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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 21 43
Rank change year-on-year +6 +22 -21
Contract jobs citing AWS 375 121 74
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.93% 7.44% 3.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.31% 24.40% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 78 44
10th Percentile £357 £371 £311
25th Percentile £418 £450 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -9.72%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £650
90th Percentile £652 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £537 £573
% change year-on-year +2.42% -6.20% -4.58%
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 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -36.52%

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 1,062 496 500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.96% 30.49% 24.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 741 321 370
10th Percentile £315 £254 £206
25th Percentile £404 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -0.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £611
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 6 10
10th Percentile £21.25 £17.01 £14.10
25th Percentile £22.50 £21.88 £14.69
Median hourly rate £33.99 £34.43 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +53.02% +20.00%
75th Percentile £67.84 £40.22 £26.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £51.30 £36.04
England median hourly rate £39.02 £25.15 £21.75
% change year-on-year +55.15% +15.63% -37.67%

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 July 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 19 July 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 19 July 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 +4 134 £469 +1.96% 19
Birmingham +5 91 £425 -10.53% 29
Solihull -2 37 £500 +11.11% 2
Warwickshire +7 36 £525 -16.00% 6
Coventry -6 32 £475 -8.43% 6
Worcestershire -1 11 £565 +2.73% 4
Staffordshire -1 3 £200 - 8
Herefordshire -5 2 £538 -23.21% 3
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 (18.40%) Confluence
2 54 (14.40%) SAS
3 25 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.87%) Tuxedo
5 5 (1.33%) Apache
6 4 (1.07%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.07%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.07%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.53%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.53%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.27%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.27%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.27%) Maximo
4 1 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 159 (42.40%) Azure
2 73 (19.47%) Amazon S3
3 61 (16.27%) GitHub
4 57 (15.20%) GCP
5 51 (13.60%) Amazon EC2
6 48 (12.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 45 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
8 39 (10.40%) Serverless
9 35 (9.33%) AWS Lambda
10 27 (7.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 25 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
12 22 (5.87%) AWS KMS
13 21 (5.60%) Amazon EKS
14 20 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
14 20 (5.33%) Route 53
15 19 (5.07%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
17 13 (3.47%) AWS CodePipeline
18 12 (3.20%) PaaS
18 12 (3.20%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.40%) Firewall
2 8 (2.13%) SD-WAN
2 8 (2.13%) WAN
3 6 (1.60%) BGP
3 6 (1.60%) OSPF
4 5 (1.33%) DHCP
4 5 (1.33%) DNS
4 5 (1.33%) NetScaler
4 5 (1.33%) VPN
4 5 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (1.07%) Ethernet VPN
5 4 (1.07%) Network Security
5 4 (1.07%) VXLAN
6 3 (0.80%) BIG-IP
6 3 (0.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (0.80%) LAN
6 3 (0.80%) VLAN
6 3 (0.80%) VSAN
6 3 (0.80%) WLAN
7 2 (0.53%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (11.20%) Amazon RDS
1 42 (11.20%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (9.60%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (9.07%) Pentaho
4 25 (6.67%) DynamoDB
5 23 (6.13%) Oracle Database
6 21 (5.60%) Oracle Reports
7 20 (5.33%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 20 (5.33%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 19 (5.07%) Amazon Redshift
9 17 (4.53%) Amazon Aurora
10 14 (3.73%) MongoDB
10 14 (3.73%) Relational Database
11 11 (2.93%) MySQL
12 10 (2.67%) Power BI
13 9 (2.40%) Data Lake
13 9 (2.40%) SQL Server
14 7 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (1.87%) Ingres
14 7 (1.87%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 91 (24.27%) JIRA
2 87 (23.20%) Git
3 81 (21.60%) GitLab
3 81 (21.60%) Jenkins
4 41 (10.93%) JUnit
5 27 (7.20%) Selenium
6 22 (5.87%) Zephyr
7 21 (5.60%) Cucumber
7 21 (5.60%) Maven
7 21 (5.60%) SonarQube
8 19 (5.07%) JMeter
8 19 (5.07%) Mockito
8 19 (5.07%) Postman
9 17 (4.53%) WebDriver
10 13 (3.47%) Artifactory
10 13 (3.47%) DbUnit
10 13 (3.47%) jMock
11 11 (2.93%) Bitbucket
11 11 (2.93%) Bitbucket Server
12 8 (2.13%) REST Assured
General
1 117 (31.20%) Social Skills
2 90 (24.00%) Public Sector
3 31 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (5.07%) Finance
5 10 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (2.13%) Banking
6 8 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.60%) Legal
9 4 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.07%) Retail
10 3 (0.80%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.53%) Front Office
11 2 (0.53%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.53%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.27%) Advertising
12 1 (0.27%) Military
12 1 (0.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 61 (16.27%) Architect
2 57 (15.20%) Data Engineer
3 42 (11.20%) Senior
4 37 (9.87%) Developer
