Amazon EC2 Contracts in the South East

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 188 177 231
Rank change year-on-year -11 +54 -34
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 17 40 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.31% 0.69% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.21% 2.34% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 26 17
10th Percentile £297 £453 £425
25th Percentile £513 £481 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £580 £490
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% +18.37% -9.68%
75th Percentile £600 £669 £575
90th Percentile £604 £675 £650
England median daily rate £530 £613 £575
% change year-on-year -13.47% +6.52% +9.52%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,402 1,713 2,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 25.19% 29.35% 31.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 933 1,257 1,787
10th Percentile £243 £252 £200
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £631 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 54 65
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.10 £12.52
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.22 £23.23 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -0.04% +10.33% -2.21%
75th Percentile £58.06 £63.06 £35.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £20.99 £30.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year -30.63% +44.05% -2.33%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the South East

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the South East

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the South East over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the South East

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 25 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
Thames Valley -7 7 £563 +12.50% 2
Berkshire -21 7 £563 +12.50% 1
Hampshire -1 4 £434 -24.57% 2
East Sussex - 4 £530 -
Surrey +9 1 £380 -41.54% 1
West Sussex 0 1 - -
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (11.76%) Apache
1 2 (11.76%) Confluence
1 2 (11.76%) nginx
1 2 (11.76%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (76.47%) Amazon S3
3 7 (41.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (41.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 6 (35.29%) Azure
5 5 (29.41%) CloudFront
5 5 (29.41%) Route 53
5 5 (29.41%) Serverless
6 4 (23.53%) Amazon EMR
6 4 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (11.76%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (11.76%) Datadog
8 2 (11.76%) Fastly
8 2 (11.76%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) Firewall
2 4 (23.53%) DNS
2 4 (23.53%) TCP/IP
3 3 (17.65%) VPN
4 2 (11.76%) DHCP
4 2 (11.76%) DMZ
4 2 (11.76%) Network Security
4 2 (11.76%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (5.88%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (5.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (23.53%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (17.65%) RDBMS
3 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
4 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (11.76%) MySQL
4 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
5 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Git
2 3 (17.65%) JIRA
3 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
3 2 (11.76%) GitLab
4 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.88%) JMeter
4 1 (5.88%) JUnit
4 1 (5.88%) Mockito
General
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Retail
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Consultant
2 3 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) DBA
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) LDAP
1 4 (23.53%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (11.76%) Django
2 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (11.76%) HornetQ
2 2 (11.76%) Node.js
2 2 (11.76%) VCL
3 1 (5.88%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (5.88%) Apache Camel
3 1 (5.88%) Hibernate
3 1 (5.88%) HTML
3 1 (5.88%) jQuery
3 1 (5.88%) REST
3 1 (5.88%) Spring
3 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.88%) Web Services
3 1 (5.88%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
1 3 (17.65%) Public Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Linux
2 5 (29.41%) Windows
3 3 (17.65%) Debian
3 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) DevOps
2 3 (17.65%) Agile
2 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (17.65%) Kanban
3 2 (11.76%) Change Control
3 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
3 2 (11.76%) Data Protection
3 2 (11.76%) Decision-Making
3 2 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (11.76%) Project Management
4 1 (5.88%) Analytics
4 1 (5.88%) Information Security
4 1 (5.88%) Mentoring
4 1 (5.88%) Migration
4 1 (5.88%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (5.88%) Process Management
4 1 (5.88%) Scrum
4 1 (5.88%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (5.88%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) Shell Script
3 2 (11.76%) Bash
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) AWS Certification
2 4 (23.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
3 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (11.76%) Degree
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (11.76%) Varnish
3 2 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (5.88%) Docker
4 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Terraform
2 5 (29.41%) Ansible
2 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.76%) Grafana
3 2 (11.76%) Graylog
3 2 (11.76%) HAProxy
3 2 (11.76%) Nagios
3 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.88%) Kibana
4 1 (5.88%) SCCM
4 1 (5.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) Red Hat
3 3 (17.65%) Cisco
3 3 (17.65%) Splunk
3 3 (17.65%) VMware
4 2 (11.76%) Palo Alto
5 1 (5.88%) Apple
5 1 (5.88%) Dell
5 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace