Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 36 31
Rank change year-on-year +13 -5 +2
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 1 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 0.99% 1.06% 0.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.35% 3.23% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £578 £543
25th Percentile - £581 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -2.04% +6.52%
75th Percentile - £619 £656
90th Percentile - £623 £683
Gloucestershire median daily rate £700 £600 £613
% change year-on-year +16.67% -2.04% +6.52%

All Cloud Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 23 62 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 22.77% 32.98% 30.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 34 42
10th Percentile - £483 £407
25th Percentile £525 £527 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £672 £666 £700
90th Percentile £750 £734 £734
Gloucestershire median daily rate £500 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -13.04% - +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £22.95
25th Percentile - - £23.63
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £26.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -72.11%
75th Percentile - - £45.38
90th Percentile - - £55.65
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £33.76 £33.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +2.29% -57.69% -18.96%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Dell DRAC
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk