Amazon EC2 Contracts in London

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 232 237 293
Rank change year-on-year +5 +56 -21
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 137 165 201
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.04% 0.94% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.41% 2.35% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 122 155
10th Percentile £400 £375 £418
25th Percentile £463 £453 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £558 £625
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -10.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £784 £700
90th Percentile £775 £886 £762
England median daily rate £514 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -6.59% -8.33% +3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £40.63 - -
25th Percentile £47.19 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £58.75 - £50.00
75th Percentile £69.69 - £52.50
90th Percentile £75.88 - -
England median hourly rate £58.75 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -35.06%

All Cloud 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 5,677 7,024 10,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.94% 39.86% 39.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,847 5,155 7,429
10th Percentile £350 £350 £370
25th Percentile £425 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £694
90th Percentile £788 £788 £788
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 63 75
10th Percentile £22.80 £18.22 £17.54
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.04 £24.25
Median hourly rate £31.50 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.15% -52.73% +29.41%
75th Percentile £48.75 £38.44 £77.50
90th Percentile £67.50 £57.00 £89.32
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.40
% change year-on-year +14.32% -32.10% +50.70%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in London

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in London

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in London over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in London

Amazon EC2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in London.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon EC2 in London

Amazon EC2
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Amazon EC2 in London over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

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 4 July 2025. 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
Central London +5 14 £625 +7.30% 54
South London -3 11 £685 +66.16% 2
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (9.49%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (8.76%) Apache
3 8 (5.84%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.46%) Confluence
4 2 (1.46%) JBoss
4 2 (1.46%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.46%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.73%) CMS
5 1 (0.73%) nginx
5 1 (0.73%) SAS
5 1 (0.73%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.73%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 137 (100.00%) AWS
2 98 (71.53%) Amazon S3
3 61 (44.53%) Serverless
4 58 (42.34%) AWS Lambda
5 39 (28.47%) Amazon EKS
6 38 (27.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 36 (26.28%) Amazon SQS
8 31 (22.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 27 (19.71%) Amazon ECS
10 23 (16.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 20 (14.60%) SaaS
12 15 (10.95%) Route 53
13 9 (6.57%) GitHub
14 7 (5.11%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 7 (5.11%) AWS CodePipeline
14 7 (5.11%) AWS Fargate
14 7 (5.11%) AWS Step Functions
14 7 (5.11%) CloudFront
15 6 (4.38%) dbt
15 6 (4.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (12.41%) DNS
2 11 (8.03%) HTTP
2 11 (8.03%) TCP/IP
2 11 (8.03%) VPN
3 9 (6.57%) Firewall
3 9 (6.57%) Internet
4 5 (3.65%) SSL
5 2 (1.46%) DHCP
5 2 (1.46%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.46%) NAS
5 2 (1.46%) SAN
5 2 (1.46%) VLAN
6 1 (0.73%) IPv4
6 1 (0.73%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.73%) Multicast
6 1 (0.73%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.73%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.73%) SMS
6 1 (0.73%) SSH
6 1 (0.73%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (39.42%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (13.14%) Amazon Aurora
3 15 (10.95%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (8.76%) DynamoDB
4 12 (8.76%) NoSQL
5 10 (7.30%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (5.84%) Data Lake
