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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 28 38
Rank change year-on-year +18 +10 -25
Contract jobs citing AWS 326 88 83
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 12.20% 6.06% 4.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.55% 17.53% 16.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 54 67
10th Percentile £316 £400 £310
25th Percentile £413 £453 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.15% +2.20% -7.41%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £652
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.75 - -
Median hourly rate £76.50 - £19.95
75th Percentile £77.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £55.50 £51.06
% change year-on-year +35.14% +8.71% -20.23%

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 892 502 516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.38% 34.57% 27.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 653 344 396
10th Percentile £306 £200 £200
25th Percentile £413 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year - +9.89% -9.05%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 11
10th Percentile £22.63 £15.84 £14.13
25th Percentile £25.55 £17.00 £17.63
Median hourly rate £27.21 £20.24 £19.95
Median % change year-on-year +34.44% +1.45% +21.94%
75th Percentile - £35.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £52.23 £37.79 -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year +36.36% +27.08% -13.44%

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 20 February 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
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 20 February 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
Birmingham +14 91 £525 -4.55% 54
Shropshire -6 82 £475 -3.36% 35
Coventry +13 53 £402 -19.60% 16
Warwickshire +12 36 £556 +11.25% 9
Worcestershire +5 21 £680 -2.86% 15
Herefordshire -8 12 £550 -21.43% 4
Solihull +1 11 £500 +0.50% 9
Staffordshire 0 2 £394 -28.41% 17
Wolverhampton - 2 £425 - 5
Bilston - 1 £550 - 1
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 49 (15.03%) Confluence
2 20 (6.13%) Apache
2 20 (6.13%) SAS
2 20 (6.13%) WebLogic
3 8 (2.45%) JBoss
4 6 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.84%) nginx
5 5 (1.53%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.53%) OpenStack
6 4 (1.23%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.92%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.61%) Drupal
9 1 (0.31%) CMS
9 1 (0.31%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 10 (3.07%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (2.45%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.23%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.31%) CATIA
4 1 (0.31%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.31%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.31%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 149 (45.71%) Azure
2 75 (23.01%) GCP
3 47 (14.42%) Amazon S3
4 34 (10.43%) Amazon EC2
5 26 (7.98%) Datadog
6 25 (7.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 25 (7.67%) Serverless
7 24 (7.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 23 (7.06%) GitHub
9 21 (6.44%) AWS KMS
10 17 (5.21%) Amazon ELB
10 17 (5.21%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (4.60%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (4.60%) OpenShift
12 14 (4.29%) Entra ID
13 13 (3.99%) Route 53
14 12 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
17 9 (2.76%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 33 (10.12%) Firewall
2 22 (6.75%) VPN
3 20 (6.13%) DNS
4 16 (4.91%) Network Security
5 14 (4.29%) VSAN
6 10 (3.07%) DHCP
7 9 (2.76%) SD-WAN
8 8 (2.45%) LAN
8 8 (2.45%) WAN
9 7 (2.15%) HTTP
9 7 (2.15%) WLAN
10 6 (1.84%) BGP
10 6 (1.84%) FTP
10 6 (1.84%) MPLS
10 6 (1.84%) OSPF
10 6 (1.84%) SMTP
10 6 (1.84%) SSH
10 6 (1.84%) VLAN
11 5 (1.53%) SSL
11 5 (1.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (12.27%) Amazon RDS
2 37 (11.35%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (7.67%) MongoDB
4 16 (4.91%) NoSQL
5 14 (4.29%) Pentaho
6 11 (3.37%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (3.07%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (3.07%) Oracle Database
8 9 (2.76%) MySQL
8 9 (2.76%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.84%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.23%) InfluxDB
10 4 (1.23%) Metadata
11 3 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (0.92%) Big Data
11 3 (0.92%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.61%) Power BI
13 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 66 (20.25%) Git
2 62 (19.02%) Jenkins
3 50 (15.34%) JIRA
4 47 (14.42%) GitLab
5 37 (11.35%) JUnit
6 28 (8.59%) Selenium
7 19 (5.83%) Maven
8 16 (4.91%) Cucumber
9 15 (4.60%) Mockito
10 12 (3.68%) SonarQube
11 11 (3.37%) Liquibase
12 8 (2.45%) Eclipse
12 8 (2.45%) IntelliJ
12 8 (2.45%) JMeter
13 7 (2.15%) WebDriver
14 6 (1.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (1.84%) CircleCI
14 6 (1.84%) Cypress.io
14 6 (1.84%) Postman
14 6 (1.84%) Vagrant
General
1 125 (38.34%) Social Skills
2 58 (17.79%) Finance
3 51 (15.64%) Public Sector
4 42 (12.88%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.13%) Banking
5 20 (6.13%) Presentation Skills
6 17 (5.21%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (3.99%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (3.07%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.15%) Aeronautics
9 7 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.23%) Legal
11 2 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.61%) Military
11 2 (0.61%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.31%) Marketing
12 1 (0.31%) Publishing
12 1 (0.31%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (15.03%) Analyst
2 40 (12.27%) Senior
3 36 (11.04%) Architect
3 36 (11.04%) Developer
4 28 (8.59%) Cloud Engineer
4 28 (8.59%) DevOps Engineer
5 26 (7.98%) AWS Engineer
