Amazon EC2 Contracts in the City of London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Amazon EC2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 129 133
Rank change year-on-year +25 +4 -8
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 21 43 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.95% 1.18% 1.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.45% 3.11% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 22 39
10th Percentile £488 £428 £465
25th Percentile £500 £514 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £638 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% +10.87% -2.13%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £644
90th Percentile £738 £753 £707
Central London median daily rate £565 £638 £591
% change year-on-year -11.37% +7.96% +0.51%

All Cloud Skills
City of London

Amazon EC2 is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 857 1,383 1,821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.92% 38.03% 43.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 935 1,449
10th Percentile £363 £314 £406
25th Percentile £450 £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 12
10th Percentile £12.75 £29.23 -
25th Percentile £17.39 £47.19 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £83.30 £17.22
Median % change year-on-year -72.99% +383.78% -7.43%
75th Percentile £32.81 £88.30 £25.50
90th Percentile £57.30 - £47.78
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £17.22
% change year-on-year -66.67% +292.04% -26.58%

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 27 April 2024.

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
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (76.19%) Amazon S3
3 12 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
3 12 (57.14%) Serverless
4 6 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (23.81%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (23.81%) AWS Fargate
6 4 (19.05%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (19.05%) Amazon EventBridge
6 4 (19.05%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (9.52%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (9.52%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (9.52%) Azure
8 1 (4.76%) CloudFront
8 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
8 1 (4.76%) GCP
8 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
8 1 (4.76%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
1 1 (4.76%) MQTT
1 1 (4.76%) VPN
1 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (14.29%) RDBMS
2 3 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 2 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (9.52%) MongoDB
3 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.76%) Big Data
4 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.76%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) GitLab
2 4 (19.05%) Git
3 3 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 3 (14.29%) Maven
3 3 (14.29%) REST Assured
3 3 (14.29%) Selenium
4 2 (9.52%) Bitbucket
4 2 (9.52%) SonarQube
5 1 (4.76%) Cypress.io
5 1 (4.76%) Gradle
5 1 (4.76%) JMeter
5 1 (4.76%) JUnit
5 1 (4.76%) Mocha
5 1 (4.76%) SoapUI
5 1 (4.76%) Terragrunt
5 1 (4.76%) TestNG
5 1 (4.76%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Marketing
3 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Architect
2 5 (23.81%) AWS Architect
2 5 (23.81%) Developer
3 4 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Senior
5 2 (9.52%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) DevOps Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Software Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) DBA
6 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 1 (4.76%) Oracle DBA
6 1 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior DBA
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Oracle DBA
6 1 (4.76%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) REST
1 3 (14.29%) SOAP
2 2 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (9.52%) Middleware
2 2 (9.52%) RESTful
3 1 (4.76%) AWS CDK
3 1 (4.76%) Chai
3 1 (4.76%) CSS
3 1 (4.76%) gRPC
3 1 (4.76%) JAXB
3 1 (4.76%) JAX-RS
3 1 (4.76%) JSON
3 1 (4.76%) Kafka
3 1 (4.76%) Node.js
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (4.76%) React
3 1 (4.76%) Spring
3 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.76%) Swagger
3 1 (4.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
1 2 (9.52%) PKI
1 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
1 2 (9.52%) Video on Demand
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) CI/CD
2 9 (42.86%) DevOps
3 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (28.57%) Microservices
5 4 (19.05%) Agile
6 3 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 3 (14.29%) SDET
6 3 (14.29%) Software Testing
6 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 2 (9.52%) Auto-Scaling
7 2 (9.52%) Cloud Security
7 2 (9.52%) Code Quality
7 2 (9.52%) Event-Driven
7 2 (9.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 2 (9.52%) High Availability
7 2 (9.52%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (9.52%) Network Load Balancing
7 2 (9.52%) Performance Testing
7 2 (9.52%) Service Catalogue
7 2 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) Python
2 6 (28.57%) Java
3 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
3 4 (19.05%) TypeScript
4 3 (14.29%) Bash
5 2 (9.52%) Go
5 2 (9.52%) SQL
6 1 (4.76%) C#
6 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) AWS Certification
1 8 (38.10%) SC Cleared
1 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (9.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (52.38%) Kubernetes
2 8 (38.10%) Terraform
3 3 (14.29%) Ansible
3 3 (14.29%) Consul
4 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.76%) Packer
5 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.76%) Puppet
5 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle
2 2 (9.52%) MKS
3 1 (4.76%) Google