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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 25 46
Rank change year-on-year +13 +21 -31
Contract jobs citing AWS 334 86 77
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.76% 6.52% 3.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.91% 18.57% 15.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 54 63
10th Percentile £313 £403 £315
25th Percentile £402 £455 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £606
90th Percentile £645 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
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 £76.00 £72.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.83% +38.10% -19.23%

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 905 463 504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.85% 35.10% 25.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 662 330 394
10th Percentile £313 £200 £213
25th Percentile £404 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £494 £455
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% +8.57% -9.90%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 11
10th Percentile £21.83 £15.25 £14.13
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.63 £17.63
Median hourly rate £26.11 £18.13 £19.95
Median % change year-on-year +43.99% -9.12% +12.58%
75th Percentile £27.50 £23.62 £26.50
90th Percentile £42.43 £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £37.54 £26.81 £21.37
% change year-on-year +40.01% +25.47% -14.52%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 +11 86 £500 -9.09% 34
Shropshire -12 82 £458 -6.63% 7
Coventry +10 53 £402 -19.60% 11
Warwickshire +14 41 £538 +7.50% 12
Worcestershire +4 20 £725 +3.57% 3
Solihull -1 15 £500 +19.05% 5
Herefordshire -9 11 £550 -21.43% 2
Staffordshire -6 1 £338 -38.64% 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 55 (16.47%) Confluence
2 24 (7.19%) SAS
3 13 (3.89%) Apache
3 13 (3.89%) WebLogic
4 7 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.50%) Anypoint
5 5 (1.50%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.20%) JBoss
6 4 (1.20%) OpenStack
6 4 (1.20%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.60%) Drupal
7 2 (0.60%) nginx
8 1 (0.30%) CMS
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (2.40%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.30%) CATIA
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.60%) Shopify
2 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.30%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 148 (44.31%) Azure
2 74 (22.16%) GCP
3 50 (14.97%) Amazon S3
4 32 (9.58%) Amazon EC2
5 31 (9.28%) GitHub
6 30 (8.98%) Serverless
7 25 (7.49%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (7.19%) Datadog
9 23 (6.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 21 (6.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 20 (5.99%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (5.69%) AWS KMS
13 17 (5.09%) Entra ID
14 16 (4.79%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (3.89%) OpenShift
16 12 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (3.59%) Route 53
17 11 (3.29%) Amazon SQS
18 8 (2.40%) Amazon ELB
18 8 (2.40%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.89%) Firewall
2 20 (5.99%) VPN
3 15 (4.49%) Network Security
3 15 (4.49%) VSAN
4 9 (2.69%) DNS
4 9 (2.69%) SD-WAN
4 9 (2.69%) WAN
5 8 (2.40%) DHCP
6 7 (2.10%) BGP
6 7 (2.10%) LAN
6 7 (2.10%) OSPF
6 7 (2.10%) WLAN
7 6 (1.80%) MPLS
7 6 (1.80%) VLAN
7 6 (1.80%) VXLAN
8 5 (1.50%) EIGRP
8 5 (1.50%) HTTPS
8 5 (1.50%) IPv4
8 5 (1.50%) IPv6
9 4 (1.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (12.87%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (11.68%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (6.29%) MongoDB
4 17 (5.09%) Pentaho
5 14 (4.19%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (3.89%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.29%) DynamoDB
7 11 (3.29%) Oracle Database
8 10 (2.99%) MySQL
8 10 (2.99%) Oracle Reports
8 10 (2.99%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.69%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (1.20%) Big Data
11 4 (1.20%) InfluxDB
12 3 (0.90%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.90%) Power BI
13 2 (0.60%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.60%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 72 (21.56%) Git
2 62 (18.56%) Jenkins
2 62 (18.56%) JIRA
3 48 (14.37%) GitLab
4 40 (11.98%) JUnit
5 28 (8.38%) Selenium
6 22 (6.59%) Cucumber
7 20 (5.99%) Maven
8 18 (5.39%) Mockito
9 14 (4.19%) JMeter
10 13 (3.89%) SonarQube
10 13 (3.89%) WebDriver
11 12 (3.59%) Postman
12 9 (2.69%) Zephyr
13 7 (2.10%) DbUnit
13 7 (2.10%) jMock
13 7 (2.10%) Liquibase
14 6 (1.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 5 (1.50%) Bitbucket
15 5 (1.50%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 127 (38.02%) Social Skills
2 52 (15.57%) Finance
3 51 (15.27%) Public Sector
4 47 (14.07%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (5.69%) Banking
6 17 (5.09%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (4.49%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.40%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.10%) Aeronautics
11 4 (1.20%) Legal
12 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.60%) Military
12 2 (0.60%) Retail
12 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.30%) Advertising
13 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 50 (14.97%) Analyst
2 39 (11.68%) Developer
3 37 (11.08%) Architect
4 35 (10.48%) Senior
5 33 (9.88%) Data Engineer
6 29 (8.68%) Lead
7 26 (7.78%) Cloud Engineer
8 25 (7.49%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 24 (7.19%) AWS Engineer
10 23 (6.89%) Java Developer
11 21 (6.29%) Storage Analyst
12 20 (5.99%) Tester
13 17 (5.09%) DevOps Engineer
14 15 (4.49%) Business Analyst
15 12 (3.59%) Site Engineer
15 12 (3.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 12 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
16 11 (3.29%) Software Engineer
17 10 (2.99%) GCP Engineer
18 9 (2.69%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (14.67%) Spring
2 39 (11.68%) REST
3 32 (9.58%) Spring Boot
4 23 (6.89%) RESTful
5 19 (5.69%) SOAP
6 18 (5.39%) JSON
7 17 (5.09%) JPA
7 17 (5.09%) WireMock
8 16 (4.79%) Node.js
8 16 (4.79%) React
9 15 (4.49%) AngularJS
9 15 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
9 15 (4.49%) Flash
10 14 (4.19%) Hibernate
10 14 (4.19%) HTML
10 14 (4.19%) Web Services
11 11 (3.29%) SailPoint
11 11 (3.29%) Spring Batch
12 10 (2.99%) Playwright
12 10 (2.99%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.28%) Linux Command Line
2 30 (8.98%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (7.49%) Cloud Native
4 17 (5.09%) Replication
5 12 (3.59%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.99%) Distributed Architecture
6 10 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (2.99%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.69%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.10%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.10%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.80%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.50%) SCADA
12 4 (1.20%) PKI
12 4 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
13 3 (0.90%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.90%) Distributed Applications
13 3 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 79 (23.65%) Linux
2 24 (7.19%) Windows
3 13 (3.89%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.69%) Unix
5 7 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.30%) Android
6 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.30%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (47.60%) Agile
2 132 (39.52%) CI/CD
3 83 (24.85%) DevOps
4 69 (20.66%) Microservices
5 62 (18.56%) Containerisation
6 60 (17.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 59 (17.66%) Stakeholder Management
8 52 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
9 49 (14.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 47 (14.07%) Mentoring
10 47 (14.07%) Migration
11 45 (13.47%) Test Automation
12 44 (13.17%) Scrum
13 39 (11.68%) ETL
14 37 (11.08%) Observability
14 37 (11.08%) TDD
15 35 (10.48%) Analytics
15 35 (10.48%) Software Engineering
16 31 (9.28%) Change Management
16 31 (9.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 91 (27.25%) SQL
2 70 (20.96%) Python
3 66 (19.76%) Java
4 21 (6.29%) Shell Script
5 20 (5.99%) Bash
6 17 (5.09%) Go
6 17 (5.09%) PowerShell
7 12 (3.59%) JavaScript
8 8 (2.40%) Scala
9 6 (1.80%) Perl
10 5 (1.50%) BeanShell
11 4 (1.20%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.90%) PHP
12 3 (0.90%) Ruby
12 3 (0.90%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.60%) Groovy
13 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.30%) Bicep
14 1 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 147 (44.01%) Security Cleared
2 116 (34.73%) SC Cleared
3 31 (9.28%) AWS Certification
4 22 (6.59%) Degree
5 15 (4.49%) DV Cleared
6 14 (4.19%) Azure Certification
6 14 (4.19%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (3.89%) CISSP
8 11 (3.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (2.69%) IIBA
10 9 (2.69%) ISTQB
10 9 (2.69%) Master's Degree
11 7 (2.10%) CCIE
11 7 (2.10%) CCNP
11 7 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (1.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (1.80%) CISM
13 5 (1.50%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.78%) QA
2 21 (6.29%) GDPR
3 15 (4.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (3.89%) Data Quality
4 13 (3.89%) NIST
5 9 (2.69%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.10%) WCAG
7 5 (1.50%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.60%) COBIT
8 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.60%) SLA
9 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 94 (28.14%) Docker
2 38 (11.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (8.98%) vSphere
4 21 (6.29%) Active Directory
5 15 (4.49%) GPFS
5 15 (4.49%) NFS
5 15 (4.49%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.80%) Postfix
7 4 (1.20%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.90%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.30%) Firmware
9 1 (0.30%) HDFS
9 1 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 95 (28.44%) Kubernetes
2 65 (19.46%) Grafana
2 65 (19.46%) Terraform
3 48 (14.37%) Prometheus
4 37 (11.08%) Ansible
5 30 (8.98%) vRealize
6 15 (4.49%) VxRail
7 14 (4.19%) Progress Chef
8 11 (3.29%) Kibana
9 8 (2.40%) Puppet
10 7 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.20%) QRadar
12 3 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.60%) Argo
13 2 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.60%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.60%) Podman
14 1 (0.30%) logstash
14 1 (0.30%) Nessus
14 1 (0.30%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 64 (19.16%) Oracle
2 45 (13.47%) Microsoft
3 43 (12.87%) Cisco
4 39 (11.68%) VMware
5 34 (10.18%) IBM
6 32 (9.58%) ServiceNow
7 30 (8.98%) Splunk
8 23 (6.89%) AppDynamics
9 21 (6.29%) Talend
10 20 (5.99%) SolarWinds
11 19 (5.69%) Informatica
12 15 (4.49%) Google
13 14 (4.19%) Commvault
13 14 (4.19%) Dell
13 14 (4.19%) Dynatrace
14 12 (3.59%) HP
15 9 (2.69%) Jaspersoft
15 9 (2.69%) Palo Alto
16 8 (2.40%) Cloudera
16 8 (2.40%) SAP