Amazon EC2 Contracts in Central London

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 111 129
Rank change year-on-year -4 +18 -1
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 14 22 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.70% 0.90% 1.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.63% 2.30% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 17 22
10th Percentile £448 £473 £428
25th Percentile £563 £500 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £565 £638
Median % change year-on-year +19.47% -11.37% +8.01%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £700
90th Percentile - £728 £753
London median daily rate £643 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +22.38% -16.00% +4.17%

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 859 955 1,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 43.01% 39.04% 38.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 689 1,022
10th Percentile £370 £350 £313
25th Percentile £458 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -
75th Percentile £663 £650 £700
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 9
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £24.20
25th Percentile £26.00 £17.39 £35.00
Median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.56 £88.30
90th Percentile £94.88 £33.98 -
London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in Central London

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in Central London

Amazon EC2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon EC2 in Central London

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 1 May 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 0 13 £675 +18.42% 8
Camden 0 1 £580 +28.89%
West End of London -2 1 £580 +28.89% 4
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 1 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (92.86%) Amazon S3
3 8 (57.14%) Route 53
4 7 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (42.86%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 6 (42.86%) CloudFront
6 5 (35.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (21.43%) Serverless
8 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
1 2 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 6 (42.86%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (42.86%) DocumentDB
2 6 (42.86%) Redis
2 6 (42.86%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
3 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
3 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.14%) MySQL
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
3 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 6 (42.86%) Banking
2 6 (42.86%) Retail Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) C# Developer
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Risk Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Architect
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) DBA
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) GraphQL
1 6 (42.86%) RESTful
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Derivative
1 6 (42.86%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Asset Management
1 6 (42.86%) Secure Coding
1 6 (42.86%) SOLID
1 6 (42.86%) TDD
1 6 (42.86%) Unit Testing
2 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (21.43%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 2 (14.29%) High Availability
5 2 (14.29%) Migration
6 1 (7.14%) Data Engineering
6 1 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (7.14%) Data Science
6 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (7.14%) Microservices
6 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (7.14%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) C#
2 4 (28.57%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) Bash
4 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.14%) Java
5 1 (7.14%) Scala
5 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) HIPAA
1 1 (7.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Ansible
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Progress Chef
2 2 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle
1 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
1 1 (7.14%) VMware