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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 38
Rank change year-on-year +2 +23 -21
Contract jobs citing AWS 375 178 77
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.72% 9.77% 4.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.51% 30.53% 14.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 113 40
10th Percentile £370 £400 £310
25th Percentile £444 £450 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% +5.26% -8.43%
75th Percentile £620 £575 £577
90th Percentile £675 £668 £675
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -2.13%
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 £71.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year -2.44% +55.37% -38.43%

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 1,056 583 541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.18% 32.00% 28.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 711 393 368
10th Percentile £306 £265 £213
25th Percentile £405 £410 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +7.89% -
75th Percentile £604 £600 £612
90th Percentile £675 £674 £685
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.95% -4.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 6 10
10th Percentile £17.48 £31.94 £15.83
25th Percentile £21.02 £34.16 £23.55
Median hourly rate £33.99 £35.49 £33.74
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% +5.20% +77.55%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.69 £35.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £59.44 £55.50
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £31.75
% change year-on-year +29.24% -17.17% -3.79%

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 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 13 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 13 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 +3 156 £508 -4.96% 18
Birmingham -5 72 £450 -5.26% 87
Solihull +6 43 £488 +8.33% 4
Warwickshire +3 33 £477 -23.37% 9
Coventry -7 31 £475 +11.76% 9
Worcestershire +4 10 £613 +11.36% 9
Staffordshire -11 5 £200 -55.56% 5
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 46 (12.27%) Confluence
2 45 (12.00%) SAS
3 22 (5.87%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.87%) Tuxedo
5 5 (1.33%) Apache
6 4 (1.07%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.07%) ArcGIS
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%) CMS
9 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.27%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.27%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 151 (40.27%) Azure
2 61 (16.27%) GitHub
3 52 (13.87%) Amazon S3
4 42 (11.20%) Amazon EC2
4 42 (11.20%) GCP
5 41 (10.93%) GitHub Actions
6 40 (10.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 38 (10.13%) Serverless
8 34 (9.07%) AWS Lambda
9 30 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
10 24 (6.40%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (5.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 18 (4.80%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
14 14 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (3.73%) GitHub Copilot
15 12 (3.20%) SaaS
16 11 (2.93%) AWS CodePipeline
16 11 (2.93%) PaaS
17 10 (2.67%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.67%) Firewall
1 10 (2.67%) SD-WAN
1 10 (2.67%) WAN
2 9 (2.40%) DHCP
2 9 (2.40%) DNS
3 7 (1.87%) Network Security
4 6 (1.60%) BGP
4 6 (1.60%) LAN
4 6 (1.60%) OSPF
5 5 (1.33%) VXLAN
5 5 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.07%) NetScaler
6 4 (1.07%) VLAN
6 4 (1.07%) VPN
7 3 (0.80%) BIG-IP
7 3 (0.80%) DMZ
7 3 (0.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 3 (0.80%) MPLS
7 3 (0.80%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.80%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (8.53%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (8.00%) Pentaho
2 30 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (5.87%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (5.87%) Relational Database
4 20 (5.33%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 20 (5.33%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 19 (5.07%) Metadata
5 19 (5.07%) MongoDB
5 19 (5.07%) Oracle Database
6 16 (4.27%) Oracle Reports
7 15 (4.00%) DynamoDB
7 15 (4.00%) MySQL
8 10 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (2.67%) Data Lake
8 10 (2.67%) SQL Server
9 9 (2.40%) Power BI
10 8 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.87%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.87%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 98 (26.13%) GitLab
2 74 (19.73%) Git
2 74 (19.73%) Jenkins
3 66 (17.60%) JIRA
4 49 (13.07%) JUnit
5 33 (8.80%) Maven
6 31 (8.27%) SonarQube
7 28 (7.47%) Mockito
8 26 (6.93%) Selenium
9 20 (5.33%) Cucumber
9 20 (5.33%) Zephyr
10 18 (4.80%) Postman
11 17 (4.53%) Gatling
12 13 (3.47%) Artifactory
13 12 (3.20%) Bitbucket
14 6 (1.60%) Bitbucket Server
14 6 (1.60%) DbUnit
14 6 (1.60%) jMock
14 6 (1.60%) REST Assured
14 6 (1.60%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 124 (33.07%) Social Skills
2 95 (25.33%) Public Sector
3 31 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (1.87%) Finance
7 6 (1.60%) Legal
8 5 (1.33%) Banking
8 5 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.07%) Military
9 4 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.80%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.80%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.53%) Advertising
11 2 (0.53%) Front Office
11 2 (0.53%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.53%) Publishing
11 2 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 67 (17.87%) Architect
2 51 (13.60%) Data Engineer
3 46 (12.27%) Senior
4 34 (9.07%) Developer
5 29 (7.73%) AWS Engineer
5 29 (7.73%) Lead
6 28 (7.47%) Java Developer
7 27 (7.20%) Scrum Master
8 18 (4.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 17 (4.53%) Tester
10 16 (4.27%) Data Architect
10 16 (4.27%) DevOps Engineer
10 16 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (4.00%) Senior Developer
12 14 (3.73%) Quality Engineer
12 14 (3.73%) Senior Java Developer
13 12 (3.20%) Technical Architect
14 11 (2.93%) Cloud Engineer
14 11 (2.93%) QA Tester
15 10 (2.67%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (17.07%) Spring
2 55 (14.67%) Terraform
3 51 (13.60%) Spring Boot
4 36 (9.60%) REST
5 32 (8.53%) RESTful
6 28 (7.47%) JPA
7 23 (6.13%) Playwright
7 23 (6.13%) SOAP
8 20 (5.33%) AngularJS
9 19 (5.07%) Hibernate
9 19 (5.07%) Spring Cloud
10 18 (4.80%) ActiveMQ
10 18 (4.80%) Web Services
11 15 (4.00%) React
12 12 (3.20%) JSON
12 12 (3.20%) Kafka
12 12 (3.20%) WireMock
13 11 (2.93%) Elastic Stack
13 11 (2.93%) Node.js
13 11 (2.93%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 39 (10.40%) Product Ownership
3 23 (6.13%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (5.87%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (3.20%) Private Cloud
6 11 (2.93%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.93%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.67%) Data Fabric
7 10 (2.67%) Operational Technology
7 10 (2.67%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.40%) Replication
9 8 (2.13%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.60%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.33%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 37 (9.87%) Linux
2 23 (6.13%) Windows
3 22 (5.87%) Unix
4 14 (3.73%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.60%) AIX
6 2 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.53%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.53%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.27%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (48.27%) Agile
2 158 (42.13%) CI/CD
3 126 (33.60%) DevOps
4 106 (28.27%) Test Automation
5 102 (27.20%) Migration
6 95 (25.33%) Scrum
7 84 (22.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 77 (20.53%) Containerisation
9 73 (19.47%) Microservices
10 71 (18.93%) Infrastructure as Code
11 70 (18.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 59 (15.73%) Technical Leadership
13 55 (14.67%) ETL
14 53 (14.13%) Data Integration
15 49 (13.07%) Analytics
16 46 (12.27%) Observability
17 44 (11.73%) Test Strategy
18 41 (10.93%) Problem-Solving
18 41 (10.93%) TDD
19 40 (10.67%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 108 (28.80%) SQL
2 87 (23.20%) Java
3 58 (15.47%) Python
4 20 (5.33%) JavaScript
5 19 (5.07%) Bash
6 16 (4.27%) TypeScript
7 13 (3.47%) PowerShell
8 12 (3.20%) PL/SQL
9 7 (1.87%) VB
9 7 (1.87%) VB6
10 6 (1.60%) Go
10 6 (1.60%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.33%) C
12 3 (0.80%) R
13 2 (0.53%) Bicep
13 2 (0.53%) C#
13 2 (0.53%) Groovy
13 2 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 199 (53.07%) Security Cleared
2 172 (45.87%) SC Cleared
3 31 (8.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 25 (6.67%) AWS Certification
5 20 (5.33%) ISTQB
6 14 (3.73%) Degree
7 11 (2.93%) Azure Certification
7 11 (2.93%) SAFe Agilist
8 10 (2.67%) DV Cleared
9 9 (2.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.07%) CCNP
11 4 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.07%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (1.07%) SAS Certification
12 3 (0.80%) CISSP
13 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.53%) OCP
13 2 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (13.33%) QA
2 21 (5.60%) Accessibility
3 16 (4.27%) WCAG
4 12 (3.20%) Data Quality
5 11 (2.93%) NIST
6 6 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.60%) SLA
7 5 (1.33%) GDPR
8 4 (1.07%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.27%) GRC
9 1 (0.27%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 90 (24.00%) Docker
2 15 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (3.73%) vSphere
4 12 (3.20%) Active Directory
4 12 (3.20%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.33%) GPFS
5 5 (1.33%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.33%) NFS
5 5 (1.33%) Postfix
6 2 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.27%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 71 (18.93%) Kubernetes
2 49 (13.07%) Grafana
3 35 (9.33%) Prometheus
4 20 (5.33%) Ansible
5 10 (2.67%) Kibana
6 8 (2.13%) Progress Chef
6 8 (2.13%) Puppet
7 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.33%) SCCM
8 4 (1.07%) vRealize
9 2 (0.53%) Argo
9 2 (0.53%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.53%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.53%) VxRail
10 1 (0.27%) Control-M
10 1 (0.27%) Istio
10 1 (0.27%) Podman
10 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 100 (26.67%) Oracle
2 37 (9.87%) Talend
3 33 (8.80%) Microsoft
4 25 (6.67%) Denodo
5 24 (6.40%) VMware
6 19 (5.07%) Cisco
6 19 (5.07%) Databricks
7 18 (4.80%) ServiceNow
8 15 (4.00%) Informatica
9 13 (3.47%) Splunk
10 9 (2.40%) Google
10 9 (2.40%) IBM
10 9 (2.40%) Palo Alto
11 8 (2.13%) Jaspersoft
11 8 (2.13%) SAP
12 7 (1.87%) Atlassian
13 5 (1.33%) Actian
13 5 (1.33%) Dynatrace
13 5 (1.33%) Fortinet
14 4 (1.07%) OpenAI