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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 116 112
Rank change year-on-year -18 -4 +45
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 11 11 21
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.44% 0.56% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.07% 1.40% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 16
10th Percentile £506 £405 £494
25th Percentile £527 £497 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £675 £588
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +14.89% +30.56%
75th Percentile £763 £775 £709
90th Percentile - £780 £844
London median daily rate £540 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.00% +4.17%
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 £76.75 -
% change year-on-year -60.91% - -

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 1,029 784 923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.26% 39.66% 40.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 731 528 639
10th Percentile £350 £329 £388
25th Percentile £458 £425 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% -0.88%
75th Percentile £656 £661 £675
90th Percentile £750 £757 £750
London median daily rate £540 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 4
10th Percentile £19.80 £20.82 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.56 £27.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +9.68% +2.48%
75th Percentile £64.06 £54.46 £49.38
90th Percentile £74.00 £79.48 £75.25
London median hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £30.30
% change year-on-year +12.90% +2.33% -31.15%

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 September 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 September 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 -24 11 £700 +3.70% 15
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 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) nginx
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 9 (81.82%) Amazon S3
3 8 (72.73%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (72.73%) GitHub
3 8 (72.73%) Serverless
4 6 (54.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (45.45%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (36.36%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (27.27%) Amazon EventBridge
7 3 (27.27%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (27.27%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (9.09%) AWS Control Tower
9 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
1 2 (18.18%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) LAN
2 1 (9.09%) OpenVPN
2 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
2 1 (9.09%) SSH
2 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) Amazon Athena
1 7 (63.64%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (27.27%) DynamoDB
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) GitLab
2 6 (54.55%) Git
3 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
3 4 (36.36%) JIRA
4 3 (27.27%) Bitbucket
4 3 (27.27%) Cucumber
4 3 (27.27%) JUnit
4 3 (27.27%) Mockito
4 3 (27.27%) Postman
5 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Back Office
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 2 (18.18%) Military
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Law
4 1 (9.09%) Police
4 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Agile Delivery Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Deployment Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Network Deployment Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (27.27%) Gherkin
2 3 (27.27%) Kafka
2 3 (27.27%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (27.27%) SOAP
2 3 (27.27%) Spring
2 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
2 3 (27.27%) WireMock
2 3 (27.27%) YAML
3 1 (9.09%) boto
3 1 (9.09%) OpenTofu
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Client/Server
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) API Testing
4 3 (27.27%) BDD
4 3 (27.27%) Data Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
4 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven
4 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (27.27%) Issue Tracking
4 3 (27.27%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (27.27%) OOP
4 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
4 3 (27.27%) Webhook
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (9.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) C#
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
4 2 (18.18%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) CCNA
2 1 (9.09%) CCNP
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
2 1 (9.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 3 (27.27%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) Grafana
3 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
3 1 (9.09%) Puppet
3 1 (9.09%) Salt
3 1 (9.09%) SELinux
3 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco
2 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) VMware