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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 42
Rank change year-on-year +2 +27 -22
Contract jobs citing AWS 390 195 76
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.92% 10.51% 4.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.20% 32.39% 13.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 123 32
10th Percentile £377 £400 £310
25th Percentile £431 £450 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £668 £673
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% -25.82%

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 1,108 602 544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.01% 32.45% 28.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 745 414 355
10th Percentile £310 £275 £213
25th Percentile £406 £413 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% +2.65% +5.26%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £612
90th Percentile £682 £700 £687
England median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 8 10
10th Percentile £17.48 £25.12 £15.83
25th Percentile £19.25 £27.21 £23.55
Median hourly rate £21.50 £31.94 £33.74
Median % change year-on-year -32.69% -5.32% +82.35%
75th Percentile £50.50 £35.24 £35.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £42.68 £37.50
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%

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 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 4 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 4 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 +2 162 £478 -7.28% 43
Birmingham -5 80 £525 +10.53% 113
Solihull +4 38 £494 +9.72% 16
Warwickshire +3 37 £477 -23.68% 68
Coventry -8 32 £450 +5.88% 23
Worcestershire +4 10 £613 +11.36% 42
Staffordshire -9 7 £270 -40.00% 76
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 40 (10.26%) Confluence
2 31 (7.95%) SAS
3 14 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.79%) Apache
4 7 (1.79%) Tuxedo
5 6 (1.54%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.03%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.51%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.51%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.26%) CMS
8 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.26%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.26%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 144 (36.92%) Azure
2 64 (16.41%) GitHub
3 48 (12.31%) GCP
4 47 (12.05%) Amazon S3
5 37 (9.49%) GitHub Actions
6 36 (9.23%) Amazon EC2
7 33 (8.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 32 (8.21%) Serverless
9 28 (7.18%) AWS Lambda
10 27 (6.92%) Amazon EKS
11 21 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (4.10%) GitHub Copilot
12 16 (4.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 13 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (3.08%) Power Platform
14 12 (3.08%) SaaS
15 10 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
16 9 (2.31%) AWS KMS
16 9 (2.31%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.85%) Firewall
2 12 (3.08%) DHCP
2 12 (3.08%) DNS
3 11 (2.82%) WAN
4 10 (2.56%) Network Security
4 10 (2.56%) SD-WAN
5 6 (1.54%) BGP
5 6 (1.54%) LAN
5 6 (1.54%) OSPF
6 5 (1.28%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.28%) VLAN
6 5 (1.28%) VPN
6 5 (1.28%) VXLAN
6 5 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (1.03%) DMZ
7 4 (1.03%) NetScaler
8 3 (0.77%) BIG-IP
8 3 (0.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 3 (0.77%) MPLS
8 3 (0.77%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (8.21%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (7.18%) Pentaho
3 27 (6.92%) MongoDB
3 27 (6.92%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (5.90%) Relational Database
5 20 (5.13%) Metadata
6 18 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (4.10%) Oracle Reports
8 14 (3.59%) Oracle Database
9 13 (3.33%) DynamoDB
9 13 (3.33%) MySQL
10 12 (3.08%) Data Lake
10 12 (3.08%) Power BI
10 12 (3.08%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 12 (3.08%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 10 (2.56%) SQL Server
12 8 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (2.05%) NoSQL
13 7 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (1.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 107 (27.44%) GitLab
2 80 (20.51%) Git
3 69 (17.69%) Jenkins
4 63 (16.15%) JUnit
5 61 (15.64%) JIRA
6 38 (9.74%) SonarQube
7 37 (9.49%) Selenium
8 36 (9.23%) Maven
9 31 (7.95%) Cucumber
9 31 (7.95%) Mockito
10 29 (7.44%) Gatling
11 20 (5.13%) Zephyr
12 18 (4.62%) Postman
13 13 (3.33%) Artifactory
14 9 (2.31%) Bitbucket
15 6 (1.54%) Team Foundation Server
16 5 (1.28%) Oracle Forms
16 5 (1.28%) REST Assured
17 4 (1.03%) Bitbucket Server
17 4 (1.03%) Serenity BDD
General
1 127 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 93 (23.85%) Public Sector
3 32 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (3.08%) Finance
6 9 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (1.79%) Legal
8 6 (1.54%) Banking
9 4 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.03%) Military
9 4 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.03%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.77%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.51%) Advertising
11 2 (0.51%) Front Office
11 2 (0.51%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.51%) Publishing
