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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 12 42
Rank change year-on-year 0 +30 -24
Contract jobs citing AWS 397 212 76
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.19% 11.25% 4.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.41% 33.70% 13.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 135 29
10th Percentile £400 £401 £309
25th Percentile £434 £459 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £515 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.34% +8.42% -5.00%
75th Percentile £620 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £660
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £60.70 - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.76% +59.16% -24.30%

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 1,121 629 556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.60% 33.39% 29.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 759 435 360
10th Percentile £313 £283 £208
25th Percentile £406 £413 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £490
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% +5.21% +3.05%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £611
90th Percentile £676 £700 £685
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 9 10
10th Percentile £17.48 £25.82 £15.83
25th Percentile £18.13 £27.21 £23.55
Median hourly rate £21.50 £30.00 £33.74
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% -11.07% +82.35%
75th Percentile £33.99 £34.98 £35.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £40.45 £37.50
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.87%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 11 October 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 0 172 £475 -7.77% 23
Birmingham -5 78 £533 +11.17% 101
Warwickshire +5 38 £477 -23.68% 20
Solihull +4 38 £494 +9.72% 12
Coventry -12 29 £463 +8.82% 9
Worcestershire +6 10 £613 +11.36% 10
Staffordshire -7 8 £270 -40.00% 4
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 42 (10.58%) Confluence
2 31 (7.81%) SAS
3 16 (4.03%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.52%) Apache
5 7 (1.76%) Tuxedo
6 5 (1.26%) Apache Spark
7 4 (1.01%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.50%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.50%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.25%) CMS
9 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.25%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.25%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 149 (37.53%) Azure
2 66 (16.62%) GitHub
3 48 (12.09%) GCP
4 45 (11.34%) Amazon S3
5 37 (9.32%) GitHub Actions
6 34 (8.56%) Amazon EC2
7 32 (8.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 32 (8.06%) Serverless
8 28 (7.05%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (6.80%) Amazon EKS
10 21 (5.29%) Amazon ECS
11 18 (4.53%) GitHub Copilot
12 16 (4.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 15 (3.78%) Power Platform
14 13 (3.27%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (3.02%) SaaS
16 10 (2.52%) OCI
17 9 (2.27%) AWS KMS
17 9 (2.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.53%) Firewall
2 13 (3.27%) DNS
3 12 (3.02%) DHCP
3 12 (3.02%) Network Security
4 11 (2.77%) WAN
5 10 (2.52%) SD-WAN
6 6 (1.51%) BGP
6 6 (1.51%) LAN
6 6 (1.51%) OSPF
6 6 (1.51%) VPN
7 5 (1.26%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.26%) VLAN
7 5 (1.26%) VXLAN
7 5 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (1.01%) DMZ
8 4 (1.01%) NetScaler
9 3 (0.76%) BIG-IP
9 3 (0.76%) Internet
9 3 (0.76%) MPLS
9 3 (0.76%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.31%) MongoDB
2 32 (8.06%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (8.06%) Pentaho
3 26 (6.55%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (6.05%) Relational Database
5 20 (5.04%) Metadata
6 17 (4.28%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (4.03%) MySQL
7 16 (4.03%) Oracle Reports
8 15 (3.78%) Power BI
9 14 (3.53%) Oracle Database
10 12 (3.02%) DynamoDB
10 12 (3.02%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 12 (3.02%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 11 (2.77%) Data Lake
12 10 (2.52%) SQL Server
13 8 (2.02%) NoSQL
14 7 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (1.76%) BusinessObjects
14 7 (1.76%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 113 (28.46%) GitLab
2 83 (20.91%) Git
3 70 (17.63%) Jenkins
4 65 (16.37%) JUnit
5 62 (15.62%) JIRA
6 40 (10.08%) Selenium
7 39 (9.82%) SonarQube
8 35 (8.82%) Maven
9 34 (8.56%) Cucumber
10 32 (8.06%) Gatling
11 30 (7.56%) Mockito
12 21 (5.29%) Zephyr
13 19 (4.79%) Postman
14 13 (3.27%) Artifactory
15 9 (2.27%) Bitbucket
16 6 (1.51%) Team Foundation Server
17 5 (1.26%) Oracle Forms
17 5 (1.26%) REST Assured
18 4 (1.01%) Bitbucket Server
18 4 (1.01%) Serenity BDD
General
1 134 (33.75%) Social Skills
2 96 (24.18%) Public Sector
3 35 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
5 10 (2.52%) Finance
6 9 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (1.76%) Legal
8 6 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.01%) Banking
9 4 (1.01%) Military
9 4 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.01%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.76%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.50%) Advertising
11 2 (0.50%) Front Office
11 2 (0.50%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.50%) Publishing
12 1 (0.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 69 (17.38%) Architect
