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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 111 133
Rank change year-on-year -1 +22 +3
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 9 18 13
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.51% 0.83% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.19% 2.11% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 9
10th Percentile £433 £491 £453
25th Percentile £538 £519 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £588
90th Percentile £735 £698 £698
Central London median daily rate £600 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -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 757 852 1,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.50% 39.34% 41.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 549 787
10th Percentile £343 £400 £356
25th Percentile £429 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £769 £775
Central London median daily rate £539 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.30% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 8
10th Percentile £32.35 £32.05 -
25th Percentile £37.56 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £42.89 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.41% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £58.96 £76.13 £40.69
90th Percentile £72.53 £85.95 £56.25
Central London median hourly rate £37.25 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year +6.43% +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 29 November 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 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (77.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (55.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (44.44%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (44.44%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (44.44%) GitHub
4 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (44.44%) Serverless
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (22.22%) Azure
5 2 (22.22%) Datadog
5 2 (22.22%) Sumo Logic
6 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (11.11%) GCP
6 1 (11.11%) IaaS
6 1 (11.11%) PaaS
6 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
1 3 (33.33%) VPN
2 2 (22.22%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) SSL
2 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 1 (11.11%) NAS
3 1 (11.11%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (22.22%) MySQL
3 1 (11.11%) Apache Hive
3 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (11.11%) CouchDB
3 1 (11.11%) DB2
3 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
3 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 1 (11.11%) Redis
3 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 3 (33.33%) Git
2 3 (33.33%) JIRA
3 2 (22.22%) Bitbucket
3 2 (22.22%) GitLab
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Senior
1 2 (22.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) boto
1 1 (11.11%) Flake8
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) LDAP
1 1 (11.11%) Memcached
1 1 (11.11%) mypy
1 1 (11.11%) PySpark
1 1 (11.11%) pytest
1 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
1 2 (22.22%) Replication
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
2 1 (11.11%) NHS
2 1 (11.11%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) AIX
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Solaris
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
4 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
4 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (22.22%) High Availability
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Microservices
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (22.22%) Server Hardening
5 1 (11.11%) Agile Testing
5 1 (11.11%) ArchiMate
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (11.11%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) COBOL
4 1 (11.11%) Go
4 1 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) NCSC
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Terraform
2 4 (44.44%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Atlassian
1 2 (22.22%) CheckPoint
1 2 (22.22%) F5
1 2 (22.22%) Palo Alto
2 1 (11.11%) Confluent
2 1 (11.11%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Informatica
2 1 (11.11%) NetApp
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) StreamSets