Amazon EC2 Contracts in Birmingham

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 64 -
Rank change year-on-year +16 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.38% 0.39% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.16% 1.42% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £351 -
25th Percentile £463 £374 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% - -
75th Percentile £488 £509 -
90th Percentile - £553 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £425 -
% change year-on-year +17.65% - -

All Cloud Skills
Birmingham

Amazon EC2 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 172 212 349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 32.95% 27.43% 38.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 162 252
10th Percentile £190 £250 £313
25th Percentile £381 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £638
90th Percentile £648 £673 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £457 £500
% change year-on-year +9.53% -8.75% +2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 4
10th Percentile - £14.05 £15.54
25th Percentile £56.88 £18.49 £15.98
Median hourly rate £58.75 £26.00 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year +125.96% +28.46% +57.45%
75th Percentile £60.63 £33.63 £24.47
90th Percentile - £55.00 £25.31
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.07 £26.00 £20.24
% change year-on-year -30.52% +28.46% +15.66%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in Birmingham

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in Birmingham

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Route 53
2 1 (50.00%) SonarCloud
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (50.00%) DbUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) jMock
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Mockito
2 1 (50.00%) Snyk
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) JPA
1 1 (50.00%) PowerMock
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Argo
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (50.00%) Jaspersoft
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat