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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 198 244
Rank change year-on-year -74 +46 -43
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 123 167 144
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.81% 1.23% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.83% 2.94% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 132 111
10th Percentile £365 £413 £360
25th Percentile £450 £513 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £675 £538
Median % change year-on-year -21.48% +25.58% -14.00%
75th Percentile £634 £788 £675
90th Percentile £713 £888 £825
England median daily rate £538 £614 £525
% change year-on-year -12.46% +16.95% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £66.63 - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - -
Median hourly rate £79.25 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile £88.75 - -
England median hourly rate £85.00 - -

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 6,712 5,675 6,818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.24% 41.74% 37.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,591 3,787 5,042
10th Percentile £350 £355 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 49 76
10th Percentile £18.14 £22.07 £17.39
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £31.50 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +4.62% +2.07%
75th Percentile £55.75 £55.75 £53.31
90th Percentile £73.50 £68.75 £61.25
England median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +34.55% +24.15% -11.40%

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 12 February 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 +2 18 £530 -23.47% 6
Central London -14 8 £548 -4.78% 12
West London -13 4 £300 -45.45% 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 17 (13.82%) Confluence
2 13 (10.57%) nginx
3 5 (4.07%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.63%) SAS
5 1 (0.81%) FileNet
Applications
1 6 (4.88%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 123 (100.00%) AWS
2 92 (74.80%) Amazon S3
3 70 (56.91%) Serverless
4 67 (54.47%) AWS Lambda
5 52 (42.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 50 (40.65%) Amazon EKS
7 40 (32.52%) Amazon ECS
8 39 (31.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 34 (27.64%) AWS CloudFormation
10 27 (21.95%) Route 53
11 24 (19.51%) GitHub
12 23 (18.70%) Azure
13 18 (14.63%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (12.20%) Amazon ELB
15 14 (11.38%) Amazon Kinesis
15 14 (11.38%) GCP
16 10 (8.13%) AWS Step Functions
16 10 (8.13%) Datadog
17 9 (7.32%) Amazon SQS
18 8 (6.50%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 24 (19.51%) DNS
2 20 (16.26%) Firewall
3 15 (12.20%) VPN
4 13 (10.57%) TCP/IP
5 7 (5.69%) OpenVPN
6 6 (4.88%) FTP
6 6 (4.88%) HTTP
6 6 (4.88%) IMAP
6 6 (4.88%) OpenLDAP
6 6 (4.88%) SMTP
6 6 (4.88%) SSH
7 5 (4.07%) SSL
8 4 (3.25%) Network Security
9 2 (1.63%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (46.34%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (14.63%) MySQL
2 18 (14.63%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (9.76%) Hadoop
4 11 (8.94%) Amazon Aurora
4 11 (8.94%) Apache Cassandra
5 10 (8.13%) SQL Server
6 8 (6.50%) DynamoDB
6 8 (6.50%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (5.69%) MongoDB
7 7 (5.69%) Relational Database
8 6 (4.88%) DB2
9 4 (3.25%) RDBMS
10 3 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (2.44%) Big Data
10 3 (2.44%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (1.63%) Apache Hive
11 2 (1.63%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.81%) Impala
Development Applications
1 44 (35.77%) Jenkins
2 43 (34.96%) GitLab
3 23 (18.70%) Git
4 22 (17.89%) JIRA
5 10 (8.13%) Bitbucket
6 7 (5.69%) JUnit
7 6 (4.88%) Cucumber
7 6 (4.88%) SonarQube
7 6 (4.88%) Vagrant
8 4 (3.25%) CircleCI
8 4 (3.25%) Terragrunt
9 3 (2.44%) Postman
10 2 (1.63%) Selenium
10 2 (1.63%) Serenity BDD
10 2 (1.63%) Snyk
10 2 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.63%) Storybook
11 1 (0.81%) Mockito
11 1 (0.81%) MSTest
11 1 (0.81%) TeamCity
General
1 35 (28.46%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.89%) Finance
3 18 (14.63%) Public Sector
4 13 (10.57%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (8.13%) Banking
6 8 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.50%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.81%) Front Office
7 1 (0.81%) Games
7 1 (0.81%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.81%) Military
Job Titles
1 31 (25.20%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (24.39%) AWS Engineer
3 27 (21.95%) Developer
4 23 (18.70%) Senior
5 20 (16.26%) AWS DevOps
