Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in Herefordshire

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Herefordshire requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Herefordshire 14.06% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £523 - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile £585 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 - £398
% change year-on-year - - -40.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 47 15 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire 73.44% 51.72% 58.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 13 6
10th Percentile - £582 £243
25th Percentile £525 - £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £612 £688
Median % change year-on-year +6.21% -10.98% +30.95%
75th Percentile £700 £635 £725
90th Percentile £750 £685 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £32.50 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.61 £20.24 £18.50
% change year-on-year +41.33% +9.41% +12.12%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in Herefordshire

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

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in Herefordshire

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in Herefordshire

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

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

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in Herefordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the Herefordshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Hereford - 7 £550 - 1
Amazon EC2
West Midlands

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Herefordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (44.44%) InfluxDB
2 4 (44.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 9 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) RabbitMQ
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 9 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
2 4 (44.44%) Observability
2 4 (44.44%) Service Management
2 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Task Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Domain Models
3 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) Go
2 4 (44.44%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (77.78%) DV Cleared
3 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Ansible
1 9 (100.00%) Grafana
1 9 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 9 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 9 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (22.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft