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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 33 29
Rank change year-on-year +23 -4 -17
Contract jobs citing AWS 289 82 102
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 12.24% 5.24% 5.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.35% 15.83% 18.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 44 80
10th Percentile £313 £363 £312
25th Percentile £413 £419 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.41%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £663 £700 £676
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 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +62.41% - -28.68%

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 795 518 537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.67% 33.08% 29.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 579 342 405
10th Percentile £302 £200 £213
25th Percentile £413 £375 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -9.31%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £684 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 10
10th Percentile £24.43 £15.95 £17.73
25th Percentile - £17.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £27.21 £20.24 £19.23
Median % change year-on-year +34.44% +5.28% +16.52%
75th Percentile £33.00 £34.69 £26.50
90th Percentile £52.50 £35.00 £29.35
England median hourly rate £30.25 £27.50 £23.23
% change year-on-year +10.00% +18.39% -3.22%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 +21 82 £525 +3.75% 31
Shropshire -4 73 £492 -0.20% 36
Coventry +12 48 £394 -21.25% 15
Warwickshire +20 35 £563 +12.50% 5
Worcestershire 0 19 £603 +72.14% 9
Herefordshire -10 11 £550 +4.76% 2
Solihull -1 2 - - 1
Staffordshire -2 2 £394 -28.41% 13
Wolverhampton - 2 £425 - 9
Bilston - 1 £550 -
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 33 (11.42%) Confluence
2 22 (7.61%) Apache
3 21 (7.27%) SAS
4 19 (6.57%) WebLogic
5 12 (4.15%) nginx
6 10 (3.46%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (2.77%) JBoss
8 7 (2.42%) OpenStack
9 4 (1.38%) Anypoint
9 4 (1.38%) Apache Spark
9 4 (1.38%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.69%) Drupal
10 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.35%) CMS
11 1 (0.35%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 8 (2.77%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 7 (2.42%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (2.42%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.35%) CATIA
3 1 (0.35%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.35%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 141 (48.79%) Azure
2 71 (24.57%) GCP
3 33 (11.42%) Amazon S3
4 27 (9.34%) Amazon EC2
4 27 (9.34%) Datadog
5 23 (7.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 22 (7.61%) Serverless
7 18 (6.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 18 (6.23%) GitHub
8 17 (5.88%) Amazon ELB
8 17 (5.88%) AWS KMS
9 15 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (5.19%) OpenShift
10 14 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (4.50%) Entra ID
12 11 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (3.46%) Akamai
13 10 (3.46%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (3.46%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 45 (15.57%) Firewall
2 26 (9.00%) DNS
3 20 (6.92%) VPN
4 15 (5.19%) Network Security
5 14 (4.84%) VSAN
6 13 (4.50%) HTTP
7 12 (4.15%) FTP
7 12 (4.15%) SMTP
7 12 (4.15%) SSH
8 10 (3.46%) DHCP
9 9 (3.11%) SD-WAN
10 8 (2.77%) IMAP
10 8 (2.77%) LAN
10 8 (2.77%) OpenLDAP
10 8 (2.77%) WAN
10 8 (2.77%) Wireshark
11 7 (2.42%) WLAN
12 6 (2.08%) VLAN
13 5 (1.73%) SSL
13 5 (1.73%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (10.73%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (9.69%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (6.92%) MongoDB
4 16 (5.54%) NoSQL
5 10 (3.46%) Oracle Database
6 9 (3.11%) MySQL
6 9 (3.11%) Relational Database
6 9 (3.11%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 9 (3.11%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 8 (2.77%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (2.08%) Pentaho
9 5 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.38%) InfluxDB
10 4 (1.38%) SAS Data Integration Studio
11 3 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.04%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.04%) Metadata
12 2 (0.69%) Big Data
12 2 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 54 (18.69%) Jenkins
2 51 (17.65%) Git
3 47 (16.26%) GitLab
4 34 (11.76%) JIRA
5 23 (7.96%) JUnit
6 19 (6.57%) Selenium
7 14 (4.84%) Maven
8 12 (4.15%) Vagrant
9 10 (3.46%) Liquibase
10 9 (3.11%) Mockito
11 8 (2.77%) Eclipse
11 8 (2.77%) IntelliJ
12 7 (2.42%) CircleCI
12 7 (2.42%) Cucumber
12 7 (2.42%) Cypress.io
13 6 (2.08%) Postman
13 6 (2.08%) SonarQube
14 5 (1.73%) Artifactory
14 5 (1.73%) Gradle
14 5 (1.73%) webpack
General
1 117 (40.48%) Social Skills
2 48 (16.61%) Finance
3 46 (15.92%) Public Sector
4 39 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.96%) Documentation Skills
6 21 (7.27%) Presentation Skills
7 17 (5.88%) Banking
8 11 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (3.46%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.42%) Aeronautics
11 4 (1.38%) Legal
12 2 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.69%) Military
12 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.35%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.35%) Marketing
13 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 45 (15.57%) Analyst
2 34 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (11.76%) Senior
3 28 (9.69%) AWS Engineer
4 27 (9.34%) Developer
5 25 (8.65%) Architect
5 25 (8.65%) Cloud Engineer
6 24 (8.30%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 19 (6.57%) Storage Analyst
8 16 (5.54%) Lead
9 15 (5.19%) Data Engineer
10 14 (4.84%) Business Analyst
10 14 (4.84%) Software Engineer
11 13 (4.50%) AWS DevOps
11 13 (4.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 13 (4.50%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (4.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 12 (4.15%) Senior DevOps
12 12 (4.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 12 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (14.53%) REST
2 25 (8.65%) JSON
3 24 (8.30%) RESTful
3 24 (8.30%) Spring
4 20 (6.92%) Elastic Stack
4 20 (6.92%) HTML
5 17 (5.88%) Flash
6 16 (5.54%) React
6 16 (5.54%) SOAP
6 16 (5.54%) Spring Boot
7 11 (3.81%) OAuth
7 11 (3.81%) XML
8 10 (3.46%) SailPoint
9 9 (3.11%) Hibernate
10 8 (2.77%) EJB
10 8 (2.77%) J2EE
10 8 (2.77%) J2SE
10 8 (2.77%) JPA
10 8 (2.77%) LDAP
10 8 (2.77%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 33 (11.42%) Linux Command Line
3 31 (10.73%) Replication
4 15 (5.19%) Security Posture
5 14 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (4.15%) Public Cloud
7 10 (3.46%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.08%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.73%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.38%) PKI
11 4 (1.38%) SCADA
11 4 (1.38%) Security Operations Centre
12 3 (1.04%) Product Ownership
13 2 (0.69%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.69%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 90 (31.14%) Linux
2 37 (12.80%) Windows
3 19 (6.57%) Unix
4 13 (4.50%) Windows Server
5 12 (4.15%) Amazon Linux
5 12 (4.15%) VMS
6 8 (2.77%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (43.25%) CI/CD
2 120 (41.52%) Agile
3 103 (35.64%) DevOps
4 53 (18.34%) Containerisation
4 53 (18.34%) Infrastructure as Code
5 50 (17.30%) Microservices
6 49 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (15.22%) Analytics
8 43 (14.88%) Stakeholder Management
9 42 (14.53%) Change Management
9 42 (14.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 40 (13.84%) Mentoring
10 40 (13.84%) Migration
11 39 (13.49%) Software Engineering
12 37 (12.80%) Configuration Management
13 32 (11.07%) High Availability
14 29 (10.03%) Cloud Security
14 29 (10.03%) Root Cause Analysis
15 28 (9.69%) Test Automation
16 27 (9.34%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 70 (24.22%) Python
2 62 (21.45%) SQL
3 51 (17.65%) Java
4 29 (10.03%) PowerShell
5 21 (7.27%) Go
6 18 (6.23%) Bash
7 16 (5.54%) Shell Script
8 14 (4.84%) Groovy
9 11 (3.81%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.81%) Scala
10 6 (2.08%) Perl
11 5 (1.73%) PHP
12 4 (1.38%) BeanShell
13 3 (1.04%) Ruby
13 3 (1.04%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.69%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 111 (38.41%) Security Cleared
2 85 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 36 (12.46%) Degree
4 33 (11.42%) AWS Certification
5 19 (6.57%) Azure Certification
6 16 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (5.19%) DV Cleared
8 12 (4.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (3.81%) Master's Degree
10 10 (3.46%) CISSP
11 9 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (3.11%) IIBA
12 8 (2.77%) CCNP
12 8 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (2.42%) CCIE
14 5 (1.73%) CISM
15 4 (1.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (1.38%) CCSP
16 3 (1.04%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.96%) GDPR
2 17 (5.88%) QA
3 14 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.11%) NIST
4 9 (3.11%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.42%) Data Quality
6 6 (2.08%) WCAG
7 3 (1.04%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.69%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.35%) ISO 19650
9 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 85 (29.41%) Docker
2 40 (13.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (11.07%) vSphere
4 21 (7.27%) Active Directory
5 17 (5.88%) GPFS
5 17 (5.88%) NFS
5 17 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (4.15%) DFS Replication
7 8 (2.77%) Dovecot
7 8 (2.77%) Postfix
7 8 (2.77%) Squid
8 4 (1.38%) VMware NSX
9 3 (1.04%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.35%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 79 (27.34%) Kubernetes
2 72 (24.91%) Terraform
3 56 (19.38%) Grafana
4 50 (17.30%) Prometheus
5 44 (15.22%) Ansible
6 32 (11.07%) vRealize
7 15 (5.19%) Progress Chef
7 15 (5.19%) Puppet
8 14 (4.84%) VxRail
9 11 (3.81%) Kibana
10 8 (2.77%) CSIRT
10 8 (2.77%) Nessus
10 8 (2.77%) Proxmox
11 5 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.73%) Podman
11 5 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.38%) QRadar
13 2 (0.69%) Argo
13 2 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.69%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 51 (17.65%) Cisco
1 51 (17.65%) Oracle
2 48 (16.61%) Microsoft
3 46 (15.92%) Splunk
4 42 (14.53%) ServiceNow
4 42 (14.53%) VMware
5 35 (12.11%) IBM
6 28 (9.69%) AppDynamics
7 20 (6.92%) SolarWinds
8 19 (6.57%) Dynatrace
8 19 (6.57%) F5
9 15 (5.19%) Dell
10 14 (4.84%) Commvault
10 14 (4.84%) Google
11 13 (4.50%) HP
12 12 (4.15%) Palo Alto
13 8 (2.77%) Fortinet
13 8 (2.77%) Jaspersoft
13 8 (2.77%) SAP
13 8 (2.77%) webMethods