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 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 222 234
Rank change year-on-year -44 +12 +62
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 176 141 177
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.88% 1.03% 1.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.13% 2.41% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 103 129
10th Percentile £393 £400 £377
25th Percentile £456 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.82% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £611 £700 £788
90th Percentile £713 £775 £888
England median daily rate £500 £504 £550
% change year-on-year -0.74% -8.41% -8.33%
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 £95.00 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year +18.75% - -

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 8,268 5,852 6,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.52% 42.91% 40.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,655 3,998 5,080
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £444 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.39% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 81 61
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.01 £22.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.79% -52.05%
75th Percentile £54.75 £47.50 £40.75
90th Percentile £74.75 £67.50 £66.00
England median hourly rate £39.02 £25.15 £21.75
% change year-on-year +55.15% +15.63% -37.67%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 34 £503 -21.97%
Central London -5 14 £575 -14.81% 6
East London - 1 £500 - 2
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 31 (17.61%) Confluence
2 14 (7.95%) nginx
3 9 (5.11%) SharePoint
4 8 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.70%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (5.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 174 (98.86%) AWS
2 136 (77.27%) Amazon S3
3 121 (68.75%) Serverless
4 120 (68.18%) AWS Lambda
5 84 (47.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 82 (46.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 70 (39.77%) Amazon EKS
8 48 (27.27%) GitHub
9 33 (18.75%) Azure
10 30 (17.05%) Amazon ECS
10 30 (17.05%) AWS CloudFormation
10 30 (17.05%) GitHub Actions
11 25 (14.20%) Route 53
12 19 (10.80%) Datadog
13 17 (9.66%) AWS KMS
14 15 (8.52%) Amazon SQS
15 14 (7.95%) Power Platform
16 9 (5.11%) AWS CodePipeline
16 9 (5.11%) dbt
16 9 (5.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 26 (14.77%) Firewall
2 22 (12.50%) DNS
3 20 (11.36%) TCP/IP
4 14 (7.95%) OpenVPN
5 11 (6.25%) VPN
6 8 (4.55%) Network Security
7 4 (2.27%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (2.27%) SSH
7 4 (2.27%) WAN
8 2 (1.14%) Internet
9 1 (0.57%) Calico
9 1 (0.57%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.57%) DHCP
9 1 (0.57%) HTTP
9 1 (0.57%) LAN
9 1 (0.57%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.57%) SSL
9 1 (0.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (34.66%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (10.80%) Amazon Athena
3 18 (10.23%) SQL Server
4 16 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
5 14 (7.95%) DynamoDB
5 14 (7.95%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (7.95%) Power BI
6 13 (7.39%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (5.11%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (4.55%) Tableau
9 6 (3.41%) Amazon QuickSight
9 6 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.14%) Db2
11 2 (1.14%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.14%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.57%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 68 (38.64%) Git
2 57 (32.39%) Jenkins
3 56 (31.82%) GitLab
4 35 (19.89%) JIRA
5 15 (8.52%) Bitbucket
6 12 (6.82%) Artifactory
6 12 (6.82%) Cucumber
6 12 (6.82%) SonarQube
7 11 (6.25%) JUnit
8 9 (5.11%) Mockito
9 6 (3.41%) Mocha
9 6 (3.41%) MSTest
9 6 (3.41%) Postman
9 6 (3.41%) tSQLt
10 5 (2.84%) Maven
11 4 (2.27%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (2.27%) DbUnit
11 4 (2.27%) jMock
12 3 (1.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (1.70%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 50 (28.41%) Social Skills
2 44 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 41 (23.30%) Finance
4 16 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.52%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (4.55%) Banking
7 7 (3.98%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.84%) Back Office
8 5 (2.84%) Military
9 4 (2.27%) Front Office
9 4 (2.27%) Law
10 3 (1.70%) Games
10 3 (1.70%) Police
11 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.14%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (21.59%) AWS Engineer
2 32 (18.18%) Senior
3 31 (17.61%) Developer
4 27 (15.34%) DevOps Engineer
5 23 (13.07%) Architect
6 18 (10.23%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (7.95%) AWS Developer
7 14 (7.95%) Software Engineer
8 13 (7.39%) AWS DevOps
9 12 (6.82%) AWS Architect
9 12 (6.82%) Python Developer
10 11 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 11 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (5.68%) Java Developer
12 9 (5.11%) Analyst
12 9 (5.11%) Delivery Manager
12 9 (5.11%) Lead
13 8 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 8 (4.55%) Data Engineer
13 8 (4.55%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (14.77%) RESTful
2 19 (10.80%) REST
3 17 (9.66%) Spring Boot
4 16 (9.09%) AngularJS
5 15 (8.52%) Kafka
6 14 (7.95%) Spring
7 11 (6.25%) FastAPI
8 10 (5.68%) .NET
8 10 (5.68%) AWS CDK
8 10 (5.68%) Flask
9 9 (5.11%) LDAP
9 9 (5.11%) OpenID
9 9 (5.11%) SOAP
10 8 (4.55%) Pandas
10 8 (4.55%) React
11 7 (3.98%) boto
11 7 (3.98%) Polars
11 7 (3.98%) YAML
12 6 (3.41%) ActiveMQ
12 6 (3.41%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 34 (19.32%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.11%) Product Ownership
2 9 (5.11%) Replication
3 8 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.98%) Hedge funds
5 6 (3.41%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.84%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.70%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.70%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.70%) Equities
8 3 (1.70%) NHS
9 2 (1.14%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (23.86%) Linux
2 11 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (5.68%) Windows
4 8 (4.55%) Unix
5 6 (3.41%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (1.70%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (66.48%) CI/CD
2 93 (52.84%) DevOps
3 69 (39.20%) Agile
4 66 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (25.57%) Containerisation
6 36 (20.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (19.89%) Microservices
8 30 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (14.77%) Decision-Making
9 26 (14.77%) Observability
10 25 (14.20%) Software Engineering
10 25 (14.20%) Test Automation
11 23 (13.07%) Performance Tuning
11 23 (13.07%) Platform Engineering
12 22 (12.50%) Cloud Security
13 20 (11.36%) AI
13 20 (11.36%) Mentoring
13 20 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (10.80%) Migration
15 18 (10.23%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 88 (50.00%) Python
2 45 (25.57%) SQL
3 42 (23.86%) Java
4 31 (17.61%) Bash
5 27 (15.34%) C#
6 25 (14.20%) PowerShell
7 11 (6.25%) JavaScript
7 11 (6.25%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.41%) Groovy
8 6 (3.41%) T-SQL
8 6 (3.41%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.84%) Perl
10 3 (1.70%) Bicep
11 1 (0.57%) C
11 1 (0.57%) C++
11 1 (0.57%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.57%) Haskell
11 1 (0.57%) Korn
Qualifications
1 92 (52.27%) Security Cleared
2 86 (48.86%) SC Cleared
3 28 (15.91%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 9 (5.11%) Degree
5 7 (3.98%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (3.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.27%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.14%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.14%) PMP
9 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.57%) CCNA
9 1 (0.57%) CCNP
9 1 (0.57%) CISM
9 1 (0.57%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.11%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.55%) QA
3 7 (3.98%) PMO
4 5 (2.84%) SLA
5 1 (0.57%) NIST
5 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.57%) Solvency II
System Software
1 77 (43.75%) Docker
2 15 (8.52%) Squid
3 9 (5.11%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.70%) Postfix
5 2 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 101 (57.39%) Terraform
2 61 (34.66%) Kubernetes
3 43 (24.43%) Grafana
4 38 (21.59%) Prometheus
5 29 (16.48%) Ansible
6 14 (7.95%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (5.11%) FortiGate
7 9 (5.11%) Puppet
8 7 (3.98%) Consul
9 5 (2.84%) Packer
9 5 (2.84%) Salt
10 4 (2.27%) Suricata
11 3 (1.70%) SELinux
12 1 (0.57%) Argo
12 1 (0.57%) Cilium
12 1 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.57%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 17 (9.66%) ServiceNow
2 16 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 15 (8.52%) Microsoft
4 11 (6.25%) Atlassian
5 9 (5.11%) Dynatrace
6 6 (3.41%) Informatica
7 5 (2.84%) Sybase
8 4 (2.27%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (2.27%) Splunk
9 3 (1.70%) AVEVA
9 3 (1.70%) Brio
9 3 (1.70%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.70%) PagerDuty
10 2 (1.14%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.14%) Oracle
11 1 (0.57%) Cisco
11 1 (0.57%) Google
11 1 (0.57%) IBM
11 1 (0.57%) Qualys
11 1 (0.57%) VMware