AWS Contracts in the West Midlands

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 20 13
Rank change year-on-year -30 -7 +5
Contract jobs citing AWS 67 191 360
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.51% 8.27% 10.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.69% 21.98% 29.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 165 253
10th Percentile £313 £413 £415
25th Percentile £328 £480 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £530
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +1.89% +9.05%
75th Percentile £655 £663 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
England median daily rate £563 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.69% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £23.46 - -
25th Percentile £28.71 - -
Median hourly rate £37.48 - -
75th Percentile £46.24 - -
90th Percentile £51.50 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +20.69%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 456 869 1,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.87% 37.64% 34.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 613 882
10th Percentile £213 £300 £225
25th Percentile £350 £410 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% +13.14%
75th Percentile £607 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 16
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.54 £13.75
25th Percentile £14.69 £15.98 £15.95
Median hourly rate £21.23 £20.24 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.87% +7.95% +20.97%
75th Percentile £26.50 £24.47 £20.95
90th Percentile £29.35 £25.31 £23.75
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% +1.84%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the West Midlands

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for AWS in the West Midlands

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the West Midlands

AWS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024. 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 -21 29 £500 -20.00% 67
Coventry +8 18 £650 +35.42% 11
Staffordshire +5 5 £350 -36.36% 11
Warwickshire -4 4 £710 +42.00% 13
Worcestershire -1 3 £450 -30.77% 1
Shropshire -16 2 £450 -16.67% 1
Dudley - 1 £350 -
AWS
England

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.99%) CMS
1 2 (2.99%) Confluence
2 1 (1.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.49%) Drupal
2 1 (1.49%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.49%) SAS
2 1 (1.49%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (4.48%) PeopleSoft HCM
1 3 (4.48%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.49%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 33 (49.25%) Azure
2 12 (17.91%) GCP
3 6 (8.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (7.46%) CloudFront
4 5 (7.46%) Entra ID
4 5 (7.46%) Power Platform
5 4 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (4.48%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.48%) SaaS
6 3 (4.48%) Serverless
7 2 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.99%) GitHub
7 2 (2.99%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.99%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.99%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.49%) IaaS
8 1 (1.49%) PaaS
8 1 (1.49%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.94%) Network Security
2 5 (7.46%) DNS
2 5 (7.46%) VPN
3 4 (5.97%) SAN
4 3 (4.48%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (4.48%) Firewall
5 1 (1.49%) IPsec
5 1 (1.49%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.49%) LAN
5 1 (1.49%) SSL
5 1 (1.49%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.46%) MySQL
1 5 (7.46%) Power BI
1 5 (7.46%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.97%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.48%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.99%) Big Data
4 2 (2.99%) Data Vault
4 2 (2.99%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.49%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.49%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.49%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.49%) Impala
5 1 (1.49%) Metadata
5 1 (1.49%) Pentaho
5 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (2.99%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.99%) JIRA
2 2 (2.99%) TeamCity
2 2 (2.99%) Visual Studio
2 2 (2.99%) webpack
3 1 (1.49%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.49%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.49%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.49%) Git
3 1 (1.49%) GitLab
3 1 (1.49%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 18 (26.87%) Finance
2 12 (17.91%) Social Skills
3 9 (13.43%) Retail
4 2 (2.99%) Banking
4 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.49%) Automotive
5 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 21 (31.34%) Developer
2 17 (25.37%) Architect
3 8 (11.94%) React Developer
4 6 (8.96%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (8.96%) Security Engineer
4 6 (8.96%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (7.46%) Applications Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Data Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Senior
7 3 (4.48%) Data Architect
7 3 (4.48%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Full Stack Developer
7 3 (4.48%) Network Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Senior Architect
7 3 (4.48%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) Database Architect
8 2 (2.99%) Java Developer
8 2 (2.99%) Technical Architect
8 2 (2.99%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.40%) React
2 10 (14.93%) GraphQL
3 7 (10.45%) Node.js
4 5 (7.46%) Apollo GraphQL
4 5 (7.46%) Express.js
4 5 (7.46%) OAuth
4 5 (7.46%) OAuth2
4 5 (7.46%) SAML
5 4 (5.97%) .NET
5 4 (5.97%) RESTful
6 3 (4.48%) Web Services
6 3 (4.48%) XML
7 2 (2.99%) .NET Framework
7 2 (2.99%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.99%) Entity Framework
7 2 (2.99%) JSON
7 2 (2.99%) REST
7 2 (2.99%) SOAP
7 2 (2.99%) Spring
7 2 (2.99%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.96%) Cloud Native
1 6 (8.96%) Public Cloud
2 3 (4.48%) Algorithms
2 3 (4.48%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (4.48%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.99%) FMCG
3 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.49%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.43%) Windows
2 4 (5.97%) Linux
3 2 (2.99%) Unix
3 2 (2.99%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.49%) Android
4 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.49%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (22.39%) Agile
1 15 (22.39%) CI/CD
2 10 (14.93%) Migration
3 9 (13.43%) DevOps
4 8 (11.94%) Full Stack Development
5 7 (10.45%) Data Modelling
5 7 (10.45%) Incident Response
5 7 (10.45%) Roadmaps
6 6 (8.96%) Data Security
6 6 (8.96%) DevSecOps
7 5 (7.46%) Analytics
7 5 (7.46%) Application Security
7 5 (7.46%) Cloud Security
7 5 (7.46%) Data Migration
7 5 (7.46%) Defensive Programming
7 5 (7.46%) ETL
7 5 (7.46%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (7.46%) Penetration Testing
7 5 (7.46%) Task Automation
7 5 (7.46%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 14 (20.90%) SQL
2 13 (19.40%) TypeScript
3 9 (13.43%) JavaScript
3 9 (13.43%) Python
4 6 (8.96%) Java
5 3 (4.48%) C#
6 2 (2.99%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.49%) Bash
7 1 (1.49%) HiveQL
7 1 (1.49%) Perl
7 1 (1.49%) PHP
7 1 (1.49%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.49%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (10.45%) AWS Certification
2 3 (4.48%) CCNA
2 3 (4.48%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.99%) Degree
3 2 (2.99%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.48%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.49%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (11.94%) Docker
2 6 (8.96%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.49%) HDFS
3 1 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (8.96%) Terraform
2 5 (7.46%) Ansible
3 3 (4.48%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.49%) Argo
4 1 (1.49%) Istio
4 1 (1.49%) linkerd
4 1 (1.49%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.49%) Puppet
4 1 (1.49%) Rancher
4 1 (1.49%) SELinux
Vendors
1 8 (11.94%) Oracle
2 7 (10.45%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.46%) Informatica
3 5 (7.46%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.97%) F5
5 3 (4.48%) CheckPoint
5 3 (4.48%) Cisco
5 3 (4.48%) Google
5 3 (4.48%) PeopleSoft
5 3 (4.48%) Workday
6 2 (2.99%) SAP
6 2 (2.99%) Talend
6 2 (2.99%) VMware
7 1 (1.49%) Commvault
7 1 (1.49%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.49%) Jitterbit
7 1 (1.49%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.49%) NetApp
7 1 (1.49%) SnapLogic
7 1 (1.49%) Splunk