AWS Contracts in the West Midlands

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 44 21
Rank change year-on-year +15 -23 -8
Contract jobs citing AWS 80 73 217
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.95% 3.75% 9.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.43% 15.57% 23.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 57 187
10th Percentile £410 £313 £423
25th Percentile £454 £335 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +1.85% +1.89%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
England median daily rate £550 £553 £593
% change year-on-year -0.50% -6.71% +0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £37.48 -
England median hourly rate £71.25 £53.75 £72.75
% change year-on-year +32.56% -26.12% +29.33%

All Cloud 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 434 469 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.27% 24.09% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 364 648
10th Percentile £200 £213 £300
25th Percentile £393 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £457 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.53% -8.75% +2.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £690 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 4
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.08 £15.54
25th Percentile £16.38 £19.95 £15.98
Median hourly rate £18.07 £26.00 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year -30.52% +28.46% +15.66%
75th Percentile £19.93 £26.50 £24.47
90th Percentile £35.45 £55.00 £25.31
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the West Midlands

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for AWS in the West Midlands

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily 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 1 May 2025. 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 +15 30 £550 +12.82% 85
Shropshire +11 16 £493 +9.56% 17
Solihull - 8 £460 - 3
Warwickshire +5 6 £575 -21.23% 22
Herefordshire - 5 £700 -
Staffordshire +1 4 £550 +57.14% 69
Coventry -7 4 £613 +2.08% 20
Worcestershire -1 2 £700 +55.56% 8
Walsall - 2 £375 - 3
AWS
England

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (17.50%) Confluence
2 1 (1.25%) Apache
2 1 (1.25%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 28 (35.00%) Azure
2 19 (23.75%) GCP
3 16 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 13 (16.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (13.75%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (11.25%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (8.75%) Power Platform
7 7 (8.75%) Serverless
8 6 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (7.50%) AWS KMS
8 6 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (7.50%) Route 53
8 6 (7.50%) Snowflake
9 4 (5.00%) Power Automate
9 4 (5.00%) PowerApps
10 3 (3.75%) GitHub
11 2 (2.50%) AWS CodeCommit
11 2 (2.50%) IaaS
11 2 (2.50%) PaaS
11 2 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.25%) Network Security
2 4 (5.00%) Firewall
3 2 (2.50%) DHCP
3 2 (2.50%) DNS
3 2 (2.50%) HTTP
3 2 (2.50%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (2.50%) SAN
3 2 (2.50%) SSL
3 2 (2.50%) VLAN
4 1 (1.25%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (1.25%) DSL
4 1 (1.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.25%) Relational Database
2 12 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (13.75%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (12.50%) DynamoDB
5 7 (8.75%) RDBMS
6 6 (7.50%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (6.25%) SQL Server
8 4 (5.00%) Data Lake
8 4 (5.00%) MySQL
8 4 (5.00%) NoSQL
9 3 (3.75%) Oracle Database
9 3 (3.75%) Power BI
10 2 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.50%) MongoDB
11 1 (1.25%) Big Data
11 1 (1.25%) Data Mining
11 1 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (1.25%) SAS Data Integration Studio
11 1 (1.25%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 19 (23.75%) JIRA
2 14 (17.50%) Jenkins
3 12 (15.00%) Git
4 10 (12.50%) GitLab
4 10 (12.50%) JUnit
5 9 (11.25%) Maven
6 8 (10.00%) Mockito
7 5 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (6.25%) Bitbucket
8 4 (5.00%) SonarQube
9 3 (3.75%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (3.75%) DbUnit
9 3 (3.75%) jMock
9 3 (3.75%) ScriptRunner
10 2 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (1.25%) Ant
11 1 (1.25%) Cucumber
11 1 (1.25%) Gradle
11 1 (1.25%) Snyk
General
1 21 (26.25%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (13.75%) Finance
4 10 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.25%) Legal
6 4 (5.00%) Banking
7 3 (3.75%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.50%) Back Office
8 2 (2.50%) General Ledger
8 2 (2.50%) Retail
9 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (30.00%) Developer
2 16 (20.00%) Architect
3 12 (15.00%) Senior
4 11 (13.75%) Java Developer
5 10 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (10.00%) Data Engineer
7 7 (8.75%) Lead
7 7 (8.75%) Security Architect
8 6 (7.50%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (7.50%) Senior Developer
9 5 (6.25%) Analyst
9 5 (6.25%) Test Analyst
10 4 (5.00%) AWS Developer
10 4 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) Junior
10 4 (5.00%) Junior Architect
10 4 (5.00%) Junior Solutions Architect
11 3 (3.75%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 3 (3.75%) Senior Architect
11 3 (3.75%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.75%) REST
1 11 (13.75%) Spring
2 10 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 9 (11.25%) Hibernate
3 9 (11.25%) RESTful
3 9 (11.25%) Web Services
4 7 (8.75%) SOAP
5 6 (7.50%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (7.50%) AngularJS
5 6 (7.50%) JPA
6 5 (6.25%) .NET
6 5 (6.25%) Bootstrap
6 5 (6.25%) HTML
6 5 (6.25%) Node.js
6 5 (6.25%) Spring Batch
6 5 (6.25%) Spring Integration
7 4 (5.00%) Middleware
7 4 (5.00%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (3.75%) React
8 3 (3.75%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 4 (5.00%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.00%) Security Posture
3 3 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.50%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.50%) Replication
4 2 (2.50%) SCADA
5 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.25%) PKI
5 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.25%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 16 (20.00%) Linux
2 7 (8.75%) Windows
3 4 (5.00%) Unix
4 3 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.50%) CentOS
5 2 (2.50%) Debian
5 2 (2.50%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (48.75%) Agile
2 27 (33.75%) CI/CD
3 25 (31.25%) DevOps
4 19 (23.75%) Microservices
4 19 (23.75%) Scrum
5 18 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (20.00%) Migration
7 13 (16.25%) TDD
8 10 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (10.00%) Containerisation
9 8 (10.00%) Risk Management
9 8 (10.00%) Software Engineering
10 7 (8.75%) Computer Science
10 7 (8.75%) Decision-Making
10 7 (8.75%) Full-Stack Development
10 7 (8.75%) Kanban
10 7 (8.75%) Security Architecture
11 6 (7.50%) BDD
11 6 (7.50%) Data Extraction
Programming Languages
1 25 (31.25%) SQL
2 19 (23.75%) Java
2 19 (23.75%) Python
3 13 (16.25%) JavaScript
4 7 (8.75%) Shell Script
5 4 (5.00%) PL/SQL
5 4 (5.00%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.75%) C#
6 3 (3.75%) Groovy
7 2 (2.50%) Bash
7 2 (2.50%) Go
7 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.50%) R
8 1 (1.25%) COBOL
8 1 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.25%) Rust
Qualifications
1 27 (33.75%) Security Cleared
2 22 (27.50%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.75%) Degree
4 4 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.25%) CEH
5 1 (1.25%) CISA
5 1 (1.25%) CISM
5 1 (1.25%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) NIST
2 4 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.75%) GDPR
3 3 (3.75%) QA
4 2 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.50%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.25%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.25%) NCSC
5 1 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (26.25%) Docker
2 4 (5.00%) Postfix
3 2 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (16.25%) Kubernetes
2 12 (15.00%) Terraform
3 6 (7.50%) Ansible
3 6 (7.50%) Prometheus
4 5 (6.25%) Grafana
5 3 (3.75%) Opsview
6 2 (2.50%) logstash
6 2 (2.50%) Nessus
6 2 (2.50%) Puppet
6 2 (2.50%) QRadar
7 1 (1.25%) Argo
7 1 (1.25%) CASB
7 1 (1.25%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.25%) Kibana
7 1 (1.25%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 12 (15.00%) Atlassian
2 9 (11.25%) Oracle
3 8 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.25%) IBM
4 5 (6.25%) Jaspersoft
4 5 (6.25%) Talend
5 4 (5.00%) Databricks
5 4 (5.00%) Google
6 3 (3.75%) PagerDuty
6 3 (3.75%) Virgin Media
6 3 (3.75%) VMware
7 2 (2.50%) Bloomberg
7 2 (2.50%) Sophos
7 2 (2.50%) Splunk
8 1 (1.25%) Informatica
8 1 (1.25%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.25%) SendGrid
8 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.25%) Siemens
8 1 (1.25%) Veeam