6 18 (14.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 15 (12.20%) Architect
8 13 (10.57%) Software Engineer
9 11 (8.94%) Java Developer
10 10 (8.13%) AWS Architect
10 10 (8.13%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (8.13%) Python Engineer
11 9 (7.32%) AWS Developer
11 9 (7.32%) Java Engineer
12 8 (6.50%) Senior Developer
12 8 (6.50%) Senior DevOps
12 8 (6.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 8 (6.50%) Site Engineer
13 7 (5.69%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 7 (5.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (18.70%) Kafka
2 14 (11.38%) LDAP
3 13 (10.57%) Spring Boot
4 12 (9.76%) Spring
5 8 (6.50%) React
6 7 (5.69%) boto
6 7 (5.69%) OpenID
6 7 (5.69%) REST
7 6 (4.88%) .NET
7 6 (4.88%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (4.88%) FastAPI
7 6 (4.88%) JSON
7 6 (4.88%) RESTful
8 5 (4.07%) AngularJS
8 5 (4.07%) Next.js
8 5 (4.07%) pytest
9 4 (3.25%) CSS
9 4 (3.25%) Django
9 4 (3.25%) Flask
9 4 (3.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.26%) Cloud Native
2 14 (11.38%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (7.32%) Replication
4 7 (5.69%) Virtual Team
5 6 (4.88%) Onboarding
6 5 (4.07%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (3.25%) Hedge funds
7 4 (3.25%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.63%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.81%) Equities
9 1 (0.81%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.81%) Media Streaming
9 1 (0.81%) NHS
9 1 (0.81%) Over-the-Top Content
9 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.81%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 33 (26.83%) Linux
2 9 (7.32%) Windows
3 7 (5.69%) VMS
4 6 (4.88%) Amazon Linux
4 6 (4.88%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.63%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (62.60%) CI/CD
2 59 (47.97%) DevOps
3 49 (39.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (35.77%) Containerisation
5 38 (30.89%) Microservices
6 30 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (21.95%) Agile
8 20 (16.26%) Configuration Management
9 19 (15.45%) Observability
10 18 (14.63%) Software Engineering
11 15 (12.20%) Cloud Security
11 15 (12.20%) Fintech
11 15 (12.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 14 (11.38%) Platform Engineering
13 13 (10.57%) Analytics
14 12 (9.76%) Mentoring
15 11 (8.94%) Generative AI
15 11 (8.94%) High Availability
15 11 (8.94%) Incident Response
15 11 (8.94%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 72 (58.54%) Python
2 33 (26.83%) Java
3 31 (25.20%) Bash
4 19 (15.45%) SQL
5 16 (13.01%) PowerShell
6 8 (6.50%) C#
6 8 (6.50%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.69%) Go
8 6 (4.88%) Groovy
9 2 (1.63%) Perl
9 2 (1.63%) Ruby
10 1 (0.81%) Bicep
10 1 (0.81%) PHP
10 1 (0.81%) Rust
10 1 (0.81%) Scala
10 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 42 (34.15%) Security Cleared
2 41 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 16 (13.01%) AWS Certification
4 9 (7.32%) Degree
5 6 (4.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (4.88%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.44%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.81%) CEH
8 1 (0.81%) CISSP
8 1 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.81%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.81%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.63%) GDPR
1 2 (1.63%) QA
2 1 (0.81%) GxP
2 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.81%) NCSC
2 1 (0.81%) NIST
System Software
1 71 (57.72%) Docker
2 13 (10.57%) Squid
3 6 (4.88%) DFS Replication
3 6 (4.88%) Dovecot
3 6 (4.88%) Postfix
4 2 (1.63%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.81%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 77 (62.60%) Terraform
2 49 (39.84%) Kubernetes
3 28 (22.76%) Ansible
4 27 (21.95%) Grafana
5 26 (21.14%) Prometheus
6 9 (7.32%) Puppet
7 7 (5.69%) FortiGate
7 7 (5.69%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (4.88%) Consul
8 6 (4.88%) Nessus
8 6 (4.88%) Proxmox
9 5 (4.07%) Karpenter
10 4 (3.25%) Kibana
11 3 (2.44%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (2.44%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.63%) Argo
12 2 (1.63%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 7 (5.69%) Atlassian
1 7 (5.69%) Dynatrace
1 7 (5.69%) Red Hat
1 7 (5.69%) ServiceNow
2 6 (4.88%) Jaspersoft
2 6 (4.88%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.88%) PagerDuty
2 6 (4.88%) Splunk
2 6 (4.88%) Sybase
3 5 (4.07%) CheckPoint
3 5 (4.07%) F5
3 5 (4.07%) OpenAI
3 5 (4.07%) Palo Alto
4 4 (3.25%) Oracle
5 3 (2.44%) AVEVA
5 3 (2.44%) Cloudera
6 2 (1.63%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (1.63%) Commvault
6 2 (1.63%) Google
6 2 (1.63%) SnapLogic