Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in Central London

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
London > Central London

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

	6 months to 6 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	135	117	114
Rank change year-on-year	-18	-3	+32
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2	14	12	19
As % of all contract jobs in Central London	0.61%	0.63%	0.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category	1.41%	1.55%	2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted	10	7	14
10^th Percentile	£499	£376	£483
25^th Percentile	£545	£461	£509
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£688	£600	£544
Median % change year-on-year	+14.58%	+10.34%	+8.75%
75^th Percentile	£738	£725	£663
90^th Percentile	£763	£775	£726
London median daily rate	£550	£588	£650
% change year-on-year	-6.38%	-9.62%	+13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£29.00	-	-
Median hourly rate	£30.00	-	-
75^th Percentile	£31.00	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
London median hourly rate	£30.00	£80.00	-
% change year-on-year	-62.50%	-	-

All Cloud Computing Skills
Central London

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 citing cloud computing skills in Central London.

	6 months to 6 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills	992	775	925
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London	43.51%	40.88%	39.53%
Number of daily rates quoted	706	567	606
10^th Percentile	£333	£347	£400
25^th Percentile	£456	£425	£463
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£550	£575
Median % change year-on-year	-	-4.35%	+4.55%
75^th Percentile	£660	£658	£675
90^th Percentile	£763	£750	£750
London median daily rate	£550	£525	£550
% change year-on-year	+4.76%	-4.55%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	9	13	4
10^th Percentile	£17.60	£19.85	£29.40
25^th Percentile	£22.50	£25.47	£33.00
Median hourly rate	£30.00	£34.00	£35.00
Median % change year-on-year	-11.76%	-2.86%	+68.67%
75^th Percentile	£63.75	£52.16	£49.38
90^th Percentile	£69.75	£63.81	£75.25
London median hourly rate	£34.62	£26.00	£35.00
% change year-on-year	+33.13%	-25.71%	-8.79%

Amazon EC2 Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Amazon EC2 Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Amazon EC2 Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in Central London over the 6 months to 6 November 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in Central London

Amazon EC2 Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Amazon EC2.

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 6 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
City of London	-16	14	£688	+14.58%	11
Amazon EC2 London

Amazon EC2 Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 6 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Amazon EC2 also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region citing Amazon EC2.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	92.9%	13
2	CI/CD	85.7%	12
3	Amazon S3	78.6%	11
3	Terraform	78.6%	11
5	Amazon RDS	71.4%	10
5	AWS Lambda	71.4%	10
5	GitHub	71.4%	10
5	GitLab	71.4%	10
5	Infrastructure as Code	71.4%	10
5	Serverless	71.4%	10
11	Amazon Athena	57.1%	8
11	Amazon CloudWatch	57.1%	8
11	Amazon EKS	57.1%	8
11	GitHub Actions	57.1%	8
11	Python	57.1%	8
16	ActiveMQ	42.9%	6
16	Amazon EventBridge	42.9%	6
16	Amazon Kinesis	42.9%	6
16	AWS Step Functions	42.9%	6
16	Bitbucket	42.9%	6
16	Data Engineering	42.9%	6
16	Data Modelling	42.9%	6
16	Data Pipeline	42.9%	6
16	Event-Driven	42.9%	6
16	Event-Driven Architecture	42.9%	6
16	RabbitMQ	42.9%	6
16	SQL	42.9%	6
28	Knowledge Transfer	35.7%	5
29	Agile	28.6%	4
29	Docker	28.6%	4

Amazon EC2 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	92.9%	13
2	Amazon S3	78.6%	11
3	AWS Lambda	71.4%	10
3	GitHub	71.4%	10
3	Serverless	71.4%	10
6	Amazon CloudWatch	57.1%	8
6	Amazon EKS	57.1%	8
6	GitHub Actions	57.1%	8
9	Amazon EventBridge	42.9%	6
9	Amazon Kinesis	42.9%	6
9	AWS Step Functions	42.9%	6
12	AWS CloudFormation	21.4%	3
13	Amazon Bedrock	14.3%	2
13	Virtual Private Cloud	14.3%	2
15	Amazon ECS	7.1%	1
15	Amazon SageMaker	7.1%	1
15	Azure	7.1%	1
15	GCP	7.1%	1