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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 90 114
Rank change year-on-year -31 +24 +35
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 32 8 3
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.13% 0.61% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.54% 1.73% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 2 3
10th Percentile £456 £469 £392
25th Percentile £491 £478 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £513 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% +20.59% -32.00%
75th Percentile £550 £553 £509
90th Percentile £575 £566 £553
England median daily rate £530 £600 £530
% change year-on-year -11.67% +13.21% -11.67%

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 905 463 504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.85% 35.10% 25.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 662 330 394
10th Percentile £313 £200 £213
25th Percentile £404 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £494 £455
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% +8.57% -9.90%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 11
10th Percentile £21.83 £15.25 £14.13
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.63 £17.63
Median hourly rate £26.11 £18.13 £19.95
Median % change year-on-year +43.99% -9.12% +12.58%
75th Percentile £27.50 £23.62 £26.50
90th Percentile £42.43 £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £37.54 £26.81 £21.37
% change year-on-year +40.01% +25.47% -14.52%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 12 £481 - 6
Herefordshire - 11 £550 -
Birmingham -16 10 £494 +3.95%
Coventry - 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 10 (31.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 32 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 32 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (62.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 13 (40.63%) AWS KMS
4 12 (37.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 11 (34.38%) Azure
5 11 (34.38%) OpenShift
5 11 (34.38%) Route 53
6 10 (31.25%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (31.25%) Serverless
7 9 (28.13%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (21.88%) Amazon ELB
9 5 (15.63%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (15.63%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (12.50%) Amazon Glacier
10 4 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
10 4 (12.50%) GitHub
10 4 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) Network Security
2 2 (6.25%) VPN
3 1 (3.13%) DNS
3 1 (3.13%) Firewall
3 1 (3.13%) Kerberos
3 1 (3.13%) SSL
3 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (87.50%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (28.13%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (28.13%) DynamoDB
4 4 (12.50%) InfluxDB
4 4 (12.50%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.13%) Apache Hive
5 1 (3.13%) Big Data
5 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.13%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.13%) Impala
Development Applications
1 26 (81.25%) Jenkins
2 15 (46.88%) Git
3 10 (31.25%) JIRA
4 9 (28.13%) JUnit
4 9 (28.13%) Maven
4 9 (28.13%) Mockito
4 9 (28.13%) SonarQube
5 7 (21.88%) DbUnit
5 7 (21.88%) GitLab
5 7 (21.88%) jMock
6 5 (15.63%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (9.38%) Bitbucket
8 1 (3.13%) Burp Suite
8 1 (3.13%) Metasploit
8 1 (3.13%) sqlmap
General
1 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 10 (31.25%) Public Sector
3 4 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Site Engineer
1 11 (34.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 9 (28.13%) Developer
2 9 (28.13%) Java Developer
3 5 (15.63%) Delivery Manager
4 4 (12.50%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 4 (12.50%) Technical Manager
5 3 (9.38%) Scrum Master
6 2 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior
7 1 (3.13%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (3.13%) Cloud Administrator
7 1 (3.13%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Digital Delivery Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Digital Transformation Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Lead
7 1 (3.13%) Python Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (3.13%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (28.13%) ActiveMQ
1 9 (28.13%) AngularJS
1 9 (28.13%) Hibernate
1 9 (28.13%) JPA
1 9 (28.13%) REST
1 9 (28.13%) SOAP
1 9 (28.13%) Spring
1 9 (28.13%) Spring Batch
1 9 (28.13%) Spring Boot
1 9 (28.13%) Spring Cloud
1 9 (28.13%) Spring Integration
1 9 (28.13%) Web Services
2 8 (25.00%) Node.js
3 7 (21.88%) PowerMock
4 5 (15.63%) Bootstrap
4 5 (15.63%) RESTful
5 4 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (9.38%) AWS CDK
7 1 (3.13%) JSON
7 1 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 18 (56.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 18 (56.25%) Containerisation
3 15 (46.88%) Agile
4 14 (43.75%) DevOps
5 12 (37.50%) Scrum
6 11 (34.38%) Configuration Management
6 11 (34.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 9 (28.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (28.13%) Microservices
7 9 (28.13%) TDD
8 8 (25.00%) BPMN
9 7 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (21.88%) Kanban
10 6 (18.75%) Open Source
10 6 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
11 5 (15.63%) BDD
11 5 (15.63%) Biometrics
11 5 (15.63%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
11 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (56.25%) SQL
2 13 (40.63%) Java
3 11 (34.38%) Shell Script
4 8 (25.00%) Python
5 4 (12.50%) Go
6 1 (3.13%) Bash
Qualifications
1 27 (84.38%) Security Cleared
2 21 (65.63%) SC Cleared
3 7 (21.88%) DV Cleared
4 3 (9.38%) AWS Certification
4 3 (9.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 3 (9.38%) Azure Certification
4 3 (9.38%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.13%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (75.00%) Docker
2 6 (18.75%) Postfix
3 1 (3.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (62.50%) Grafana
2 18 (56.25%) Terraform
3 13 (40.63%) Prometheus
4 12 (37.50%) Ansible
5 11 (34.38%) Kubernetes
5 11 (34.38%) Progress Chef
6 2 (6.25%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) Jaspersoft
2 7 (21.88%) Atlassian
3 5 (15.63%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.13%) AVEVA
5 1 (3.13%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.13%) Cloudera
5 1 (3.13%) F5
5 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto