AWS Contracts in the Midlands

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 24 16
Rank change year-on-year -6 -8 +2
Contract jobs citing AWS 128 257 452
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.66% 7.53% 9.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.02% 21.35% 26.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 216 330
10th Percentile £325 £423 £405
25th Percentile £375 £480 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £605
90th Percentile £688 £700 £698
England median daily rate £556 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -7.29% +1.69% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £21.51 - -
25th Percentile £23.85 - -
Median hourly rate £30.50 - -
75th Percentile £44.13 - -
90th Percentile £50.65 - -
England median hourly rate £46.18 £74.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -37.59% +34.55% -5.17%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 673 1,204 1,680
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.52% 35.30% 33.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 868 1,213
10th Percentile £195 £213 £208
25th Percentile £325 £375 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.05% +11.76%
75th Percentile £592 £575 £575
90th Percentile £679 £679 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 34
10th Percentile - £14.76 £13.95
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £16.10
Median hourly rate £21.23 £18.86 £17.30
Median % change year-on-year +12.54% +9.00% +15.35%
75th Percentile £26.50 £24.47 £20.88
90th Percentile £32.68 £26.48 £23.75
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.02
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.66% -2.23%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in the Midlands

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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 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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 -27 70 £550 +1.85% 120
East Midlands +13 58 £450 -26.53% 77
AWS
England

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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 6 (4.69%) Confluence
2 5 (3.91%) JBoss
3 2 (1.56%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.56%) CMS
3 2 (1.56%) SAS
4 1 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.78%) Apache
4 1 (0.78%) Drupal
4 1 (0.78%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.78%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (2.34%) PeopleSoft HCM
1 3 (2.34%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.78%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 55 (42.97%) Azure
2 17 (13.28%) GCP
3 16 (12.50%) SaaS
4 13 (10.16%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (5.47%) OpenShift
5 7 (5.47%) Serverless
6 6 (4.69%) Entra ID
6 6 (4.69%) Snowflake
6 6 (4.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.91%) CloudFront
7 5 (3.91%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.34%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.56%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.03%) Network Security
2 8 (6.25%) Firewall
3 7 (5.47%) VPN
4 6 (4.69%) DNS
5 4 (3.13%) SAN
6 3 (2.34%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (1.56%) LAN
7 2 (1.56%) WAN
8 1 (0.78%) DHCP
8 1 (0.78%) DMZ
8 1 (0.78%) IPsec
8 1 (0.78%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.78%) LTE
8 1 (0.78%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.81%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.03%) Relational Database
3 7 (5.47%) MySQL
4 6 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.69%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (4.69%) RDBMS
5 5 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.91%) Big Data
5 5 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (3.91%) Power BI
6 4 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (3.13%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.13%) DB2
6 4 (3.13%) Pentaho
7 3 (2.34%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.34%) Data Vault
7 3 (2.34%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.56%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 11 (8.59%) JIRA
2 8 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
3 7 (5.47%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.69%) Git
4 6 (4.69%) TeamCity
5 5 (3.91%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (3.91%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (3.91%) SonarQube
6 4 (3.13%) Cypress.io
6 4 (3.13%) JMeter
7 2 (1.56%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.56%) GitLab
7 2 (1.56%) webpack
8 1 (0.78%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (29.69%) Finance
2 18 (14.06%) Social Skills
3 12 (9.38%) Banking
4 10 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.03%) Retail
6 8 (6.25%) Legal
7 4 (3.13%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Advertising
9 1 (0.78%) Automotive
9 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 32 (25.00%) Architect
2 30 (23.44%) Developer
3 19 (14.84%) Solutions Architect
4 11 (8.59%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (8.59%) React Developer
5 9 (7.03%) Data Engineer
5 9 (7.03%) IT Manager
5 9 (7.03%) Senior
6 8 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
6 8 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (6.25%) IT Services Delivery Manager
6 8 (6.25%) IT Services Manager
6 8 (6.25%) Service Delivery Manager
6 8 (6.25%) Service Manager
7 6 (4.69%) Security Engineer
8 5 (3.91%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (3.91%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (3.91%) Support Engineer
9 4 (3.13%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (3.13%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (15.63%) React
2 12 (9.38%) GraphQL
3 10 (7.81%) RESTful
4 9 (7.03%) Node.js
5 8 (6.25%) OAuth
5 8 (6.25%) OAuth2
5 8 (6.25%) SAML
6 7 (5.47%) .NET
7 6 (4.69%) Express.js
7 6 (4.69%) RAML
7 6 (4.69%) REST
7 6 (4.69%) Spring Boot
8 5 (3.91%) Apollo GraphQL
8 5 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (3.91%) JSON
8 5 (3.91%) LDAP
8 5 (3.91%) OpenAPI
8 5 (3.91%) Swagger
9 4 (3.13%) AngularJS
9 4 (3.13%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.59%) Public Cloud
2 5 (3.91%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.91%) Virtual Team
3 4 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.13%) Mainframe
4 3 (2.34%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.34%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.56%) FMCG
5 2 (1.56%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.78%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (0.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.78%) IoT
6 1 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.78%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.78%) PKI
6 1 (0.78%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 21 (16.41%) Windows
2 14 (10.94%) Linux
3 13 (10.16%) Apple iOS
4 6 (4.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (3.91%) Android
6 3 (2.34%) Unix
6 3 (2.34%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.78%) AIX
7 1 (0.78%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (21.88%) Migration
2 23 (17.97%) Agile
3 22 (17.19%) CI/CD
4 20 (15.63%) DevOps
5 17 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (9.38%) Architectural Design
6 12 (9.38%) Decision-Making
6 12 (9.38%) Microservices
6 12 (9.38%) Service Delivery
7 10 (7.81%) Performance Metrics
7 10 (7.81%) Service Management
8 9 (7.03%) Business Analysis
8 9 (7.03%) Containerisation
8 9 (7.03%) ETL
8 9 (7.03%) People Management
8 9 (7.03%) Project Delivery
9 8 (6.25%) Change Management
9 8 (6.25%) Information Security
9 8 (6.25%) IT Governance
9 8 (6.25%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 27 (21.09%) Python
2 23 (17.97%) Java
3 22 (17.19%) SQL
4 18 (14.06%) TypeScript
5 12 (9.38%) JavaScript
6 8 (6.25%) C#
6 8 (6.25%) Swift
7 6 (4.69%) Perl
8 5 (3.91%) C
9 4 (3.13%) Scala
10 3 (2.34%) BeanShell
11 2 (1.56%) PHP
12 1 (0.78%) Bash
12 1 (0.78%) C++
12 1 (0.78%) HiveQL
12 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.78%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.78%) Rust
12 1 (0.78%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (7.03%) AWS Certification
2 8 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 8 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.69%) Degree
4 5 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (2.34%) CCNA
5 3 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.34%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.56%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.56%) GDPR
4 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.78%) NIST
4 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (13.28%) Docker
2 12 (9.38%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.34%) OpenAM
3 3 (2.34%) OpenIDM
3 3 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.78%) HDFS
4 1 (0.78%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 14 (10.94%) Kubernetes
2 12 (9.38%) Terraform
3 10 (7.81%) Ansible
4 6 (4.69%) Progress Chef
5 5 (3.91%) Kibana
6 1 (0.78%) Argo
6 1 (0.78%) Istio
6 1 (0.78%) linkerd
6 1 (0.78%) PowerBroker
6 1 (0.78%) SELinux
Vendors
1 14 (10.94%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.81%) Informatica
3 8 (6.25%) Okta
4 7 (5.47%) Oracle
5 6 (4.69%) Red Hat
5 6 (4.69%) Splunk
6 5 (3.91%) AppDynamics
6 5 (3.91%) F5
6 5 (3.91%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.91%) Talend
7 4 (3.13%) Google
8 3 (2.34%) CheckPoint
8 3 (2.34%) Cisco
8 3 (2.34%) ForgeRock
8 3 (2.34%) PeopleSoft
8 3 (2.34%) VMware
8 3 (2.34%) Workday
9 2 (1.56%) Databricks
9 2 (1.56%) Sage
9 2 (1.56%) SAP