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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 25 45
Rank change year-on-year +12 +20 -31
Contract jobs citing AWS 333 85 75
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.85% 6.40% 3.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.80% 17.86% 14.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 53 61
10th Percentile £313 £402 £313
25th Percentile £402 £455 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £606
90th Percentile £645 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £568 £550
% change year-on-year -7.49% +3.18% -6.38%
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 £76.00 £65.25 £51.78
% change year-on-year +16.48% +26.02% -19.72%

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 905 476 502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.22% 35.82% 25.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 660 339 390
10th Percentile £313 £200 £212
25th Percentile £404 £389 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £676 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 18 11
10th Percentile £21.83 £15.26 £14.13
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.81 £17.63
Median hourly rate £26.11 £18.44 £19.95
Median % change year-on-year +41.61% -7.59% +21.06%
75th Percentile £27.50 £34.69 £26.50
90th Percentile £42.43 £37.09 -
England median hourly rate £39.75 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% +26.19% -16.00%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 88 £463 -5.61% 11
Birmingham +11 84 £500 -9.09% 37
Coventry +10 53 £402 -19.60% 13
Warwickshire +17 40 £550 +10.00% 8
Worcestershire -2 21 £703 +0.36% 7
Solihull -2 12 £500 +19.05% 8
Herefordshire -9 11 £550 -21.43% 2
Staffordshire -6 1 £338 -38.64% 9
Bilston - 1 £550 -
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 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 50 (15.02%) Confluence
2 23 (6.91%) SAS
3 17 (5.11%) Apache
3 17 (5.11%) WebLogic
4 8 (2.40%) JBoss
5 7 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.50%) Apache Spark
6 5 (1.50%) OpenStack
7 4 (1.20%) Anypoint
7 4 (1.20%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.60%) Drupal
8 2 (0.60%) nginx
9 1 (0.30%) CMS
9 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (3.00%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (2.40%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.30%) CATIA
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.30%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 149 (44.74%) Azure
2 78 (23.42%) GCP
3 44 (13.21%) Amazon S3
4 28 (8.41%) Amazon EC2
4 28 (8.41%) GitHub
5 25 (7.51%) Datadog
6 24 (7.21%) Serverless
7 22 (6.61%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (5.71%) AWS KMS
9 17 (5.11%) Entra ID
9 17 (5.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 14 (4.20%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (4.20%) OpenShift
11 12 (3.60%) Route 53
12 10 (3.00%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.91%) Firewall
2 20 (6.01%) VPN
3 15 (4.50%) Network Security
3 15 (4.50%) VSAN
4 9 (2.70%) DNS
4 9 (2.70%) SD-WAN
4 9 (2.70%) WAN
5 8 (2.40%) DHCP
6 7 (2.10%) BGP
6 7 (2.10%) LAN
6 7 (2.10%) OSPF
6 7 (2.10%) WLAN
7 6 (1.80%) MPLS
7 6 (1.80%) VLAN
7 6 (1.80%) VXLAN
8 5 (1.50%) EIGRP
8 5 (1.50%) IPv4
8 5 (1.50%) IPv6
9 4 (1.20%) HTTPS
9 4 (1.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (12.61%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (11.41%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (7.51%) MongoDB
4 16 (4.80%) Pentaho
5 14 (4.20%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (3.60%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.30%) Oracle Database
8 10 (3.00%) MySQL
8 10 (3.00%) Oracle Reports
8 10 (3.00%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (2.70%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.20%) Big Data
10 4 (1.20%) InfluxDB
10 4 (1.20%) Power BI
11 3 (0.90%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.90%) Metadata
12 2 (0.60%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 75 (22.52%) Git
2 59 (17.72%) Jenkins
3 57 (17.12%) JIRA
4 45 (13.51%) GitLab
5 44 (13.21%) JUnit
6 32 (9.61%) Selenium
7 21 (6.31%) Cucumber
7 21 (6.31%) Maven
8 18 (5.41%) Mockito
9 14 (4.20%) SonarQube
10 13 (3.90%) JMeter
10 13 (3.90%) Postman
11 12 (3.60%) WebDriver
12 9 (2.70%) Zephyr
13 8 (2.40%) Eclipse
13 8 (2.40%) IntelliJ
14 7 (2.10%) DbUnit
14 7 (2.10%) jMock
14 7 (2.10%) Liquibase
15 6 (1.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 127 (38.14%) Social Skills
2 57 (17.12%) Finance
3 49 (14.71%) Public Sector
4 47 (14.11%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (5.71%) Banking
6 17 (5.11%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (4.20%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.40%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.10%) Aeronautics
11 4 (1.20%) Legal
12 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.30%) Advertising
13 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.30%) Military
13 1 (0.30%) Publishing
13 1 (0.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (15.02%) Analyst
2 40 (12.01%) Developer
3 36 (10.81%) Architect
3 36 (10.81%) Senior
4 32 (9.61%) Data Engineer
5 29 (8.71%) Lead
6 25 (7.51%) Cloud Engineer
6 25 (7.51%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 24 (7.21%) Java Developer
8 22 (6.61%) AWS Engineer
9 21 (6.31%) Storage Analyst
10 19 (5.71%) Tester
