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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 85 98
Rank change year-on-year -21 +13 +11
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 8 8 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.36% 0.63% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.65% 2.19% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 2
10th Percentile £435 £470 £583
25th Percentile £459 £500 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -16.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile £515 £706 £644
90th Percentile - £785 £648
England median daily rate £500 £500 £575
% change year-on-year - -13.04% -4.17%

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 484 366 265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 22.08% 29.02% 16.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 202 151
10th Percentile £193 £201 £213
25th Percentile £363 £402 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £570 £575 £558
90th Percentile £619 £675 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 43 48
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.50 £16.30 £14.46
Median hourly rate £17.50 £21.28 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year -17.76% +30.55% -24.73%
75th Percentile £53.38 £44.97 £21.37
90th Percentile £63.05 £67.00 £21.46
England median hourly rate £35.71 £26.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +37.35% +9.24% -27.88%

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 7 August 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 +8 6 £510 -28.42% 3
Norfolk -10 2 £425 -15.00%
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 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (25.00%) Datadog
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (12.50%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) SSL
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (50.00%) Security Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
1 7 (87.50%) Windows Server
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Observability
2 2 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Bash
1 2 (25.00%) Groovy
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Python
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) vSphere
2 4 (50.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (25.00%) Squid
4 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Packer
1 1 (12.50%) Puppet
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
1 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) PagerDuty
2 2 (25.00%) Trend Micro
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat