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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 26 37
Rank change year-on-year +15 +11 -25
Contract jobs citing AWS 305 87 92
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 12.08% 5.91% 4.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.57% 17.51% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 49 74
10th Percentile £313 £393 £313
25th Percentile £409 £453 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.41%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £690 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
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 £75.00 £55.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +35.14% +20.18% -28.95%

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 834 497 532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.03% 33.79% 27.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 332 403
10th Percentile £303 £200 £213
25th Percentile £413 £372 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -8.91%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £698 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 18 12
10th Percentile £22.63 £15.95 £14.46
25th Percentile £25.55 £17.00 £17.69
Median hourly rate £27.21 £20.24 £19.23
Median % change year-on-year +34.44% +5.28% +17.51%
75th Percentile - £35.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £52.23 £37.09 -
England median hourly rate £35.91 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +30.58% +24.15% -11.40%

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 10 February 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 10 February 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
Birmingham +14 89 £513 -6.82% 32
Shropshire -3 73 £485 -1.02% 9
Coventry +14 51 £402 -19.60% 10
Warwickshire +10 36 £556 +11.25% 9
Worcestershire +3 22 £680 +94.29% 7
Herefordshire -11 12 £550 +4.76% 4
Solihull -2 4 - - 4
Staffordshire +1 2 £394 -28.41% 10
Wolverhampton - 2 £425 - 3
Bilston - 1 £550 - 1
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 35 (11.48%) Confluence
2 19 (6.23%) Apache
3 17 (5.57%) SAS
3 17 (5.57%) WebLogic
4 8 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.62%) JBoss
4 8 (2.62%) nginx
5 6 (1.97%) OpenStack
6 4 (1.31%) Anypoint
6 4 (1.31%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.98%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.66%) Drupal
9 1 (0.33%) CMS
9 1 (0.33%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 10 (3.28%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (2.30%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.97%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.33%) CATIA
4 1 (0.33%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.33%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 143 (46.89%) Azure
2 76 (24.92%) GCP
3 39 (12.79%) Amazon S3
4 27 (8.85%) Amazon EC2
5 26 (8.52%) Datadog
6 24 (7.87%) Serverless
7 21 (6.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 18 (5.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 18 (5.90%) GitHub
9 15 (4.92%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (4.92%) AWS KMS
9 15 (4.92%) OpenShift
10 14 (4.59%) Amazon ELB
10 14 (4.59%) Entra ID
10 14 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (3.93%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (3.61%) Route 53
13 10 (3.28%) Akamai
13 10 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 41 (13.44%) Firewall
2 22 (7.21%) DNS
2 22 (7.21%) VPN
3 16 (5.25%) Network Security
4 14 (4.59%) VSAN
5 10 (3.28%) DHCP
6 9 (2.95%) HTTP
6 9 (2.95%) SD-WAN
7 8 (2.62%) FTP
7 8 (2.62%) LAN
7 8 (2.62%) SMTP
7 8 (2.62%) SSH
7 8 (2.62%) WAN
7 8 (2.62%) Wireshark
8 7 (2.30%) WLAN
9 6 (1.97%) IMAP
9 6 (1.97%) MPLS
9 6 (1.97%) OpenLDAP
9 6 (1.97%) OSPF
9 6 (1.97%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (10.16%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (9.18%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (7.21%) MongoDB
4 16 (5.25%) NoSQL
5 11 (3.61%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (3.28%) Oracle Database
7 9 (2.95%) MySQL
7 9 (2.95%) Relational Database
8 8 (2.62%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (1.97%) Pentaho
10 4 (1.31%) InfluxDB
10 4 (1.31%) Metadata
11 3 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (0.98%) Big Data
11 3 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.98%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.66%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.66%) Power BI
12 2 (0.66%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 57 (18.69%) Jenkins
2 49 (16.07%) Git
3 45 (14.75%) GitLab
4 35 (11.48%) JIRA
5 25 (8.20%) JUnit
6 20 (6.56%) Selenium
7 15 (4.92%) Maven
8 11 (3.61%) Liquibase
8 11 (3.61%) Mockito
9 8 (2.62%) Cucumber
9 8 (2.62%) Eclipse
9 8 (2.62%) IntelliJ
9 8 (2.62%) Vagrant
10 7 (2.30%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.97%) CircleCI
11 6 (1.97%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.97%) Postman
12 5 (1.64%) Artifactory
13 4 (1.31%) Bitbucket
13 4 (1.31%) webpack
General
1 118 (38.69%) Social Skills
2 57 (18.69%) Finance
3 44 (14.43%) Public Sector
4 43 (14.10%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.56%) Banking
6 19 (6.23%) Presentation Skills
7 18 (5.90%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (3.28%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.30%) Aeronautics
11 4 (1.31%) Legal
12 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.66%) Military
12 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.33%) Marketing
13 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.33%) Publishing
13 1 (0.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (15.74%) Analyst
2 38 (12.46%) Senior
3 34 (11.15%) Architect
4 30 (9.84%) DevOps Engineer
5 29 (9.51%) Developer
6 28 (9.18%) Cloud Engineer
7 27 (8.85%) AWS Engineer
8 24 (7.87%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 20 (6.56%) Lead
10 19 (6.23%) Storage Analyst
11 18 (5.90%) Data Engineer
12 16 (5.25%) Software Engineer
12 16 (5.25%) Solutions Architect
13 14 (4.59%) Business Analyst
13 14 (4.59%) Java Developer
14 13 (4.26%) Senior DevOps
14 13 (4.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 12 (3.93%) Site Engineer
15 12 (3.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 11 (3.61%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (14.10%) REST
2 28 (9.18%) Spring
3 23 (7.54%) RESTful
4 22 (7.21%) JSON
5 20 (6.56%) Elastic Stack
5 20 (6.56%) Spring Boot
6 18 (5.90%) HTML
7 16 (5.25%) Flash
7 16 (5.25%) React
7 16 (5.25%) SOAP
8 11 (3.61%) Hibernate
9 10 (3.28%) JPA
9 10 (3.28%) OAuth
9 10 (3.28%) SailPoint
10 9 (2.95%) Node.js
10 9 (2.95%) Playwright
10 9 (2.95%) XML
11 8 (2.62%) HTML5
11 8 (2.62%) J2EE
11 8 (2.62%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 32 (10.49%) Linux Command Line
2 31 (10.16%) Cloud Native
3 26 (8.52%) Replication
4 17 (5.57%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (4.92%) Security Posture
6 13 (4.26%) Onboarding
6 13 (4.26%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.62%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.30%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.64%) SCADA
10 4 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.31%) PKI
10 4 (1.31%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.31%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.66%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.66%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 89 (29.18%) Linux
2 33 (10.82%) Windows
3 16 (5.25%) Unix
4 13 (4.26%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.62%) Amazon Linux
5 8 (2.62%) VMS
6 6 (1.97%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.33%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (42.30%) Agile
1 129 (42.30%) CI/CD
2 98 (32.13%) DevOps
3 57 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (17.38%) Microservices
4 53 (17.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 52 (17.05%) Containerisation
5 52 (17.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 45 (14.75%) Mentoring
7 44 (14.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 44 (14.43%) Migration
8 42 (13.77%) Change Management
9 41 (13.44%) Software Engineering
10 40 (13.11%) Analytics
11 30 (9.84%) Cybersecurity
11 30 (9.84%) Scrum
12 29 (9.51%) Root Cause Analysis
13 27 (8.85%) AI
13 27 (8.85%) Cloud Security
13 27 (8.85%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (23.28%) Python
2 70 (22.95%) SQL
3 55 (18.03%) Java
4 25 (8.20%) PowerShell
5 21 (6.89%) Go
6 18 (5.90%) Shell Script
7 17 (5.57%) Bash
8 11 (3.61%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.61%) Scala
9 10 (3.28%) Groovy
10 5 (1.64%) Perl
10 5 (1.64%) PHP
11 4 (1.31%) BeanShell
11 4 (1.31%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.98%) Ruby
13 2 (0.66%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.33%) Lisp
14 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 116 (38.03%) Security Cleared
2 87 (28.52%) SC Cleared
3 36 (11.80%) AWS Certification
4 32 (10.49%) Degree
5 20 (6.56%) Azure Certification
6 16 (5.25%) DV Cleared
7 15 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (3.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (3.93%) CISSP
10 11 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (3.61%) Master's Degree
11 9 (2.95%) IIBA
12 8 (2.62%) CCNP
12 8 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (2.30%) CCIE
14 6 (1.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (1.64%) CCSP
15 5 (1.64%) CISM
16 4 (1.31%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.87%) GDPR
2 23 (7.54%) QA
3 16 (5.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (4.59%) Data Quality
5 12 (3.93%) NIST
6 9 (2.95%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.97%) WCAG
8 4 (1.31%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.33%) COBIT
10 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.33%) ISO 19650
10 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 83 (27.21%) Docker
2 39 (12.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (10.16%) vSphere
4 21 (6.89%) Active Directory
5 16 (5.25%) GPFS
5 16 (5.25%) NFS
5 16 (5.25%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (2.62%) DFS Replication
6 8 (2.62%) Postfix
7 6 (1.97%) Dovecot
7 6 (1.97%) Squid
8 4 (1.31%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.98%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 79 (25.90%) Kubernetes
2 74 (24.26%) Terraform
3 57 (18.69%) Grafana
4 49 (16.07%) Prometheus
5 46 (15.08%) Ansible
6 31 (10.16%) vRealize
7 16 (5.25%) Progress Chef
8 14 (4.59%) Puppet
8 14 (4.59%) VxRail
9 11 (3.61%) Kibana
10 8 (2.62%) CSIRT
11 7 (2.30%) Nessus
12 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (1.97%) Proxmox
12 6 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.31%) Podman
13 4 (1.31%) QRadar
14 2 (0.66%) Argo
14 2 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.66%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 51 (16.72%) Microsoft
2 48 (15.74%) Cisco
3 46 (15.08%) Oracle
3 46 (15.08%) Splunk
4 41 (13.44%) ServiceNow
4 41 (13.44%) VMware
5 34 (11.15%) IBM
6 25 (8.20%) AppDynamics
7 20 (6.56%) SolarWinds
8 19 (6.23%) F5
9 16 (5.25%) Dynatrace
9 16 (5.25%) Google
10 15 (4.92%) Dell
11 14 (4.59%) Commvault
12 13 (4.26%) HP
13 12 (3.93%) Palo Alto
14 11 (3.61%) SAP
15 8 (2.62%) Fortinet
15 8 (2.62%) Talend
15 8 (2.62%) webMethods