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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 16 39
Rank change year-on-year +3 +23 -19
Contract jobs citing AWS 400 191 79
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.21% 10.36% 4.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.97% 31.94% 14.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 121 35
10th Percentile £375 £400 £310
25th Percentile £433 £450 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £620 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £675
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £50.48 - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.76% +59.16% -34.03%

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 1,112 598 550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.17% 32.43% 28.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 748 409 360
10th Percentile £306 £275 £213
25th Percentile £405 £413 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £612
90th Percentile £677 £700 £685
England median daily rate £525 £501 £532
% change year-on-year +4.90% -5.92% -3.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 6 10
10th Percentile £17.48 £28.61 £15.83
25th Percentile £19.48 £30.97 £23.55
Median hourly rate £26.15 £34.43 £33.74
Median % change year-on-year -24.05% +2.06% +82.35%
75th Percentile £51.69 £35.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £47.13 £55.50
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £34.47
% change year-on-year +29.22% -27.03% +4.44%

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 27 September 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 +2 173 £492 -4.44% 21
Birmingham -6 76 £475 - 100
Solihull +7 39 £494 +9.72% 11
Warwickshire +7 37 £477 -23.37% 21
Coventry -7 32 £450 +5.88% 13
Worcestershire +5 10 £613 +11.36% 14
Staffordshire -9 7 £256 -43.06% 4
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 44 (11.00%) SAS
2 42 (10.50%) Confluence
3 23 (5.75%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.75%) Tuxedo
5 6 (1.50%) Apache
6 5 (1.25%) Apache Spark
7 4 (1.00%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.75%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.50%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.50%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.25%) CMS
10 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.25%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.25%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 153 (38.25%) Azure
2 64 (16.00%) GitHub
3 50 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 45 (11.25%) GCP
5 37 (9.25%) Amazon EC2
5 37 (9.25%) GitHub Actions
6 35 (8.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 35 (8.75%) Serverless
7 31 (7.75%) AWS Lambda
8 27 (6.75%) Amazon EKS
9 21 (5.25%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (4.00%) GitHub Copilot
10 16 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 15 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (3.50%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (3.00%) Power Platform
14 11 (2.75%) PaaS
14 11 (2.75%) SaaS
15 10 (2.50%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.50%) Firewall
2 12 (3.00%) DHCP
2 12 (3.00%) DNS
3 11 (2.75%) WAN
4 10 (2.50%) SD-WAN
5 9 (2.25%) Network Security
6 6 (1.50%) BGP
6 6 (1.50%) LAN
6 6 (1.50%) OSPF
7 5 (1.25%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.25%) VLAN
7 5 (1.25%) VPN
7 5 (1.25%) VXLAN
7 5 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (1.00%) DMZ
8 4 (1.00%) NetScaler
9 3 (0.75%) BIG-IP
9 3 (0.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 3 (0.75%) MPLS
9 3 (0.75%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (7.50%) Pentaho
3 29 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (6.75%) MongoDB
5 24 (6.00%) Relational Database
6 21 (5.25%) Amazon RDS
7 20 (5.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 20 (5.00%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 19 (4.75%) Metadata
9 18 (4.50%) Oracle Database
10 16 (4.00%) DynamoDB
10 16 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
11 15 (3.75%) MySQL
12 12 (3.00%) Power BI
13 11 (2.75%) Data Lake
14 10 (2.50%) SQL Server
15 9 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (2.25%) NoSQL
16 7 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
16 7 (1.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 110 (27.50%) GitLab
2 82 (20.50%) Git
3 70 (17.50%) Jenkins
4 64 (16.00%) JIRA
5 62 (15.50%) JUnit
6 37 (9.25%) Maven
6 37 (9.25%) SonarQube
7 35 (8.75%) Selenium
8 32 (8.00%) Mockito
9 29 (7.25%) Cucumber
10 28 (7.00%) Gatling
11 20 (5.00%) Zephyr
12 18 (4.50%) Postman
13 13 (3.25%) Artifactory
14 9 (2.25%) Bitbucket
15 6 (1.50%) Team Foundation Server
16 5 (1.25%) DbUnit
16 5 (1.25%) jMock
16 5 (1.25%) Oracle Forms
16 5 (1.25%) REST Assured
General
1 134 (33.50%) Social Skills
2 98 (24.50%) Public Sector
3 33 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (2.75%) Finance
4 11 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (1.75%) Legal
7 6 (1.50%) Banking
8 4 (1.00%) Military
8 4 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.00%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.75%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.50%) Advertising
10 2 (0.50%) Front Office
10 2 (0.50%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.50%) Publishing
