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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 187 257
Rank change year-on-year -76 +70 -55
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 121 171 144
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.81% 1.25% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.84% 3.00% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 134 110
10th Percentile £364 £411 £362
25th Percentile £450 £508 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £544
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +24.14% -13.00%
75th Percentile £632 £788 £675
90th Percentile £701 £888 £825
England median daily rate £530 £614 £525
% change year-on-year -13.68% +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 6,591 5,693 6,833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.20% 41.53% 37.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,517 3,775 5,073
10th Percentile £349 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
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 95 48 77
10th Percentile £18.09 £22.27 £17.47
25th Percentile £21.23 £24.09 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.50 £31.42 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +3.02% +3.39%
75th Percentile £52.96 £54.25 £53.25
90th Percentile £76.00 £67.63 £61.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -8.16%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -1 18 £530 -23.47% 6
Central London -14 8 £548 -4.78% 16
West London -17 4 £300 -45.45% 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 17 (14.05%) Confluence
2 12 (9.92%) nginx
3 6 (4.96%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.48%) SAS
5 1 (0.83%) FileNet
Applications
1 7 (5.79%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 121 (100.00%) AWS
2 90 (74.38%) Amazon S3
3 67 (55.37%) Serverless
4 64 (52.89%) AWS Lambda
5 52 (42.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 49 (40.50%) Amazon EKS
7 42 (34.71%) Amazon ECS
8 40 (33.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 35 (28.93%) AWS CloudFormation
10 25 (20.66%) Route 53
11 24 (19.83%) GitHub
12 23 (19.01%) Azure
13 18 (14.88%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (13.22%) Amazon ELB
15 14 (11.57%) Amazon Kinesis
15 14 (11.57%) GCP
16 10 (8.26%) AWS Step Functions
16 10 (8.26%) Datadog
17 9 (7.44%) Amazon SQS
18 8 (6.61%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 22 (18.18%) DNS
2 19 (15.70%) Firewall
3 13 (10.74%) VPN
4 10 (8.26%) TCP/IP
5 7 (5.79%) FTP
5 7 (5.79%) HTTP
5 7 (5.79%) IMAP
5 7 (5.79%) OpenLDAP
5 7 (5.79%) SMTP
5 7 (5.79%) SSH
6 5 (4.13%) OpenVPN
6 5 (4.13%) SSL
7 4 (3.31%) Network Security
8 2 (1.65%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (48.76%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (15.70%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (14.88%) MySQL
4 12 (9.92%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (9.92%) Hadoop
5 11 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
6 9 (7.44%) DynamoDB
6 9 (7.44%) SQL Server
7 7 (5.79%) MongoDB
7 7 (5.79%) Relational Database
8 6 (4.96%) DB2
8 6 (4.96%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (3.31%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (3.31%) RDBMS
10 3 (2.48%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (2.48%) Big Data
10 3 (2.48%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.48%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.65%) Apache Hive
11 2 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 45 (37.19%) Jenkins
2 43 (35.54%) GitLab
3 23 (19.01%) Git
4 22 (18.18%) JIRA
5 9 (7.44%) Bitbucket
6 7 (5.79%) JUnit
6 7 (5.79%) Vagrant
7 6 (4.96%) Cucumber
8 5 (4.13%) SonarQube
9 4 (3.31%) CircleCI
9 4 (3.31%) Terragrunt
10 3 (2.48%) Postman
11 2 (1.65%) Selenium
11 2 (1.65%) Serenity BDD
11 2 (1.65%) Snyk
11 2 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (1.65%) Storybook
12 1 (0.83%) Mocha
12 1 (0.83%) Mockito
12 1 (0.83%) MSTest
General
1 35 (28.93%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.18%) Finance
3 18 (14.88%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (8.26%) Banking
6 9 (7.44%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Games
8 1 (0.83%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 32 (26.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (25.62%) AWS Engineer
3 25 (20.66%) Developer
4 23 (19.01%) Senior
5 21 (17.36%) AWS DevOps
6 19 (15.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 13 (10.74%) Architect
7 13 (10.74%) Software Engineer
8 12 (9.92%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (9.09%) Java Developer
10 10 (8.26%) Python Engineer
11 9 (7.44%) AWS Architect
11 9 (7.44%) AWS Developer
11 9 (7.44%) Java Engineer
12 8 (6.61%) Cloud Architect
12 8 (6.61%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 8 (6.61%) Senior Developer
12 8 (6.61%) Senior DevOps
12 8 (6.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 8 (6.61%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (19.83%) Kafka
2 13 (10.74%) LDAP
2 13 (10.74%) Spring Boot
3 12 (9.92%) Spring
4 8 (6.61%) React
5 7 (5.79%) REST
6 6 (4.96%) boto
6 6 (4.96%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (4.96%) FastAPI
6 6 (4.96%) JSON
6 6 (4.96%) RESTful
7 5 (4.13%) .NET
7 5 (4.13%) AngularJS
7 5 (4.13%) Next.js
7 5 (4.13%) OpenID
7 5 (4.13%) pytest
8 4 (3.31%) CSS
8 4 (3.31%) Django
8 4 (3.31%) Flask
8 4 (3.31%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 14 (11.57%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (8.26%) Replication
4 7 (5.79%) Virtual Team
5 6 (4.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (4.96%) Onboarding
6 5 (4.13%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.31%) Hedge funds
7 4 (3.31%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.48%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.83%) Equities
10 1 (0.83%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.83%) Media Streaming
10 1 (0.83%) NHS
10 1 (0.83%) Over-the-Top Content
10 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.83%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 35 (28.93%) Linux
2 11 (9.09%) Windows
3 8 (6.61%) VMS
4 7 (5.79%) Amazon Linux
4 7 (5.79%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.48%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (65.29%) CI/CD
2 59 (48.76%) DevOps
3 51 (42.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (37.19%) Containerisation
5 37 (30.58%) Microservices
6 27 (22.31%) Agile
6 27 (22.31%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (18.18%) Configuration Management
8 18 (14.88%) Observability
8 18 (14.88%) Software Engineering
9 16 (13.22%) Cloud Security
9 16 (13.22%) Platform Engineering
10 15 (12.40%) Fintech
10 15 (12.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 14 (11.57%) Analytics
12 13 (10.74%) Mentoring
13 12 (9.92%) Performance Tuning
14 11 (9.09%) High Availability
14 11 (9.09%) Incident Response
15 10 (8.26%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 73 (60.33%) Python
2 33 (27.27%) Java
3 31 (25.62%) Bash
4 19 (15.70%) SQL
5 17 (14.05%) PowerShell
6 8 (6.61%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.79%) Go
7 7 (5.79%) Groovy
8 6 (4.96%) C#
9 2 (1.65%) Perl
9 2 (1.65%) Ruby
10 1 (0.83%) Bicep
10 1 (0.83%) PHP
10 1 (0.83%) Rust
10 1 (0.83%) Scala
10 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (32.23%) Security Cleared
2 38 (31.40%) SC Cleared
3 18 (14.88%) AWS Certification
4 10 (8.26%) Degree
5 7 (5.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (5.79%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.48%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.48%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.83%) CEH
8 1 (0.83%) CISSP
8 1 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.48%) GDPR
2 2 (1.65%) QA
3 1 (0.83%) GxP
3 1 (0.83%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.83%) NCSC
3 1 (0.83%) NIST
System Software
1 73 (60.33%) Docker
2 12 (9.92%) Squid
3 7 (5.79%) DFS Replication
3 7 (5.79%) Dovecot
3 7 (5.79%) Postfix
4 2 (1.65%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.83%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 78 (64.46%) Terraform
2 46 (38.02%) Kubernetes
3 28 (23.14%) Ansible
4 26 (21.49%) Grafana
5 25 (20.66%) Prometheus
6 10 (8.26%) Puppet
7 7 (5.79%) Nessus
7 7 (5.79%) Proxmox
8 5 (4.13%) Consul
8 5 (4.13%) FortiGate
8 5 (4.13%) Karpenter
8 5 (4.13%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (3.31%) Kibana
10 3 (2.48%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (2.48%) NetBackup
10 3 (2.48%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.65%) Argo
Vendors
1 8 (6.61%) ServiceNow
2 7 (5.79%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (4.96%) Atlassian
3 6 (4.96%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.96%) PagerDuty
3 6 (4.96%) Splunk
3 6 (4.96%) Sybase
4 5 (4.13%) CheckPoint
4 5 (4.13%) Dynatrace
4 5 (4.13%) F5
4 5 (4.13%) Palo Alto
4 5 (4.13%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.31%) OpenAI
5 4 (3.31%) Oracle
6 3 (2.48%) AVEVA
6 3 (2.48%) Cloudera
6 3 (2.48%) Commvault
6 3 (2.48%) SnapLogic
7 2 (1.65%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.65%) Google