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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 34 19
Rank change year-on-year +25 -15 -9
Contract jobs citing AWS 263 88 150
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 12.69% 4.64% 7.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.18% 15.12% 22.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 39 104
10th Percentile £367 £345 £312
25th Percentile £429 £405 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £575 £534 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £725
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%

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 727 582 677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 35.09% 30.70% 35.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 385 500
10th Percentile £300 £213 £200
25th Percentile £420 £363 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +0.30% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 8
10th Percentile £25.82 £21.25 £17.50
25th Percentile £27.21 £30.84 £17.69
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.93 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% +83.41% +8.12%
75th Percentile £34.98 £35.00 £19.38
90th Percentile £40.45 - £30.33
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.86
% change year-on-year -28.14% +13.42% +40.27%

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 November 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 12 November 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 +26 89 £500 - 48
Shropshire -11 61 £508 +3.57% 15
Coventry +11 39 £400 -15.79% 27
Warwickshire +10 25 £623 +5.96% 23
Worcestershire +2 15 £575 +64.29% 7
Solihull - 10 £450 - 2
Herefordshire - 3 £550 - 4
Staffordshire -6 2 £450 +4.35% 25
Wolverhampton - 2 £425 - 9
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 30 (11.41%) Confluence
2 24 (9.13%) Apache
2 24 (9.13%) WebLogic
3 15 (5.70%) nginx
4 10 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (3.80%) SAS
5 9 (3.42%) JBoss
6 6 (2.28%) OpenStack
7 4 (1.52%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (1.14%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.76%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.76%) Drupal
10 1 (0.38%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 12 (4.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (2.28%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.38%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 132 (50.19%) Azure
2 62 (23.57%) GCP
3 54 (20.53%) Amazon S3
4 45 (17.11%) Amazon EC2
5 39 (14.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 39 (14.83%) AWS KMS
6 37 (14.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 28 (10.65%) Amazon ELB
8 27 (10.27%) Serverless
9 20 (7.60%) GitHub
9 20 (7.60%) Microsoft 365
10 19 (7.22%) Route 53
11 17 (6.46%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (6.08%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (5.70%) Amazon EKS
13 15 (5.70%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (4.94%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (4.94%) Datadog
15 12 (4.56%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 56 (21.29%) Firewall
2 41 (15.59%) DNS
3 24 (9.13%) HTTP
3 24 (9.13%) SMTP
4 22 (8.37%) FTP
4 22 (8.37%) SSH
5 15 (5.70%) VPN
6 13 (4.94%) DHCP
7 12 (4.56%) IMAP
7 12 (4.56%) OpenLDAP
8 11 (4.18%) Network Security
9 8 (3.04%) VSAN
9 8 (3.04%) Wireshark
10 7 (2.66%) LAN
10 7 (2.66%) VLAN
11 6 (2.28%) BGP
11 6 (2.28%) OSPF
11 6 (2.28%) TCP/IP
11 6 (2.28%) WAN
11 6 (2.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (15.97%) Amazon RDS
1 42 (15.97%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (7.98%) Amazon Aurora
3 16 (6.08%) MongoDB
4 14 (5.32%) NoSQL
5 9 (3.42%) DynamoDB
5 9 (3.42%) Oracle Database
5 9 (3.42%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 9 (3.42%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 8 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.04%) MySQL
6 8 (3.04%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.66%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (1.90%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (1.90%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.52%) SAS Data Integration Studio
10 3 (1.14%) Metadata
10 3 (1.14%) Power BI
11 2 (0.76%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.76%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 71 (27.00%) Git
2 67 (25.48%) Jenkins
3 41 (15.59%) GitLab
4 35 (13.31%) JIRA
5 27 (10.27%) JUnit
6 24 (9.13%) Vagrant
7 18 (6.84%) Maven
7 18 (6.84%) Selenium
8 13 (4.94%) SonarQube
9 12 (4.56%) Mockito
10 10 (3.80%) Liquibase
11 8 (3.04%) Eclipse
11 8 (3.04%) IntelliJ
12 7 (2.66%) Cucumber
13 6 (2.28%) CircleCI
13 6 (2.28%) Cypress.io
13 6 (2.28%) Gradle
14 5 (1.90%) Bitbucket Server
14 5 (1.90%) Postman
14 5 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 110 (41.83%) Social Skills
2 58 (22.05%) Public Sector
3 37 (14.07%) Finance
4 22 (8.37%) Presentation Skills
5 20 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (6.08%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (5.70%) Banking
8 11 (4.18%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (3.80%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.52%) Legal
11 4 (1.52%) Retail
12 3 (1.14%) Aeronautics
13 2 (0.76%) Military
13 2 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.38%) Digital Healthcare
14 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 50 (19.01%) DevOps Engineer
2 40 (15.21%) AWS Engineer
3 31 (11.79%) Developer
3 31 (11.79%) Senior
4 30 (11.41%) Architect
5 29 (11.03%) Platform Engineer
6 25 (9.51%) AWS DevOps
6 25 (9.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 23 (8.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 19 (7.22%) Analyst
8 19 (7.22%) Cloud Engineer
9 18 (6.84%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (6.08%) Java Developer
11 14 (5.32%) Lead
11 14 (5.32%) Software Engineer
12 13 (4.94%) Data Engineer
12 13 (4.94%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 12 (4.56%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 11 (4.18%) Senior DevOps
14 11 (4.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (17.87%) REST
2 29 (11.03%) Spring
3 28 (10.65%) RESTful
4 22 (8.37%) SOAP
4 22 (8.37%) Spring Boot
5 21 (7.98%) Elastic Stack
5 21 (7.98%) JSON
6 16 (6.08%) HTML
7 14 (5.32%) Hibernate
7 14 (5.32%) React
8 13 (4.94%) JPA
8 13 (4.94%) XML
9 12 (4.56%) LDAP
9 12 (4.56%) Web Services
10 11 (4.18%) OAuth
11 9 (3.42%) ActiveMQ
11 9 (3.42%) AngularJS
11 9 (3.42%) Flash
12 8 (3.04%) EJB
12 8 (3.04%) J2SE
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.17%) Replication
2 26 (9.89%) Cloud Native
3 21 (7.98%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (7.98%) Linux Command Line
4 18 (6.84%) Security Posture
5 13 (4.94%) Public Cloud
6 8 (3.04%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.66%) SCADA
8 6 (2.28%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.90%) PKI
10 4 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.52%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.52%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.14%) IVR
11 3 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.14%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 95 (36.12%) Linux
2 59 (22.43%) Windows
3 25 (9.51%) Amazon Linux
4 24 (9.13%) VMS
5 23 (8.75%) Unix
6 13 (4.94%) Windows Server
7 12 (4.56%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.76%) Android
9 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.38%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.38%) SUSE
10 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (41.83%) DevOps
2 109 (41.44%) CI/CD
3 94 (35.74%) Agile
4 54 (20.53%) Containerisation
4 54 (20.53%) Microservices
5 51 (19.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 47 (17.87%) Change Management
6 47 (17.87%) Cloud Security
6 47 (17.87%) Continuous Improvement
6 47 (17.87%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (15.97%) Configuration Management
8 40 (15.21%) Analytics
9 35 (13.31%) Platform Engineering
9 35 (13.31%) Software Engineering
10 34 (12.93%) Scrum
11 33 (12.55%) Continuous Integration
12 32 (12.17%) Migration
13 30 (11.41%) Incident Response
14 27 (10.27%) High Availability
14 27 (10.27%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 68 (25.86%) Python
1 68 (25.86%) SQL
2 55 (20.91%) Java
3 38 (14.45%) PowerShell
4 24 (9.13%) Groovy
5 17 (6.46%) Go
6 14 (5.32%) Perl
7 11 (4.18%) Bash
7 11 (4.18%) Scala
8 10 (3.80%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.28%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.90%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.52%) PHP
12 3 (1.14%) Ruby
13 2 (0.76%) JSX
13 2 (0.76%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.38%) BeanShell
14 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.38%) Korn
Qualifications
1 98 (37.26%) Security Cleared
2 81 (30.80%) SC Cleared
3 38 (14.45%) AWS Certification
4 35 (13.31%) Degree
5 22 (8.37%) Azure Certification
6 18 (6.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (4.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (4.18%) Master's Degree
9 9 (3.42%) DV Cleared
9 9 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (2.28%) CCNP
10 6 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (2.28%) CISSP
11 5 (1.90%) CCIE
12 4 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (1.52%) CCSP
13 3 (1.14%) CCIE Security
14 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.32%) GDPR
1 14 (5.32%) QA
2 13 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.18%) NIST
4 7 (2.66%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.66%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.28%) WCAG
6 2 (0.76%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.38%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 96 (36.50%) Docker
2 29 (11.03%) Active Directory
3 24 (9.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (8.37%) DFS Replication
5 17 (6.46%) vSphere
6 16 (6.08%) Postfix
7 12 (4.56%) Dovecot
7 12 (4.56%) Squid
8 9 (3.42%) GPFS
8 9 (3.42%) NFS
8 9 (3.42%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (1.90%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.76%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.38%) Snort
11 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 75 (28.52%) Terraform
2 59 (22.43%) Kubernetes
3 56 (21.29%) Grafana
4 52 (19.77%) Prometheus
5 36 (13.69%) Ansible
6 17 (6.46%) vRealize
7 13 (4.94%) Puppet
8 12 (4.56%) Nessus
9 10 (3.80%) Proxmox
10 8 (3.04%) CSIRT
10 8 (3.04%) Progress Chef
11 7 (2.66%) Kibana
11 7 (2.66%) VxRail
12 5 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.52%) Podman
13 4 (1.52%) QRadar
14 3 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 1 (0.38%) Consul
15 1 (0.38%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 47 (17.87%) Microsoft
2 46 (17.49%) Splunk
3 44 (16.73%) Oracle
4 43 (16.35%) Cisco
4 43 (16.35%) ServiceNow
5 27 (10.27%) VMware
6 26 (9.89%) AppDynamics
7 20 (7.60%) IBM
8 19 (7.22%) F5
9 18 (6.84%) Dynatrace
10 16 (6.08%) Jaspersoft
11 15 (5.70%) Google
12 14 (5.32%) SolarWinds
13 10 (3.80%) Palo Alto
14 9 (3.42%) Commvault
15 8 (3.04%) Dell
15 8 (3.04%) webMethods
16 7 (2.66%) HP
17 6 (2.28%) Fortinet
17 6 (2.28%) SAP