11 2 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 68 (17.44%) Architect
2 53 (13.59%) Senior
3 51 (13.08%) Data Engineer
4 36 (9.23%) Developer
5 30 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 30 (7.69%) Lead
6 27 (6.92%) AWS Engineer
7 25 (6.41%) Quality Engineer
8 22 (5.64%) Scrum Master
9 20 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (4.36%) Data Architect
10 17 (4.36%) Tester
11 16 (4.10%) DevOps Engineer
12 15 (3.85%) Senior Developer
12 15 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (3.85%) Technical Architect
13 14 (3.59%) Java Engineer
13 14 (3.59%) Senior Java Developer
14 12 (3.08%) QA Tester
15 11 (2.82%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (20.77%) Spring
2 58 (14.87%) Spring Boot
3 52 (13.33%) Terraform
4 38 (9.74%) REST
5 36 (9.23%) Playwright
6 31 (7.95%) JPA
6 31 (7.95%) RESTful
7 20 (5.13%) AngularJS
7 20 (5.13%) OpenAPI
7 20 (5.13%) SOAP
8 19 (4.87%) Gherkin
8 19 (4.87%) WireMock
9 18 (4.62%) React
10 17 (4.36%) Hibernate
10 17 (4.36%) JSON
10 17 (4.36%) Spring Cloud
11 16 (4.10%) ActiveMQ
11 16 (4.10%) Kafka
11 16 (4.10%) Web Services
12 11 (2.82%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 64 (16.41%) Cloud Native
2 36 (9.23%) Product Ownership
3 22 (5.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (3.59%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.82%) Operational Technology
6 11 (2.82%) Private Cloud
7 10 (2.56%) Data Fabric
7 10 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (2.56%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.05%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.79%) Replication
9 7 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.28%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.03%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 37 (9.49%) Linux
2 24 (6.15%) Windows
3 22 (5.64%) Unix
4 13 (3.33%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.54%) AIX
6 2 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.51%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.26%) Solaris
7 1 (0.26%) SUSE
7 1 (0.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (48.97%) Agile
2 157 (40.26%) CI/CD
3 114 (29.23%) Test Automation
4 107 (27.44%) DevOps
5 102 (26.15%) Scrum
6 92 (23.59%) Migration
7 86 (22.05%) Microservices
8 85 (21.79%) Stakeholder Management
9 83 (21.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 73 (18.72%) Containerisation
11 63 (16.15%) Infrastructure as Code
12 62 (15.90%) Technical Leadership
13 54 (13.85%) ETL
14 48 (12.31%) TDD
15 46 (11.79%) Data Integration
16 45 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
16 45 (11.54%) Software Testing
17 44 (11.28%) Observability
18 43 (11.03%) Test Strategy
19 42 (10.77%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 116 (29.74%) SQL
2 114 (29.23%) Java
3 57 (14.62%) Python
4 24 (6.15%) JavaScript
5 18 (4.62%) Bash
6 16 (4.10%) TypeScript
7 13 (3.33%) PowerShell
8 12 (3.08%) PL/SQL
9 10 (2.56%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.79%) Scala
10 7 (1.79%) VB
10 7 (1.79%) VB6
11 6 (1.54%) Go
12 5 (1.28%) C
13 3 (0.77%) R
14 2 (0.51%) Bicep
14 2 (0.51%) C#
14 2 (0.51%) Groovy
15 1 (0.26%) ABAP
15 1 (0.26%) C++
Qualifications
1 185 (47.44%) Security Cleared
2 157 (40.26%) SC Cleared
3 49 (12.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 27 (6.92%) AWS Certification
5 20 (5.13%) ISTQB
6 14 (3.59%) Degree
7 11 (2.82%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.56%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.05%) SAFe Agilist
10 6 (1.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.54%) CISSP
10 6 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.28%) CCNP
12 4 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (1.03%) SAS Certification
13 3 (0.77%) CISM
14 2 (0.51%) CISA
14 2 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (14.36%) QA
2 36 (9.23%) Accessibility
3 27 (6.92%) WCAG
4 17 (4.36%) Data Quality
5 11 (2.82%) NIST
6 6 (1.54%) GRC
7 5 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.28%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.28%) SLA
8 2 (0.51%) COBIT
8 2 (0.51%) GDPR
9 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 93 (23.85%) Docker
2 16 (4.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.85%) vSphere
4 13 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (3.08%) Active Directory
6 5 (1.28%) GPFS
6 5 (1.28%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.28%) NFS
7 3 (0.77%) Postfix
8 2 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 81 (20.77%) Kubernetes
2 43 (11.03%) Grafana
3 32 (8.21%) Prometheus
4 20 (5.13%) Ansible
5 16 (4.10%) Kibana
6 8 (2.05%) Progress Chef
6 8 (2.05%) Puppet
7 6 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.54%) SCCM
8 4 (1.03%) vRealize
9 2 (0.51%) Argo
9 2 (0.51%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.51%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.51%) VxRail
10 1 (0.26%) Control-M
10 1 (0.26%) Istio
10 1 (0.26%) Podman
10 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 92 (23.59%) Oracle
2 38 (9.74%) Microsoft
3 32 (8.21%) Talend
4 26 (6.67%) VMware
5 21 (5.38%) Cisco
5 21 (5.38%) Databricks
6 19 (4.87%) Denodo
7 18 (4.62%) ServiceNow
8 15 (3.85%) Informatica
9 13 (3.33%) Splunk
10 11 (2.82%) Google
11 10 (2.56%) Palo Alto
12 8 (2.05%) IBM
13 7 (1.79%) OpenAI
13 7 (1.79%) SAP
14 6 (1.54%) Jaspersoft
15 5 (1.28%) Actian
15 5 (1.28%) Dynatrace
15 5 (1.28%) Fortinet
15 5 (1.28%) NetApp