Amazon EC2 Contracts in Central London

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 135 124
Rank change year-on-year +25 -11 +20
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 23 39 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.95% 1.02% 1.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.40% 2.65% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 21 46
10th Percentile £476 £450 £465
25th Percentile £500 £519 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £638 £590
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% +8.01% +0.47%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £638
90th Percentile £821 £753 £701
London median daily rate £525 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Cloud Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 957 1,473 1,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.59% 38.43% 43.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 690 1,004 1,600
10th Percentile £350 £313 £385
25th Percentile £430 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £680
90th Percentile £751 £800 £763
London median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 13
10th Percentile £12.75 £24.20 -
25th Percentile £17.39 £35.00 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £82.50 £20.19
Median % change year-on-year -72.73% +308.72% -13.92%
75th Percentile £24.56 £88.30 £27.75
90th Percentile £33.98 - £48.30
London median hourly rate £25.00 £43.63 £40.00
% change year-on-year -42.70% +9.08% +12.68%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in Central London

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in Central London

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in Central London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in Central London

Amazon EC2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Amazon EC2 in Central London

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 5 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
City of London +30 22 £575 -9.80% 4
West End of London - 1 £450 -
Camden - 1 £450 -
Amazon EC2
London

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (73.91%) Amazon S3
3 12 (52.17%) AWS Lambda
3 12 (52.17%) Serverless
4 6 (26.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (21.74%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (21.74%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (21.74%) AWS Fargate
6 4 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (17.39%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (17.39%) Amazon EventBridge
7 3 (13.04%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (8.70%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (8.70%) Azure
9 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (4.35%) CloudFront
9 1 (4.35%) GCP
9 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
9 1 (4.35%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
1 1 (4.35%) Kerberos
1 1 (4.35%) MQTT
1 1 (4.35%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (4.35%) SSL
1 1 (4.35%) VPN
1 1 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (43.48%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (13.04%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (13.04%) RDBMS
2 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
3 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.35%) Big Data
4 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.35%) MySQL
4 1 (4.35%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) GitLab
2 4 (17.39%) Git
2 4 (17.39%) Jenkins
3 3 (13.04%) Cucumber
3 3 (13.04%) Maven
3 3 (13.04%) REST Assured
3 3 (13.04%) Selenium
4 2 (8.70%) Bitbucket
4 2 (8.70%) JMeter
4 2 (8.70%) SonarQube
5 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
5 1 (4.35%) Gradle
5 1 (4.35%) JUnit
5 1 (4.35%) LoadRunner
5 1 (4.35%) Mocha
5 1 (4.35%) NeoLoad
5 1 (4.35%) SoapUI
5 1 (4.35%) Terragrunt
5 1 (4.35%) TestNG
5 1 (4.35%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (17.39%) Finance
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Marketing
2 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Architect
2 5 (21.74%) AWS Architect
2 5 (21.74%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (13.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) DevOps Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Software Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) DBA
5 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (4.35%) Performance Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior DBA
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Oracle DBA
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) REST
1 3 (13.04%) SOAP
2 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (8.70%) Kafka
2 2 (8.70%) Middleware
2 2 (8.70%) RESTful
3 1 (4.35%) AWS CDK
3 1 (4.35%) Chai
3 1 (4.35%) CSS
3 1 (4.35%) gRPC
3 1 (4.35%) JAXB
3 1 (4.35%) JAX-RS
3 1 (4.35%) JSON
3 1 (4.35%) Node.js
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (4.35%) React
3 1 (4.35%) Spring
3 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.35%) Swagger
3 1 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
1 2 (8.70%) PKI
1 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
1 2 (8.70%) Video on Demand
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Unix
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
1 10 (43.48%) DevOps
2 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (26.09%) Microservices
4 4 (17.39%) Agile
5 3 (13.04%) Containerisation
5 3 (13.04%) Performance Testing
5 3 (13.04%) SDET
5 3 (13.04%) Software Testing
5 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
6 2 (8.70%) Auto-Scaling
6 2 (8.70%) Cloud Security
6 2 (8.70%) Code Quality
6 2 (8.70%) Event-Driven
6 2 (8.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (8.70%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (8.70%) Migration
6 2 (8.70%) Network Load Balancing
6 2 (8.70%) Service Catalogue
6 2 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) Python
2 7 (30.43%) Java
3 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
3 4 (17.39%) TypeScript
4 3 (13.04%) Bash
5 2 (8.70%) Go
5 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
5 2 (8.70%) SQL
6 1 (4.35%) C
6 1 (4.35%) C#
6 1 (4.35%) C++
6 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) AWS Certification
1 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
1 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (52.17%) Kubernetes
2 9 (39.13%) Terraform
3 4 (17.39%) Ansible
4 3 (13.04%) Consul
4 3 (13.04%) Prometheus
5 2 (8.70%) Packer
6 1 (4.35%) Grafana
6 1 (4.35%) Kibana
6 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.35%) Puppet
6 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) MKS
3 1 (4.35%) AppDynamics
3 1 (4.35%) Confluent
3 1 (4.35%) Google
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk