Amazon EC2 Contracts in the West Midlands

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 108 -
Rank change year-on-year +22 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 11 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.82% 0.15% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.53% 0.64% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £470 £351 -
25th Percentile £481 £374 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% - -
75th Percentile £538 £509 -
90th Percentile £560 £553 -
England median daily rate £575 £530 £625
% change year-on-year +8.49% -15.20% +8.70%

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 434 469 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.27% 24.09% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 364 648
10th Percentile £200 £213 £300
25th Percentile £393 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £457 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.53% -8.75% +2.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £690 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 4
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.08 £15.54
25th Percentile £16.38 £19.95 £15.98
Median hourly rate £18.07 £26.00 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year -30.52% +28.46% +15.66%
75th Percentile £19.93 £26.50 £24.47
90th Percentile £35.45 £55.00 £25.31
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the West Midlands

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend 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 1 May 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
Solihull - 4 £500 - 1
Birmingham +16 2 £475 +11.76% 5
Staffordshire - 2 £550 - 5
Herefordshire - 1 - -
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (81.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 9 (81.82%) Amazon SQS
3 6 (54.55%) AWS KMS
3 6 (54.55%) Route 53
4 3 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (27.27%) Serverless
5 2 (18.18%) AWS CodeCommit
5 2 (18.18%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 2 (18.18%) Boomi
5 2 (18.18%) OCI
5 2 (18.18%) PaaS
5 2 (18.18%) SaaS
5 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (9.09%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (9.09%) GitHub
6 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (9.09%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (90.91%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (63.64%) DynamoDB
2 7 (63.64%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (45.45%) Relational Database
4 4 (36.36%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (27.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Jenkins
2 7 (63.64%) JUnit
2 7 (63.64%) Mockito
3 4 (36.36%) Maven
3 4 (36.36%) SonarQube
4 3 (27.27%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (27.27%) DbUnit
4 3 (27.27%) Git
4 3 (27.27%) JIRA
4 3 (27.27%) jMock
5 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
5 1 (9.09%) Snyk
General
1 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
2 7 (63.64%) Java Developer
3 4 (36.36%) AWS Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Lead
4 2 (18.18%) Lead Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Python Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) Hibernate
1 7 (63.64%) REST
1 7 (63.64%) Spring
1 7 (63.64%) Spring Boot
1 7 (63.64%) Web Services
2 4 (36.36%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (36.36%) JPA
2 4 (36.36%) SOAP
2 4 (36.36%) Spring Cloud
3 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
3 3 (27.27%) Bootstrap
3 3 (27.27%) HTML
3 3 (27.27%) jQuery
3 3 (27.27%) PowerMock
3 3 (27.27%) RESTful
3 3 (27.27%) Spring Batch
3 3 (27.27%) Spring Integration
3 3 (27.27%) WireMock
4 2 (18.18%) Django
4 2 (18.18%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Agile
2 9 (81.82%) Microservices
3 8 (72.73%) Scrum
4 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
4 7 (63.64%) TDD
5 6 (54.55%) BDD
5 6 (54.55%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (54.55%) DevOps
5 6 (54.55%) Kanban
6 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
7 4 (36.36%) Risk Management
8 3 (27.27%) Architectural Design
8 3 (27.27%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
8 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (27.27%) Open Source
8 3 (27.27%) SDLC
8 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (27.27%) Task Automation
9 2 (18.18%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Java
2 6 (54.55%) SQL
3 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
4 2 (18.18%) Python
4 2 (18.18%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 10 (90.91%) Docker
2 4 (36.36%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 4 (36.36%) Grafana
2 4 (36.36%) Prometheus
3 1 (9.09%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) Argo
3 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Atlassian
1 3 (27.27%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat