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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 81 110
Rank change year-on-year -60 +29 -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 34 46 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.96% 2.44% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.03% 7.31% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 27 1
10th Percentile £448 £391 -
25th Percentile £459 £456 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £475 £350
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +35.71% -
75th Percentile £494 £488 £365
90th Percentile £500 £500 -
England median daily rate £500 £520 £600
% change year-on-year -3.85% -13.33% +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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,121 629 556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.60% 33.39% 29.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 759 435 360
10th Percentile £313 £283 £208
25th Percentile £406 £413 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £490
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% +5.21% +3.05%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £611
90th Percentile £676 £700 £685
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 9 10
10th Percentile £17.48 £25.82 £15.83
25th Percentile £18.13 £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 £33.99 £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% +6.87%

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
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 11 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 +1 23 £488 +8.33% 2
Warwickshire - 6 £477 - 2
Shropshire -46 3 £459 +41.23% 1
Birmingham -27 2 £463 -2.63% 2
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 11 (32.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 34 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 34 (100.00%) AWS
2 27 (79.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 21 (61.76%) Amazon EKS
3 21 (61.76%) AWS Lambda
3 21 (61.76%) GitHub
3 21 (61.76%) Serverless
4 20 (58.82%) Amazon ECS
4 20 (58.82%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (41.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 11 (32.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (23.53%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (23.53%) AWS CodePipeline
8 7 (20.59%) Route 53
9 5 (14.71%) AWS KMS
10 3 (8.82%) Azure
11 2 (5.88%) CloudFront
12 1 (2.94%) Amazon ELB
12 1 (2.94%) Amazon Glacier
12 1 (2.94%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (29.41%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (14.71%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (14.71%) DynamoDB
2 5 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.82%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (8.82%) MySQL
3 3 (8.82%) Pentaho
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 29 (85.29%) Jenkins
2 12 (35.29%) GitLab
3 8 (23.53%) Bitbucket
3 8 (23.53%) Git
3 8 (23.53%) JIRA
4 6 (17.65%) SonarQube
5 5 (14.71%) JUnit
5 5 (14.71%) Maven
5 5 (14.71%) Mockito
6 4 (11.76%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (11.76%) DbUnit
6 4 (11.76%) jMock
7 1 (2.94%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Public Sector
3 5 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (55.88%) Scrum Master
2 6 (17.65%) Java Scrum Master
3 5 (14.71%) AWS DevOps
3 5 (14.71%) Developer
3 5 (14.71%) Java Developer
3 5 (14.71%) Lead
4 4 (11.76%) Architect
4 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Architect
4 4 (11.76%) Technical Leader
5 3 (8.82%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Senior
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (2.94%) AWS Architect
7 1 (2.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (2.94%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (2.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (50.00%) Spring
1 17 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 16 (47.06%) RESTful
3 11 (32.35%) Terraform
4 7 (20.59%) AWS CDK
5 5 (14.71%) ActiveMQ
5 5 (14.71%) AngularJS
5 5 (14.71%) Hibernate
5 5 (14.71%) JPA
5 5 (14.71%) REST
5 5 (14.71%) SOAP
5 5 (14.71%) Spring Batch
5 5 (14.71%) Spring Integration
5 5 (14.71%) Web Services
6 4 (11.76%) Bootstrap
6 4 (11.76%) PowerMock
6 4 (11.76%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (8.82%) Node.js
8 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 19 (55.88%) Product Ownership
2 12 (35.29%) Cloud Native
3 4 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (8.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 12 (35.29%) Linux
2 4 (11.76%) AIX
2 4 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (91.18%) CI/CD
2 29 (85.29%) DevOps
3 26 (76.47%) Agile
3 26 (76.47%) Scrum
4 24 (70.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (64.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (58.82%) Containerisation
6 20 (58.82%) Microservices
6 20 (58.82%) Test Automation
7 19 (55.88%) Backlog Refinement
7 19 (55.88%) DevSecOps
7 19 (55.88%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 13 (38.24%) Deployment Automation
9 12 (35.29%) Clean Code
9 12 (35.29%) Code Quality
9 12 (35.29%) Design Patterns
9 12 (35.29%) Sprint Planning
9 12 (35.29%) Technical Leadership
10 11 (32.35%) Observability
10 11 (32.35%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 17 (50.00%) Java
2 8 (23.53%) SQL
3 1 (2.94%) Bash
3 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.94%) Python
Qualifications
1 26 (76.47%) SC Cleared
1 26 (76.47%) Security Cleared
2 14 (41.18%) AWS Certification
3 8 (23.53%) SAFe Agilist
4 6 (17.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.59%) QA
System Software
1 26 (76.47%) Docker
2 3 (8.82%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Grafana
2 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.94%) Ansible
3 1 (2.94%) Argo
3 1 (2.94%) Istio
3 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) Jaspersoft
2 4 (11.76%) Atlassian
2 4 (11.76%) Cisco
2 4 (11.76%) VMware
3 3 (8.82%) Oracle
3 3 (8.82%) ServiceNow
3 3 (8.82%) Talend