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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 36 23
Rank change year-on-year +25 -13 -12
Contract jobs citing AWS 283 77 121
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 12.52% 4.91% 6.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.24% 14.78% 21.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 39 92
10th Percentile £306 £361 £307
25th Percentile £420 £416 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -1.40% -7.41%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £681 £700 £655
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.75 - -
Median hourly rate £76.50 - -
75th Percentile £77.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £78.34 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +69.63% - -24.60%

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 781 521 560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 34.56% 33.25% 31.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 559 349 418
10th Percentile £303 £210 £200
25th Percentile £413 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £588 £612 £592
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 18 6
10th Percentile £25.12 £15.95 £17.63
25th Percentile £27.21 £17.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £28.61 £20.24 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.33% +9.41% +12.12%
75th Percentile £41.56 £34.69 £19.25
90th Percentile £63.95 £35.00 £37.13
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.21 £22.50
% change year-on-year -2.50% +25.36% -

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 12 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 12 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 +24 83 £500 +2.56% 40
Shropshire -2 71 £500 +1.42% 46
Coventry +12 46 £388 -20.51% 5
Warwickshire +17 34 £556 +11.25% 10
Worcestershire -2 18 £603 +72.14% 7
Herefordshire -11 9 £550 -
Staffordshire +3 3 £394 -28.41% 11
Solihull - 2 - -
Wolverhampton - 2 £425 - 7
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 (11.66%) Confluence
2 26 (9.19%) Apache
3 23 (8.13%) WebLogic
4 19 (6.71%) SAS
5 12 (4.24%) nginx
6 10 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (3.18%) JBoss
8 7 (2.47%) OpenStack
9 4 (1.41%) Anypoint
9 4 (1.41%) Apache Spark
9 4 (1.41%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.71%) Drupal
10 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.35%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 9 (3.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 7 (2.47%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (2.47%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.35%) CATIA
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.35%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 145 (51.24%) Azure
2 68 (24.03%) GCP
3 36 (12.72%) Amazon S3
4 29 (10.25%) Amazon EC2
5 27 (9.54%) Datadog
6 26 (9.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 24 (8.48%) Serverless
8 21 (7.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 20 (7.07%) Amazon ELB
9 20 (7.07%) AWS KMS
10 18 (6.36%) GitHub
11 17 (6.01%) Azure Monitor
12 15 (5.30%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (5.30%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (4.95%) OpenShift
14 12 (4.24%) Entra ID
15 11 (3.89%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (3.53%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 48 (16.96%) Firewall
2 28 (9.89%) DNS
3 19 (6.71%) VPN
4 16 (5.65%) HTTP
5 15 (5.30%) FTP
5 15 (5.30%) SMTP
5 15 (5.30%) SSH
6 14 (4.95%) Network Security
7 13 (4.59%) VSAN
8 9 (3.18%) DHCP
8 9 (3.18%) IMAP
8 9 (3.18%) OpenLDAP
8 9 (3.18%) SD-WAN
9 8 (2.83%) LAN
9 8 (2.83%) WAN
9 8 (2.83%) Wireshark
10 7 (2.47%) WLAN
11 6 (2.12%) TCP/IP
11 6 (2.12%) VLAN
12 5 (1.77%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.60%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (10.25%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (6.36%) MongoDB
4 15 (5.30%) NoSQL
5 12 (4.24%) Relational Database
6 10 (3.53%) Oracle Database
7 9 (3.18%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (3.18%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 9 (3.18%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 8 (2.83%) MySQL
9 7 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.41%) InfluxDB
10 4 (1.41%) SAS Data Integration Studio
11 3 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.06%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.71%) Big Data
12 2 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.71%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 54 (19.08%) Jenkins
2 51 (18.02%) Git
3 44 (15.55%) GitLab
4 36 (12.72%) JIRA
5 21 (7.42%) JUnit
6 19 (6.71%) Selenium
7 15 (5.30%) Vagrant
8 11 (3.89%) Maven
9 10 (3.53%) Liquibase
10 8 (2.83%) Eclipse
10 8 (2.83%) IntelliJ
11 7 (2.47%) CircleCI
11 7 (2.47%) Cucumber
11 7 (2.47%) Cypress.io
11 7 (2.47%) Mockito
12 6 (2.12%) Bitbucket
12 6 (2.12%) Postman
12 6 (2.12%) SonarQube
12 6 (2.12%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (1.77%) webpack
General
1 121 (42.76%) Social Skills
2 49 (17.31%) Public Sector
3 46 (16.25%) Finance
4 37 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.13%) Documentation Skills
6 22 (7.77%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (5.65%) Banking
8 11 (3.89%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (3.53%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.47%) Aeronautics
11 4 (1.41%) Legal
12 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.71%) Military
12 2 (0.71%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.35%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.35%) Marketing
13 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (14.84%) Analyst
2 40 (14.13%) DevOps Engineer
3 33 (11.66%) AWS Engineer
3 33 (11.66%) Senior
4 25 (8.83%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (8.83%) Developer
5 23 (8.13%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 22 (7.77%) Architect
7 21 (7.42%) Platform Engineer
8 18 (6.36%) AWS DevOps
8 18 (6.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 16 (5.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 16 (5.65%) Lead
9 16 (5.65%) Storage Analyst
10 14 (4.95%) Software Engineer
11 13 (4.59%) Business Analyst
12 12 (4.24%) Senior DevOps
12 12 (4.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 12 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (3.89%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (14.84%) REST
2 24 (8.48%) JSON
2 24 (8.48%) RESTful
3 22 (7.77%) Spring
4 21 (7.42%) Elastic Stack
5 19 (6.71%) HTML
6 16 (5.65%) React
6 16 (5.65%) SOAP
7 15 (5.30%) Spring Boot
8 14 (4.95%) Flash
9 12 (4.24%) XML
10 11 (3.89%) OAuth
11 9 (3.18%) Hibernate
11 9 (3.18%) LDAP
11 9 (3.18%) SailPoint
12 8 (2.83%) EJB
12 8 (2.83%) HTML5
12 8 (2.83%) J2EE
12 8 (2.83%) J2SE
12 8 (2.83%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.01%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.95%) Replication
3 30 (10.60%) Linux Command Line
4 15 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.30%) Security Posture
5 12 (4.24%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.53%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.12%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.77%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.41%) PKI
10 4 (1.41%) SCADA
10 4 (1.41%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (0.71%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.71%) NHS
11 2 (0.71%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 91 (32.16%) Linux
2 44 (15.55%) Windows
3 22 (7.77%) Unix
4 15 (5.30%) Amazon Linux
4 15 (5.30%) VMS
5 12 (4.24%) Windows Server
6 9 (3.18%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (42.05%) CI/CD
2 111 (39.22%) Agile
3 109 (38.52%) DevOps
4 52 (18.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 50 (17.67%) Containerisation
5 50 (17.67%) Microservices
6 49 (17.31%) Analytics
7 46 (16.25%) Change Management
8 45 (15.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 45 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (14.49%) Migration
9 41 (14.49%) Stakeholder Management
10 38 (13.43%) Configuration Management
10 38 (13.43%) Mentoring
10 38 (13.43%) Software Engineering
11 32 (11.31%) Cloud Security
12 30 (10.60%) High Availability
12 30 (10.60%) Incident Response
13 28 (9.89%) Observability
13 28 (9.89%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 74 (26.15%) Python
2 59 (20.85%) SQL
3 50 (17.67%) Java
4 34 (12.01%) PowerShell
5 21 (7.42%) Go
6 16 (5.65%) Bash
7 15 (5.30%) Groovy
8 12 (4.24%) Shell Script
9 11 (3.89%) Scala
10 9 (3.18%) JavaScript
11 8 (2.83%) Perl
12 4 (1.41%) BeanShell
12 4 (1.41%) PHP
13 3 (1.06%) Ruby
13 3 (1.06%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.71%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.35%) Korn
15 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 108 (38.16%) Security Cleared
2 83 (29.33%) SC Cleared
3 37 (13.07%) Degree
4 34 (12.01%) AWS Certification
5 20 (7.07%) Azure Certification
6 17 (6.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (4.95%) DV Cleared
8 12 (4.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (3.89%) Master's Degree
10 10 (3.53%) CISSP
11 8 (2.83%) CCNP
11 8 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (2.83%) IIBA
11 8 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (2.47%) CCIE
13 5 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (1.77%) CISM
14 4 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (1.41%) CCSP
15 3 (1.06%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.42%) GDPR
2 15 (5.30%) QA
3 14 (4.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.18%) NIST
5 8 (2.83%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.47%) Data Quality
7 6 (2.12%) WCAG
8 3 (1.06%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.35%) ISO 19650
10 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 86 (30.39%) Docker
2 37 (13.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (10.25%) vSphere
4 23 (8.13%) Active Directory
5 15 (5.30%) DFS Replication
6 14 (4.95%) GPFS
6 14 (4.95%) NFS
6 14 (4.95%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (3.18%) Dovecot
7 9 (3.18%) Postfix
7 9 (3.18%) Squid
8 4 (1.41%) VMware NSX
9 3 (1.06%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.35%) HDFS
10 1 (0.35%) Snort
Systems Management
1 72 (25.44%) Terraform
2 69 (24.38%) Kubernetes
3 56 (19.79%) Grafana
4 50 (17.67%) Prometheus
5 43 (15.19%) Ansible
6 29 (10.25%) vRealize
7 15 (5.30%) Puppet
8 14 (4.95%) Progress Chef
9 13 (4.59%) VxRail
10 10 (3.53%) Kibana
11 9 (3.18%) Nessus
11 9 (3.18%) Proxmox
12 8 (2.83%) CSIRT
13 5 (1.77%) Podman
13 5 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (1.41%) QRadar
15 2 (0.71%) Argo
15 2 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
15 2 (0.71%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 55 (19.43%) Cisco
2 54 (19.08%) Splunk
3 49 (17.31%) Oracle
4 48 (16.96%) Microsoft
5 43 (15.19%) ServiceNow
6 39 (13.78%) VMware
7 36 (12.72%) AppDynamics
8 32 (11.31%) IBM
9 23 (8.13%) Dynatrace
10 20 (7.07%) SolarWinds
11 19 (6.71%) F5
12 15 (5.30%) Dell
13 14 (4.95%) Commvault
14 13 (4.59%) Google
14 13 (4.59%) HP
15 12 (4.24%) Palo Alto
16 9 (3.18%) Jaspersoft
17 8 (2.83%) Fortinet
17 8 (2.83%) SAP
17 8 (2.83%) webMethods