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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 79 107
Rank change year-on-year -29 +28 +15
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 3 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.16% 0.098% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.77% 0.38% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £438 -
Median % change year-on-year +37.14% - -
England median daily rate £530 £608 £530
% change year-on-year -12.76% +14.62% -12.40%

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 388 266 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.82% 26.13% 16.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 164 201
10th Percentile £199 £203 £185
25th Percentile £363 £318 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £471 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% +4.61% -10.00%
75th Percentile £609 £600 £556
90th Percentile £694 £675 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 23 54
10th Percentile £11.60 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.20 £14.48
Median hourly rate £21.36 £21.46 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% +12.95% +10.14%
75th Percentile £51.22 £23.21 £23.18
90th Percentile £60.00 £77.75 £67.02
England median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -16.00%

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 10 March 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 £600 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Confluence
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
3 1 (33.33%) Sumo Logic
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Solution Architect
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Principal Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Principal Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) React
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Conversational UI
2 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Product Vision
2 1 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
2 1 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CloudEndure