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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 29 49
Rank change year-on-year +16 +20 -30
Contract jobs citing AWS 326 80 67
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.32% 5.88% 3.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.02% 17.94% 14.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 49 50
10th Percentile £326 £410 £313
25th Percentile £402 £455 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £655
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £537 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -2.36% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £55.38 - £23.46
25th Percentile £61.56 - £28.71
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £37.48
75th Percentile £75.56 - £46.24
90th Percentile £76.58 - £51.50
England median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +27.27% -25.68%

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 905 446 458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 28.65% 32.77% 23.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 639 299 353
10th Percentile £313 £200 £213
25th Percentile £402 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £606
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 13 10
10th Percentile £22.28 £15.23 £14.10
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.26 £14.69
Median hourly rate £33.99 £18.00 £21.23
Median % change year-on-year +88.83% -15.19% +4.87%
75th Percentile £67.84 £19.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £37.63 £29.35
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +76.47% +21.43% -36.84%

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 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in the West Midlands

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 May 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 +6 105 £469 +1.96% 6
Birmingham +9 74 £425 -22.73% 46
Coventry +10 40 £426 -30.45% 8
Warwickshire +5 32 £525 -15.32% 8
Solihull -1 26 £500 +8.70% 1
Worcestershire +3 14 £725 +3.57% 12
Herefordshire -4 9 £550 -21.43%
Staffordshire -3 2 £325 -40.91% 11
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 71 (21.78%) Confluence
2 45 (13.80%) SAS
3 15 (4.60%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.15%) Apache
4 7 (2.15%) WebLogic
5 5 (1.53%) Anypoint
6 4 (1.23%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.23%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.92%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.92%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.31%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.31%) CMS
8 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.31%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
1 5 (1.53%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.31%) CATIA
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.31%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.61%) Shopify
3 1 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 138 (42.33%) Azure
2 60 (18.40%) Amazon S3
3 52 (15.95%) GCP
4 41 (12.58%) Amazon EC2
5 38 (11.66%) GitHub
6 37 (11.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 34 (10.43%) Serverless
8 31 (9.51%) AWS Lambda
8 31 (9.51%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (6.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 19 (5.83%) Amazon SQS
10 19 (5.83%) AWS KMS
11 17 (5.21%) Route 53
12 16 (4.91%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (4.91%) Datadog
13 14 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (3.99%) Entra ID
15 12 (3.68%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (3.68%) OpenShift
16 11 (3.37%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.07%) Network Security
1 10 (3.07%) VPN
2 9 (2.76%) Firewall
2 9 (2.76%) VSAN
3 6 (1.84%) SD-WAN
3 6 (1.84%) WAN
4 5 (1.53%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.92%) BGP
5 3 (0.92%) DHCP
5 3 (0.92%) DNS
5 3 (0.92%) OSPF
5 3 (0.92%) VLAN
5 3 (0.92%) WLAN
6 2 (0.61%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.61%) LAN
6 2 (0.61%) SSL
6 2 (0.61%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.31%) Anycast
7 1 (0.31%) NaaS
7 1 (0.31%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (13.80%) Amazon RDS
2 33 (10.12%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (8.90%) Pentaho
4 23 (7.06%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (6.75%) DynamoDB
6 16 (4.91%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (4.60%) Oracle Reports
8 14 (4.29%) Amazon Aurora
8 14 (4.29%) Oracle Database
9 11 (3.37%) Relational Database
10 9 (2.76%) MongoDB
10 9 (2.76%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 9 (2.76%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 7 (2.15%) Data Lake
11 7 (2.15%) MySQL
11 7 (2.15%) Power BI
12 6 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.53%) SAS Data Integration Studio
14 4 (1.23%) InfluxDB
14 4 (1.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 88 (26.99%) JIRA
2 71 (21.78%) Git
3 59 (18.10%) Jenkins
4 53 (16.26%) GitLab
5 34 (10.43%) JUnit
6 19 (5.83%) Maven
7 18 (5.52%) Selenium
8 17 (5.21%) Mockito
8 17 (5.21%) SonarQube
9 16 (4.91%) Cucumber
10 15 (4.60%) JMeter
10 15 (4.60%) Postman
10 15 (4.60%) Zephyr
11 14 (4.29%) WebDriver
12 11 (3.37%) DbUnit
12 11 (3.37%) jMock
13 10 (3.07%) Bitbucket
14 9 (2.76%) Bitbucket Server
15 8 (2.45%) Artifactory
16 5 (1.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 106 (32.52%) Social Skills
2 62 (19.02%) Public Sector
3 45 (13.80%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (9.51%) Finance
5 15 (4.60%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (2.76%) Banking
7 8 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.23%) Aeronautics
8 4 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.92%) Retail
10 2 (0.61%) Legal
10 2 (0.61%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.31%) Advertising
11 1 (0.31%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.31%) Military
11 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 43 (13.19%) Data Engineer
2 39 (11.96%) Analyst
3 38 (11.66%) Developer
4 37 (11.35%) Architect
5 32 (9.82%) Senior
6 28 (8.59%) Lead
7 26 (7.98%) AWS Engineer
8 24 (7.36%) Java Developer
8 24 (7.36%) Tester
9 15 (4.60%) Storage Analyst
10 14 (4.29%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (3.99%) AWS Data Engineer
11 13 (3.99%) Business Analyst
11 13 (3.99%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 11 (3.37%) Cloud Architect
12 11 (3.37%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.37%) QA Tester
12 11 (3.37%) Scrum Master
12 11 (3.37%) Site Engineer
12 11 (3.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (12.58%) Spring
2 31 (9.51%) REST
3 27 (8.28%) Spring Boot
4 21 (6.44%) SOAP
5 18 (5.52%) AngularJS
5 18 (5.52%) Node.js
6 17 (5.21%) JPA
7 16 (4.91%) Web Services
7 16 (4.91%) WireMock
8 15 (4.60%) Hibernate
8 15 (4.60%) Spring Batch
8 15 (4.60%) Spring Cloud
9 14 (4.29%) ActiveMQ
9 14 (4.29%) Flash
9 14 (4.29%) Spring Integration
10 13 (3.99%) RESTful
11 11 (3.37%) PowerMock
12 9 (2.76%) Bootstrap
13 8 (2.45%) React
13 8 (2.45%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.59%) Cloud Native
1 28 (8.59%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (6.13%) Linux Command Line
3 18 (5.52%) Replication
4 15 (4.60%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (3.68%) Onboarding
7 11 (3.37%) Distributed Architecture
8 9 (2.76%) Data Centre
8 9 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.45%) Private Cloud
10 7 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.92%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.92%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.92%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.61%) Educational Technology
12 2 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
13 1 (0.31%) IoT
13 1 (0.31%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 62 (19.02%) Linux
2 20 (6.13%) Windows
3 13 (3.99%) Unix
4 9 (2.76%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.61%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.31%) Android
7 1 (0.31%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (49.69%) Agile
2 137 (42.02%) CI/CD
3 98 (30.06%) DevOps
4 72 (22.09%) Migration
5 65 (19.94%) Test Automation
6 61 (18.71%) Containerisation
7 60 (18.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 55 (16.87%) Scrum
8 55 (16.87%) Stakeholder Management
9 53 (16.26%) ETL
10 52 (15.95%) Microservices
11 46 (14.11%) Observability
12 45 (13.80%) Infrastructure as Code
13 44 (13.50%) Analytics
14 41 (12.58%) TDD
15 39 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
16 37 (11.35%) Data Modelling
17 34 (10.43%) Mentoring
18 33 (10.12%) Validation
19 32 (9.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 105 (32.21%) SQL
2 62 (19.02%) Python
3 47 (14.42%) Java
4 22 (6.75%) Bash
5 17 (5.21%) Shell Script
6 16 (4.91%) PowerShell
7 8 (2.45%) Go
7 8 (2.45%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.84%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.53%) Perl
9 5 (1.53%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.23%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.61%) Bicep
11 2 (0.61%) Groovy
11 2 (0.61%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.31%) PHP
12 1 (0.31%) Scala
12 1 (0.31%) Swift
12 1 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 184 (56.44%) Security Cleared
2 156 (47.85%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.60%) AWS Certification
3 15 (4.60%) BPSS Clearance
3 15 (4.60%) DV Cleared
3 15 (4.60%) ISTQB
4 10 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (2.76%) Azure Certification
5 9 (2.76%) Degree
5 9 (2.76%) IIBA
5 9 (2.76%) SAFe Agilist
6 8 (2.45%) CISSP
7 7 (2.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (1.53%) CCNA
8 5 (1.53%) CISM
9 4 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.92%) CCNP
11 2 (0.61%) CCIE
11 2 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.82%) QA
2 15 (4.60%) GDPR
3 11 (3.37%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.15%) NIST
6 5 (1.53%) SLA
7 4 (1.23%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.92%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.61%) COBIT
9 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 92 (28.22%) Docker
2 22 (6.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (6.75%) vSphere
3 16 (4.91%) Active Directory
4 14 (4.29%) GPFS
4 14 (4.29%) NFS
4 14 (4.29%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (3.07%) Postfix
6 2 (0.61%) Firmware
6 2 (0.61%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.31%) HDFS
7 1 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 75 (23.01%) Kubernetes
2 67 (20.55%) Grafana
3 55 (16.87%) Terraform
4 44 (13.50%) Prometheus
5 23 (7.06%) Ansible
6 20 (6.13%) vRealize
7 13 (3.99%) Progress Chef
8 9 (2.76%) VxRail
9 5 (1.53%) Kibana
9 5 (1.53%) Puppet
10 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.92%) Argo
12 2 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.61%) EMC NetWorker
13 1 (0.31%) Check_MK
13 1 (0.31%) Control-M
13 1 (0.31%) logstash
13 1 (0.31%) Nessus
13 1 (0.31%) Podman
13 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 86 (26.38%) Oracle
2 38 (11.66%) Talend
3 36 (11.04%) Microsoft
4 35 (10.74%) ServiceNow
5 30 (9.20%) Informatica
6 26 (7.98%) Cisco
7 25 (7.67%) IBM
8 24 (7.36%) VMware
9 22 (6.75%) Denodo
10 18 (5.52%) Splunk
11 16 (4.91%) Dynatrace
12 14 (4.29%) AppDynamics
12 14 (4.29%) Jaspersoft
13 12 (3.68%) Atlassian
14 10 (3.07%) Cloudera
15 9 (2.76%) SolarWinds
16 8 (2.45%) SAP
17 7 (2.15%) Commvault
17 7 (2.15%) Databricks
17 7 (2.15%) Dell