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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 23 46
Rank change year-on-year +12 +23 -23
Contract jobs citing AWS 358 101 69
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.15% 7.08% 3.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.92% 22.25% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 64 45
10th Percentile £350 £400 £311
25th Percentile £405 £425 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £505 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +12.22% -16.67%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £656
90th Percentile £649 £638 £688
England median daily rate £542 £540 £563
% change year-on-year +0.34% -4.00% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile £48.93 - £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 £70.00 £70.00 £50.59
% change year-on-year - +38.37% -31.64%

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 944 454 466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 29.40% 31.84% 23.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 300 352
10th Percentile £313 £200 £206
25th Percentile £402 £381 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £611
90th Percentile £678 £663 £688
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 9 12
10th Percentile £22.50 £15.27 £14.14
25th Percentile £25.00 £18.13 £15.56
Median hourly rate £33.99 £18.74 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.38% -16.71% +11.17%
75th Percentile £67.84 £34.98 £26.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £45.70 £33.19
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.46
% change year-on-year +67.39% +18.83% -38.69%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 6 June 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 +8 132 £469 +1.96% 19
Birmingham +5 88 £425 -15.00% 52
Coventry +4 34 £450 -13.25% 11
Warwickshire +9 33 £477 -23.06% 12
Solihull -2 32 £494 +9.72% 6
Worcestershire +4 10 £628 +0.40% 8
Herefordshire -7 4 £538 -23.21% 4
Staffordshire -6 1 £313 -43.18% 8
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 78 (21.79%) Confluence
2 62 (17.32%) SAS
3 25 (6.98%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.51%) Apache
5 7 (1.96%) WebLogic
6 5 (1.40%) Anypoint
6 5 (1.40%) Apache Spark
7 4 (1.12%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.84%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.56%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.56%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.28%) CMS
10 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.28%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.28%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.28%) CATIA
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.28%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.28%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 150 (41.90%) Azure
2 64 (17.88%) Amazon S3
3 52 (14.53%) GCP
4 47 (13.13%) GitHub
5 45 (12.57%) Amazon EC2
6 42 (11.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 37 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
8 34 (9.50%) Serverless
9 31 (8.66%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (6.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 22 (6.15%) Amazon SQS
11 22 (6.15%) AWS KMS
12 21 (5.87%) Route 53
13 17 (4.75%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (4.47%) Amazon EKS
15 14 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
16 13 (3.63%) AWS CodePipeline
17 12 (3.35%) PaaS
18 11 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
18 11 (3.07%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.79%) Firewall
2 7 (1.96%) VPN
3 6 (1.68%) DHCP
3 6 (1.68%) DNS
3 6 (1.68%) SD-WAN
3 6 (1.68%) WAN
4 5 (1.40%) BGP
4 5 (1.40%) HTTPS
4 5 (1.40%) Network Security
4 5 (1.40%) OSPF
5 4 (1.12%) Ethernet VPN
5 4 (1.12%) VLAN
5 4 (1.12%) VSAN
5 4 (1.12%) VXLAN
6 3 (0.84%) BIG-IP
6 3 (0.84%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.84%) WLAN
7 2 (0.56%) NAS
7 2 (0.56%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (12.01%) Amazon RDS
2 40 (11.17%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (9.22%) Pentaho
4 31 (8.66%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (6.98%) DynamoDB
6 21 (5.87%) Oracle Reports
7 20 (5.59%) Oracle Database
7 20 (5.59%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 20 (5.59%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 19 (5.31%) Amazon Redshift
9 17 (4.75%) Amazon Aurora
10 11 (3.07%) MongoDB
10 11 (3.07%) MySQL
11 10 (2.79%) Relational Database
12 8 (2.23%) Data Lake
12 8 (2.23%) Power BI
13 6 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
14 5 (1.40%) Metadata
14 5 (1.40%) SAS Data Integration Studio
15 4 (1.12%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 101 (28.21%) JIRA
2 82 (22.91%) Git
3 75 (20.95%) GitLab
4 74 (20.67%) Jenkins
5 40 (11.17%) JUnit
6 26 (7.26%) Selenium
7 22 (6.15%) Maven
7 22 (6.15%) SonarQube
7 22 (6.15%) Zephyr
8 20 (5.59%) Postman
9 19 (5.31%) Cucumber
9 19 (5.31%) JMeter
9 19 (5.31%) Mockito
10 17 (4.75%) WebDriver
11 14 (3.91%) Artifactory
12 13 (3.63%) DbUnit
12 13 (3.63%) jMock
13 12 (3.35%) Bitbucket
14 11 (3.07%) Bitbucket Server
15 8 (2.23%) REST Assured
General
1 125 (34.92%) Social Skills
2 80 (22.35%) Public Sector
3 51 (14.25%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.70%) Finance
5 11 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (2.51%) Banking
6 9 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.12%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.12%) Retail
10 3 (0.84%) Legal
11 2 (0.56%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.28%) Advertising
12 1 (0.28%) Military
12 1 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 51 (14.25%) Data Engineer
2 48 (13.41%) Architect
