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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 117 145
Rank change year-on-year -2 +28 -1
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 12 19 8
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.63% 0.81% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.52% 2.04% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 4
10th Percentile £376 £483 £428
25th Percentile £461 £509 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £544 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +8.75% -14.89%
75th Percentile £725 £663 £559
90th Percentile £775 £726 £599
London median daily rate £600 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £80.00 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

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 788 930 1,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.08% 39.64% 40.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 609 848
10th Percentile £351 £400 £343
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £680
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 11
10th Percentile £18.65 £29.40 -
25th Percentile £24.61 £33.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +84.21% -7.32%
75th Percentile £49.83 £49.38 £43.38
90th Percentile £62.04 £75.25 £52.50
London median hourly rate £25.74 £33.75 £38.38
% change year-on-year -23.75% -12.05% +39.55%

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 November 2025.

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 November 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 -8 12 £600 +10.34% 64
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 3 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (91.67%) Amazon S3
3 7 (58.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (41.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (33.33%) GitHub
5 4 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (33.33%) Serverless
6 3 (25.00%) SaaS
7 2 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (16.67%) Azure
7 2 (16.67%) Datadog
7 2 (16.67%) Sumo Logic
8 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (8.33%) GCP
8 1 (8.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) DNS
2 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (25.00%) VPN
3 2 (16.67%) Firewall
3 2 (16.67%) NAS
3 2 (16.67%) SSL
4 1 (8.33%) Internet
4 1 (8.33%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (8.33%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (8.33%) SAN
4 1 (8.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (16.67%) MySQL
3 1 (8.33%) Apache Hive
3 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (8.33%) CouchDB
3 1 (8.33%) DB2
3 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
3 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (8.33%) Redis
3 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (33.33%) Git
3 3 (25.00%) JIRA
4 2 (16.67%) Bitbucket
4 2 (16.67%) GitLab
5 1 (8.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Security Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) boto
1 1 (8.33%) Flake8
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
1 1 (8.33%) LDAP
1 1 (8.33%) Memcached
1 1 (8.33%) mypy
1 1 (8.33%) PySpark
1 1 (8.33%) pytest
1 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (16.67%) CSOC
1 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 2 (16.67%) Replication
1 2 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (8.33%) NHS
2 1 (8.33%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) AIX
2 1 (8.33%) Solaris
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (16.67%) High Availability
5 2 (16.67%) Load Balancing
5 2 (16.67%) Microservices
5 2 (16.67%) Migration
5 2 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (16.67%) Security Operations
5 2 (16.67%) Server Hardening
5 2 (16.67%) SIEM
5 2 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) Bash
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) COBOL
4 1 (8.33%) Go
4 1 (8.33%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) NCSC
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
2 5 (41.67%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Packer
3 1 (8.33%) yum
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Atlassian
1 2 (16.67%) CheckPoint
1 2 (16.67%) F5
1 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
1 2 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (8.33%) Confluent
2 1 (8.33%) IBM
2 1 (8.33%) Informatica
2 1 (8.33%) NetApp
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) StreamSets