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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 37 20
Rank change year-on-year +26 -17 -10
Contract jobs citing AWS 275 87 145
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 12.44% 4.77% 7.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.76% 14.72% 22.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 42 105
10th Percentile £326 £360 £306
25th Percentile £444 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% -1.40% -7.41%
75th Percentile £575 £547 £600
90th Percentile £735 £699 £725
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
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 £84.50 £46.18 £51.06
% change year-on-year +82.98% -9.55% -7.17%

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 769 591 643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 34.78% 32.40% 34.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 387 476
10th Percentile £304 £212 £200
25th Percentile £428 £363 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +8.70% -8.00%
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 8 15 8
10th Percentile £25.12 £16.46 £17.50
25th Percentile £27.21 £17.00 £17.69
Median hourly rate £28.61 £30.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.35% +66.89% +8.12%
75th Percentile £41.56 £35.00 £19.38
90th Percentile £63.95 - £30.33
England median hourly rate £26.30 £32.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.81% +28.00% +11.11%

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 4 December 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 4 December 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 +24 83 £500 -2.44% 43
Shropshire -12 62 £515 +5.10% 46
Coventry +12 43 £325 -31.58% 36
Warwickshire +12 31 £613 +22.50% 13
Worcestershire +2 20 £594 +69.64% 21
Herefordshire -3 8 £550 - 3
Solihull - 4 £450 - 1
Staffordshire -2 3 £394 -28.41% 33
Wolverhampton - 2 £425 - 22
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 33 (12.00%) Confluence
2 24 (8.73%) Apache
3 23 (8.36%) WebLogic
4 15 (5.45%) nginx
5 10 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (3.64%) SAS
6 9 (3.27%) JBoss
7 6 (2.18%) OpenStack
8 4 (1.45%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (1.09%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.73%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.73%) Drupal
11 1 (0.36%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 12 (4.36%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 9 (3.27%) MS Visio
3 7 (2.55%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.36%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 143 (52.00%) Azure
2 68 (24.73%) GCP
3 48 (17.45%) Amazon S3
4 40 (14.55%) Amazon EC2
5 37 (13.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 34 (12.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 33 (12.00%) AWS KMS
8 27 (9.82%) Amazon ELB
8 27 (9.82%) Serverless
9 19 (6.91%) GitHub
10 18 (6.55%) Datadog
10 18 (6.55%) Microsoft 365
11 17 (6.18%) Azure Monitor
12 15 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (5.45%) Entra ID
13 14 (5.09%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (5.09%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (5.09%) Route 53
14 12 (4.36%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 54 (19.64%) Firewall
2 38 (13.82%) DNS
3 23 (8.36%) SMTP
4 22 (8.00%) HTTP
5 21 (7.64%) FTP
5 21 (7.64%) SSH
6 17 (6.18%) VPN
7 15 (5.45%) Network Security
8 12 (4.36%) DHCP
8 12 (4.36%) IMAP
8 12 (4.36%) OpenLDAP
8 12 (4.36%) VSAN
9 9 (3.27%) LAN
10 8 (2.91%) SD-WAN
10 8 (2.91%) WAN
10 8 (2.91%) Wireshark
11 7 (2.55%) WLAN
12 6 (2.18%) TCP/IP
12 6 (2.18%) VLAN
13 5 (1.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (14.18%) Amazon RDS
2 33 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (6.55%) MongoDB
4 15 (5.45%) NoSQL
5 13 (4.73%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (3.64%) Oracle Database
7 9 (3.27%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 9 (3.27%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 8 (2.91%) MySQL
8 8 (2.91%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.45%) SAS Data Integration Studio
12 3 (1.09%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.09%) InfluxDB
12 3 (1.09%) Metadata
13 2 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.73%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.73%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 61 (22.18%) Git
1 61 (22.18%) Jenkins
2 45 (16.36%) GitLab
3 36 (13.09%) JIRA
4 23 (8.36%) Vagrant
5 21 (7.64%) JUnit
6 18 (6.55%) Selenium
7 11 (4.00%) Maven
8 10 (3.64%) Liquibase
9 8 (2.91%) Eclipse
9 8 (2.91%) IntelliJ
9 8 (2.91%) Mockito
10 7 (2.55%) Cucumber
11 6 (2.18%) CircleCI
11 6 (2.18%) Cypress.io
11 6 (2.18%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.82%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.82%) Postman
12 5 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (1.45%) Gradle
General
1 110 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 53 (19.27%) Public Sector
3 42 (15.27%) Finance
4 23 (8.36%) Presentation Skills
5 20 (7.27%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (6.18%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (5.82%) Banking
8 11 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (3.64%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.55%) Aeronautics
11 4 (1.45%) Legal
12 2 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.73%) Military
12 2 (0.73%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.36%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.36%) Marketing
13 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 42 (15.27%) AWS Engineer
3 34 (12.36%) Senior
4 29 (10.55%) Analyst
4 29 (10.55%) Architect
5 28 (10.18%) Platform Engineer
6 25 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
7 24 (8.73%) AWS DevOps
7 24 (8.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 23 (8.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 21 (7.64%) Developer
9 21 (7.64%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 17 (6.18%) Solutions Architect
11 16 (5.82%) Lead
12 14 (5.09%) Software Engineer
13 12 (4.36%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 12 (4.36%) Data Engineer
13 12 (4.36%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (4.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 12 (4.36%) Storage Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (15.27%) REST
2 25 (9.09%) RESTful
3 23 (8.36%) Spring
4 22 (8.00%) JSON
5 21 (7.64%) Elastic Stack
6 17 (6.18%) SOAP
7 16 (5.82%) HTML
7 16 (5.82%) Spring Boot
8 13 (4.73%) React
9 12 (4.36%) LDAP
9 12 (4.36%) XML
10 11 (4.00%) Flash
10 11 (4.00%) OAuth
11 10 (3.64%) Hibernate
12 9 (3.27%) SailPoint
13 8 (2.91%) EJB
13 8 (2.91%) HTML5
13 8 (2.91%) J2EE
13 8 (2.91%) J2SE
13 8 (2.91%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 35 (12.73%) Replication
2 28 (10.18%) Linux Command Line
3 27 (9.82%) Cloud Native
4 18 (6.55%) Security Posture
5 16 (5.82%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (4.36%) Public Cloud
7 10 (3.64%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.55%) SCADA
9 6 (2.18%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.82%) PKI
11 4 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.45%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.45%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.45%) Security Operations Centre
12 2 (0.73%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.73%) IVR
12 2 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.73%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 99 (36.00%) Linux
2 55 (20.00%) Windows
3 23 (8.36%) Amazon Linux
3 23 (8.36%) VMS
4 22 (8.00%) Unix
5 14 (5.09%) Windows Server
6 11 (4.00%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.36%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.36%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (41.45%) CI/CD
2 108 (39.27%) DevOps
3 99 (36.00%) Agile
4 53 (19.27%) Containerisation
4 53 (19.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (17.45%) Change Management
5 48 (17.45%) Microservices
6 46 (16.73%) Configuration Management
6 46 (16.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 45 (16.36%) Cloud Security
8 44 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (15.27%) Analytics
10 38 (13.82%) Software Engineering
11 36 (13.09%) Migration
12 35 (12.73%) Platform Engineering
13 32 (11.64%) Incident Response
13 32 (11.64%) Mentoring
14 29 (10.55%) High Availability
15 28 (10.18%) Cybersecurity
16 27 (9.82%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 69 (25.09%) Python
2 64 (23.27%) SQL
3 53 (19.27%) Java
4 39 (14.18%) PowerShell
5 23 (8.36%) Groovy
6 21 (7.64%) Go
7 13 (4.73%) Perl
8 11 (4.00%) Scala
8 11 (4.00%) Shell Script
9 10 (3.64%) Bash
10 9 (3.27%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.45%) BeanShell
11 4 (1.45%) PHP
12 3 (1.09%) Ruby
12 3 (1.09%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.73%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.36%) Korn
14 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 105 (38.18%) Security Cleared
2 80 (29.09%) SC Cleared
3 40 (14.55%) Degree
4 39 (14.18%) AWS Certification
5 23 (8.36%) Azure Certification
6 19 (6.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (5.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 14 (5.09%) DV Cleared
9 11 (4.00%) Master's Degree
10 10 (3.64%) CISSP
10 10 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (2.91%) CCNP
11 8 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (2.55%) CCIE
13 5 (1.82%) CISM
14 4 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (1.45%) CCSP
15 3 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (1.09%) CCIE Security
16 2 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.82%) GDPR
2 15 (5.45%) QA
3 14 (5.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (4.36%) NIST
5 8 (2.91%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.55%) Data Quality
7 6 (2.18%) WCAG
8 3 (1.09%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.36%) ISO 19650
10 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 92 (33.45%) Docker
2 33 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 33 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (9.09%) vSphere
4 21 (7.64%) DFS Replication
5 13 (4.73%) Postfix
6 12 (4.36%) Dovecot
6 12 (4.36%) Squid
7 11 (4.00%) GPFS
7 11 (4.00%) NFS
7 11 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (1.82%) VMware NSX
9 3 (1.09%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.36%) Snort
10 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 81 (29.45%) Terraform
2 67 (24.36%) Kubernetes
3 56 (20.36%) Grafana
4 50 (18.18%) Prometheus
5 45 (16.36%) Ansible
6 25 (9.09%) vRealize
7 14 (5.09%) Puppet
8 13 (4.73%) Progress Chef
9 12 (4.36%) Nessus
10 11 (4.00%) VxRail
11 10 (3.64%) Kibana
11 10 (3.64%) Proxmox
12 8 (2.91%) CSIRT
13 5 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (1.45%) Podman
14 4 (1.45%) QRadar
15 3 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
16 2 (0.73%) Argo
16 2 (0.73%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 50 (18.18%) Cisco
1 50 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 48 (17.45%) ServiceNow
3 47 (17.09%) Splunk
4 46 (16.73%) Oracle
5 36 (13.09%) VMware
6 31 (11.27%) AppDynamics
7 25 (9.09%) IBM
8 19 (6.91%) Dynatrace
8 19 (6.91%) F5
9 18 (6.55%) SolarWinds
10 14 (5.09%) Dell
11 13 (4.73%) Commvault
11 13 (4.73%) Google
11 13 (4.73%) Jaspersoft
12 12 (4.36%) HP
12 12 (4.36%) Palo Alto
13 8 (2.91%) Fortinet
13 8 (2.91%) SAP
13 8 (2.91%) webMethods