3 40 (11.17%) Developer
4 35 (9.78%) Senior
5 32 (8.94%) Tester
6 29 (8.10%) Analyst
7 27 (7.54%) Lead
8 26 (7.26%) AWS Engineer
8 26 (7.26%) Java Developer
9 17 (4.75%) QA Tester
10 15 (4.19%) DevOps Engineer
11 14 (3.91%) AWS Data Engineer
12 13 (3.63%) Scrum Master
13 12 (3.35%) Cloud Architect
13 12 (3.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (3.07%) Business Analyst
14 11 (3.07%) Cloud Engineer
14 11 (3.07%) Senior Developer
14 11 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (3.07%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (12.57%) Spring
2 29 (8.10%) REST
2 29 (8.10%) Spring Boot
3 22 (6.15%) AngularJS
3 22 (6.15%) SOAP
4 20 (5.59%) Node.js
5 19 (5.31%) JPA
5 19 (5.31%) Spring Cloud
5 19 (5.31%) Web Services
6 18 (5.03%) WireMock
7 17 (4.75%) ActiveMQ
7 17 (4.75%) Hibernate
7 17 (4.75%) Spring Batch
7 17 (4.75%) Spring Integration
8 13 (3.63%) PowerMock
8 13 (3.63%) RESTful
9 12 (3.35%) Flash
10 11 (3.07%) Bootstrap
11 10 (2.79%) AWS CDK
12 9 (2.51%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.50%) Cloud Native
2 32 (8.94%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (5.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (5.59%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.91%) Distributed Architecture
5 14 (3.91%) Replication
6 12 (3.35%) Data Centre
6 12 (3.35%) Linux Command Line
7 11 (3.07%) Onboarding
8 10 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (2.51%) Private Cloud
10 8 (2.23%) Enterprise Cloud
11 7 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.68%) Operational Technology
13 5 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.40%) Public Cloud
14 4 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
15 3 (0.84%) Algorithms
15 3 (0.84%) Data Fabric
15 3 (0.84%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 58 (16.20%) Linux
2 22 (6.15%) Windows
3 21 (5.87%) Unix
4 10 (2.79%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.84%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.56%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.28%) AIX
8 1 (0.28%) Android
8 1 (0.28%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.28%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (48.60%) Agile
2 157 (43.85%) CI/CD
3 120 (33.52%) DevOps
4 94 (26.26%) Migration
5 85 (23.74%) Test Automation
6 71 (19.83%) Containerisation
6 71 (19.83%) Continuous Improvement
7 64 (17.88%) ETL
8 63 (17.60%) Stakeholder Management
9 62 (17.32%) Scrum
10 60 (16.76%) Microservices
11 54 (15.08%) Analytics
12 53 (14.80%) Infrastructure as Code
13 48 (13.41%) Observability
14 46 (12.85%) TDD
15 45 (12.57%) Validation
16 43 (12.01%) Data Integration
16 43 (12.01%) Data Modelling
17 39 (10.89%) End-to-End Testing
17 39 (10.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 122 (34.08%) SQL
2 68 (18.99%) Python
3 47 (13.13%) Java
4 24 (6.70%) Bash
5 16 (4.47%) PowerShell
6 11 (3.07%) PL/SQL
6 11 (3.07%) Shell Script
7 9 (2.51%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.68%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.40%) Go
9 5 (1.40%) Perl
10 2 (0.56%) Bicep
10 2 (0.56%) Groovy
10 2 (0.56%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.28%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.28%) PHP
11 1 (0.28%) Scala
11 1 (0.28%) Swift
11 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 217 (60.61%) Security Cleared
2 186 (51.96%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.15%) ISTQB
4 16 (4.47%) AWS Certification
5 14 (3.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (3.35%) Degree
7 11 (3.07%) SAFe Agilist
8 10 (2.79%) DV Cleared
9 9 (2.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 9 (2.51%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (2.51%) IIBA
10 8 (2.23%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.40%) CCNA
11 5 (1.40%) CISSP
12 4 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.12%) SAS Certification
13 3 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.56%) CCNP
14 2 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (10.61%) QA
2 13 (3.63%) GDPR
3 12 (3.35%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.51%) NIST
5 8 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.96%) SLA
7 6 (1.68%) Accessibility
8 5 (1.40%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.56%) COBIT
9 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.56%) WCAG
10 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 99 (27.65%) Docker
2 17 (4.75%) vSphere
3 16 (4.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (4.19%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (3.35%) Active Directory
5 12 (3.35%) GPFS
5 12 (3.35%) NFS
6 11 (3.07%) Postfix
7 4 (1.12%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.56%) Firmware
9 1 (0.28%) HDFS
9 1 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 76 (21.23%) Kubernetes
2 70 (19.55%) Grafana
3 55 (15.36%) Terraform
4 47 (13.13%) Prometheus
5 18 (5.03%) Ansible
6 11 (3.07%) vRealize
7 10 (2.79%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.68%) Puppet
9 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.12%) VxRail
10 2 (0.56%) Argo
10 2 (0.56%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.56%) Kibana
11 1 (0.28%) Control-M
11 1 (0.28%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.28%) Istio
11 1 (0.28%) Nessus
11 1 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 107 (29.89%) Oracle
2 49 (13.69%) Talend
3 34 (9.50%) Microsoft
4 33 (9.22%) ServiceNow
5 31 (8.66%) Informatica
6 30 (8.38%) Denodo
7 21 (5.87%) Splunk
8 18 (5.03%) IBM
8 18 (5.03%) VMware
9 17 (4.75%) Jaspersoft
10 16 (4.47%) Cisco
11 15 (4.19%) Dynatrace
12 14 (3.91%) Atlassian
13 12 (3.35%) Databricks
14 11 (3.07%) Cloudera
15 8 (2.23%) AppDynamics
16 7 (1.96%) SAP
17 5 (1.40%) Axway
17 5 (1.40%) IBM Sterling
17 5 (1.40%) Red Hat