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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 200 242
Rank change year-on-year -52 +42 -41
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 147 163 155
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 1.22% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.06% 2.91% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 127 115
10th Percentile £365 £413 £360
25th Percentile £456 £519 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.48% +22.73% -13.73%
75th Percentile £626 £788 £675
90th Percentile £713 £880 £825
England median daily rate £530 £605 £525
% change year-on-year -12.32% +15.14% -14.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £65.98 - -
25th Percentile £67.44 - -
Median hourly rate £79.25 - -
75th Percentile £88.13 - -
90th Percentile £89.25 - -
England median hourly rate £87.50 - -

All Cloud Computing 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 7,130 5,594 6,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.80% 41.84% 37.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,880 3,813 4,956
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £769
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 45 77
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.18 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £29.07 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.40% -4.69% -10.29%
75th Percentile £52.16 £55.75 £53.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £71.25 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.58 £27.38 £21.37
% change year-on-year +37.28% +28.10% -14.52%

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 6 March 2026.

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 6 March 2026.

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 6 March 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
South London +7 28 £519 -25.12% 4
Central London -18 10 £575 -0.86% 10
West London - 4 £300 - 2
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 15 (10.20%) Confluence
2 10 (6.80%) nginx
3 8 (5.44%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.72%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.68%) FileNet
5 1 (0.68%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.68%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 146 (99.32%) AWS
2 112 (76.19%) Amazon S3
3 89 (60.54%) Serverless
4 86 (58.50%) AWS Lambda
5 66 (44.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 62 (42.18%) Amazon EKS
7 53 (36.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 40 (27.21%) AWS CloudFormation
9 37 (25.17%) Amazon ECS
10 31 (21.09%) GitHub
11 28 (19.05%) Route 53
12 23 (15.65%) Azure
12 23 (15.65%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (10.88%) Amazon SQS
13 16 (10.88%) GCP
14 14 (9.52%) Amazon ELB
15 12 (8.16%) Amazon Kinesis
16 11 (7.48%) AWS CodePipeline
16 11 (7.48%) Datadog
17 9 (6.12%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 25 (17.01%) DNS
2 17 (11.56%) Firewall
3 16 (10.88%) VPN
4 14 (9.52%) TCP/IP
5 9 (6.12%) OpenVPN
6 5 (3.40%) SSL
7 4 (2.72%) Network Security
8 2 (1.36%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.68%) FTP
9 1 (0.68%) HTTP
9 1 (0.68%) IMAP
9 1 (0.68%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.68%) SMTP
9 1 (0.68%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (43.54%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (12.24%) SQL Server
3 15 (10.20%) MySQL
3 15 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (8.16%) DynamoDB
5 9 (6.12%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (6.12%) Hadoop
6 8 (5.44%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (5.44%) Apache Cassandra
6 8 (5.44%) DB2
7 7 (4.76%) MongoDB
7 7 (4.76%) Relational Database
8 6 (4.08%) Power BI
9 5 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (3.40%) NoSQL
9 5 (3.40%) Tableau
10 4 (2.72%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (2.72%) RDBMS
11 3 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (2.04%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 54 (36.73%) GitLab
2 52 (35.37%) Jenkins
3 28 (19.05%) Git
4 20 (13.61%) JIRA
5 14 (9.52%) Bitbucket
6 12 (8.16%) JUnit
7 10 (6.80%) Cucumber
7 10 (6.80%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.72%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.72%) Maven
8 4 (2.72%) Mockito
8 4 (2.72%) Postman
8 4 (2.72%) Terragrunt
9 3 (2.04%) Artifactory
9 3 (2.04%) Mocha
9 3 (2.04%) MSTest
9 3 (2.04%) Selenium
9 3 (2.04%) TeamCity
9 3 (2.04%) tSQLt
10 2 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (29.25%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.41%) Finance
3 29 (19.73%) Public Sector
4 16 (10.88%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (7.48%) Banking
7 8 (5.44%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.04%) Front Office
9 2 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Games
10 1 (0.68%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 34 (23.13%) Developer
2 29 (19.73%) Senior
3 28 (19.05%) AWS Engineer
4 27 (18.37%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (13.61%) Architect
6 17 (11.56%) AWS DevOps
7 16 (10.88%) Java Developer
8 14 (9.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 12 (8.16%) AWS Developer
9 12 (8.16%) Software Engineer
10 11 (7.48%) Site Engineer
11 10 (6.80%) AWS Architect
11 10 (6.80%) Senior Developer
11 10 (6.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 9 (6.12%) Python Engineer
13 8 (5.44%) Senior Java Developer
14 7 (4.76%) Analyst
14 7 (4.76%) Delivery Manager
14 7 (4.76%) Java Engineer
14 7 (4.76%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (18.37%) Kafka
2 18 (12.24%) Spring Boot
3 17 (11.56%) Spring
4 12 (8.16%) RESTful
5 11 (7.48%) REST
6 9 (6.12%) AngularJS
6 9 (6.12%) LDAP
7 8 (5.44%) .NET
7 8 (5.44%) OpenID
7 8 (5.44%) React
8 7 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (4.08%) CSS
9 6 (4.08%) FastAPI
9 6 (4.08%) JSON
10 5 (3.40%) AWS CDK
10 5 (3.40%) boto
10 5 (3.40%) Gherkin
10 5 (3.40%) Next.js
10 5 (3.40%) Node.js
10 5 (3.40%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.61%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.84%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.44%) Replication
4 5 (3.40%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.40%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.40%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.72%) Hedge funds
5 4 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.72%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.68%) Equities
7 1 (0.68%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.68%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.68%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (0.68%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 32 (21.77%) Linux
2 7 (4.76%) Windows
3 2 (1.36%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.36%) VMS
4 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.68%) Unix
4 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (58.50%) CI/CD
2 62 (42.18%) DevOps
3 54 (36.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 52 (35.37%) Containerisation
5 44 (29.93%) Agile
6 38 (25.85%) Microservices
7 37 (25.17%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (14.97%) Observability
9 21 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (12.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 18 (12.24%) Software Engineering
11 16 (10.88%) Decision-Making
12 14 (9.52%) Incident Response
12 14 (9.52%) Migration
13 13 (8.84%) Configuration Management
14 12 (8.16%) Fintech
14 12 (8.16%) High Availability
14 12 (8.16%) Mentoring
14 12 (8.16%) Platform Engineering
15 11 (7.48%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 73 (49.66%) Python
2 37 (25.17%) Java
3 33 (22.45%) Bash
4 31 (21.09%) SQL
5 17 (11.56%) PowerShell
6 13 (8.84%) C#
7 10 (6.80%) JavaScript
8 6 (4.08%) Go
9 4 (2.72%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.04%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.36%) Perl
11 2 (1.36%) Ruby
12 1 (0.68%) Bicep
12 1 (0.68%) Groovy
12 1 (0.68%) PHP
12 1 (0.68%) Rust
12 1 (0.68%) Scala
12 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 58 (39.46%) Security Cleared
2 55 (37.41%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.16%) AWS Certification
4 7 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (3.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (2.72%) Degree
6 4 (2.72%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.36%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.68%) CEH
9 1 (0.68%) CISSP
9 1 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.68%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.72%) PMO
1 4 (2.72%) SLA
2 3 (2.04%) QA
3 2 (1.36%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.68%) GDPR
4 1 (0.68%) GxP
4 1 (0.68%) NIST
System Software
1 81 (55.10%) Docker
2 9 (6.12%) Squid
3 2 (1.36%) Postfix
3 2 (1.36%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.68%) DFS Replication
4 1 (0.68%) Dovecot
4 1 (0.68%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 85 (57.82%) Terraform
2 56 (38.10%) Kubernetes
3 31 (21.09%) Grafana
4 30 (20.41%) Ansible
5 29 (19.73%) Prometheus
6 9 (6.12%) Puppet
7 8 (5.44%) FortiGate
7 8 (5.44%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (4.76%) Consul
9 5 (3.40%) Karpenter
10 4 (2.72%) Kibana
11 3 (2.04%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (1.36%) Argo
12 2 (1.36%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.68%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.68%) Nessus
13 1 (0.68%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.68%) Proxmox
13 1 (0.68%) Salt
13 1 (0.68%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 11 (7.48%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.80%) Atlassian
3 9 (6.12%) Splunk
4 8 (5.44%) Dynatrace
4 8 (5.44%) Red Hat
4 8 (5.44%) Sybase
5 7 (4.76%) ServiceNow
6 6 (4.08%) PagerDuty
7 5 (3.40%) CheckPoint
7 5 (3.40%) F5
7 5 (3.40%) OpenAI
7 5 (3.40%) Oracle
7 5 (3.40%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.04%) AVEVA
8 3 (2.04%) Cloudera
8 3 (2.04%) Jaspersoft
9 2 (1.36%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (1.36%) Google
9 2 (1.36%) IBM
10 1 (0.68%) Commvault