Amazon EC2 Contracts in the City of London

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Amazon EC2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 131 118
Rank change year-on-year +25 -13 +20
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 18 36 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.83% 1.04% 1.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.06% 2.67% 4.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 40
10th Percentile £416 £438 £465
25th Percentile £491 £533 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £638 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.63% +10.87% +5.75%
75th Percentile £725 £697 £650
90th Percentile £866 £733 £707
Central London median daily rate £565 £638 £575
% change year-on-year -11.37% +10.87% +5.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £50.00 -

All Cloud Skills
City of London

Amazon EC2 is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 875 1,349 1,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.34% 39.06% 42.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 884 1,398
10th Percentile £363 £313 £385
25th Percentile £436 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.96% +4.35% +7.98%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £695
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -8.90% +2.61% +7.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 7
10th Percentile £12.75 £30.45 £13.88
25th Percentile £14.88 £47.50 £14.81
Median hourly rate £22.50 £82.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -72.73% +211.32% +17.78%
75th Percentile £26.19 £88.30 £53.75
90th Percentile £38.63 - £91.50
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year -66.67% +98.53% +51.11%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the City of London

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the City of London

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 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the City of London

Amazon EC2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the City of London

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (72.22%) Amazon S3
3 9 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (50.00%) Serverless
4 5 (27.78%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (22.22%) Amazon EventBridge
5 4 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (11.11%) AWS KMS
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon Macie
8 1 (5.56%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (5.56%) AWS CodeCommit
8 1 (5.56%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (5.56%) Azure
8 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
8 1 (5.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Kerberos
1 2 (11.11%) SSL
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) MQTT
2 1 (5.56%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (5.56%) VPN
2 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (16.67%) RDBMS
2 3 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.56%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) GitLab
2 3 (16.67%) Git
3 2 (11.11%) Cucumber
3 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 2 (11.11%) REST Assured
3 2 (11.11%) Selenium
3 2 (11.11%) SonarQube
4 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Architect
3 3 (16.67%) AWS Architect
3 3 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) DBA
5 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior DBA
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Oracle DBA
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Kafka
2 2 (11.11%) REST
2 2 (11.11%) RESTful
2 2 (11.11%) SOAP
3 1 (5.56%) AWS CDK
3 1 (5.56%) CSS
3 1 (5.56%) gRPC
3 1 (5.56%) JSON
3 1 (5.56%) Middleware
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (5.56%) React
3 1 (5.56%) Swagger
3 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Data Structures
1 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
1 2 (11.11%) Video on Demand
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Unix
3 1 (5.56%) Windows
3 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) DevOps
2 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
3 4 (22.22%) Microservices
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (16.67%) Software Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Agile
5 2 (11.11%) Analytics
5 2 (11.11%) Code Quality
5 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
5 2 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (11.11%) Event-Driven
5 2 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (11.11%) Migration
5 2 (11.11%) Network Load Balancing
5 2 (11.11%) Performance Testing
5 2 (11.11%) SDET
5 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
6 1 (5.56%) Data Transformation
6 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) Java
3 4 (22.22%) TypeScript
4 3 (16.67%) Bash
4 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 3 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 3 (16.67%) SQL
5 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Docker
2 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
2 5 (27.78%) Terraform
3 4 (22.22%) Ansible
4 2 (11.11%) Grafana
4 2 (11.11%) Packer
4 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.56%) SCCM
5 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (5.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Confluent
2 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.56%) Apple
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) Dell
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) VMware