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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 110 108
Rank change year-on-year -23 -2 +40
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 13 11 21
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.57% 0.62% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 1.54% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 16
10th Percentile £517 £405 £494
25th Percentile £629 £497 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £675 £588
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +14.89% +23.68%
75th Percentile £744 £775 £709
90th Percentile £763 £780 £844
Central London median daily rate £713 £675 £588
% change year-on-year +5.56% +14.89% +23.68%
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 934 712 842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.25% 40.41% 40.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 492 558
10th Percentile £363 £341 £394
25th Percentile £456 £435 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -0.88%
75th Percentile £656 £669 £675
90th Percentile £755 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.84 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.23 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.08% +27.13% +30.12%
75th Percentile £41.25 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £86.43 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% +68.67%

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 17 September 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 (7.69%) Confluence
1 1 (7.69%) nginx
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) AWS
2 11 (84.62%) Amazon S3
3 10 (76.92%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (76.92%) GitHub
3 10 (76.92%) Serverless
4 8 (61.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (61.54%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (53.85%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (46.15%) Amazon EventBridge
6 6 (46.15%) Amazon Kinesis
6 6 (46.15%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (7.69%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (7.69%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (7.69%) Azure
8 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
8 1 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
1 2 (15.38%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) LAN
2 1 (7.69%) OpenVPN
2 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
2 1 (7.69%) SSH
2 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) Amazon Athena
1 9 (69.23%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (15.38%) DynamoDB
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 11 (84.62%) GitLab
2 6 (46.15%) Bitbucket
3 5 (38.46%) Git
4 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
4 3 (23.08%) JIRA
5 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
5 2 (15.38%) JUnit
5 2 (15.38%) Mockito
5 2 (15.38%) Postman
6 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
General
1 8 (61.54%) Finance
2 6 (46.15%) Back Office
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Banking
3 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
4 2 (15.38%) Front Office
4 2 (15.38%) Military
4 2 (15.38%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Law
5 1 (7.69%) Police
5 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Senior
2 6 (46.15%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (38.46%) Data Engineer
4 4 (30.77%) AWS Data Engineer
4 4 (30.77%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Agile Delivery Manager
6 1 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (7.69%) Deployment Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Network Deployment Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) Terraform
2 6 (46.15%) ActiveMQ
2 6 (46.15%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (15.38%) Gherkin
3 2 (15.38%) Kafka
3 2 (15.38%) SOAP
3 2 (15.38%) Spring
3 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
3 2 (15.38%) WireMock
3 2 (15.38%) YAML
4 1 (7.69%) boto
4 1 (7.69%) OpenTofu
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (15.38%) PropTech
3 1 (7.69%) Client/Server
3 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) CI/CD
2 9 (69.23%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (46.15%) Data Engineering
3 6 (46.15%) Data Modelling
3 6 (46.15%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (46.15%) Event-Driven
3 6 (46.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 5 (38.46%) Knowledge Transfer
5 4 (30.77%) DevOps
5 4 (30.77%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (23.08%) Agile
6 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
6 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (15.38%) Analytics
7 2 (15.38%) Data Integration
7 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
7 2 (15.38%) ETL
7 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) Java
4 2 (15.38%) Bash
4 2 (15.38%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) CCNA
3 1 (7.69%) CCNP
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
3 1 (7.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
1 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 3 (23.08%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.69%) Puppet
3 1 (7.69%) Salt
3 1 (7.69%) SELinux
3 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco
2 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.69%) VMware