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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 112 112
Rank change year-on-year -27 0 +31
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 13 11 21
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.54% 0.58% 0.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% 1.45% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 16
10th Percentile £517 £376 £484
25th Percentile £629 £402 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +6.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £744 £725 £691
90th Percentile £763 £775 £819
London median daily rate £542 £600 £645
% change year-on-year -9.67% -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.00 - -
90th 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 requiring cloud computing skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,002 759 916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.63% 39.72% 39.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 708 539 609
10th Percentile £332 £331 £395
25th Percentile £456 £433 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £657 £660 £675
90th Percentile £763 £761 £775
London median daily rate £550 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 5
10th Percentile £19.30 £18.87 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.25 £27.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +68.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £54.46 -
90th Percentile £73.00 £65.57 £69.50
London median hourly rate £28.55 £27.40 £31.00
% change year-on-year +4.20% -11.61% -23.46%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -13 13 £713 +18.75% 17
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 (7.69%) Confluence
1 1 (7.69%) nginx
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) AWS
2 11 (84.62%) Amazon S3
3 10 (76.92%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (76.92%) GitHub
3 10 (76.92%) Serverless
4 8 (61.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (61.54%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (53.85%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (46.15%) Amazon EventBridge
6 6 (46.15%) Amazon Kinesis
6 6 (46.15%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (7.69%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (7.69%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (7.69%) Azure
8 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
8 1 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
1 2 (15.38%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) LAN
2 1 (7.69%) OpenVPN
2 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
2 1 (7.69%) SSH
2 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) Amazon Athena
1 9 (69.23%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (15.38%) DynamoDB
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 11 (84.62%) GitLab
2 6 (46.15%) Bitbucket
3 5 (38.46%) Git
4 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
4 3 (23.08%) JIRA
5 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
5 2 (15.38%) JUnit
5 2 (15.38%) Mockito
5 2 (15.38%) Postman
6 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
General
1 8 (61.54%) Finance
2 6 (46.15%) Back Office
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Banking
3 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
4 2 (15.38%) Front Office
4 2 (15.38%) Military
4 2 (15.38%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Law
5 1 (7.69%) Police
5 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Senior
2 6 (46.15%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (38.46%) Data Engineer
4 4 (30.77%) AWS Data Engineer
4 4 (30.77%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Agile Delivery Manager
6 1 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (7.69%) Deployment Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Network Deployment Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) Terraform
2 6 (46.15%) ActiveMQ
2 6 (46.15%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (15.38%) Gherkin
3 2 (15.38%) Kafka
3 2 (15.38%) SOAP
3 2 (15.38%) Spring
3 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
3 2 (15.38%) WireMock
3 2 (15.38%) YAML
4 1 (7.69%) boto
4 1 (7.69%) OpenTofu
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (15.38%) PropTech
3 1 (7.69%) Client/Server
3 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) CI/CD
2 9 (69.23%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (46.15%) Data Engineering
3 6 (46.15%) Data Modelling
3 6 (46.15%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (46.15%) Event-Driven
3 6 (46.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 5 (38.46%) Knowledge Transfer
5 4 (30.77%) DevOps
5 4 (30.77%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (23.08%) Agile
6 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
6 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (15.38%) Analytics
7 2 (15.38%) Data Integration
7 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
7 2 (15.38%) ETL
7 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) Java
4 2 (15.38%) Bash
4 2 (15.38%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) CCNA
3 1 (7.69%) CCNP
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
3 1 (7.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
1 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 3 (23.08%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.69%) Puppet
3 1 (7.69%) Salt
3 1 (7.69%) SELinux
3 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco
2 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.69%) VMware