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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 32 36
Rank change year-on-year +20 +4 -23
Contract jobs citing AWS 298 86 95
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.87% 5.68% 5.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.90% 16.93% 17.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 49 75
10th Percentile £313 £393 £313
25th Percentile £408 £455 £381
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 £675 £700 £675
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 £46.18
% change year-on-year +35.14% +20.18% -28.95%

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 830 508 534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.07% 33.53% 28.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 339 403
10th Percentile £303 £200 £213
25th Percentile £413 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -8.42%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £678 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 19 12
10th Percentile £23.10 £16.05 £17.53
25th Percentile £26.11 £17.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £27.21 £20.24 £19.23
Median % change year-on-year +34.44% +5.28% +17.51%
75th Percentile £31.61 £35.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £52.50 £36.39 -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -10.00%

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 6 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 6 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 87 £500 -9.09% 32
Shropshire -3 72 £485 -1.02% 10
Coventry +13 50 £398 -20.43% 10
Warwickshire +16 36 £556 +11.25% 13
Worcestershire +1 20 £643 +83.57% 7
Herefordshire -11 12 £550 +4.76% 4
Staffordshire +1 2 £394 -28.41% 11
Solihull -3 2 - - 3
Wolverhampton - 2 £425 - 2
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 33 (11.07%) Confluence
2 20 (6.71%) Apache
3 18 (6.04%) WebLogic
4 16 (5.37%) SAS
5 9 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (3.02%) nginx
6 8 (2.68%) JBoss
7 6 (2.01%) OpenStack
8 4 (1.34%) Anypoint
8 4 (1.34%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.67%) Drupal
9 2 (0.67%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.34%) CMS
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.34%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 9 (3.02%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (2.35%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 7 (2.35%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.34%) CATIA
3 1 (0.34%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.34%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 137 (45.97%) Azure
2 74 (24.83%) GCP
3 39 (13.09%) Amazon S3
4 27 (9.06%) Amazon EC2
5 26 (8.72%) Datadog
6 24 (8.05%) Serverless
7 23 (7.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 18 (6.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 18 (6.04%) GitHub
9 16 (5.37%) Amazon ELB
10 15 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (5.03%) AWS KMS
10 15 (5.03%) OpenShift
11 14 (4.70%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (4.36%) Entra ID
13 11 (3.69%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (3.69%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (3.36%) Akamai
14 10 (3.36%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 43 (14.43%) Firewall
2 24 (8.05%) DNS
3 21 (7.05%) VPN
4 15 (5.03%) Network Security
5 14 (4.70%) VSAN
6 11 (3.69%) HTTP
7 10 (3.36%) DHCP
7 10 (3.36%) FTP
7 10 (3.36%) SMTP
7 10 (3.36%) SSH
8 9 (3.02%) SD-WAN
9 8 (2.68%) LAN
9 8 (2.68%) WAN
9 8 (2.68%) Wireshark
10 7 (2.35%) IMAP
10 7 (2.35%) OpenLDAP
10 7 (2.35%) WLAN
11 6 (2.01%) MPLS
11 6 (2.01%) OSPF
11 6 (2.01%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (10.40%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (9.06%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (7.38%) MongoDB
4 16 (5.37%) NoSQL
5 11 (3.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (3.02%) MySQL
6 9 (3.02%) Relational Database
7 8 (2.68%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.35%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (2.01%) Pentaho
10 4 (1.34%) InfluxDB
10 4 (1.34%) Metadata
10 4 (1.34%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 4 (1.34%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 3 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.01%) Big Data
11 3 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.01%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 55 (18.46%) Jenkins
2 49 (16.44%) Git
3 45 (15.10%) GitLab
4 33 (11.07%) JIRA
5 22 (7.38%) JUnit
6 19 (6.38%) Selenium
7 13 (4.36%) Maven
8 10 (3.36%) Liquibase
8 10 (3.36%) Vagrant
9 9 (3.02%) Mockito
10 8 (2.68%) Eclipse
10 8 (2.68%) IntelliJ
11 7 (2.35%) Cucumber
12 6 (2.01%) CircleCI
12 6 (2.01%) Cypress.io
13 5 (1.68%) Postman
13 5 (1.68%) SonarQube
14 4 (1.34%) Artifactory
14 4 (1.34%) Gradle
14 4 (1.34%) webpack
General
1 118 (39.60%) Social Skills
2 55 (18.46%) Finance
3 43 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (13.76%) Public Sector
5 20 (6.71%) Documentation Skills
5 20 (6.71%) Presentation Skills
6 19 (6.38%) Banking
7 13 (4.36%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (3.36%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.35%) Aeronautics
10 4 (1.34%) Legal
11 2 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.67%) Military
11 2 (0.67%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.34%) Marketing
12 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Publishing
12 1 (0.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (16.11%) Analyst
2 36 (12.08%) Senior
3 31 (10.40%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (9.40%) Architect
4 28 (9.40%) AWS Engineer
5 27 (9.06%) Developer
6 26 (8.72%) Cloud Engineer
7 24 (8.05%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 20 (6.71%) Lead
9 19 (6.38%) Storage Analyst
10 18 (6.04%) Data Engineer
11 15 (5.03%) Software Engineer
12 14 (4.70%) Business Analyst
13 12 (4.03%) Java Developer
13 12 (4.03%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (4.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 12 (4.03%) Site Engineer
13 12 (4.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 12 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (3.69%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (13.42%) REST
2 26 (8.72%) Spring
3 23 (7.72%) RESTful
4 22 (7.38%) JSON
5 19 (6.38%) Elastic Stack
6 18 (6.04%) HTML
6 18 (6.04%) Spring Boot
7 17 (5.70%) Flash
8 16 (5.37%) React
9 14 (4.70%) SOAP
10 9 (3.02%) Hibernate
10 9 (3.02%) OAuth
10 9 (3.02%) Playwright
10 9 (3.02%) SailPoint
10 9 (3.02%) XML
11 8 (2.68%) HTML5
11 8 (2.68%) J2EE
11 8 (2.68%) J2SE
11 8 (2.68%) JPA
11 8 (2.68%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.07%) Linux Command Line
2 31 (10.40%) Cloud Native
3 29 (9.73%) Replication
4 15 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.03%) Security Posture
5 12 (4.03%) Onboarding
5 12 (4.03%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.68%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.68%) SCADA
9 4 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.34%) PKI
9 4 (1.34%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.34%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.34%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.67%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 89 (29.87%) Linux
2 35 (11.74%) Windows
3 17 (5.70%) Unix
4 13 (4.36%) Windows Server
5 10 (3.36%) Amazon Linux
5 10 (3.36%) VMS
6 7 (2.35%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.34%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (41.95%) CI/CD
2 123 (41.28%) Agile
3 97 (32.55%) DevOps
4 57 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (17.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 51 (17.11%) Microservices
6 49 (16.44%) Containerisation
7 48 (16.11%) Stakeholder Management
8 45 (15.10%) Migration
9 43 (14.43%) Analytics
9 43 (14.43%) Mentoring
10 42 (14.09%) Change Management
10 42 (14.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 40 (13.42%) Software Engineering
12 31 (10.40%) Configuration Management
13 29 (9.73%) Root Cause Analysis
14 28 (9.40%) Cloud Security
15 27 (9.06%) Cybersecurity
15 27 (9.06%) High Availability
15 27 (9.06%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 71 (23.83%) Python
1 71 (23.83%) SQL
2 53 (17.79%) Java
3 27 (9.06%) PowerShell
4 20 (6.71%) Go
5 18 (6.04%) Shell Script
6 17 (5.70%) Bash
7 12 (4.03%) Groovy
8 11 (3.69%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.69%) Scala
9 6 (2.01%) Perl
10 5 (1.68%) PHP
11 4 (1.34%) BeanShell
11 4 (1.34%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.01%) Ruby
13 2 (0.67%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.34%) Lisp
14 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 111 (37.25%) Security Cleared
2 84 (28.19%) SC Cleared
3 33 (11.07%) AWS Certification
3 33 (11.07%) Degree
4 19 (6.38%) Azure Certification
5 15 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (5.03%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (3.69%) Master's Degree
8 10 (3.36%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (3.36%) CISSP
9 9 (3.02%) IIBA
10 8 (2.68%) CCNP
10 8 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (2.35%) CCIE
12 5 (1.68%) CISM
13 4 (1.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.34%) CCSP
14 3 (1.01%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.72%) GDPR
2 21 (7.05%) QA
3 15 (5.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (4.36%) Data Quality
5 10 (3.36%) NIST
6 9 (3.02%) PCI DSS
7 6 (2.01%) WCAG
8 4 (1.34%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.34%) COBIT
10 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.34%) ISO 19650
10 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 82 (27.52%) Docker
2 40 (13.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (10.74%) vSphere
4 21 (7.05%) Active Directory
5 17 (5.70%) GPFS
5 17 (5.70%) NFS
5 17 (5.70%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (3.36%) DFS Replication
7 7 (2.35%) Dovecot
7 7 (2.35%) Postfix
7 7 (2.35%) Squid
8 4 (1.34%) VMware NSX
9 3 (1.01%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 78 (26.17%) Kubernetes
2 73 (24.50%) Terraform
3 56 (18.79%) Grafana
4 50 (16.78%) Prometheus
5 45 (15.10%) Ansible
6 32 (10.74%) vRealize
7 16 (5.37%) Progress Chef
8 14 (4.70%) Puppet
8 14 (4.70%) VxRail
9 11 (3.69%) Kibana
10 8 (2.68%) CSIRT
10 8 (2.68%) Nessus
11 7 (2.35%) Proxmox
12 6 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (1.34%) Podman
14 4 (1.34%) QRadar
15 2 (0.67%) Argo
15 2 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
15 2 (0.67%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 49 (16.44%) Cisco
1 49 (16.44%) Microsoft
2 47 (15.77%) Oracle
3 46 (15.44%) Splunk
4 42 (14.09%) ServiceNow
4 42 (14.09%) VMware
5 35 (11.74%) IBM
6 26 (8.72%) AppDynamics
7 20 (6.71%) SolarWinds
8 19 (6.38%) F5
9 17 (5.70%) Dynatrace
10 15 (5.03%) Dell
11 14 (4.70%) Commvault
11 14 (4.70%) Google
12 13 (4.36%) HP
13 12 (4.03%) Palo Alto
14 10 (3.36%) SAP
15 8 (2.68%) Fortinet
15 8 (2.68%) webMethods
16 7 (2.35%) Jaspersoft