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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 27 46
Rank change year-on-year +13 +19 -25
Contract jobs citing AWS 319 83 66
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.19% 6.06% 3.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.56% 18.57% 14.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 49 49
10th Percentile £327 £410 £313
25th Percentile £402 £455 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £560 £575 £656
90th Percentile £648 £700 £688
England median daily rate £537 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -2.36% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £55.38 - £23.46
25th Percentile £61.56 - £28.71
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £37.48
75th Percentile £75.00 - £46.24
90th Percentile - - £51.50
England median hourly rate £74.75 £71.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +4.91% +29.55% -25.68%

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 897 447 454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 28.67% 32.65% 23.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 632 297 351
10th Percentile £313 £200 £213
25th Percentile £402 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £611
90th Percentile £675 £663 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 10
10th Percentile - £15.23 £14.10
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.02 £14.69
Median hourly rate £33.99 £18.07 £21.23
Median % change year-on-year +88.15% -14.89% +4.87%
75th Percentile £67.84 £19.31 £26.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £39.80 £29.35
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +67.39% +21.43% -34.98%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +5 104 £469 +1.96% 9
Birmingham +5 74 £425 -22.73% 49
Coventry +8 37 £426 -30.45% 13
Warwickshire +10 32 £525 -15.32% 10
Solihull -1 26 £500 +8.70% 3
Worcestershire +2 12 £680 -2.86% 15
Herefordshire -6 8 £544 -22.32%
Staffordshire -5 2 £325 -40.91% 11
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 69 (21.63%) Confluence
2 45 (14.11%) SAS
3 15 (4.70%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.19%) Apache
4 7 (2.19%) WebLogic
5 5 (1.57%) Anypoint
6 4 (1.25%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.25%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.94%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.94%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.31%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.31%) CMS
8 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.31%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.94%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.31%) CATIA
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.31%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.63%) Shopify
3 1 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 133 (41.69%) Azure
2 59 (18.50%) Amazon S3
3 52 (16.30%) GCP
4 40 (12.54%) Amazon EC2
5 38 (11.91%) GitHub
6 37 (11.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 33 (10.34%) Serverless
8 31 (9.72%) GitHub Actions
9 30 (9.40%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (6.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 19 (5.96%) Amazon SQS
11 19 (5.96%) AWS KMS
12 17 (5.33%) Route 53
13 16 (5.02%) Amazon EKS
14 14 (4.39%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (4.39%) Datadog
15 12 (3.76%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (3.76%) Entra ID
16 11 (3.45%) AWS CodePipeline
16 11 (3.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.13%) VPN
2 9 (2.82%) Firewall
2 9 (2.82%) Network Security
3 7 (2.19%) VSAN
4 6 (1.88%) SD-WAN
4 6 (1.88%) WAN
5 5 (1.57%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.94%) BGP
6 3 (0.94%) DHCP
6 3 (0.94%) DNS
6 3 (0.94%) OSPF
6 3 (0.94%) VLAN
6 3 (0.94%) WLAN
7 2 (0.63%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (0.63%) LAN
7 2 (0.63%) SSL
7 2 (0.63%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.31%) Anycast
8 1 (0.31%) NaaS
8 1 (0.31%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (13.48%) Amazon RDS
2 33 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (9.09%) Pentaho
4 23 (7.21%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (6.90%) DynamoDB
6 16 (5.02%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (4.39%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (4.39%) Oracle Database
7 14 (4.39%) Oracle Reports
8 10 (3.13%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.82%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 9 (2.82%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 8 (2.51%) MongoDB
11 7 (2.19%) Data Lake
11 7 (2.19%) MySQL
11 7 (2.19%) Power BI
12 6 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.57%) SAS Data Integration Studio
14 4 (1.25%) BusinessObjects
14 4 (1.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 88 (27.59%) JIRA
2 71 (22.26%) Git
3 58 (18.18%) Jenkins
4 52 (16.30%) GitLab
5 34 (10.66%) JUnit
6 19 (5.96%) Maven
7 18 (5.64%) Selenium
8 17 (5.33%) Mockito
8 17 (5.33%) SonarQube
9 16 (5.02%) Cucumber
10 15 (4.70%) JMeter
10 15 (4.70%) Postman
10 15 (4.70%) Zephyr
11 14 (4.39%) WebDriver
12 11 (3.45%) DbUnit
12 11 (3.45%) jMock
13 10 (3.13%) Bitbucket
14 9 (2.82%) Bitbucket Server
15 8 (2.51%) Artifactory
16 5 (1.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 105 (32.92%) Social Skills
2 61 (19.12%) Public Sector
3 45 (14.11%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (9.40%) Finance
5 14 (4.39%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (2.82%) Banking
7 8 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.94%) Retail
11 2 (0.63%) Aeronautics
11 2 (0.63%) Legal
11 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.31%) Advertising
12 1 (0.31%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.31%) Military
12 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 43 (13.48%) Data Engineer
2 38 (11.91%) Developer
3 37 (11.60%) Analyst
3 37 (11.60%) Architect
4 31 (9.72%) Senior
5 26 (8.15%) Lead
6 24 (7.52%) AWS Engineer
6 24 (7.52%) Java Developer
6 24 (7.52%) Tester
7 13 (4.08%) AWS Data Engineer
7 13 (4.08%) Business Analyst
7 13 (4.08%) Storage Analyst
8 12 (3.76%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (3.45%) Cloud Architect
9 11 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
9 11 (3.45%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 11 (3.45%) QA Tester
9 11 (3.45%) Scrum Master
10 10 (3.13%) Senior Developer
10 10 (3.13%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (12.54%) Spring
2 29 (9.09%) REST
3 26 (8.15%) Spring Boot
4 20 (6.27%) SOAP
5 18 (5.64%) AngularJS
5 18 (5.64%) Node.js
6 17 (5.33%) JPA
7 16 (5.02%) Web Services
8 15 (4.70%) Hibernate
8 15 (4.70%) Spring Cloud
8 15 (4.70%) WireMock
9 14 (4.39%) ActiveMQ
9 14 (4.39%) Flash
9 14 (4.39%) Spring Batch
9 14 (4.39%) Spring Integration
10 13 (4.08%) RESTful
11 11 (3.45%) PowerMock
12 9 (2.82%) Bootstrap
13 8 (2.51%) Middleware
13 8 (2.51%) React
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.78%) Cloud Native
1 28 (8.78%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (5.64%) Linux Command Line
3 17 (5.33%) Replication
4 15 (4.70%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (3.76%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.45%) Distributed Architecture
7 9 (2.82%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.51%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.94%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.94%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.94%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.63%) Educational Technology
11 2 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
12 1 (0.31%) IoT
12 1 (0.31%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 59 (18.50%) Linux
2 20 (6.27%) Windows
3 13 (4.08%) Unix
4 9 (2.82%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.63%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.31%) Android
7 1 (0.31%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (50.16%) Agile
2 135 (42.32%) CI/CD
3 99 (31.03%) DevOps
4 71 (22.26%) Migration
5 64 (20.06%) Test Automation
6 60 (18.81%) Containerisation
6 60 (18.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 55 (17.24%) Scrum
7 55 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
8 53 (16.61%) ETL
9 52 (16.30%) Microservices
10 45 (14.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 45 (14.11%) Observability
11 42 (13.17%) Analytics
12 41 (12.85%) TDD
13 37 (11.60%) Data Modelling
13 37 (11.60%) Problem-Solving
14 32 (10.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 32 (10.03%) Validation
15 31 (9.72%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 103 (32.29%) SQL
2 61 (19.12%) Python
3 44 (13.79%) Java
4 22 (6.90%) Bash
5 16 (5.02%) Shell Script
6 15 (4.70%) PowerShell
7 8 (2.51%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.19%) Go
9 6 (1.88%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.57%) Perl
10 5 (1.57%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.94%) BeanShell
12 2 (0.63%) Bicep
12 2 (0.63%) Groovy
12 2 (0.63%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.31%) PHP
13 1 (0.31%) Scala
13 1 (0.31%) Swift
13 1 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 180 (56.43%) Security Cleared
2 154 (48.28%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.70%) AWS Certification
3 15 (4.70%) ISTQB
4 14 (4.39%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (4.39%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (2.82%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.82%) IIBA
6 9 (2.82%) SAFe Agilist
7 8 (2.51%) Degree
8 7 (2.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 7 (2.19%) CISSP
9 5 (1.57%) CCNA
10 4 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.25%) CISM
11 3 (0.94%) CCNP
12 2 (0.63%) CCIE
12 2 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.72%) QA
2 15 (4.70%) GDPR
3 11 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.19%) NIST
6 5 (1.57%) SLA
7 4 (1.25%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.63%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.63%) COBIT
8 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 92 (28.84%) Docker
2 20 (6.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (6.27%) vSphere
3 15 (4.70%) Active Directory
4 14 (4.39%) GPFS
4 14 (4.39%) NFS
4 14 (4.39%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (3.13%) Postfix
6 2 (0.63%) Firmware
6 2 (0.63%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.31%) HDFS
7 1 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 73 (22.88%) Kubernetes
2 65 (20.38%) Grafana
3 54 (16.93%) Terraform
4 43 (13.48%) Prometheus
5 22 (6.90%) Ansible
6 18 (5.64%) vRealize
7 12 (3.76%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.19%) VxRail
9 5 (1.57%) Puppet
10 4 (1.25%) Kibana
10 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.94%) Argo
12 2 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.31%) Check_MK
13 1 (0.31%) Control-M
13 1 (0.31%) EMC NetWorker
13 1 (0.31%) logstash
13 1 (0.31%) Nessus
13 1 (0.31%) Podman
13 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 85 (26.65%) Oracle
2 38 (11.91%) Talend
3 36 (11.29%) Microsoft
4 34 (10.66%) ServiceNow
5 30 (9.40%) Informatica
6 24 (7.52%) Cisco
7 23 (7.21%) IBM
8 22 (6.90%) Denodo
8 22 (6.90%) VMware
9 17 (5.33%) Splunk
10 15 (4.70%) Dynatrace
11 14 (4.39%) Jaspersoft
12 12 (3.76%) AppDynamics
12 12 (3.76%) Atlassian
13 10 (3.13%) Cloudera
14 8 (2.51%) SAP
15 7 (2.19%) Databricks
15 7 (2.19%) SolarWinds
16 6 (1.88%) Red Hat
17 5 (1.57%) Commvault