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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 19 38
Rank change year-on-year +5 +19 -17
Contract jobs citing AWS 385 144 76
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.04% 8.37% 4.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.85% 27.17% 15.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 93 43
10th Percentile £358 £379 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -11.63%
75th Percentile £582 £550 £653
90th Percentile £670 £620 £685
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £50.48 - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -37.59%

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 1,074 530 493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.79% 30.80% 26.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 738 346 357
10th Percentile £313 £297 £235
25th Percentile £401 £408 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £613
90th Percentile £675 £672 £688
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 8 7
10th Percentile £21.06 £17.70 £15.30
25th Percentile £21.88 £27.19 £18.63
Median hourly rate £33.99 £34.43 £30.88
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +11.51% +66.89%
75th Percentile £67.84 £41.56 £34.47
90th Percentile £75.00 £58.96 £43.00
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.15 £23.98
% change year-on-year +35.76% +9.07% -25.80%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 16 August 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 +3 150 £469 -10.67% 20
Birmingham +2 81 £425 -10.53% 59
Warwickshire +12 41 £500 -19.35% 12
Solihull +2 37 £488 +8.33% 6
Coventry -7 32 £500 -3.61% 10
Worcestershire -2 7 £450 -18.18% 11
Staffordshire -4 3 £200 - 5
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 56 (14.55%) Confluence
2 53 (13.77%) SAS
3 21 (5.45%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.82%) Tuxedo
5 5 (1.30%) Apache
6 4 (1.04%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.78%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.78%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.52%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.52%) CloudStack
9 1 (0.26%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.26%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.26%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.26%) Maximo
3 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 162 (42.08%) Azure
2 64 (16.62%) GitHub
3 61 (15.84%) Amazon S3
4 58 (15.06%) GCP
5 49 (12.73%) GitHub Actions
6 45 (11.69%) Amazon EC2
7 43 (11.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 40 (10.39%) Serverless
9 36 (9.35%) AWS Lambda
10 27 (7.01%) Amazon EKS
11 23 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
11 23 (5.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 22 (5.71%) Amazon SQS
13 18 (4.68%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (3.90%) AWS KMS
14 15 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
14 15 (3.90%) Route 53
15 13 (3.38%) Power Platform
16 12 (3.12%) AWS CodePipeline
16 12 (3.12%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.86%) Firewall
2 10 (2.60%) SD-WAN
2 10 (2.60%) WAN
3 8 (2.08%) DHCP
3 8 (2.08%) DNS
4 7 (1.82%) BGP
4 7 (1.82%) OSPF
5 6 (1.56%) Network Security
5 6 (1.56%) VXLAN
6 5 (1.30%) LAN
6 5 (1.30%) NetScaler
6 5 (1.30%) VLAN
6 5 (1.30%) VPN
6 5 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (1.04%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.78%) BIG-IP
8 3 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 3 (0.78%) HSRP
8 3 (0.78%) MPLS
8 3 (0.78%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (11.17%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (10.39%) PostgreSQL
3 39 (10.13%) Pentaho
4 31 (8.05%) Amazon RDS
5 23 (5.97%) Oracle Reports
6 22 (5.71%) DynamoDB
7 20 (5.19%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 20 (5.19%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 19 (4.94%) Oracle Database
9 18 (4.68%) MySQL
10 13 (3.38%) Amazon Aurora
10 13 (3.38%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (3.38%) Relational Database
11 12 (3.12%) Metadata
12 11 (2.86%) Data Lake
12 11 (2.86%) MongoDB
12 11 (2.86%) Power BI
13 10 (2.60%) SQL Server
14 7 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
15 6 (1.56%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 91 (23.64%) Git
2 90 (23.38%) GitLab
3 83 (21.56%) JIRA
4 78 (20.26%) Jenkins
5 45 (11.69%) JUnit
6 30 (7.79%) Selenium
7 28 (7.27%) Zephyr
8 26 (6.75%) Postman
9 25 (6.49%) Cucumber
10 23 (5.97%) SonarQube
11 22 (5.71%) Maven
12 18 (4.68%) JMeter
12 18 (4.68%) Mockito
13 17 (4.42%) WebDriver
14 13 (3.38%) Artifactory
15 12 (3.12%) Bitbucket
16 11 (2.86%) Gatling
17 10 (2.60%) Bitbucket Server
17 10 (2.60%) DbUnit
17 10 (2.60%) jMock
General
1 125 (32.47%) Social Skills
2 90 (23.38%) Public Sector
3 29 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (2.86%) Finance
5 9 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (1.56%) Legal
7 5 (1.30%) Banking
7 5 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (0.78%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.78%) Military
8 3 (0.78%) Retail
8 3 (0.78%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.52%) Advertising
9 2 (0.52%) Front Office
9 2 (0.52%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (16.36%) Architect
2 60 (15.58%) Data Engineer
3 43 (11.17%) Senior
