AWS Contracts in the West Midlands

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 47 20 13
Rank change year-on-year -27 -7 +6
Contract jobs citing AWS 70 212 368
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.62% 9.00% 10.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.28% 23.58% 30.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 183 260
10th Percentile £316 £421 £413
25th Percentile £341 £500 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £530
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +1.89% +14.59%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
England median daily rate £556 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -7.29% +1.69% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £23.46 - -
25th Percentile £28.71 - -
Median hourly rate £37.48 - -
75th Percentile £46.24 - -
90th Percentile £51.50 - -
England median hourly rate £46.18 £74.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -37.59% +34.55% -5.17%

All Cloud Skills
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 458 899 1,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.67% 38.16% 34.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 639 897
10th Percentile £213 £300 £217
25th Percentile £350 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £501 £495
Median % change year-on-year -10.09% +1.11% +13.79%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 17
10th Percentile £14.08 £15.54 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.98 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.24 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.17% +15.66% +9.38%
75th Percentile £26.50 £24.47 £20.51
90th Percentile £32.20 £25.31 £23.75
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.02
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.66% -2.23%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the West Midlands

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in the West Midlands

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the West Midlands

AWS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in the West Midlands

AWS
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West 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
Birmingham -20 30 £525 -15.15% 65
Coventry +10 21 £600 +25.00% 16
Staffordshire +7 5 £350 -36.36% 8
Worcestershire -3 3 £450 -30.77% 3
Warwickshire -6 3 £710 +42.00% 11
Shropshire -18 2 £450 -16.67% 1
Dudley - 1 £350 -
AWS
England

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 2 (2.86%) CMS
1 2 (2.86%) Confluence
2 1 (1.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.43%) Drupal
2 1 (1.43%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.43%) SAS
2 1 (1.43%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (4.29%) PeopleSoft HCM
1 3 (4.29%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.43%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 33 (47.14%) Azure
2 13 (18.57%) GCP
3 6 (8.57%) Entra ID
3 6 (8.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (7.14%) CloudFront
5 4 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.71%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.29%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.29%) SaaS
6 3 (4.29%) Serverless
6 3 (4.29%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.43%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.43%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.43%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.43%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.43%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.86%) Network Security
2 7 (10.00%) VPN
3 6 (8.57%) DNS
4 4 (5.71%) Firewall
4 4 (5.71%) SAN
5 3 (4.29%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (2.86%) LAN
6 2 (2.86%) WAN
7 1 (1.43%) DHCP
7 1 (1.43%) DMZ
7 1 (1.43%) IPsec
7 1 (1.43%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.71%) MySQL
2 4 (5.71%) Power BI
3 3 (4.29%) Data Vault
3 3 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.86%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.86%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.86%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.86%) Metadata
4 2 (2.86%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.86%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.43%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.43%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.43%) Impala
5 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.43%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (2.86%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.86%) GitLab
2 2 (2.86%) JIRA
2 2 (2.86%) webpack
3 1 (1.43%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.43%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.43%) Git
3 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.43%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (25.71%) Finance
2 12 (17.14%) Social Skills
3 9 (12.86%) Retail
4 3 (4.29%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.86%) Banking
6 1 (1.43%) Automotive
6 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 20 (28.57%) Developer
2 19 (27.14%) Architect
3 8 (11.43%) React Developer
3 8 (11.43%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (8.57%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (8.57%) Security Engineer
4 6 (8.57%) Senior
5 5 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) Data Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Network Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Data Architect
7 3 (4.29%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Full Stack Developer
7 3 (4.29%) Informatica Architect
7 3 (4.29%) Senior Architect
7 3 (4.29%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Data Migration Lead
8 2 (2.86%) Java Developer
8 2 (2.86%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.57%) React
2 10 (14.29%) GraphQL
3 7 (10.00%) Node.js
4 5 (7.14%) Apollo GraphQL
4 5 (7.14%) Express.js
4 5 (7.14%) OAuth
4 5 (7.14%) OAuth2
4 5 (7.14%) SAML
5 3 (4.29%) .NET
5 3 (4.29%) RESTful
6 2 (2.86%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.86%) JSON
6 2 (2.86%) Next.js
6 2 (2.86%) REST
6 2 (2.86%) Spring
6 2 (2.86%) Web Services
6 2 (2.86%) XML
7 1 (1.43%) Apache Sling
7 1 (1.43%) Kafka
7 1 (1.43%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.57%) Public Cloud
2 5 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.29%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.29%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.86%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.86%) FMCG
4 2 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.43%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.43%) PKI
5 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.86%) Windows
2 4 (5.71%) Linux
3 2 (2.86%) Unix
3 2 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.43%) Android
4 1 (1.43%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (21.43%) CI/CD
2 14 (20.00%) Agile
3 10 (14.29%) Migration
4 8 (11.43%) Full Stack Development
5 7 (10.00%) Data Modelling
5 7 (10.00%) DevOps
6 6 (8.57%) Cloud Security
6 6 (8.57%) Data Security
6 6 (8.57%) Incident Response
6 6 (8.57%) Roadmaps
7 5 (7.14%) Analytics
7 5 (7.14%) Application Security
7 5 (7.14%) Data Migration
7 5 (7.14%) Defensive Programming
7 5 (7.14%) DevSecOps
7 5 (7.14%) ETL
7 5 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (7.14%) Penetration Testing
7 5 (7.14%) Task Automation
7 5 (7.14%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 15 (21.43%) SQL
2 13 (18.57%) TypeScript
3 9 (12.86%) JavaScript
3 9 (12.86%) Python
4 6 (8.57%) Java
5 2 (2.86%) C#
6 1 (1.43%) Bash
6 1 (1.43%) HiveQL
6 1 (1.43%) Perl
6 1 (1.43%) PHP
6 1 (1.43%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.43%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (4.29%) CCNA
2 3 (4.29%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.86%) Degree
3 2 (2.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.86%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.43%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.43%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (11.43%) Docker
2 7 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.43%) HDFS
4 1 (1.43%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (10.00%) Terraform
2 5 (7.14%) Ansible
3 3 (4.29%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.43%) Argo
4 1 (1.43%) Istio
4 1 (1.43%) linkerd
4 1 (1.43%) SELinux
Vendors
1 7 (10.00%) Informatica
2 6 (8.57%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.57%) Oracle
3 5 (7.14%) F5
3 5 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.29%) CheckPoint
4 3 (4.29%) Cisco
4 3 (4.29%) Google
4 3 (4.29%) PeopleSoft
4 3 (4.29%) Workday
5 2 (2.86%) SAP
5 2 (2.86%) Talend
5 2 (2.86%) VMware
6 1 (1.43%) Commvault
6 1 (1.43%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.43%) NetApp
6 1 (1.43%) Qualys
6 1 (1.43%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.43%) Sage
6 1 (1.43%) Software AG