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 requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 108 119
Rank change year-on-year -22 +11 +1
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 10 18 16
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.45% 0.88% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.09% 2.10% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 11
10th Percentile £426 £484 £450
25th Percentile £520 £524 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £603 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% +14.76% -17.65%
75th Percentile £613 £688 £590
90th Percentile £637 - £638
London median daily rate £525 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -22.22% +22.73% -12.87%

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 requiring cloud computing skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 917 859 997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.68% 42.03% 38.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 661 563 710
10th Percentile £343 £375 £342
25th Percentile £450 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £555 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £666
90th Percentile £750 £738 £746
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 13
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.30 £13.60
25th Percentile £25.47 £26.87 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% +84.21% -36.67%
75th Percentile £49.83 £41.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £59.72 £104.25 £49.95
London median hourly rate £35.00 £29.07 £30.11
% change year-on-year +20.40% -3.45% -12.72%

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 job vacancy trend in Central London

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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 10 March 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.

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 10 March 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
City of London -15 10 £575 -8.00% 4
Amazon EC2
London

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (70.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (60.00%) GitHub
3 6 (60.00%) Serverless
4 5 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (30.00%) Datadog
6 3 (30.00%) GCP
7 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (20.00%) Azure
7 2 (20.00%) Sumo Logic
8 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (10.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (30.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (20.00%) DB2
3 2 (20.00%) MySQL
4 1 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (10.00%) Apache Hive
4 1 (10.00%) CouchDB
4 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (10.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (60.00%) GitLab
3 3 (30.00%) JIRA
3 3 (30.00%) JUnit
4 2 (20.00%) Bitbucket
4 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (20.00%) Git
4 2 (20.00%) Mockito
4 2 (20.00%) Postman
5 1 (10.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Banking
3 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Developer
1 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Kafka
2 4 (40.00%) Spring
2 4 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (20.00%) Gherkin
3 2 (20.00%) SOAP
3 2 (20.00%) WireMock
3 2 (20.00%) YAML
4 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (10.00%) JSON
4 1 (10.00%) Memcached
4 1 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (10.00%) PySpark
4 1 (10.00%) React
4 1 (10.00%) REST
4 1 (10.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Replication
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) Observability
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (20.00%) API Testing
5 2 (20.00%) BDD
5 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
5 2 (20.00%) Issue Tracking
5 2 (20.00%) Microservices
5 2 (20.00%) OOP
5 2 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (20.00%) Secrets Management
5 2 (20.00%) Server Hardening
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Ansible
3 2 (20.00%) Grafana
4 1 (10.00%) Argo
4 1 (10.00%) Karpenter
4 1 (10.00%) Kibana
4 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (10.00%) Confluent
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Informatica
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) StreamSets
2 1 (10.00%) Sybase