Amazon EC2 Contracts in England

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Amazon EC2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 309 304 342
Rank change year-on-year -5 +38 +28
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 242 413 556
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.65% 0.82% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.06% 2.23% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 309 395
10th Percentile £378 £450 £438
25th Percentile £450 £513 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.20% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
UK median hourly rate - - £85.00
% change year-on-year - - +112.50%

All Cloud Skills
England

Amazon EC2 is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,769 18,488 27,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.83% 36.63% 38.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,478 13,522 20,053
10th Percentile £290 £325 £339
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 311 348
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £32.50 £65.75 £42.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £64.83
UK median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -6.30%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in England

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in England.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in England

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in England

Amazon EC2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in England.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon EC2 in England

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
London +5 151 £525 -16.00% 42
North of England +11 50 £518 -5.91% 10
North West +33 42 £550 -15.38% 6
South East -1 17 £530 -8.62% 6
South West +19 9 £550 -27.27% 9
Yorkshire -8 8 £463 -15.91% 4
East of England +11 6 £650 +8.33% 4
Midlands - 3 £425 - 7
West Midlands - 3 £425 - 7
Amazon EC2
UK

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 17 (7.02%) Apache
1 17 (7.02%) Apache Spark
2 10 (4.13%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.31%) nginx
4 5 (2.07%) Confluence
5 2 (0.83%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.83%) Traefik
6 1 (0.41%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.41%) Drupal
6 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.48%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.24%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.41%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.41%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.41%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 239 (98.76%) AWS
2 173 (71.49%) Amazon S3
3 133 (54.96%) Serverless
4 129 (53.31%) AWS Lambda
5 89 (36.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 66 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 53 (21.90%) Route 53
8 41 (16.94%) Amazon EKS
9 38 (15.70%) Amazon SQS
10 37 (15.29%) AWS CloudFormation
11 36 (14.88%) Amazon ECS
12 22 (9.09%) Amazon EMR
13 18 (7.44%) Snowflake
14 17 (7.02%) Azure
15 16 (6.61%) Amazon ECR
15 16 (6.61%) Amazon ELB
15 16 (6.61%) GitHub
16 14 (5.79%) AWS CodePipeline
16 14 (5.79%) AWS Step Functions
17 13 (5.37%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.44%) DNS
2 16 (6.61%) Network Security
3 13 (5.37%) Firewall
4 9 (3.72%) TCP/IP
5 8 (3.31%) DHCP
6 7 (2.89%) VPN
7 5 (2.07%) AMQP
7 5 (2.07%) FTP
7 5 (2.07%) LAN
7 5 (2.07%) WLAN
8 4 (1.65%) HTTP
8 4 (1.65%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (1.65%) Wireless
9 3 (1.24%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (1.24%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.83%) DMZ
10 2 (0.83%) WAN
11 1 (0.41%) SMTP
11 1 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (36.36%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (9.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 23 (9.50%) DynamoDB
3 21 (8.68%) Relational Database
4 16 (6.61%) MySQL
5 14 (5.79%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (5.79%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (5.37%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (5.37%) Big Data
6 13 (5.37%) NoSQL
7 12 (4.96%) Data Lake
8 9 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (3.31%) MongoDB
9 8 (3.31%) RDBMS
10 6 (2.48%) InfluxDB
11 5 (2.07%) SQL Server
12 4 (1.65%) Apache Hive
12 4 (1.65%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.65%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.65%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 61 (25.21%) Git
2 50 (20.66%) Jenkins
3 42 (17.36%) GitLab
4 18 (7.44%) JIRA
5 11 (4.55%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.72%) webpack
7 8 (3.31%) Maven
7 8 (3.31%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.48%) JUnit
9 5 (2.07%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.07%) JMeter
9 5 (2.07%) Mockito
9 5 (2.07%) Selenium
10 4 (1.65%) Sourcetree
11 3 (1.24%) LoadRunner
11 3 (1.24%) NeoLoad
11 3 (1.24%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.83%) Gradle
12 2 (0.83%) Snyk
13 1 (0.41%) Terragrunt
General
1 44 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 33 (13.64%) Finance
3 19 (7.85%) Public Sector
4 11 (4.55%) Manufacturing
5 7 (2.89%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.89%) Marketing
5 7 (2.89%) Retail
6 6 (2.48%) Electronics
6 6 (2.48%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.07%) Banking
7 5 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.24%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.83%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.41%) Front Office
10 1 (0.41%) Law
10 1 (0.41%) Legal
10 1 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 69 (28.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 67 (27.69%) AWS Engineer
3 41 (16.94%) Developer
4 38 (15.70%) AWS DevOps
5 34 (14.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 28 (11.57%) Architect
6 28 (11.57%) Senior
7 25 (10.33%) Lead
8 22 (9.09%) Data Engineer
9 21 (8.68%) AWS Architect
10 20 (8.26%) Cloud Engineer
11 17 (7.02%) Java Developer
12 14 (5.79%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (5.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 13 (5.37%) AWS Developer
14 12 (4.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 12 (4.96%) Software Engineer
15 11 (4.55%) Senior Developer
16 8 (3.31%) Lead Architect
16 8 (3.31%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.68%) React
2 19 (7.85%) Node.js
3 14 (5.79%) Kafka
3 14 (5.79%) RESTful
4 12 (4.96%) Lambda Expressions
5 11 (4.55%) Spring
6 9 (3.72%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (3.72%) Express.js
6 9 (3.72%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (3.72%) Redux
6 9 (3.72%) REST
7 8 (3.31%) .NET
7 8 (3.31%) OAuth
8 7 (2.89%) JSON
9 6 (2.48%) .NET Core
9 6 (2.48%) LDAP
9 6 (2.48%) OAuth2
9 6 (2.48%) Spring Boot
10 5 (2.07%) AWS CDK
10 5 (2.07%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.37%) Data Protection Act
2 11 (4.55%) Public Cloud
3 9 (3.72%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (3.31%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.89%) PKI
6 6 (2.48%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.07%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.07%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.65%) Credit Derivative
8 4 (1.65%) Credit Risk
8 4 (1.65%) Derivative
8 4 (1.65%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.65%) Market Risk
8 4 (1.65%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.24%) Clustering
9 3 (1.24%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.24%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.83%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 55 (22.73%) Linux
2 21 (8.68%) Windows
3 14 (5.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (4.13%) CentOS
4 10 (4.13%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.72%) Unix
6 3 (1.24%) Debian
6 3 (1.24%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.83%) VMS
7 2 (0.83%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (48.35%) DevOps
2 110 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 60 (24.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (22.31%) Agile
5 52 (21.49%) Containerisation
6 36 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (11.98%) Software Engineering
8 26 (10.74%) ETL
8 26 (10.74%) Microservices
9 24 (9.92%) Scrum
10 22 (9.09%) Test Automation
11 21 (8.68%) Data Pipeline
11 21 (8.68%) Migration
12 20 (8.26%) Configuration Management
12 20 (8.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 20 (8.26%) Technical Leadership
13 16 (6.61%) Computer Science
13 16 (6.61%) Data Protection
13 16 (6.61%) Performance Tuning
14 15 (6.20%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 127 (52.48%) Python
2 63 (26.03%) Java
3 49 (20.25%) SQL
4 34 (14.05%) Bash
5 20 (8.26%) Go
6 17 (7.02%) TypeScript
7 14 (5.79%) JavaScript
8 11 (4.55%) Shell Script
9 7 (2.89%) C
9 7 (2.89%) C#
10 6 (2.48%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.48%) Ruby
11 4 (1.65%) Perl
12 3 (1.24%) C++
12 3 (1.24%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.24%) Scala
13 2 (0.83%) Groovy
14 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 78 (32.23%) Security Cleared
2 67 (27.69%) SC Cleared
3 31 (12.81%) AWS Certification
4 17 (7.02%) Degree
5 16 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (5.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (4.13%) DV Cleared
8 9 (3.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.83%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.41%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.41%) OCP
10 1 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.02%) QA
2 5 (2.07%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.24%) ISO 22301
3 3 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.24%) NCSC
4 2 (0.83%) GDPR
4 2 (0.83%) SLA
5 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.41%) IFRS
5 1 (0.41%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 74 (30.58%) Docker
2 17 (7.02%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.24%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.83%) Varnish
7 1 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.41%) HDFS
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 111 (45.87%) Terraform
2 101 (41.74%) Kubernetes
3 48 (19.83%) Ansible
4 28 (11.57%) Prometheus
5 26 (10.74%) Grafana
6 16 (6.61%) Progress Chef
7 15 (6.20%) Puppet
8 9 (3.72%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (3.72%) Packer
9 8 (3.31%) Consul
10 6 (2.48%) HP Fortify
11 4 (1.65%) HAProxy
11 4 (1.65%) Kibana
11 4 (1.65%) Rancher
12 3 (1.24%) Podman
13 2 (0.83%) Graylog
13 2 (0.83%) Istio
13 2 (0.83%) linkerd
13 2 (0.83%) Salt
13 2 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (7.85%) Oracle
2 17 (7.02%) Splunk
3 12 (4.96%) SAP
4 11 (4.55%) Microsoft
5 10 (4.13%) VMware
6 9 (3.72%) Databricks
6 9 (3.72%) Informatica
7 8 (3.31%) Red Hat
7 8 (3.31%) Talend
8 6 (2.48%) NEC
8 6 (2.48%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.07%) Cisco
10 3 (1.24%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.24%) MKS
10 3 (1.24%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.83%) Apple
11 2 (0.83%) Brio
11 2 (0.83%) Google
11 2 (0.83%) PagerDuty
11 2 (0.83%) SaltStack