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 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 101 126
Rank change year-on-year -13 +25 +6
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 12 18 13
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.66% 0.88% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 2.24% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 10
10th Percentile £457 £491 £458
25th Percentile £529 £519 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -10.64%
75th Percentile £664 £688 £584
90th Percentile £715 - £668
Central London median daily rate £600 £575 £525
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -10.64%

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 755 805 1,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.35% 39.15% 40.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 570 511 742
10th Percentile £327 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £758 £759
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 8
10th Percentile £27.53 - -
25th Percentile £32.25 £77.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £85.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -52.35% +309.64% +1.22%
75th Percentile £44.72 £92.50 £40.69
90th Percentile £51.20 - £56.25
Central London median hourly rate £29.74 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -15.04% +68.67% +1.22%

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 22 December 2025.

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 3 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (58.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 6 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (50.00%) Serverless
5 5 (41.67%) GitHub
5 5 (41.67%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (25.00%) Azure
7 3 (25.00%) GCP
8 2 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (16.67%) Datadog
8 2 (16.67%) Sumo Logic
9 1 (8.33%) Apigee
9 1 (8.33%) IaaS
9 1 (8.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) DNS
2 3 (25.00%) VPN
3 2 (16.67%) Firewall
3 2 (16.67%) SSL
3 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (8.33%) NAS
4 1 (8.33%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (8.33%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (16.67%) MySQL
4 1 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (8.33%) Apache Hive
4 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (8.33%) CouchDB
4 1 (8.33%) DB2
4 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
4 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (8.33%) Redis
4 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (33.33%) GitLab
3 3 (25.00%) Git
3 3 (25.00%) JIRA
4 2 (16.67%) Bitbucket
5 1 (8.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Architect
1 3 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Architect
3 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Kafka
1 2 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) boto
2 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) Flake8
2 1 (8.33%) JSON
2 1 (8.33%) LDAP
2 1 (8.33%) Memcached
2 1 (8.33%) mypy
2 1 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (8.33%) PySpark
2 1 (8.33%) pytest
2 1 (8.33%) React
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Replication
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Mainframe
3 1 (8.33%) NHS
3 1 (8.33%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) AIX
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Solaris
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) Containerisation
3 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (25.00%) Microservices
5 2 (16.67%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
5 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven
5 2 (16.67%) High Availability
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Load Balancing
5 2 (16.67%) Migration
5 2 (16.67%) Observability
5 2 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (16.67%) Server Hardening
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (8.33%) Design Thinking
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) Bash
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) COBOL
4 1 (8.33%) Go
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) NCSC
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Terraform
2 5 (41.67%) Ansible
3 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (8.33%) Argo
4 1 (8.33%) Grafana
4 1 (8.33%) Karpenter
4 1 (8.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Atlassian
1 2 (16.67%) CheckPoint
1 2 (16.67%) F5
1 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (8.33%) Confluent
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) IBM
2 1 (8.33%) Informatica
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) NetApp
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk
2 1 (8.33%) StreamSets