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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 99 112
Rank change year-on-year -22 +13 +41
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 27 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.08% 0.40% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.25% 1.18% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 1 2
10th Percentile £463 - £402
25th Percentile £475 £525 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £480
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +14.58% -16.52%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £595 - £564
England median daily rate £530 £608 £525
% change year-on-year -12.76% +15.71% -12.50%

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 830 508 534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.07% 33.53% 28.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 339 403
10th Percentile £303 £200 £213
25th Percentile £413 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -8.42%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £678 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 19 12
10th Percentile £23.10 £16.05 £17.53
25th Percentile £26.11 £17.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £27.21 £20.24 £19.23
Median % change year-on-year +34.44% +5.28% +17.51%
75th Percentile £31.61 £35.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £52.50 £36.39 -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -10.00%

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 6 February 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 6 February 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
Birmingham +2 13 £475 - 4
Herefordshire - 11 £550 -
Solihull -2 1 - - 1
Warwickshire - 1 £450 -
Coventry - 1 - - 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 10 (37.04%) Confluence
2 7 (25.93%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 27 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 27 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (59.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 15 (55.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 15 (55.56%) Amazon ELB
4 12 (44.44%) Azure
5 11 (40.74%) OpenShift
6 10 (37.04%) AWS KMS
7 9 (33.33%) Route 53
8 8 (29.63%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (25.93%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (22.22%) Serverless
11 3 (11.11%) Amazon Glacier
12 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (3.70%) AWS CodePipeline
13 1 (3.70%) AWS Direct Connect
13 1 (3.70%) GCP
13 1 (3.70%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 14 (51.85%) DNS
1 14 (51.85%) Firewall
2 10 (37.04%) FTP
2 10 (37.04%) HTTP
2 10 (37.04%) SMTP
2 10 (37.04%) SSH
3 7 (25.93%) IMAP
3 7 (25.93%) Network Security
3 7 (25.93%) OpenLDAP
4 5 (18.52%) VPN
5 4 (14.81%) SSL
5 4 (14.81%) TCP/IP
6 1 (3.70%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (85.19%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (29.63%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (25.93%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (14.81%) InfluxDB
4 4 (14.81%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.70%) Apache Hive
5 1 (3.70%) Big Data
5 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.70%) Impala
Development Applications
1 27 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 14 (51.85%) Git
3 10 (37.04%) JIRA
3 10 (37.04%) Vagrant
4 6 (22.22%) GitLab
General
1 9 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
3 7 (25.93%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) AWS Engineer
1 12 (44.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (40.74%) Site Engineer
2 11 (40.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 10 (37.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 10 (37.04%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
4 9 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 7 (25.93%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 5 (18.52%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 4 (14.81%) Senior
7 4 (14.81%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (14.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (7.41%) Python Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Cloud Administrator
9 1 (3.70%) Network Operations Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Operations Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.93%) LDAP
2 4 (14.81%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (3.70%) JSON
3 1 (3.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (37.04%) Replication
2 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 21 (77.78%) Linux
2 10 (37.04%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (37.04%) VMS
2 10 (37.04%) Windows
3 7 (25.93%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (85.19%) CI/CD
2 21 (77.78%) Configuration Management
3 15 (55.56%) DevOps
4 11 (40.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 10 (37.04%) Change Management
5 10 (37.04%) Cloud Security
5 10 (37.04%) Patch Management
5 10 (37.04%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (25.93%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (22.22%) Containerisation
8 4 (14.81%) Mentoring
8 4 (14.81%) Observability
8 4 (14.81%) Service Management
8 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
8 4 (14.81%) Task Automation
9 3 (11.11%) DevSecOps
9 3 (11.11%) High Availability
9 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 20 (74.07%) Python
2 18 (66.67%) SQL
3 11 (40.74%) Shell Script
4 10 (37.04%) Groovy
4 10 (37.04%) PowerShell
5 7 (25.93%) Java
6 4 (14.81%) Bash
6 4 (14.81%) Go
7 3 (11.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 24 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 18 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 7 (25.93%) AWS Certification
3 7 (25.93%) Azure Certification
3 7 (25.93%) Degree
3 7 (25.93%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 25 (92.59%) Docker
2 10 (37.04%) DFS Replication
3 7 (25.93%) Dovecot
3 7 (25.93%) Postfix
3 7 (25.93%) Squid
4 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
5 1 (3.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 27 (100.00%) Terraform
2 22 (81.48%) Prometheus
3 21 (77.78%) Grafana
4 15 (55.56%) Ansible
5 11 (40.74%) Kubernetes
5 11 (40.74%) Progress Chef
6 7 (25.93%) Nessus
6 7 (25.93%) Proxmox
7 2 (7.41%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (7.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) ServiceNow
2 7 (25.93%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (14.81%) CheckPoint
3 4 (14.81%) F5
3 4 (14.81%) Palo Alto
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.70%) AVEVA
5 1 (3.70%) Cloudera