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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 89 109
Rank change year-on-year +4 +20 +19
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 8 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.62% 0.26% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.30% 1.40% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 6
10th Percentile £470 £515 £413
25th Percentile £500 £538 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £706 £638 £578
90th Percentile £785 £645 £594
England median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -8.33%

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 348 285 489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 27.00% 18.65% 26.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 164 322
10th Percentile £220 £213 £186
25th Percentile £410 £297 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £423 £473
Median % change year-on-year +22.49% -10.58% -5.50%
75th Percentile £580 £563 £589
90th Percentile £688 £634 £700
England median daily rate £501 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.57% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 25 31
10th Percentile £14.99 - £14.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £14.16 £15.25
Median hourly rate £30.03 £16.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +84.23% -18.50% +29.03%
75th Percentile £60.48 £21.37 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £26.55 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -23.79% - +53.49%

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
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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the East of England over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 21 September 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
Cambridgeshire +5 4 £713 +42.50% 5
Bedfordshire - 3 £525 -
Norfolk - 1 £500 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (25.00%) AWS KMS
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (12.50%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (12.50%) Route 53
6 1 (12.50%) Serverless
6 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) SSL
1 2 (25.00%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (12.50%) Big Data
3 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (12.50%) Pentaho
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (37.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Architect
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) DBA
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
1 1 (12.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (25.00%) Life Science
1 2 (25.00%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
2 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
2 3 (37.50%) RBAC
3 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) ETL
3 2 (25.00%) Key Management
3 2 (25.00%) LLM
3 2 (25.00%) Prototyping
3 2 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) ANSI SQL
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) Scala
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) FIPS 140-2
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
1 2 (25.00%) NIST 800
1 2 (25.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Cloudera
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 1 (12.50%) Teradata
2 1 (12.50%) Vertica