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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 25 44
Rank change year-on-year +13 +19 -29
Contract jobs citing AWS 331 86 77
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.95% 6.44% 3.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.94% 17.95% 15.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 54 63
10th Percentile £313 £403 £315
25th Percentile £402 £453 £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 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% -6.38%
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 £65.25 £51.78
% change year-on-year +14.94% +26.02% -19.72%

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 896 479 504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.35% 35.85% 25.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 658 343 392
10th Percentile £309 £200 £213
25th Percentile £404 £389 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £576 £600 £600
90th Percentile £679 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 18 11
10th Percentile £21.83 £15.26 £14.13
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.81 £17.63
Median hourly rate £26.11 £18.44 £19.95
Median % change year-on-year +41.61% -7.59% +21.06%
75th Percentile £27.50 £34.69 £26.50
90th Percentile £42.43 £37.09 -
England median hourly rate £37.58 £26.81 £21.00
% change year-on-year +40.16% +27.68% -16.00%

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 9 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 9 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
Shropshire -6 88 £463 -5.61% 33
Birmingham +10 82 £500 -9.09% 42
Coventry +10 52 £407 -18.55% 16
Warwickshire +15 40 £550 +10.00% 8
Worcestershire +3 22 £680 -2.86% 13
Solihull -2 12 £500 +19.05% 6
Herefordshire -9 11 £550 -21.43% 1
Staffordshire -6 1 £338 -38.64% 15
Bilston - 1 £550 -
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 3
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 48 (14.50%) Confluence
2 23 (6.95%) SAS
3 17 (5.14%) Apache
3 17 (5.14%) WebLogic
4 8 (2.42%) JBoss
5 7 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.51%) Apache Spark
6 5 (1.51%) OpenStack
7 4 (1.21%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.91%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.60%) Drupal
9 2 (0.60%) nginx
10 1 (0.30%) CMS
10 1 (0.30%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 10 (3.02%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (2.42%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.30%) CATIA
3 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.30%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 148 (44.71%) Azure
2 76 (22.96%) GCP
3 44 (13.29%) Amazon S3
4 28 (8.46%) Amazon EC2
5 26 (7.85%) GitHub
6 25 (7.55%) Datadog
7 24 (7.25%) Serverless
8 20 (6.04%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (5.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (5.74%) AWS KMS
10 17 (5.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 16 (4.83%) Entra ID
12 15 (4.53%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (4.23%) OpenShift
14 12 (3.63%) Route 53
15 10 (3.02%) Amazon SQS
15 10 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
17 8 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.95%) Firewall
2 19 (5.74%) VPN
3 15 (4.53%) Network Security
3 15 (4.53%) VSAN
4 9 (2.72%) DNS
4 9 (2.72%) SD-WAN
4 9 (2.72%) WAN
5 8 (2.42%) DHCP
6 7 (2.11%) BGP
6 7 (2.11%) LAN
6 7 (2.11%) OSPF
6 7 (2.11%) WLAN
7 6 (1.81%) MPLS
7 6 (1.81%) VLAN
7 6 (1.81%) VXLAN
8 5 (1.51%) EIGRP
8 5 (1.51%) IPv4
8 5 (1.51%) IPv6
9 4 (1.21%) HTTPS
9 4 (1.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (12.08%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (11.48%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (7.55%) MongoDB
4 16 (4.83%) Pentaho
5 14 (4.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (3.63%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.32%) MySQL
7 11 (3.32%) Oracle Database
8 10 (3.02%) Oracle Reports
8 10 (3.02%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.72%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (2.72%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.21%) Big Data
10 4 (1.21%) InfluxDB
10 4 (1.21%) Power BI
11 3 (0.91%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.91%) Metadata
12 2 (0.60%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 75 (22.66%) Git
2 57 (17.22%) Jenkins
3 56 (16.92%) JIRA
4 44 (13.29%) GitLab
5 42 (12.69%) JUnit
6 30 (9.06%) Selenium
7 21 (6.34%) Maven
8 19 (5.74%) Cucumber
9 18 (5.44%) Mockito
10 14 (4.23%) SonarQube
11 13 (3.93%) Postman
12 11 (3.32%) JMeter
13 10 (3.02%) WebDriver
14 9 (2.72%) Zephyr
15 8 (2.42%) Eclipse
15 8 (2.42%) IntelliJ
16 7 (2.11%) DbUnit
16 7 (2.11%) jMock
16 7 (2.11%) Liquibase
17 6 (1.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 126 (38.07%) Social Skills
2 57 (17.22%) Finance
3 49 (14.80%) Public Sector
4 46 (13.90%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (5.74%) Banking
6 17 (5.14%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (4.53%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (3.93%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.42%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.11%) Aeronautics
11 4 (1.21%) Legal
12 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.30%) Advertising
13 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.30%) Marketing
13 1 (0.30%) Military
13 1 (0.30%) Publishing
13 1 (0.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (15.11%) Analyst
2 41 (12.39%) Developer
3 36 (10.88%) Architect
4 34 (10.27%) Senior
5 32 (9.67%) Data Engineer
6 29 (8.76%) Lead
7 26 (7.85%) Cloud Engineer
8 25 (7.55%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 24 (7.25%) Java Developer
10 23 (6.95%) AWS Engineer
11 21 (6.34%) Storage Analyst
12 17 (5.14%) DevOps Engineer
12 17 (5.14%) Tester
13 15 (4.53%) Business Analyst
14 13 (3.93%) Software Engineer
14 13 (3.93%) Solutions Architect
15 12 (3.63%) Site Engineer
15 12 (3.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 10 (3.02%) Engagement Manager
16 10 (3.02%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (15.11%) Spring
2 46 (13.90%) REST
3 32 (9.67%) Spring Boot
4 24 (7.25%) SOAP
5 23 (6.95%) RESTful
6 22 (6.65%) JSON
7 19 (5.74%) HTML
8 18 (5.44%) Hibernate
9 17 (5.14%) JPA
10 16 (4.83%) Elastic Stack
11 15 (4.53%) AngularJS
11 15 (4.53%) Flash
11 15 (4.53%) Node.js
11 15 (4.53%) React
12 14 (4.23%) Web Services
12 14 (4.23%) WireMock
13 11 (3.32%) SailPoint
13 11 (3.32%) Spring Batch
14 10 (3.02%) Playwright
14 10 (3.02%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.37%) Linux Command Line
2 27 (8.16%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (7.85%) Cloud Native
4 17 (5.14%) Replication
5 13 (3.93%) Onboarding
6 12 (3.63%) Data Centre
7 10 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.72%) Public Cloud
9 8 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
10 7 (2.11%) Private Cloud
10 7 (2.11%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.51%) SCADA
12 4 (1.21%) PKI
12 4 (1.21%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.21%) Security Operations Centre
13 3 (0.91%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.91%) Distributed Applications
13 3 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 80 (24.17%) Linux
2 23 (6.95%) Windows
3 13 (3.93%) Unix
3 13 (3.93%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.30%) Android
5 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.30%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (48.64%) Agile
2 137 (41.39%) CI/CD
3 87 (26.28%) DevOps
4 70 (21.15%) Microservices
5 61 (18.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 58 (17.52%) Containerisation
6 58 (17.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 56 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
8 51 (15.41%) Mentoring
8 51 (15.41%) Migration
9 49 (14.80%) Infrastructure as Code
10 44 (13.29%) Scrum
11 40 (12.08%) Software Engineering
12 39 (11.78%) ETL
12 39 (11.78%) Test Automation
13 36 (10.88%) Analytics
13 36 (10.88%) Change Management
14 35 (10.57%) TDD
15 33 (9.97%) Observability
16 29 (8.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 94 (28.40%) SQL
2 70 (21.15%) Java
3 68 (20.54%) Python
4 21 (6.34%) Shell Script
5 19 (5.74%) Bash
6 17 (5.14%) Go
7 16 (4.83%) PowerShell
8 12 (3.63%) Scala
9 11 (3.32%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.81%) Perl
11 5 (1.51%) BeanShell
12 4 (1.21%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.21%) PHP
13 3 (0.91%) Ruby
14 2 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.60%) Groovy
14 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.60%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.30%) Bicep
15 1 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 145 (43.81%) Security Cleared
2 114 (34.44%) SC Cleared
3 32 (9.67%) AWS Certification
4 22 (6.65%) Degree
5 16 (4.83%) DV Cleared
6 15 (4.53%) Azure Certification
7 14 (4.23%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (3.93%) CISSP
9 12 (3.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (3.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (2.72%) IIBA
11 9 (2.72%) ISTQB
11 9 (2.72%) Master's Degree
12 8 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (2.11%) CCIE
13 7 (2.11%) CCNP
14 6 (1.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (1.81%) CISM
15 5 (1.51%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.67%) QA
2 21 (6.34%) GDPR
3 14 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 14 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.63%) NIST
5 9 (2.72%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.11%) WCAG
7 5 (1.51%) 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 92 (27.79%) Docker
2 37 (11.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (9.06%) vSphere
4 20 (6.04%) Active Directory
5 15 (4.53%) GPFS
5 15 (4.53%) NFS
5 15 (4.53%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.81%) Postfix
7 4 (1.21%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.91%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.30%) Firmware
9 1 (0.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 92 (27.79%) Kubernetes
2 63 (19.03%) Grafana
3 62 (18.73%) Terraform
4 46 (13.90%) Prometheus
5 39 (11.78%) Ansible
6 30 (9.06%) vRealize
7 15 (4.53%) Progress Chef
7 15 (4.53%) VxRail
8 13 (3.93%) Puppet
9 11 (3.32%) Kibana
10 6 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.21%) QRadar
12 3 (0.91%) Podman
12 3 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.60%) Argo
13 2 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.60%) EMC NetWorker
14 1 (0.30%) Control-M
14 1 (0.30%) Nessus
14 1 (0.30%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 63 (19.03%) Oracle
2 49 (14.80%) Microsoft
3 43 (12.99%) Cisco
4 38 (11.48%) VMware
5 37 (11.18%) ServiceNow
6 33 (9.97%) IBM
7 30 (9.06%) Splunk
8 23 (6.95%) AppDynamics
9 20 (6.04%) SolarWinds
9 20 (6.04%) Talend
10 17 (5.14%) Informatica
11 15 (4.53%) Google
12 14 (4.23%) Commvault
12 14 (4.23%) Dell
12 14 (4.23%) Dynatrace
13 12 (3.63%) HP
14 11 (3.32%) SAP
15 9 (2.72%) Jaspersoft
15 9 (2.72%) Palo Alto
16 8 (2.42%) webMethods