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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 21 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 13.82% 4.76% 3.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.50% 11.11% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 3 3
10th Percentile £551 £420 £577
25th Percentile £563 £525 £580
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 £700 £620
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +12.90% -4.62%
75th Percentile £738 - £690
90th Percentile - - £711
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -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 56 27 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 36.84% 42.86% 19.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 19 11
10th Percentile £525 £123 £175
25th Percentile £556 £145 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £405
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +72.84% -19.00%
75th Percentile £738 - £606
90th Percentile £750 £740 £655
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £15.22 £21.25
Median hourly rate - £17.16 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - -23.73% +26.98%
75th Percentile - £18.13 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.21 £20.24 £19.95
% change year-on-year +34.44% +1.45% +21.94%

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 -7 13 £725 +3.57% 2
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 4 (19.05%) OpenStack
2 3 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) Azure
2 7 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (19.05%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (19.05%) Azure AKS
3 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (19.05%) Datadog
3 4 (19.05%) GCP
3 4 (19.05%) GitHub
3 4 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (19.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 4 (19.05%) npm
3 4 (19.05%) OpenShift
3 4 (19.05%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) GitLab
2 7 (33.33%) Git
3 4 (19.05%) Artifactory
3 4 (19.05%) Bitbucket
3 4 (19.05%) CircleCI
3 4 (19.05%) Cypress.io
3 4 (19.05%) Gradle
3 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
3 4 (19.05%) JUnit
3 4 (19.05%) Maven
3 4 (19.05%) Postman
3 4 (19.05%) Selenium
3 4 (19.05%) Snyk
3 4 (19.05%) SonarQube
3 4 (19.05%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (19.05%) webpack
4 3 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 7 (33.33%) Aeronautics
2 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) AWS Engineer
1 10 (47.62%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (19.05%) JSON
1 4 (19.05%) REST
1 4 (19.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Private Cloud
2 3 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 9 (42.86%) Windows
2 8 (38.10%) Linux
3 6 (28.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (52.38%) CI/CD
3 10 (47.62%) Agile
3 10 (47.62%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 7 (33.33%) DevSecOps
4 7 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 7 (33.33%) Software Delivery
5 6 (28.57%) Cloud Security
6 5 (23.81%) Change Control
6 5 (23.81%) DevOps
6 5 (23.81%) Test Automation
7 4 (19.05%) Configuration Management
7 4 (19.05%) Continuous Delivery
7 4 (19.05%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (19.05%) Incident Response
7 4 (19.05%) SDLC
7 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
7 4 (19.05%) Task Automation
8 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (95.24%) Security Cleared
2 12 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 9 (42.86%) AWS Certification
4 8 (38.10%) DV Cleared
5 6 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (19.05%) Azure Certification
7 3 (14.29%) CCNA
7 3 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 11 (52.38%) Docker
2 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (52.38%) Kubernetes
2 9 (42.86%) Terraform
3 8 (38.10%) Ansible
4 4 (19.05%) Grafana
4 4 (19.05%) Podman
4 4 (19.05%) Progress Chef
4 4 (19.05%) Prometheus
4 4 (19.05%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (19.05%) Splunk
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle
4 1 (4.76%) Red Hat