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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 20 14
Rank change year-on-year -23 -6 +3
Contract jobs citing AWS 69 182 362
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.65% 8.06% 10.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.97% 21.90% 29.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 154 253
10th Percentile £312 £404 £417
25th Percentile £325 £476 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +1.31% +7.68%
75th Percentile £652 £670 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
England median daily rate £563 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -6.21% +2.13% +11.90%
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 £55.00 £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +20.69%

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 461 831 1,226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.39% 36.82% 34.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 589 894
10th Percentile £210 £298 £213
25th Percentile £343 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £684 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 16
10th Percentile £14.13 £15.54 £13.75
25th Percentile £15.13 £15.98 £15.95
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.24 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.17% +7.95% +17.19%
75th Percentile £26.50 £24.47 £20.95
90th Percentile - £25.31 £23.75
England median hourly rate £21.00 £34.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.24% +58.14% +2.14%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -22 27 £556 -11.00% 81
Coventry +5 17 £650 +35.42% 11
Staffordshire +9 10 £350 -36.36% 12
Warwickshire +2 4 - - 23
Worcestershire -2 3 £450 -30.77% 1
Shropshire -17 2 £450 -16.67%
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 3 (4.35%) Confluence
2 2 (2.90%) CMS
3 1 (1.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.45%) Drupal
3 1 (1.45%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.45%) SAS
3 1 (1.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (4.35%) PeopleSoft HCM
1 3 (4.35%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.45%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 34 (49.28%) Azure
2 11 (15.94%) GCP
3 6 (8.70%) Power Platform
3 6 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (7.25%) CloudFront
4 5 (7.25%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.80%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.80%) Serverless
6 3 (4.35%) Power Automate
6 3 (4.35%) PowerApps
6 3 (4.35%) SaaS
7 2 (2.90%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (2.90%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (2.90%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (2.90%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.90%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (2.90%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.59%) Network Security
2 5 (7.25%) DNS
2 5 (7.25%) VPN
3 4 (5.80%) SAN
4 3 (4.35%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (4.35%) Firewall
5 1 (1.45%) IPsec
5 1 (1.45%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.45%) LAN
5 1 (1.45%) SSL
5 1 (1.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.14%) MySQL
1 7 (10.14%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.70%) Power BI
3 5 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.80%) BusinessObjects
4 4 (5.80%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.90%) Big Data
6 2 (2.90%) Data Vault
6 2 (2.90%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.45%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.45%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.45%) Impala
7 1 (1.45%) Metadata
7 1 (1.45%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (1.45%) Pentaho
7 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (5.80%) JIRA
2 3 (4.35%) Bitbucket
2 3 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (4.35%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.90%) Git
3 2 (2.90%) TeamCity
3 2 (2.90%) webpack
4 1 (1.45%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.45%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.45%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.45%) GitLab
4 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.45%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 17 (24.64%) Finance
2 12 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 9 (13.04%) Retail
4 2 (2.90%) Banking
4 2 (2.90%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.45%) Automotive
5 1 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (34.78%) Developer
2 15 (21.74%) Architect
3 10 (14.49%) React Developer
4 6 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (8.70%) Data Engineer
4 6 (8.70%) Security Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) Applications Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (5.80%) Full Stack Developer
6 4 (5.80%) Senior
7 3 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Data Architect
7 3 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Network Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Power Platform Developer
7 3 (4.35%) Senior Architect
7 3 (4.35%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.90%) Analyst
8 2 (2.90%) Java Developer
8 2 (2.90%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.29%) React
2 10 (14.49%) GraphQL
3 6 (8.70%) .NET
3 6 (8.70%) Node.js
4 5 (7.25%) Apollo GraphQL
4 5 (7.25%) Express.js
4 5 (7.25%) OAuth
4 5 (7.25%) OAuth2
4 5 (7.25%) SAML
5 4 (5.80%) RESTful
5 4 (5.80%) Web Services
5 4 (5.80%) XML
6 3 (4.35%) .NET Framework
6 3 (4.35%) Entity Framework
6 3 (4.35%) Redux
6 3 (4.35%) REST
6 3 (4.35%) XSLT
7 2 (2.90%) D3.js
7 2 (2.90%) Highcharts JS
7 2 (2.90%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.14%) Public Cloud
2 6 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.25%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.35%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.90%) FMCG
5 2 (2.90%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.59%) Windows
2 3 (4.35%) Linux
3 2 (2.90%) Unix
3 2 (2.90%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.45%) Android
4 1 (1.45%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.45%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (27.54%) Agile
2 16 (23.19%) CI/CD
3 10 (14.49%) DevOps
4 9 (13.04%) Full Stack Development
4 9 (13.04%) Migration
5 7 (10.14%) Data Modelling
5 7 (10.14%) Data Security
5 7 (10.14%) ETL
5 7 (10.14%) Incident Response
5 7 (10.14%) Roadmaps
6 6 (8.70%) Analytics
6 6 (8.70%) DevSecOps
6 6 (8.70%) Task Automation
7 5 (7.25%) Application Security
7 5 (7.25%) Cloud Security
7 5 (7.25%) Data Migration
7 5 (7.25%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (7.25%) Infrastructure Management
7 5 (7.25%) Penetration Testing
7 5 (7.25%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 16 (23.19%) SQL
2 12 (17.39%) Python
3 11 (15.94%) TypeScript
4 9 (13.04%) JavaScript
5 7 (10.14%) Java
6 5 (7.25%) C#
7 2 (2.90%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.45%) Bash
8 1 (1.45%) HiveQL
8 1 (1.45%) Perl
8 1 (1.45%) PHP
8 1 (1.45%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.45%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (10.14%) AWS Certification
2 3 (4.35%) CCNA
2 3 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (4.35%) Degree
3 2 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.90%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.80%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.90%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.45%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (11.59%) Docker
2 6 (8.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.45%) HDFS
3 1 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (8.70%) Terraform
2 5 (7.25%) Ansible
3 3 (4.35%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.45%) Argo
4 1 (1.45%) Istio
4 1 (1.45%) linkerd
4 1 (1.45%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.45%) Puppet
4 1 (1.45%) Rancher
4 1 (1.45%) SELinux
Vendors
1 10 (14.49%) Oracle
2 8 (11.59%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.80%) F5
3 4 (5.80%) Informatica
3 4 (5.80%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.35%) CheckPoint
4 3 (4.35%) Cisco
4 3 (4.35%) Google
4 3 (4.35%) PeopleSoft
4 3 (4.35%) Workday
5 2 (2.90%) Sage
5 2 (2.90%) SAP
5 2 (2.90%) Talend
5 2 (2.90%) VMware
6 1 (1.45%) Denodo
6 1 (1.45%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.45%) Jitterbit
6 1 (1.45%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.45%) SnapLogic
6 1 (1.45%) Splunk