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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 122 110
Rank change year-on-year -9 -12 +43
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 14 12 21
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.54% 0.59% 0.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 1.43% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 15
10th Percentile £510 £409 £493
25th Percentile £536 £536 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £638 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -3.03%
75th Percentile £753 £775 £719
90th Percentile £763 £779 £855
London median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -4.00%
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 £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 1,046 838 942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.15% 40.88% 41.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 722 545 668
10th Percentile £351 £356 £380
25th Percentile £461 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £663 £663
90th Percentile £750 £754 £750
London median daily rate £538 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +0.47% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 3
10th Percentile £19.80 £24.21 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £26.00 -
Median hourly rate £36.25 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.61% +27.13% -22.86%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £94.38 £79.40
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £28.50
% change year-on-year +22.12% +2.00% -46.98%

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 August 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 August 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 -7 14 £638 -5.56% 7
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 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) nginx
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (92.86%) AWS
2 12 (85.71%) Amazon S3
3 11 (78.57%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (78.57%) Serverless
4 10 (71.43%) GitHub
5 9 (64.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (42.86%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (35.71%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (28.57%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (21.43%) Amazon EventBridge
9 3 (21.43%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (21.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (7.14%) AWS Control Tower
11 1 (7.14%) Datadog
11 1 (7.14%) dbt
11 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
11 1 (7.14%) Prefect
11 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
1 2 (14.29%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) LAN
2 1 (7.14%) OpenVPN
2 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
2 1 (7.14%) SSH
2 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (57.14%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (35.71%) DynamoDB
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (7.14%) Db2
4 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (78.57%) GitLab
2 7 (50.00%) Git
2 7 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (35.71%) JIRA
3 5 (35.71%) JUnit
4 4 (28.57%) Cucumber
4 4 (28.57%) Mockito
4 4 (28.57%) Postman
5 3 (21.43%) Bitbucket
6 1 (7.14%) Artifactory
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Banking
3 3 (21.43%) Back Office
3 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 2 (14.29%) Military
4 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Law
5 1 (7.14%) Police
5 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Deployment Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Site Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Kafka
1 5 (35.71%) Spring
1 5 (35.71%) Spring Boot
2 4 (28.57%) Gherkin
2 4 (28.57%) SOAP
2 4 (28.57%) WireMock
2 4 (28.57%) YAML
3 3 (21.43%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (21.43%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (7.14%) boto
4 1 (7.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Client/Server
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 6 (42.86%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (28.57%) API Testing
3 4 (28.57%) BDD
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Event-Driven
3 4 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 4 (28.57%) Issue Tracking
3 4 (28.57%) OOP
3 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 4 (28.57%) Webhook
4 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
4 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
4 3 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (21.43%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Secrets Management
5 2 (14.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Java
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) C#
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) CCNA
3 1 (7.14%) CCNP
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
3 1 (7.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Terraform
2 7 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (21.43%) Ansible
4 2 (14.29%) Grafana
4 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 1 (7.14%) Puppet
5 1 (7.14%) Salt
5 1 (7.14%) SELinux
5 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) Sybase
3 1 (7.14%) VMware