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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 101 113
Rank change year-on-year -23 +12 +14
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 10 16 15
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.46% 0.92% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.12% 2.15% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 11
10th Percentile £525 £495 £488
25th Percentile £533 £546 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £565
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +19.47% -11.37%
75th Percentile £623 £688 £615
90th Percentile £641 - £788
Central London median daily rate £575 £650 £545
% change year-on-year -11.54% +19.27% -14.51%

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 895 745 892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.55% 43.04% 38.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 634 487 621
10th Percentile £350 £398 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £670
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.23% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 9
10th Percentile £31.88 - £12.75
25th Percentile £39.44 £24.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £34.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.87% +54.00% -72.73%
75th Percentile £55.94 £48.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.53 £132.00 £54.95
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £31.86 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.12% +41.60% -57.14%

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
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 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (70.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 7 (70.00%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (70.00%) Serverless
3 6 (60.00%) GitHub
4 4 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (30.00%) GCP
5 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (20.00%) Azure
6 2 (20.00%) Datadog
7 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (10.00%) dbt
7 1 (10.00%) Route 53
7 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (40.00%) DynamoDB
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (20.00%) DB2
5 1 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (10.00%) Apache Hive
5 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
5 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (10.00%) MySQL
5 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (70.00%) GitLab
3 4 (40.00%) JUnit
4 3 (30.00%) Cucumber
4 3 (30.00%) Git
4 3 (30.00%) JIRA
4 3 (30.00%) Mockito
4 3 (30.00%) Postman
5 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
5 1 (10.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 5 (50.00%) Banking
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Architect
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) Kafka
2 5 (50.00%) Spring
2 5 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (30.00%) Gherkin
3 3 (30.00%) SOAP
3 3 (30.00%) WireMock
3 3 (30.00%) YAML
4 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (10.00%) JSON
4 1 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (10.00%) PySpark
4 1 (10.00%) React
4 1 (10.00%) REST
4 1 (10.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (30.00%) API Testing
4 3 (30.00%) BDD
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) Issue Tracking
4 3 (30.00%) Observability
4 3 (30.00%) OOP
4 3 (30.00%) Webhook
5 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
5 2 (20.00%) Microservices
5 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (20.00%) Secrets Management
6 1 (10.00%) Application Security
6 1 (10.00%) Clean Code
6 1 (10.00%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) Python
3 3 (30.00%) C#
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (40.00%) Terraform
3 2 (20.00%) Ansible
3 2 (20.00%) Grafana
4 1 (10.00%) Argo
4 1 (10.00%) Karpenter
4 1 (10.00%) Kibana
4 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (10.00%) Confluent
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Informatica
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) StreamSets
2 1 (10.00%) Sybase