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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 28 45
Rank change year-on-year +15 +17 -24
Contract jobs citing AWS 325 82 73
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.57% 6.02% 3.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.56% 18.34% 15.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 53 58
10th Percentile £323 £410 £312
25th Percentile £402 £455 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -2.33% -0.46%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £526 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.32% - -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £53.70 - £23.46
25th Percentile £57.38 - £28.71
Median hourly rate £64.50 - £37.48
75th Percentile £71.38 - £46.24
90th Percentile £74.90 - £51.50
England median hourly rate £75.00 £71.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year +5.26% +35.71% -27.59%

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 889 447 466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 28.90% 32.82% 24.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 632 310 359
10th Percentile £313 £200 £213
25th Percentile £400 £398 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% +11.11% -10.09%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £671 £700 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 9
10th Percentile - £15.24 £14.08
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.38 £19.95
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.39% -30.52% +28.46%
75th Percentile £60.79 £19.93 £26.50
90th Percentile £67.84 £35.45 £55.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.77
% change year-on-year +70.13% +27.35% -31.62%

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 April 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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +1 96 £467 -5.31% 14
Birmingham +4 72 £475 -13.64% 46
Coventry +11 49 £402 -34.37% 10
Warwickshire +11 35 £525 -8.70% 16
Solihull -1 20 £500 +8.70%
Worcestershire +10 19 £725 +3.57% 6
Herefordshire -7 10 £550 -21.43% 3
Staffordshire -4 2 £325 -40.91% 9
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 59 (18.15%) Confluence
2 42 (12.92%) SAS
3 15 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (3.38%) WebLogic
5 9 (2.77%) Apache
6 5 (1.54%) Anypoint
7 4 (1.23%) Apache Spark
7 4 (1.23%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.92%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.92%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.62%) JBoss
10 1 (0.31%) CMS
10 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.31%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.54%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.31%) CATIA
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.31%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.62%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 142 (43.69%) Azure
2 59 (18.15%) Amazon S3
3 52 (16.00%) GCP
4 37 (11.38%) Amazon EC2
5 31 (9.54%) GitHub
6 30 (9.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 27 (8.31%) Serverless
8 25 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
9 24 (7.38%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (5.85%) Amazon SQS
10 19 (5.85%) AWS KMS
11 17 (5.23%) Route 53
12 16 (4.92%) Datadog
12 16 (4.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 15 (4.62%) Entra ID
14 13 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (3.69%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (3.69%) OpenShift
16 8 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
17 7 (2.15%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.00%) Network Security
1 13 (4.00%) VPN
2 10 (3.08%) Firewall
2 10 (3.08%) VSAN
3 5 (1.54%) HTTPS
3 5 (1.54%) SD-WAN
3 5 (1.54%) WAN
4 3 (0.92%) VLAN
5 2 (0.62%) BGP
5 2 (0.62%) DHCP
5 2 (0.62%) DNS
5 2 (0.62%) LAN
5 2 (0.62%) OSPF
5 2 (0.62%) SSL
5 2 (0.62%) WLAN
6 1 (0.31%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.31%) DMVPN
6 1 (0.31%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.31%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.31%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (13.85%) Amazon RDS
2 36 (11.08%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (7.38%) Pentaho
4 20 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (6.15%) DynamoDB
5 19 (5.85%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (4.62%) Oracle Database
7 14 (4.31%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (4.31%) Oracle Reports
8 12 (3.69%) MongoDB
9 11 (3.38%) Relational Database
10 10 (3.08%) MySQL
11 9 (2.77%) SAS Enterprise Guide
11 9 (2.77%) SAS Visual Analytics
12 7 (2.15%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.54%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.54%) SAS Data Integration Studio
14 4 (1.23%) InfluxDB
14 4 (1.23%) NoSQL
14 4 (1.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 75 (23.08%) Git
1 75 (23.08%) JIRA
2 52 (16.00%) Jenkins
3 37 (11.38%) GitLab
4 36 (11.08%) JUnit
5 20 (6.15%) Selenium
6 19 (5.85%) Maven
7 17 (5.23%) Mockito
7 17 (5.23%) SonarQube
8 16 (4.92%) Cucumber
9 15 (4.62%) JMeter
9 15 (4.62%) Postman
10 14 (4.31%) WebDriver
10 14 (4.31%) Zephyr
11 11 (3.38%) DbUnit
11 11 (3.38%) jMock
12 9 (2.77%) Bitbucket Server
13 6 (1.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (1.54%) Bitbucket
15 3 (0.92%) Gatling
General
1 110 (33.85%) Social Skills
2 57 (17.54%) Public Sector
3 44 (13.54%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (10.46%) Finance
5 16 (4.92%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.46%) Banking
7 8 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.15%) Aeronautics
9 6 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.92%) Legal
10 3 (0.92%) Retail
11 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.31%) Advertising
12 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.31%) Military
12 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 44 (13.54%) Analyst
2 40 (12.31%) Developer
3 38 (11.69%) Data Engineer
4 34 (10.46%) Architect
5 30 (9.23%) Senior
6 27 (8.31%) Lead
7 25 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
8 24 (7.38%) Java Developer
9 23 (7.08%) Tester
10 17 (5.23%) Cloud Engineer
10 17 (5.23%) Storage Analyst
11 15 (4.62%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 14 (4.31%) Business Analyst
13 11 (3.38%) AWS Data Engineer
13 11 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.38%) Site Engineer
13 11 (3.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 10 (3.08%) Automation Tester
14 10 (3.08%) QA Tester
14 10 (3.08%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (13.85%) Spring
2 34 (10.46%) REST
3 29 (8.92%) Spring Boot
4 23 (7.08%) SOAP
5 19 (5.85%) AngularJS
6 18 (5.54%) Node.js
7 17 (5.23%) Hibernate
7 17 (5.23%) JPA
8 16 (4.92%) RESTful
8 16 (4.92%) Web Services
8 16 (4.92%) WireMock
9 15 (4.62%) Spring Batch
9 15 (4.62%) Spring Cloud
10 14 (4.31%) ActiveMQ
10 14 (4.31%) Flash
10 14 (4.31%) Spring Integration
11 11 (3.38%) PowerMock
11 11 (3.38%) React
12 10 (3.08%) SailPoint
13 9 (2.77%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.31%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (8.00%) Cloud Native
3 21 (6.46%) Linux Command Line
4 18 (5.54%) Replication
5 11 (3.38%) Distributed Architecture
6 10 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (3.08%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.08%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.15%) Data Centre
8 7 (2.15%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.23%) SCADA
10 3 (0.92%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.92%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.92%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.62%) Educational Technology
11 2 (0.62%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.62%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 63 (19.38%) Linux
2 24 (7.38%) Windows
3 13 (4.00%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.77%) Unix
5 7 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.31%) Android
6 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.31%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (47.69%) Agile
2 131 (40.31%) CI/CD
3 91 (28.00%) DevOps
4 68 (20.92%) Migration
5 64 (19.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 57 (17.54%) Stakeholder Management
7 55 (16.92%) Containerisation
7 55 (16.92%) Microservices
8 52 (16.00%) Test Automation
9 50 (15.38%) Scrum
10 49 (15.08%) ETL
11 43 (13.23%) Problem-Solving
12 42 (12.92%) Analytics
12 42 (12.92%) Infrastructure as Code
12 42 (12.92%) Observability
12 42 (12.92%) TDD
13 37 (11.38%) Mentoring
14 34 (10.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 33 (10.15%) Validation
16 29 (8.92%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 101 (31.08%) SQL
2 56 (17.23%) Python
3 54 (16.62%) Java
4 20 (6.15%) Bash
5 19 (5.85%) Shell Script
6 17 (5.23%) PowerShell
7 9 (2.77%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.15%) Go
9 6 (1.85%) Perl
10 5 (1.54%) BeanShell
11 4 (1.23%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.92%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.92%) Scala
13 2 (0.62%) Bicep
13 2 (0.62%) Groovy
14 1 (0.31%) C#
14 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.31%) Lisp
14 1 (0.31%) PHP
14 1 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 168 (51.69%) Security Cleared
2 144 (44.31%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.46%) AWS Certification
4 15 (4.62%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.31%) ISTQB
6 12 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (3.08%) Degree
8 9 (2.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (2.77%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.77%) IIBA
9 8 (2.46%) CISSP
10 6 (1.85%) CISM
11 5 (1.54%) CCNA
11 5 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (1.23%) SAFe Agilist
13 3 (0.92%) CCIE
13 3 (0.92%) CCNP
14 2 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.85%) QA
2 18 (5.54%) GDPR
3 11 (3.38%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.08%) NIST
5 4 (1.23%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.92%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.92%) SLA
7 2 (0.62%) COBIT
7 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 90 (27.69%) Docker
2 23 (7.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (6.46%) vSphere
4 20 (6.15%) Active Directory
5 14 (4.31%) GPFS
5 14 (4.31%) NFS
6 13 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (3.08%) Postfix
8 1 (0.31%) Firmware
8 1 (0.31%) HDFS
8 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 77 (23.69%) Kubernetes
2 63 (19.38%) Grafana
3 52 (16.00%) Terraform
4 42 (12.92%) Prometheus
5 23 (7.08%) Ansible
6 21 (6.46%) vRealize
7 13 (4.00%) Progress Chef
8 10 (3.08%) VxRail
9 7 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (1.85%) Puppet
11 5 (1.54%) Kibana
12 3 (0.92%) Argo
13 2 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.62%) EMC NetWorker
14 1 (0.31%) Control-M
14 1 (0.31%) logstash
14 1 (0.31%) Nessus
14 1 (0.31%) Podman
14 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 78 (24.00%) Oracle
2 39 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 34 (10.46%) ServiceNow
4 29 (8.92%) Talend
5 28 (8.62%) Cisco
6 26 (8.00%) IBM
6 26 (8.00%) Informatica
7 24 (7.38%) VMware
8 17 (5.23%) Splunk
9 16 (4.92%) AppDynamics
10 15 (4.62%) Dynatrace
11 14 (4.31%) Denodo
11 14 (4.31%) Jaspersoft
12 12 (3.69%) Atlassian
13 10 (3.08%) SolarWinds
14 9 (2.77%) Cloudera
14 9 (2.77%) SAP
15 8 (2.46%) Dell
16 7 (2.15%) Commvault
16 7 (2.15%) HP