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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 34 19
Rank change year-on-year +24 -15 -9
Contract jobs citing AWS 267 88 149
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 12.45% 4.66% 7.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.65% 14.62% 22.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 42 106
10th Percentile £368 £360 £306
25th Percentile £448 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% -1.40% -7.41%
75th Percentile £575 £566 £600
90th Percentile £723 £699 £725
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.19% -6.22%
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 £85.00 £46.18 £55.00
% change year-on-year +84.06% -16.04% +12.82%

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 749 602 651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 34.92% 31.85% 34.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 526 392 483
10th Percentile £302 £213 £200
25th Percentile £429 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £588
90th Percentile £700 £688 £688
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 16 8
10th Percentile £26.51 £16.51 £17.50
25th Percentile £27.21 £17.00 £17.69
Median hourly rate £31.94 £31.69 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +71.28% +8.12%
75th Percentile £35.75 £35.00 £19.38
90th Percentile £60.15 - £30.33
England median hourly rate £25.47 £33.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year -22.82% +24.53% +17.78%

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 27 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 27 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 +27 84 £500 -2.44% 37
Shropshire -11 61 £515 +5.10% 14
Coventry +11 40 £388 -18.42% 21
Warwickshire +10 28 £600 +20.00% 14
Worcestershire +4 20 £594 +69.64% 7
Herefordshire -5 7 £550 - 7
Solihull - 4 £450 - 1
Staffordshire -1 2 £450 -18.18% 27
Wolverhampton - 2 £425 - 8
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 32 (11.99%) Confluence
2 24 (8.99%) Apache
3 23 (8.61%) WebLogic
4 15 (5.62%) nginx
5 10 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (3.75%) SAS
6 9 (3.37%) JBoss
7 6 (2.25%) OpenStack
8 4 (1.50%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (1.12%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.75%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.75%) Drupal
11 1 (0.37%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 12 (4.49%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 9 (3.37%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.37%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 140 (52.43%) Azure
2 64 (23.97%) GCP
3 48 (17.98%) Amazon S3
4 40 (14.98%) Amazon EC2
5 36 (13.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 34 (12.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 34 (12.73%) AWS KMS
7 28 (10.49%) Serverless
8 27 (10.11%) Amazon ELB
9 18 (6.74%) Microsoft 365
10 17 (6.37%) GitHub
11 16 (5.99%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (5.99%) Datadog
12 15 (5.62%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (5.62%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (5.62%) Route 53
13 14 (5.24%) Entra ID
14 13 (4.87%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (4.87%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 53 (19.85%) Firewall
2 38 (14.23%) DNS
3 23 (8.61%) SMTP
4 22 (8.24%) HTTP
5 21 (7.87%) FTP
5 21 (7.87%) SSH
6 15 (5.62%) VPN
7 14 (5.24%) Network Security
8 12 (4.49%) DHCP
8 12 (4.49%) IMAP
8 12 (4.49%) OpenLDAP
9 11 (4.12%) VSAN
10 8 (3.00%) LAN
10 8 (3.00%) Wireshark
11 7 (2.62%) SD-WAN
11 7 (2.62%) WAN
12 6 (2.25%) TCP/IP
12 6 (2.25%) VLAN
12 6 (2.25%) WLAN
13 5 (1.87%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (14.61%) Amazon RDS
2 34 (12.73%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (6.37%) MongoDB
4 14 (5.24%) Amazon Aurora
4 14 (5.24%) NoSQL
5 10 (3.75%) Oracle Database
5 10 (3.75%) Relational Database
6 9 (3.37%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 9 (3.37%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 8 (3.00%) MySQL
8 7 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.50%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.50%) SAS Data Integration Studio
10 4 (1.50%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.12%) InfluxDB
11 3 (1.12%) Metadata
12 2 (0.75%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 61 (22.85%) Git
1 61 (22.85%) Jenkins
2 45 (16.85%) GitLab
3 34 (12.73%) JIRA
4 23 (8.61%) Vagrant
5 22 (8.24%) JUnit
6 18 (6.74%) Selenium
7 12 (4.49%) Maven
8 10 (3.75%) Liquibase
9 9 (3.37%) Mockito
10 8 (3.00%) Eclipse
10 8 (3.00%) IntelliJ
11 7 (2.62%) Cucumber
11 7 (2.62%) SonarQube
12 6 (2.25%) CircleCI
12 6 (2.25%) Cypress.io
13 5 (1.87%) Bitbucket
13 5 (1.87%) Postman
13 5 (1.87%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (1.50%) Gradle
General
1 110 (41.20%) Social Skills
2 52 (19.48%) Public Sector
3 39 (14.61%) Finance
4 23 (8.61%) Presentation Skills
5 20 (7.49%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (5.99%) Banking
8 11 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (3.75%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.62%) Aeronautics
11 4 (1.50%) Legal
12 2 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.75%) Military
12 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.37%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.37%) Marketing
13 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (18.35%) DevOps Engineer
2 42 (15.73%) AWS Engineer
3 33 (12.36%) Senior
4 30 (11.24%) Platform Engineer
5 29 (10.86%) Architect
6 26 (9.74%) Analyst
7 24 (8.99%) AWS DevOps
7 24 (8.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 24 (8.99%) Cloud Engineer
8 23 (8.61%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 21 (7.87%) Developer
10 18 (6.74%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 17 (6.37%) Solutions Architect
12 14 (5.24%) Lead
12 14 (5.24%) Software Engineer
13 12 (4.49%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 12 (4.49%) Data Engineer
13 12 (4.49%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (4.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 11 (4.12%) Storage Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (15.36%) REST
2 25 (9.36%) RESTful
3 23 (8.61%) Spring
4 22 (8.24%) JSON
5 20 (7.49%) Elastic Stack
6 17 (6.37%) SOAP
7 16 (5.99%) HTML
7 16 (5.99%) Spring Boot
8 12 (4.49%) LDAP
8 12 (4.49%) React
8 12 (4.49%) XML
9 11 (4.12%) Flash
9 11 (4.12%) Hibernate
9 11 (4.12%) OAuth
10 8 (3.00%) EJB
10 8 (3.00%) HTML5
10 8 (3.00%) J2SE
10 8 (3.00%) JPA
10 8 (3.00%) Play Framework
10 8 (3.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.11%) Replication
2 26 (9.74%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.74%) Linux Command Line
3 18 (6.74%) Security Posture
4 17 (6.37%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (4.49%) Public Cloud
6 8 (3.00%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.62%) SCADA
8 6 (2.25%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.87%) PKI
10 4 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.50%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.50%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.50%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (1.12%) IVR
12 2 (0.75%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.75%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 99 (37.08%) Linux
2 57 (21.35%) Windows
3 23 (8.61%) Amazon Linux
3 23 (8.61%) VMS
4 22 (8.24%) Unix
5 14 (5.24%) Windows Server
6 11 (4.12%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.37%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.37%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (40.82%) CI/CD
2 106 (39.70%) DevOps
3 93 (34.83%) Agile
4 53 (19.85%) Containerisation
4 53 (19.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 47 (17.60%) Microservices
6 46 (17.23%) Change Management
6 46 (17.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 46 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (16.85%) Cloud Security
7 45 (16.85%) Configuration Management
8 42 (15.73%) Analytics
9 38 (14.23%) Software Engineering
10 34 (12.73%) Migration
10 34 (12.73%) Platform Engineering
11 31 (11.61%) Incident Response
11 31 (11.61%) Mentoring
12 30 (11.24%) High Availability
13 28 (10.49%) Continuous Integration
14 26 (9.74%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 69 (25.84%) Python
2 67 (25.09%) SQL
3 52 (19.48%) Java
4 38 (14.23%) PowerShell
5 23 (8.61%) Groovy
6 21 (7.87%) Go
7 13 (4.87%) Perl
8 11 (4.12%) Scala
9 10 (3.75%) Bash
9 10 (3.75%) Shell Script
10 8 (3.00%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.50%) PHP
12 3 (1.12%) BeanShell
12 3 (1.12%) Ruby
12 3 (1.12%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.75%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.37%) Korn
14 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 102 (38.20%) Security Cleared
2 79 (29.59%) SC Cleared
3 39 (14.61%) AWS Certification
3 39 (14.61%) Degree
4 23 (8.61%) Azure Certification
5 19 (7.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (5.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (4.87%) DV Cleared
8 11 (4.12%) Master's Degree
9 10 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (3.37%) CISSP
11 7 (2.62%) CCNP
11 7 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (2.25%) CCIE
13 4 (1.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.50%) CCSP
13 4 (1.50%) CISM
14 3 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (1.12%) CCIE Security
15 2 (0.75%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.62%) GDPR
2 13 (4.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (4.87%) QA
3 11 (4.12%) NIST
4 7 (2.62%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.62%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.25%) WCAG
6 3 (1.12%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.37%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 90 (33.71%) Docker
2 32 (11.99%) Active Directory
3 30 (11.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (8.24%) vSphere
5 21 (7.87%) DFS Replication
6 14 (5.24%) Postfix
7 12 (4.49%) Dovecot
7 12 (4.49%) Squid
8 11 (4.12%) GPFS
8 11 (4.12%) NFS
8 11 (4.12%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (1.87%) VMware NSX
10 3 (1.12%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.37%) Snort
11 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 79 (29.59%) Terraform
2 64 (23.97%) Kubernetes
3 56 (20.97%) Grafana
4 50 (18.73%) Prometheus
5 43 (16.10%) Ansible
6 22 (8.24%) vRealize
7 14 (5.24%) Puppet
8 12 (4.49%) Nessus
8 12 (4.49%) Progress Chef
9 10 (3.75%) Proxmox
9 10 (3.75%) VxRail
10 9 (3.37%) Kibana
11 8 (3.00%) CSIRT
12 5 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.50%) Podman
13 4 (1.50%) QRadar
14 3 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
15 2 (0.75%) EMC NetWorker
16 1 (0.37%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 48 (17.98%) Oracle
2 47 (17.60%) Splunk
3 46 (17.23%) Cisco
3 46 (17.23%) Microsoft
4 45 (16.85%) ServiceNow
5 33 (12.36%) VMware
6 29 (10.86%) AppDynamics
7 25 (9.36%) IBM
8 19 (7.12%) Dynatrace
8 19 (7.12%) F5
9 16 (5.99%) SolarWinds
10 14 (5.24%) Jaspersoft
11 13 (4.87%) Dell
11 13 (4.87%) Google
12 11 (4.12%) Commvault
12 11 (4.12%) Palo Alto
13 10 (3.75%) HP
14 8 (3.00%) webMethods
15 7 (2.62%) Fortinet
16 6 (2.25%) SAP