11 17 (5.11%) DevOps Engineer
12 15 (4.50%) Business Analyst
13 13 (3.90%) Software Engineer
13 13 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (3.60%) Site Engineer
14 12 (3.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 10 (3.00%) Engagement Manager
15 10 (3.00%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (15.62%) Spring
2 45 (13.51%) REST
3 32 (9.61%) Spring Boot
4 23 (6.91%) RESTful
4 23 (6.91%) SOAP
5 22 (6.61%) JSON
6 18 (5.41%) Hibernate
6 18 (5.41%) HTML
7 17 (5.11%) JPA
8 16 (4.80%) Elastic Stack
8 16 (4.80%) WireMock
9 15 (4.50%) AngularJS
9 15 (4.50%) Flash
9 15 (4.50%) Node.js
9 15 (4.50%) React
10 14 (4.20%) Web Services
11 11 (3.30%) SailPoint
11 11 (3.30%) Spring Batch
12 10 (3.00%) Playwright
12 10 (3.00%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.31%) Linux Command Line
2 29 (8.71%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (7.81%) Cloud Native
4 17 (5.11%) Replication
5 13 (3.90%) Onboarding
6 12 (3.60%) Data Centre
7 10 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (3.00%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
9 8 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (2.10%) Private Cloud
10 7 (2.10%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.50%) SCADA
12 4 (1.20%) PKI
12 4 (1.20%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
13 3 (0.90%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.90%) Distributed Applications
13 3 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 80 (24.02%) Linux
2 24 (7.21%) Windows
3 13 (3.90%) Unix
3 13 (3.90%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.30%) Android
5 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.30%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (48.65%) Agile
2 137 (41.14%) CI/CD
3 87 (26.13%) DevOps
4 72 (21.62%) Microservices
5 62 (18.62%) Stakeholder Management
6 59 (17.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 58 (17.42%) Containerisation
8 56 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
9 51 (15.32%) Migration
10 50 (15.02%) Mentoring
11 48 (14.41%) Infrastructure as Code
12 45 (13.51%) Scrum
13 41 (12.31%) Test Automation
14 40 (12.01%) Software Engineering
15 39 (11.71%) ETL
16 37 (11.11%) TDD
17 36 (10.81%) Analytics
17 36 (10.81%) Change Management
18 35 (10.51%) Observability
19 31 (9.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 95 (28.53%) SQL
2 70 (21.02%) Java
3 68 (20.42%) Python
4 21 (6.31%) Shell Script
5 19 (5.71%) Bash
6 17 (5.11%) Go
6 17 (5.11%) PowerShell
7 12 (3.60%) Scala
8 10 (3.00%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.80%) Perl
10 5 (1.50%) BeanShell
11 4 (1.20%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.90%) PHP
12 3 (0.90%) Ruby
13 2 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.60%) Groovy
13 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.60%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.30%) Bicep
14 1 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 147 (44.14%) Security Cleared
2 116 (34.83%) SC Cleared
3 31 (9.31%) AWS Certification
4 22 (6.61%) Degree
5 16 (4.80%) DV Cleared
6 14 (4.20%) Azure Certification
6 14 (4.20%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (3.90%) CISSP
8 12 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (3.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (2.70%) IIBA
11 9 (2.70%) ISTQB
11 9 (2.70%) Master's Degree
12 7 (2.10%) CCIE
12 7 (2.10%) CCNP
12 7 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (1.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (1.80%) CISM
14 5 (1.50%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.31%) QA
2 21 (6.31%) GDPR
3 14 (4.20%) Data Quality
3 14 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.60%) NIST
5 9 (2.70%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.10%) WCAG
7 5 (1.50%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.60%) COBIT
8 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.60%) SLA
9 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 93 (27.93%) Docker
2 38 (11.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (9.01%) vSphere
4 21 (6.31%) Active Directory
5 15 (4.50%) GPFS
5 15 (4.50%) NFS
5 15 (4.50%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.80%) Postfix
7 4 (1.20%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.90%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.30%) Firmware
9 1 (0.30%) HDFS
9 1 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 93 (27.93%) Kubernetes
2 65 (19.52%) Grafana
3 62 (18.62%) Terraform
4 48 (14.41%) Prometheus
5 38 (11.41%) Ansible
6 30 (9.01%) vRealize
7 15 (4.50%) Progress Chef
7 15 (4.50%) VxRail
8 13 (3.90%) Puppet
9 11 (3.30%) Kibana
10 7 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.20%) QRadar
12 3 (0.90%) Podman
12 3 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.60%) Argo
13 2 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.60%) EMC NetWorker
14 1 (0.30%) logstash
14 1 (0.30%) Nessus
14 1 (0.30%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 63 (18.92%) Oracle
2 49 (14.71%) Microsoft
3 43 (12.91%) Cisco
4 39 (11.71%) VMware
5 37 (11.11%) ServiceNow
6 33 (9.91%) IBM
7 30 (9.01%) Splunk
8 23 (6.91%) AppDynamics
9 20 (6.01%) SolarWinds
9 20 (6.01%) Talend
10 18 (5.41%) Informatica
11 15 (4.50%) Google
12 14 (4.20%) Commvault
12 14 (4.20%) Dell
12 14 (4.20%) Dynatrace
13 12 (3.60%) HP
14 11 (3.30%) SAP
15 9 (2.70%) Jaspersoft
15 9 (2.70%) Palo Alto
16 8 (2.40%) webMethods