Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 111 116
Rank change year-on-year +15 +5 +52
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 40 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.87% 0.054% 0.053%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.31% 0.17% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 0 1
10th Percentile £404 - -
25th Percentile £463 - £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £398
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.75%
75th Percentile £547 - £409
90th Percentile £575 - -
England median daily rate £525 £650 £538
% change year-on-year -19.23% +20.93% -10.42%

All Cloud Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 753 598 656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 35.12% 32.15% 34.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 390 486
10th Percentile £305 £212 £200
25th Percentile £429 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £588
90th Percentile £700 £688 £688
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 8
10th Percentile £25.12 £16.46 £17.50
25th Percentile £27.21 £17.00 £17.69
Median hourly rate £28.61 £30.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.35% +66.89% +8.12%
75th Percentile £41.56 £35.00 £19.38
90th Percentile £63.95 - £30.33
England median hourly rate £25.47 £32.75 £26.50
% change year-on-year -22.23% +23.58% +17.78%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the West Midlands

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 November 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
Birmingham +18 25 £475 - 2
Herefordshire - 7 £550 - 4
Shropshire - 4 £325 -
Solihull - 3 £450 -
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 23 (57.50%) Confluence
2 12 (30.00%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (30.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) AWS
2 39 (97.50%) Amazon S3
3 32 (80.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 31 (77.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 28 (70.00%) AWS KMS
6 27 (67.50%) Amazon ELB
7 17 (42.50%) Azure
8 14 (35.00%) Route 53
9 12 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (27.50%) Amazon Glacier
11 8 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (20.00%) Serverless
12 7 (17.50%) OpenShift
13 4 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
14 3 (7.50%) AWS Direct Connect
14 3 (7.50%) Entra ID
14 3 (7.50%) IaaS
14 3 (7.50%) PaaS
14 3 (7.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (72.50%) DNS
2 25 (62.50%) Firewall
3 23 (57.50%) SMTP
4 21 (52.50%) FTP
4 21 (52.50%) HTTP
4 21 (52.50%) SSH
5 12 (30.00%) IMAP
5 12 (30.00%) OpenLDAP
6 6 (15.00%) Network Security
7 4 (10.00%) DHCP
7 4 (10.00%) SSL
7 4 (10.00%) TCP/IP
7 4 (10.00%) VPN
8 1 (2.50%) iSCSI
8 1 (2.50%) LAN
8 1 (2.50%) VLAN
8 1 (2.50%) VSAN
8 1 (2.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (82.50%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (35.00%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (32.50%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (10.00%) Relational Database
5 3 (7.50%) InfluxDB
6 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 35 (87.50%) Jenkins
2 28 (70.00%) Git
3 23 (57.50%) JIRA
3 23 (57.50%) Vagrant
4 4 (10.00%) GitLab
5 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (2.50%) DbUnit
5 1 (2.50%) jMock
5 1 (2.50%) JUnit
5 1 (2.50%) Maven
5 1 (2.50%) Mockito
5 1 (2.50%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (52.50%) Public Sector
2 11 (27.50%) Presentation Skills
2 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (62.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
3 19 (47.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 19 (47.50%) Platform Engineer
4 18 (45.00%) AWS DevOps
4 18 (45.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 12 (30.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 10 (25.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 7 (17.50%) Senior
7 7 (17.50%) Site Engineer
7 7 (17.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (7.50%) Administrator
9 3 (7.50%) AWS Administrator
10 2 (5.00%) Developer
10 2 (5.00%) Java Developer
11 1 (2.50%) Network Engineer
11 1 (2.50%) Operations Engineer
11 1 (2.50%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.00%) LDAP
2 3 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (5.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (5.00%) RESTful
3 2 (5.00%) Spring
3 2 (5.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.50%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (2.50%) Bootstrap
4 1 (2.50%) Hibernate
4 1 (2.50%) JPA
4 1 (2.50%) PowerMock
4 1 (2.50%) REST
4 1 (2.50%) SOAP
4 1 (2.50%) Spring Batch
4 1 (2.50%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Spring Integration
4 1 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (55.00%) Replication
2 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 35 (87.50%) Linux
2 25 (62.50%) Windows
3 23 (57.50%) Amazon Linux
3 23 (57.50%) VMS
4 11 (27.50%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.50%) SUSE
5 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (75.00%) Configuration Management
2 29 (72.50%) DevOps
3 24 (60.00%) Change Management
4 23 (57.50%) CI/CD
4 23 (57.50%) Cloud Security
4 23 (57.50%) Platform Engineering
5 21 (52.50%) Patch Management
6 12 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (17.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (12.50%) Containerisation
9 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 3 (7.50%) DevSecOps
10 3 (7.50%) Incident Response
10 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Automation
10 3 (7.50%) Mentoring
10 3 (7.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 3 (7.50%) Observability
10 3 (7.50%) Root Cause Analysis
10 3 (7.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (75.00%) Python
2 27 (67.50%) PowerShell
3 23 (57.50%) Groovy
3 23 (57.50%) SQL
4 16 (40.00%) Java
5 11 (27.50%) Perl
6 7 (17.50%) Shell Script
7 4 (10.00%) Bash
8 3 (7.50%) Go
Qualifications
1 34 (85.00%) Security Cleared
2 28 (70.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (27.50%) AWS Certification
3 11 (27.50%) Degree
4 10 (25.00%) Azure Certification
5 7 (17.50%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 34 (85.00%) Docker
2 21 (52.50%) DFS Replication
3 15 (37.50%) Active Directory
4 13 (32.50%) Postfix
5 12 (30.00%) Dovecot
5 12 (30.00%) Squid
6 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 35 (87.50%) Terraform
2 31 (77.50%) Grafana
2 31 (77.50%) Prometheus
3 12 (30.00%) Nessus
4 11 (27.50%) Ansible
5 10 (25.00%) Proxmox
6 7 (17.50%) Kubernetes
6 7 (17.50%) Progress Chef
7 3 (7.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (2.50%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (2.50%) PowerCLI
8 1 (2.50%) Puppet
8 1 (2.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (57.50%) ServiceNow
2 13 (32.50%) Jaspersoft
3 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 4 (10.00%) CheckPoint
4 4 (10.00%) F5
4 4 (10.00%) Palo Alto
5 3 (7.50%) AppDynamics
5 3 (7.50%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.50%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.50%) Oracle
6 1 (2.50%) Veeam
6 1 (2.50%) VMware