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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 86 108
Rank change year-on-year -29 +22 -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 40 12 3
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.28% 0.88% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.46% 2.68% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 3 3
10th Percentile £455 £470 £351
25th Percentile £463 £481 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +17.65% -
75th Percentile £544 £538 £509
90th Percentile £575 £560 £553
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%

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 897 447 454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 28.67% 32.65% 23.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 632 297 351
10th Percentile £313 £200 £213
25th Percentile £402 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £611
90th Percentile £675 £663 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 10
10th Percentile - £15.23 £14.10
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.02 £14.69
Median hourly rate £33.99 £18.07 £21.23
Median % change year-on-year +88.15% -14.89% +4.87%
75th Percentile £67.84 £19.31 £26.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £39.80 £29.35
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +67.39% +21.43% -34.98%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +6 22 £488 -2.50%
Birmingham -19 11 £475 - 2
Herefordshire -2 8 £544 -
Coventry -20 1 - -
Warwickshire - 1 £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 16 (40.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.50%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 40 (100.00%) AWS
2 30 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 18 (45.00%) AWS KMS
4 17 (42.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 16 (40.00%) Route 53
6 15 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (37.50%) Serverless
7 14 (35.00%) Amazon SQS
8 11 (27.50%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (27.50%) Azure
8 11 (27.50%) GitHub
8 11 (27.50%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
10 9 (22.50%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (20.00%) OpenShift
12 6 (15.00%) Amazon ELB
13 4 (10.00%) Amazon Glacier
14 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) Network Security
2 1 (2.50%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (35.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 14 (35.00%) DynamoDB
4 3 (7.50%) InfluxDB
4 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.50%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.50%) Big Data
6 1 (2.50%) Data Vault
6 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.50%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.50%) Impala
Development Applications
1 33 (82.50%) Jenkins
2 19 (47.50%) Git
3 16 (40.00%) JIRA
4 14 (35.00%) JUnit
4 14 (35.00%) Maven
4 14 (35.00%) Mockito
4 14 (35.00%) SonarQube
5 12 (30.00%) GitLab
6 11 (27.50%) DbUnit
6 11 (27.50%) jMock
7 9 (22.50%) Bitbucket
7 9 (22.50%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (2.50%) Burp Suite
8 1 (2.50%) Metasploit
8 1 (2.50%) sqlmap
General
1 18 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 8 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (35.00%) Developer
1 14 (35.00%) Java Developer
2 9 (22.50%) Scrum Master
3 8 (20.00%) Site Engineer
3 8 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (10.00%) Senior
5 4 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 4 (10.00%) Technical Manager
6 2 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Administrator
7 1 (2.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Lead Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Lead Java Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (35.00%) ActiveMQ
1 14 (35.00%) AngularJS
1 14 (35.00%) Hibernate
1 14 (35.00%) JPA
1 14 (35.00%) REST
1 14 (35.00%) SOAP
1 14 (35.00%) Spring
1 14 (35.00%) Spring Batch
1 14 (35.00%) Spring Boot
1 14 (35.00%) Spring Cloud
1 14 (35.00%) Spring Integration
1 14 (35.00%) Web Services
2 11 (27.50%) PowerMock
3 10 (25.00%) Node.js
4 9 (22.50%) Bootstrap
4 9 (22.50%) RESTful
5 7 (17.50%) AWS CDK
6 3 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.50%) JSON
7 1 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (27.50%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (22.50%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 19 (47.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (72.50%) CI/CD
1 29 (72.50%) Containerisation
2 27 (67.50%) Agile
3 24 (60.00%) DevOps
4 23 (57.50%) Scrum
5 16 (40.00%) Microservices
6 14 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (35.00%) TDD
7 13 (32.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (30.00%) Kanban
9 11 (27.50%) ITIL
10 10 (25.00%) BPMN
10 10 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (25.00%) Open Source
11 9 (22.50%) BDD
11 9 (22.50%) DevSecOps
11 9 (22.50%) Problem Management
11 9 (22.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 9 (22.50%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (22.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (52.50%) SQL
2 17 (42.50%) Java
3 8 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 7 (17.50%) Python
5 3 (7.50%) Go
Qualifications
1 34 (85.00%) Security Cleared
2 30 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (22.50%) SAFe Agilist
4 7 (17.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (10.00%) AWS Certification
5 4 (10.00%) Azure Certification
5 4 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.50%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (82.50%) Docker
2 10 (25.00%) Postfix
3 1 (2.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (55.00%) Grafana
2 19 (47.50%) Terraform
3 13 (32.50%) Prometheus
4 8 (20.00%) Ansible
4 8 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 8 (20.00%) Progress Chef
5 2 (5.00%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (35.00%) Jaspersoft
2 11 (27.50%) Atlassian
3 5 (12.50%) ServiceNow
4 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.50%) AVEVA
5 1 (2.50%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.50%) Databricks
5 1 (2.50%) Informatica