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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 92 109
Rank change year-on-year -19 +17 +43
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 34 7 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.27% 0.48% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.81% 1.39% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 1 2
10th Percentile £463 - £402
25th Percentile £491 £525 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £480
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +14.58% -16.52%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £538
90th Percentile £580 - £564
England median daily rate £525 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -16.00% +19.05% -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 892 502 516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.38% 34.57% 27.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 653 344 396
10th Percentile £306 £200 £200
25th Percentile £413 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year - +9.89% -9.05%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 11
10th Percentile £22.63 £15.84 £14.13
25th Percentile £25.55 £17.00 £17.63
Median hourly rate £27.21 £20.24 £19.95
Median % change year-on-year +34.44% +1.45% +21.94%
75th Percentile - £35.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £52.23 £37.79 -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year +36.36% +27.08% -13.44%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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
Birmingham -5 16 £475 - 7
Herefordshire - 11 £550 -
Solihull +1 8 £500 - 5
Warwickshire - 1 £450 -
Coventry - 1 - - 1
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 13 (38.24%) Confluence
2 4 (11.76%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 34 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 34 (100.00%) AWS
2 22 (64.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 17 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 16 (47.06%) Amazon ELB
4 16 (47.06%) AWS KMS
5 13 (38.24%) Azure
6 12 (35.29%) Route 53
7 11 (32.35%) OpenShift
8 6 (17.65%) Amazon Glacier
8 6 (17.65%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (17.65%) Serverless
9 5 (14.71%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (2.94%) AWS CodePipeline
12 1 (2.94%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 10 (29.41%) DNS
1 10 (29.41%) Firewall
2 7 (20.59%) Network Security
3 6 (17.65%) FTP
3 6 (17.65%) HTTP
3 6 (17.65%) SMTP
3 6 (17.65%) SSH
4 5 (14.71%) VPN
5 4 (11.76%) IMAP
5 4 (11.76%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (11.76%) SSL
5 4 (11.76%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.94%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (88.24%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (32.35%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (29.41%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (17.65%) DynamoDB
5 4 (11.76%) InfluxDB
5 4 (11.76%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.94%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.94%) Big Data
6 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.94%) Impala
Development Applications
1 29 (85.29%) Jenkins
2 21 (61.76%) Git
3 13 (38.24%) JIRA
4 6 (17.65%) GitLab
4 6 (17.65%) JUnit
4 6 (17.65%) Maven
4 6 (17.65%) Mockito
4 6 (17.65%) SonarQube
4 6 (17.65%) Vagrant
5 5 (14.71%) DbUnit
5 5 (14.71%) jMock
6 3 (8.82%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 12 (35.29%) Public Sector
2 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
3 7 (20.59%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Military
4 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Site Engineer
1 11 (32.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 9 (26.47%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (23.53%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) AWS DevOps
4 6 (17.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) Developer
4 6 (17.65%) Java Developer
4 6 (17.65%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (14.71%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (11.76%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) Senior
6 4 (11.76%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (11.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 4 (11.76%) Technical Manager
7 3 (8.82%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Python Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) ActiveMQ
1 6 (17.65%) AngularJS
1 6 (17.65%) Hibernate
1 6 (17.65%) JPA
1 6 (17.65%) Node.js
1 6 (17.65%) REST
1 6 (17.65%) SOAP
1 6 (17.65%) Spring
1 6 (17.65%) Spring Batch
1 6 (17.65%) Spring Boot
1 6 (17.65%) Spring Cloud
1 6 (17.65%) Spring Integration
1 6 (17.65%) Web Services
2 5 (14.71%) PowerMock
3 4 (11.76%) LDAP
3 4 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (8.82%) Bootstrap
4 3 (8.82%) RESTful
5 1 (2.94%) JSON
5 1 (2.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Replication
2 5 (14.71%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 22 (64.71%) Linux
2 6 (17.65%) Amazon Linux
2 6 (17.65%) VMS
2 6 (17.65%) Windows
3 4 (11.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (73.53%) CI/CD
2 17 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 16 (47.06%) DevOps
4 12 (35.29%) Containerisation
5 11 (32.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 10 (29.41%) Agile
6 10 (29.41%) Change Management
7 8 (23.53%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (17.65%) BPMN
9 6 (17.65%) Cloud Security
9 6 (17.65%) Mentoring
9 6 (17.65%) Microservices
9 6 (17.65%) Patch Management
9 6 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (17.65%) Scrum
9 6 (17.65%) TDD
10 4 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (11.76%) Service Management
10 4 (11.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (55.88%) SQL
2 16 (47.06%) Python
3 12 (35.29%) Java
4 11 (32.35%) Shell Script
5 6 (17.65%) Groovy
5 6 (17.65%) PowerShell
6 4 (11.76%) Bash
6 4 (11.76%) Go
7 2 (5.88%) Perl
Qualifications
1 29 (85.29%) Security Cleared
2 23 (67.65%) SC Cleared
3 7 (20.59%) DV Cleared
4 6 (17.65%) AWS Certification
4 6 (17.65%) Azure Certification
5 4 (11.76%) Degree
System Software
1 27 (79.41%) Docker
2 8 (23.53%) Postfix
3 6 (17.65%) DFS Replication
4 4 (11.76%) Dovecot
4 4 (11.76%) Squid
5 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
6 1 (2.94%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (67.65%) Grafana
1 23 (67.65%) Terraform
2 18 (52.94%) Prometheus
3 15 (44.12%) Ansible
4 11 (32.35%) Kubernetes
4 11 (32.35%) Progress Chef
5 4 (11.76%) Nessus
5 4 (11.76%) Proxmox
6 2 (5.88%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (5.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) ServiceNow
2 10 (29.41%) Jaspersoft
3 5 (14.71%) Atlassian
4 4 (11.76%) CheckPoint
4 4 (11.76%) F5
4 4 (11.76%) Palo Alto
5 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.94%) AVEVA
6 1 (2.94%) Cloudera