Amazon EC2 Contracts in England

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 292 312 302
Rank change year-on-year +20 -10 +42
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 201 240 414
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.83% 0.65% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.22% 2.02% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 179 309
10th Percentile £400 £384 £450
25th Percentile £463 £452 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £530 £625
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -15.20% +8.70%
75th Percentile £750 £631 £688
90th Percentile £860 £738 £763
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +4.35%

All Cloud Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in England

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in England

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in England

Amazon EC2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in England.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon EC2 in England

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
London +18 129 £643 +22.38% 248
North of England -3 27 £475 -9.52% 49
North West -2 23 £475 -13.64% 33
Midlands +30 11 £500 +17.65% 14
West Midlands +22 11 £500 +17.65% 10
South East +39 9 £540 +1.89% 49
East of England +28 4 £513 -21.15% 10
South West +40 3 £521 -5.23% 17
Yorkshire +4 3 £500 +8.11% 13
North East - 1 £380 - 4
Amazon EC2
UK

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 32 (15.92%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (14.93%) Apache
3 13 (6.47%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.99%) Tomcat
5 5 (2.49%) nginx
6 3 (1.49%) IIS
7 2 (1.00%) Confluence
7 2 (1.00%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.50%) CMS
8 1 (0.50%) Documentum
8 1 (0.50%) FileNet
8 1 (0.50%) JBoss
8 1 (0.50%) SAS
8 1 (0.50%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.50%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 201 (100.00%) AWS
2 136 (67.66%) Amazon S3
3 89 (44.28%) Serverless
4 86 (42.79%) AWS Lambda
5 72 (35.82%) Amazon EKS
6 59 (29.35%) Amazon ECS
7 56 (27.86%) AWS CloudFormation
8 41 (20.40%) Amazon SQS
9 40 (19.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 36 (17.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 36 (17.91%) Route 53
11 20 (9.95%) GCP
12 19 (9.45%) Dagster
12 19 (9.45%) Snowflake
13 18 (8.96%) dbt
14 16 (7.96%) AWS KMS
15 13 (6.47%) CloudFront
16 12 (5.97%) Amazon ElastiCache
16 12 (5.97%) GitHub
17 10 (4.98%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 23 (11.44%) DNS
2 15 (7.46%) VPN
3 10 (4.98%) HTTP
4 9 (4.48%) Firewall
4 9 (4.48%) TCP/IP
5 8 (3.98%) Internet
6 6 (2.99%) DHCP
7 5 (2.49%) SSL
8 4 (1.99%) LAN
8 4 (1.99%) WAN
9 2 (1.00%) HTTPS
9 2 (1.00%) VLAN
9 2 (1.00%) X.509
10 1 (0.50%) IPv4
10 1 (0.50%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.50%) NAS
10 1 (0.50%) Network Security
10 1 (0.50%) OpenLDAP
10 1 (0.50%) SAN
10 1 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (41.29%) Amazon RDS
2 33 (16.42%) Amazon Redshift
3 26 (12.94%) Amazon Aurora
4 22 (10.95%) NoSQL
5 21 (10.45%) Amazon Athena
6 20 (9.95%) Data Lake
6 20 (9.95%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (8.46%) Apache Arrow
7 17 (8.46%) Apache Iceberg
7 17 (8.46%) Apache Ignite
7 17 (8.46%) Dremio
8 16 (7.96%) Relational Database
9 15 (7.46%) Redis
10 13 (6.47%) DocumentDB
10 13 (6.47%) DynamoDB
11 12 (5.97%) SQL Server
12 9 (4.48%) Big Data
12 9 (4.48%) MongoDB
13 8 (3.98%) RDBMS
14 6 (2.99%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 49 (24.38%) Jenkins
2 25 (12.44%) GitLab
3 24 (11.94%) Git
4 11 (5.47%) JUnit
5 10 (4.98%) Mockito
6 7 (3.48%) Artifactory
6 7 (3.48%) Maven
7 6 (2.99%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.49%) JIRA
9 4 (1.99%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (1.99%) DbUnit
9 4 (1.99%) jMock
10 3 (1.49%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.49%) JMeter
11 2 (1.00%) Bitbucket
11 2 (1.00%) Gradle
11 2 (1.00%) Subversion
12 1 (0.50%) Snyk
12 1 (0.50%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.50%) webpack
General
1 57 (28.36%) Finance
2 39 (19.40%) Banking
3 31 (15.42%) Front Office
4 21 (10.45%) Public Sector
5 20 (9.95%) Social Skills
6 19 (9.45%) Investment Banking
7 12 (5.97%) Retail Banking
8 9 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.49%) Marketing
10 2 (1.00%) Retail
11 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (36.82%) AWS Engineer
2 62 (30.85%) DevOps Engineer
3 49 (24.38%) Senior
4 45 (22.39%) AWS DevOps
5 44 (21.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 34 (16.92%) Developer
7 26 (12.94%) Software Engineer
8 20 (9.95%) Python Engineer
9 19 (9.45%) Java Developer
9 19 (9.45%) Senior DevOps
10 18 (8.96%) AWS Software Engineer
10 18 (8.96%) Data Engineer
11 17 (8.46%) Architect
12 16 (7.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 16 (7.96%) Senior Software Engineer
