AWS Contracts in the West Midlands

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 44 23
Rank change year-on-year +23 -21 -7
Contract jobs citing AWS 115 76 168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.45% 3.69% 7.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.73% 15.38% 20.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 45 132
10th Percentile £370 £311 £363
25th Percentile £450 £360 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £683 £725
England median daily rate £537 £564 £600
% change year-on-year -4.79% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £37.48 -
England median hourly rate £71.25 £46.18 £73.00
% change year-on-year +54.29% -36.74% +4.29%

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 465 494 823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.12% 23.97% 36.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 372 591
10th Percentile £235 £206 £263
25th Percentile £388 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £597 £603 £625
90th Percentile £685 £688 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 4
10th Percentile £17.01 £14.14 £15.54
25th Percentile £21.88 £15.56 £15.98
Median hourly rate £34.43 £22.50 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year +53.02% +11.17% +6.53%
75th Percentile £40.22 £26.50 £24.47
90th Percentile £51.30 £33.19 £25.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +14.32% -33.33% +54.48%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the West Midlands

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for AWS in the West Midlands

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily 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 5 July 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 +15 38 £488 -11.36% 178
Solihull - 19 £450 - 2
Shropshire +9 18 £460 +6.98% 74
Warwickshire +2 12 £625 -7.41% 38
Coventry -1 12 £519 -13.54% 59
Worcestershire +7 6 £550 +22.22% 43
Herefordshire - 4 £700 - 8
Staffordshire -5 3 £550 +57.14% 97
AWS
England

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (17.39%) Confluence
2 2 (1.74%) Apache
2 2 (1.74%) nginx
3 1 (0.87%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.87%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.87%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (2.61%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.74%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 52 (45.22%) Azure
2 34 (29.57%) Amazon S3
3 31 (26.96%) Amazon EC2
4 28 (24.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 26 (22.61%) GCP
6 21 (18.26%) AWS KMS
7 15 (13.04%) Amazon SQS
7 15 (13.04%) Serverless
7 15 (13.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 13 (11.30%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (10.43%) Route 53
10 9 (7.83%) GitHub
11 8 (6.96%) Amazon ELB
11 8 (6.96%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (5.22%) Amazon Glacier
13 6 (5.22%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (5.22%) Snowflake
14 5 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.91%) DNS
1 16 (13.91%) Firewall
2 10 (8.70%) HTTP
2 10 (8.70%) Network Security
3 8 (6.96%) DHCP
3 8 (6.96%) SMTP
4 6 (5.22%) FTP
4 6 (5.22%) SSH
5 5 (4.35%) VLAN
6 4 (3.48%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (3.48%) SSL
7 3 (2.61%) VPN
8 2 (1.74%) BGP
8 2 (1.74%) EIGRP
8 2 (1.74%) IMAP
8 2 (1.74%) IPsec
8 2 (1.74%) OSPF
8 2 (1.74%) SAN
8 2 (1.74%) TACACS
8 2 (1.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (22.61%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (16.52%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (14.78%) Amazon Aurora
4 14 (12.17%) DynamoDB
5 8 (6.96%) Relational Database
6 7 (6.09%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (4.35%) SQL Server
8 4 (3.48%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.48%) Power BI
9 3 (2.61%) MySQL
10 2 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.74%) Big Data
10 2 (1.74%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.74%) DB2
10 2 (1.74%) GIS
10 2 (1.74%) Metadata
10 2 (1.74%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.87%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.87%) Power Query
11 1 (0.87%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 34 (29.57%) Jenkins
2 32 (27.83%) Git
3 26 (22.61%) JIRA
4 18 (15.65%) Maven
5 15 (13.04%) JUnit
6 14 (12.17%) GitLab
7 12 (10.43%) SonarQube
8 11 (9.57%) Mockito
9 8 (6.96%) Vagrant
10 7 (6.09%) Bitbucket Server
10 7 (6.09%) DbUnit
10 7 (6.09%) jMock
11 5 (4.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (4.35%) Bitbucket
12 3 (2.61%) Gradle
12 3 (2.61%) ScriptRunner
13 2 (1.74%) Android Studio
13 2 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (1.74%) Xcode
14 1 (0.87%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (26.96%) Public Sector
2 22 (19.13%) Social Skills
3 15 (13.04%) Finance
4 11 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.48%) Banking
6 4 (3.48%) Retail
7 3 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.61%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.74%) Legal
8 2 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Back Office
9 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 33 (28.70%) Developer
2 18 (15.65%) Architect
2 18 (15.65%) Java Developer
3 16 (13.91%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (13.04%) Senior
5 12 (10.43%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (7.83%) Data Engineer
6 9 (7.83%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (6.96%) Lead
8 7 (6.09%) AWS Developer
8 7 (6.09%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (6.09%) Lead Developer
8 7 (6.09%) Security Architect
8 7 (6.09%) Senior Developer
9 6 (5.22%) Administrator
9 6 (5.22%) Lead Java Developer
9 6 (5.22%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 5 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
10 5 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (18.26%) REST
2 18 (15.65%) Spring
3 17 (14.78%) Spring Boot
4 16 (13.91%) SOAP
5 15 (13.04%) ActiveMQ
5 15 (13.04%) Web Services
6 14 (12.17%) JPA
7 13 (11.30%) RESTful
8 12 (10.43%) Hibernate
9 11 (9.57%) AngularJS
9 11 (9.57%) Bootstrap
9 11 (9.57%) Spring Batch
9 11 (9.57%) Spring Integration
10 10 (8.70%) Spring Cloud
11 7 (6.09%) PowerMock
12 6 (5.22%) Elastic Stack
13 5 (4.35%) Node.js
13 5 (4.35%) React
14 4 (3.48%) LDAP
14 4 (3.48%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.83%) Distributed Systems
1 9 (7.83%) Replication
2 7 (6.09%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.09%) Security Posture
3 6 (5.22%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.35%) Operational Technology
4 5 (4.35%) SCADA
5 4 (3.48%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.61%) IVR
6 3 (2.61%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.74%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.87%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.87%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.87%) IoT
8 1 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.87%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 35 (30.43%) Linux
2 23 (20.00%) Windows
3 9 (7.83%) Amazon Linux
4 8 (6.96%) VMS
5 6 (5.22%) Windows Server
6 5 (4.35%) Unix
7 4 (3.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (3.48%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.74%) Android
8 2 (1.74%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.74%) CentOS
8 2 (1.74%) Debian
9 1 (0.87%) SUSE
9 1 (0.87%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (39.13%) Agile
1 45 (39.13%) DevOps
2 34 (29.57%) CI/CD
3 26 (22.61%) Microservices
4 25 (21.74%) Scrum
5 22 (19.13%) Cloud Security
5 22 (19.13%) Containerisation
5 22 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (16.52%) TDD
7 17 (14.78%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (11.30%) Change Management
9 12 (10.43%) Configuration Management
9 12 (10.43%) Platform Engineering
10 11 (9.57%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (9.57%) Risk Management
11 10 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (8.70%) Patch Management
11 10 (8.70%) Performance Tuning
12 9 (7.83%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 39 (33.91%) SQL
2 32 (27.83%) Java
3 27 (23.48%) Python
4 16 (13.91%) PowerShell
5 11 (9.57%) Groovy
6 9 (7.83%) JavaScript
7 7 (6.09%) TypeScript
8 6 (5.22%) Bash
8 6 (5.22%) Perl
8 6 (5.22%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.61%) Go
9 3 (2.61%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.74%) C#
10 2 (1.74%) JSX
10 2 (1.74%) R
11 1 (0.87%) COBOL
11 1 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.87%) Rust
11 1 (0.87%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (35.65%) Security Cleared
2 33 (28.70%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.09%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.22%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.48%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.48%) Degree
6 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.74%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.74%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.87%) CEH
8 1 (0.87%) CISA
8 1 (0.87%) CISM
8 1 (0.87%) CISSP
8 1 (0.87%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.83%) NIST
2 4 (3.48%) GDPR
2 4 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.61%) QA
4 2 (1.74%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.87%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.87%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.87%) NCSC
5 1 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.87%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (38.26%) Docker
2 15 (13.04%) Active Directory
3 10 (8.70%) Postfix
4 6 (5.22%) DFS Replication
5 2 (1.74%) Dovecot
5 2 (1.74%) Squid
6 1 (0.87%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.87%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (22.61%) Terraform
2 22 (19.13%) Prometheus
3 21 (18.26%) Grafana
3 21 (18.26%) Kubernetes
4 12 (10.43%) Ansible
5 4 (3.48%) Nessus
5 4 (3.48%) Puppet
6 3 (2.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (2.61%) Opsview
7 2 (1.74%) logstash
7 2 (1.74%) Nagios
7 2 (1.74%) QRadar
8 1 (0.87%) Consul
8 1 (0.87%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.87%) Kibana
8 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.87%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.87%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.87%) Trend Micro Deep Security
8 1 (0.87%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (13.04%) Atlassian
2 14 (12.17%) Microsoft
3 11 (9.57%) Jaspersoft
3 11 (9.57%) ServiceNow
4 8 (6.96%) Databricks
4 8 (6.96%) Salesforce
5 7 (6.09%) Cisco
5 7 (6.09%) Google
5 7 (6.09%) IBM
6 5 (4.35%) Oracle
7 4 (3.48%) Dynatrace
7 4 (3.48%) Splunk
7 4 (3.48%) VMware
8 3 (2.61%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.61%) PagerDuty
8 3 (2.61%) Veeam
8 3 (2.61%) Virgin Media
9 2 (1.74%) Arista
9 2 (1.74%) Cognos
9 2 (1.74%) SolarWinds