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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 39 19
Rank change year-on-year +28 -20 -9
Contract jobs citing AWS 266 87 149
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 12.49% 4.58% 7.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.70% 14.67% 22.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 41 105
10th Percentile £370 £360 £306
25th Percentile £441 £409 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -1.40% -7.41%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £600
90th Percentile £717 £688 £725
England median daily rate £525 £575 £566
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.59% -5.67%
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 £85.00 £46.18 £55.00
% change year-on-year +84.06% -16.04% +12.82%

All Cloud 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 745 593 666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 34.99% 31.23% 34.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 387 493
10th Percentile £300 £212 £200
25th Percentile £425 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £588
90th Percentile £700 £688 £688
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 16 8
10th Percentile £26.51 £16.51 £17.50
25th Percentile £27.21 £17.00 £17.69
Median hourly rate £31.94 £31.69 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +71.28% +4.40%
75th Percentile £35.75 £35.00 £19.38
90th Percentile £60.15 - £30.33
England median hourly rate £25.47 £33.93 £26.50
% change year-on-year -24.93% +28.04% +17.78%

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 November 2025.

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 24 November 2025. 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 +27 85 £500 - 40
Shropshire -10 61 £515 +5.10% 18
Coventry +11 42 £388 -18.42% 21
Warwickshire +8 25 £625 +25.00% 11
Worcestershire +6 20 £594 +69.64% 7
Herefordshire -5 7 £550 - 8
Solihull - 5 £450 -
Staffordshire -1 2 £450 -18.18% 25
Wolverhampton - 2 £425 - 8
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 32 (12.03%) Confluence
2 24 (9.02%) Apache
3 23 (8.65%) WebLogic
4 15 (5.64%) nginx
5 10 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (3.76%) SAS
6 9 (3.38%) JBoss
7 6 (2.26%) OpenStack
8 4 (1.50%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (1.13%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.75%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.75%) Drupal
11 1 (0.38%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 12 (4.51%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 8 (3.01%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.88%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.38%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 137 (51.50%) Azure
2 61 (22.93%) GCP
3 51 (19.17%) Amazon S3
4 43 (16.17%) Amazon EC2
5 37 (13.91%) AWS KMS
5 37 (13.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 36 (13.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 28 (10.53%) Amazon ELB
7 28 (10.53%) Serverless
8 19 (7.14%) GitHub
9 18 (6.77%) Microsoft 365
10 17 (6.39%) Route 53
11 16 (6.02%) Azure Monitor
12 15 (5.64%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (5.64%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (5.64%) Datadog
13 14 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (4.89%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (4.51%) Amazon Glacier
15 12 (4.51%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 53 (19.92%) Firewall
2 39 (14.66%) DNS
3 24 (9.02%) SMTP
4 23 (8.65%) HTTP
5 22 (8.27%) FTP
5 22 (8.27%) SSH
6 14 (5.26%) VPN
7 13 (4.89%) Network Security
8 12 (4.51%) DHCP
8 12 (4.51%) IMAP
8 12 (4.51%) OpenLDAP
9 10 (3.76%) VSAN
10 8 (3.01%) Wireshark
11 7 (2.63%) LAN
12 6 (2.26%) SD-WAN
12 6 (2.26%) TCP/IP
12 6 (2.26%) VLAN
12 6 (2.26%) WAN
13 5 (1.88%) VXLAN
13 5 (1.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (15.79%) Amazon RDS
2 36 (13.53%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (6.39%) MongoDB
4 16 (6.02%) Amazon Aurora
5 14 (5.26%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.76%) Oracle Database
6 10 (3.76%) Relational Database
7 9 (3.38%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 9 (3.38%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 8 (3.01%) MySQL
9 7 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.26%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.50%) SAS Data Integration Studio
12 4 (1.50%) SQL Server
13 3 (1.13%) InfluxDB
13 3 (1.13%) Metadata
14 2 (0.75%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 64 (24.06%) Git
1 64 (24.06%) Jenkins
2 45 (16.92%) GitLab
3 35 (13.16%) JIRA
4 24 (9.02%) JUnit
4 24 (9.02%) Vagrant
5 18 (6.77%) Selenium
6 14 (5.26%) Maven
7 10 (3.76%) Liquibase
7 10 (3.76%) Mockito
8 9 (3.38%) SonarQube
9 8 (3.01%) Eclipse
9 8 (3.01%) IntelliJ
10 7 (2.63%) Cucumber
11 6 (2.26%) CircleCI
11 6 (2.26%) Cypress.io
12 5 (1.88%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.88%) Gradle
12 5 (1.88%) Postman
12 5 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 108 (40.60%) Social Skills
2 53 (19.92%) Public Sector
3 38 (14.29%) Finance
4 23 (8.65%) Presentation Skills
5 19 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (6.02%) Banking
8 11 (4.14%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (3.76%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.63%) Aeronautics
11 4 (1.50%) Legal
12 2 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.75%) Military
12 2 (0.75%) Retail
12 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.38%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.38%) Marketing
13 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (18.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 42 (15.79%) AWS Engineer
3 34 (12.78%) Senior
4 30 (11.28%) Platform Engineer
5 29 (10.90%) Architect
6 25 (9.40%) Developer
7 24 (9.02%) AWS DevOps
7 24 (9.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 24 (9.02%) Cloud Engineer
8 23 (8.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 22 (8.27%) Analyst
10 17 (6.39%) Solutions Architect
11 16 (6.02%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 14 (5.26%) Lead
12 14 (5.26%) Software Engineer
13 12 (4.51%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 12 (4.51%) Data Engineer
13 12 (4.51%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (4.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 11 (4.14%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (16.54%) REST
2 27 (10.15%) RESTful
3 25 (9.40%) Spring
4 22 (8.27%) JSON
5 20 (7.52%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (7.14%) SOAP
7 18 (6.77%) Spring Boot
8 16 (6.02%) HTML
9 13 (4.89%) Hibernate
10 12 (4.51%) LDAP
10 12 (4.51%) React
10 12 (4.51%) XML
11 11 (4.14%) OAuth
12 10 (3.76%) Flash
12 10 (3.76%) JPA
13 8 (3.01%) EJB
13 8 (3.01%) HTML5
13 8 (3.01%) J2EE
13 8 (3.01%) J2SE
13 8 (3.01%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.78%) Replication
2 26 (9.77%) Cloud Native
3 24 (9.02%) Linux Command Line
4 18 (6.77%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (6.77%) Security Posture
5 12 (4.51%) Public Cloud
6 8 (3.01%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.63%) SCADA
8 6 (2.26%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.88%) PKI
10 4 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.50%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.50%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.50%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.13%) IVR
12 2 (0.75%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.75%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.75%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 99 (37.22%) Linux
2 58 (21.80%) Windows
3 24 (9.02%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (9.02%) VMS
4 22 (8.27%) Unix
5 14 (5.26%) Windows Server
6 11 (4.14%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.38%) Android
8 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.38%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.38%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (41.73%) CI/CD
2 108 (40.60%) DevOps
3 94 (35.34%) Agile
4 54 (20.30%) Containerisation
5 53 (19.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 49 (18.42%) Microservices
7 47 (17.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 46 (17.29%) Cloud Security
8 46 (17.29%) Configuration Management
9 45 (16.92%) Change Management
9 45 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
10 42 (15.79%) Analytics
11 38 (14.29%) Software Engineering
12 35 (13.16%) Platform Engineering
13 32 (12.03%) Migration
14 31 (11.65%) Incident Response
14 31 (11.65%) Mentoring
15 30 (11.28%) Continuous Integration
16 29 (10.90%) High Availability
17 27 (10.15%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 70 (26.32%) Python
2 69 (25.94%) SQL
3 55 (20.68%) Java
4 39 (14.66%) PowerShell
5 24 (9.02%) Groovy
6 21 (7.89%) Go
7 14 (5.26%) Perl
8 11 (4.14%) Scala
9 10 (3.76%) Bash
9 10 (3.76%) Shell Script
10 9 (3.38%) JavaScript
11 5 (1.88%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.50%) PHP
13 3 (1.13%) BeanShell
13 3 (1.13%) Ruby
14 2 (0.75%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.38%) JSX
15 1 (0.38%) Korn
Qualifications
1 102 (38.35%) Security Cleared
2 80 (30.08%) SC Cleared
3 39 (14.66%) AWS Certification
4 38 (14.29%) Degree
5 23 (8.65%) Azure Certification
6 19 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (5.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (4.89%) DV Cleared
9 11 (4.14%) Master's Degree
10 10 (3.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (3.38%) CISSP
12 6 (2.26%) CCNP
12 6 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (1.88%) CCIE
14 4 (1.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (1.50%) CCSP
14 4 (1.50%) CISM
15 3 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (1.13%) CCIE Security
16 2 (0.75%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.26%) GDPR
2 13 (4.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (4.89%) QA
3 11 (4.14%) NIST
4 7 (2.63%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.63%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.26%) WCAG
6 3 (1.13%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.38%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 93 (34.96%) Docker
2 31 (11.65%) Active Directory
3 28 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (8.27%) DFS Replication
5 20 (7.52%) vSphere
6 15 (5.64%) Postfix
7 12 (4.51%) Dovecot
7 12 (4.51%) Squid
8 10 (3.76%) GPFS
8 10 (3.76%) NFS
8 10 (3.76%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (1.88%) VMware NSX
10 3 (1.13%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.38%) Snort
11 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 79 (29.70%) Terraform
2 64 (24.06%) Kubernetes
3 58 (21.80%) Grafana
4 52 (19.55%) Prometheus
5 42 (15.79%) Ansible
6 20 (7.52%) vRealize
7 14 (5.26%) Puppet
8 12 (4.51%) Nessus
8 12 (4.51%) Progress Chef
9 10 (3.76%) Proxmox
10 9 (3.38%) Kibana
10 9 (3.38%) VxRail
11 8 (3.01%) CSIRT
12 5 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.50%) Podman
13 4 (1.50%) QRadar
14 3 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
15 1 (0.38%) EMC NetWorker
15 1 (0.38%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 47 (17.67%) Oracle
1 47 (17.67%) Splunk
2 46 (17.29%) Microsoft
3 45 (16.92%) ServiceNow
4 43 (16.17%) Cisco
5 31 (11.65%) VMware
6 28 (10.53%) AppDynamics
7 23 (8.65%) IBM
8 19 (7.14%) Dynatrace
8 19 (7.14%) F5
9 15 (5.64%) Jaspersoft
9 15 (5.64%) SolarWinds
10 13 (4.89%) Google
11 11 (4.14%) Dell
12 10 (3.76%) Commvault
12 10 (3.76%) Palo Alto
13 9 (3.38%) HP
14 8 (3.01%) webMethods
15 6 (2.26%) Fortinet
15 6 (2.26%) SAP