Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 106 106
Rank change year-on-year -25 0 +48
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 11 11 20
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.48% 0.62% 0.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.18% 1.51% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 15
10th Percentile £506 £405 £493
25th Percentile £527 £497 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £763 £775 £719
90th Percentile - £780 £855
Central London median daily rate £700 £675 £600
% change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% +33.33%
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 - - -
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 936 727 824
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.94% 40.82% 39.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 668 492 561
10th Percentile £363 £350 £383
25th Percentile £463 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £555
Median % change year-on-year - -0.81% -3.57%
75th Percentile £656 £666 £675
90th Percentile £750 £760 £768
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.84 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.23 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.08% +27.13% -10.74%
75th Percentile £41.25 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £86.43 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% +9.68% +2.48%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in the City of London

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the City of London

Amazon EC2
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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