Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in London

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 176 267
Rank change year-on-year -95 +91 -51
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 120 209 142
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.84% 1.38% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.91% 3.35% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 156 108
10th Percentile £364 £438 £404
25th Percentile £472 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £675 £563
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +20.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £875 £700
90th Percentile £679 £888 £804
England median daily rate £525 £650 £540
% change year-on-year -19.23% +20.31% -9.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £85.00 - -

All Cloud Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,271 6,236 7,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.00% 41.14% 38.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,288 4,223 5,373
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £645 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 42 64
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £18.28
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.15 £35.00 £36.57
Median % change year-on-year -25.29% -4.28% +17.95%
75th Percentile £47.50 £55.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £65.00 £73.38
England median hourly rate £26.30 £30.94 £23.43
% change year-on-year -14.99% +32.07% +4.11%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in London

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in London over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in London

Amazon EC2
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Amazon EC2 in London over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in London

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
South London +3 19 £530 -1.67%
Central London -6 10 £618 +12.27% 3
West London -16 1 £300 -45.45% 1
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 23 (19.17%) Confluence
2 10 (8.33%) nginx
3 7 (5.83%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.33%) SAS
5 1 (0.83%) CICS
5 1 (0.83%) FileNet
Applications
1 10 (8.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 120 (100.00%) AWS
2 91 (75.83%) Amazon S3
3 55 (45.83%) Serverless
4 54 (45.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 53 (44.17%) AWS Lambda
6 51 (42.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 41 (34.17%) Amazon ECS
8 36 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
9 33 (27.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 29 (24.17%) GitHub
11 24 (20.00%) Azure
12 23 (19.17%) Amazon ELB
12 23 (19.17%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (15.83%) Route 53
14 14 (11.67%) Datadog
15 12 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
16 11 (9.17%) GCP
17 10 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
17 10 (8.33%) AWS KMS
17 10 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (21.67%) DNS
2 22 (18.33%) Firewall
3 15 (12.50%) OpenLDAP
4 14 (11.67%) VPN
5 11 (9.17%) HTTP
5 11 (9.17%) TCP/IP
6 10 (8.33%) FTP
6 10 (8.33%) IMAP
6 10 (8.33%) SMTP
6 10 (8.33%) SSH
6 10 (8.33%) SSL
7 6 (5.00%) Network Security
8 2 (1.67%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.83%) Internet
9 1 (0.83%) NAS
9 1 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (46.67%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (19.17%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
4 14 (11.67%) MySQL
5 12 (10.00%) DynamoDB
6 9 (7.50%) Hadoop
6 9 (7.50%) Relational Database
6 9 (7.50%) SQL Server
7 7 (5.83%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (5.00%) MongoDB
9 5 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (4.17%) DB2
9 5 (4.17%) RDBMS
10 4 (3.33%) Data Lake
11 3 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (2.50%) Big Data
12 2 (1.67%) Apache Hive
13 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 50 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 42 (35.00%) GitLab
3 35 (29.17%) Git
4 27 (22.50%) JIRA
5 10 (8.33%) Vagrant
6 6 (5.00%) JUnit
7 4 (3.33%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.50%) CircleCI
8 3 (2.50%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.50%) Terragrunt
9 2 (1.67%) Maven
9 2 (1.67%) Postman
9 2 (1.67%) Selenium
9 2 (1.67%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (1.67%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.83%) Ant
General
1 32 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.33%) Finance
3 18 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.17%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (8.33%) Banking
6 7 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.67%) Military
9 1 (0.83%) Advertising
9 1 (0.83%) Games
9 1 (0.83%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.83%) Marketing
9 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (34.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 28 (23.33%) Senior
4 25 (20.83%) AWS DevOps
