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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 217 246
Rank change year-on-year -33 +29 +32
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 176 134 157
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.92% 1.07% 0.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.20% 2.49% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 99 115
10th Percentile £400 £400 £360
25th Percentile £456 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £530
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +8.49% -15.20%
75th Percentile £618 £700 £703
90th Percentile £713 £775 £875
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.41% -11.25%
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 8,001 5,372 6,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.02% 42.86% 39.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,493 3,646 5,114
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £431 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 68 70
10th Percentile £21.55 £22.85 £17.63
25th Percentile £27.75 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £32.25 £26.49
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% +21.77% -48.32%
75th Percentile £56.19 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £77.65 £69.38 £55.25
England median hourly rate £42.59 £25.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +67.03% +15.91% -32.31%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +14 32 £503 -33.00%
Central London -19 11 £560 -10.48% 8
West London - 3 - - 2
East London - 1 £500 - 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 25 (14.20%) Confluence
2 10 (5.68%) nginx
3 8 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.84%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.70%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (5.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 174 (98.86%) AWS
2 138 (78.41%) Amazon S3
3 125 (71.02%) AWS Lambda
3 125 (71.02%) Serverless
4 78 (44.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 77 (43.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 69 (39.20%) Amazon EKS
7 44 (25.00%) GitHub
8 32 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
8 32 (18.18%) Azure
9 30 (17.05%) AWS CloudFormation
10 27 (15.34%) GitHub Actions
11 26 (14.77%) Route 53
12 16 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
12 16 (9.09%) AWS KMS
12 16 (9.09%) Datadog
13 14 (7.95%) Power Platform
14 10 (5.68%) AWS CodePipeline
15 9 (5.11%) dbt
15 9 (5.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (14.20%) Firewall
2 22 (12.50%) DNS
3 16 (9.09%) TCP/IP
4 11 (6.25%) VPN
5 10 (5.68%) OpenVPN
6 8 (4.55%) Network Security
7 4 (2.27%) WAN
8 3 (1.70%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (1.14%) Internet
10 1 (0.57%) Calico
10 1 (0.57%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.57%) DHCP
10 1 (0.57%) HTTP
10 1 (0.57%) LAN
10 1 (0.57%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.57%) SSL
10 1 (0.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (36.93%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (10.23%) SQL Server
3 17 (9.66%) Amazon Athena
4 15 (8.52%) Amazon Aurora
5 14 (7.95%) DynamoDB
5 14 (7.95%) Power BI
6 13 (7.39%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (5.11%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (4.55%) Tableau
10 6 (3.41%) Amazon QuickSight
10 6 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (2.84%) MySQL
12 4 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (2.27%) Db2
12 4 (2.27%) Hadoop
12 4 (2.27%) NoSQL
13 3 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 65 (36.93%) Git
2 56 (31.82%) Jenkins
3 55 (31.25%) GitLab
4 33 (18.75%) JIRA
5 14 (7.95%) Cucumber
6 13 (7.39%) Bitbucket
6 13 (7.39%) JUnit
7 12 (6.82%) Artifactory
7 12 (6.82%) SonarQube
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%) TeamCity
General
1 51 (28.98%) Social Skills
2 45 (25.57%) Public Sector
3 40 (22.73%) Finance
4 18 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (5.11%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (4.55%) Banking
8 5 (2.84%) Military
9 4 (2.27%) Front Office
9 4 (2.27%) Law
10 3 (1.70%) Back Office
10 3 (1.70%) Police
11 2 (1.14%) Games
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 39 (22.16%) Developer
2 35 (19.89%) AWS Engineer
3 29 (16.48%) Senior
4 25 (14.20%) DevOps Engineer
5 23 (13.07%) Architect
6 20 (11.36%) Software Engineer
7 18 (10.23%) AWS Developer
8 16 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (8.52%) Python Developer
10 14 (7.95%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (6.82%) AWS Architect
11 12 (6.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 12 (6.82%) Java Developer
12 9 (5.11%) Analyst
12 9 (5.11%) AWS Software Engineer
12 9 (5.11%) Delivery Manager
13 8 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 8 (4.55%) Python Engineer
13 8 (4.55%) SQL Developer
13 8 (4.55%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (14.20%) RESTful
2 19 (10.80%) AngularJS
3 18 (10.23%) Kafka
3 18 (10.23%) REST
3 18 (10.23%) Spring Boot
4 16 (9.09%) FastAPI
5 15 (8.52%) Spring
6 13 (7.39%) Flask
7 12 (6.82%) .NET
8 10 (5.68%) Next.js
8 10 (5.68%) React
9 9 (5.11%) AWS CDK
9 9 (5.11%) LDAP
9 9 (5.11%) OpenID
9 9 (5.11%) SOAP
10 8 (4.55%) CSS
10 8 (4.55%) Gherkin
10 8 (4.55%) Pandas
11 7 (3.98%) Polars
11 7 (3.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.68%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.11%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.55%) Replication
5 7 (3.98%) Hedge funds
6 6 (3.41%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.84%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.70%) Equities
9 3 (1.70%) NHS
9 3 (1.70%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.70%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.14%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (1.14%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (18.75%) Linux
2 9 (5.11%) Windows
3 8 (4.55%) Unix
4 5 (2.84%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.70%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (67.61%) CI/CD
2 86 (48.86%) DevOps
3 72 (40.91%) Agile
4 60 (34.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 49 (27.84%) Containerisation
6 41 (23.30%) Microservices
7 33 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 33 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (16.48%) Software Engineering
9 26 (14.77%) Decision-Making
10 23 (13.07%) Observability
10 23 (13.07%) Test Automation
11 22 (12.50%) Cloud Security
11 22 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
12 20 (11.36%) AI
13 19 (10.80%) Migration
13 19 (10.80%) Platform Engineering
14 18 (10.23%) Stakeholder Management
15 17 (9.66%) Mentoring
16 16 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 88 (50.00%) Python
2 45 (25.57%) SQL
3 42 (23.86%) Java
4 29 (16.48%) Bash
5 28 (15.91%) C#
6 21 (11.93%) PowerShell
7 11 (6.25%) Shell Script
8 10 (5.68%) JavaScript
9 6 (3.41%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.84%) Groovy
10 5 (2.84%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.27%) Perl
12 3 (1.70%) Bicep
13 2 (1.14%) Go
14 1 (0.57%) C
14 1 (0.57%) C++
14 1 (0.57%) Haskell
14 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 90 (51.14%) Security Cleared
2 84 (47.73%) SC Cleared
3 25 (14.20%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 9 (5.11%) Degree
5 7 (3.98%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (3.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (3.41%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.70%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.14%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.14%) PMP
10 1 (0.57%) CCNA
10 1 (0.57%) CCNP
10 1 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.57%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.11%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.98%) PMO
2 7 (3.98%) QA
3 4 (2.27%) SLA
4 1 (0.57%) Solvency II
System Software
1 81 (46.02%) Docker
2 15 (8.52%) Squid
3 8 (4.55%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.70%) Postfix
5 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 95 (53.98%) Terraform
2 66 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 41 (23.30%) Grafana
4 38 (21.59%) Prometheus
5 23 (13.07%) Ansible
6 10 (5.68%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (5.11%) FortiGate
7 9 (5.11%) Puppet
8 7 (3.98%) Consul
9 5 (2.84%) Salt
10 4 (2.27%) Packer
10 4 (2.27%) Suricata
11 1 (0.57%) Argo
11 1 (0.57%) Cilium
11 1 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.57%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 12 (6.82%) Red Hat
2 11 (6.25%) Atlassian
2 11 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.68%) ServiceNow
4 9 (5.11%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.98%) Sybase
6 6 (3.41%) Informatica
7 5 (2.84%) Splunk
8 4 (2.27%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (2.27%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.70%) AVEVA
9 3 (1.70%) Brio
9 3 (1.70%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.70%) PagerDuty
10 2 (1.14%) Oracle
11 1 (0.57%) Cisco
11 1 (0.57%) IBM
11 1 (0.57%) Qualys
11 1 (0.57%) Trend Micro
11 1 (0.57%) VMware