4 35 (9.09%) Tester
5 32 (8.31%) Developer
6 31 (8.05%) AWS Engineer
7 30 (7.79%) Lead
8 24 (6.23%) Scrum Master
9 21 (5.45%) Java Developer
10 19 (4.94%) QA Tester
11 18 (4.68%) DevOps Engineer
12 15 (3.90%) AWS Data Engineer
12 15 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
13 14 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (3.64%) Technical Architect
14 12 (3.12%) Analyst
15 11 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
16 10 (2.60%) AWS DevOps
16 10 (2.60%) Cloud Architect
16 10 (2.60%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (14.03%) Spring
2 35 (9.09%) Spring Boot
3 28 (7.27%) REST
4 23 (5.97%) RESTful
5 20 (5.19%) SOAP
5 20 (5.19%) WireMock
6 18 (4.68%) JPA
6 18 (4.68%) Node.js
7 17 (4.42%) AngularJS
8 16 (4.16%) Spring Cloud
8 16 (4.16%) Web Services
9 15 (3.90%) ActiveMQ
9 15 (3.90%) Hibernate
10 14 (3.64%) Playwright
11 13 (3.38%) React
11 13 (3.38%) Spring Batch
11 13 (3.38%) Spring Integration
12 12 (3.12%) Elastic Stack
13 10 (2.60%) AWS CDK
13 10 (2.60%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 45 (11.69%) Cloud Native
2 34 (8.83%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (8.05%) Product Ownership
4 24 (6.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 14 (3.64%) Distributed Architecture
6 12 (3.12%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (3.12%) Private Cloud
7 11 (2.86%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.86%) Replication
8 10 (2.60%) Data Centre
8 10 (2.60%) Public Cloud
9 9 (2.34%) Operational Technology
10 8 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
11 7 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.56%) Low-Code
13 5 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.30%) Data Fabric
13 5 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (0.78%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 43 (11.17%) Linux
2 23 (5.97%) Windows
3 22 (5.71%) Unix
4 11 (2.86%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.30%) AIX
6 2 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.52%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.52%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (48.83%) Agile
2 161 (41.82%) CI/CD
3 124 (32.21%) DevOps
4 108 (28.05%) Test Automation
5 104 (27.01%) Migration
6 76 (19.74%) Scrum
7 75 (19.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 74 (19.22%) Containerisation
9 72 (18.70%) Infrastructure as Code
10 71 (18.44%) ETL
11 65 (16.88%) Microservices
12 57 (14.81%) Observability
13 56 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
14 53 (13.77%) Data Integration
15 52 (13.51%) Analytics
16 49 (12.73%) Test Strategy
17 47 (12.21%) Data Modelling
17 47 (12.21%) TDD
17 47 (12.21%) Validation
18 46 (11.95%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 126 (32.73%) SQL
2 66 (17.14%) Python
3 65 (16.88%) Java
4 26 (6.75%) Bash
5 20 (5.19%) JavaScript
6 15 (3.90%) PowerShell
7 12 (3.12%) PL/SQL
8 8 (2.08%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.82%) VB
9 7 (1.82%) VB6
10 6 (1.56%) Go
11 5 (1.30%) C
12 4 (1.04%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.78%) Bicep
13 3 (0.78%) R
13 3 (0.78%) Scala
14 2 (0.52%) Groovy
15 1 (0.26%) C#
15 1 (0.26%) Perl
15 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 215 (55.84%) Security Cleared
2 183 (47.53%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.27%) ISTQB
4 24 (6.23%) AWS Certification
5 20 (5.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (3.64%) Degree
7 12 (3.12%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.86%) SAFe Agilist
9 10 (2.60%) DV Cleared
10 9 (2.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.04%) CISSP
12 4 (1.04%) SAS Certification
13 3 (0.78%) CCNP
14 2 (0.52%) CCNA
14 2 (0.52%) CISM
14 2 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (13.25%) QA
2 13 (3.38%) Accessibility
2 13 (3.38%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.34%) NIST
4 8 (2.08%) SLA
4 8 (2.08%) WCAG
5 7 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.30%) GDPR
7 4 (1.04%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.26%) COBIT
8 1 (0.26%) GRC
8 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 100 (25.97%) Docker
2 15 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (3.90%) vSphere
3 13 (3.38%) VMware ESXi
4 12 (3.12%) Active Directory
5 8 (2.08%) Postfix
6 7 (1.82%) GPFS
6 7 (1.82%) NFS
7 5 (1.30%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.52%) Firmware
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 82 (21.30%) Kubernetes
2 61 (15.84%) Terraform
3 59 (15.32%) Grafana
4 40 (10.39%) Prometheus
5 20 (5.19%) Ansible
6 8 (2.08%) Progress Chef
6 8 (2.08%) Puppet
7 6 (1.56%) vRealize
8 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.78%) Kibana
9 3 (0.78%) SCCM
9 3 (0.78%) VxRail
10 2 (0.52%) Argo
10 2 (0.52%) Check_MK
11 1 (0.26%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.26%) Istio
11 1 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.26%) Podman
Vendors
1 118 (30.65%) Oracle
2 48 (12.47%) Talend
3 33 (8.57%) Microsoft
4 28 (7.27%) Informatica
5 27 (7.01%) Denodo
6 24 (6.23%) VMware
7 21 (5.45%) Cisco
7 21 (5.45%) ServiceNow
8 15 (3.90%) Databricks
9 13 (3.38%) Jaspersoft
9 13 (3.38%) Splunk
10 11 (2.86%) Atlassian
10 11 (2.86%) Cloudera
11 10 (2.60%) IBM
12 7 (1.82%) Palo Alto
12 7 (1.82%) SAP
13 6 (1.56%) Google
14 5 (1.30%) Actian
14 5 (1.30%) Sage
14 5 (1.30%) Salesforce