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 18 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 18 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 147 | 82 | 111 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -65 | +29 | - |
| Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 | 31 | 46 | 1 |
| As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands | 0.87% | 2.41% | 0.053% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | 2.71% | 7.12% | 0.18% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 9 | 28 | 0 |
| 10th Percentile | £448 | £396 | - |
| 25th Percentile | £459 | £459 | - |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £477 | £475 | - |
| Median % change year-on-year | +0.42% | - | - |
| 75th Percentile | £494 | £488 | - |
| 90th Percentile | £500 | £500 | - |
| England median daily rate | £500 | £525 | £600 |
| % change year-on-year | -4.76% | -12.50% | +9.09% |
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.
| 6 months to 18 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills | 1,143 | 646 | 557 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands | 32.16% | 33.82% | 29.68% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 773 | 448 | 363 |
| 10th Percentile | £313 | £300 | £215 |
| 25th Percentile | £406 | £420 | £356 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £475 | £519 | £490 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -8.52% | +5.97% | +3.16% |
| 75th Percentile | £600 | £613 | £611 |
| 90th Percentile | £675 | £700 | £685 |
| England median daily rate | £525 | £501 | £530 |
| % change year-on-year | +4.90% | -5.57% | -1.85% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 53 | 9 | 10 |
| 10th Percentile | £17.48 | £25.82 | £15.83 |
| 25th Percentile | £17.75 | £27.21 | £23.55 |
| Median hourly rate | £21.50 | £30.00 | £33.74 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -28.33% | -11.07% | +82.35% |
| 75th Percentile | £49.50 | £34.98 | £35.00 |
| 90th Percentile | £75.00 | £40.45 | £37.50 |
| England median hourly rate | £32.50 | £25.15 | £35.00 |
| % change year-on-year | +29.22% | -28.14% | +8.36% |
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 Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands
Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Amazon EC2.
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 18 October 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 | 0 | 20 | £488 | +8.33% | 1 |
| Warwickshire | - | 6 | £477 | - | 2 |
| Shropshire | -46 | 3 | £459 | +41.23% | 2 |
| Birmingham | -32 | 2 | £463 | -2.63% | 4 |
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Amazon EC2 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Cloud Services
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amazon S3 | 100.0% | 31 |
| 1 | AWS | 100.0% | 31 |
| 3 | Amazon CloudWatch | 77.4% | 24 |
| 4 | Amazon EKS | 64.5% | 20 |
| 4 | AWS Lambda | 64.5% | 20 |
| 4 | GitHub | 64.5% | 20 |
| 4 | Serverless | 64.5% | 20 |
| 8 | Amazon ECS | 61.3% | 19 |
| 8 | GitHub Actions | 61.3% | 19 |
| 10 | Virtual Private Cloud | 41.9% | 13 |
| 11 | AWS CloudFormation | 32.3% | 10 |
| 12 | AWS CodePipeline | 22.6% | 7 |
| 13 | Amazon SQS | 19.4% | 6 |
| 14 | Route 53 | 16.1% | 5 |
| 15 | AWS KMS | 9.7% | 3 |
| 16 | Azure | 6.5% | 2 |
| 16 | CloudFront | 6.5% | 2 |
| 18 | Amazon ELB | 3.2% | 1 |
| 18 | Amazon Glacier | 3.2% | 1 |
| 18 | AWS Direct Connect | 3.2% | 1 |