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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 25 40
Rank change year-on-year +14 +15 -27
Contract jobs citing AWS 335 87 79
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 12.35% 6.19% 4.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.43% 17.61% 15.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 53 63
10th Percentile £314 £400 £325
25th Percentile £402 £453 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £660 £700 £654
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -6.58%
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 £48.62
% change year-on-year +35.14% +14.16% -24.33%

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 895 494 507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.99% 35.16% 27.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 657 341 390
10th Percentile £306 £200 £200
25th Percentile £406 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.89%
75th Percentile £576 £600 £595
90th Percentile £688 £700 £677
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% +21.50%
75th Percentile - £35.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £52.23 £37.79 -
England median hourly rate £39.50 £27.50 £21.48
% change year-on-year +43.64% +28.03% -14.08%

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 25 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 25 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 90 £525 -4.55% 38
Shropshire -4 90 £467 -5.02% 16
Coventry +12 53 £402 -19.60% 9
Warwickshire +14 36 £556 +11.25% 6
Worcestershire +5 22 £680 -2.86% 7
Solihull 0 13 £500 +0.50% 8
Herefordshire -11 12 £550 -21.43% 4
Wolverhampton - 2 £425 - 2
Staffordshire -6 1 £338 -38.64% 10
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 48 (14.33%) Confluence
2 20 (5.97%) Apache
2 20 (5.97%) SAS
2 20 (5.97%) WebLogic
3 8 (2.39%) JBoss
4 6 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.49%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.49%) nginx
5 5 (1.49%) OpenStack
6 4 (1.19%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.90%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.60%) Drupal
9 1 (0.30%) CMS
9 1 (0.30%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 10 (2.99%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (2.39%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.90%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.30%) CATIA
4 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.30%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.30%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 149 (44.48%) Azure
2 75 (22.39%) GCP
3 49 (14.63%) Amazon S3
4 35 (10.45%) Amazon EC2
5 26 (7.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 26 (7.76%) Datadog
5 26 (7.76%) Serverless
6 23 (6.87%) AWS KMS
6 23 (6.87%) GitHub
7 22 (6.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 17 (5.07%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (4.48%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (4.48%) Amazon ELB
9 15 (4.48%) Entra ID
9 15 (4.48%) OpenShift
9 15 (4.48%) Route 53
10 13 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (2.69%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.96%) Firewall
2 21 (6.27%) VPN
3 17 (5.07%) DNS
4 16 (4.78%) Network Security
5 14 (4.18%) VSAN
6 9 (2.69%) DHCP
7 8 (2.39%) SD-WAN
7 8 (2.39%) WAN
8 7 (2.09%) LAN
8 7 (2.09%) WLAN
9 6 (1.79%) BGP
9 6 (1.79%) MPLS
9 6 (1.79%) OSPF
9 6 (1.79%) VLAN
10 5 (1.49%) IPv4
10 5 (1.49%) IPv6
10 5 (1.49%) SSL
10 5 (1.49%) VXLAN
11 4 (1.19%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (1.19%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (12.24%) Amazon RDS
2 39 (11.64%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (7.46%) MongoDB
4 16 (4.78%) NoSQL
5 14 (4.18%) Pentaho
6 12 (3.58%) Amazon Aurora
7 11 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (2.99%) Oracle Database
8 10 (2.99%) Oracle Reports
9 9 (2.69%) DynamoDB
9 9 (2.69%) MySQL
9 9 (2.69%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.19%) InfluxDB
10 4 (1.19%) Metadata
11 3 (0.90%) Big Data
11 3 (0.90%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.60%) Power BI
13 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 75 (22.39%) Git
2 63 (18.81%) Jenkins
3 57 (17.01%) JIRA
4 48 (14.33%) GitLab
5 40 (11.94%) JUnit
6 28 (8.36%) Selenium
7 22 (6.57%) Maven
8 18 (5.37%) Mockito
9 16 (4.78%) Cucumber
10 15 (4.48%) SonarQube
11 13 (3.88%) Postman
12 11 (3.28%) Liquibase
13 9 (2.69%) Zephyr
14 8 (2.39%) Eclipse
14 8 (2.39%) IntelliJ
14 8 (2.39%) JMeter
15 7 (2.09%) DbUnit
15 7 (2.09%) jMock
15 7 (2.09%) WebDriver
16 6 (1.79%) Cypress.io
General
1 132 (39.40%) Social Skills
2 59 (17.61%) Finance
3 53 (15.82%) Public Sector
4 43 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.97%) Banking
5 20 (5.97%) Presentation Skills
6 16 (4.78%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (3.88%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (2.99%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.09%) Aeronautics
9 7 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.19%) Legal
11 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.60%) Military
11 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.30%) Advertising
12 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.30%) Marketing
12 1 (0.30%) Publishing
12 1 (0.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (14.63%) Analyst
2 41 (12.24%) Senior
3 40 (11.94%) Developer
4 36 (10.75%) Architect
5 28 (8.36%) Cloud Engineer
6 26 (7.76%) Data Engineer
6 26 (7.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 26 (7.76%) Lead
7 25 (7.46%) AWS Engineer
8 24 (7.16%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 23 (6.87%) Java Developer
10 19 (5.67%) Storage Analyst
11 17 (5.07%) Software Engineer
12 16 (4.78%) Solutions Architect
13 15 (4.48%) Business Analyst
13 15 (4.48%) Tester
14 13 (3.88%) Senior DevOps
14 13 (3.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 12 (3.58%) Site Engineer
15 12 (3.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (14.93%) REST
2 46 (13.73%) Spring
3 31 (9.25%) Spring Boot
4 28 (8.36%) RESTful
5 23 (6.87%) JSON
5 23 (6.87%) SOAP
6 20 (5.97%) Elastic Stack
7 19 (5.67%) HTML
8 18 (5.37%) Hibernate
9 17 (5.07%) JPA
9 17 (5.07%) React
10 15 (4.48%) AngularJS
10 15 (4.48%) Flash
10 15 (4.48%) Node.js
11 13 (3.88%) Web Services
12 11 (3.28%) Spring Batch
12 11 (3.28%) WireMock
13 10 (2.99%) Playwright
13 10 (2.99%) SailPoint
13 10 (2.99%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.25%) Linux Command Line
2 30 (8.96%) Cloud Native
3 26 (7.76%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (6.27%) Replication
5 13 (3.88%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.88%) Public Cloud
6 11 (3.28%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.39%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.09%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.49%) SCADA
10 4 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.19%) PKI
10 4 (1.19%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.19%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.60%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.60%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 92 (27.46%) Linux
2 29 (8.66%) Windows
3 16 (4.78%) Unix
4 13 (3.88%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.19%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (1.19%) VMS
7 3 (0.90%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.30%) Android
8 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.30%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (48.06%) Agile
2 137 (40.90%) CI/CD
3 98 (29.25%) DevOps
4 70 (20.90%) Microservices
5 63 (18.81%) Containerisation
6 60 (17.91%) Stakeholder Management
7 59 (17.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 55 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
9 54 (16.12%) Infrastructure as Code
10 50 (14.93%) Migration
11 49 (14.63%) Mentoring
12 45 (13.43%) Software Engineering
13 43 (12.84%) Change Management
13 43 (12.84%) Scrum
14 37 (11.04%) Analytics
15 35 (10.45%) ETL
15 35 (10.45%) Test Automation
16 31 (9.25%) Cybersecurity
16 31 (9.25%) Observability
16 31 (9.25%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 95 (28.36%) SQL
2 70 (20.90%) Python
3 68 (20.30%) Java
4 21 (6.27%) Bash
4 21 (6.27%) Go
4 21 (6.27%) Shell Script
5 19 (5.67%) PowerShell
6 12 (3.58%) JavaScript
7 11 (3.28%) Scala
8 7 (2.09%) Perl
9 6 (1.79%) Groovy
10 5 (1.49%) PHP
11 4 (1.19%) BeanShell
11 4 (1.19%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.90%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.90%) Ruby
13 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.30%) Bicep
14 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 148 (44.18%) Security Cleared
2 116 (34.63%) SC Cleared
3 35 (10.45%) AWS Certification
4 28 (8.36%) Degree
5 18 (5.37%) Azure Certification
6 16 (4.78%) DV Cleared
7 14 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (3.88%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (3.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (3.58%) CISSP
10 11 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (3.28%) Master's Degree
11 9 (2.69%) IIBA
11 9 (2.69%) ISTQB
12 8 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (2.09%) CCIE
13 7 (2.09%) CCNP
14 6 (1.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (1.49%) CCSP
15 5 (1.49%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.25%) QA
2 23 (6.87%) GDPR
3 16 (4.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (4.18%) Data Quality
5 12 (3.58%) NIST
6 10 (2.99%) PCI DSS
7 7 (2.09%) WCAG
8 5 (1.49%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.60%) COBIT
9 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.60%) SLA
10 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.30%) ISO 19650
10 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 95 (28.36%) Docker
2 38 (11.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (8.96%) vSphere
4 20 (5.97%) Active Directory
5 15 (4.48%) GPFS
5 15 (4.48%) NFS
5 15 (4.48%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (2.69%) Postfix
7 4 (1.19%) DFS Replication
7 4 (1.19%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.90%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.90%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.90%) Squid
9 1 (0.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 92 (27.46%) Kubernetes
2 71 (21.19%) Terraform
3 66 (19.70%) Grafana
4 52 (15.52%) Prometheus
5 45 (13.43%) Ansible
6 30 (8.96%) vRealize
7 16 (4.78%) Progress Chef
8 14 (4.18%) Puppet
8 14 (4.18%) VxRail
9 11 (3.28%) Kibana
10 6 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.19%) Nessus
12 4 (1.19%) Podman
12 4 (1.19%) QRadar
13 3 (0.90%) Proxmox
14 2 (0.60%) Argo
14 2 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.60%) EMC NetWorker
15 1 (0.30%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 62 (18.51%) Oracle
2 49 (14.63%) Microsoft
3 46 (13.73%) Cisco
4 41 (12.24%) ServiceNow
5 39 (11.64%) VMware
6 38 (11.34%) Splunk
7 33 (9.85%) IBM
8 25 (7.46%) AppDynamics
9 19 (5.67%) SolarWinds
10 16 (4.78%) Dynatrace
10 16 (4.78%) Google
10 16 (4.78%) Talend
11 15 (4.48%) Dell
12 14 (4.18%) Commvault
12 14 (4.18%) Informatica
13 13 (3.88%) HP
14 12 (3.58%) Jaspersoft
14 12 (3.58%) Palo Alto
15 11 (3.28%) F5
15 11 (3.28%) SAP