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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 117 118
Rank change year-on-year +32 +1 +52
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 46 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.32% 0.054% 0.050%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.64% 0.18% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 0 1
10th Percentile £396 - -
25th Percentile £459 - £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £398
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.81%
75th Percentile £488 - £409
90th Percentile £500 - -
England median daily rate £525 £608 £550
% change year-on-year -13.58% +10.45% -8.33%

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 693 561 706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 34.89% 30.05% 35.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 367 519
10th Percentile £300 £238 £200
25th Percentile £420 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% -4.52%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £597
90th Percentile £700 £688 £690
England median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 7
10th Percentile £25.82 £16.53 £17.50
25th Percentile £27.21 £28.14 £17.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.74 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.07% +82.35% +12.12%
75th Percentile £34.98 £35.00 £19.25
90th Percentile £40.45 - £19.45
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

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 24 October 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 24 October 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 +28 32 £475 - 2
Solihull - 7 £450 -
Shropshire - 4 £325 -
Herefordshire - 1 £550 - 1
Coventry - 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 24 (52.17%) Confluence
2 12 (26.09%) nginx
3 1 (2.17%) Apache
3 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (26.09%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 46 (100.00%) AWS
2 45 (97.83%) Amazon S3
3 39 (84.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 35 (76.09%) AWS KMS
5 33 (71.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 28 (60.87%) Amazon ELB
7 20 (43.48%) Route 53
8 14 (30.43%) Azure
9 13 (28.26%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (26.09%) Amazon Glacier
10 12 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (19.57%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (15.22%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (15.22%) Serverless
13 5 (10.87%) AWS CloudTrail
14 3 (6.52%) AWS Direct Connect
14 3 (6.52%) Entra ID
14 3 (6.52%) IaaS
14 3 (6.52%) PaaS
14 3 (6.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (65.22%) DNS
2 26 (56.52%) Firewall
3 24 (52.17%) SMTP
4 22 (47.83%) FTP
4 22 (47.83%) HTTP
4 22 (47.83%) SSH
5 12 (26.09%) IMAP
5 12 (26.09%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (8.70%) DHCP
6 4 (8.70%) SSL
6 4 (8.70%) TCP/IP
6 4 (8.70%) VPN
7 3 (6.52%) Network Security
8 1 (2.17%) iSCSI
8 1 (2.17%) LAN
8 1 (2.17%) VLAN
8 1 (2.17%) VSAN
8 1 (2.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (82.61%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (47.83%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (17.39%) DynamoDB
5 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.17%) Big Data
6 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 41 (89.13%) Jenkins
2 39 (84.78%) Git
3 24 (52.17%) JIRA
3 24 (52.17%) Vagrant
4 10 (21.74%) Maven
5 9 (19.57%) JUnit
5 9 (19.57%) SonarQube
6 7 (15.22%) Mockito
7 5 (10.87%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (10.87%) DbUnit
7 5 (10.87%) jMock
8 3 (6.52%) GitLab
General
1 29 (63.04%) Public Sector
2 12 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 11 (23.91%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Finance
5 1 (2.17%) Military
5 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (58.70%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (45.65%) AWS Engineer
3 20 (43.48%) Platform Engineer
4 19 (41.30%) AWS DevOps
4 19 (41.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 19 (41.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 12 (26.09%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 11 (23.91%) Developer
6 11 (23.91%) Java Developer
7 10 (21.74%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 8 (17.39%) Senior
9 4 (8.70%) Administrator
9 4 (8.70%) Lead
9 4 (8.70%) Lead Developer
9 4 (8.70%) Lead Java Developer
9 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 4 (8.70%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (8.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 3 (6.52%) AWS Administrator
10 3 (6.52%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (26.09%) LDAP
2 11 (23.91%) Spring
2 11 (23.91%) Spring Boot
3 10 (21.74%) ActiveMQ
3 10 (21.74%) REST
3 10 (21.74%) SOAP
4 9 (19.57%) JPA
5 8 (17.39%) AngularJS
5 8 (17.39%) RESTful
5 8 (17.39%) Web Services
6 7 (15.22%) Bootstrap
6 7 (15.22%) Hibernate
6 7 (15.22%) Spring Batch
6 7 (15.22%) Spring Cloud
6 7 (15.22%) Spring Integration
7 5 (10.87%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 23 (50.00%) Replication
2 7 (15.22%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 34 (73.91%) Linux
2 26 (56.52%) Windows
3 24 (52.17%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (52.17%) VMS
4 11 (23.91%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.17%) SUSE
5 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (82.61%) DevOps
2 25 (54.35%) Change Management
2 25 (54.35%) Configuration Management
2 25 (54.35%) Platform Engineering
3 24 (52.17%) Cloud Security
4 22 (47.83%) Patch Management
5 21 (45.65%) CI/CD
6 13 (28.26%) Performance Tuning
7 12 (26.09%) Agile
8 11 (23.91%) Microservices
8 11 (23.91%) Scrum
8 11 (23.91%) TDD
9 8 (17.39%) Containerisation
10 7 (15.22%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (13.04%) BDD
12 5 (10.87%) Kanban
12 5 (10.87%) Open Source
13 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 4 (8.70%) Risk Management
13 4 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (65.22%) Python
2 28 (60.87%) PowerShell
3 24 (52.17%) Groovy
3 24 (52.17%) SQL
4 23 (50.00%) Java
5 12 (26.09%) Perl
6 5 (10.87%) Bash
7 1 (2.17%) Scala
7 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (76.09%) Security Cleared
2 32 (69.57%) SC Cleared
3 12 (26.09%) Degree
4 11 (23.91%) AWS Certification
5 10 (21.74%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 41 (89.13%) Docker
2 22 (47.83%) DFS Replication
3 17 (36.96%) Postfix
4 16 (34.78%) Active Directory
5 12 (26.09%) Dovecot
5 12 (26.09%) Squid
6 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 32 (69.57%) Grafana
1 32 (69.57%) Prometheus
2 31 (67.39%) Terraform
3 12 (26.09%) Nessus
4 10 (21.74%) Proxmox
5 6 (13.04%) Ansible
6 3 (6.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
8 1 (2.17%) PowerCLI
8 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (52.17%) ServiceNow
2 17 (36.96%) Jaspersoft
3 5 (10.87%) Atlassian
4 4 (8.70%) CheckPoint
4 4 (8.70%) F5
4 4 (8.70%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.70%) Palo Alto
5 3 (6.52%) AppDynamics
5 3 (6.52%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.17%) Databricks
6 1 (2.17%) Oracle
6 1 (2.17%) Veeam
6 1 (2.17%) VMware