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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 39 19
Rank change year-on-year +24 -20 -8
Contract jobs citing AWS 188 75 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.23% 3.93% 7.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.39% 13.79% 21.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 38 103
10th Percentile £400 £310 £330
25th Percentile £450 £366 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £600
90th Percentile £641 £675 £725
England median daily rate £525 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -8.70% -1.71% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £73.50 £46.18 £72.50
% change year-on-year +59.16% -36.30% +13.28%

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 599 544 727
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.61% 28.50% 35.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 366 524
10th Percentile £275 £213 £207
25th Percentile £413 £354 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.27% +2.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £600
90th Percentile £683 £686 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.71% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 4
10th Percentile £31.94 £15.83 £17.58
25th Percentile £34.16 £23.55 £17.69
Median hourly rate £35.49 £33.74 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% +82.35% +8.82%
75th Percentile £52.69 £35.00 £19.38
90th Percentile £59.44 £55.50 £19.60
England median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.21% - +53.49%

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
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 September 2025.

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 September 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 +22 66 £475 - 41
Shropshire +8 47 £515 +19.77% 24
Coventry +2 18 £425 -34.62% 19
Warwickshire +1 17 £623 -7.78% 14
Solihull - 14 £450 -
Worcestershire +4 10 £550 +22.22% 9
Staffordshire -1 4 £450 +44.00% 34
Wolverhampton - 2 £425 - 14
Herefordshire - 2 £500 - 2
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 30 (15.96%) Confluence
2 18 (9.57%) Apache
2 18 (9.57%) WebLogic
3 14 (7.45%) nginx
4 9 (4.79%) SAS
5 8 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (2.66%) JBoss
6 5 (2.66%) OpenStack
7 4 (2.13%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (1.60%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.53%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 12 (6.38%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.60%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.53%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 104 (55.32%) Azure
2 49 (26.06%) Amazon S3
3 46 (24.47%) Amazon EC2
3 46 (24.47%) GCP
4 42 (22.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 35 (18.62%) AWS KMS
6 33 (17.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 27 (14.36%) Amazon ELB
8 23 (12.23%) Microsoft 365
9 20 (10.64%) Route 53
9 20 (10.64%) Serverless
10 17 (9.04%) GitHub
11 16 (8.51%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (7.98%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (6.91%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (6.91%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (6.38%) Amazon Glacier
15 11 (5.85%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (5.85%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (4.79%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (22.87%) Firewall
2 35 (18.62%) DNS
3 25 (13.30%) HTTP
4 24 (12.77%) SMTP
5 22 (11.70%) FTP
5 22 (11.70%) SSH
6 12 (6.38%) IMAP
6 12 (6.38%) Network Security
6 12 (6.38%) OpenLDAP
7 8 (4.26%) DHCP
8 7 (3.72%) VPN
8 7 (3.72%) Wireshark
9 5 (2.66%) SSL
9 5 (2.66%) TCP/IP
10 4 (2.13%) VLAN
11 3 (1.60%) Wireless
12 2 (1.06%) BGP
12 2 (1.06%) EIGRP
12 2 (1.06%) IPsec
12 2 (1.06%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (21.28%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (13.83%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (11.70%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (5.32%) DynamoDB
4 10 (5.32%) Relational Database
5 9 (4.79%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 9 (4.79%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 8 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (3.19%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.66%) Oracle Database
9 4 (2.13%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.13%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.13%) SAS Data Integration Studio
10 3 (1.60%) Metadata
10 3 (1.60%) MySQL
10 3 (1.60%) Power BI
11 2 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (1.06%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.06%) DB2
11 2 (1.06%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 55 (29.26%) Git
2 53 (28.19%) Jenkins
3 36 (19.15%) JIRA
4 25 (13.30%) GitLab
5 24 (12.77%) Vagrant
6 16 (8.51%) JUnit
7 13 (6.91%) Maven
7 13 (6.91%) SonarQube
8 7 (3.72%) Mockito
8 7 (3.72%) Selenium
9 6 (3.19%) Bitbucket
9 6 (3.19%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (2.66%) Cypress.io
10 5 (2.66%) DbUnit
10 5 (2.66%) Gradle
10 5 (2.66%) jMock
11 4 (2.13%) Eclipse
11 4 (2.13%) IntelliJ
11 4 (2.13%) Liquibase
11 4 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 69 (36.70%) Social Skills
2 52 (27.66%) Public Sector
3 17 (9.04%) Finance
4 14 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (6.91%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (6.38%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.13%) Retail
9 3 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.06%) Banking
10 2 (1.06%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.53%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.53%) Legal
11 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.53%) Marketing
