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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 116 116
Rank change year-on-year +22 0 +50
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 43 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.00% 0.053% 0.053%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.73% 0.17% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 0 1
10th Percentile £422 - -
25th Percentile £463 - £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £398
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.75%
75th Percentile £513 - £409
90th Percentile £575 - -
England median daily rate £525 £650 £538
% change year-on-year -19.23% +20.93% -10.42%

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 750 597 660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 34.92% 31.77% 34.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 389 488
10th Percentile £300 £212 £200
25th Percentile £425 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £588
90th Percentile £700 £690 £688
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 16 8
10th Percentile £26.51 £16.51 £17.50
25th Percentile £27.21 £17.00 £17.69
Median hourly rate £31.94 £31.69 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +71.28% +4.40%
75th Percentile £35.75 £35.00 £19.38
90th Percentile £60.15 - £30.33
England median hourly rate £25.47 £33.74 £26.50
% change year-on-year -24.50% +27.30% +17.78%

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 26 November 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 26 November 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 +18 28 £475 - 3
Herefordshire - 6 £550 - 5
Shropshire - 4 £325 -
Solihull - 4 £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 24 (55.81%) Confluence
2 12 (27.91%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (27.91%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 43 (100.00%) AWS
2 42 (97.67%) Amazon S3
3 35 (81.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 32 (74.42%) AWS KMS
4 32 (74.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 28 (65.12%) Amazon ELB
6 17 (39.53%) Azure
6 17 (39.53%) Route 53
7 12 (27.91%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (27.91%) Amazon Glacier
7 12 (27.91%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (18.60%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (18.60%) Serverless
9 6 (13.95%) OpenShift
10 4 (9.30%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (9.30%) AWS CloudTrail
11 3 (6.98%) AWS Direct Connect
11 3 (6.98%) Entra ID
11 3 (6.98%) IaaS
11 3 (6.98%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (69.77%) DNS
2 26 (60.47%) Firewall
3 24 (55.81%) SMTP
4 22 (51.16%) FTP
4 22 (51.16%) HTTP
4 22 (51.16%) SSH
5 12 (27.91%) IMAP
5 12 (27.91%) OpenLDAP
6 6 (13.95%) Network Security
7 4 (9.30%) DHCP
7 4 (9.30%) SSL
7 4 (9.30%) TCP/IP
7 4 (9.30%) VPN
8 1 (2.33%) iSCSI
8 1 (2.33%) LAN
8 1 (2.33%) VLAN
8 1 (2.33%) VSAN
8 1 (2.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (83.72%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (39.53%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (37.21%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (9.30%) DynamoDB
4 4 (9.30%) Relational Database
5 3 (6.98%) InfluxDB
6 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (88.37%) Jenkins
2 32 (74.42%) Git
3 24 (55.81%) JIRA
3 24 (55.81%) Vagrant
4 4 (9.30%) GitLab
4 4 (9.30%) JUnit
4 4 (9.30%) Maven
4 4 (9.30%) SonarQube
5 3 (6.98%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (6.98%) DbUnit
5 3 (6.98%) jMock
5 3 (6.98%) Mockito
General
1 24 (55.81%) Public Sector
2 11 (25.58%) Presentation Skills
2 11 (25.58%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 26 (60.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (46.51%) AWS Engineer
3 19 (44.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 19 (44.19%) Platform Engineer
4 18 (41.86%) AWS DevOps
4 18 (41.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 12 (27.91%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 10 (23.26%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 8 (18.60%) Senior
8 6 (13.95%) Site Engineer
8 6 (13.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (11.63%) Developer
9 5 (11.63%) Java Developer
10 4 (9.30%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (9.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 3 (6.98%) Administrator
11 3 (6.98%) AWS Administrator
12 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 1 (2.33%) AWS Developer
13 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (27.91%) LDAP
2 5 (11.63%) RESTful
2 5 (11.63%) Spring
2 5 (11.63%) Spring Boot
3 4 (9.30%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (9.30%) AngularJS
3 4 (9.30%) Hibernate
3 4 (9.30%) JPA
3 4 (9.30%) REST
3 4 (9.30%) SOAP
3 4 (9.30%) Spring Batch
3 4 (9.30%) Spring Integration
3 4 (9.30%) Web Services
4 3 (6.98%) Bootstrap
4 3 (6.98%) PowerMock
4 3 (6.98%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (6.98%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 23 (53.49%) Replication
2 4 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 37 (86.05%) Linux
2 26 (60.47%) Windows
3 24 (55.81%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (55.81%) VMS
4 11 (25.58%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.33%) SUSE
5 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (74.42%) DevOps
2 30 (69.77%) Configuration Management
3 25 (58.14%) Change Management
4 24 (55.81%) Cloud Security
4 24 (55.81%) Platform Engineering
5 22 (51.16%) CI/CD
5 22 (51.16%) Patch Management
6 12 (27.91%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (16.28%) Containerisation
8 6 (13.95%) Agile
8 6 (13.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (11.63%) Microservices
9 5 (11.63%) Scrum
9 5 (11.63%) TDD
10 4 (9.30%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 3 (6.98%) High Availability
11 3 (6.98%) Kanban
11 3 (6.98%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 31 (72.09%) Python
2 28 (65.12%) PowerShell
3 25 (58.14%) SQL
4 24 (55.81%) Groovy
5 20 (46.51%) Java
6 12 (27.91%) Perl
7 6 (13.95%) Shell Script
8 4 (9.30%) Bash
9 3 (6.98%) Go
Qualifications
1 35 (81.40%) Security Cleared
2 30 (69.77%) SC Cleared
3 11 (25.58%) AWS Certification
3 11 (25.58%) Degree
4 10 (23.26%) Azure Certification
5 6 (13.95%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 37 (86.05%) Docker
2 22 (51.16%) DFS Replication
3 16 (37.21%) Active Directory
4 15 (34.88%) Postfix
5 12 (27.91%) Dovecot
5 12 (27.91%) Squid
6 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 35 (81.40%) Terraform
2 33 (76.74%) Grafana
2 33 (76.74%) Prometheus
3 12 (27.91%) Nessus
4 10 (23.26%) Ansible
4 10 (23.26%) Proxmox
5 6 (13.95%) Kubernetes
5 6 (13.95%) Progress Chef
6 3 (6.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (2.33%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (2.33%) PowerCLI
7 1 (2.33%) Puppet
7 1 (2.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (55.81%) ServiceNow
2 15 (34.88%) Jaspersoft
3 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
4 4 (9.30%) CheckPoint
4 4 (9.30%) F5
4 4 (9.30%) Palo Alto
5 3 (6.98%) AppDynamics
5 3 (6.98%) Atlassian
5 3 (6.98%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle
6 1 (2.33%) Veeam
6 1 (2.33%) VMware