Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in the East of England

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

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 85 99
Rank change year-on-year -27 +14 +12
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 5 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.21% 0.53% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.90% 1.92% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 2
10th Percentile £425 £450 £508
25th Percentile £463 £506 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £515 £744 £594
90th Percentile - £800 £613
England median daily rate £500 £509 £600
% change year-on-year -1.72% -15.21% +9.09%

All Cloud Computing 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 557 365 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 23.00% 27.48% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 212 175
10th Percentile £188 £225 £216
25th Percentile £325 £406 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £508 £420
Median % change year-on-year -2.46% +20.83% -11.58%
75th Percentile £574 £580 £563
90th Percentile £638 £688 £625
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 29 18
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £15.81 £16.30 £14.62
Median hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +53.37% -18.50%
75th Percentile £60.38 £65.25 £21.37
90th Percentile £75.50 £67.00 £37.50
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in the East of England

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Amazon EC2

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 6 October 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
Cambridgeshire +3 4 £510 -28.42% 7
Norfolk -7 1 £400 -20.00%
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (20.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (20.00%) Datadog
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Groovy
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) vSphere
2 2 (40.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (20.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Packer
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) PagerDuty
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) Trend Micro