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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 101 114
Rank change year-on-year -15 +13 +4
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 10 17 15
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.49% 0.94% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.19% 2.24% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 10
10th Percentile £426 £484 £477
25th Percentile £520 £518 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £545
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +14.68% -14.51%
75th Percentile £613 £688 £591
90th Percentile £637 - £668
Central London median daily rate £575 £603 £525
% change year-on-year -4.56% +14.76% -17.65%

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 843 758 909
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.57% 41.99% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 492 642
10th Percentile £342 £400 £357
25th Percentile £437 £463 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £557 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.82% +1.35% -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
Central London median daily rate £535 £555 £540
% change year-on-year -3.60% +2.78% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 11
10th Percentile £31.88 £28.98 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.44 £35.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +150.00% -56.57%
75th Percentile £55.94 £118.13 £36.25
90th Percentile £66.53 £159.75 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% +84.21% -36.67%

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 10 March 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 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (70.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (60.00%) GitHub
3 6 (60.00%) Serverless
4 5 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (30.00%) Datadog
6 3 (30.00%) GCP
7 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (20.00%) Azure
7 2 (20.00%) Sumo Logic
8 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (10.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (30.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (20.00%) DB2
3 2 (20.00%) MySQL
4 1 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (10.00%) Apache Hive
4 1 (10.00%) CouchDB
4 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (10.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (60.00%) GitLab
3 3 (30.00%) JIRA
3 3 (30.00%) JUnit
4 2 (20.00%) Bitbucket
4 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (20.00%) Git
4 2 (20.00%) Mockito
4 2 (20.00%) Postman
5 1 (10.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Banking
3 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Developer
1 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Kafka
2 4 (40.00%) Spring
2 4 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (20.00%) Gherkin
3 2 (20.00%) SOAP
3 2 (20.00%) WireMock
3 2 (20.00%) YAML
4 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (10.00%) JSON
4 1 (10.00%) Memcached
4 1 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (10.00%) PySpark
4 1 (10.00%) React
4 1 (10.00%) REST
4 1 (10.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Replication
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) Observability
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (20.00%) API Testing
5 2 (20.00%) BDD
5 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
5 2 (20.00%) Issue Tracking
5 2 (20.00%) Microservices
5 2 (20.00%) OOP
5 2 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (20.00%) Secrets Management
5 2 (20.00%) Server Hardening
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Ansible
3 2 (20.00%) Grafana
4 1 (10.00%) Argo
4 1 (10.00%) Karpenter
4 1 (10.00%) Kibana
4 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (10.00%) Confluent
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Informatica
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) StreamSets
2 1 (10.00%) Sybase