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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 37 23
Rank change year-on-year +26 -14 -13
Contract jobs citing AWS 285 78 125
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 12.44% 4.85% 7.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.89% 14.47% 21.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 40 95
10th Percentile £306 £362 £309
25th Percentile £420 £417 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -1.40% -7.41%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £678 £700 £667
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
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 £82.00 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +77.57% - -24.60%

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 794 539 573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 34.66% 33.50% 32.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 569 361 424
10th Percentile £303 £210 £200
25th Percentile £413 £375 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +9.89% -9.00%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £588
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 18 8
10th Percentile £25.12 £15.95 £17.50
25th Percentile £27.21 £17.00 £17.69
Median hourly rate £28.61 £20.24 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.33% +9.41% +12.12%
75th Percentile £41.56 £34.69 £19.38
90th Percentile £63.95 £35.00 £30.33
England median hourly rate £27.36 £28.46 £22.50
% change year-on-year -3.87% +26.47% -2.17%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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
Birmingham +20 85 £500 +2.56% 72
Shropshire -2 71 £500 +1.42% 85
Coventry +10 46 £388 -18.42% 44
Warwickshire +17 33 £556 +11.25% 10
Worcestershire -1 19 £600 +71.43% 40
Herefordshire -9 9 £550 -
Staffordshire +1 3 £394 -28.41% 45
Solihull - 2 - -
Wolverhampton - 2 £425 - 41
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 34 (11.93%) Confluence
2 26 (9.12%) Apache
3 23 (8.07%) WebLogic
4 19 (6.67%) SAS
5 13 (4.56%) nginx
6 10 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (3.16%) JBoss
8 7 (2.46%) OpenStack
9 4 (1.40%) Anypoint
9 4 (1.40%) Apache Spark
9 4 (1.40%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.70%) Drupal
10 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.35%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 10 (3.51%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 7 (2.46%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (2.46%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.35%) CATIA
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.35%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 145 (50.88%) Azure
2 68 (23.86%) GCP
3 38 (13.33%) Amazon S3
4 30 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
5 27 (9.47%) Datadog
5 27 (9.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 24 (8.42%) Serverless
7 22 (7.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 21 (7.37%) Amazon ELB
8 21 (7.37%) AWS KMS
9 19 (6.67%) GitHub
10 17 (5.96%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (5.61%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (5.61%) Microsoft 365
12 15 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (4.91%) OpenShift
14 12 (4.21%) Amazon ECS
14 12 (4.21%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (4.21%) Entra ID
15 11 (3.86%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 48 (16.84%) Firewall
2 28 (9.82%) DNS
3 18 (6.32%) VPN
4 17 (5.96%) HTTP
5 16 (5.61%) FTP
5 16 (5.61%) SMTP
5 16 (5.61%) SSH
6 13 (4.56%) Network Security
6 13 (4.56%) VSAN
7 10 (3.51%) IMAP
7 10 (3.51%) OpenLDAP
8 8 (2.81%) DHCP
8 8 (2.81%) LAN
8 8 (2.81%) SD-WAN
8 8 (2.81%) Wireshark
9 7 (2.46%) WAN
9 7 (2.46%) WLAN
10 6 (2.11%) TCP/IP
11 5 (1.75%) IPv4
11 5 (1.75%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.23%) Amazon RDS
2 31 (10.88%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (6.32%) MongoDB
4 15 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 12 (4.21%) Relational Database
6 10 (3.51%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (3.51%) Oracle Database
7 9 (3.16%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 9 (3.16%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 8 (2.81%) MySQL
9 7 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (1.40%) InfluxDB
11 4 (1.40%) SAS Data Integration Studio
12 3 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.05%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.70%) Big Data
13 2 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
13 2 (0.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 55 (19.30%) Jenkins
2 53 (18.60%) Git
3 46 (16.14%) GitLab
4 37 (12.98%) JIRA
5 21 (7.37%) JUnit
6 19 (6.67%) Selenium
7 16 (5.61%) Vagrant
8 11 (3.86%) Maven
9 10 (3.51%) Liquibase
10 8 (2.81%) Eclipse
10 8 (2.81%) IntelliJ
11 7 (2.46%) CircleCI
11 7 (2.46%) Cucumber
11 7 (2.46%) Cypress.io
11 7 (2.46%) Mockito
12 6 (2.11%) Bitbucket
12 6 (2.11%) Postman
12 6 (2.11%) SonarQube
12 6 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (1.75%) webpack
General
1 121 (42.46%) Social Skills
2 50 (17.54%) Public Sector
3 46 (16.14%) Finance
4 36 (12.63%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.07%) Documentation Skills
5 23 (8.07%) Presentation Skills
6 16 (5.61%) Banking
7 11 (3.86%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (3.51%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.46%) Aeronautics
10 4 (1.40%) Legal
11 2 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.70%) Military
11 2 (0.70%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.35%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.35%) Marketing
12 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (14.74%) Analyst
1 42 (14.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 37 (12.98%) AWS Engineer
3 33 (11.58%) Senior
4 25 (8.77%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (8.77%) Developer
5 23 (8.07%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 23 (8.07%) Platform Engineer
6 22 (7.72%) Architect
7 20 (7.02%) AWS DevOps
7 20 (7.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 18 (6.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 16 (5.61%) Lead
9 16 (5.61%) Storage Analyst
10 14 (4.91%) Software Engineer
11 13 (4.56%) Business Analyst
12 12 (4.21%) Senior DevOps
12 12 (4.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 12 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (3.86%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (14.74%) REST
2 24 (8.42%) JSON
2 24 (8.42%) RESTful
3 22 (7.72%) Spring
4 21 (7.37%) Elastic Stack
5 19 (6.67%) HTML
6 16 (5.61%) React
6 16 (5.61%) SOAP
7 15 (5.26%) Spring Boot
8 14 (4.91%) Flash
9 12 (4.21%) XML
10 11 (3.86%) OAuth
11 10 (3.51%) LDAP
12 9 (3.16%) Hibernate
12 9 (3.16%) SailPoint
13 8 (2.81%) EJB
13 8 (2.81%) HTML5
13 8 (2.81%) J2EE
13 8 (2.81%) J2SE
13 8 (2.81%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.93%) Cloud Native
2 32 (11.23%) Replication
3 30 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
4 15 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.26%) Security Posture
5 12 (4.21%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.51%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.11%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.75%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.40%) PKI
10 4 (1.40%) SCADA
10 4 (1.40%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (0.70%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.70%) NHS
11 2 (0.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 92 (32.28%) Linux
2 45 (15.79%) Windows
3 22 (7.72%) Unix
4 16 (5.61%) Amazon Linux
4 16 (5.61%) VMS
5 12 (4.21%) Windows Server
6 10 (3.51%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (42.46%) CI/CD
2 112 (39.30%) Agile
2 112 (39.30%) DevOps
3 54 (18.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 52 (18.25%) Containerisation
5 50 (17.54%) Microservices
6 49 (17.19%) Analytics
7 47 (16.49%) Change Management
8 45 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 45 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (14.74%) Migration
10 41 (14.39%) Stakeholder Management
11 39 (13.68%) Configuration Management
12 38 (13.33%) Mentoring
12 38 (13.33%) Software Engineering
13 34 (11.93%) Cloud Security
14 31 (10.88%) Incident Response
15 29 (10.18%) High Availability
16 28 (9.82%) Observability
16 28 (9.82%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 75 (26.32%) Python
2 60 (21.05%) SQL
3 50 (17.54%) Java
4 35 (12.28%) PowerShell
5 21 (7.37%) Go
6 16 (5.61%) Bash
6 16 (5.61%) Groovy
7 12 (4.21%) Shell Script
8 11 (3.86%) Scala
9 9 (3.16%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.81%) Perl
11 4 (1.40%) BeanShell
11 4 (1.40%) PHP
12 3 (1.05%) Ruby
12 3 (1.05%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.70%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.35%) Korn
14 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 109 (38.25%) Security Cleared
2 85 (29.82%) SC Cleared
3 39 (13.68%) Degree
4 37 (12.98%) AWS Certification
5 22 (7.72%) Azure Certification
6 18 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (4.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 14 (4.91%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.86%) Master's Degree
9 10 (3.51%) CISSP
10 9 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (2.81%) CCNP
11 8 (2.81%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (2.81%) IIBA
12 7 (2.46%) CCIE
13 5 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (1.75%) CISM
14 4 (1.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (1.40%) CCSP
15 3 (1.05%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.37%) GDPR
2 14 (4.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (4.91%) QA
3 9 (3.16%) NIST
4 8 (2.81%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.46%) Data Quality
6 6 (2.11%) WCAG
7 3 (1.05%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.35%) ISO 19650
9 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 88 (30.88%) Docker
2 37 (12.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (10.18%) vSphere
4 23 (8.07%) Active Directory
5 16 (5.61%) DFS Replication
6 14 (4.91%) GPFS
6 14 (4.91%) NFS
6 14 (4.91%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (3.51%) Dovecot
7 10 (3.51%) Postfix
7 10 (3.51%) Squid
8 4 (1.40%) VMware NSX
9 3 (1.05%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.35%) HDFS
10 1 (0.35%) Snort
Systems Management
1 75 (26.32%) Terraform
2 70 (24.56%) Kubernetes
3 57 (20.00%) Grafana
4 51 (17.89%) Prometheus
5 44 (15.44%) Ansible
6 29 (10.18%) vRealize
7 15 (5.26%) Puppet
8 14 (4.91%) Progress Chef
9 13 (4.56%) VxRail
10 10 (3.51%) Kibana
10 10 (3.51%) Nessus
10 10 (3.51%) Proxmox
11 8 (2.81%) CSIRT
12 5 (1.75%) Podman
12 5 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.40%) QRadar
14 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
15 2 (0.70%) Argo
15 2 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
15 2 (0.70%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 54 (18.95%) Cisco
1 54 (18.95%) Splunk
2 49 (17.19%) Oracle
3 47 (16.49%) Microsoft
4 44 (15.44%) ServiceNow
5 39 (13.68%) VMware
6 36 (12.63%) AppDynamics
7 33 (11.58%) IBM
8 23 (8.07%) Dynatrace
9 19 (6.67%) F5
9 19 (6.67%) SolarWinds
10 15 (5.26%) Dell
11 14 (4.91%) Commvault
12 13 (4.56%) Google
12 13 (4.56%) HP
13 12 (4.21%) Palo Alto
14 10 (3.51%) Jaspersoft
15 8 (2.81%) Fortinet
15 8 (2.81%) SAP
15 8 (2.81%) webMethods