Amazon EC2 Contracts in the Thames Valley

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 131 149
Rank change year-on-year -3 +18 -11
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 7 17 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.26% 0.59% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.93% 2.02% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 11
10th Percentile £513 - £406
25th Percentile £516 £453 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +4.17% -26.15%
75th Percentile £600 £647 £513
90th Percentile - £675 £538
South East median daily rate £530 £580 £490
% change year-on-year -8.62% +18.37% -12.69%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 749 841 1,095
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.91% 28.98% 31.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 613 850
10th Percentile £273 £314 £184
25th Percentile £413 £425 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 19 20
10th Percentile £15.99 £19.70 £12.33
25th Percentile £19.37 £21.83 £15.53
Median hourly rate £42.50 £32.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% +53.81% -0.24%
75th Percentile £59.95 £61.00 £24.44
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £68.79
South East median hourly rate £22.36 £24.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year -6.84% +14.01% -2.21%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the Thames Valley

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the Thames Valley

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Berkshire -18 7 £563 +17.80% 1
Amazon EC2
South East

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon S3
3 4 (57.14%) Amazon EMR
4 3 (42.86%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (42.86%) Serverless
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (28.57%) Azure
5 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
1 2 (28.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) RDBMS
1 3 (42.86%) Relational Database
2 2 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (28.57%) MySQL
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JMeter
1 1 (14.29%) JUnit
1 1 (14.29%) Mockito
General
1 2 (28.57%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) DBA
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Camel
2 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) jQuery
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Change Control
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 1 (14.29%) Agile
2 1 (14.29%) Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Architectural Design
2 1 (14.29%) BDD
2 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (14.29%) Kanban
2 1 (14.29%) Microservices
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Process Management
2 1 (14.29%) Scrum
2 1 (14.29%) SDLC
2 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Certification
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Grafana
1 2 (28.57%) Graylog
1 2 (28.57%) Nagios
1 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Kibana
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Splunk
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace