Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 2.65% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £480 - -
25th Percentile £505 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - -
75th Percentile £515 - -
90th Percentile £566 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £510 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cambridge

Amazon EC2 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 60 25 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 26.55% 22.52% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 17 13
10th Percentile £378 £420 £236
25th Percentile £406 £500 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £503 £410
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% +22.56% -13.68%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £450
90th Percentile £623 £623 £560
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £478 £503 £450
% change year-on-year -4.98% +11.67% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £19.00 £15.28 £16.10
25th Percentile £21.81 £15.70 £17.56
Median hourly rate £27.00 £16.90 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.76% -15.50% -
75th Percentile £27.50 £17.60 £45.63
90th Percentile - £17.72 £61.00
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £32.00 £16.00 £16.30
% change year-on-year +100.00% -1.84% +5.16%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in Cambridge over the 6 months to 12 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in Cambridge

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
3 1 (16.67%) Sumo Logic
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Architect
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Architect
4 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Solution Architect
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (16.67%) Principal Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Principal Solutions Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (16.67%) Conversational UI
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Management
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (16.67%) Data Privacy
3 1 (16.67%) DataOps
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) MLOps
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Product Vision
3 1 (16.67%) Storage Management
3 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) VMware NSX
1 4 (66.67%) vSphere
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
1 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) CloudEndure