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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 104 -
Rank change year-on-year +34 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 47 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.57% 0.11% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.95% 0.37% -
Number of daily rates quoted 28 1 0
10th Percentile £396 - -
25th Percentile £459 £335 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% - -
75th Percentile £488 £365 -
90th Percentile £500 - -
England median daily rate £500 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -16.67% +6.67% -6.25%

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 591 542 730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.30% 28.53% 35.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 364 527
10th Percentile £273 £213 £209
25th Percentile £413 £352 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.89% +1.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £687 £700
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 4
10th Percentile £31.94 £15.83 £17.58
25th Percentile £34.16 £23.55 £17.69
Median hourly rate £35.49 £33.74 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% +82.35% +8.82%
75th Percentile £52.69 £35.00 £19.38
90th Percentile £59.44 £55.50 £19.60
England median hourly rate £26.30 £32.75 £33.00
% change year-on-year -19.69% -0.76% +53.49%

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
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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +35.71% 1
Solihull - 7 £450 -
Shropshire - 4 £325 -
Staffordshire - 1 - -
Herefordshire - 1 - - 1
Coventry - 1 - -
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 25 (53.19%) Confluence
2 12 (25.53%) nginx
3 1 (2.13%) Apache
3 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (25.53%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 47 (100.00%) AWS
2 46 (97.87%) Amazon S3
3 40 (85.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 35 (74.47%) AWS KMS
5 34 (72.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 27 (57.45%) Amazon ELB
7 20 (42.55%) Route 53
8 14 (29.79%) Azure
9 13 (27.66%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (25.53%) Amazon Glacier
10 12 (25.53%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (21.28%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (19.15%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (19.15%) Serverless
13 5 (10.64%) AWS CloudTrail
14 4 (8.51%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (8.51%) PaaS
14 4 (8.51%) SaaS
15 3 (6.38%) Entra ID
15 3 (6.38%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (61.70%) DNS
2 25 (53.19%) Firewall
3 24 (51.06%) SMTP
4 22 (46.81%) FTP
4 22 (46.81%) HTTP
4 22 (46.81%) SSH
5 12 (25.53%) IMAP
5 12 (25.53%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (8.51%) DHCP
7 3 (6.38%) SSL
7 3 (6.38%) TCP/IP
7 3 (6.38%) VPN
8 2 (4.26%) Network Security
9 1 (2.13%) iSCSI
9 1 (2.13%) LAN
9 1 (2.13%) VLAN
9 1 (2.13%) VSAN
9 1 (2.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (82.98%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (48.94%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (46.81%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (17.02%) DynamoDB
5 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.13%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 40 (85.11%) Jenkins
2 38 (80.85%) Git
3 26 (55.32%) JIRA
4 24 (51.06%) Vagrant
5 10 (21.28%) Maven
5 10 (21.28%) SonarQube
6 9 (19.15%) JUnit
7 7 (14.89%) Mockito
8 5 (10.64%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (10.64%) DbUnit
8 5 (10.64%) jMock
9 2 (4.26%) GitLab
10 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
10 1 (2.13%) Snyk
General
1 29 (61.70%) Public Sector
2 13 (27.66%) Social Skills
3 11 (23.40%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Finance
5 1 (2.13%) Military
5 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (57.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (44.68%) AWS Engineer
3 20 (42.55%) Platform Engineer
4 19 (40.43%) AWS DevOps
4 19 (40.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 19 (40.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 13 (27.66%) Developer
6 12 (25.53%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 11 (23.40%) Java Developer
8 10 (21.28%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 8 (17.02%) Senior
10 5 (10.64%) AWS Developer
11 4 (8.51%) Administrator
11 4 (8.51%) Lead
11 4 (8.51%) Lead Developer
11 4 (8.51%) Lead Java Developer
11 4 (8.51%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 3 (6.38%) AWS Administrator
12 3 (6.38%) Senior DevOps
12 3 (6.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (25.53%) LDAP
2 11 (23.40%) Spring
2 11 (23.40%) Spring Boot
3 10 (21.28%) ActiveMQ
3 10 (21.28%) REST
3 10 (21.28%) SOAP
4 9 (19.15%) JPA
5 8 (17.02%) AngularJS
5 8 (17.02%) RESTful
5 8 (17.02%) Web Services
6 7 (14.89%) Bootstrap
6 7 (14.89%) Hibernate
6 7 (14.89%) Spring Batch
6 7 (14.89%) Spring Cloud
6 7 (14.89%) Spring Integration
7 5 (10.64%) PowerMock
8 1 (2.13%) Django
8 1 (2.13%) MACH
8 1 (2.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (48.94%) Replication
2 7 (14.89%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.13%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 33 (70.21%) Linux
2 26 (55.32%) Windows
3 24 (51.06%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (51.06%) VMS
4 11 (23.40%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.13%) SUSE
5 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (82.98%) DevOps
2 25 (53.19%) Change Management
2 25 (53.19%) Configuration Management
2 25 (53.19%) Platform Engineering
3 24 (51.06%) Cloud Security
4 22 (46.81%) CI/CD
4 22 (46.81%) Patch Management
5 14 (29.79%) Agile
6 13 (27.66%) Performance Tuning
7 12 (25.53%) Microservices
7 12 (25.53%) Scrum
8 11 (23.40%) TDD
9 9 (19.15%) Containerisation
9 9 (19.15%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (12.77%) BDD
11 5 (10.64%) Kanban
11 5 (10.64%) Open Source
12 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 4 (8.51%) Risk Management
12 4 (8.51%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (63.83%) Python
2 28 (59.57%) PowerShell
3 24 (51.06%) Groovy
3 24 (51.06%) Java
3 24 (51.06%) SQL
4 12 (25.53%) Perl
5 4 (8.51%) Bash
6 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.13%) R
6 1 (2.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (70.21%) Security Cleared
2 32 (68.09%) SC Cleared
3 12 (25.53%) Degree
4 11 (23.40%) AWS Certification
5 10 (21.28%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (2.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 41 (87.23%) Docker
2 22 (46.81%) DFS Replication
3 17 (36.17%) Postfix
4 16 (34.04%) Active Directory
5 12 (25.53%) Dovecot
5 12 (25.53%) Squid
6 1 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (65.96%) Grafana
1 31 (65.96%) Prometheus
2 30 (63.83%) Terraform
3 12 (25.53%) Nessus
4 10 (21.28%) Proxmox
5 5 (10.64%) Ansible
6 3 (6.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (6.38%) Kubernetes
7 1 (2.13%) Argo
7 1 (2.13%) PowerCLI
7 1 (2.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (51.06%) ServiceNow
2 17 (36.17%) Jaspersoft
3 5 (10.64%) Atlassian
4 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
5 3 (6.38%) AppDynamics
5 3 (6.38%) CheckPoint
5 3 (6.38%) Dynatrace
5 3 (6.38%) F5
5 3 (6.38%) Palo Alto
6 2 (4.26%) Oracle
7 1 (2.13%) Databricks
7 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.13%) Veeam
7 1 (2.13%) VMware