AWS Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Worcestershire requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 17 16
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 22 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 12.79% 5.45% 2.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.07% 11.54% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 3 2
10th Percentile £548 £420 £594
25th Percentile £563 £525 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 £700 £660
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +6.06% +1.54%
75th Percentile £738 - £708
90th Percentile - - £718
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -7.41%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 61 26 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 35.47% 47.27% 16.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 20 11
10th Percentile £525 £125 £175
25th Percentile £550 £145 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £405
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +72.84% -19.00%
75th Percentile £738 - £544
90th Percentile £750 £900 £655
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.22 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £17.16 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.69% -23.73% +26.98%
75th Percentile £27.50 £18.13 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £26.11 £18.44 £19.95
% change year-on-year +41.61% -7.59% +21.06%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire.

AWS job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing AWS

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Worcestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Worcestershire over the 6 months to 9 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Worcestershire

AWS
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 9 March 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
Malvern -6 13 £725 +3.57% 3
AWS
West Midlands

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire 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 5 (22.73%) Confluence
2 3 (13.64%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) Azure
2 6 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (13.64%) Azure AKS
3 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (13.64%) Datadog
3 3 (13.64%) GCP
3 3 (13.64%) GitHub
3 3 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (13.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 3 (13.64%) npm
3 3 (13.64%) OpenShift
3 3 (13.64%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) GitLab
2 6 (27.27%) Git
3 5 (22.73%) JIRA
4 3 (13.64%) Artifactory
4 3 (13.64%) Bitbucket
4 3 (13.64%) CircleCI
4 3 (13.64%) Cypress.io
4 3 (13.64%) Gradle
4 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
4 3 (13.64%) JUnit
4 3 (13.64%) Maven
4 3 (13.64%) Postman
4 3 (13.64%) Selenium
4 3 (13.64%) Snyk
4 3 (13.64%) SonarQube
4 3 (13.64%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (13.64%) webpack
General
1 7 (31.82%) Aeronautics
2 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) AWS Engineer
1 10 (45.45%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (13.64%) JSON
1 3 (13.64%) REST
1 3 (13.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (13.64%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 11 (50.00%) Windows
2 9 (40.91%) Linux
3 6 (27.27%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Infrastructure as Code
2 12 (54.55%) Agile
2 12 (54.55%) CI/CD
3 9 (40.91%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (36.36%) Containerisation
4 8 (36.36%) DevSecOps
4 8 (36.36%) Software Delivery
5 7 (31.82%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 6 (27.27%) Cloud Security
7 5 (22.73%) Change Control
7 5 (22.73%) Collaborative Culture
7 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (22.73%) Scrum
8 4 (18.18%) DevOps
8 4 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (18.18%) Incident Response
8 4 (18.18%) Test Automation
9 3 (13.64%) Continuous Delivery
9 3 (13.64%) SDLC
9 3 (13.64%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (95.45%) Security Cleared
2 12 (54.55%) SC Cleared
3 11 (50.00%) AWS Certification
4 9 (40.91%) DV Cleared
5 6 (27.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (22.73%) CCNA
6 5 (22.73%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (18.18%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 12 (54.55%) Docker
2 5 (22.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 10 (45.45%) Terraform
3 7 (31.82%) Ansible
4 3 (13.64%) Grafana
4 3 (13.64%) Podman
4 3 (13.64%) Progress Chef
4 3 (13.64%) Prometheus
4 3 (13.64%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Splunk
3 2 (9.09%) Oracle
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat