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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 78 112
Rank change year-on-year -39 +34 -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 44 26 3
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.33% 1.77% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.46% 5.66% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 15 3
10th Percentile £443 £435 £351
25th Percentile £460 £463 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +1.53% +11.76% -
75th Percentile £514 £500 £509
90th Percentile £544 - £553
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.41% -11.25%

All Cloud Computing 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 986 459 489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 29.88% 31.25% 23.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 701 301 363
10th Percentile £306 £220 £203
25th Percentile £400 £388 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £611
90th Percentile £671 £675 £688
England median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 6 12
10th Percentile £22.50 £17.01 £14.14
25th Percentile £26.15 £21.88 £15.56
Median hourly rate £33.99 £34.43 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +53.02% +11.17%
75th Percentile £71.42 £40.22 £26.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £51.30 £33.19
England median hourly rate £42.59 £25.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +67.03% +15.91% -32.31%

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 21 June 2026.

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 21 June 2026. 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 +3 27 £488 +2.63% 1
Birmingham -27 12 £475 - 3
Herefordshire -3 3 £538 -
Shropshire - 3 £459 - 2
Coventry -18 1 - -
Warwickshire - 1 £477 -
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 21 (47.73%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.27%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 44 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 44 (100.00%) AWS
2 37 (84.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 21 (47.73%) AWS KMS
4 19 (43.18%) Route 53
4 19 (43.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 17 (38.64%) Amazon SQS
6 15 (34.09%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (34.09%) Serverless
7 14 (31.82%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (31.82%) GitHub
7 14 (31.82%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (29.55%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (27.27%) AWS CodePipeline
10 11 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (20.45%) Azure
12 5 (11.36%) Amazon ELB
13 4 (9.09%) Amazon Glacier
14 3 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (6.82%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (63.64%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (38.64%) Amazon Aurora
2 17 (38.64%) DynamoDB
2 17 (38.64%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (6.82%) MySQL
4 3 (6.82%) Pentaho
5 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.27%) Data Vault
5 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 37 (84.09%) Jenkins
2 25 (56.82%) Git
3 18 (40.91%) JIRA
3 18 (40.91%) SonarQube
4 17 (38.64%) JUnit
4 17 (38.64%) Maven
4 17 (38.64%) Mockito
5 15 (34.09%) GitLab
6 13 (29.55%) DbUnit
6 13 (29.55%) jMock
7 11 (25.00%) Bitbucket
7 11 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (2.27%) Artifactory
8 1 (2.27%) Burp Suite
8 1 (2.27%) Metasploit
8 1 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (2.27%) sqlmap
General
1 21 (47.73%) Social Skills
2 19 (43.18%) Public Sector
3 10 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (13.64%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (38.64%) Developer
1 17 (38.64%) Java Developer
2 12 (27.27%) Scrum Master
3 7 (15.91%) Senior
4 6 (13.64%) AWS DevOps
4 6 (13.64%) Senior Developer
4 6 (13.64%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (11.36%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 4 (9.09%) Technical Manager
7 3 (6.82%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Site Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Lead
8 2 (4.55%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 1 (2.27%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 1 (2.27%) Digital Delivery Manager
9 1 (2.27%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 1 (2.27%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (40.91%) Spring
1 18 (40.91%) Spring Boot
2 17 (38.64%) ActiveMQ
2 17 (38.64%) AngularJS
2 17 (38.64%) Hibernate
2 17 (38.64%) JPA
2 17 (38.64%) REST
2 17 (38.64%) SOAP
2 17 (38.64%) Spring Batch
2 17 (38.64%) Spring Integration
2 17 (38.64%) Web Services
3 16 (36.36%) Spring Cloud
4 13 (29.55%) PowerMock
5 12 (27.27%) Node.js
5 12 (27.27%) RESTful
6 11 (25.00%) Bootstrap
7 10 (22.73%) AWS CDK
8 1 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 13 (29.55%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.82%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 20 (45.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (77.27%) Agile
2 32 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 31 (70.45%) Containerisation
4 30 (68.18%) Scrum
5 29 (65.91%) DevOps
6 21 (47.73%) Microservices
7 18 (40.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (38.64%) TDD
9 15 (34.09%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (34.09%) Kanban
10 12 (27.27%) Backlog Refinement
10 12 (27.27%) BPMN
10 12 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
10 12 (27.27%) DevSecOps
10 12 (27.27%) Open Source
10 12 (27.27%) Test Automation
11 11 (25.00%) BDD
11 11 (25.00%) ITIL
11 11 (25.00%) Problem Management
11 11 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 22 (50.00%) SQL
2 18 (40.91%) Java
3 4 (9.09%) Python
4 3 (6.82%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.27%) Bash
5 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 36 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 35 (79.55%) SC Cleared
3 11 (25.00%) SAFe Agilist
4 9 (20.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 6 (13.64%) AWS Certification
6 5 (11.36%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.27%) NIST
1 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 35 (79.55%) Docker
2 11 (25.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 20 (45.45%) Grafana
2 16 (36.36%) Terraform
3 9 (20.45%) Prometheus
4 4 (9.09%) Ansible
4 4 (9.09%) Kubernetes
4 4 (9.09%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.27%) Argo
5 1 (2.27%) Istio
5 1 (2.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (38.64%) Jaspersoft
2 13 (29.55%) Atlassian
3 8 (18.18%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.82%) Oracle
4 3 (6.82%) Talend
5 1 (2.27%) AVEVA
5 1 (2.27%) Databricks
5 1 (2.27%) Informatica
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft