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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 238 215
Rank change year-on-year -39 -23 +98
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 167 142 181
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.83% 1.03% 1.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.00% 2.41% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 100 129
10th Percentile £389 £400 £397
25th Percentile £456 £494 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £590 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% -1.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £627 £700 £838
90th Percentile £713 £775 £888
England median daily rate £500 £500 £570
% change year-on-year - -12.28% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £45.00 -
25th Percentile £29.00 £58.13 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -62.50% - -
75th Percentile £31.00 £83.75 -
90th Percentile - £86.00 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -62.50% - -

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 8,333 5,887 6,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.47% 42.88% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,692 4,040 4,831
10th Percentile £363 £338 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.37% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 86 52
10th Percentile £19.23 £22.75 £20.65
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +4.76% -45.85%
75th Percentile £55.56 £47.31 £41.19
90th Percentile £75.18 £67.50 £65.65
England median hourly rate £37.24 £25.58 £23.80
% change year-on-year +45.61% +7.46% -27.88%

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 3 August 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
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 3 August 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 +5 31 £488 -24.30%
Central London -10 14 £638 - 8
East London - 1 £500 - 1
West London - 1 - - 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 26 (15.57%) Confluence
2 10 (5.99%) nginx
3 9 (5.39%) SharePoint
4 8 (4.79%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.80%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.60%) Apache
6 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (5.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 165 (98.80%) AWS
2 129 (77.25%) Amazon S3
3 112 (67.07%) Serverless
4 111 (66.47%) AWS Lambda
5 82 (49.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 77 (46.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 65 (38.92%) Amazon EKS
8 49 (29.34%) GitHub
9 35 (20.96%) Azure
10 32 (19.16%) GitHub Actions
11 29 (17.37%) Amazon ECS
12 28 (16.77%) AWS CloudFormation
13 21 (12.57%) AWS KMS
14 19 (11.38%) Datadog
15 18 (10.78%) Route 53
16 15 (8.98%) Amazon SQS
17 14 (8.38%) Power Platform
18 9 (5.39%) AWS CloudTrail
18 9 (5.39%) dbt
18 9 (5.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 21 (12.57%) Firewall
2 18 (10.78%) DNS
3 15 (8.98%) TCP/IP
4 9 (5.39%) OpenVPN
5 8 (4.79%) Network Security
6 6 (3.59%) VPN
7 5 (2.99%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (2.40%) SSH
8 4 (2.40%) WAN
9 2 (1.20%) Internet
9 2 (1.20%) SSL
10 1 (0.60%) Calico
10 1 (0.60%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.60%) DHCP
10 1 (0.60%) HTTP
10 1 (0.60%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.60%) LAN
10 1 (0.60%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.60%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (35.33%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (11.38%) Amazon Athena
3 18 (10.78%) SQL Server
4 16 (9.58%) Amazon Aurora
5 14 (8.38%) DynamoDB
5 14 (8.38%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (8.38%) Power BI
6 13 (7.78%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (4.79%) Tableau
8 6 (3.59%) Amazon QuickSight
8 6 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.20%) Db2
11 2 (1.20%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.20%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.60%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.60%) MySQL
12 1 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 69 (41.32%) Git
2 55 (32.93%) GitLab
2 55 (32.93%) Jenkins
3 29 (17.37%) JIRA
4 12 (7.19%) Artifactory
5 11 (6.59%) Bitbucket
5 11 (6.59%) Cucumber
6 10 (5.99%) JUnit
7 8 (4.79%) Mockito
8 7 (4.19%) SonarQube
9 6 (3.59%) Maven
9 6 (3.59%) Mocha
9 6 (3.59%) MSTest
9 6 (3.59%) tSQLt
10 5 (2.99%) Postman
11 4 (2.40%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (2.40%) DbUnit
11 4 (2.40%) jMock
12 3 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (1.80%) TeamCity
General
1 43 (25.75%) Social Skills
2 42 (25.15%) Public Sector
3 41 (24.55%) Finance
4 16 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.79%) Banking
5 8 (4.79%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (4.19%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.59%) Back Office
8 5 (2.99%) Military
9 4 (2.40%) Front Office
9 4 (2.40%) Law
10 3 (1.80%) Games
10 3 (1.80%) Police
11 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.20%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (21.56%) AWS Engineer
2 32 (19.16%) Senior
3 30 (17.96%) Developer
4 25 (14.97%) DevOps Engineer
5 19 (11.38%) Architect
6 17 (10.18%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (8.38%) AWS Developer
7 14 (8.38%) Software Engineer
8 12 (7.19%) AWS DevOps
8 12 (7.19%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (7.19%) Python Developer
9 10 (5.99%) AWS Architect
9 10 (5.99%) Java Developer
10 9 (5.39%) Analyst
10 9 (5.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 9 (5.39%) Data Engineer
10 9 (5.39%) Delivery Manager
10 9 (5.39%) Lead
11 8 (4.79%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 8 (4.79%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (16.17%) RESTful
2 20 (11.98%) REST
3 17 (10.18%) AngularJS
3 17 (10.18%) Spring Boot
4 14 (8.38%) Kafka
4 14 (8.38%) Spring
5 12 (7.19%) FastAPI
6 10 (5.99%) AWS CDK
6 10 (5.99%) Flask
7 9 (5.39%) .NET
8 8 (4.79%) Pandas
8 8 (4.79%) React
8 8 (4.79%) SOAP
9 7 (4.19%) ActiveMQ
9 7 (4.19%) Polars
9 7 (4.19%) PySpark
9 7 (4.19%) YAML
10 6 (3.59%) boto
10 6 (3.59%) CSS
10 6 (3.59%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (19.76%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.99%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.39%) Replication
4 8 (4.79%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.19%) Hedge funds
6 6 (3.59%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.99%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.80%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.80%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (1.80%) Equities
9 3 (1.80%) NHS
10 2 (1.20%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 42 (25.15%) Linux
2 12 (7.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (5.99%) Windows
4 8 (4.79%) Unix
5 7 (4.19%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.20%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (68.86%) CI/CD
2 85 (50.90%) DevOps
3 69 (41.32%) Agile
4 67 (40.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (25.75%) Containerisation
6 37 (22.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 36 (21.56%) Microservices
8 29 (17.37%) Observability
9 26 (15.57%) Software Engineering
10 25 (14.97%) Platform Engineering
10 25 (14.97%) Test Automation
11 24 (14.37%) Performance Tuning
12 22 (13.17%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (12.57%) Cloud Security
13 21 (12.57%) Decision-Making
14 20 (11.98%) Migration
14 20 (11.98%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (11.38%) AI
15 19 (11.38%) Event-Driven
16 17 (10.18%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 88 (52.69%) Python
2 46 (27.54%) SQL
3 42 (25.15%) Java
4 33 (19.76%) Bash
5 25 (14.97%) C#
5 25 (14.97%) PowerShell
6 12 (7.19%) Shell Script
7 11 (6.59%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.59%) Groovy
8 6 (3.59%) T-SQL
8 6 (3.59%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.99%) Perl
10 3 (1.80%) Bicep
11 1 (0.60%) C
11 1 (0.60%) C++
11 1 (0.60%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.60%) Haskell
11 1 (0.60%) Korn
11 1 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 87 (52.10%) Security Cleared
2 80 (47.90%) SC Cleared
3 28 (16.77%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 9 (5.39%) Degree
5 7 (4.19%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (2.40%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.60%) CCNA
10 1 (0.60%) CCNP
10 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.60%) CISSP
10 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.60%) PMP
10 1 (0.60%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.39%) Data Quality
1 9 (5.39%) QA
2 7 (4.19%) PMO
3 5 (2.99%) SLA
4 1 (0.60%) NIST
4 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.60%) Solvency II
System Software
1 73 (43.71%) Docker
2 10 (5.99%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.99%) Squid
3 3 (1.80%) Postfix
4 2 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.60%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 94 (56.29%) Terraform
2 56 (33.53%) Kubernetes
3 41 (24.55%) Grafana
4 33 (19.76%) Prometheus
5 30 (17.96%) Ansible
6 9 (5.39%) Puppet
6 9 (5.39%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (2.99%) Packer
7 5 (2.99%) Salt
8 4 (2.40%) FortiGate
8 4 (2.40%) Suricata
9 3 (1.80%) Argo
9 3 (1.80%) SELinux
10 2 (1.20%) Consul
10 2 (1.20%) Istio
11 1 (0.60%) Cilium
11 1 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.60%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.60%) systemd
Vendors
1 17 (10.18%) ServiceNow
2 14 (8.38%) Microsoft
3 12 (7.19%) Red Hat
4 6 (3.59%) Atlassian
4 6 (3.59%) Informatica
5 5 (2.99%) Sybase
6 4 (2.40%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.40%) Jaspersoft
6 4 (2.40%) Splunk
7 3 (1.80%) Brio
7 3 (1.80%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.80%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.20%) Oracle
8 2 (1.20%) Sonatype
9 1 (0.60%) Cisco
9 1 (0.60%) Databricks
9 1 (0.60%) Google
9 1 (0.60%) IBM
9 1 (0.60%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.60%) VMware