13 12 (5.97%) Java Engineer
14 11 (5.47%) Java Software Engineer
15 10 (4.98%) Kubernetes Engineer
16 9 (4.48%) DevOps Manager
16 9 (4.48%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.45%) NumPy
1 19 (9.45%) Pandas
1 19 (9.45%) PySpark
1 19 (9.45%) RESTful
1 19 (9.45%) SciPy
2 17 (8.46%) gRPC
2 17 (8.46%) Protocol Buffers
3 16 (7.96%) Spring
4 15 (7.46%) REST
4 15 (7.46%) Spring Boot
5 12 (5.97%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (5.97%) GraphQL
5 12 (5.97%) Hibernate
6 11 (5.47%) Web Services
7 10 (4.98%) React
8 9 (4.48%) HTML
8 9 (4.48%) Node.js
9 8 (3.98%) .NET
10 7 (3.48%) ActiveMQ
11 6 (2.99%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (14.43%) Derivative
2 17 (8.46%) Equities
2 17 (8.46%) Fixed Income
2 17 (8.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 17 (8.46%) Hedge funds
3 10 (4.98%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.98%) Public Cloud
5 7 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.99%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.99%) PKI
7 5 (2.49%) Tandem
8 3 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.49%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.00%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.00%) Genomics
9 2 (1.00%) Omics
9 2 (1.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 44 (21.89%) Linux
2 14 (6.97%) Windows
3 9 (4.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.99%) Unix
4 6 (2.99%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.99%) CentOS
6 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (45.77%) CI/CD
1 92 (45.77%) DevOps
2 65 (32.34%) Agile
3 52 (25.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (25.37%) Software Engineering
5 46 (22.89%) Containerisation
6 44 (21.89%) Asset Management
7 33 (16.42%) Migration
8 29 (14.43%) Microservices
9 27 (13.43%) Continuous Integration
9 27 (13.43%) Deployment Automation
10 22 (10.95%) TDD
11 19 (9.45%) Data Pipeline
12 18 (8.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 17 (8.46%) Analytics
13 17 (8.46%) Task Automation
14 16 (7.96%) Configuration Management
15 14 (6.97%) Problem-Solving
15 14 (6.97%) Scrum
16 13 (6.47%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 100 (49.75%) Python
2 63 (31.34%) Java
3 45 (22.39%) JavaScript
4 42 (20.90%) SQL
5 28 (13.93%) Bash
6 26 (12.94%) TypeScript
7 14 (6.97%) PowerShell
8 13 (6.47%) C#
9 6 (2.99%) Go
9 6 (2.99%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.49%) Scala
11 3 (1.49%) R
12 2 (1.00%) C++
12 2 (1.00%) Ruby
13 1 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.50%) Groovy
13 1 (0.50%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.50%) Perl
13 1 (0.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 53 (26.37%) Security Cleared
2 47 (23.38%) SC Cleared
3 23 (11.44%) AWS Certification
4 12 (5.97%) Degree
5 8 (3.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (3.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 7 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.49%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.00%) CCIE
8 2 (1.00%) CCNP
8 2 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.50%) OCP
9 1 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.50%) VCAP
9 1 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.48%) GDPR
2 6 (2.99%) SOC 2
3 5 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.49%) NIST
4 3 (1.49%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.00%) FIPS 140-2
5 2 (1.00%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.00%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.50%) NCSC
6 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 77 (38.31%) Docker
2 11 (5.47%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.49%) Postfix
5 2 (1.00%) HDFS
5 2 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.00%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 79 (39.30%) Kubernetes
2 77 (38.31%) Terraform
3 34 (16.92%) Ansible
4 27 (13.43%) Prometheus
5 23 (11.44%) Grafana
6 16 (7.96%) Puppet
7 14 (6.97%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.99%) Kibana
9 3 (1.49%) Argo
9 3 (1.49%) Packer
10 2 (1.00%) Nagios
10 2 (1.00%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.50%) Apache Ranger
11 1 (0.50%) Consul
11 1 (0.50%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.50%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 11 (5.47%) Microsoft
1 11 (5.47%) Red Hat
2 10 (4.98%) Oracle
3 9 (4.48%) VMware
4 6 (2.99%) Tenable
5 5 (2.49%) Jaspersoft
5 5 (2.49%) Qualys
6 4 (1.99%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.99%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.99%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.49%) Databricks
7 3 (1.49%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.49%) Splunk
8 2 (1.00%) Cisco
8 2 (1.00%) Dataiku
8 2 (1.00%) IBM
8 2 (1.00%) Rapid7
8 2 (1.00%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.00%) StreamSets
8 2 (1.00%) Talend