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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 17 13
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing AWS 9 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worcestershire 11.11% 2.25% 5.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.27% 9.09% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 4
10th Percentile £523 - £381
25th Percentile £525 £425 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £594
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -24.21% +10.98%
75th Percentile £588 £475 £644
90th Percentile £589 - £679
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

All Cloud 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 33 22 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 40.74% 24.72% 32.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 19 22
10th Percentile £525 £152 £167
25th Percentile £563 £265 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £400 £338
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% +18.52% -28.95%
75th Percentile £700 £525 £450
90th Percentile - £700 £604
West Midlands median daily rate £513 £484 £475
% change year-on-year +5.89% +1.89% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.75
Median hourly rate - - £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.08%
75th Percentile - - £19.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £35.49 £33.74 £18.50
% change year-on-year +5.20% +82.35% +8.82%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire.

Job vacancy trend for AWS 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
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 17 September 2025. 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 - 5 £550 -
Worcester -4 1 £588 +30.56% 7
AWS
West Midlands

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Worcestershire 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 3 (33.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (44.44%) GCP
3 4 (44.44%) GitHub
3 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Azure AKS
5 2 (22.22%) Datadog
5 2 (22.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (22.22%) npm
5 2 (22.22%) OpenShift
5 2 (22.22%) Pulumi
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) GitLab
2 7 (77.78%) Git
3 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
4 2 (22.22%) Artifactory
4 2 (22.22%) Bitbucket
4 2 (22.22%) CircleCI
4 2 (22.22%) Cypress.io
4 2 (22.22%) Gradle
4 2 (22.22%) JUnit
4 2 (22.22%) Maven
4 2 (22.22%) Postman
4 2 (22.22%) Selenium
4 2 (22.22%) Snyk
4 2 (22.22%) SonarQube
4 2 (22.22%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (22.22%) webpack
5 1 (11.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) AWS Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (22.22%) JSON
2 2 (22.22%) REST
2 2 (22.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Private Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
1 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (88.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (77.78%) Containerisation
3 7 (77.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (55.56%) Agile
4 5 (55.56%) Configuration Management
4 5 (55.56%) DevOps
5 4 (44.44%) Change Control
5 4 (44.44%) Cloud Security
5 4 (44.44%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (44.44%) Incident Response
5 4 (44.44%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 4 (44.44%) SDLC
6 3 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
6 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (33.33%) Software Delivery
6 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 3 (33.33%) Task Automation
6 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
7 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Bash
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Go
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) DV Cleared
3 4 (44.44%) AWS Certification
3 4 (44.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (44.44%) Azure Certification
3 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
5 2 (22.22%) Degree
6 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Docker
2 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Ansible
1 9 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (77.78%) Terraform
3 4 (44.44%) Grafana
3 4 (44.44%) Prometheus
3 4 (44.44%) Puppet
4 3 (33.33%) Progress Chef
5 2 (22.22%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Splunk
3 1 (11.11%) VMware