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 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 218 247
Rank change year-on-year -40 +29 +40
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 172 135 161
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 1.05% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.14% 2.45% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 100 118
10th Percentile £400 £400 £363
25th Percentile £456 £463 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £568 £544
Median % change year-on-year -8.06% +4.37% -13.00%
75th Percentile £613 £700 £745
90th Percentile £707 £775 £875
England median daily rate £505 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £36.20 £40.63 -
25th Percentile £47.00 £47.19 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £58.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% - -
75th Percentile £82.50 £69.69 -
90th Percentile £87.00 £75.88 -
England median hourly rate £90.00 £58.75 -
% change year-on-year +53.19% - -

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 8,052 5,500 6,981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.99% 42.93% 39.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,533 3,728 5,118
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £437 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £518 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 74 66
10th Percentile £21.68 £22.65 £18.89
25th Percentile £27.00 £24.75 £22.08
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.25 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +10.08% +19.58% -50.96%
75th Percentile £55.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £77.47 £67.50 £56.25
England median hourly rate £42.59 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +69.35% +14.32% -31.89%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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 28 June 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 +11 32 £503 -26.64%
Central London -18 11 £560 -10.48% 8
West London - 2 - - 2
East London - 1 £500 - 3
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 25 (14.53%) Confluence
2 10 (5.81%) nginx
3 8 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.91%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.74%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (5.23%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 170 (98.84%) AWS
2 134 (77.91%) Amazon S3
3 121 (70.35%) AWS Lambda
3 121 (70.35%) Serverless
4 78 (45.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 77 (44.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 67 (38.95%) Amazon EKS
7 43 (25.00%) GitHub
8 31 (18.02%) Azure
9 30 (17.44%) Amazon ECS
9 30 (17.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 26 (15.12%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (15.12%) Route 53
11 16 (9.30%) Amazon SQS
11 16 (9.30%) AWS KMS
11 16 (9.30%) Datadog
12 14 (8.14%) Power Platform
13 10 (5.81%) AWS CodePipeline
14 9 (5.23%) dbt
14 9 (5.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (14.53%) Firewall
2 22 (12.79%) DNS
3 16 (9.30%) TCP/IP
4 11 (6.40%) VPN
5 10 (5.81%) OpenVPN
6 8 (4.65%) Network Security
7 4 (2.33%) WAN
8 3 (1.74%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (1.16%) Internet
10 1 (0.58%) Calico
10 1 (0.58%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.58%) DHCP
10 1 (0.58%) HTTP
10 1 (0.58%) LAN
10 1 (0.58%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.58%) SSL
10 1 (0.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (36.05%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (10.47%) SQL Server
3 17 (9.88%) Amazon Athena
4 15 (8.72%) Amazon Aurora
5 14 (8.14%) DynamoDB
5 14 (8.14%) Power BI
6 13 (7.56%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (5.23%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (4.65%) Tableau
10 6 (3.49%) Amazon QuickSight
10 6 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (2.91%) MySQL
12 4 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (2.33%) Db2
12 4 (2.33%) Hadoop
12 4 (2.33%) NoSQL
13 3 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (1.16%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 64 (37.21%) Git
2 56 (32.56%) Jenkins
3 55 (31.98%) GitLab
4 33 (19.19%) JIRA
5 13 (7.56%) Bitbucket
5 13 (7.56%) Cucumber
5 13 (7.56%) JUnit
6 12 (6.98%) Artifactory
6 12 (6.98%) SonarQube
7 9 (5.23%) Mockito
8 6 (3.49%) Mocha
8 6 (3.49%) MSTest
8 6 (3.49%) Postman
8 6 (3.49%) tSQLt
9 5 (2.91%) Maven
10 4 (2.33%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (2.33%) DbUnit
10 4 (2.33%) jMock
11 3 (1.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (1.74%) TeamCity
General
1 50 (29.07%) Social Skills
2 43 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 40 (23.26%) Finance
4 17 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (9.30%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (4.65%) Banking
6 8 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.91%) Military
8 4 (2.33%) Front Office
8 4 (2.33%) Law
9 3 (1.74%) Back Office
9 3 (1.74%) Police
10 2 (1.16%) Games
10 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (20.35%) Developer
2 33 (19.19%) AWS Engineer
3 29 (16.86%) Senior
4 25 (14.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 23 (13.37%) Architect
6 18 (10.47%) Software Engineer
7 16 (9.30%) AWS Developer
7 16 (9.30%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (8.14%) AWS DevOps
9 13 (7.56%) Python Developer
10 12 (6.98%) AWS Architect
10 12 (6.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 12 (6.98%) Java Developer
11 9 (5.23%) Analyst
11 9 (5.23%) Delivery Manager
12 8 (4.65%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 8 (4.65%) Lead
12 8 (4.65%) SQL Developer
12 8 (4.65%) Technical Architect
13 7 (4.07%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (14.53%) RESTful
2 18 (10.47%) Kafka
2 18 (10.47%) REST
2 18 (10.47%) Spring Boot
3 17 (9.88%) AngularJS
4 15 (8.72%) Spring
5 13 (7.56%) FastAPI
6 11 (6.40%) .NET
6 11 (6.40%) Flask
7 9 (5.23%) AWS CDK
7 9 (5.23%) LDAP
7 9 (5.23%) OpenID
7 9 (5.23%) SOAP
8 8 (4.65%) Pandas
8 8 (4.65%) React
9 7 (4.07%) CSS
9 7 (4.07%) Gherkin
9 7 (4.07%) Next.js
9 7 (4.07%) Polars
9 7 (4.07%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (18.02%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.23%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.65%) Replication
5 7 (4.07%) Hedge funds
6 6 (3.49%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.91%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.74%) Equities
9 3 (1.74%) NHS
9 3 (1.74%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.74%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.16%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (1.16%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.58%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (19.19%) Linux
2 9 (5.23%) Windows
3 8 (4.65%) Unix
4 5 (2.91%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.74%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (67.44%) CI/CD
2 86 (50.00%) DevOps
3 69 (40.12%) Agile
4 58 (33.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (26.74%) Containerisation
6 40 (23.26%) Microservices
7 33 (19.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (15.70%) Software Engineering
10 26 (15.12%) Decision-Making
11 23 (13.37%) Observability
11 23 (13.37%) Test Automation
12 22 (12.79%) Performance Tuning
13 20 (11.63%) Cloud Security
14 19 (11.05%) AI
14 19 (11.05%) Migration
14 19 (11.05%) Platform Engineering
15 18 (10.47%) Stakeholder Management
16 17 (9.88%) Mentoring
17 16 (9.30%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 85 (49.42%) Python
2 45 (26.16%) SQL
3 42 (24.42%) Java
4 29 (16.86%) Bash
5 27 (15.70%) C#
6 21 (12.21%) PowerShell
7 11 (6.40%) Shell Script
8 10 (5.81%) JavaScript
9 6 (3.49%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.91%) Groovy
10 5 (2.91%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.33%) Perl
12 3 (1.74%) Bicep
13 2 (1.16%) Go
14 1 (0.58%) C
14 1 (0.58%) C++
14 1 (0.58%) Haskell
14 1 (0.58%) Scala
Qualifications
1 87 (50.58%) Security Cleared
2 81 (47.09%) SC Cleared
3 25 (14.53%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 9 (5.23%) Degree
5 6 (3.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 6 (3.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 6 (3.49%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.91%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.16%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.16%) PMP
10 1 (0.58%) CCNA
10 1 (0.58%) CCNP
10 1 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.58%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.23%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.07%) PMO
2 7 (4.07%) QA
3 4 (2.33%) SLA
4 1 (0.58%) Solvency II
System Software
1 78 (45.35%) Docker
2 15 (8.72%) Squid
3 8 (4.65%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.74%) Postfix
5 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.58%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 93 (54.07%) Terraform
2 64 (37.21%) Kubernetes
3 41 (23.84%) Grafana
4 38 (22.09%) Prometheus
5 23 (13.37%) Ansible
6 10 (5.81%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (5.23%) FortiGate
7 9 (5.23%) Puppet
8 7 (4.07%) Consul
9 5 (2.91%) Salt
10 4 (2.33%) Packer
10 4 (2.33%) Suricata
11 1 (0.58%) Argo
11 1 (0.58%) Cilium
11 1 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.58%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 12 (6.98%) Red Hat
2 11 (6.40%) Atlassian
2 11 (6.40%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.81%) ServiceNow
4 9 (5.23%) Dynatrace
5 7 (4.07%) Sybase
6 6 (3.49%) Informatica
7 5 (2.91%) Splunk
8 4 (2.33%) Jaspersoft
9 3 (1.74%) AVEVA
9 3 (1.74%) Brio
9 3 (1.74%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.74%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.74%) PagerDuty
10 2 (1.16%) Oracle
11 1 (0.58%) Cisco
11 1 (0.58%) IBM
11 1 (0.58%) Qualys
11 1 (0.58%) Trend Micro
11 1 (0.58%) VMware