Amazon EC2 Job Trends in the Midlands

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 211 277
Rank change year-on-year -22 +66 +1
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 7 13 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.070% 0.25% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.21% 0.72% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 7 6 15
10th Percentile £46,100 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,250 £44,563 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,938 £68,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £79,375 £71,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £95,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -28.95% +31.03% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Midlands

Amazon EC2 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,328 1,798 3,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 33.30% 34.22% 35.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,584 1,270 3,017
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,443 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +4.89% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Amazon EC2
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Amazon EC2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon EC2 in the Midlands

Amazon EC2
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +3 7 £60,000 +26.32% 6
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 1 (14.29%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (57.14%) Serverless
3 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (42.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (28.57%) GitHub
4 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (14.29%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
3 1 (14.29%) MySQL
3 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Advertising
2 3 (42.86%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Investment Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) DataOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 1 (14.29%) Quarkus
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) High Availability
4 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
4 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (28.57%) DataOps
5 2 (28.57%) Observability
5 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (14.29%) Microservices
6 1 (14.29%) Open Source
6 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Scala
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Certification
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Ansible
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes