Amazon EC2 Jobs in the West Midlands

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 226 233
Rank change year-on-year +67 +7 +33
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 40 33 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.95% 0.40% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.70% 1.30% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 26 28 14
10th Percentile £44,000 £58,150 £45,000
25th Percentile £70,313 £64,688 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.83% +18.23%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £79,563
90th Percentile £74,375 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +11.11% -6.90%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,081 2,547 2,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.73% 30.83% 38.70%
Number of salaries quoted 813 2,138 1,509
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £39,112
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +1.41% +1.43%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the West Midlands

Amazon EC2
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Amazon EC2 in the West Midlands

Amazon EC2
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 8 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Amazon EC2 in the West Midlands

Amazon EC2
Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham +55 28 £72,500 - 17
Solihull +10 9 £75,000 +3.45% 4
Coventry -6 1 - - 1
Wolverhampton - 1 £47,500 -
Shropshire - 1 £57,500 - 1
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (62.50%) Confluence
2 3 (7.50%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) AWS
2 35 (87.50%) Amazon S3
3 30 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 30 (75.00%) AWS KMS
4 25 (62.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 24 (60.00%) Amazon ELB
6 21 (52.50%) Amazon Glacier
7 13 (32.50%) Route 53
8 9 (22.50%) Azure
9 8 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (17.50%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (15.00%) Serverless
12 4 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (10.00%) Entra ID
12 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (7.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 3 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
14 1 (2.50%) Amazon Cognito
14 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (67.50%) Firewall
2 9 (22.50%) DNS
2 9 (22.50%) FTP
2 9 (22.50%) HTTP
2 9 (22.50%) SMTP
2 9 (22.50%) SSH
3 4 (10.00%) HTTPS
3 4 (10.00%) SD-WAN
3 4 (10.00%) VLAN
3 4 (10.00%) VPN
3 4 (10.00%) WAN
4 3 (7.50%) IMAP
4 3 (7.50%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (7.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (85.00%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (27.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 11 (27.50%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (17.50%) DynamoDB
4 2 (5.00%) Big Data
4 2 (5.00%) MySQL
5 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (77.50%) Git
1 31 (77.50%) Jenkins
2 26 (65.00%) JIRA
3 24 (60.00%) Vagrant
4 9 (22.50%) Bitbucket Server
5 8 (20.00%) Maven
6 7 (17.50%) JUnit
6 7 (17.50%) Mockito
6 7 (17.50%) SonarQube
7 6 (15.00%) DbUnit
7 6 (15.00%) jMock
7 6 (15.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (57.50%) Public Sector
2 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Finance
6 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (27.50%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (25.00%) Developer
3 10 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 10 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 10 (25.00%) Support Engineer
4 9 (22.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (20.00%) Java Developer
6 7 (17.50%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (17.50%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (15.00%) Lead
7 6 (15.00%) Lead Developer
7 6 (15.00%) Lead Java Developer
8 4 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (10.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (7.50%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
1 8 (20.00%) RESTful
1 8 (20.00%) SOAP
1 8 (20.00%) Spring
1 8 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 7 (17.50%) AngularJS
2 7 (17.50%) Bootstrap
2 7 (17.50%) JPA
2 7 (17.50%) Web Services
3 6 (15.00%) Hibernate
3 6 (15.00%) PowerMock
3 6 (15.00%) Spring Batch
3 6 (15.00%) Spring Integration
4 4 (10.00%) REST
5 3 (7.50%) LDAP
5 3 (7.50%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (5.00%) CSS
6 2 (5.00%) Next.js
6 2 (5.00%) React
6 2 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (40.00%) Replication
2 4 (10.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 30 (75.00%) Linux
2 24 (60.00%) VMS
2 24 (60.00%) Windows
3 10 (25.00%) Amazon Linux
4 6 (15.00%) Ubuntu
5 4 (10.00%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (70.00%) DevOps
2 25 (62.50%) Cloud Security
3 24 (60.00%) Configuration Management
4 21 (52.50%) Change Management
5 16 (40.00%) Agile
5 16 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (30.00%) Patch Management
7 11 (27.50%) Platform Engineering
8 8 (20.00%) Microservices
8 8 (20.00%) Scrum
8 8 (20.00%) TDD
9 7 (17.50%) BDD
9 7 (17.50%) Containerisation
10 6 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (15.00%) Kanban
10 6 (15.00%) Open Source
11 4 (10.00%) Load Balancing
11 4 (10.00%) Problem Management
11 4 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 4 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (65.00%) PowerShell
2 24 (60.00%) Python
3 23 (57.50%) Groovy
4 18 (45.00%) Java
5 10 (25.00%) Perl
6 6 (15.00%) SQL
7 3 (7.50%) Ruby
7 3 (7.50%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.50%) C#
8 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (70.00%) SC Cleared
1 28 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 9 (22.50%) Azure Certification
4 6 (15.00%) Degree
5 4 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 24 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 21 (52.50%) Docker
3 16 (40.00%) DFS Replication
4 7 (17.50%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (12.50%) Postfix
6 3 (7.50%) Dovecot
6 3 (7.50%) Squid
6 3 (7.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (60.00%) Grafana
1 24 (60.00%) Prometheus
1 24 (60.00%) Terraform
2 14 (35.00%) Ansible
3 6 (15.00%) Nessus
3 6 (15.00%) Proxmox
4 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (7.50%) Nagios
Vendors
1 21 (52.50%) ServiceNow
2 14 (35.00%) Juniper
3 6 (15.00%) Atlassian
4 5 (12.50%) Jaspersoft
4 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle