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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 17 14
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing AWS 20 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 14.93% 1.37% 6.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.25% 5.26% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 1 5
10th Percentile £525 - £408
25th Percentile £553 - £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £350 £600
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% -41.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £738 - £655
90th Percentile - - £697
West Midlands median daily rate £523 £493 £500
% change year-on-year +5.98% -1.40% -7.41%

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 64 19 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 47.76% 26.03% 26.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 14 18
10th Percentile £525 £135 £163
25th Percentile £563 £258 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £400 £403
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% -0.62% -19.50%
75th Percentile £738 £650 £588
90th Percentile £750 £700 £634
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £500 £463
% change year-on-year +5.00% +8.11% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £15.22 £17.75
Median hourly rate - £16.19 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - -12.49% +4.40%
75th Percentile - £17.16 £19.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.61 £30.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -7.35% +66.89% +8.12%

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 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 -7 13 £725 +107.14% 1
Worcester - 1 £588 - 1
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 (25.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) Azure
2 9 (45.00%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (30.00%) GitHub
3 6 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (25.00%) GCP
5 4 (20.00%) Azure AKS
5 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (20.00%) Datadog
5 4 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (20.00%) npm
5 4 (20.00%) OpenShift
5 4 (20.00%) Pulumi
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) DNS
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (60.00%) GitLab
2 10 (50.00%) Git
3 6 (30.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (20.00%) Artifactory
4 4 (20.00%) Bitbucket
4 4 (20.00%) CircleCI
4 4 (20.00%) Cypress.io
4 4 (20.00%) Gradle
4 4 (20.00%) JUnit
4 4 (20.00%) Maven
4 4 (20.00%) Postman
4 4 (20.00%) Selenium
4 4 (20.00%) Snyk
4 4 (20.00%) SonarQube
4 4 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (20.00%) webpack
5 1 (5.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 7 (35.00%) Aeronautics
2 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) DevOps Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (20.00%) JSON
1 4 (20.00%) REST
1 4 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Windows
1 8 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 5 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 12 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 12 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (50.00%) Agile
3 9 (45.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 8 (40.00%) Cloud Security
5 7 (35.00%) Change Control
5 7 (35.00%) Containerisation
5 7 (35.00%) DevOps
6 6 (30.00%) Configuration Management
6 6 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (30.00%) Incident Response
6 6 (30.00%) Test Automation
7 5 (25.00%) SDLC
7 5 (25.00%) Software Delivery
7 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 4 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
8 4 (20.00%) DevSecOps
8 4 (20.00%) Task Automation
9 2 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) Bash
1 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (15.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 19 (95.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (40.00%) AWS Certification
3 8 (40.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 8 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (35.00%) DV Cleared
5 6 (30.00%) Azure Certification
6 2 (10.00%) Degree
7 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 12 (60.00%) Docker
2 7 (35.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (60.00%) Ansible
1 12 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (45.00%) Terraform
3 5 (25.00%) Grafana
3 5 (25.00%) Progress Chef
3 5 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 5 (25.00%) Puppet
4 4 (20.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) Splunk
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.00%) VMware