5 26 (7.98%) Data Engineer
5 26 (7.98%) Lead
6 24 (7.36%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 20 (6.13%) Java Developer
8 19 (5.83%) Storage Analyst
9 17 (5.21%) Software Engineer
10 16 (4.91%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (4.60%) Business Analyst
12 13 (3.99%) Senior DevOps
12 13 (3.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 12 (3.68%) Site Engineer
13 12 (3.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 11 (3.37%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (14.42%) REST
2 43 (13.19%) Spring
3 28 (8.59%) Spring Boot
4 26 (7.98%) RESTful
5 23 (7.06%) JSON
6 20 (6.13%) Elastic Stack
6 20 (6.13%) SOAP
7 18 (5.52%) HTML
8 16 (4.91%) Flash
8 16 (4.91%) React
9 15 (4.60%) Hibernate
10 14 (4.29%) JPA
11 13 (3.99%) Node.js
12 11 (3.37%) AngularJS
12 11 (3.37%) WireMock
13 10 (3.07%) Playwright
13 10 (3.07%) SailPoint
13 10 (3.07%) Web Services
14 9 (2.76%) OAuth
14 9 (2.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.82%) Linux Command Line
2 31 (9.51%) Cloud Native
3 24 (7.36%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (7.36%) Replication
4 13 (3.99%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.99%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.37%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.45%) Private Cloud
7 7 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.15%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.53%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.53%) SCADA
9 4 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.23%) PKI
9 4 (1.23%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.23%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.61%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.61%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 92 (28.22%) Linux
2 30 (9.20%) Windows
3 16 (4.91%) Unix
4 13 (3.99%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.84%) Amazon Linux
6 6 (1.84%) VMS
7 4 (1.23%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.31%) Android
8 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.31%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (45.71%) Agile
2 134 (41.10%) CI/CD
3 96 (29.45%) DevOps
4 67 (20.55%) Microservices
5 59 (18.10%) Containerisation
5 59 (18.10%) Continuous Improvement
6 58 (17.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 56 (17.18%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (15.95%) Infrastructure as Code
9 49 (15.03%) Mentoring
10 45 (13.80%) Change Management
10 45 (13.80%) Software Engineering
11 43 (13.19%) Migration
12 39 (11.96%) Scrum
13 37 (11.35%) Analytics
14 31 (9.51%) Cybersecurity
14 31 (9.51%) Observability
15 29 (8.90%) Root Cause Analysis
16 28 (8.59%) High Availability
17 27 (8.28%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 85 (26.07%) SQL
2 72 (22.09%) Python
3 66 (20.25%) Java
4 21 (6.44%) Bash
4 21 (6.44%) Go
4 21 (6.44%) PowerShell
4 21 (6.44%) Shell Script
5 11 (3.37%) JavaScript
5 11 (3.37%) Scala
6 8 (2.45%) Groovy
6 8 (2.45%) Perl
7 5 (1.53%) PHP
8 4 (1.23%) BeanShell
8 4 (1.23%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.92%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.92%) Ruby
10 2 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.31%) Bicep
11 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 137 (42.02%) Security Cleared
2 107 (32.82%) SC Cleared
3 34 (10.43%) AWS Certification
4 29 (8.90%) Degree
5 18 (5.52%) Azure Certification
6 15 (4.60%) DV Cleared
7 14 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (3.99%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (3.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (3.68%) CISSP
10 11 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (3.37%) Master's Degree
11 9 (2.76%) IIBA
12 8 (2.45%) CCNP
12 8 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (2.15%) CCIE
14 6 (1.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (1.53%) CCSP
15 5 (1.53%) CISM
16 4 (1.23%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.06%) GDPR
1 23 (7.06%) QA
2 16 (4.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (4.29%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.68%) NIST
5 10 (3.07%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.15%) WCAG
7 5 (1.53%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.61%) COBIT
8 2 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.61%) SLA
9 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.31%) ISO 19650
9 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 92 (28.22%) Docker
2 39 (11.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (9.51%) vSphere
4 21 (6.44%) Active Directory
5 16 (4.91%) GPFS
5 16 (4.91%) NFS
5 16 (4.91%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (2.45%) Postfix
7 6 (1.84%) DFS Replication
8 4 (1.23%) Dovecot
8 4 (1.23%) Squid
8 4 (1.23%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.92%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.31%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 90 (27.61%) Kubernetes
2 71 (21.78%) Terraform
3 65 (19.94%) Grafana
4 53 (16.26%) Prometheus
5 45 (13.80%) Ansible
6 31 (9.51%) vRealize
7 16 (4.91%) Progress Chef
8 14 (4.29%) Puppet
8 14 (4.29%) VxRail
9 11 (3.37%) Kibana
10 6 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.53%) Nessus
11 5 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.23%) Podman
12 4 (1.23%) Proxmox
12 4 (1.23%) QRadar
13 2 (0.61%) Argo
13 2 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.61%) EMC NetWorker
14 1 (0.31%) logstash
Vendors
1 55 (16.87%) Oracle
2 48 (14.72%) Cisco
2 48 (14.72%) Microsoft
3 44 (13.50%) ServiceNow
4 40 (12.27%) VMware
5 38 (11.66%) Splunk
6 34 (10.43%) IBM
7 25 (7.67%) AppDynamics
8 20 (6.13%) SolarWinds
9 16 (4.91%) Dynatrace
9 16 (4.91%) Google
9 16 (4.91%) Talend
10 15 (4.60%) Dell
11 14 (4.29%) Commvault
11 14 (4.29%) Informatica
12 13 (3.99%) HP
13 12 (3.68%) F5
13 12 (3.68%) Palo Alto
14 11 (3.37%) SAP
15 10 (3.07%) Jaspersoft