AWS Developer Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Amazon Web Services Developer
England > Midlands

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in the Midlands is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 132 138
Rank change year-on-year -21 +6 +70
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 4 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.14% 0.19% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.20% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £354 £315 £426
25th Percentile £359 £394 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £483
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +13.99% -
75th Percentile £475 £575 £568
90th Percentile - - £617
England median daily rate £525 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -16.00% - +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 2,601 2,469 2,572
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.60% 92.68% 94.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,707 1,533 1,792
10th Percentile £231 £231 £213
25th Percentile £360 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 96 120
10th Percentile £13.69 £12.64 £13.93
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.00 £16.63
Median hourly rate £25.00 £23.82 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% +19.10% +13.90%
75th Percentile £30.25 £33.80 £31.91
90th Percentile £48.80 £50.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £45.88
% change year-on-year -37.63% -12.11% +52.93%

AWS Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'AWS Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

AWS Developer job vacancy trend in the Midlands

AWS Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Developer job vacancies in the Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Developer job vacancies 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 5 November 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 -19 3 £475 -13.64%
East Midlands - 1 £360 - 4
AWS Developer
England

AWS Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 5 November 2025, AWS Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Midlands region featuring AWS Developer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) JUnit
2 3 (75.00%) Maven
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) REST
2 3 (75.00%) SOAP
2 3 (75.00%) Spring
2 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (50.00%) AWS KMS
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Docker
3 2 (50.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (50.00%) JPA
3 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (50.00%) RESTful
3 2 (50.00%) Route 53
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) SonarQube
3 2 (50.00%) Spring Batch

AWS Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (25.00%) JBoss
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS KMS
2 2 (50.00%) Route 53
3 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (75.00%) JUnit
1 3 (75.00%) Maven
2 2 (50.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (25.00%) Gradle
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) REST
1 3 (75.00%) SOAP
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
1 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (50.00%) JPA
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) Spring Batch
2 2 (50.00%) Spring Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle