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 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 107 104
Rank change year-on-year -18 -3 +28
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 9 12 22
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.39% 0.69% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.00% 1.58% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 17
10th Percentile £529 £419 £488
25th Percentile £541 £588 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +17.39% -9.80%
75th Percentile £620 £688 £688
90th Percentile £640 - £833
Central London median daily rate £575 £675 £570
% change year-on-year -14.81% +18.42% -10.59%

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 902 758 860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.17% 43.44% 39.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 485 608
10th Percentile £350 £369 £363
25th Percentile £450 £459 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £671
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £530
% change year-on-year - +3.77% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 6
10th Percentile £20.67 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.81 £29.64 £14.88
Median hourly rate £40.64 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +88.89% -73.24%
75th Percentile £57.83 £74.38 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.18 £135.00 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £39.00 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +11.99% +54.78% -72.73%

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
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 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (88.89%) AWS Lambda
2 8 (88.89%) Serverless
3 6 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (55.56%) GitHub
5 4 (44.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (22.22%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (22.22%) GCP
7 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (11.11%) Apigee
8 1 (11.11%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (11.11%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (11.11%) Datadog
8 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
8 1 (11.11%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (44.44%) DynamoDB
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (11.11%) DB2
3 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) GitLab
2 6 (66.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (44.44%) Git
3 4 (44.44%) JUnit
4 3 (33.33%) Cucumber
4 3 (33.33%) JIRA
4 3 (33.33%) Mockito
4 3 (33.33%) Postman
5 1 (11.11%) Artifactory
5 1 (11.11%) Terragrunt
General
1 4 (44.44%) Banking
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Law
2 1 (11.11%) Military
2 1 (11.11%) Police
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Architect
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Kafka
1 5 (55.56%) Spring
1 5 (55.56%) Spring Boot
2 3 (33.33%) Gherkin
2 3 (33.33%) SOAP
2 3 (33.33%) WireMock
2 3 (33.33%) YAML
3 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (11.11%) JSON
3 1 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (11.11%) React
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
3 3 (33.33%) API Testing
3 3 (33.33%) BDD
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (33.33%) Issue Tracking
3 3 (33.33%) Observability
3 3 (33.33%) OOP
3 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 3 (33.33%) Webhook
4 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven
4 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
4 2 (22.22%) Microservices
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (22.22%) Secrets Management
5 1 (11.11%) Clean Code
5 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (11.11%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) C#
2 3 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) Bash
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 4 (44.44%) Terraform
3 3 (33.33%) Grafana
4 2 (22.22%) Ansible
4 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
5 1 (11.11%) Argo
5 1 (11.11%) Karpenter
5 1 (11.11%) Kibana
5 1 (11.11%) Puppet
5 1 (11.11%) Salt
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Splunk
3 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) Sybase