Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 1.11% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.39% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 - £398
% change year-on-year - - -33.75%

All Cloud Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 118 44 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 32.87% 39.29% 21.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 31 8
10th Percentile £380 £300 £274
25th Percentile £417 £383 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £490 £388
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% +26.45% -27.57%
75th Percentile £534 £530 £509
90th Percentile £552 £567 £565
West Midlands median daily rate £505 £500 £460
% change year-on-year +1.00% +8.70% -8.00%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Telford - 4 £325 -
Amazon EC2
West Midlands

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 3 (75.00%) AWS KMS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (75.00%) IaaS
2 3 (75.00%) PaaS
2 3 (75.00%) SaaS
2 3 (75.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Administrator
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Administrator
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Key Management
1 3 (75.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 3 (75.00%) Workflow
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (75.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle