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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 111 -
Rank change year-on-year +35 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 31 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.01% 0.15% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.67% 0.61% -
Number of daily rates quoted 21 3 0
10th Percentile £358 £351 -
25th Percentile £450 £374 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% - -
75th Percentile £488 £509 -
90th Percentile £500 £553 -
England median daily rate £508 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -7.73% -8.33% +4.35%

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 465 494 823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.12% 23.97% 36.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 372 591
10th Percentile £235 £206 £263
25th Percentile £388 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £597 £603 £625
90th Percentile £685 £688 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 4
10th Percentile £17.01 £14.14 £15.54
25th Percentile £21.88 £15.56 £15.98
Median hourly rate £34.43 £22.50 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year +53.02% +11.17% +6.53%
75th Percentile £40.22 £26.50 £24.47
90th Percentile £51.30 £33.19 £25.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +14.32% -33.33% +54.48%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 July 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 5 July 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 +23 15 £475 +11.76% 14
Solihull - 9 £450 - 2
Shropshire - 3 £325 - 3
Staffordshire - 2 £550 - 4
Herefordshire - 1 - - 1
Coventry - 1 - - 4
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 10 (32.26%) Confluence
2 2 (6.45%) nginx
3 1 (3.23%) Apache
3 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 31 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 31 (100.00%) AWS
2 24 (77.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 21 (67.74%) AWS KMS
4 15 (48.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 14 (45.16%) Amazon SQS
6 12 (38.71%) Route 53
7 9 (29.03%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (29.03%) Serverless
8 8 (25.81%) Amazon ELB
9 6 (19.35%) Amazon Glacier
10 5 (16.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (16.13%) AWS CloudTrail
10 5 (16.13%) PaaS
10 5 (16.13%) SaaS
11 4 (12.90%) Azure
12 3 (9.68%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (9.68%) AWS Direct Connect
12 3 (9.68%) Entra ID
12 3 (9.68%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (32.26%) DNS
2 8 (25.81%) SMTP
3 6 (19.35%) Firewall
3 6 (19.35%) FTP
3 6 (19.35%) HTTP
3 6 (19.35%) SSH
4 4 (12.90%) DHCP
5 2 (6.45%) IMAP
5 2 (6.45%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (3.23%) iSCSI
6 1 (3.23%) LAN
6 1 (3.23%) VLAN
6 1 (3.23%) VSAN
6 1 (3.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (83.87%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (48.39%) Amazon Aurora
2 15 (48.39%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (35.48%) DynamoDB
4 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.23%) Big Data
5 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (77.42%) Jenkins
2 21 (67.74%) Git
3 13 (41.94%) Maven
4 12 (38.71%) JUnit
4 12 (38.71%) SonarQube
5 11 (35.48%) JIRA
6 10 (32.26%) Mockito
7 8 (25.81%) Vagrant
8 7 (22.58%) Bitbucket Server
8 7 (22.58%) DbUnit
8 7 (22.58%) jMock
9 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
9 1 (3.23%) Snyk
General
1 17 (54.84%) Public Sector
2 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Finance
3 3 (9.68%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (51.61%) Developer
2 13 (41.94%) Java Developer
3 10 (32.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (19.35%) AWS Developer
4 6 (19.35%) Lead
4 6 (19.35%) Lead Developer
4 6 (19.35%) Lead Java Developer
4 6 (19.35%) Senior
5 4 (12.90%) Administrator
5 4 (12.90%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (12.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 3 (9.68%) AWS Administrator
6 3 (9.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.45%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Python Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (41.94%) ActiveMQ
1 13 (41.94%) REST
1 13 (41.94%) SOAP
1 13 (41.94%) Spring
1 13 (41.94%) Spring Boot
2 12 (38.71%) JPA
3 11 (35.48%) Web Services
4 10 (32.26%) Hibernate
4 10 (32.26%) Spring Cloud
5 9 (29.03%) AngularJS
5 9 (29.03%) Bootstrap
5 9 (29.03%) RESTful
5 9 (29.03%) Spring Batch
5 9 (29.03%) Spring Integration
6 7 (22.58%) PowerMock
7 2 (6.45%) Django
7 2 (6.45%) LDAP
7 2 (6.45%) MACH
8 1 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (22.58%) Replication
3 1 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.23%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (61.29%) Linux
2 10 (32.26%) Windows
3 8 (25.81%) Amazon Linux
3 8 (25.81%) VMS
4 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.23%) SUSE
4 1 (3.23%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (74.19%) DevOps
2 16 (51.61%) Agile
3 15 (48.39%) Microservices
4 14 (45.16%) Scrum
5 13 (41.94%) TDD
6 12 (38.71%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (35.48%) Containerisation
8 10 (32.26%) CI/CD
9 9 (29.03%) Change Management
9 9 (29.03%) Configuration Management
9 9 (29.03%) Platform Engineering
10 8 (25.81%) BDD
10 8 (25.81%) Cloud Security
11 7 (22.58%) Kanban
11 7 (22.58%) Open Source
11 7 (22.58%) Risk Management
12 6 (19.35%) Patch Management
12 6 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
13 4 (12.90%) Decision-Making
13 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (67.74%) Java
2 17 (54.84%) SQL
3 12 (38.71%) PowerShell
3 12 (38.71%) Python
4 8 (25.81%) Groovy
5 6 (19.35%) Perl
6 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.45%) R
7 1 (3.23%) Bash
7 1 (3.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (54.84%) Security Cleared
2 16 (51.61%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.23%) Degree
3 1 (3.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 25 (80.65%) Docker
2 10 (32.26%) Active Directory
2 10 (32.26%) Postfix
3 6 (19.35%) DFS Replication
4 2 (6.45%) Dovecot
4 2 (6.45%) Squid
5 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (58.06%) Grafana
1 18 (58.06%) Prometheus
2 11 (35.48%) Terraform
3 4 (12.90%) Kubernetes
4 3 (9.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (6.45%) Ansible
5 2 (6.45%) Nessus
6 1 (3.23%) Argo
6 1 (3.23%) PowerCLI
6 1 (3.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Jaspersoft
2 8 (25.81%) ServiceNow
3 7 (22.58%) Atlassian
4 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
5 3 (9.68%) AppDynamics
5 3 (9.68%) Dynatrace
6 2 (6.45%) Oracle
7 1 (3.23%) Databricks
7 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.23%) Veeam
7 1 (3.23%) VMware