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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 102 140
Rank change year-on-year -8 +38 -6
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 11 19 8
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.65% 0.91% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.55% 2.28% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 4
10th Percentile £374 £483 £428
25th Percentile £433 £509 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £544 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% +8.75% -14.89%
75th Percentile £750 £697 £559
90th Percentile £775 £851 £599
Central London median daily rate £638 £544 £500
% change year-on-year +17.24% +8.75% -14.89%
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 708 833 1,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.60% 39.70% 40.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 523 537 780
10th Percentile £333 £400 £356
25th Percentile £432 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £664 £675 £683
90th Percentile £750 £765 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 8
10th Percentile £22.30 £32.05 £15.58
25th Percentile £26.75 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £56.75 £76.13 £40.69
90th Percentile £70.21 £85.95 £49.88
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +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 30 October 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
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 30 October 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 & 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 (27.27%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (90.91%) Amazon S3
3 6 (54.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (36.36%) Serverless
4 4 (36.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (27.27%) GitHub
5 3 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (27.27%) SaaS
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (18.18%) Azure
7 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (9.09%) Datadog
7 1 (9.09%) GCP
7 1 (9.09%) IaaS
7 1 (9.09%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) DNS
2 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
2 3 (27.27%) VPN
3 2 (18.18%) Firewall
3 2 (18.18%) NAS
3 2 (18.18%) SSL
4 1 (9.09%) Internet
4 1 (9.09%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (9.09%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (9.09%) SAN
4 1 (9.09%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Hive
2 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (9.09%) CouchDB
2 1 (9.09%) DB2
2 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) Redis
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 4 (36.36%) Git
3 3 (27.27%) JIRA
4 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
4 2 (18.18%) GitLab
5 1 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Security Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) boto
1 1 (9.09%) Flake8
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
1 1 (9.09%) LDAP
1 1 (9.09%) Memcached
1 1 (9.09%) mypy
1 1 (9.09%) PySpark
1 1 (9.09%) pytest
1 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 2 (18.18%) CSOC
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
1 2 (18.18%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Mainframe
2 1 (9.09%) NHS
2 1 (9.09%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) AIX
2 1 (9.09%) Solaris
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
4 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
4 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
4 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (18.18%) High Availability
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
4 2 (18.18%) Microservices
4 2 (18.18%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Security Operations
4 2 (18.18%) SIEM
4 2 (18.18%) Use Case
5 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Bash
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) COBOL
4 1 (9.09%) Go
4 1 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NCSC
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
2 4 (36.36%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Packer
3 1 (9.09%) yum
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Atlassian
1 2 (18.18%) CheckPoint
1 2 (18.18%) F5
1 2 (18.18%) Palo Alto
1 2 (18.18%) Splunk
2 1 (9.09%) Confluent
2 1 (9.09%) IBM
2 1 (9.09%) Informatica
2 1 (9.09%) NetApp
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) StreamSets