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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 29 44
Rank change year-on-year +15 +15 -23
Contract jobs citing AWS 323 80 73
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.27% 5.95% 3.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.81% 18.31% 15.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 52 57
10th Percentile £326 £410 £313
25th Percentile £403 £454 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% -5.45% +1.85%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £655 £700 £688
England median daily rate £530 £550 £553
% change year-on-year -3.64% -0.50% -6.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £54.00 - £23.46
25th Percentile £58.13 - £28.71
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £37.48
75th Percentile £76.13 - £46.24
90th Percentile £76.80 - £51.50
England median hourly rate £75.00 £71.25 £53.75
% change year-on-year +5.26% +32.56% -26.12%

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 902 437 471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 28.67% 32.51% 24.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 643 301 365
10th Percentile £313 £200 £213
25th Percentile £402 £390 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £451
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +10.99% -9.95%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £685 £688 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 9
10th Percentile - £15.24 £14.08
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.38 £19.95
Median hourly rate £34.38 £18.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +90.29% -30.52% +28.46%
75th Percentile £67.84 £19.93 £26.50
90th Percentile £73.57 £35.45 £55.00
England median hourly rate £46.00 £25.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +80.39% +22.77% -35.70%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 99 £469 -4.87% 17
Birmingham +3 73 £475 -13.64% 46
Coventry +11 44 £413 -32.65% 11
Warwickshire +4 32 £525 -8.70% 15
Solihull -1 24 £500 +8.70%
Worcestershire +8 17 £725 +3.57% 7
Herefordshire -6 10 £550 -21.43% 4
Staffordshire -3 2 £325 -40.91% 10
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 64 (19.81%) Confluence
2 44 (13.62%) SAS
3 15 (4.64%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.48%) WebLogic
5 6 (1.86%) Apache
6 5 (1.55%) Anypoint
7 4 (1.24%) Apache Spark
7 4 (1.24%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.93%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.93%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.31%) CMS
9 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.31%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (1.86%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.55%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.31%) CATIA
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.31%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.62%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 142 (43.96%) Azure
2 61 (18.89%) Amazon S3
3 53 (16.41%) GCP
4 40 (12.38%) Amazon EC2
5 35 (10.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 35 (10.84%) GitHub
6 32 (9.91%) Serverless
7 29 (8.98%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (8.67%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
9 19 (5.88%) AWS KMS
9 19 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 17 (5.26%) Route 53
11 15 (4.64%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (4.64%) Datadog
11 15 (4.64%) Entra ID
12 13 (4.02%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (3.72%) OpenShift
14 10 (3.10%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (2.79%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.72%) Network Security
1 12 (3.72%) VPN
2 11 (3.41%) Firewall
3 9 (2.79%) VSAN
4 6 (1.86%) SD-WAN
4 6 (1.86%) WAN
5 5 (1.55%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.93%) BGP
6 3 (0.93%) OSPF
6 3 (0.93%) VLAN
6 3 (0.93%) WLAN
7 2 (0.62%) DHCP
7 2 (0.62%) DNS
7 2 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (0.62%) LAN
7 2 (0.62%) SSL
7 2 (0.62%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.31%) Anycast
8 1 (0.31%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.31%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (14.86%) Amazon RDS
2 35 (10.84%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (8.36%) Pentaho
4 22 (6.81%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (6.81%) DynamoDB
5 18 (5.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (4.64%) Oracle Database
7 14 (4.33%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (4.33%) Oracle Reports
8 11 (3.41%) Relational Database
9 10 (3.10%) MongoDB
10 9 (2.79%) MySQL
10 9 (2.79%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 9 (2.79%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 7 (2.17%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (1.86%) Power BI
13 5 (1.55%) SAS Data Integration Studio
14 4 (1.24%) InfluxDB
14 4 (1.24%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 80 (24.77%) JIRA
2 73 (22.60%) Git
3 56 (17.34%) Jenkins
4 44 (13.62%) GitLab
5 34 (10.53%) JUnit
6 19 (5.88%) Maven
7 18 (5.57%) Selenium
8 17 (5.26%) Mockito
8 17 (5.26%) SonarQube
9 16 (4.95%) Cucumber
10 15 (4.64%) JMeter
10 15 (4.64%) Postman
11 14 (4.33%) WebDriver
11 14 (4.33%) Zephyr
12 11 (3.41%) DbUnit
12 11 (3.41%) jMock
13 9 (2.79%) Bitbucket Server
14 8 (2.48%) Bitbucket
15 6 (1.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 3 (0.93%) REST Assured
General
1 108 (33.44%) Social Skills
2 60 (18.58%) Public Sector
3 45 (13.93%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (10.53%) Finance
5 15 (4.64%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.48%) Banking
7 8 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.17%) Aeronautics
9 4 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.93%) Legal
10 3 (0.93%) Retail
11 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.31%) Advertising
12 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.31%) Military
12 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 42 (13.00%) Analyst
2 40 (12.38%) Data Engineer
3 38 (11.76%) Developer
4 34 (10.53%) Architect
5 33 (10.22%) Senior
6 29 (8.98%) Lead
7 28 (8.67%) AWS Engineer
8 24 (7.43%) Java Developer
9 23 (7.12%) Tester
10 17 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
11 16 (4.95%) Storage Analyst
12 14 (4.33%) Business Analyst
12 14 (4.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 13 (4.02%) AWS Data Engineer
14 12 (3.72%) DevOps Engineer
15 11 (3.41%) Site Engineer
15 11 (3.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 10 (3.10%) Automation Tester
16 10 (3.10%) Cloud Architect
16 10 (3.10%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (13.00%) Spring
2 33 (10.22%) REST
3 28 (8.67%) Spring Boot
4 22 (6.81%) SOAP
5 18 (5.57%) AngularJS
5 18 (5.57%) Node.js
6 17 (5.26%) JPA
7 16 (4.95%) Web Services
7 16 (4.95%) WireMock
8 15 (4.64%) Hibernate
8 15 (4.64%) RESTful
8 15 (4.64%) Spring Batch
8 15 (4.64%) Spring Cloud
9 14 (4.33%) ActiveMQ
9 14 (4.33%) Spring Integration
10 13 (4.02%) Flash
11 11 (3.41%) PowerMock
12 10 (3.10%) SailPoint
13 9 (2.79%) Bootstrap
14 8 (2.48%) React
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.67%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.36%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
4 17 (5.26%) Replication
5 13 (4.02%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.72%) Onboarding
7 11 (3.41%) Distributed Architecture
7 11 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.48%) Data Centre
9 8 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (2.17%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.93%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.93%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.62%) Educational Technology
12 2 (0.62%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.62%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.62%) Security Posture
13 1 (0.31%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 61 (18.89%) Linux
2 20 (6.19%) Windows
3 10 (3.10%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.86%) Unix
6 1 (0.31%) Android
6 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.31%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (47.68%) Agile
2 138 (42.72%) CI/CD
3 96 (29.72%) DevOps
4 70 (21.67%) Migration
5 61 (18.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 59 (18.27%) Containerisation
7 56 (17.34%) Stakeholder Management
7 56 (17.34%) Test Automation
8 53 (16.41%) Microservices
8 53 (16.41%) Scrum
9 51 (15.79%) ETL
10 44 (13.62%) Observability
11 43 (13.31%) Analytics
11 43 (13.31%) Infrastructure as Code
12 42 (13.00%) TDD
13 40 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
14 35 (10.84%) Mentoring
15 33 (10.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 33 (10.22%) Validation
16 31 (9.60%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 100 (30.96%) SQL
2 60 (18.58%) Python
3 52 (16.10%) Java
4 20 (6.19%) Bash
5 19 (5.88%) Shell Script
6 15 (4.64%) PowerShell
7 9 (2.79%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.17%) Go
9 6 (1.86%) Perl
10 5 (1.55%) BeanShell
10 5 (1.55%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.62%) Bicep
11 2 (0.62%) Groovy
11 2 (0.62%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.31%) C#
12 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.31%) PHP
12 1 (0.31%) Scala
12 1 (0.31%) Swift
12 1 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 176 (54.49%) Security Cleared
2 150 (46.44%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.95%) AWS Certification
4 15 (4.64%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.33%) ISTQB
6 12 (3.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (3.10%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (3.10%) Degree
8 9 (2.79%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.79%) IIBA
9 8 (2.48%) CISSP
10 7 (2.17%) SAFe Agilist
11 6 (1.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 6 (1.86%) CISM
12 5 (1.55%) CCNA
13 4 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.93%) CCIE
14 3 (0.93%) CCNP
14 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.91%) QA
2 15 (4.64%) GDPR
3 11 (3.41%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.17%) NIST
6 4 (1.24%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.93%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.93%) SLA
8 2 (0.62%) COBIT
8 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 91 (28.17%) Docker
2 21 (6.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (5.88%) vSphere
4 18 (5.57%) Active Directory
5 13 (4.02%) GPFS
5 13 (4.02%) NFS
6 12 (3.72%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (3.10%) Postfix
8 1 (0.31%) Firmware
8 1 (0.31%) HDFS
8 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 77 (23.84%) Kubernetes
2 66 (20.43%) Grafana
3 56 (17.34%) Terraform
4 43 (13.31%) Prometheus
5 25 (7.74%) Ansible
6 19 (5.88%) vRealize
7 13 (4.02%) Progress Chef
8 9 (2.79%) VxRail
9 6 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (1.55%) Kibana
11 4 (1.24%) Puppet
12 3 (0.93%) Argo
13 2 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.62%) EMC NetWorker
14 1 (0.31%) Control-M
14 1 (0.31%) logstash
14 1 (0.31%) Nessus
14 1 (0.31%) Podman
14 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 78 (24.15%) Oracle
2 36 (11.15%) Microsoft
3 33 (10.22%) ServiceNow
4 30 (9.29%) Talend
5 29 (8.98%) Informatica
6 25 (7.74%) Cisco
7 24 (7.43%) IBM
8 22 (6.81%) VMware
9 16 (4.95%) Denodo
9 16 (4.95%) Dynatrace
9 16 (4.95%) Splunk
10 14 (4.33%) AppDynamics
10 14 (4.33%) Jaspersoft
11 12 (3.72%) Atlassian
12 9 (2.79%) Cloudera
12 9 (2.79%) SAP
12 9 (2.79%) SolarWinds
13 7 (2.17%) Databricks
13 7 (2.17%) Dell
13 7 (2.17%) Red Hat