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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 30 46
Rank change year-on-year +20 +16 -25
Contract jobs citing AWS 328 77 69
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.41% 5.74% 3.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.28% 17.50% 14.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 47 52
10th Percentile £326 £410 £314
25th Percentile £402 £455 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% -2.33% -0.46%
75th Percentile £575 £597 £650
90th Percentile £654 £700 £688
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £55.38 - £23.46
25th Percentile £61.56 - £28.71
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £37.48
75th Percentile £75.56 - £46.24
90th Percentile £76.58 - £51.50
England median hourly rate £74.75 £70.00 £50.59
% change year-on-year +6.79% +38.37% -32.55%

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 904 440 462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 28.68% 32.79% 24.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 644 296 355
10th Percentile £313 £200 £213
25th Percentile £402 £392 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £681 £688
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 13 10
10th Percentile - £15.23 £14.10
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.26 £14.69
Median hourly rate £33.99 £18.00 £21.23
Median % change year-on-year +88.83% -15.19% +4.87%
75th Percentile £67.84 £19.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £37.63 £29.35
England median hourly rate £46.80 £25.98 £21.00
% change year-on-year +80.17% +23.69% -34.98%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +6 105 £469 -3.30% 11
Birmingham +6 73 £469 -14.73% 48
Coventry +7 40 £426 -30.45% 13
Warwickshire +5 33 £525 -15.32% 8
Solihull -2 25 £500 +8.70%
Worcestershire +5 16 £725 +3.57% 9
Herefordshire -4 9 £550 -21.43% 1
Staffordshire -3 2 £325 -40.91% 8
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 70 (21.34%) Confluence
2 44 (13.41%) SAS
3 15 (4.57%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.13%) WebLogic
5 6 (1.83%) Apache
6 5 (1.52%) Anypoint
7 4 (1.22%) Apache Spark
7 4 (1.22%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.91%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.91%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.30%) CMS
9 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.30%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.52%) 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 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.61%) Shopify
3 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 141 (42.99%) Azure
2 61 (18.60%) Amazon S3
3 54 (16.46%) GCP
4 40 (12.20%) Amazon EC2
5 37 (11.28%) GitHub
6 36 (10.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 33 (10.06%) Serverless
8 30 (9.15%) AWS Lambda
8 30 (9.15%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (6.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 19 (5.79%) Amazon SQS
10 19 (5.79%) AWS KMS
11 17 (5.18%) Route 53
12 16 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (4.88%) Datadog
13 14 (4.27%) Entra ID
14 13 (3.96%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (3.66%) OpenShift
16 11 (3.35%) Amazon ECS
17 10 (3.05%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.05%) Network Security
1 10 (3.05%) VPN
2 9 (2.74%) VSAN
3 8 (2.44%) Firewall
4 6 (1.83%) SD-WAN
4 6 (1.83%) WAN
5 5 (1.52%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.91%) BGP
6 3 (0.91%) DHCP
6 3 (0.91%) DNS
6 3 (0.91%) OSPF
6 3 (0.91%) VLAN
6 3 (0.91%) WLAN
7 2 (0.61%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (0.61%) LAN
7 2 (0.61%) SSL
7 2 (0.61%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.30%) Anycast
8 1 (0.30%) NaaS
8 1 (0.30%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (14.33%) Amazon RDS
2 35 (10.67%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (8.54%) Pentaho
4 23 (7.01%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (6.71%) DynamoDB
6 18 (5.49%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (4.57%) Oracle Database
7 15 (4.57%) Oracle Reports
8 14 (4.27%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (3.35%) Relational Database
10 9 (2.74%) MongoDB
10 9 (2.74%) MySQL
10 9 (2.74%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 9 (2.74%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 7 (2.13%) Data Lake
11 7 (2.13%) Power BI
12 6 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.52%) SAS Data Integration Studio
14 4 (1.22%) InfluxDB
14 4 (1.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 87 (26.52%) JIRA
2 72 (21.95%) Git
3 58 (17.68%) Jenkins
4 53 (16.16%) GitLab
5 34 (10.37%) JUnit
6 19 (5.79%) Maven
7 18 (5.49%) Selenium
8 17 (5.18%) Mockito
8 17 (5.18%) SonarQube
9 16 (4.88%) Cucumber
10 15 (4.57%) JMeter
10 15 (4.57%) Postman
10 15 (4.57%) Zephyr
11 14 (4.27%) WebDriver
12 11 (3.35%) DbUnit
12 11 (3.35%) jMock
13 9 (2.74%) Bitbucket
13 9 (2.74%) Bitbucket Server
14 8 (2.44%) Artifactory
15 5 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 108 (32.93%) Social Skills
2 61 (18.60%) Public Sector
3 46 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (9.76%) Finance
5 15 (4.57%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (2.74%) Banking
8 8 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.83%) Aeronautics
10 4 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.22%) Legal
11 3 (0.91%) Retail
12 2 (0.61%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.30%) Advertising
13 1 (0.30%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.30%) Military
13 1 (0.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 43 (13.11%) Data Engineer
2 41 (12.50%) Analyst
3 38 (11.59%) Developer
4 37 (11.28%) Architect
5 33 (10.06%) Senior
6 28 (8.54%) AWS Engineer
7 27 (8.23%) Lead
8 24 (7.32%) Java Developer
8 24 (7.32%) Tester
9 16 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
10 15 (4.57%) Storage Analyst
11 14 (4.27%) Business Analyst
12 13 (3.96%) AWS Data Engineer
12 13 (3.96%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 12 (3.66%) DevOps Engineer
14 11 (3.35%) Cloud Architect
14 11 (3.35%) QA Tester
14 11 (3.35%) Site Engineer
14 11 (3.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 10 (3.05%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (12.50%) Spring
2 32 (9.76%) REST
3 27 (8.23%) Spring Boot
4 21 (6.40%) SOAP
5 18 (5.49%) AngularJS
5 18 (5.49%) Node.js
6 17 (5.18%) JPA
7 16 (4.88%) Web Services
7 16 (4.88%) WireMock
8 15 (4.57%) Hibernate
8 15 (4.57%) RESTful
8 15 (4.57%) Spring Batch
8 15 (4.57%) Spring Cloud
9 14 (4.27%) ActiveMQ
9 14 (4.27%) Spring Integration
10 13 (3.96%) Flash
11 11 (3.35%) PowerMock
12 9 (2.74%) Bootstrap
12 9 (2.74%) SailPoint
13 8 (2.44%) React
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.54%) Cloud Native
1 28 (8.54%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (5.79%) Linux Command Line
3 17 (5.18%) Replication
4 14 (4.27%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.96%) Onboarding
6 12 (3.66%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (3.35%) Distributed Architecture
8 9 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.44%) Data Centre
9 8 (2.44%) Private Cloud
10 7 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.91%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.91%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.61%) Educational Technology
12 2 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.61%) Public Cloud
13 1 (0.30%) Mobile Banking
13 1 (0.30%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 60 (18.29%) Linux
2 20 (6.10%) Windows
3 13 (3.96%) Unix
4 9 (2.74%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.61%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.30%) Android
7 1 (0.30%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (49.70%) Agile
2 138 (42.07%) CI/CD
3 98 (29.88%) DevOps
4 74 (22.56%) Migration
5 64 (19.51%) Test Automation
6 60 (18.29%) Containerisation
6 60 (18.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 56 (17.07%) Stakeholder Management
8 54 (16.46%) ETL
8 54 (16.46%) Scrum
9 52 (15.85%) Microservices
10 45 (13.72%) Infrastructure as Code
10 45 (13.72%) Observability
11 44 (13.41%) Analytics
12 41 (12.50%) TDD
13 40 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
14 38 (11.59%) Data Modelling
15 34 (10.37%) Mentoring
16 33 (10.06%) Validation
17 32 (9.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 106 (32.32%) SQL
2 63 (19.21%) Python
3 49 (14.94%) Java
4 21 (6.40%) Bash
5 17 (5.18%) Shell Script
6 16 (4.88%) PowerShell
7 9 (2.74%) JavaScript
8 8 (2.44%) Go
9 6 (1.83%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.52%) Perl
10 5 (1.52%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.22%) BeanShell
12 2 (0.61%) Bicep
12 2 (0.61%) Groovy
12 2 (0.61%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.30%) PHP
13 1 (0.30%) Scala
13 1 (0.30%) Swift
13 1 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 184 (56.10%) Security Cleared
2 157 (47.87%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.18%) AWS Certification
4 15 (4.57%) DV Cleared
4 15 (4.57%) ISTQB
5 14 (4.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (2.74%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (2.74%) Degree
6 9 (2.74%) IIBA
7 8 (2.44%) CISSP
7 8 (2.44%) SAFe Agilist
8 6 (1.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (1.52%) CCNA
9 5 (1.52%) CISM
10 4 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.61%) CCIE
12 2 (0.61%) CCNP
12 2 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (10.06%) QA
2 15 (4.57%) GDPR
3 11 (3.35%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.13%) NIST
6 5 (1.52%) SLA
7 4 (1.22%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.61%) COBIT
9 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 92 (28.05%) Docker
2 21 (6.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (6.10%) vSphere
4 18 (5.49%) Active Directory
5 13 (3.96%) GPFS
5 13 (3.96%) NFS
5 13 (3.96%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (3.05%) Postfix
7 2 (0.61%) Firmware
7 2 (0.61%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.30%) HDFS
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 75 (22.87%) Kubernetes
2 66 (20.12%) Grafana
3 55 (16.77%) Terraform
4 43 (13.11%) Prometheus
5 24 (7.32%) Ansible
6 19 (5.79%) vRealize
7 13 (3.96%) Progress Chef
8 9 (2.74%) VxRail
9 5 (1.52%) Kibana
9 5 (1.52%) Puppet
10 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.91%) Argo
12 2 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.61%) EMC NetWorker
13 1 (0.30%) Control-M
13 1 (0.30%) logstash
13 1 (0.30%) Nessus
13 1 (0.30%) Podman
13 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 85 (25.91%) Oracle
2 37 (11.28%) Microsoft
2 37 (11.28%) Talend
3 34 (10.37%) ServiceNow
4 29 (8.84%) Informatica
5 24 (7.32%) Cisco
5 24 (7.32%) IBM
6 22 (6.71%) Denodo
6 22 (6.71%) VMware
7 18 (5.49%) Splunk
8 16 (4.88%) Dynatrace
9 14 (4.27%) AppDynamics
9 14 (4.27%) Jaspersoft
10 12 (3.66%) Atlassian
11 9 (2.74%) Cloudera
11 9 (2.74%) SAP
11 9 (2.74%) SolarWinds
12 7 (2.13%) Databricks
12 7 (2.13%) Dell
13 6 (1.83%) Commvault