Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 17 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 0.75% 1.96% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.33% 6.06% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £305 - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £270 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% - -
75th Percentile £338 - -
90th Percentile £345 - -
South West median daily rate £450 £450 £643
% change year-on-year - -29.96% -4.81%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 60 33 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 22.64% 32.35% 17.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 24 13
10th Percentile £376 £204 £175
25th Percentile £409 £330 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £463 £380
Median % change year-on-year +16.76% +21.71% -27.62%
75th Percentile £688 £550 £538
90th Percentile £790 £559 £718
South West median daily rate £538 £475 £533
% change year-on-year +13.16% -10.88% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.50 - -
Median hourly rate £23.00 £14.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +58.62% - -
75th Percentile £23.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £19.42 £18.87 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.89% -73.04% +112.12%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in Dorset

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

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 Dorset region over the 6 months to 22 September 2026. 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
Bournemouth -11 2 £325 +20.37% 1
Amazon EC2
South West

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 2 (100.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Flink
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (100.00%) webMethods Developer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) EDI
1 2 (100.00%) EDIFACT
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) JPA
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Integration
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) webMethods
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle