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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 26 37
Rank change year-on-year +15 +11 -24
Contract jobs citing AWS 325 88 83
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 12.34% 6.08% 4.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.85% 17.64% 16.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 54 67
10th Percentile £316 £400 £310
25th Percentile £412 £453 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.15% +2.20% -7.41%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £677 £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 £55.50 £51.06
% change year-on-year +35.14% +8.71% -20.23%

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 882 499 515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.50% 34.49% 27.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 646 341 395
10th Percentile £306 £200 £200
25th Percentile £413 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -8.00%
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 £37.50 £27.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year +36.36% +27.08% -13.44%

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 19 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 19 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 +16 91 £525 -4.55% 52
Shropshire -3 82 £475 -3.36% 20
Coventry +13 53 £402 -19.60% 13
Warwickshire +10 36 £556 +11.25% 8
Worcestershire +3 21 £680 -2.86% 6
Herefordshire -8 12 £550 -21.43% 5
Solihull +1 11 £500 +0.50% 9
Staffordshire -1 2 £394 -28.41% 8
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 49 (15.08%) Confluence
2 20 (6.15%) Apache
2 20 (6.15%) SAS
2 20 (6.15%) WebLogic
3 8 (2.46%) JBoss
4 6 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.85%) nginx
5 5 (1.54%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.54%) OpenStack
6 4 (1.23%) Anypoint
6 4 (1.23%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.62%) Drupal
8 1 (0.31%) CMS
8 1 (0.31%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 10 (3.08%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (2.46%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.23%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.31%) CATIA
4 1 (0.31%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.31%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.31%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 147 (45.23%) Azure
2 76 (23.38%) GCP
3 46 (14.15%) Amazon S3
4 33 (10.15%) Amazon EC2
5 26 (8.00%) Datadog
6 25 (7.69%) Serverless
7 24 (7.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 24 (7.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 23 (7.08%) GitHub
9 20 (6.15%) AWS KMS
10 17 (5.23%) Amazon ELB
10 17 (5.23%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (4.62%) OpenShift
12 14 (4.31%) Entra ID
13 12 (3.69%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (3.69%) Route 53
14 11 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
16 9 (2.77%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (10.46%) Firewall
2 22 (6.77%) VPN
3 20 (6.15%) DNS
4 16 (4.92%) Network Security
5 14 (4.31%) VSAN
6 10 (3.08%) DHCP
7 9 (2.77%) SD-WAN
8 8 (2.46%) LAN
8 8 (2.46%) WAN
9 7 (2.15%) HTTP
9 7 (2.15%) WLAN
10 6 (1.85%) BGP
10 6 (1.85%) FTP
10 6 (1.85%) MPLS
10 6 (1.85%) OSPF
10 6 (1.85%) SMTP
10 6 (1.85%) SSH
10 6 (1.85%) VLAN
11 5 (1.54%) SSL
11 5 (1.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (12.00%) Amazon RDS
2 36 (11.08%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (7.69%) MongoDB
4 16 (4.92%) NoSQL
5 14 (4.31%) Pentaho
6 11 (3.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (3.08%) Oracle Database
8 9 (2.77%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (2.77%) MySQL
8 9 (2.77%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.54%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.23%) InfluxDB
10 4 (1.23%) Metadata
11 3 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (0.92%) Big Data
11 3 (0.92%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.62%) Power BI
13 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 65 (20.00%) Git
2 61 (18.77%) Jenkins
3 50 (15.38%) JIRA
4 47 (14.46%) GitLab
5 36 (11.08%) JUnit
6 28 (8.62%) Selenium
7 18 (5.54%) Maven
8 16 (4.92%) Cucumber
9 14 (4.31%) Mockito
10 11 (3.38%) Liquibase
10 11 (3.38%) SonarQube
11 8 (2.46%) Eclipse
11 8 (2.46%) IntelliJ
11 8 (2.46%) JMeter
12 7 (2.15%) WebDriver
13 6 (1.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (1.85%) CircleCI
13 6 (1.85%) Cypress.io
13 6 (1.85%) Postman
13 6 (1.85%) Vagrant
General
1 127 (39.08%) Social Skills
2 58 (17.85%) Finance
3 50 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 43 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.15%) Banking
5 20 (6.15%) Presentation Skills
6 17 (5.23%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (3.08%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.15%) Aeronautics
9 7 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.23%) Legal
11 2 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.62%) Military
11 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.31%) Marketing
12 1 (0.31%) Publishing
12 1 (0.31%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (15.08%) Analyst
2 40 (12.31%) Senior
3 37 (11.38%) Architect
4 35 (10.77%) Developer
5 28 (8.62%) Cloud Engineer
5 28 (8.62%) DevOps Engineer
6 26 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
6 26 (8.00%) Data Engineer
7 25 (7.69%) Lead
8 24 (7.38%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 19 (5.85%) Java Developer
9 19 (5.85%) Storage Analyst
10 17 (5.23%) Software Engineer
10 17 (5.23%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (4.62%) Business Analyst
12 13 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
12 13 (4.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 12 (3.69%) Site Engineer
13 12 (3.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 11 (3.38%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (14.15%) REST
2 42 (12.92%) Spring
3 27 (8.31%) Spring Boot
4 25 (7.69%) RESTful
5 23 (7.08%) JSON
6 20 (6.15%) Elastic Stack
7 19 (5.85%) SOAP
8 18 (5.54%) HTML
9 16 (4.92%) Flash
9 16 (4.92%) React
10 14 (4.31%) Hibernate
11 13 (4.00%) JPA
12 12 (3.69%) Node.js
13 11 (3.38%) WireMock
14 10 (3.08%) AngularJS
14 10 (3.08%) OAuth
14 10 (3.08%) Playwright
14 10 (3.08%) SailPoint
15 9 (2.77%) Web Services
15 9 (2.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.85%) Linux Command Line
2 31 (9.54%) Cloud Native
3 24 (7.38%) Replication
4 23 (7.08%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 13 (4.00%) Public Cloud
6 11 (3.38%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.46%) Private Cloud
7 8 (2.46%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.54%) SCADA
10 4 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.23%) PKI
10 4 (1.23%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.23%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.62%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.62%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 91 (28.00%) Linux
2 30 (9.23%) Windows
3 16 (4.92%) Unix
4 13 (4.00%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.85%) Amazon Linux
6 6 (1.85%) VMS
7 4 (1.23%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.31%) Android
8 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.31%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (45.54%) Agile
2 133 (40.92%) CI/CD
3 95 (29.23%) DevOps
4 67 (20.62%) Microservices
5 58 (17.85%) Containerisation
5 58 (17.85%) Continuous Improvement
5 58 (17.85%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (17.85%) Stakeholder Management
6 51 (15.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 49 (15.08%) Mentoring
8 45 (13.85%) Change Management
8 45 (13.85%) Software Engineering
9 42 (12.92%) Migration
10 38 (11.69%) Scrum
11 37 (11.38%) Analytics
12 31 (9.54%) Cybersecurity
13 30 (9.23%) Observability
14 29 (8.92%) Root Cause Analysis
15 28 (8.62%) Test Automation
16 27 (8.31%) AI
Programming Languages
1 84 (25.85%) SQL
2 72 (22.15%) Python
3 65 (20.00%) Java
4 21 (6.46%) Bash
4 21 (6.46%) Go
4 21 (6.46%) PowerShell
4 21 (6.46%) Shell Script
5 11 (3.38%) JavaScript
5 11 (3.38%) Scala
6 8 (2.46%) Groovy
6 8 (2.46%) Perl
7 5 (1.54%) PHP
8 4 (1.23%) BeanShell
8 4 (1.23%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.92%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.92%) Ruby
10 2 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.31%) Lisp
11 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 135 (41.54%) Security Cleared
2 105 (32.31%) SC Cleared
3 34 (10.46%) AWS Certification
4 30 (9.23%) Degree
5 18 (5.54%) Azure Certification
6 15 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.62%) DV Cleared
7 13 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (3.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (3.69%) CISSP
9 11 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (3.38%) Master's Degree
10 9 (2.77%) IIBA
11 8 (2.46%) CCNP
11 8 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (2.15%) CCIE
13 6 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (1.54%) CCSP
14 5 (1.54%) CISM
15 4 (1.23%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.38%) GDPR
1 24 (7.38%) QA
2 17 (5.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (4.31%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.69%) NIST
5 10 (3.08%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.15%) WCAG
7 5 (1.54%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.62%) COBIT
8 2 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.62%) SLA
9 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.31%) ISO 19650
9 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 91 (28.00%) Docker
2 39 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (9.54%) vSphere
4 21 (6.46%) Active Directory
5 16 (4.92%) GPFS
5 16 (4.92%) NFS
5 16 (4.92%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.15%) Postfix
7 6 (1.85%) DFS Replication
8 4 (1.23%) Dovecot
8 4 (1.23%) Squid
8 4 (1.23%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.92%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.31%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 89 (27.38%) Kubernetes
2 70 (21.54%) Terraform
3 64 (19.69%) Grafana
4 53 (16.31%) Prometheus
5 45 (13.85%) Ansible
6 31 (9.54%) vRealize
7 16 (4.92%) Progress Chef
8 14 (4.31%) Puppet
8 14 (4.31%) VxRail
9 11 (3.38%) Kibana
10 6 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.54%) Nessus
12 4 (1.23%) Podman
12 4 (1.23%) Proxmox
12 4 (1.23%) QRadar
13 2 (0.62%) Argo
13 2 (0.62%) CSIRT
13 2 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.62%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 54 (16.62%) Oracle
2 48 (14.77%) Cisco
3 47 (14.46%) Microsoft
4 44 (13.54%) ServiceNow
5 40 (12.31%) VMware
6 39 (12.00%) Splunk
7 34 (10.46%) IBM
8 25 (7.69%) AppDynamics
9 20 (6.15%) SolarWinds
10 16 (4.92%) Dynatrace
10 16 (4.92%) Google
10 16 (4.92%) Talend
11 15 (4.62%) Dell
12 14 (4.31%) Commvault
12 14 (4.31%) Informatica
13 13 (4.00%) F5
13 13 (4.00%) HP
14 12 (3.69%) Palo Alto
15 11 (3.38%) SAP
16 9 (2.77%) Jaspersoft