11 1 (0.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 43 (22.87%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (16.49%) AWS Engineer
2 31 (16.49%) Platform Engineer
3 27 (14.36%) Developer
4 24 (12.77%) AWS DevOps
4 24 (12.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 23 (12.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 20 (10.64%) Architect
6 20 (10.64%) Senior
7 15 (7.98%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (6.91%) Java Developer
9 12 (6.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 10 (5.32%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 7 (3.72%) Lead
11 7 (3.72%) Monitoring Engineer
11 7 (3.72%) Security Architect
12 6 (3.19%) AWS Developer
12 6 (3.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (3.19%) Release Manager
12 6 (3.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (17.02%) REST
2 17 (9.04%) SOAP
3 16 (8.51%) Spring
4 14 (7.45%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (7.45%) RESTful
5 13 (6.91%) Spring Boot
6 12 (6.38%) LDAP
7 11 (5.85%) Hibernate
8 10 (5.32%) ActiveMQ
8 10 (5.32%) Web Services
9 9 (4.79%) JPA
9 9 (4.79%) JSON
10 8 (4.26%) AngularJS
10 8 (4.26%) XML
11 7 (3.72%) Bootstrap
11 7 (3.72%) HTML
11 7 (3.72%) Spring Batch
11 7 (3.72%) Spring Cloud
11 7 (3.72%) Spring Integration
12 6 (3.19%) React
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.89%) Replication
2 15 (7.98%) Security Posture
3 13 (6.91%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.19%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (3.19%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.19%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.66%) Operational Technology
6 5 (2.66%) SCADA
7 4 (2.13%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.60%) IVR
8 3 (1.60%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.60%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.06%) IoT
9 2 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.53%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.53%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 70 (37.23%) Linux
2 52 (27.66%) Windows
3 25 (13.30%) Amazon Linux
4 24 (12.77%) VMS
5 19 (10.11%) Unix
6 12 (6.38%) Ubuntu
7 6 (3.19%) Windows Server
8 5 (2.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.06%) Android
9 2 (1.06%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.53%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.53%) SUSE
10 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (50.00%) DevOps
2 81 (43.09%) CI/CD
3 60 (31.91%) Agile
4 43 (22.87%) Cloud Security
5 41 (21.81%) Configuration Management
6 38 (20.21%) Change Management
7 36 (19.15%) Containerisation
7 36 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (18.09%) Analytics
8 34 (18.09%) Platform Engineering
9 31 (16.49%) Infrastructure as Code
9 31 (16.49%) Microservices
10 29 (15.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (13.83%) Migration
12 25 (13.30%) Continuous Integration
13 24 (12.77%) Scrum
14 23 (12.23%) Patch Management
14 23 (12.23%) Test Strategy
15 21 (11.17%) Incident Response
15 21 (11.17%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 54 (28.72%) SQL
2 50 (26.60%) Python
3 36 (19.15%) PowerShell
4 33 (17.55%) Java
5 27 (14.36%) Groovy
6 13 (6.91%) Perl
7 11 (5.85%) Bash
8 8 (4.26%) JavaScript
9 7 (3.72%) TypeScript
10 6 (3.19%) Go
11 5 (2.66%) Scala
12 2 (1.06%) JSX
12 2 (1.06%) PHP
13 1 (0.53%) Korn
13 1 (0.53%) R
13 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 84 (44.68%) Security Cleared
2 74 (39.36%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.70%) Degree
4 21 (11.17%) AWS Certification
5 16 (8.51%) Azure Certification
6 10 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.72%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.06%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (1.06%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.53%) CISA
11 1 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.53%) CISM
11 1 (0.53%) CISSP
11 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.85%) QA
2 8 (4.26%) NIST
3 7 (3.72%) GDPR
4 6 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.13%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.60%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.06%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.06%) SLA
8 1 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.53%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.53%) NCSC
8 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 76 (40.43%) Docker
2 22 (11.70%) Active Directory
2 22 (11.70%) DFS Replication
3 17 (9.04%) Postfix
4 12 (6.38%) Dovecot
4 12 (6.38%) Squid
5 5 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (2.13%) GPFS
6 4 (2.13%) NFS
6 4 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.13%) vSphere
7 1 (0.53%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.53%) Snort
7 1 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.53%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 55 (29.26%) Terraform
2 42 (22.34%) Grafana
2 42 (22.34%) Prometheus
3 31 (16.49%) Kubernetes
4 25 (13.30%) Ansible
5 12 (6.38%) Nessus
6 10 (5.32%) Proxmox
7 9 (4.79%) Puppet
8 7 (3.72%) CSIRT
9 5 (2.66%) Progress Chef
10 4 (2.13%) vRealize
11 3 (1.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.60%) Opsview
11 3 (1.60%) Podman
11 3 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.06%) Kibana
12 2 (1.06%) Nagios
13 1 (0.53%) logstash
13 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.53%) QRadar
Vendors
1 38 (20.21%) ServiceNow
2 34 (18.09%) Microsoft
3 32 (17.02%) Splunk
4 30 (15.96%) Oracle
5 24 (12.77%) Cisco
6 17 (9.04%) AppDynamics
6 17 (9.04%) Dynatrace
6 17 (9.04%) Jaspersoft
7 12 (6.38%) F5
8 9 (4.79%) Atlassian
8 9 (4.79%) IBM
9 8 (4.26%) VMware
10 7 (3.72%) Google
10 7 (3.72%) Salesforce
11 5 (2.66%) Databricks
11 5 (2.66%) SAP
12 4 (2.13%) CheckPoint
12 4 (2.13%) webMethods
13 3 (1.60%) SolarWinds
13 3 (1.60%) Veeam