Amazon EC2 Contracts

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 330 348
Rank change year-on-year +18 +18 +26
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 289 443 663
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.77% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.07% 2.08% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 333 446
10th Percentile £382 £453 £438
25th Percentile £438 £505 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.75% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £650
90th Percentile £700 £748 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £63.75
25th Percentile - - £66.88
Median hourly rate - - £77.00
75th Percentile - - £84.00
90th Percentile - - £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £75.00

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,934 21,306 33,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.40% 36.80% 38.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,906 15,402 24,532
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £633 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 346 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.25 £15.40
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.45
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +55.90% -0.22%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £54.81
90th Percentile £64.45 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £20.00
% change year-on-year -28.09% +23.10% -

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England -10 236 £525 -12.50% 84
London +13 148 £525 -16.00% 42
UK excluding London +26 106 £525 -4.55% 43
Work from Home +21 101 £524 -8.96% 59
North of England +18 49 £510 -7.27% 12
North West +35 39 £550 -15.38% 7
Scotland +32 21 £480 -5.33% 2
South East +3 16 £537 -5.04% 9
Yorkshire -9 10 £463 -15.91% 5
South West +20 9 £550 -21.43% 6
East of England +17 5 £625 +8.70% 2
Wales - 3 £645 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £425 - 9
Midlands - 3 £425 - 10

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 18 (6.23%) Apache
2 15 (5.19%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (5.19%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.77%) nginx
4 6 (2.08%) Confluence
5 2 (0.69%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.69%) Traefik
6 1 (0.35%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.35%) Drupal
6 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.42%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.35%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.35%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.35%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 285 (98.62%) AWS
2 212 (73.36%) Amazon S3
3 148 (51.21%) Serverless
4 143 (49.48%) AWS Lambda
5 96 (33.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 86 (29.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 60 (20.76%) Route 53
8 56 (19.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 53 (18.34%) Amazon EKS
10 40 (13.84%) Amazon ECS
10 40 (13.84%) Amazon SQS
11 23 (7.96%) Snowflake
12 22 (7.61%) Azure
12 22 (7.61%) GitHub
13 21 (7.27%) Amazon EMR
14 19 (6.57%) OpenShift
15 18 (6.23%) Amazon ECR
15 18 (6.23%) AWS Fargate
16 17 (5.88%) Amazon ELB
17 16 (5.54%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.61%) Network Security
2 19 (6.57%) Firewall
3 15 (5.19%) DNS
4 12 (4.15%) VPN
5 10 (3.46%) TCP/IP
6 7 (2.42%) Wireless
7 6 (2.08%) DHCP
7 6 (2.08%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (1.73%) AMQP
8 5 (1.73%) FTP
8 5 (1.73%) LAN
8 5 (1.73%) WLAN
9 4 (1.38%) HTTP
9 4 (1.38%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (1.04%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.69%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (0.69%) WAN
12 1 (0.35%) Kerberos
12 1 (0.35%) SMTP
12 1 (0.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (36.68%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (8.65%) Relational Database
3 24 (8.30%) Amazon Redshift
4 23 (7.96%) MySQL
5 22 (7.61%) DynamoDB
6 21 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (6.57%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (5.54%) Amazon Athena
8 16 (5.54%) MongoDB
9 14 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (4.15%) InfluxDB
11 11 (3.81%) Big Data
11 11 (3.81%) Data Lake
11 11 (3.81%) NoSQL
12 8 (2.77%) RDBMS
12 8 (2.77%) SQL Server
13 7 (2.42%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (1.73%) Hadoop
14 5 (1.73%) Informix
14 5 (1.73%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 73 (25.26%) Git
2 60 (20.76%) Jenkins
3 52 (17.99%) GitLab
4 19 (6.57%) JIRA
5 11 (3.81%) Bitbucket
6 10 (3.46%) JUnit
7 9 (3.11%) Maven
7 9 (3.11%) webpack
8 8 (2.77%) Selenium
8 8 (2.77%) SonarQube
9 7 (2.42%) Cucumber
9 7 (2.42%) JMeter
10 5 (1.73%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.73%) Mockito
10 5 (1.73%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.38%) Gradle
11 4 (1.38%) Sourcetree
12 3 (1.04%) Mocha
12 3 (1.04%) NeoLoad
12 3 (1.04%) SoapUI
General
1 51 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 32 (11.07%) Finance
3 24 (8.30%) Public Sector
4 12 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.11%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.08%) Banking
6 6 (2.08%) Retail
7 5 (1.73%) Marketing
7 5 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (1.38%) Electronics
8 4 (1.38%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.69%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.35%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Law
10 1 (0.35%) Legal
10 1 (0.35%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 82 (28.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 77 (26.64%) AWS Engineer
3 47 (16.26%) Developer
4 43 (14.88%) AWS DevOps
5 39 (13.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 33 (11.42%) Senior
7 28 (9.69%) Lead
8 27 (9.34%) Architect
8 27 (9.34%) Data Engineer
9 23 (7.96%) Cloud Engineer
10 21 (7.27%) Platform Engineer
11 19 (6.57%) Java Developer
12 18 (6.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 17 (5.88%) AWS Architect
14 15 (5.19%) Software Engineer
15 14 (4.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 11 (3.81%) AWS Developer
16 11 (3.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 11 (3.81%) Senior Developer
17 10 (3.46%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.96%) Node.js
1 23 (7.96%) React
2 19 (6.57%) AWS CDK
2 19 (6.57%) Spring
3 17 (5.88%) Kafka
4 14 (4.84%) RESTful
5 13 (4.50%) RabbitMQ
5 13 (4.50%) REST
6 11 (3.81%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (3.81%) OAuth
7 10 (3.46%) .NET
7 10 (3.46%) Express.js
7 10 (3.46%) Lambda Expressions
7 10 (3.46%) Spring Boot
8 9 (3.11%) Redux
9 8 (2.77%) JSON
10 7 (2.42%) .NET Core
10 7 (2.42%) OAuth2
11 6 (2.08%) LDAP
12 5 (1.73%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.19%) Public Cloud
2 14 (4.84%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (3.46%) Data Structures
4 9 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.11%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (2.77%) Replication
6 7 (2.42%) Algorithms
6 7 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.42%) PKI
7 6 (2.08%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.73%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.73%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.38%) Credit Derivative
9 4 (1.38%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.38%) Derivative
9 4 (1.38%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.38%) Market Risk
9 4 (1.38%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.04%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 72 (24.91%) Linux
2 32 (11.07%) Windows
3 24 (8.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (6.57%) Windows Server
5 13 (4.50%) Unix
6 12 (4.15%) CentOS
7 9 (3.11%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.73%) Windows 10
9 3 (1.04%) Debian
10 2 (0.69%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.69%) VMS
10 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (47.75%) DevOps
2 134 (46.37%) CI/CD
3 85 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (24.22%) Agile
5 64 (22.15%) Containerisation
6 39 (13.49%) Migration
7 34 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (11.42%) Scrum
9 31 (10.73%) Microservices
9 31 (10.73%) Test Automation
10 27 (9.34%) ETL
10 27 (9.34%) Software Engineering
11 22 (7.61%) Kanban
12 21 (7.27%) Configuration Management
12 21 (7.27%) Data Pipeline
12 21 (7.27%) Technical Leadership
13 20 (6.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 19 (6.57%) Computer Science
14 19 (6.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 18 (6.23%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 148 (51.21%) Python
2 76 (26.30%) Java
3 62 (21.45%) SQL
4 43 (14.88%) Bash
5 28 (9.69%) TypeScript
6 20 (6.92%) JavaScript
7 18 (6.23%) Go
8 12 (4.15%) Shell Script
9 10 (3.46%) C
10 8 (2.77%) C#
10 8 (2.77%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.08%) Groovy
11 6 (2.08%) Perl
11 6 (2.08%) Ruby
12 3 (1.04%) C++
12 3 (1.04%) Scala
13 2 (0.69%) PHP
14 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 85 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 73 (25.26%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.69%) AWS Certification
4 21 (7.27%) Degree
5 16 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (3.46%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.35%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.35%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.27%) QA
2 5 (1.73%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.04%) ISO 22301
3 3 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.04%) NCSC
4 2 (0.69%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.69%) SLA
5 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.35%) GDPR
5 1 (0.35%) IFRS
5 1 (0.35%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 86 (29.76%) Docker
2 21 (7.27%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.69%) Varnish
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 125 (43.25%) Terraform
2 117 (40.48%) Kubernetes
3 64 (22.15%) Ansible
4 50 (17.30%) Grafana
5 39 (13.49%) Prometheus
6 15 (5.19%) Puppet
7 14 (4.84%) Progress Chef
8 10 (3.46%) Kibana
9 9 (3.11%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (3.11%) Packer
10 7 (2.42%) Consul
11 6 (2.08%) HP Fortify
11 6 (2.08%) SCCM
12 5 (1.73%) Graylog
12 5 (1.73%) Nagios
12 5 (1.73%) WSUS
13 4 (1.38%) HAProxy
13 4 (1.38%) Rancher
14 3 (1.04%) Podman
15 2 (0.69%) linkerd
Vendors
1 28 (9.69%) Oracle
2 23 (7.96%) Splunk
3 19 (6.57%) Microsoft
4 13 (4.50%) Red Hat
4 13 (4.50%) VMware
5 11 (3.81%) Databricks
5 11 (3.81%) Informatica
6 10 (3.46%) SAP
7 7 (2.42%) NEC
8 6 (2.08%) Cisco
8 6 (2.08%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.08%) Talend
9 5 (1.73%) Apple
9 5 (1.73%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.73%) UiPath
10 4 (1.38%) Commvault
10 4 (1.38%) Confluent
11 3 (1.04%) AppDynamics
11 3 (1.04%) Google
11 3 (1.04%) MKS