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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 27 38
Rank change year-on-year +15 +11 -25
Contract jobs citing AWS 304 89 85
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.87% 6.13% 4.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.85% 17.76% 16.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 53 68
10th Percentile £313 £400 £311
25th Percentile £412 £453 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £491
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +3.82% -9.03%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £690 £700 £652
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 £65.25 £48.62
% change year-on-year +14.94% +34.21% -24.04%

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 848 501 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.10% 34.53% 27.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 337 400
10th Percentile £305 £200 £200
25th Percentile £413 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year - +9.89% -9.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
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 £37.00 £27.50 £22.30
% change year-on-year +34.55% +23.32% -10.80%

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 16 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 16 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 +14 85 £525 -4.55% 38
Shropshire -4 75 £485 -1.02% 16
Coventry +12 52 £402 -19.60% 10
Warwickshire +15 35 £563 +12.50% 7
Worcestershire +2 21 £680 -2.86% 6
Herefordshire -11 12 £550 -21.43% 4
Solihull 0 8 £538 +8.04% 7
Staffordshire -4 2 £394 -28.41% 10
Wolverhampton - 2 £425 - 1
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 40 (13.16%) Confluence
2 19 (6.25%) Apache
2 19 (6.25%) WebLogic
3 15 (4.93%) SAS
4 8 (2.63%) JBoss
5 6 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.97%) nginx
6 5 (1.64%) OpenStack
7 4 (1.32%) Anypoint
7 4 (1.32%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.99%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.66%) Drupal
10 1 (0.33%) CMS
10 1 (0.33%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 10 (3.29%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (2.63%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.32%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.33%) CATIA
4 1 (0.33%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.33%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.33%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 139 (45.72%) Azure
2 70 (23.03%) GCP
3 43 (14.14%) Amazon S3
4 31 (10.20%) Amazon EC2
5 26 (8.55%) Datadog
6 24 (7.89%) Serverless
7 23 (7.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 22 (7.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (6.25%) GitHub
10 18 (5.92%) AWS KMS
11 16 (5.26%) Amazon ELB
12 15 (4.93%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (4.93%) OpenShift
13 14 (4.61%) Entra ID
14 13 (4.28%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (3.62%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (3.62%) Route 53
16 10 (3.29%) Cloud Computing
17 9 (2.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (11.18%) Firewall
2 22 (7.24%) VPN
3 20 (6.58%) DNS
4 16 (5.26%) Network Security
5 14 (4.61%) VSAN
6 10 (3.29%) DHCP
7 9 (2.96%) SD-WAN
8 8 (2.63%) LAN
8 8 (2.63%) WAN
9 7 (2.30%) HTTP
9 7 (2.30%) WLAN
10 6 (1.97%) BGP
10 6 (1.97%) FTP
10 6 (1.97%) MPLS
10 6 (1.97%) OSPF
10 6 (1.97%) SMTP
10 6 (1.97%) SSH
10 6 (1.97%) VLAN
11 5 (1.64%) SSL
11 5 (1.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (11.51%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (9.21%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (7.89%) MongoDB
4 16 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 11 (3.62%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (2.96%) MySQL
6 9 (2.96%) Oracle Database
6 9 (2.96%) Relational Database
7 8 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (1.97%) Pentaho
9 4 (1.32%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.32%) InfluxDB
9 4 (1.32%) Metadata
10 3 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.99%) Big Data
10 3 (0.99%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.66%) Power BI
12 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 56 (18.42%) Jenkins
2 55 (18.09%) Git
3 45 (14.80%) GitLab
4 41 (13.49%) JIRA
5 28 (9.21%) JUnit
6 21 (6.91%) Selenium
7 17 (5.59%) Maven
8 13 (4.28%) Mockito
9 11 (3.62%) Liquibase
10 10 (3.29%) SonarQube
11 9 (2.96%) Cucumber
12 8 (2.63%) Eclipse
12 8 (2.63%) IntelliJ
13 6 (1.97%) CircleCI
13 6 (1.97%) Cypress.io
13 6 (1.97%) Postman
13 6 (1.97%) Vagrant
14 5 (1.64%) Artifactory
14 5 (1.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (1.64%) Gatling
General
1 118 (38.82%) Social Skills
2 57 (18.75%) Finance
3 42 (13.82%) Public Sector
4 40 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.58%) Banking
6 19 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
7 17 (5.59%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (4.28%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (3.29%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.30%) Aeronautics
11 4 (1.32%) Legal
12 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.66%) Military
12 2 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.33%) Marketing
13 1 (0.33%) Publishing
13 1 (0.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (16.12%) Analyst
2 38 (12.50%) Senior
3 35 (11.51%) Architect
4 32 (10.53%) Developer
5 28 (9.21%) Cloud Engineer
5 28 (9.21%) DevOps Engineer
6 25 (8.22%) AWS Engineer
7 24 (7.89%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 21 (6.91%) Lead
9 19 (6.25%) Storage Analyst
10 17 (5.59%) Data Engineer
10 17 (5.59%) Software Engineer
10 17 (5.59%) Solutions Architect
11 16 (5.26%) Java Developer
12 15 (4.93%) Business Analyst
13 13 (4.28%) Senior DevOps
13 13 (4.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 12 (3.95%) Site Engineer
14 12 (3.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 11 (3.62%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (14.80%) REST
2 33 (10.86%) Spring
3 24 (7.89%) RESTful
3 24 (7.89%) Spring Boot
4 23 (7.57%) JSON
5 20 (6.58%) Elastic Stack
6 18 (5.92%) HTML
6 18 (5.92%) SOAP
7 16 (5.26%) Flash
7 16 (5.26%) React
8 13 (4.28%) Hibernate
9 12 (3.95%) JPA
10 11 (3.62%) Node.js
11 10 (3.29%) OAuth
11 10 (3.29%) Playwright
11 10 (3.29%) SailPoint
12 9 (2.96%) AngularJS
12 9 (2.96%) XML
13 8 (2.63%) J2EE
13 8 (2.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
2 31 (10.20%) Cloud Native
3 24 (7.89%) Replication
4 18 (5.92%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (4.28%) Onboarding
5 13 (4.28%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.29%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.96%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.63%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.64%) SCADA
11 4 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.32%) PKI
11 4 (1.32%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
12 3 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.66%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.66%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 89 (29.28%) Linux
2 30 (9.87%) Windows
3 16 (5.26%) Unix
4 13 (4.28%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.97%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.97%) VMS
6 4 (1.32%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.33%) Android
7 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.33%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (45.39%) Agile
2 125 (41.12%) CI/CD
3 95 (31.25%) DevOps
4 58 (19.08%) Microservices
5 55 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (18.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 54 (17.76%) Containerisation
7 51 (16.78%) Infrastructure as Code
8 50 (16.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 45 (14.80%) Mentoring
10 44 (14.47%) Change Management
10 44 (14.47%) Software Engineering
11 42 (13.82%) Migration
12 37 (12.17%) Analytics
13 36 (11.84%) Scrum
14 31 (10.20%) Cybersecurity
15 29 (9.54%) Root Cause Analysis
16 27 (8.88%) AI
17 26 (8.55%) High Availability
18 24 (7.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 73 (24.01%) SQL
2 67 (22.04%) Python
3 61 (20.07%) Java
4 21 (6.91%) Go
4 21 (6.91%) PowerShell
5 20 (6.58%) Shell Script
6 16 (5.26%) Bash
7 11 (3.62%) JavaScript
7 11 (3.62%) Scala
8 8 (2.63%) Groovy
9 7 (2.30%) Perl
10 5 (1.64%) PHP
11 4 (1.32%) BeanShell
11 4 (1.32%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.99%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.99%) Ruby
13 2 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.33%) Lisp
14 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 118 (38.82%) Security Cleared
2 90 (29.61%) SC Cleared
3 34 (11.18%) AWS Certification
4 30 (9.87%) Degree
5 18 (5.92%) Azure Certification
6 15 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.93%) DV Cleared
7 13 (4.28%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (3.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (3.95%) CISSP
9 11 (3.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (3.62%) Master's Degree
10 9 (2.96%) IIBA
11 8 (2.63%) CCNP
11 8 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (2.30%) CCIE
13 6 (1.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (1.64%) CCSP
14 5 (1.64%) CISM
15 4 (1.32%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.89%) GDPR
1 24 (7.89%) QA
2 16 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (4.61%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.95%) NIST
5 9 (2.96%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.30%) WCAG
7 5 (1.64%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.33%) COBIT
9 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.33%) ISO 19650
9 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 82 (26.97%) Docker
2 39 (12.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (10.20%) vSphere
4 21 (6.91%) Active Directory
5 16 (5.26%) GPFS
5 16 (5.26%) NFS
5 16 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.30%) Postfix
7 6 (1.97%) DFS Replication
8 4 (1.32%) Dovecot
8 4 (1.32%) Squid
8 4 (1.32%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.99%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 81 (26.64%) Kubernetes
2 70 (23.03%) Terraform
3 56 (18.42%) Grafana
4 46 (15.13%) Prometheus
5 45 (14.80%) Ansible
6 31 (10.20%) vRealize
7 16 (5.26%) Progress Chef
8 14 (4.61%) Puppet
8 14 (4.61%) VxRail
9 11 (3.62%) Kibana
10 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.64%) Nessus
12 4 (1.32%) Podman
12 4 (1.32%) Proxmox
12 4 (1.32%) QRadar
13 3 (0.99%) CSIRT
14 2 (0.66%) Argo
14 2 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.66%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 48 (15.79%) Cisco
1 48 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 46 (15.13%) Oracle
3 43 (14.14%) ServiceNow
4 40 (13.16%) Splunk
4 40 (13.16%) VMware
5 34 (11.18%) IBM
6 25 (8.22%) AppDynamics
7 20 (6.58%) SolarWinds
8 16 (5.26%) Dynatrace
8 16 (5.26%) Google
9 15 (4.93%) Dell
10 14 (4.61%) Commvault
10 14 (4.61%) F5
11 13 (4.28%) HP
12 12 (3.95%) Palo Alto
13 11 (3.62%) SAP
14 8 (2.63%) Fortinet
14 8 (2.63%) Jaspersoft
14 8 (2.63%) webMethods