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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 24 46
Rank change year-on-year +12 +22 -24
Contract jobs citing AWS 334 92 67
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.50% 6.65% 3.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.74% 20.91% 14.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 56 46
10th Percentile £328 £410 £311
25th Percentile £402 £454 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £655
90th Percentile £645 £700 £688
England median daily rate £544 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -1.09% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £47.38 - £23.46
25th Percentile £54.69 - £28.71
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £37.48
75th Percentile £75.00 - £46.24
90th Percentile - - £51.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £71.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.75% +29.55% -26.67%

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 909 440 461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 28.57% 31.81% 24.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 295 358
10th Percentile £313 £200 £213
25th Percentile £400 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £611
90th Percentile £674 £663 £688
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 7 11
10th Percentile - £15.26 £14.13
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.71 £15.13
Median hourly rate £33.99 £18.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.48% -19.42% +11.17%
75th Percentile £67.84 £30.36 £26.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £49.43 -
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -37.15%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +3 112 £469 +1.96% 11
Birmingham +7 82 £425 -19.05% 38
Coventry +6 37 £426 -31.84% 5
Warwickshire +7 33 £525 -15.32% 9
Solihull -3 29 £494 +7.34% 4
Worcestershire +2 9 £680 +8.80% 10
Herefordshire -6 5 £538 -23.21% 2
Staffordshire -4 2 £325 -40.91% 7
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 (21.26%) Confluence
2 50 (14.97%) SAS
3 17 (5.09%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.40%) Apache
5 7 (2.10%) WebLogic
6 5 (1.50%) Anypoint
7 4 (1.20%) Apache Spark
7 4 (1.20%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.90%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.60%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.60%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.30%) CMS
10 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.30%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.90%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.30%) CATIA
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.60%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 136 (40.72%) Azure
2 60 (17.96%) Amazon S3
3 52 (15.57%) GCP
4 43 (12.87%) GitHub
5 41 (12.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 41 (12.28%) Amazon EC2
6 32 (9.58%) GitHub Actions
6 32 (9.58%) Serverless
7 29 (8.68%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (6.59%) Amazon SQS
8 22 (6.59%) AWS KMS
8 22 (6.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 20 (5.99%) Route 53
10 16 (4.79%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (4.49%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (4.49%) Datadog
12 13 (3.89%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (3.59%) AWS CodePipeline
14 11 (3.29%) Entra ID
15 10 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.99%) Firewall
1 10 (2.99%) VPN
2 8 (2.40%) VSAN
3 7 (2.10%) Network Security
4 6 (1.80%) SD-WAN
4 6 (1.80%) WAN
5 5 (1.50%) HTTPS
6 4 (1.20%) DHCP
6 4 (1.20%) DNS
6 4 (1.20%) VLAN
7 3 (0.90%) BGP
7 3 (0.90%) OSPF
7 3 (0.90%) WLAN
8 2 (0.60%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (0.60%) LAN
8 2 (0.60%) NAS
8 2 (0.60%) SAN
8 2 (0.60%) SSL
8 2 (0.60%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (0.60%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (12.87%) Amazon RDS
2 37 (11.08%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (8.68%) Pentaho
4 26 (7.78%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (7.49%) DynamoDB
6 17 (5.09%) Amazon Aurora
7 16 (4.79%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (4.79%) Oracle Reports
8 14 (4.19%) Oracle Database
9 12 (3.59%) MongoDB
9 12 (3.59%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 12 (3.59%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 10 (2.99%) Relational Database
11 8 (2.40%) Data Lake
11 8 (2.40%) Power BI
12 7 (2.10%) MySQL
13 6 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
14 5 (1.50%) SAS Data Integration Studio
15 4 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
15 4 (1.20%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 91 (27.25%) JIRA
2 73 (21.86%) Git
3 65 (19.46%) Jenkins
4 57 (17.07%) GitLab
5 37 (11.08%) JUnit
6 23 (6.89%) Selenium
7 22 (6.59%) Maven
8 21 (6.29%) SonarQube
9 19 (5.69%) Mockito
10 17 (5.09%) Zephyr
11 16 (4.79%) Cucumber
11 16 (4.79%) JMeter
11 16 (4.79%) Postman
12 14 (4.19%) WebDriver
13 13 (3.89%) DbUnit
13 13 (3.89%) jMock
14 11 (3.29%) Bitbucket
14 11 (3.29%) Bitbucket Server
15 9 (2.69%) Artifactory
16 8 (2.40%) REST Assured
General
1 114 (34.13%) Social Skills
2 69 (20.66%) Public Sector
3 50 (14.97%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (8.38%) Finance
5 12 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (2.69%) Banking
7 8 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.90%) Legal
10 3 (0.90%) Retail
11 2 (0.60%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.60%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.30%) Advertising
12 1 (0.30%) Military
12 1 (0.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 45 (13.47%) Data Engineer
2 42 (12.57%) Architect
3 40 (11.98%) Developer
4 37 (11.08%) Analyst
5 31 (9.28%) Senior
6 28 (8.38%) Lead
7 26 (7.78%) Java Developer
7 26 (7.78%) Tester
8 23 (6.89%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (3.89%) AWS Data Engineer
9 13 (3.89%) Business Analyst
9 13 (3.89%) QA Tester
9 13 (3.89%) Storage Analyst
10 12 (3.59%) Cloud Architect
10 12 (3.59%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (3.59%) Scrum Master
11 11 (3.29%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 11 (3.29%) Senior Developer
12 10 (2.99%) Automation Tester
13 9 (2.69%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (13.17%) Spring
2 31 (9.28%) REST
3 30 (8.98%) Spring Boot
4 23 (6.89%) SOAP
5 21 (6.29%) AngularJS
6 20 (5.99%) Node.js
7 19 (5.69%) JPA
7 19 (5.69%) Spring Cloud
7 19 (5.69%) Web Services
8 17 (5.09%) ActiveMQ
8 17 (5.09%) Hibernate
8 17 (5.09%) Spring Batch
8 17 (5.09%) Spring Integration
9 15 (4.49%) WireMock
10 14 (4.19%) Flash
10 14 (4.19%) RESTful
11 13 (3.89%) PowerMock
12 11 (3.29%) Bootstrap
13 9 (2.69%) Elastic Stack
14 8 (2.40%) React
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.28%) Distributed Systems
2 30 (8.98%) Cloud Native
3 18 (5.39%) Linux Command Line
4 17 (5.09%) Replication
5 16 (4.79%) Product Ownership
6 15 (4.49%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (3.89%) Onboarding
8 12 (3.59%) Distributed Architecture
9 10 (2.99%) Data Centre
10 9 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (2.69%) Private Cloud
11 7 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.20%) Public Cloud
14 3 (0.90%) Algorithms
14 3 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (0.90%) Distributed Applications
14 3 (0.90%) Operational Technology
15 2 (0.60%) Management Information System
15 2 (0.60%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 61 (18.26%) Linux
2 20 (5.99%) Windows
3 16 (4.79%) Unix
4 8 (2.40%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.90%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.60%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.30%) AIX
8 1 (0.30%) Android
8 1 (0.30%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.30%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (49.10%) Agile
2 141 (42.22%) CI/CD
3 108 (32.34%) DevOps
4 81 (24.25%) Migration
5 72 (21.56%) Test Automation
6 64 (19.16%) Containerisation
6 64 (19.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 60 (17.96%) Stakeholder Management
8 58 (17.37%) Microservices
8 58 (17.37%) Scrum
9 56 (16.77%) ETL
10 48 (14.37%) Observability
11 45 (13.47%) Analytics
12 44 (13.17%) Infrastructure as Code
12 44 (13.17%) TDD
13 41 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
14 38 (11.38%) Data Modelling
15 34 (10.18%) BDD
15 34 (10.18%) Validation
16 33 (9.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 108 (32.34%) SQL
2 62 (18.56%) Python
3 48 (14.37%) Java
4 22 (6.59%) Bash
5 16 (4.79%) PowerShell
6 12 (3.59%) Shell Script
7 8 (2.40%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.10%) PL/SQL
9 6 (1.80%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.50%) Go
10 5 (1.50%) Perl
11 2 (0.60%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.60%) Bicep
11 2 (0.60%) Groovy
11 2 (0.60%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.30%) PHP
12 1 (0.30%) Scala
12 1 (0.30%) Swift
12 1 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 190 (56.89%) Security Cleared
2 163 (48.80%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.09%) ISTQB
4 15 (4.49%) AWS Certification
4 15 (4.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (3.29%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (3.29%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.99%) SAFe Agilist
7 9 (2.69%) Degree
7 9 (2.69%) IIBA
8 8 (2.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 8 (2.40%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.80%) CISSP
10 5 (1.50%) CCNA
11 4 (1.20%) CCNP
12 2 (0.60%) CCIE
12 2 (0.60%) CISM
12 2 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.60%) SAS Certification
12 2 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.18%) QA
2 15 (4.49%) GDPR
3 11 (3.29%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.40%) NIST
6 6 (1.80%) SLA
7 5 (1.50%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.50%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.60%) COBIT
8 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 95 (28.44%) Docker
2 22 (6.59%) vSphere
3 21 (6.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (4.49%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (4.19%) GPFS
5 14 (4.19%) NFS
6 13 (3.89%) Active Directory
7 11 (3.29%) Postfix
8 2 (0.60%) Firmware
8 2 (0.60%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.30%) HDFS
9 1 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 70 (20.96%) Kubernetes
2 67 (20.06%) Grafana
3 51 (15.27%) Terraform
4 44 (13.17%) Prometheus
5 18 (5.39%) vRealize
6 17 (5.09%) Ansible
7 10 (2.99%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.40%) VxRail
9 5 (1.50%) Puppet
10 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.90%) Kibana
12 2 (0.60%) Argo
12 2 (0.60%) Check_MK
13 1 (0.30%) Control-M
13 1 (0.30%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.30%) EMC NetWorker
13 1 (0.30%) logstash
13 1 (0.30%) Podman
13 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 89 (26.65%) Oracle
2 40 (11.98%) Talend
3 35 (10.48%) Microsoft
4 34 (10.18%) ServiceNow
5 31 (9.28%) Informatica
6 25 (7.49%) Cisco
7 24 (7.19%) IBM
8 23 (6.89%) Denodo
8 23 (6.89%) VMware
9 21 (6.29%) Splunk
10 17 (5.09%) Jaspersoft
11 15 (4.49%) Dynatrace
12 14 (4.19%) Atlassian
13 12 (3.59%) AppDynamics
14 10 (2.99%) Cloudera
15 9 (2.69%) Databricks
16 8 (2.40%) SAP
17 7 (2.10%) SolarWinds
18 6 (1.80%) Commvault
19 5 (1.50%) Red Hat