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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 17 37
Rank change year-on-year +1 +20 -17
Contract jobs citing AWS 364 151 78
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.52% 8.70% 4.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.00% 27.86% 15.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 97 44
10th Percentile £358 £390 £315
25th Percentile £418 £450 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -0.51% -8.71%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £652
90th Percentile £671 £620 £684
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 1,040 542 503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.05% 31.24% 26.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 704 352 359
10th Percentile £307 £300 £213
25th Percentile £402 £410 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.05% +5.32% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £663 £688
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 8 7
10th Percentile £20.31 £17.70 £15.30
25th Percentile £21.25 £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 £35.00 £26.00 £26.97
% change year-on-year +34.62% -3.60% -18.27%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +2 144 £475 -9.52% 18
Birmingham -2 73 £425 -10.53% 41
Warwickshire +11 39 £482 -22.53% 7
Coventry -5 34 £488 -6.02% 4
Solihull +1 33 £488 +8.33% 2
Worcestershire 0 7 £450 -18.18% 10
Staffordshire -9 4 £200 -55.56% 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 49 (13.46%) SAS
2 47 (12.91%) Confluence
3 22 (6.04%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.92%) Tuxedo
5 4 (1.10%) Apache
6 3 (0.82%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.82%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.82%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.82%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.55%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.55%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.27%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.27%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.27%) Maximo
3 1 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 155 (42.58%) Azure
2 64 (17.58%) GitHub
3 55 (15.11%) Amazon S3
4 51 (14.01%) GCP
5 46 (12.64%) GitHub Actions
6 41 (11.26%) Amazon EC2
7 39 (10.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 39 (10.71%) Serverless
8 34 (9.34%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (7.42%) Amazon EKS
10 23 (6.32%) Amazon ECS
11 22 (6.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 19 (5.22%) Amazon SQS
13 18 (4.95%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (3.57%) Power Platform
16 12 (3.30%) AWS CodePipeline
16 12 (3.30%) GitHub Copilot
16 12 (3.30%) PaaS
16 12 (3.30%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.75%) Firewall
1 10 (2.75%) SD-WAN
1 10 (2.75%) WAN
2 8 (2.20%) DHCP
2 8 (2.20%) DNS
3 7 (1.92%) BGP
3 7 (1.92%) Network Security
3 7 (1.92%) OSPF
4 6 (1.65%) VXLAN
5 5 (1.37%) LAN
5 5 (1.37%) NetScaler
5 5 (1.37%) VLAN
5 5 (1.37%) VPN
5 5 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.10%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (0.82%) BIG-IP
7 3 (0.82%) MPLS
7 3 (0.82%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.82%) VSAN
7 3 (0.82%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (10.99%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (8.52%) Pentaho
2 31 (8.52%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (6.87%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (5.77%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 21 (5.77%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 20 (5.49%) Oracle Reports
6 19 (5.22%) DynamoDB
7 18 (4.95%) MySQL
7 18 (4.95%) Oracle Database
8 13 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (3.57%) Relational Database
9 12 (3.30%) Metadata
10 11 (3.02%) Data Lake
10 11 (3.02%) MongoDB
10 11 (3.02%) Power BI
10 11 (3.02%) SQL Server
11 10 (2.75%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (1.65%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 90 (24.73%) GitLab
2 79 (21.70%) Git
3 71 (19.51%) Jenkins
3 71 (19.51%) JIRA
4 38 (10.44%) JUnit
5 26 (7.14%) Selenium
6 25 (6.87%) Zephyr
7 23 (6.32%) Postman
7 23 (6.32%) SonarQube
8 21 (5.77%) Cucumber
9 19 (5.22%) Maven
10 15 (4.12%) Mockito
11 14 (3.85%) Gatling
12 13 (3.57%) Artifactory
13 12 (3.30%) Bitbucket
14 11 (3.02%) JMeter
15 10 (2.75%) WebDriver
16 7 (1.92%) Bitbucket Server
16 7 (1.92%) DbUnit
16 7 (1.92%) jMock
General
1 116 (31.87%) Social Skills
2 82 (22.53%) Public Sector
3 26 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (2.75%) Finance
5 6 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (1.65%) Legal
6 5 (1.37%) Banking
6 5 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (0.82%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.82%) Military
8 3 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (0.82%) Retail
8 3 (0.82%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.55%) Advertising
9 2 (0.55%) Front Office
9 2 (0.55%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 61 (16.76%) Architect
2 51 (14.01%) Data Engineer
3 41 (11.26%) Senior
4 31 (8.52%) AWS Engineer
5 28 (7.69%) Tester
6 27 (7.42%) Developer
7 25 (6.87%) Lead
8 24 (6.59%) Scrum Master
9 18 (4.95%) DevOps Engineer
10 16 (4.40%) Java Developer
10 16 (4.40%) QA Tester
11 15 (4.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
12 14 (3.85%) AWS Data Engineer
13 13 (3.57%) Technical Architect
14 12 (3.30%) Analyst
15 11 (3.02%) Cloud Engineer
15 11 (3.02%) Quality Engineer
15 11 (3.02%) Release Manager
16 10 (2.75%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (16.21%) Terraform
2 46 (12.64%) Spring
3 30 (8.24%) Spring Boot
4 26 (7.14%) REST
5 21 (5.77%) RESTful
6 17 (4.67%) Playwright
6 17 (4.67%) SOAP
7 16 (4.40%) WireMock
8 15 (4.12%) JPA
8 15 (4.12%) Node.js
9 14 (3.85%) AngularJS
9 14 (3.85%) React
10 13 (3.57%) Spring Cloud
10 13 (3.57%) Web Services
11 12 (3.30%) ActiveMQ
11 12 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (3.30%) Hibernate
12 11 (3.02%) JSON
13 10 (2.75%) Spring Batch
13 10 (2.75%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 47 (12.91%) Cloud Native
2 32 (8.79%) Product Ownership
3 28 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (6.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (3.30%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (3.30%) Private Cloud
6 11 (3.02%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.02%) Replication
7 10 (2.75%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.47%) Data Centre
8 9 (2.47%) Distributed Architecture
8 9 (2.47%) Operational Technology
9 7 (1.92%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.65%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.37%) Data Fabric
12 4 (1.10%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 40 (10.99%) Linux
2 24 (6.59%) Windows
3 22 (6.04%) Unix
4 12 (3.30%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.37%) AIX
6 2 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.55%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.55%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.27%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (48.63%) Agile
2 156 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 124 (34.07%) DevOps
4 102 (28.02%) Migration
5 101 (27.75%) Test Automation
6 76 (20.88%) Scrum
7 70 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
8 68 (18.68%) Containerisation
9 67 (18.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 60 (16.48%) ETL
11 59 (16.21%) Microservices
12 56 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
13 53 (14.56%) Analytics
14 50 (13.74%) Observability
15 48 (13.19%) Data Integration
16 45 (12.36%) Technical Leadership
16 45 (12.36%) Test Strategy
17 42 (11.54%) Data Modelling
18 40 (10.99%) Validation
19 39 (10.71%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 111 (30.49%) SQL
2 62 (17.03%) Java
2 62 (17.03%) Python
3 21 (5.77%) Bash
4 20 (5.49%) JavaScript
5 15 (4.12%) PowerShell
6 12 (3.30%) PL/SQL
7 9 (2.47%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.92%) VB
8 7 (1.92%) VB6
9 6 (1.65%) Go
10 5 (1.37%) C
11 3 (0.82%) R
11 3 (0.82%) Scala
11 3 (0.82%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.55%) Bicep
12 2 (0.55%) C#
12 2 (0.55%) Groovy
13 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 193 (53.02%) Security Cleared
2 163 (44.78%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.87%) ISTQB
4 24 (6.59%) AWS Certification
5 22 (6.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (4.12%) Degree
7 11 (3.02%) Azure Certification
7 11 (3.02%) SAFe Agilist
8 10 (2.75%) DV Cleared
9 9 (2.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.10%) CISSP
12 4 (1.10%) SAS Certification
13 3 (0.82%) CCNP
14 2 (0.55%) CCNA
14 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.55%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (14.01%) QA
2 16 (4.40%) Accessibility
3 13 (3.57%) Data Quality
4 11 (3.02%) WCAG
5 10 (2.75%) NIST
6 7 (1.92%) SLA
7 6 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (1.37%) GDPR
9 3 (0.82%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.27%) GRC
10 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 93 (25.55%) Docker
2 16 (4.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (4.12%) vSphere
4 13 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (3.30%) Active Directory
6 7 (1.92%) GPFS
6 7 (1.92%) NFS
7 6 (1.65%) Postfix
8 5 (1.37%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.55%) Firmware
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 77 (21.15%) Kubernetes
2 49 (13.46%) Grafana
3 33 (9.07%) Prometheus
4 20 (5.49%) Ansible
5 8 (2.20%) Progress Chef
5 8 (2.20%) Puppet
6 6 (1.65%) vRealize
7 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.10%) SCCM
9 3 (0.82%) Kibana
9 3 (0.82%) VxRail
10 2 (0.55%) Argo
10 2 (0.55%) Check_MK
11 1 (0.27%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.27%) Istio
11 1 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.27%) Podman
11 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 107 (29.40%) Oracle
2 40 (10.99%) Talend
3 34 (9.34%) Microsoft
4 27 (7.42%) Denodo
5 25 (6.87%) VMware
6 21 (5.77%) Cisco
7 20 (5.49%) Informatica
7 20 (5.49%) ServiceNow
8 15 (4.12%) Databricks
9 13 (3.57%) Splunk
10 10 (2.75%) IBM
10 10 (2.75%) Jaspersoft
11 8 (2.20%) Atlassian
12 7 (1.92%) Palo Alto
12 7 (1.92%) SAP
13 6 (1.65%) Cloudera
13 6 (1.65%) Google
14 5 (1.37%) Actian
14 5 (1.37%) Dynatrace
15 4 (1.10%) OpenAI