Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 67 -
Rank change year-on-year +15 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 21 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.89% 0.14% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.57% 0.39% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £513 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 - £398
% change year-on-year - - -36.40%

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 245 256 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 33.75% 37.10% 36.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 196 193
10th Percentile £293 £195 £290
25th Percentile £413 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -9.31%
75th Percentile £579 £603 £575
90th Percentile £644 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £506 £500 £460
% change year-on-year +1.20% +8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £23.40 - £22.83
25th Percentile £28.13 - £28.19
Median hourly rate £36.00 £60.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +61.07% -17.22%
75th Percentile £56.63 - £46.19
90th Percentile £69.00 - £51.48
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.61 £30.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -7.35% +66.89% +8.12%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in Birmingham over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in Birmingham

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 17 (80.95%) Confluence
2 9 (42.86%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (42.86%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 21 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 21 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 21 (100.00%) AWS
1 21 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 17 (80.95%) AWS KMS
3 9 (42.86%) Amazon ECS
3 9 (42.86%) Azure
3 9 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (42.86%) Route 53
4 8 (38.10%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 21 (100.00%) DNS
1 21 (100.00%) Firewall
2 17 (80.95%) FTP
2 17 (80.95%) HTTP
2 17 (80.95%) SMTP
2 17 (80.95%) SSH
3 9 (42.86%) IMAP
3 9 (42.86%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (19.05%) SSL
4 4 (19.05%) TCP/IP
4 4 (19.05%) VPN
5 3 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (80.95%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (42.86%) Amazon Aurora
2 9 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (100.00%) Git
1 21 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 17 (80.95%) JIRA
2 17 (80.95%) Vagrant
3 3 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 17 (80.95%) Public Sector
2 9 (42.86%) Presentation Skills
2 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (95.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (80.95%) AWS Engineer
3 16 (76.19%) AWS DevOps
3 16 (76.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 16 (76.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 16 (76.19%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (42.86%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 8 (38.10%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 4 (19.05%) Senior
6 4 (19.05%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (19.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Network Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Network Operations Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Python Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (80.95%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (80.95%) Amazon Linux
1 17 (80.95%) Linux
1 17 (80.95%) VMS
1 17 (80.95%) Windows
2 9 (42.86%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) DevOps
2 17 (80.95%) Change Management
2 17 (80.95%) Cloud Security
2 17 (80.95%) Configuration Management
2 17 (80.95%) Patch Management
2 17 (80.95%) Platform Engineering
3 12 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 9 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (14.29%) DevSecOps
5 3 (14.29%) High Availability
5 3 (14.29%) Incident Response
5 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 3 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) Python
2 17 (80.95%) Groovy
2 17 (80.95%) PowerShell
3 9 (42.86%) SQL
4 8 (38.10%) Java
4 8 (38.10%) Perl
5 4 (19.05%) Bash
Qualifications
1 21 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (90.48%) SC Cleared
3 9 (42.86%) AWS Certification
3 9 (42.86%) Azure Certification
3 9 (42.86%) Degree
System Software
1 21 (100.00%) Docker
2 17 (80.95%) DFS Replication
3 9 (42.86%) Dovecot
3 9 (42.86%) Postfix
3 9 (42.86%) Squid
4 8 (38.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (100.00%) Terraform
2 17 (80.95%) Grafana
2 17 (80.95%) Prometheus
3 9 (42.86%) Nessus
3 9 (42.86%) Proxmox
4 4 (19.05%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (80.95%) ServiceNow
2 9 (42.86%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (19.05%) CheckPoint
3 4 (19.05%) F5
3 4 (19.05%) Palo Alto