon EC2
6 36 (10.40%) GitHub Actions
7 33 (9.54%) Serverless
8 30 (8.67%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (6.36%) Amazon SQS
9 22 (6.36%) AWS KMS
9 22 (6.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 21 (6.07%) Route 53
11 16 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (4.62%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (4.05%) Datadog
13 13 (3.76%) Amazon ECS
14 12 (3.47%) AWS CodePipeline
15 11 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
16 10 (2.89%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.89%) Firewall
2 8 (2.31%) VPN
3 7 (2.02%) VSAN
4 6 (1.73%) DHCP
4 6 (1.73%) DNS
4 6 (1.73%) Network Security
4 6 (1.73%) SD-WAN
4 6 (1.73%) WAN
5 5 (1.45%) HTTPS
6 4 (1.16%) BGP
6 4 (1.16%) OSPF
6 4 (1.16%) VLAN
7 3 (0.87%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (0.87%) VXLAN
7 3 (0.87%) WLAN
8 2 (0.58%) BIG-IP
8 2 (0.58%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.58%) NAS
8 2 (0.58%) SAN
8 2 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (12.43%) Amazon RDS
2 39 (11.27%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (8.67%) Pentaho
4 28 (8.09%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (7.23%) DynamoDB
6 18 (5.20%) Oracle Reports
7 17 (4.91%) Amazon Aurora
8 16 (4.62%) Amazon Redshift
9 14 (4.05%) Oracle Database
10 13 (3.76%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 13 (3.76%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 11 (3.18%) MongoDB
12 10 (2.89%) Relational Database
13 8 (2.31%) Data Lake
13 8 (2.31%) MySQL
13 8 (2.31%) Power BI
14 6 (1.73%) Amazon Athena
15 5 (1.45%) SAS Data Integration Studio
16 4 (1.16%) Apache Iceberg
16 4 (1.16%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 97 (28.03%) JIRA
2 75 (21.68%) Git
3 69 (19.94%) Jenkins
4 68 (19.65%) GitLab
5 39 (11.27%) JUnit
6 25 (7.23%) Selenium
7 22 (6.36%) Maven
7 22 (6.36%) SonarQube
8 19 (5.49%) Mockito
8 19 (5.49%) Zephyr
9 18 (5.20%) Cucumber
9 18 (5.20%) JMeter
10 17 (4.91%) Postman
11 16 (4.62%) WebDriver
12 14 (4.05%) Artifactory
13 13 (3.76%) DbUnit
13 13 (3.76%) jMock
14 11 (3.18%) Bitbucket
14 11 (3.18%) Bitbucket Server
15 8 (2.31%) REST Assured
General
1 117 (33.82%) Social Skills
2 71 (20.52%) Public Sector
3 50 (14.45%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (7.51%) Finance
5 11 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (2.60%) Banking
6 9 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.16%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.16%) Retail
9 3 (0.87%) Legal
10 2 (0.58%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.29%) Advertising
11 1 (0.29%) Military
11 1 (0.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (13.87%) Data Engineer
2 45 (13.01%) Architect
3 41 (11.85%) Developer
4 34 (9.83%) Analyst
4 34 (9.83%) Senior
5 30 (8.67%) Tester
6 29 (8.38%) Lead
7 26 (7.51%) AWS Engineer
7 26 (7.51%) Java Developer
8 15 (4.34%) QA Tester
9 14 (4.05%) AWS Data Engineer
9 14 (4.05%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (3.47%) Cloud Architect
10 12 (3.47%) Scrum Master
10 12 (3.47%) Storage Analyst
11 11 (3.18%) Business Analyst
11 11 (3.18%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (3.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (3.18%) Senior Developer
12 10 (2.89%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (12.72%) Spring
2 30 (8.67%) REST
3 29 (8.38%) Spring Boot
4 23 (6.65%) SOAP
5 22 (6.36%) AngularJS
6 20 (5.78%) Node.js
7 19 (5.49%) JPA
7 19 (5.49%) Spring Cloud
7 19 (5.49%) Web Services
8 17 (4.91%) ActiveMQ
8 17 (4.91%) Hibernate
8 17 (4.91%) Spring Batch
8 17 (4.91%) Spring Integration
8 17 (4.91%) WireMock
9 13 (3.76%) Flash
9 13 (3.76%) PowerMock
9 13 (3.76%) RESTful
10 11 (3.18%) Bootstrap
11 9 (2.60%) Elastic Stack
11 9 (2.60%) React
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.25%) Cloud Native
1 32 (9.25%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (5.20%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (4.62%) Linux Command Line
3 16 (4.62%) Product Ownership
4 15 (4.34%) Replication
5 13 (3.76%) Distributed Architecture
6 11 (3.18%) Data Centre
6 11 (3.18%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.89%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (2.60%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.73%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.45%) Operational Technology
12 4 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.16%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.87%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.87%) Distributed Applications
14 2 (0.58%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 59 (17.05%) Linux
2 22 (6.36%) Windows
3 21 (6.07%) Unix
4 10 (2.89%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.87%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.58%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.29%) AIX
8 1 (0.29%) Android
8 1 (0.29%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.29%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (50.29%) Agile
2 145 (41.91%) CI/CD
3 110 (31.79%) DevOps
4 84 (24.28%) Migration
5 81 (23.41%) Test Automation
6 66 (19.08%) Containerisation
6 66 (19.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 60 (17.34%) ETL
7 60 (17.34%) Microservices
8 59 (17.05%) Scrum
8 59 (17.05%) Stakeholder Management
9 49 (14.16%) Infrastructure as Code
10 47 (13.58%) Analytics
10 47 (13.58%) Observability
11 45 (13.01%) TDD
12 43 (12.43%) Data Modelling
13 39 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
14 37 (10.69%) End-to-End Testing
15 36 (10.40%) Validation
16 35 (10.12%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 116 (33.53%) SQL
2 66 (19.08%) Python
3 49 (14.16%) Java
4 24 (6.94%) Bash
5 17 (4.91%) PowerShell
6 11 (3.18%) PL/SQL
6 11 (3.18%) Shell Script
7 9 (2.60%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.73%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.45%) Go
9 5 (1.45%) Perl
10 2 (0.58%) BeanShell
10 2 (0.58%) Bicep
10 2 (0.58%) Groovy
10 2 (0.58%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.29%) PHP
11 1 (0.29%) Scala
11 1 (0.29%) Swift
11 1 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 199 (57.51%) Security Cleared
2 172 (49.71%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.49%) ISTQB
4 16 (4.62%) AWS Certification
4 16 (4.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (3.47%) Degree
6 10 (2.89%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (2.89%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.89%) SAFe Agilist
7 9 (2.60%) IIBA
8 8 (2.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 8 (2.31%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.73%) CISSP
10 5 (1.45%) CCNA
11 3 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.87%) CCNP
11 3 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.87%) SAS Certification
12 2 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (10.12%) QA
2 14 (4.05%) GDPR
3 12 (3.47%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.31%) NIST
5 7 (2.02%) SLA
6 6 (1.73%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.45%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.58%) COBIT
8 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.58%) WCAG
9 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 97 (28.03%) Docker
2 22 (6.36%) vSphere
3 21 (6.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (4.62%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (3.76%) Active Directory
5 13 (3.76%) GPFS
5 13 (3.76%) NFS
6 11 (3.18%) Postfix
7 4 (1.16%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.58%) Firmware
9 1 (0.29%) HDFS
9 1 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 74 (21.39%) Kubernetes
2 69 (19.94%) Grafana
3 52 (15.03%) Terraform
4 46 (13.29%) Prometheus
5 18 (5.20%) Ansible
6 16 (4.62%) vRealize
7 10 (2.89%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.02%) VxRail
9 6 (1.73%) Puppet
10 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.87%) Argo
12 2 (0.58%) Check_MK
12 2 (0.58%) Kibana
13 1 (0.29%) Control-M
13 1 (0.29%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.29%) Istio
13 1 (0.29%) Nessus
13 1 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
13 1 (0.29%) Podman
Vendors
1 97 (28.03%) Oracle
2 46 (13.29%) Talend
3 36 (10.40%) Microsoft
4 33 (9.54%) Informatica
5 32 (9.25%) ServiceNow
6 28 (8.09%) Denodo
7 23 (6.65%) VMware
8 22 (6.36%) Cisco
8 22 (6.36%) IBM
9 21 (6.07%) Splunk
10 17 (4.91%) Jaspersoft
11 15 (4.34%) Dynatrace
12 14 (4.05%) Atlassian
13 11 (3.18%) AppDynamics
13 11 (3.18%) Cloudera
13 11 (3.18%) Databricks
14 7 (2.02%) SAP
15 6 (1.73%) SolarWinds
16 5 (1.45%) Axway
16 5 (1.45%) Commvault