Amazon EC2 Contracts in the East of England

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 106 119
Rank change year-on-year +28 +13 +9
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 4 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.43% 0.31% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.50% 2.08% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £452 - £568
25th Percentile £483 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% +8.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile £525 - £625
90th Percentile - - £633
England median daily rate £575 £530 £625
% change year-on-year +8.49% -15.20% +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 266 289 522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 28.36% 15.14% 25.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 167 344
10th Percentile £200 £214 £186
25th Percentile £350 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £586
90th Percentile £675 £662 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 65 55
10th Percentile - £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.82 £16.30 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.46% -14.21% +22.58%
75th Percentile £21.92 £21.37 £49.38
90th Percentile £37.46 £60.95 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the East of England

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the East of England

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bedfordshire - 3 £525 -
Suffolk -7 1 £438 -32.69%
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (50.00%) AWS KMS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SSL
1 2 (50.00%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (25.00%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Key Management
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) FIPS 140-2
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
1 2 (50.00%) NIST 800
1 2 (50.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) VMware