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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 117 118
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 +27
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 13 14 19
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.50% 0.69% 0.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 1.65% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 14
10th Percentile £538 £413 £416
25th Percentile £554 £491 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £625 £583
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +7.30% -8.63%
75th Percentile £734 £688 £725
90th Percentile £751 £775 £866
London median daily rate £519 £555 £575
% change year-on-year -6.57% -3.48% -8.00%
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 £70.00 £58.75 -
% change year-on-year +19.15% - -

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 1,013 851 981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.61% 42.00% 41.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 698 544 693
10th Percentile £336 £360 £363
25th Percentile £456 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £656
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
London median daily rate £525 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% -2.05% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 5
10th Percentile £20.10 £24.30 -
25th Percentile £23.16 £26.45 £12.75
Median hourly rate £51.44 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.46% +28.33% -48.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.75 -
90th Percentile £76.40 £93.25 £40.95
London median hourly rate £35.50 £30.75 £26.97
% change year-on-year +15.45% +14.02% -50.96%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 £638 -1.92% 6
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%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) Amazon S3
1 12 (92.31%) AWS
2 11 (84.62%) AWS Lambda
2 11 (84.62%) Serverless
3 9 (69.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 9 (69.23%) GitHub
4 4 (30.77%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (30.77%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (23.08%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (15.38%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (15.38%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (7.69%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (7.69%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (7.69%) dbt
7 1 (7.69%) Prefect
7 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) LAN
2 1 (7.69%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
2 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (61.54%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (46.15%) DynamoDB
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (7.69%) Db2
4 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (84.62%) GitLab
2 8 (61.54%) Jenkins
3 7 (53.85%) Git
4 6 (46.15%) JIRA
4 6 (46.15%) JUnit
5 5 (38.46%) Cucumber
5 5 (38.46%) Mockito
5 5 (38.46%) Postman
6 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket
7 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Back Office
3 2 (15.38%) Military
3 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Law
4 1 (7.69%) Police
4 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Senior
2 5 (38.46%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Deployment Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) Kafka
1 6 (46.15%) Spring
1 6 (46.15%) Spring Boot
2 5 (38.46%) Gherkin
2 5 (38.46%) SOAP
2 5 (38.46%) WireMock
2 5 (38.46%) YAML
3 2 (15.38%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (7.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) CI/CD
2 7 (53.85%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) API Testing
3 5 (38.46%) BDD
3 5 (38.46%) Issue Tracking
3 5 (38.46%) OOP
3 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
3 5 (38.46%) Webhook
4 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Event-Driven
5 3 (23.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
6 2 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (15.38%) Migration
6 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Scrum
6 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Java
2 5 (38.46%) C#
2 5 (38.46%) Python
3 3 (23.08%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (7.69%) CCNA
2 1 (7.69%) CCNP
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
2 1 (7.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Kubernetes
2 6 (46.15%) Terraform
3 2 (15.38%) Ansible
3 2 (15.38%) Grafana
3 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
4 1 (7.69%) Puppet
4 1 (7.69%) Salt
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco
2 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) Sybase
2 1 (7.69%) VMware