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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 109 149
Rank change year-on-year -7 +40 +3
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 11 21 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.56% 0.91% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.42% 2.24% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 5
10th Percentile £405 £494 £410
25th Percentile £497 £514 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £588 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.89% +23.68% -20.83%
75th Percentile £775 £709 £625
90th Percentile £780 £844 £702
London median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £76.75 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

All Cloud 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 775 936 1,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.80% 40.70% 42.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 633 940
10th Percentile £333 £389 £325
25th Percentile £425 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - -2.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £763 £788
London median daily rate £535 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -1.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 6
10th Percentile £20.82 - £14.63
25th Percentile £25.56 £27.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% -37.59%
75th Percentile £54.46 - £34.44
90th Percentile £79.48 £69.50 £45.25
London median hourly rate £31.00 £30.59 £40.25
% change year-on-year +1.34% -24.00% +15.00%

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
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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025. 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 -2 11 £675 +14.89% 10
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (81.82%) Amazon S3
3 5 (45.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (45.45%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (45.45%) Serverless
4 4 (36.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (27.27%) SaaS
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (18.18%) GitHub
6 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (9.09%) Azure
7 1 (9.09%) IaaS
7 1 (9.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) DNS
1 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
1 3 (27.27%) VPN
2 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) NAS
2 2 (18.18%) SSL
3 1 (9.09%) Internet
3 1 (9.09%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (9.09%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (9.09%) SAN
3 1 (9.09%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Git
2 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
3 2 (18.18%) GitLab
3 2 (18.18%) JIRA
4 1 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Military
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Security Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) DBA
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) boto
1 1 (9.09%) Flake8
1 1 (9.09%) LDAP
1 1 (9.09%) mypy
1 1 (9.09%) pytest
1 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 2 (18.18%) CSOC
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
1 2 (18.18%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Mainframe
2 1 (9.09%) NHS
2 1 (9.09%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) AIX
2 1 (9.09%) Solaris
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (27.27%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
4 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
4 2 (18.18%) Microservices
4 2 (18.18%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (18.18%) Security Operations
4 2 (18.18%) SIEM
4 2 (18.18%) Use Case
5 1 (9.09%) API Integration
5 1 (9.09%) Auto-Scaling
5 1 (9.09%) High Availability
5 1 (9.09%) Re-Platforming
5 1 (9.09%) Server Management
5 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Bash
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) COBOL
2 1 (9.09%) Go
2 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NCSC
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
2 4 (36.36%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Packer
3 1 (9.09%) yum
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) CheckPoint
1 2 (18.18%) F5
1 2 (18.18%) Palo Alto
1 2 (18.18%) Splunk
2 1 (9.09%) Atlassian
2 1 (9.09%) NetApp
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) VMware