Amazon EC2 Contracts in the Midlands

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 8 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 128 148
Rank change year-on-year +21 +20 +52
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 37 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.49% 0.23% 0.098%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.86% 0.88% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 4 3
10th Percentile £374 £358 £485
25th Percentile £450 £393 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -29.17% +2.65%
75th Percentile £488 £522 £625
90th Percentile £500 £674 -
England median daily rate £500 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -14.89% -2.08% -

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 761 679 1,098
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.57% 25.71% 35.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 485 806
10th Percentile £300 £204 £210
25th Percentile £388 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £575
90th Percentile £669 £688 £688
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.57% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 25
10th Percentile £15.21 £14.15 £13.06
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £14.52
Median hourly rate £21.39 £22.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.93% +12.50% +5.96%
75th Percentile £30.00 £31.31 £30.00
90th Percentile £44.29 £48.31 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £34.80
% change year-on-year +5.67% -31.60% +61.84%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the Midlands

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the Midlands

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the Midlands over the 6 months to 8 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the Midlands

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 August 2025. 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
West Midlands +19 37 £475 +22.58% 6
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 17 (45.95%) Confluence
2 6 (16.22%) nginx
3 1 (2.70%) Apache
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 37 (100.00%) AWS
2 36 (97.30%) Amazon S3
3 30 (81.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 28 (75.68%) AWS KMS
5 23 (62.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 16 (43.24%) Amazon ELB
7 15 (40.54%) Route 53
8 11 (29.73%) Amazon SQS
9 10 (27.03%) Amazon Glacier
10 9 (24.32%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (24.32%) Serverless
11 8 (21.62%) Azure
12 7 (18.92%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (16.22%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (13.51%) AWS CloudTrail
15 4 (10.81%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (10.81%) PaaS
15 4 (10.81%) SaaS
16 3 (8.11%) Entra ID
16 3 (8.11%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (48.65%) DNS
2 16 (43.24%) SMTP
3 14 (37.84%) Firewall
3 14 (37.84%) FTP
3 14 (37.84%) HTTP
3 14 (37.84%) SSH
4 6 (16.22%) IMAP
4 6 (16.22%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (10.81%) DHCP
6 1 (2.70%) iSCSI
6 1 (2.70%) LAN
6 1 (2.70%) VLAN
6 1 (2.70%) VSAN
6 1 (2.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (86.49%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (48.65%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (45.95%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (24.32%) DynamoDB
5 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.70%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 30 (81.08%) Jenkins
2 28 (75.68%) Git
3 18 (48.65%) JIRA
4 16 (43.24%) Vagrant
5 11 (29.73%) Maven
5 11 (29.73%) SonarQube
6 10 (27.03%) JUnit
7 8 (21.62%) Mockito
8 6 (16.22%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (16.22%) DbUnit
8 6 (16.22%) jMock
9 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
9 1 (2.70%) Snyk
General
1 23 (62.16%) Public Sector
2 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Finance
6 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (48.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (37.84%) Developer
3 12 (32.43%) AWS DevOps
3 12 (32.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 12 (32.43%) AWS Engineer
3 12 (32.43%) Java Developer
3 12 (32.43%) Platform Engineer
4 11 (29.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 6 (16.22%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 6 (16.22%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 5 (13.51%) AWS Developer
6 5 (13.51%) Senior
7 4 (10.81%) Administrator
7 4 (10.81%) Lead
7 4 (10.81%) Lead Developer
7 4 (10.81%) Lead Java Developer
7 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 3 (8.11%) AWS Administrator
9 2 (5.41%) Senior Developer
10 1 (2.70%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (32.43%) Spring
1 12 (32.43%) Spring Boot
2 11 (29.73%) ActiveMQ
2 11 (29.73%) REST
2 11 (29.73%) SOAP
3 10 (27.03%) JPA
4 9 (24.32%) AngularJS
4 9 (24.32%) RESTful
4 9 (24.32%) Web Services
5 8 (21.62%) Bootstrap
5 8 (21.62%) Hibernate
5 8 (21.62%) Spring Batch
5 8 (21.62%) Spring Cloud
5 8 (21.62%) Spring Integration
6 6 (16.22%) LDAP
6 6 (16.22%) PowerMock
7 1 (2.70%) Django
7 1 (2.70%) MACH
7 1 (2.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (40.54%) Replication
2 8 (21.62%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.70%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 26 (70.27%) Linux
2 18 (48.65%) Windows
3 16 (43.24%) Amazon Linux
3 16 (43.24%) VMS
4 5 (13.51%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.70%) SUSE
5 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (78.38%) DevOps
2 17 (45.95%) Change Management
2 17 (45.95%) Configuration Management
2 17 (45.95%) Platform Engineering
3 16 (43.24%) Cloud Security
4 14 (37.84%) Agile
4 14 (37.84%) CI/CD
4 14 (37.84%) Patch Management
5 13 (35.14%) Microservices
5 13 (35.14%) Scrum
6 12 (32.43%) TDD
7 10 (27.03%) Containerisation
7 10 (27.03%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (18.92%) BDD
8 7 (18.92%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (16.22%) Kanban
9 6 (16.22%) Open Source
10 5 (13.51%) Risk Management
10 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
11 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (62.16%) Java
2 20 (54.05%) PowerShell
3 19 (51.35%) Python
3 19 (51.35%) SQL
4 16 (43.24%) Groovy
5 10 (27.03%) Perl
6 1 (2.70%) Bash
6 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.70%) R
6 1 (2.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (64.86%) Security Cleared
2 23 (62.16%) SC Cleared
3 6 (16.22%) Degree
4 5 (13.51%) AWS Certification
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Certification
6 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 31 (83.78%) Docker
2 14 (37.84%) Active Directory
2 14 (37.84%) DFS Replication
3 12 (32.43%) Postfix
4 6 (16.22%) Dovecot
4 6 (16.22%) Squid
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (64.86%) Grafana
1 24 (64.86%) Prometheus
2 19 (51.35%) Terraform
3 6 (16.22%) Nessus
4 4 (10.81%) Proxmox
5 3 (8.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
6 2 (5.41%) Ansible
7 1 (2.70%) Argo
7 1 (2.70%) PowerCLI
7 1 (2.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (43.24%) ServiceNow
2 12 (32.43%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (16.22%) Atlassian
4 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
5 3 (8.11%) AppDynamics
5 3 (8.11%) Dynatrace
6 2 (5.41%) Oracle
7 1 (2.70%) Databricks
7 1 (2.70%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.70%) Veeam
7 1 (2.70%) VMware