AWS Developer Contracts in the Midlands

Amazon Web Services Developer
England > Midlands

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in the Midlands is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 138 154
Rank change year-on-year +9 +16 +50
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 7 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.29% 0.068% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.075% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 8
10th Percentile £355 - -
25th Percentile £363 £525 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £406
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +35.38% -32.29%
75th Percentile - £575 £500
90th Percentile £490 - £545
England median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,133 2,684 3,091
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.62% 91.92% 94.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,374 1,799 2,198
10th Percentile £213 £228 £224
25th Percentile £355 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -
75th Percentile £548 £588 £595
90th Percentile £638 £675 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 214 107
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.83 £12.62
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.00 £15.38
Median hourly rate £23.21 £18.99 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.23% -9.60% +9.09%
75th Percentile £31.57 £35.00 £37.66
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.67 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.18 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.55% -6.98% +70.01%

AWS Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured AWS Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Developer in the Midlands

AWS Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Developer in the Midlands

AWS Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Developer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Developer in the Midlands

AWS Developer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Developer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 July 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
West Midlands +10 6 £475 -13.64%
East Midlands - 1 £360 - 3
AWS Developer
England

AWS Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 15 July 2025, AWS Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Midlands region featuring AWS Developer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon S3
2 5 (71.43%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (71.43%) Java
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 5 (71.43%) Microservices
3 4 (57.14%) Docker
3 4 (57.14%) Spring Boot
3 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 4 (57.14%) JUnit
3 4 (57.14%) SOAP
3 4 (57.14%) Spring
3 4 (57.14%) Maven
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Git
3 4 (57.14%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (57.14%) REST
4 3 (42.86%) Spring Batch
4 3 (42.86%) Spring Integration
4 3 (42.86%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (42.86%) JPA
4 3 (42.86%) TDD
4 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (42.86%) Hibernate
4 3 (42.86%) Scrum
4 3 (42.86%) Web Services
4 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (42.86%) SonarQube

AWS Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) JBoss
1 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon S3
3 4 (57.14%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (42.86%) AWS KMS
4 3 (42.86%) Route 53
5 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (28.57%) Serverless
6 1 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (14.29%) AWS CodeCommit
6 1 (14.29%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 1 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (14.29%) Boomi
6 1 (14.29%) OCI
6 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
6 1 (14.29%) PaaS
6 1 (14.29%) SaaS
6 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (42.86%) DynamoDB
2 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 4 (57.14%) Git
2 4 (57.14%) JUnit
2 4 (57.14%) Maven
3 3 (42.86%) SonarQube
4 2 (28.57%) JIRA
5 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
5 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (14.29%) DbUnit
5 1 (14.29%) Gradle
5 1 (14.29%) jMock
5 1 (14.29%) Mockito
5 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) REST
1 4 (57.14%) SOAP
1 4 (57.14%) Spring
1 4 (57.14%) Spring Boot
2 3 (42.86%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (42.86%) Hibernate
2 3 (42.86%) JPA
2 3 (42.86%) RESTful
2 3 (42.86%) Spring Batch
2 3 (42.86%) Spring Integration
2 3 (42.86%) Web Services
3 2 (28.57%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 1 (14.29%) Bootstrap
4 1 (14.29%) Django
4 1 (14.29%) MACH
4 1 (14.29%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (14.29%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Continuous Integration
1 5 (71.43%) Microservices
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) TDD
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (14.29%) Cost Management
5 1 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) R
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 1 (14.29%) Jaspersoft