Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.55% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.59% - -
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 - -
East of England median daily rate £510 £513 £650
% change year-on-year -0.49% -21.15% +4.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 79 73 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 20.41% 28.97% 16.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 34 25
10th Percentile £356 £338 £210
25th Percentile £400 £427 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £503 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.98% +11.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £540 £597 £563
90th Percentile £623 £663 £675
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 19 43
10th Percentile £16.90 - £14.00
25th Percentile £26.50 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £32.00 £16.00 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -1.84% +5.16%
75th Percentile £35.91 £21.46 £21.37
90th Percentile £40.32 - £21.46
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £20.89 £16.30
% change year-on-year +0.53% +28.16% -14.21%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in Cambridgeshire

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 12 April 2026. 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
Cambridge - 6 £510 - 1
Amazon EC2
East of England

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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