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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 27 42
Rank change year-on-year +18 +15 -29
Contract jobs citing AWS 328 87 83
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 12.31% 6.06% 4.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.27% 17.47% 15.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 53 66
10th Percentile £314 £400 £313
25th Percentile £406 £453 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £667 £700 £653
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.75 - -
Median hourly rate £76.50 - £19.95
75th Percentile £77.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £55.50 £48.62
% change year-on-year +35.14% +14.16% -24.33%

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 880 498 522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.03% 34.70% 27.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 644 342 401
10th Percentile £306 £200 £200
25th Percentile £411 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £595
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 11
10th Percentile £22.63 £15.84 £14.13
25th Percentile £25.55 £17.00 £17.63
Median hourly rate £27.21 £20.24 £19.95
Median % change year-on-year +34.44% +1.45% +21.94%
75th Percentile - £35.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £52.23 £37.79 -
England median hourly rate £38.54 £27.63 £21.50
% change year-on-year +39.49% +28.51% -14.00%

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 22 February 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
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 22 February 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
Birmingham +17 90 £525 -4.55% 41
Shropshire -6 85 £475 -3.36% 21
Coventry +13 52 £402 -19.60% 14
Warwickshire +13 36 £556 +11.25% 9
Worcestershire +5 21 £680 -2.86% 7
Solihull 0 12 £500 +0.50% 8
Herefordshire -9 12 £550 -21.43% 5
Staffordshire -1 2 £394 -28.41% 8
Wolverhampton - 2 £425 -
Bilston - 1 £550 - 1
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 48 (14.63%) Confluence
2 20 (6.10%) Apache
2 20 (6.10%) SAS
2 20 (6.10%) WebLogic
3 8 (2.44%) JBoss
4 6 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.52%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.52%) nginx
5 5 (1.52%) OpenStack
6 4 (1.22%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.91%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.61%) Drupal
9 1 (0.30%) CMS
9 1 (0.30%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 10 (3.05%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (2.44%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.91%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.30%) CATIA
4 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.30%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.30%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 148 (45.12%) Azure
2 74 (22.56%) GCP
3 48 (14.63%) Amazon S3
4 34 (10.37%) Amazon EC2
5 26 (7.93%) Datadog
5 26 (7.93%) Serverless
6 25 (7.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 23 (7.01%) GitHub
7 23 (7.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 22 (6.71%) AWS KMS
9 17 (5.18%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (4.88%) Amazon ELB
11 15 (4.57%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (4.57%) Entra ID
11 15 (4.57%) OpenShift
12 13 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (3.96%) Route 53
13 11 (3.35%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (2.74%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 32 (9.76%) Firewall
2 22 (6.71%) VPN
3 19 (5.79%) DNS
4 16 (4.88%) Network Security
5 14 (4.27%) VSAN
6 10 (3.05%) DHCP
7 9 (2.74%) SD-WAN
8 8 (2.44%) LAN
8 8 (2.44%) WAN
9 7 (2.13%) WLAN
10 6 (1.83%) BGP
10 6 (1.83%) HTTP
10 6 (1.83%) MPLS
10 6 (1.83%) OSPF
10 6 (1.83%) VLAN
11 5 (1.52%) IPv4
11 5 (1.52%) IPv6
11 5 (1.52%) SSH
11 5 (1.52%) SSL
11 5 (1.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (12.20%) Amazon RDS
2 37 (11.28%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (7.62%) MongoDB
4 16 (4.88%) NoSQL
5 14 (4.27%) Pentaho
6 11 (3.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (3.05%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (3.05%) Oracle Database
8 9 (2.74%) MySQL
8 9 (2.74%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.13%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.83%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.22%) InfluxDB
12 4 (1.22%) Metadata
13 3 (0.91%) Big Data
13 3 (0.91%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.61%) Power BI
15 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 69 (21.04%) Git
2 62 (18.90%) Jenkins
3 52 (15.85%) JIRA
4 48 (14.63%) GitLab
5 38 (11.59%) JUnit
6 28 (8.54%) Selenium
7 20 (6.10%) Maven
8 16 (4.88%) Cucumber
8 16 (4.88%) Mockito
9 13 (3.96%) SonarQube
10 11 (3.35%) Liquibase
11 9 (2.74%) Postman
12 8 (2.44%) Eclipse
12 8 (2.44%) IntelliJ
12 8 (2.44%) JMeter
13 7 (2.13%) WebDriver
14 6 (1.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (1.83%) Cypress.io
14 6 (1.83%) DbUnit
14 6 (1.83%) jMock
General
1 128 (39.02%) Social Skills
2 58 (17.68%) Finance
3 51 (15.55%) Public Sector
4 43 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.10%) Banking
5 20 (6.10%) Presentation Skills
6 16 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (3.05%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.13%) Aeronautics
9 7 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.22%) Legal
11 2 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.61%) Military
11 2 (0.61%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.30%) Marketing
12 1 (0.30%) Publishing
12 1 (0.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (14.94%) Analyst
2 40 (12.20%) Senior
3 37 (11.28%) Developer
4 36 (10.98%) Architect
5 28 (8.54%) Cloud Engineer
6 27 (8.23%) DevOps Engineer
7 26 (7.93%) AWS Engineer
7 26 (7.93%) Data Engineer
7 26 (7.93%) Lead
8 24 (7.32%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 21 (6.40%) Java Developer
10 19 (5.79%) Storage Analyst
11 17 (5.18%) Software Engineer
12 16 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
13 15 (4.57%) Business Analyst
14 13 (3.96%) Senior DevOps
14 13 (3.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 12 (3.66%) Site Engineer
15 12 (3.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 11 (3.35%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (14.63%) REST
2 44 (13.41%) Spring
3 29 (8.84%) Spring Boot
4 27 (8.23%) RESTful
5 23 (7.01%) JSON
6 21 (6.40%) SOAP
7 20 (6.10%) Elastic Stack
8 18 (5.49%) HTML
9 16 (4.88%) Hibernate
9 16 (4.88%) React
10 15 (4.57%) Flash
10 15 (4.57%) JPA
11 14 (4.27%) Node.js
12 12 (3.66%) AngularJS
13 11 (3.35%) Web Services
13 11 (3.35%) WireMock
14 10 (3.05%) Playwright
14 10 (3.05%) SailPoint
15 9 (2.74%) OAuth
15 9 (2.74%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.45%) Linux Command Line
2 30 (9.15%) Cloud Native
3 25 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (6.71%) Replication
5 13 (3.96%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.96%) Public Cloud
6 11 (3.35%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.44%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.13%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.52%) SCADA
10 4 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.22%) PKI
10 4 (1.22%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.22%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.61%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.61%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 91 (27.74%) Linux
2 29 (8.84%) Windows
3 16 (4.88%) Unix
4 13 (3.96%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.52%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (1.52%) VMS
7 3 (0.91%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.30%) Android
8 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.30%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (46.34%) Agile
2 135 (41.16%) CI/CD
3 97 (29.57%) DevOps
4 68 (20.73%) Microservices
5 60 (18.29%) Containerisation
6 59 (17.99%) Continuous Improvement
6 59 (17.99%) Stakeholder Management
7 56 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
8 53 (16.16%) Infrastructure as Code
9 49 (14.94%) Mentoring
10 46 (14.02%) Migration
11 45 (13.72%) Software Engineering
12 44 (13.41%) Change Management
13 40 (12.20%) Scrum
14 37 (11.28%) Analytics
15 31 (9.45%) Cybersecurity
15 31 (9.45%) Observability
16 30 (9.15%) ETL
16 30 (9.15%) Test Automation
17 29 (8.84%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 88 (26.83%) SQL
2 71 (21.65%) Python
3 67 (20.43%) Java
4 21 (6.40%) Bash
4 21 (6.40%) Go
4 21 (6.40%) Shell Script
5 20 (6.10%) PowerShell
6 11 (3.35%) JavaScript
6 11 (3.35%) Scala
7 8 (2.44%) Perl
8 7 (2.13%) Groovy
9 5 (1.52%) PHP
10 4 (1.22%) BeanShell
10 4 (1.22%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.91%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.91%) Ruby
12 2 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.30%) Bicep
13 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 141 (42.99%) Security Cleared
2 111 (33.84%) SC Cleared
3 34 (10.37%) AWS Certification
4 28 (8.54%) Degree
5 18 (5.49%) Azure Certification
6 15 (4.57%) DV Cleared
7 14 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (3.96%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (3.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (3.66%) CISSP
10 11 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (3.35%) Master's Degree
11 9 (2.74%) IIBA
12 8 (2.44%) CCNP
12 8 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (2.13%) CCIE
14 6 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (1.52%) CCSP
15 5 (1.52%) CISM
16 4 (1.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.93%) QA
2 23 (7.01%) GDPR
3 16 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (4.27%) Data Quality
5 12 (3.66%) NIST
6 10 (3.05%) PCI DSS
7 7 (2.13%) WCAG
8 5 (1.52%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.61%) COBIT
9 2 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.61%) SLA
10 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.30%) ISO 19650
10 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 92 (28.05%) Docker
2 38 (11.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (9.15%) vSphere
4 21 (6.40%) Active Directory
5 15 (4.57%) GPFS
5 15 (4.57%) NFS
5 15 (4.57%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (2.44%) Postfix
7 5 (1.52%) DFS Replication
8 4 (1.22%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.91%) Dovecot
9 3 (0.91%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.91%) Squid
10 1 (0.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 90 (27.44%) Kubernetes
2 71 (21.65%) Terraform
3 65 (19.82%) Grafana
4 52 (15.85%) Prometheus
5 45 (13.72%) Ansible
6 30 (9.15%) vRealize
7 16 (4.88%) Progress Chef
8 14 (4.27%) Puppet
8 14 (4.27%) VxRail
9 11 (3.35%) Kibana
10 6 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.22%) Nessus
12 4 (1.22%) Podman
12 4 (1.22%) QRadar
13 3 (0.91%) Proxmox
14 2 (0.61%) Argo
14 2 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.61%) EMC NetWorker
15 1 (0.30%) logstash
Vendors
1 57 (17.38%) Oracle
2 48 (14.63%) Microsoft
3 47 (14.33%) Cisco
4 42 (12.80%) ServiceNow
5 39 (11.89%) VMware
6 38 (11.59%) Splunk
7 33 (10.06%) IBM
8 25 (7.62%) AppDynamics
9 20 (6.10%) SolarWinds
10 16 (4.88%) Dynatrace
10 16 (4.88%) Google
10 16 (4.88%) Talend
11 15 (4.57%) Dell
12 14 (4.27%) Commvault
12 14 (4.27%) Informatica
13 13 (3.96%) HP
14 12 (3.66%) Palo Alto
15 11 (3.35%) F5
15 11 (3.35%) SAP
16 10 (3.05%) Jaspersoft