2 51 (12.85%) Data Engineer
3 50 (12.59%) Senior
4 35 (8.82%) Developer
5 31 (7.81%) Lead
6 29 (7.30%) Java Developer
7 28 (7.05%) Quality Engineer
8 27 (6.80%) AWS Engineer
9 22 (5.54%) Scrum Master
10 20 (5.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 17 (4.28%) Data Architect
11 17 (4.28%) Java Engineer
11 17 (4.28%) Tester
12 16 (4.03%) DevOps Engineer
12 16 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
12 16 (4.03%) Technical Architect
13 14 (3.53%) Senior Developer
14 13 (3.27%) Senior Java Developer
15 12 (3.02%) Cloud Engineer
15 12 (3.02%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (20.15%) Spring
2 57 (14.36%) Spring Boot
3 49 (12.34%) Terraform
4 40 (10.08%) Playwright
5 38 (9.57%) REST
6 31 (7.81%) RESTful
7 30 (7.56%) JPA
8 21 (5.29%) Gherkin
8 21 (5.29%) React
8 21 (5.29%) WireMock
9 20 (5.04%) JSON
9 20 (5.04%) OpenAPI
10 19 (4.79%) AngularJS
10 19 (4.79%) SOAP
11 16 (4.03%) Hibernate
11 16 (4.03%) Kafka
11 16 (4.03%) Spring Cloud
12 15 (3.78%) ActiveMQ
12 15 (3.78%) RabbitMQ
12 15 (3.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 64 (16.12%) Cloud Native
2 37 (9.32%) Product Ownership
3 22 (5.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (3.53%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.77%) Operational Technology
6 11 (2.77%) Private Cloud
6 11 (2.77%) Public Cloud
7 10 (2.52%) Data Fabric
8 9 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.02%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.51%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.51%) Replication
12 5 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.26%) Low-Code
13 4 (1.01%) AI Agents
13 4 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 38 (9.57%) Linux
2 26 (6.55%) Windows
3 21 (5.29%) Unix
4 13 (3.27%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.51%) AIX
6 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.50%) macOS
6 2 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.25%) Solaris
7 1 (0.25%) SUSE
7 1 (0.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (49.87%) Agile
2 161 (40.55%) CI/CD
3 119 (29.97%) Test Automation
4 109 (27.46%) DevOps
5 102 (25.69%) Scrum
6 93 (23.43%) Migration
7 91 (22.92%) Microservices
7 91 (22.92%) Stakeholder Management
8 85 (21.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 74 (18.64%) Containerisation
10 61 (15.37%) Infrastructure as Code
10 61 (15.37%) Technical Leadership
11 58 (14.61%) ETL
12 52 (13.10%) Data Integration
13 50 (12.59%) TDD
14 48 (12.09%) Software Testing
15 46 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
16 44 (11.08%) Observability
16 44 (11.08%) Test Strategy
17 43 (10.83%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 120 (30.23%) Java
1 120 (30.23%) SQL
2 61 (15.37%) Python
3 27 (6.80%) JavaScript
4 18 (4.53%) Bash
5 17 (4.28%) TypeScript
6 13 (3.27%) PowerShell
7 12 (3.02%) PL/SQL
8 10 (2.52%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.76%) Scala
9 7 (1.76%) VB
9 7 (1.76%) VB6
10 6 (1.51%) Go
11 5 (1.26%) C
12 3 (0.76%) R
13 2 (0.50%) Bicep
13 2 (0.50%) C#
13 2 (0.50%) Groovy
14 1 (0.25%) ABAP
14 1 (0.25%) C++
Qualifications
1 191 (48.11%) Security Cleared
2 162 (40.81%) SC Cleared
3 51 (12.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 28 (7.05%) AWS Certification
5 23 (5.79%) ISTQB
6 14 (3.53%) Degree
7 11 (2.77%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.52%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.02%) SAFe Agilist
10 7 (1.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 6 (1.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 6 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.51%) CISSP
11 6 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.26%) CCNP
13 4 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (1.01%) SAS Certification
14 3 (0.76%) CISM
15 2 (0.50%) CISA
15 2 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (15.11%) QA
2 40 (10.08%) Accessibility
3 30 (7.56%) WCAG
4 16 (4.03%) Data Quality
5 11 (2.77%) NIST
6 6 (1.51%) GDPR
6 6 (1.51%) GRC
6 6 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.26%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.26%) SLA
8 2 (0.50%) COBIT
9 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 96 (24.18%) Docker
2 15 (3.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (3.53%) vSphere
4 13 (3.27%) Active Directory
5 12 (3.02%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (1.26%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.01%) GPFS
7 4 (1.01%) NFS
8 3 (0.76%) Postfix
9 2 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 88 (22.17%) Kubernetes
2 45 (11.34%) Grafana
3 35 (8.82%) Prometheus
4 20 (5.04%) Ansible
5 16 (4.03%) Kibana
6 8 (2.02%) Progress Chef
6 8 (2.02%) Puppet
7 6 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.51%) SCCM
8 3 (0.76%) vRealize
9 2 (0.50%) Argo
9 2 (0.50%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.50%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.25%) Control-M
10 1 (0.25%) Istio
10 1 (0.25%) Podman
10 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 99 (24.94%) Oracle
2 37 (9.32%) Microsoft
3 33 (8.31%) Talend
4 25 (6.30%) VMware
5 20 (5.04%) Cisco
5 20 (5.04%) Denodo
6 18 (4.53%) Databricks
7 15 (3.78%) ServiceNow
8 13 (3.27%) Splunk
9 12 (3.02%) Informatica
10 11 (2.77%) Google
11 10 (2.52%) Palo Alto
11 10 (2.52%) SAP
12 7 (1.76%) IBM
12 7 (1.76%) OpenAI
13 6 (1.51%) Cloudera
14 5 (1.26%) Dynatrace
14 5 (1.26%) Fortinet
14 5 (1.26%) Jaspersoft
14 5 (1.26%) NetApp