Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in Hereford

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Herefordshire > Hereford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hereford requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hereford 36.84% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 87.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £520 - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £563 - -
90th Percentile £595 - -
Herefordshire median daily rate £550 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Hereford

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 Hereford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8 3 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hereford 42.11% 21.43% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile £521 £553 £283
25th Percentile £525 £556 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £700
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -19.64% +33.33%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £731
90th Percentile £590 £573 £735
Herefordshire median daily rate £650 £612 £688
% change year-on-year +6.21% -10.98% +30.95%

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hereford 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 7 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (28.57%) InfluxDB
2 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 7 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) RabbitMQ
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 7 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
2 2 (28.57%) Observability
2 2 (28.57%) Service Management
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Go
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (85.71%) DV Cleared
3 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
1 7 (100.00%) Grafana
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 7 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 7 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform