Amazon EC2 Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 107 139
Rank change year-on-year +5 +32 -8
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 13 18 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.72% 0.84% 0.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.70% 2.04% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 16
10th Percentile £410 £416 £461
25th Percentile £455 £500 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £583 £638
Median % change year-on-year +11.59% -8.63% +10.87%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £700
90th Percentile £776 £866 £738
Central London median daily rate £625 £583 £638
% change year-on-year +7.30% -8.63% +8.51%
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 - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £50.00

All Cloud 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 763 882 1,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.46% 41.31% 40.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 618 908
10th Percentile £363 £363 £286
25th Percentile £462 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £591
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% +2.83%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £700
90th Percentile £751 £770 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 10
10th Percentile £24.02 £12.75 £20.35
25th Percentile £25.18 £14.88 £38.13
Median hourly rate £38.58 £24.75 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.86% -63.33% +35.00%
75th Percentile £63.37 £27.00 £88.30
90th Percentile £96.63 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £24.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year +40.00% -52.86% +26.51%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the City of London

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the City of London

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 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the City of London

Amazon EC2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the City of London

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Moorgate - 1 £390 -
Amazon EC2
Central London

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (84.62%) Amazon S3
3 5 (38.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (30.77%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (30.77%) Route 53
5 3 (23.08%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (23.08%) CloudFront
5 3 (23.08%) Serverless
6 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (15.38%) SaaS
7 1 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (7.69%) GitHub
7 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
1 2 (15.38%) VPN
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) Internet
2 1 (7.69%) NAS
2 1 (7.69%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (7.69%) SAN
2 1 (7.69%) SSH
2 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (30.77%) NoSQL
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (23.08%) DocumentDB
3 3 (23.08%) Redis
3 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
4 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
4 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
4 1 (7.69%) MySQL
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
4 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
2 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 3 (23.08%) Retail Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Military
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) C# Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Risk Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) DBA
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) GraphQL
1 3 (23.08%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Derivative
1 3 (23.08%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Public Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) CSOC
2 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 2 (15.38%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Unix
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
1 5 (38.46%) DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) Asset Management
2 3 (23.08%) Secure Coding
2 3 (23.08%) SOLID
2 3 (23.08%) TDD
2 3 (23.08%) Unit Testing
3 2 (15.38%) Agile
3 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (15.38%) Load Balancing
3 2 (15.38%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (15.38%) Security Operations
3 2 (15.38%) SIEM
3 2 (15.38%) Use Case
4 1 (7.69%) Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Bash
1 3 (23.08%) C#
1 3 (23.08%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) Scala
2 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) HIPAA
1 1 (7.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Terraform
2 3 (23.08%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Packer
3 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
3 1 (7.69%) Puppet
3 1 (7.69%) yum
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.69%) VMware