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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 82 109
Rank change year-on-year -36 +27 -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 51 34 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.47% 2.07% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.70% 6.59% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 22 2
10th Percentile £448 £363 £343
25th Percentile £458 £450 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £475 £388
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +22.58% -
75th Percentile £500 £488 £419
90th Percentile £530 £500 £430
England median daily rate £500 £500 £575
% change year-on-year - -13.04% -4.17%

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 1,084 516 488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.19% 31.43% 25.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 753 336 365
10th Percentile £313 £275 £207
25th Percentile £402 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £591 £612
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 7 8
10th Percentile £21.25 £17.36 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.03 £14.22
Median hourly rate £33.99 £34.98 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +81.71% +2.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £50.11 £26.30
90th Percentile £75.00 £59.20 £40.25
England median hourly rate £38.25 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +52.09% +14.32% -33.33%

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 July 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 26 July 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 +3 31 £488 +8.33% 1
Birmingham -26 13 £475 - 2
Warwickshire - 5 £477 -
Shropshire -55 3 £459 +41.23% 1
Herefordshire -4 1 £538 -
Coventry -22 1 - -
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 21 (41.18%) Confluence
2 1 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.96%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.96%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 51 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 51 (100.00%) AWS
2 42 (82.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 23 (45.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 21 (41.18%) AWS KMS
5 20 (39.22%) AWS Lambda
5 20 (39.22%) Serverless
6 19 (37.25%) Amazon EKS
6 19 (37.25%) Amazon SQS
6 19 (37.25%) GitHub
6 19 (37.25%) Route 53
7 18 (35.29%) Amazon ECS
7 18 (35.29%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (29.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (23.53%) AWS CodePipeline
10 9 (17.65%) Azure
11 5 (9.80%) Amazon ELB
12 4 (7.84%) Amazon Glacier
13 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
14 1 (1.96%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (58.82%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 17 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 17 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (7.84%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (5.88%) MySQL
4 3 (5.88%) Pentaho
5 1 (1.96%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.96%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.96%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 40 (78.43%) Jenkins
2 25 (49.02%) Git
3 18 (35.29%) JIRA
3 18 (35.29%) SonarQube
4 17 (33.33%) JUnit
4 17 (33.33%) Maven
4 17 (33.33%) Mockito
5 15 (29.41%) GitLab
6 13 (25.49%) DbUnit
6 13 (25.49%) jMock
7 11 (21.57%) Bitbucket
7 11 (21.57%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (1.96%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.96%) Burp Suite
8 1 (1.96%) Metasploit
8 1 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.96%) sqlmap
General
1 21 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 20 (39.22%) Public Sector
3 10 (19.61%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (33.33%) Developer
1 17 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 17 (33.33%) Scrum Master
2 7 (13.73%) Senior
3 6 (11.76%) AWS DevOps
3 6 (11.76%) Senior Developer
3 6 (11.76%) Senior Java Developer
4 5 (9.80%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (7.84%) Architect
5 4 (7.84%) Data Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Architect
5 4 (7.84%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 4 (7.84%) Technical Manager
6 3 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Lead
7 2 (3.92%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 1 (1.96%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 1 (1.96%) DataOps Engineer
8 1 (1.96%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.96%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (45.10%) Spring
1 23 (45.10%) Spring Boot
2 17 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
2 17 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 17 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 17 (33.33%) JPA
2 17 (33.33%) REST
2 17 (33.33%) RESTful
2 17 (33.33%) SOAP
2 17 (33.33%) Spring Batch
2 17 (33.33%) Spring Integration
2 17 (33.33%) Web Services
3 16 (31.37%) Spring Cloud
4 13 (25.49%) PowerMock
5 12 (23.53%) Node.js
6 11 (21.57%) Bootstrap
7 10 (19.61%) AWS CDK
8 1 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 16 (31.37%) Product Ownership
2 13 (25.49%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (13.73%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 22 (43.14%) Linux
2 4 (7.84%) AIX
2 4 (7.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (76.47%) Agile
1 39 (76.47%) CI/CD
2 38 (74.51%) DevOps
3 35 (68.63%) Scrum
4 33 (64.71%) Containerisation
5 26 (50.98%) Microservices
6 23 (45.10%) Continuous Improvement
6 23 (45.10%) Infrastructure as Code
7 17 (33.33%) TDD
7 17 (33.33%) Test Automation
8 16 (31.37%) Backlog Refinement
8 16 (31.37%) DevSecOps
8 16 (31.37%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 15 (29.41%) Kanban
10 12 (23.53%) BPMN
10 12 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
10 12 (23.53%) Open Source
11 11 (21.57%) BDD
11 11 (21.57%) ITIL
11 11 (21.57%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (45.10%) Java
2 20 (39.22%) SQL
3 4 (7.84%) Python
4 1 (1.96%) Bash
4 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (76.47%) Security Cleared
2 38 (74.51%) SC Cleared
3 11 (21.57%) AWS Certification
3 11 (21.57%) SAFe Agilist
4 9 (17.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (9.80%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.96%) NIST
System Software
1 38 (74.51%) Docker
2 11 (21.57%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 18 (35.29%) Grafana
1 18 (35.29%) Terraform
2 7 (13.73%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.92%) Ansible
3 2 (3.92%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.92%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.96%) Argo
4 1 (1.96%) Istio
4 1 (1.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (33.33%) Jaspersoft
2 13 (25.49%) Atlassian
3 8 (15.69%) ServiceNow
4 4 (7.84%) Cisco
4 4 (7.84%) VMware
5 3 (5.88%) Oracle
5 3 (5.88%) Talend
6 1 (1.96%) AVEVA
6 1 (1.96%) Databricks
6 1 (1.96%) Informatica
6 1 (1.96%) Microsoft