5 23 (19.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 18 (15.00%) Developer
7 17 (14.17%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (10.83%) Java Developer
9 12 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
9 12 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 11 (9.17%) Architect
10 11 (9.17%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 11 (9.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 11 (9.17%) Python Engineer
11 9 (7.50%) Site Engineer
12 8 (6.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
12 8 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 7 (5.83%) Java Engineer
13 7 (5.83%) Senior Developer
13 7 (5.83%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (16.67%) Kafka
2 17 (14.17%) LDAP
3 13 (10.83%) REST
4 12 (10.00%) Spring
4 12 (10.00%) Spring Boot
5 9 (7.50%) boto
6 8 (6.67%) pytest
7 6 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (5.00%) Flake8
7 6 (5.00%) mypy
8 5 (4.17%) JSON
8 5 (4.17%) React
9 4 (3.33%) AWS CDK
9 4 (3.33%) RESTful
10 3 (2.50%) Node.js
11 2 (1.67%) YAML
12 1 (0.83%) AngularJS
12 1 (0.83%) Django
12 1 (0.83%) Flask
12 1 (0.83%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.17%) Cloud Native
2 13 (10.83%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (10.83%) Replication
3 7 (5.83%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.00%) Virtual Team
5 5 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.33%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (3.33%) Hedge funds
7 3 (2.50%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.67%) CSOC
8 2 (1.67%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.83%) Media Streaming
9 1 (0.83%) NHS
9 1 (0.83%) Over-the-Top Content
9 1 (0.83%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.83%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 40 (33.33%) Linux
2 16 (13.33%) Windows
3 11 (9.17%) VMS
4 10 (8.33%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (8.33%) Ubuntu
5 4 (3.33%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.83%) AIX
6 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.83%) Solaris
6 1 (0.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (67.50%) CI/CD
2 69 (57.50%) DevOps
3 48 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 39 (32.50%) Microservices
6 29 (24.17%) Configuration Management
7 27 (22.50%) Agile
8 23 (19.17%) Infrastructure Automation
9 20 (16.67%) Observability
9 20 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
10 19 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (13.33%) Cloud Security
11 16 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 15 (12.50%) High Availability
13 14 (11.67%) Performance Tuning
14 13 (10.83%) Analytics
15 12 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (10.00%) Fintech
15 12 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
15 12 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 76 (63.33%) Python
2 34 (28.33%) Bash
3 29 (24.17%) Java
4 24 (20.00%) SQL
5 18 (15.00%) PowerShell
6 13 (10.83%) Go
7 10 (8.33%) Groovy
8 6 (5.00%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.50%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.67%) Perl
10 2 (1.67%) PromQL
10 2 (1.67%) Ruby
11 1 (0.83%) Bicep
11 1 (0.83%) C#
11 1 (0.83%) COBOL
11 1 (0.83%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.83%) PHP
11 1 (0.83%) R
11 1 (0.83%) Rust
Qualifications
1 40 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 39 (32.50%) SC Cleared
3 18 (15.00%) AWS Certification
4 13 (10.83%) Degree
5 10 (8.33%) Azure Certification
6 6 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.67%) QA
2 4 (3.33%) GDPR
3 2 (1.67%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.83%) GxP
4 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.83%) NCSC
4 1 (0.83%) WCAG
System Software
1 71 (59.17%) Docker
2 10 (8.33%) DFS Replication
2 10 (8.33%) Dovecot
2 10 (8.33%) Postfix
2 10 (8.33%) Squid
3 5 (4.17%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.83%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 76 (63.33%) Terraform
2 40 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 34 (28.33%) Ansible
4 25 (20.83%) Grafana
5 21 (17.50%) Prometheus
6 13 (10.83%) Puppet
7 10 (8.33%) Nessus
7 10 (8.33%) Proxmox
8 7 (5.83%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.33%) NetBackup
10 3 (2.50%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (2.50%) Karpenter
10 3 (2.50%) Kibana
11 1 (0.83%) Argo
Vendors
1 12 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 10 (8.33%) CheckPoint
2 10 (8.33%) F5
2 10 (8.33%) Jaspersoft
2 10 (8.33%) Palo Alto
3 8 (6.67%) Splunk
4 6 (5.00%) Atlassian
4 6 (5.00%) PagerDuty
5 5 (4.17%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.17%) Oracle
6 4 (3.33%) Commvault
6 4 (3.33%) SnapLogic
6 4 (3.33%) Sybase
7 3 (2.50%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (2.50%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.67%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.83%) Confluent
9 1 (0.83%) Databricks
9 1 (0.83%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.83%) StreamSets