5 32 (8.53%) Tester
6 31 (8.27%) Lead
7 29 (7.73%) AWS Engineer
8 25 (6.67%) Java Developer
9 20 (5.33%) Scrum Master
10 17 (4.53%) DevOps Engineer
10 17 (4.53%) QA Tester
11 15 (4.00%) AWS Data Engineer
12 14 (3.73%) Analyst
12 14 (3.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (3.20%) Cloud Architect
13 12 (3.20%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (3.20%) Technical Architect
14 10 (2.67%) Automation Tester
14 10 (2.67%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (13.87%) Spring
2 36 (9.60%) Spring Boot
3 31 (8.27%) REST
4 22 (5.87%) SOAP
5 21 (5.60%) Node.js
6 20 (5.33%) Web Services
7 19 (5.07%) AngularJS
7 19 (5.07%) JPA
7 19 (5.07%) Spring Cloud
8 18 (4.80%) RESTful
8 18 (4.80%) WireMock
9 17 (4.53%) ActiveMQ
9 17 (4.53%) Hibernate
9 17 (4.53%) Spring Batch
9 17 (4.53%) Spring Integration
10 13 (3.47%) PowerMock
11 12 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
12 11 (2.93%) Bootstrap
13 10 (2.67%) Playwright
13 10 (2.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 39 (10.40%) Cloud Native
2 37 (9.87%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 25 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.73%) Data Centre
4 14 (3.73%) Distributed Architecture
5 13 (3.47%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.93%) Private Cloud
7 10 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (2.67%) Replication
8 8 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
8 8 (2.13%) Operational Technology
9 7 (1.87%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.60%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.60%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.80%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.80%) IoT
12 3 (0.80%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 55 (14.67%) Linux
2 25 (6.67%) Windows
3 17 (4.53%) Unix
4 9 (2.40%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.33%) AIX
5 5 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.80%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.53%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.27%) Android
8 1 (0.27%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.27%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (48.00%) Agile
2 166 (44.27%) CI/CD
3 124 (33.07%) DevOps
4 98 (26.13%) Migration
5 95 (25.33%) Test Automation
6 75 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 74 (19.73%) Containerisation
8 72 (19.20%) Scrum
9 69 (18.40%) Infrastructure as Code
10 67 (17.87%) ETL
11 65 (17.33%) Microservices
12 54 (14.40%) Analytics
13 53 (14.13%) Stakeholder Management
14 50 (13.33%) Validation
15 49 (13.07%) Observability
15 49 (13.07%) TDD
16 48 (12.80%) Data Integration
16 48 (12.80%) Data Modelling
17 42 (11.20%) Problem-Solving
17 42 (11.20%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 131 (34.93%) SQL
2 69 (18.40%) Python
3 59 (15.73%) Java
4 21 (5.60%) Bash
5 15 (4.00%) PowerShell
6 12 (3.20%) JavaScript
6 12 (3.20%) PL/SQL
7 9 (2.40%) Shell Script
8 7 (1.87%) Go
8 7 (1.87%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.87%) VB
8 7 (1.87%) VB6
9 5 (1.33%) C
9 5 (1.33%) Perl
10 3 (0.80%) Bicep
11 2 (0.53%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.27%) BeanShell
12 1 (0.27%) R
12 1 (0.27%) Scala
12 1 (0.27%) Swift
Qualifications
1 218 (58.13%) Security Cleared
2 183 (48.80%) SC Cleared
3 26 (6.93%) AWS Certification
4 22 (5.87%) ISTQB
5 14 (3.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (3.73%) Degree
6 13 (3.47%) Azure Certification
7 12 (3.20%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.93%) SAFe Agilist
9 9 (2.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 9 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.33%) CCNA
10 5 (1.33%) CISSP
10 5 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.07%) SAS Certification
12 2 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.53%) CCNP
12 2 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.27%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (12.00%) QA
2 17 (4.53%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.93%) NIST
4 8 (2.13%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.13%) GDPR
4 8 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.13%) SLA
5 6 (1.60%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.07%) WCAG
7 2 (0.53%) COBIT
8 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 100 (26.67%) Docker
2 13 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (3.47%) vSphere
3 11 (2.93%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.93%) Postfix
3 11 (2.93%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (1.87%) GPFS
4 7 (1.87%) NFS
5 5 (1.33%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.53%) Firmware
7 1 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 75 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 65 (17.33%) Grafana
2 65 (17.33%) Terraform
3 42 (11.20%) Prometheus
4 22 (5.87%) Ansible
5 10 (2.67%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.87%) Puppet
7 6 (1.60%) vRealize
8 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.80%) SCCM
9 3 (0.80%) VxRail
10 2 (0.53%) Argo
10 2 (0.53%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.53%) Kibana
11 1 (0.27%) Control-M
11 1 (0.27%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.27%) Istio
11 1 (0.27%) Nessus
11 1 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 111 (29.60%) Oracle
2 51 (13.60%) Talend
3 37 (9.87%) Microsoft
4 30 (8.00%) Denodo
5 29 (7.73%) Informatica
5 29 (7.73%) ServiceNow
6 22 (5.87%) VMware
7 18 (4.80%) Cisco
8 17 (4.53%) Jaspersoft
9 16 (4.27%) Splunk
10 15 (4.00%) Databricks
11 14 (3.73%) Atlassian
12 11 (2.93%) Cloudera
13 10 (2.67%) IBM
14 8 (2.13%) Google
14 8 (2.13%) SAP
15 7 (1.87%) Red Hat
16 5 (1.33%) Actian
16 5 (1.33%) Dynatrace
17 4 (1.07%) Palo Alto