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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 218 240
Rank change year-on-year -37 +22 +18
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 156 124 148
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.87% 0.99% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.05% 2.35% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 105 108
10th Percentile £371 £400 £362
25th Percentile £475 £463 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £635 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.93% +20.95% -16.00%
75th Percentile £625 £788 £652
90th Percentile £694 £888 £795
England median daily rate £525 £556 £525
% change year-on-year -5.49% +5.81% -13.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £67.50 - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
90th Percentile £88.50 - -
England median hourly rate £92.50 - -

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 7,610 5,287 6,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.56% 42.38% 38.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,255 3,670 4,998
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £671 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 53 70
10th Percentile £20.04 £22.58 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.00 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.35 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +20.56% -45.26%
75th Percentile £54.81 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.75 £72.50 £59.13
England median hourly rate £45.50 £26.45 £21.00
% change year-on-year +72.02% +25.95% -34.98%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +12 36 £519 -36.76% 2
Central London -14 9 £575 -14.81% 16
West London - 5 £300 - 2
East London - 1 £500 - 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 18 (11.54%) Confluence
2 10 (6.41%) nginx
3 6 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.21%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.64%) FileNet
5 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.64%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (5.77%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 155 (99.36%) AWS
2 124 (79.49%) Amazon S3
3 106 (67.95%) Serverless
4 103 (66.03%) AWS Lambda
5 70 (44.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 67 (42.95%) Amazon EKS
7 60 (38.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 41 (26.28%) GitHub
9 35 (22.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 32 (20.51%) Amazon ECS
11 29 (18.59%) GitHub Actions
12 28 (17.95%) Azure
13 26 (16.67%) Route 53
14 15 (9.62%) Amazon SQS
15 11 (7.05%) AWS CodePipeline
15 11 (7.05%) AWS KMS
15 11 (7.05%) GCP
16 9 (5.77%) Power Platform
17 8 (5.13%) Amazon ELB
17 8 (5.13%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 24 (15.38%) DNS
2 18 (11.54%) Firewall
3 13 (8.33%) TCP/IP
4 11 (7.05%) VPN
5 10 (6.41%) OpenVPN
6 3 (1.92%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (1.28%) Network Security
8 1 (0.64%) DHCP
8 1 (0.64%) HTTP
8 1 (0.64%) Internet
8 1 (0.64%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.64%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (37.82%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (12.18%) SQL Server
3 16 (10.26%) Amazon Aurora
3 16 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (6.41%) DynamoDB
5 9 (5.77%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (5.77%) Power BI
6 8 (5.13%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (5.13%) Tableau
7 7 (4.49%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (3.85%) MySQL
9 5 (3.21%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (3.21%) Hadoop
10 4 (2.56%) DB2
10 4 (2.56%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.92%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.28%) Big Data
12 2 (1.28%) MongoDB
12 2 (1.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 53 (33.97%) Jenkins
2 49 (31.41%) GitLab
3 43 (27.56%) Git
4 21 (13.46%) JIRA
5 13 (8.33%) Bitbucket
6 12 (7.69%) Cucumber
7 11 (7.05%) JUnit
7 11 (7.05%) SonarQube
8 7 (4.49%) Artifactory
9 6 (3.85%) Mockito
10 5 (3.21%) Mocha
10 5 (3.21%) MSTest
10 5 (3.21%) tSQLt
11 4 (2.56%) Maven
11 4 (2.56%) Postman
11 4 (2.56%) Terragrunt
12 3 (1.92%) Bitbucket Server
12 3 (1.92%) DbUnit
12 3 (1.92%) jMock
12 3 (1.92%) TeamCity
General
1 46 (29.49%) Social Skills
2 36 (23.08%) Finance
2 36 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 17 (10.90%) Documentation Skills
4 15 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (3.85%) Banking
7 3 (1.92%) Front Office
7 3 (1.92%) Military
7 3 (1.92%) Police
8 2 (1.28%) Games
8 2 (1.28%) Law
8 2 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (23.72%) Developer
2 28 (17.95%) AWS Engineer
3 25 (16.03%) Architect
3 25 (16.03%) Senior
4 20 (12.82%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (10.26%) AWS Developer
6 15 (9.62%) AWS DevOps
7 13 (8.33%) AWS Architect
8 12 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 12 (7.69%) Site Engineer
8 12 (7.69%) Software Engineer
9 11 (7.05%) Java Developer
9 11 (7.05%) Python Developer
9 11 (7.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 10 (6.41%) Analyst
11 8 (5.13%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 8 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (5.13%) SQL Developer
12 7 (4.49%) AWS Software Engineer
12 7 (4.49%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (14.74%) RESTful
2 20 (12.82%) Kafka
3 16 (10.26%) Spring Boot
4 14 (8.97%) Spring
5 13 (8.33%) FastAPI
6 12 (7.69%) AngularJS
7 11 (7.05%) .NET
7 11 (7.05%) Flask
8 10 (6.41%) REST
9 9 (5.77%) AWS CDK
9 9 (5.77%) LDAP
9 9 (5.77%) OpenID
10 7 (4.49%) CSS
10 7 (4.49%) Pandas
10 7 (4.49%) Polars
10 7 (4.49%) React
11 6 (3.85%) boto
11 6 (3.85%) Gherkin
11 6 (3.85%) Next.js
11 6 (3.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.77%) Hedge funds
4 8 (5.13%) Replication
5 6 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.21%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.21%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.92%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.92%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.92%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.28%) Equities
9 2 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.64%) Media Streaming
10 1 (0.64%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.64%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 39 (25.00%) Linux
2 8 (5.13%) Unix
3 6 (3.85%) Windows
4 5 (3.21%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (63.46%) CI/CD
2 66 (42.31%) DevOps
3 57 (36.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (33.97%) Agile
4 53 (33.97%) Containerisation
5 41 (26.28%) Microservices
6 36 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (18.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (15.38%) Observability
9 21 (13.46%) Decision-Making
9 21 (13.46%) Software Engineering
10 18 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
10 18 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 16 (10.26%) Data Pipeline
11 16 (10.26%) Migration
11 16 (10.26%) Performance Tuning
12 14 (8.97%) Analytics
12 14 (8.97%) Cost Management
13 13 (8.33%) Roadmaps
13 13 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 76 (48.72%) Python
2 36 (23.08%) SQL
3 35 (22.44%) Java
4 28 (17.95%) Bash
5 25 (16.03%) C#
6 20 (12.82%) PowerShell
7 11 (7.05%) Shell Script
8 9 (5.77%) JavaScript
9 5 (3.21%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.56%) Groovy
10 4 (2.56%) Perl
11 3 (1.92%) Bicep
11 3 (1.92%) Go
11 3 (1.92%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.64%) Rust
12 1 (0.64%) Scala
Qualifications
1 71 (45.51%) Security Cleared
2 67 (42.95%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.62%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (3.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 5 (3.21%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.21%) Degree
5 5 (3.21%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.64%) CEH
9 1 (0.64%) CISSP
9 1 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.64%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.64%) PMP
9 1 (0.64%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.49%) PMO
2 5 (3.21%) QA
3 4 (2.56%) SLA
4 3 (1.92%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.64%) GDPR
5 1 (0.64%) NIST
System Software
1 83 (53.21%) Docker
2 10 (6.41%) Squid
3 5 (3.21%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.28%) Postfix
5 1 (0.64%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 88 (56.41%) Terraform
2 60 (38.46%) Kubernetes
3 40 (25.64%) Grafana
4 34 (21.79%) Prometheus
5 26 (16.67%) Ansible
6 11 (7.05%) Puppet
7 10 (6.41%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (5.77%) FortiGate
9 7 (4.49%) Consul
10 4 (2.56%) Karpenter
10 4 (2.56%) Kibana
11 3 (1.92%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.92%) Salt
12 1 (0.64%) Argo
12 1 (0.64%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.64%) Packer
12 1 (0.64%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.64%) Suricata
12 1 (0.64%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 15 (9.62%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.41%) Atlassian
3 9 (5.77%) Dynatrace
3 9 (5.77%) Red Hat
3 9 (5.77%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.85%) PagerDuty
4 6 (3.85%) Splunk
4 6 (3.85%) Sybase
5 5 (3.21%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.92%) AVEVA
6 3 (1.92%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.92%) Jaspersoft
6 3 (1.92%) Oracle
7 1 (0.64%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.64%) Commvault
7 1 (0.64%) Google
7 1 (0.64%) IBM
7 1 (0.64%) Qualys
7 1 (0.64%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.64%) SnapLogic