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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 24 47
Rank change year-on-year +12 +23 -31
Contract jobs citing AWS 340 84 73
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.22% 6.14% 3.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.60% 18.18% 15.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 57 58
10th Percentile £307 £406 £321
25th Percentile £400 £455 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £515 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% -4.19% -0.46%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
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 £73.75 £53.75
% change year-on-year +1.69% +37.21% -21.53%

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 929 462 463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.65% 33.77% 24.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 331 362
10th Percentile £312 £200 £213
25th Percentile £402 £400 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% -12.20%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £599
90th Percentile £662 £700 £676
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 16 9
10th Percentile - £15.25 £14.08
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.63 £19.95
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.13 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.89% -30.27% +46.73%
75th Percentile £60.79 £23.62 £26.50
90th Percentile £67.84 £38.49 £55.00
England median hourly rate £42.69 £26.50 £20.39
% change year-on-year +61.08% +30.00% -27.61%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -6 93 £465 -5.68% 14
Birmingham +10 73 £475 -13.64% 31
Coventry +11 59 £402 -34.37% 10
Warwickshire +16 38 £525 +5.00% 21
Worcestershire +5 19 £725 +3.57%
Solihull -1 17 £500 +19.05%
Herefordshire -9 11 £550 -21.43% 4
Staffordshire -1 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 (17.35%) Confluence
2 40 (11.76%) SAS
3 15 (4.41%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (3.82%) WebLogic
5 11 (3.24%) Apache
6 5 (1.47%) Anypoint
7 4 (1.18%) Apache Spark
7 4 (1.18%) JBoss
7 4 (1.18%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.88%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.59%) Drupal
10 1 (0.29%) CMS
10 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.29%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (2.35%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.29%) CATIA
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.29%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.59%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 156 (45.88%) Azure
2 60 (17.65%) GCP
3 55 (16.18%) Amazon S3
4 35 (10.29%) Amazon EC2
5 30 (8.82%) GitHub
6 25 (7.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 25 (7.35%) Serverless
7 23 (6.76%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (6.47%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (6.47%) Datadog
9 19 (5.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 17 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
10 17 (5.00%) AWS KMS
11 16 (4.71%) Entra ID
12 15 (4.41%) Route 53
13 13 (3.82%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (3.53%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (3.53%) OpenShift
15 8 (2.35%) PaaS
16 7 (2.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.59%) VPN
2 18 (5.29%) Firewall
3 16 (4.71%) VSAN
4 14 (4.12%) Network Security
5 9 (2.65%) SD-WAN
5 9 (2.65%) WAN
6 8 (2.35%) DHCP
6 8 (2.35%) DNS
7 7 (2.06%) BGP
7 7 (2.06%) LAN
7 7 (2.06%) OSPF
7 7 (2.06%) WLAN
8 6 (1.76%) MPLS
8 6 (1.76%) VLAN
8 6 (1.76%) VXLAN
9 5 (1.47%) EIGRP
9 5 (1.47%) HTTPS
9 5 (1.47%) IPv4
9 5 (1.47%) IPv6
10 4 (1.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (12.65%) Amazon RDS
2 37 (10.88%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (5.29%) Pentaho
4 17 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 17 (5.00%) MongoDB
5 16 (4.71%) DynamoDB
6 15 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (3.82%) MySQL
7 13 (3.82%) Oracle Database
8 12 (3.53%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (3.24%) Oracle Reports
9 11 (3.24%) Relational Database
10 9 (2.65%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 9 (2.65%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 5 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.47%) NoSQL
11 5 (1.47%) SAS Data Integration Studio
12 4 (1.18%) InfluxDB
13 3 (0.88%) Big Data
13 3 (0.88%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 76 (22.35%) Git
2 71 (20.88%) JIRA
3 50 (14.71%) Jenkins
4 38 (11.18%) JUnit
5 36 (10.59%) GitLab
6 24 (7.06%) Selenium
7 19 (5.59%) Maven
8 18 (5.29%) Cucumber
9 17 (5.00%) Mockito
10 15 (4.41%) JMeter
10 15 (4.41%) SonarQube
11 14 (4.12%) WebDriver
12 12 (3.53%) Postman
13 11 (3.24%) Zephyr
14 9 (2.65%) DbUnit
14 9 (2.65%) jMock
15 7 (2.06%) Bitbucket Server
16 6 (1.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 4 (1.18%) Bitbucket
17 4 (1.18%) Eclipse
General
1 121 (35.59%) Social Skills
2 57 (16.76%) Public Sector
3 47 (13.82%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (12.06%) Finance
5 18 (5.29%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (2.65%) Banking
9 8 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.06%) Aeronautics
11 4 (1.18%) Legal
12 3 (0.88%) Retail
13 2 (0.59%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.29%) Advertising
14 1 (0.29%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.29%) Military
14 1 (0.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (15.29%) Analyst
2 41 (12.06%) Architect
2 41 (12.06%) Developer
3 33 (9.71%) Data Engineer
4 31 (9.12%) Senior
5 27 (7.94%) Lead
6 26 (7.65%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 23 (6.76%) AWS Engineer
7 23 (6.76%) Java Developer
7 23 (6.76%) Tester
8 22 (6.47%) Storage Analyst
9 17 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (4.12%) Business Analyst
11 12 (3.53%) Site Engineer
11 12 (3.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 12 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (3.24%) DevOps Engineer
13 10 (2.94%) Automation Tester
13 10 (2.94%) QA Tester
13 10 (2.94%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (14.12%) Spring
2 35 (10.29%) REST
3 30 (8.82%) Spring Boot
4 23 (6.76%) SOAP
5 19 (5.59%) Node.js
6 18 (5.29%) AngularJS
6 18 (5.29%) RESTful
7 17 (5.00%) Hibernate
7 17 (5.00%) JPA
8 16 (4.71%) Flash
8 16 (4.71%) Web Services
8 16 (4.71%) WireMock
9 13 (3.82%) JSON
9 13 (3.82%) React
9 13 (3.82%) Spring Batch
9 13 (3.82%) Spring Cloud
10 12 (3.53%) ActiveMQ
10 12 (3.53%) Spring Integration
11 11 (3.24%) HTML
12 10 (2.94%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.41%) Linux Command Line
2 25 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (7.06%) Cloud Native
4 20 (5.88%) Replication
5 12 (3.53%) Data Centre
6 11 (3.24%) Distributed Architecture
6 11 (3.24%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (2.94%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.65%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.76%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.18%) SCADA
11 4 (1.18%) Security Posture
12 3 (0.88%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.88%) Distributed Applications
12 3 (0.88%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.59%) Educational Technology
13 2 (0.59%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 73 (21.47%) Linux
2 26 (7.65%) Windows
3 15 (4.41%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.24%) Unix
5 7 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.29%) Android
6 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.29%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (47.65%) Agile
2 131 (38.53%) CI/CD
3 88 (25.88%) DevOps
4 65 (19.12%) Continuous Improvement
4 65 (19.12%) Migration
5 61 (17.94%) Microservices
6 58 (17.06%) Stakeholder Management
7 53 (15.59%) Containerisation
8 51 (15.00%) Scrum
9 50 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
10 48 (14.12%) Test Automation
11 45 (13.24%) Mentoring
12 44 (12.94%) ETL
13 43 (12.65%) Infrastructure as Code
14 40 (11.76%) Analytics
14 40 (11.76%) TDD
15 38 (11.18%) Observability
16 37 (10.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 33 (9.71%) Validation
18 29 (8.53%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 96 (28.24%) SQL
2 60 (17.65%) Java
2 60 (17.65%) Python
3 21 (6.18%) Bash
4 20 (5.88%) Shell Script
5 18 (5.29%) PowerShell
6 9 (2.65%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.06%) Go
8 6 (1.76%) Perl
9 5 (1.47%) BeanShell
9 5 (1.47%) Scala
10 4 (1.18%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.18%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.88%) PHP
12 2 (0.59%) Groovy
12 2 (0.59%) Ruby
13 1 (0.29%) C#
13 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 161 (47.35%) Security Cleared
2 135 (39.71%) SC Cleared
3 26 (7.65%) AWS Certification
4 14 (4.12%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (4.12%) Degree
4 14 (4.12%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.53%) Azure Certification
5 12 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (3.53%) CISSP
6 11 (3.24%) ISTQB
7 10 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (2.65%) IIBA
9 7 (2.06%) CCIE
9 7 (2.06%) CCNP
10 6 (1.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (1.76%) CISM
11 5 (1.47%) CCNA
11 5 (1.47%) CCSP
11 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.88%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.53%) QA
2 23 (6.76%) GDPR
3 17 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (4.41%) NIST
5 11 (3.24%) Data Quality
6 9 (2.65%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.88%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.88%) SLA
7 3 (0.88%) WCAG
8 2 (0.59%) COBIT
9 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 92 (27.06%) Docker
2 39 (11.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (9.12%) vSphere
4 22 (6.47%) Active Directory
5 16 (4.71%) GPFS
5 16 (4.71%) NFS
5 16 (4.71%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (2.35%) Postfix
7 4 (1.18%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.88%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.29%) Firmware
9 1 (0.29%) HDFS
9 1 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 84 (24.71%) Kubernetes
2 61 (17.94%) Grafana
3 55 (16.18%) Terraform
4 41 (12.06%) Prometheus
5 31 (9.12%) vRealize
6 29 (8.53%) Ansible
7 16 (4.71%) VxRail
8 13 (3.82%) Progress Chef
9 7 (2.06%) Kibana
9 7 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (2.06%) Puppet
10 2 (0.59%) Argo
10 2 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.59%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.29%) Control-M
11 1 (0.29%) logstash
11 1 (0.29%) Podman
11 1 (0.29%) QRadar
11 1 (0.29%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 73 (21.47%) Oracle
2 44 (12.94%) Cisco
3 42 (12.35%) Microsoft
4 40 (11.76%) VMware
5 36 (10.59%) ServiceNow
6 35 (10.29%) IBM
7 26 (7.65%) Talend
8 24 (7.06%) Informatica
9 23 (6.76%) AppDynamics
10 20 (5.88%) SolarWinds
11 18 (5.29%) Splunk
12 14 (4.12%) Commvault
12 14 (4.12%) Dell
13 13 (3.82%) Dynatrace
14 12 (3.53%) Denodo
14 12 (3.53%) HP
14 12 (3.53%) Jaspersoft
15 10 (2.94%) Atlassian
16 9 (2.65%) Cloudera
16 9 (2.65%) SAP