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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 234 223
Rank change year-on-year -58 -11 +82
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 154 140 185
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.77% 1.04% 1.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 2.40% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 95 131
10th Percentile £390 £400 £409
25th Percentile £450 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £875
90th Percentile £753 £775 £888
England median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £45.85 -
25th Percentile £29.00 £60.25 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £76.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -60.91% - -
75th Percentile £31.00 £81.88 -
90th Percentile - £85.25 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £76.75 -
% change year-on-year -60.91% - -

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 8,308 5,829 6,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.42% 43.24% 40.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,674 3,984 4,756
10th Percentile £363 £338 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -3.52% -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £653 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 90 46
10th Percentile £19.23 £22.95 £21.00
25th Percentile £23.42 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +2.78% -48.64%
75th Percentile £57.50 £42.81 £40.25
90th Percentile £78.57 £67.95 £61.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £26.99
% change year-on-year +34.62% -3.65% -18.23%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 20 £500 -20.89% 1
Central London -17 13 £638 - 4
East London - 1 £500 -
West London - 1 - - 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 22 (14.29%) Confluence
2 8 (5.19%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (4.55%) nginx
4 6 (3.90%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.95%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.65%) Apache
6 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 152 (98.70%) AWS
2 115 (74.68%) Amazon S3
3 97 (62.99%) Serverless
4 96 (62.34%) AWS Lambda
5 72 (46.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 65 (42.21%) Amazon EKS
7 64 (41.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 45 (29.22%) GitHub
9 38 (24.68%) Azure
10 29 (18.83%) GitHub Actions
11 26 (16.88%) Amazon ECS
12 22 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
13 21 (13.64%) Datadog
14 18 (11.69%) AWS KMS
15 13 (8.44%) Route 53
16 12 (7.79%) Amazon SQS
17 9 (5.84%) AWS CloudTrail
17 9 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
17 9 (5.84%) dbt
17 9 (5.84%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 20 (12.99%) Firewall
2 12 (7.79%) TCP/IP
3 11 (7.14%) DNS
4 9 (5.84%) Network Security
5 7 (4.55%) OpenVPN
6 4 (2.60%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (2.60%) SSH
6 4 (2.60%) VPN
6 4 (2.60%) WAN
7 2 (1.30%) Internet
7 2 (1.30%) SSL
8 1 (0.65%) Calico
8 1 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.65%) DHCP
8 1 (0.65%) HTTP
8 1 (0.65%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.65%) LAN
8 1 (0.65%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.65%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (35.71%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (11.69%) Amazon Athena
3 17 (11.04%) Amazon Aurora
4 15 (9.74%) DynamoDB
5 14 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (7.79%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (7.79%) SQL Server
7 8 (5.19%) Power BI
8 7 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (3.25%) Amazon QuickSight
10 3 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.95%) Tableau
11 2 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.30%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.65%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.65%) DocumentDB
12 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.65%) MySQL
12 1 (0.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 63 (40.91%) Git
2 54 (35.06%) GitLab
3 53 (34.42%) Jenkins
4 25 (16.23%) JIRA
5 10 (6.49%) Artifactory
5 10 (6.49%) Cucumber
6 7 (4.55%) Bitbucket
6 7 (4.55%) JUnit
6 7 (4.55%) Mockito
7 6 (3.90%) Postman
8 5 (3.25%) Maven
8 5 (3.25%) SonarQube
9 4 (2.60%) Mocha
9 4 (2.60%) MSTest
9 4 (2.60%) tSQLt
10 3 (1.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.95%) DbUnit
10 3 (1.95%) jMock
10 3 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.95%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 37 (24.03%) Finance
1 37 (24.03%) Social Skills
2 33 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 11 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.19%) Banking
5 6 (3.90%) Back Office
5 6 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.25%) Military
7 4 (2.60%) Law
7 4 (2.60%) Police
8 3 (1.95%) Front Office
8 3 (1.95%) Games
9 2 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.30%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 35 (22.73%) AWS Engineer
2 32 (20.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (18.83%) Senior
4 25 (16.23%) Developer
5 17 (11.04%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (8.44%) Architect
7 12 (7.79%) AWS Developer
7 12 (7.79%) AWS DevOps
7 12 (7.79%) Python Developer
7 12 (7.79%) Software Engineer
8 11 (7.14%) Lead
8 11 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (6.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 9 (5.84%) AWS Architect
10 9 (5.84%) Data Engineer
11 8 (5.19%) Lead DevOps
11 8 (5.19%) SQL Developer
12 7 (4.55%) Java Developer
12 7 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
12 7 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (62.34%) Terraform
2 23 (14.94%) RESTful
3 18 (11.69%) REST
4 14 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 14 (9.09%) Spring Boot
5 13 (8.44%) Kafka
6 12 (7.79%) FastAPI
6 12 (7.79%) Spring
7 10 (6.49%) Flask
8 8 (5.19%) Pandas
8 8 (5.19%) React
9 7 (4.55%) .NET
9 7 (4.55%) Polars
9 7 (4.55%) PySpark
9 7 (4.55%) SOAP
9 7 (4.55%) YAML
10 6 (3.90%) ActiveMQ
10 6 (3.90%) AWS CDK
11 5 (3.25%) boto
11 5 (3.25%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 36 (23.38%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.19%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (5.19%) Replication
4 7 (4.55%) Hedge funds
5 6 (3.90%) Fixed Income
6 5 (3.25%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.95%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.95%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.95%) NHS
9 2 (1.30%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.30%) Equities
9 2 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.30%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (27.92%) Linux
2 12 (7.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (5.19%) Amazon Linux
3 8 (5.19%) Unix
4 7 (4.55%) Windows
5 3 (1.95%) VMS
5 3 (1.95%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.30%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (75.32%) CI/CD
2 87 (56.49%) DevOps
3 76 (49.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 59 (38.31%) Agile
5 42 (27.27%) Containerisation
6 37 (24.03%) Observability
7 33 (21.43%) Microservices
8 31 (20.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (17.53%) Test Automation
10 25 (16.23%) Software Engineering
11 23 (14.94%) Platform Engineering
12 22 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
13 21 (13.64%) Cloud Security
13 21 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
14 18 (11.69%) AI
14 18 (11.69%) Event-Driven
15 17 (11.04%) Mentoring
15 17 (11.04%) Migration
15 17 (11.04%) Root Cause Analysis
16 15 (9.74%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 92 (59.74%) Python
2 42 (27.27%) Java
3 35 (22.73%) SQL
4 32 (20.78%) Bash
5 23 (14.94%) PowerShell
6 22 (14.29%) C#
7 10 (6.49%) Shell Script
8 9 (5.84%) JavaScript
9 8 (5.19%) Groovy
10 7 (4.55%) Perl
11 6 (3.90%) TypeScript
12 4 (2.60%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.95%) Bicep
14 1 (0.65%) C
14 1 (0.65%) C++
14 1 (0.65%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.65%) Haskell
14 1 (0.65%) Korn
14 1 (0.65%) R
14 1 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 72 (46.75%) Security Cleared
2 64 (41.56%) SC Cleared
3 37 (24.03%) AWS Certification
4 12 (7.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (5.84%) Azure Certification
5 9 (5.84%) Degree
6 6 (3.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (3.25%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (2.60%) CISM
8 4 (2.60%) CISSP
9 2 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.30%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.30%) PMP
10 1 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.65%) ISEB
10 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.65%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.84%) QA
2 8 (5.19%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.60%) NIST
3 4 (2.60%) SLA
4 3 (1.95%) PMO
5 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.65%) Solvency II
System Software
1 69 (44.81%) Docker
2 11 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.19%) Squid
4 5 (3.25%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.95%) Postfix
6 2 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 53 (34.42%) Kubernetes
2 38 (24.68%) Grafana
3 31 (20.13%) Prometheus
4 29 (18.83%) Ansible
5 8 (5.19%) Puppet
6 7 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (3.25%) Packer
8 4 (2.60%) Salt
8 4 (2.60%) Suricata
9 3 (1.95%) Argo
9 3 (1.95%) SELinux
10 2 (1.30%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.30%) Istio
11 1 (0.65%) Cilium
11 1 (0.65%) Consul
11 1 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.65%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.65%) systemd
Vendors
1 14 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 14 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 11 (7.14%) Red Hat
3 7 (4.55%) Splunk
4 6 (3.90%) Informatica
5 4 (2.60%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.60%) Okta
6 3 (1.95%) Brio
6 3 (1.95%) Jaspersoft
6 3 (1.95%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.30%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.30%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.30%) Sonatype
7 2 (1.30%) Sybase
8 1 (0.65%) Databricks
8 1 (0.65%) Google
8 1 (0.65%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle
8 1 (0.65%) Qualys
8 1 (0.65%) Trend Micro