10 2 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 67 (16.75%) Architect
2 53 (13.25%) Data Engineer
3 52 (13.00%) Senior
4 39 (9.75%) Developer
5 32 (8.00%) Lead
6 31 (7.75%) Java Developer
7 29 (7.25%) AWS Engineer
8 24 (6.00%) Scrum Master
9 23 (5.75%) Quality Engineer
10 19 (4.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 17 (4.25%) Senior Developer
11 17 (4.25%) Tester
12 16 (4.00%) Data Architect
12 16 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
13 15 (3.75%) Senior Java Developer
13 15 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (3.25%) Java Engineer
14 13 (3.25%) Technical Architect
15 11 (2.75%) Analyst
15 11 (2.75%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (20.00%) Spring
2 59 (14.75%) Spring Boot
3 52 (13.00%) Terraform
4 42 (10.50%) REST
5 34 (8.50%) Playwright
6 33 (8.25%) RESTful
7 32 (8.00%) JPA
8 23 (5.75%) SOAP
9 21 (5.25%) AngularJS
10 19 (4.75%) React
11 18 (4.50%) Hibernate
11 18 (4.50%) OpenAPI
11 18 (4.50%) Spring Cloud
11 18 (4.50%) WireMock
12 17 (4.25%) ActiveMQ
12 17 (4.25%) Gherkin
12 17 (4.25%) JSON
12 17 (4.25%) Web Services
13 16 (4.00%) Kafka
14 12 (3.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 69 (17.25%) Cloud Native
2 39 (9.75%) Product Ownership
3 22 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (5.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (3.50%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.75%) Operational Technology
5 11 (2.75%) Private Cloud
6 10 (2.50%) Data Fabric
6 10 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (2.50%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.00%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.75%) Replication
8 7 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.25%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.00%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 37 (9.25%) Linux
2 23 (5.75%) Unix
3 22 (5.50%) Windows
4 13 (3.25%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.50%) AIX
6 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.25%) Solaris
7 1 (0.25%) SUSE
7 1 (0.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (49.00%) Agile
2 168 (42.00%) CI/CD
3 120 (30.00%) DevOps
4 116 (29.00%) Test Automation
5 105 (26.25%) Migration
5 105 (26.25%) Scrum
6 86 (21.50%) Microservices
6 86 (21.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 85 (21.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 78 (19.50%) Containerisation
9 69 (17.25%) Infrastructure as Code
10 62 (15.50%) Technical Leadership
11 54 (13.50%) ETL
12 53 (13.25%) Data Integration
13 51 (12.75%) Analytics
14 50 (12.50%) Test Strategy
15 48 (12.00%) TDD
16 47 (11.75%) Software Testing
17 46 (11.50%) Problem-Solving
18 45 (11.25%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 117 (29.25%) SQL
2 112 (28.00%) Java
3 59 (14.75%) Python
4 24 (6.00%) JavaScript
5 19 (4.75%) Bash
6 17 (4.25%) TypeScript
7 13 (3.25%) PowerShell
8 12 (3.00%) PL/SQL
9 10 (2.50%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.75%) VB
10 7 (1.75%) VB6
11 6 (1.50%) Go
11 6 (1.50%) Scala
12 5 (1.25%) C
13 3 (0.75%) R
14 2 (0.50%) Bicep
14 2 (0.50%) C#
14 2 (0.50%) Groovy
15 1 (0.25%) ABAP
15 1 (0.25%) C++
Qualifications
1 199 (49.75%) Security Cleared
2 170 (42.50%) SC Cleared
3 45 (11.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 25 (6.25%) AWS Certification
5 20 (5.00%) ISTQB
6 14 (3.50%) Degree
7 11 (2.75%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.50%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.00%) SAFe Agilist
10 6 (1.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.50%) CISSP
10 6 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.25%) CCNP
12 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (1.00%) SAS Certification
13 3 (0.75%) CISM
14 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (14.25%) QA
2 34 (8.50%) Accessibility
3 25 (6.25%) WCAG
4 16 (4.00%) Data Quality
5 10 (2.50%) NIST
6 6 (1.50%) GRC
6 6 (1.50%) SLA
7 4 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.00%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.50%) COBIT
8 2 (0.50%) GDPR
9 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 97 (24.25%) Docker
2 16 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.75%) vSphere
4 13 (3.25%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (2.75%) Active Directory
6 5 (1.25%) GPFS
6 5 (1.25%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.25%) NFS
7 4 (1.00%) Postfix
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 84 (21.00%) Kubernetes
2 46 (11.50%) Grafana
3 33 (8.25%) Prometheus
4 20 (5.00%) Ansible
5 16 (4.00%) Kibana
6 8 (2.00%) Progress Chef
6 8 (2.00%) Puppet
7 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.25%) SCCM
8 4 (1.00%) vRealize
9 2 (0.50%) Argo
9 2 (0.50%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.50%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.50%) VxRail
10 1 (0.25%) Control-M
10 1 (0.25%) Istio
10 1 (0.25%) Podman
10 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 101 (25.25%) Oracle
2 39 (9.75%) Microsoft
3 35 (8.75%) Talend
4 25 (6.25%) VMware
5 23 (5.75%) Denodo
6 20 (5.00%) Cisco
6 20 (5.00%) Databricks
7 17 (4.25%) ServiceNow
8 15 (3.75%) Informatica
9 12 (3.00%) Splunk
10 11 (2.75%) Google
11 9 (2.25%) Palo Alto
12 8 (2.00%) IBM
13 7 (1.75%) Jaspersoft
13 7 (1.75%) OpenAI
13 7 (1.75%) SAP
14 6 (1.50%) Atlassian
15 5 (1.25%) Actian
15 5 (1.25%) Dynatrace
15 5 (1.25%) Fortinet