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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 114 112
Rank change year-on-year -14 -2 +31
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 14 11 20
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.58% 0.59% 0.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.48% 1.39% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 15
10th Percentile £506 £404 £426
25th Percentile £527 £417 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £725 £775 £719
90th Percentile £748 £779 £855
Central London median daily rate £575 £675 £600
% change year-on-year -14.81% +12.50% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 - -

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 944 791 893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.82% 42.48% 41.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 654 514 622
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £751 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 6
10th Percentile £19.50 £24.02 £12.75
25th Percentile £22.83 £25.18 £16.31
Median hourly rate £37.50 £38.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% +42.87% -60.00%
75th Percentile £62.36 £63.37 £44.44
90th Percentile £75.00 £96.63 £71.38
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £34.65 £27.00
% change year-on-year +48.46% +28.33% -48.57%

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 15 July 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 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) nginx
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (92.86%) AWS
2 12 (85.71%) Amazon S3
3 11 (78.57%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (78.57%) Serverless
4 10 (71.43%) GitHub
5 9 (64.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (35.71%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (21.43%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (21.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (7.14%) AWS CodeBuild
10 1 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (7.14%) dbt
10 1 (7.14%) Prefect
10 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
1 2 (14.29%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) LAN
2 1 (7.14%) OpenVPN
2 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
2 1 (7.14%) SSH
2 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (57.14%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (42.86%) DynamoDB
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (7.14%) Db2
4 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (78.57%) GitLab
2 8 (57.14%) Git
2 8 (57.14%) Jenkins
3 6 (42.86%) JIRA
3 6 (42.86%) JUnit
4 5 (35.71%) Cucumber
4 5 (35.71%) Mockito
4 5 (35.71%) Postman
5 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
6 1 (7.14%) Artifactory
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Banking
3 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 2 (14.29%) Back Office
4 2 (14.29%) Military
4 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Law
5 1 (7.14%) Police
5 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Senior
2 5 (35.71%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Deployment Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Site Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) Kafka
1 6 (42.86%) Spring
1 6 (42.86%) Spring Boot
2 5 (35.71%) Gherkin
2 5 (35.71%) SOAP
2 5 (35.71%) WireMock
2 5 (35.71%) YAML
3 2 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (7.14%) boto
4 1 (7.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Client/Server
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 7 (50.00%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) API Testing
3 5 (35.71%) BDD
3 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (35.71%) Issue Tracking
3 5 (35.71%) OOP
3 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
3 5 (35.71%) Webhook
4 4 (28.57%) DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
5 3 (21.43%) Event-Driven
5 3 (21.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (21.43%) Secrets Management
6 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 2 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (14.29%) Migration
6 2 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (35.71%) C#
2 5 (35.71%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) SQL
4 2 (14.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) CCNA
3 1 (7.14%) CCNP
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
3 1 (7.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 7 (50.00%) Terraform
3 3 (21.43%) Ansible
4 2 (14.29%) Grafana
4 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 1 (7.14%) Puppet
5 1 (7.14%) Salt
5 1 (7.14%) SELinux
5 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) Sybase
3 1 (7.14%) VMware