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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 21 38
Rank change year-on-year +8 +17 -17
Contract jobs citing AWS 392 127 75
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.28% 7.62% 4.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.93% 24.42% 15.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 83 44
10th Percentile £358 £365 £311
25th Percentile £425 £450 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -12.04%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £652
90th Percentile £663 £638 £684
England median daily rate £550 £530 £575
% change year-on-year +3.77% -7.83% -4.17%
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 £50.59
% change year-on-year -3.45% +43.31% -27.73%

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 1,091 520 481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.39% 31.21% 26.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 755 339 361
10th Percentile £313 £273 £213
25th Percentile £404 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £614
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 7 6
10th Percentile £21.25 £17.36 £14.19
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.37 £14.69
Median hourly rate £33.99 £33.88 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +0.32% +76.00% +2.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £46.62 £31.39
90th Percentile £75.00 £59.20 £44.47
England median hourly rate £37.24 £25.58 £23.80
% change year-on-year +45.61% +7.46% -27.88%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +1 151 £473 -8.16% 32
Birmingham +7 86 £425 -10.53% 56
Solihull +1 42 £500 +11.11% 3
Warwickshire +7 39 £525 -15.66% 11
Coventry -10 31 £475 -8.43% 9
Worcestershire +2 10 £575 +4.55% 9
Staffordshire -6 3 £200 - 4
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 68 (17.35%) Confluence
2 56 (14.29%) SAS
3 22 (5.61%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.79%) Tuxedo
5 5 (1.28%) Apache
6 4 (1.02%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.02%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.02%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.77%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.77%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.51%) CloudStack
9 1 (0.26%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.26%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.26%) Maximo
4 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 172 (43.88%) Azure
2 67 (17.09%) Amazon S3
2 67 (17.09%) GitHub
3 62 (15.82%) GCP
4 51 (13.01%) Amazon EC2
5 50 (12.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 49 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
7 39 (9.95%) Serverless
8 35 (8.93%) AWS Lambda
9 25 (6.38%) Amazon SQS
9 25 (6.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 24 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
11 22 (5.61%) Amazon ECS
11 22 (5.61%) AWS KMS
12 19 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (4.59%) Route 53
14 17 (4.34%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (3.32%) Power Platform
16 12 (3.06%) AWS CodePipeline
16 12 (3.06%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.30%) Firewall
2 8 (2.04%) SD-WAN
2 8 (2.04%) WAN
3 6 (1.53%) DHCP
3 6 (1.53%) DNS
4 5 (1.28%) BGP
4 5 (1.28%) NetScaler
4 5 (1.28%) Network Security
4 5 (1.28%) OSPF
4 5 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (1.02%) Ethernet VPN
5 4 (1.02%) VPN
5 4 (1.02%) VXLAN
6 3 (0.77%) BIG-IP
6 3 (0.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (0.77%) LAN
6 3 (0.77%) VLAN
6 3 (0.77%) VSAN
6 3 (0.77%) WLAN
7 2 (0.51%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (11.22%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (9.95%) Amazon RDS
3 38 (9.69%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (9.18%) Pentaho
5 26 (6.63%) DynamoDB
6 23 (5.87%) Oracle Database
7 21 (5.36%) Oracle Reports
8 20 (5.10%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 20 (5.10%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 18 (4.59%) MySQL
10 17 (4.34%) Amazon Aurora
11 13 (3.32%) Amazon Redshift
11 13 (3.32%) MongoDB
12 12 (3.06%) Relational Database
13 11 (2.81%) Data Lake
13 11 (2.81%) Power BI
14 10 (2.55%) SQL Server
15 7 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
15 7 (1.79%) Metadata
16 6 (1.53%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 95 (24.23%) Git
2 90 (22.96%) JIRA
3 89 (22.70%) GitLab
4 83 (21.17%) Jenkins
5 50 (12.76%) JUnit
6 31 (7.91%) Selenium
7 27 (6.89%) SonarQube
8 26 (6.63%) Cucumber
9 25 (6.38%) Maven
10 22 (5.61%) Mockito
10 22 (5.61%) Zephyr
11 20 (5.10%) Postman
12 19 (4.85%) JMeter
13 17 (4.34%) WebDriver
14 14 (3.57%) Artifactory
15 13 (3.32%) DbUnit
15 13 (3.32%) jMock
16 12 (3.06%) Bitbucket
17 11 (2.81%) Bitbucket Server
17 11 (2.81%) Gatling
General
1 121 (30.87%) Social Skills
2 93 (23.72%) Public Sector
3 29 (7.40%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (4.34%) Finance
5 10 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (1.79%) Banking
6 7 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (1.53%) Legal
8 4 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.02%) Retail
9 3 (0.77%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.51%) Advertising
10 2 (0.51%) Front Office
10 2 (0.51%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.51%) Military
10 2 (0.51%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 68 (17.35%) Architect
2 57 (14.54%) Data Engineer
3 45 (11.48%) Senior
4 38 (9.69%) Developer
5 32 (8.16%) Tester
6 30 (7.65%) Lead
7 29 (7.40%) AWS Engineer
8 26 (6.63%) Java Developer
9 23 (5.87%) Scrum Master
10 20 (5.10%) Solutions Architect
11 18 (4.59%) DevOps Engineer
12 17 (4.34%) QA Tester
13 15 (3.83%) AWS Data Engineer
14 14 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 13 (3.32%) Cloud Architect
16 12 (3.06%) Analyst
16 12 (3.06%) Cloud Engineer
16 12 (3.06%) Technical Architect
17 10 (2.55%) AWS DevOps
17 10 (2.55%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (15.31%) Spring
2 41 (10.46%) Spring Boot
3 34 (8.67%) REST
4 24 (6.12%) SOAP
5 22 (5.61%) JPA
5 22 (5.61%) Node.js
6 21 (5.36%) AngularJS
6 21 (5.36%) RESTful
6 21 (5.36%) Web Services
6 21 (5.36%) WireMock
7 20 (5.10%) Spring Cloud
8 19 (4.85%) ActiveMQ
8 19 (4.85%) Hibernate
9 17 (4.34%) Spring Batch
9 17 (4.34%) Spring Integration
10 14 (3.57%) Playwright
11 13 (3.32%) Elastic Stack
11 13 (3.32%) PowerMock
12 12 (3.06%) React
13 11 (2.81%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 44 (11.22%) Cloud Native
2 38 (9.69%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (7.65%) Product Ownership
4 24 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
5 16 (4.08%) Private Cloud
6 14 (3.57%) Distributed Architecture
6 14 (3.57%) Onboarding
7 13 (3.32%) Data Centre
8 11 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (2.81%) Public Cloud
8 11 (2.81%) Replication
9 8 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
10 7 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.79%) Operational Technology
11 6 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.53%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (0.77%) Algorithms
14 3 (0.77%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 50 (12.76%) Linux
2 23 (5.87%) Windows
3 19 (4.85%) Unix
4 10 (2.55%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.28%) AIX
6 4 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.77%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.51%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.51%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.26%) Android
9 1 (0.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (50.00%) Agile
2 173 (44.13%) CI/CD
3 130 (33.16%) DevOps
4 104 (26.53%) Test Automation
5 100 (25.51%) Migration
6 81 (20.66%) Scrum
7 79 (20.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 75 (19.13%) Containerisation
9 71 (18.11%) Infrastructure as Code
9 71 (18.11%) Microservices
10 64 (16.33%) ETL
11 62 (15.82%) Stakeholder Management
12 54 (13.78%) TDD
13 53 (13.52%) Observability
14 49 (12.50%) Analytics
14 49 (12.50%) Data Integration
15 47 (11.99%) Test Strategy
16 46 (11.73%) Technical Leadership
16 46 (11.73%) Validation
17 45 (11.48%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 124 (31.63%) SQL
2 74 (18.88%) Java
3 67 (17.09%) Python
4 23 (5.87%) Bash
5 19 (4.85%) JavaScript
6 15 (3.83%) PowerShell
7 12 (3.06%) PL/SQL
8 9 (2.30%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.79%) Go
9 7 (1.79%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.79%) VB
9 7 (1.79%) VB6
10 5 (1.28%) C
11 4 (1.02%) Perl
12 3 (0.77%) Bicep
12 3 (0.77%) R
13 2 (0.51%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.26%) BeanShell
14 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.26%) Swift
Qualifications
1 224 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 192 (48.98%) SC Cleared
3 27 (6.89%) AWS Certification
4 22 (5.61%) ISTQB
5 21 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (3.57%) Degree
7 13 (3.32%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.81%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.81%) SAFe Agilist
9 9 (2.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.53%) CISSP
12 5 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (1.02%) SAS Certification
14 3 (0.77%) CCNA
15 2 (0.51%) CCNP
15 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.51%) OCP
15 2 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (12.24%) QA
2 12 (3.06%) Accessibility
2 12 (3.06%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.81%) NIST
4 8 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.04%) SLA
4 8 (2.04%) WCAG
5 6 (1.53%) GDPR
6 4 (1.02%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.26%) COBIT
7 1 (0.26%) GRC
7 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 106 (27.04%) Docker
2 14 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (3.57%) vSphere
3 12 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.06%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (2.81%) Postfix
5 7 (1.79%) GPFS
5 7 (1.79%) NFS
6 5 (1.28%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.51%) Firmware
8 1 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 85 (21.68%) Kubernetes
2 65 (16.58%) Grafana
3 62 (15.82%) Terraform
4 41 (10.46%) Prometheus
5 20 (5.10%) Ansible
6 8 (2.04%) Progress Chef
6 8 (2.04%) Puppet
7 6 (1.53%) vRealize
8 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.77%) Kibana
9 3 (0.77%) SCCM
9 3 (0.77%) VxRail
10 2 (0.51%) Argo
10 2 (0.51%) Check_MK
11 1 (0.26%) Control-M
11 1 (0.26%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.26%) Istio
11 1 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.26%) Podman
11 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 118 (30.10%) Oracle
2 51 (13.01%) Talend
3 36 (9.18%) Microsoft
4 30 (7.65%) Denodo
5 29 (7.40%) Informatica
5 29 (7.40%) ServiceNow
6 23 (5.87%) VMware
7 19 (4.85%) Cisco
8 17 (4.34%) Jaspersoft
9 15 (3.83%) Databricks
9 15 (3.83%) Splunk
10 14 (3.57%) Atlassian
11 11 (2.81%) Cloudera
12 10 (2.55%) IBM
13 8 (2.04%) Google
13 8 (2.04%) SAP
14 6 (1.53%) Red Hat
15 5 (1.28%) Actian
15 5 (1.28%) Dynatrace
15 5 (1.28%) Salesforce