7 7 (5.11%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (5.11%) DocumentDB
7 7 (5.11%) MySQL
7 7 (5.11%) Redis
8 6 (4.38%) Big Data
8 6 (4.38%) Relational Database
9 5 (3.65%) Apache Arrow
9 5 (3.65%) Apache Iceberg
9 5 (3.65%) Apache Ignite
9 5 (3.65%) Dremio
10 4 (2.92%) Hadoop
10 4 (2.92%) Oracle Database
10 4 (2.92%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 33 (24.09%) Jenkins
2 24 (17.52%) Git
3 15 (10.95%) GitLab
4 12 (8.76%) JUnit
5 8 (5.84%) Maven
6 5 (3.65%) Cucumber
6 5 (3.65%) Mockito
6 5 (3.65%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.92%) JIRA
7 4 (2.92%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (2.19%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.19%) JMeter
9 2 (1.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.73%) Ant
10 1 (0.73%) DbUnit
10 1 (0.73%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.73%) jMock
10 1 (0.73%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.73%) Toad
10 1 (0.73%) WebDriver
General
1 23 (16.79%) Finance
2 22 (16.06%) Public Sector
3 18 (13.14%) Documentation Skills
4 14 (10.22%) Social Skills
5 13 (9.49%) Banking
6 6 (4.38%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.38%) Retail Banking
7 5 (3.65%) Front Office
8 4 (2.92%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.92%) Military
9 2 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.46%) Retail
10 1 (0.73%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 35 (25.55%) AWS Engineer
2 29 (21.17%) Architect
3 28 (20.44%) DevOps Engineer
3 28 (20.44%) Senior
4 27 (19.71%) Developer
5 20 (14.60%) AWS DevOps
6 19 (13.87%) Security Architect
7 18 (13.14%) Java Developer
8 17 (12.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 10 (7.30%) Software Engineer
10 9 (6.57%) Lead
10 9 (6.57%) Senior DevOps
11 7 (5.11%) AWS Architect
11 7 (5.11%) AWS Developer
11 7 (5.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 7 (5.11%) Senior Software Engineer
12 6 (4.38%) Data Engineer
12 6 (4.38%) Java Engineer
12 6 (4.38%) Java Software Engineer
13 5 (3.65%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.14%) Spring
2 13 (9.49%) REST
3 12 (8.76%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (8.76%) Spring Boot
4 9 (6.57%) RESTful
5 7 (5.11%) Node.js
5 7 (5.11%) Web Services
6 6 (4.38%) ActiveMQ
6 6 (4.38%) GraphQL
6 6 (4.38%) Kafka
7 5 (3.65%) gRPC
7 5 (3.65%) Hibernate
7 5 (3.65%) NumPy
7 5 (3.65%) Pandas
7 5 (3.65%) Protocol Buffers
7 5 (3.65%) PySpark
7 5 (3.65%) React
7 5 (3.65%) SciPy
7 5 (3.65%) SOAP
8 4 (2.92%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.06%) Onboarding
2 20 (14.60%) CSOC
2 20 (14.60%) Security Operations Centre
3 12 (8.76%) Cloud Native
4 11 (8.03%) Derivative
5 8 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.65%) Equities
6 5 (3.65%) Fixed Income
6 5 (3.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (3.65%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (3.65%) Hedge funds
7 4 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.92%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.19%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.19%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.19%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (1.46%) PKI
10 1 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (24.82%) Linux
2 8 (5.84%) Windows
3 5 (3.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (3.65%) Unix
4 2 (1.46%) CentOS
5 1 (0.73%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.73%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.73%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (42.34%) DevOps
2 52 (37.96%) CI/CD
3 35 (25.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (24.09%) Agile
5 28 (20.44%) Containerisation
6 23 (16.79%) Cybersecurity
7 20 (14.60%) Security Operations
7 20 (14.60%) SIEM
7 20 (14.60%) Use Case
8 19 (13.87%) Microservices
8 19 (13.87%) SOAR
9 17 (12.41%) Continuous Integration
9 17 (12.41%) Migration
10 16 (11.68%) Deployment Automation
11 14 (10.22%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (9.49%) High Availability
13 12 (8.76%) Asset Management
13 12 (8.76%) Scrum
13 12 (8.76%) Software Engineering
13 12 (8.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 54 (39.42%) Python
2 39 (28.47%) Java
3 22 (16.06%) Bash
4 17 (12.41%) SQL
5 15 (10.95%) JavaScript
6 14 (10.22%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.84%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.11%) Shell Script
9 6 (4.38%) C#
10 3 (2.19%) CodeQL
10 3 (2.19%) Perl
10 3 (2.19%) Scala
11 2 (1.46%) C++
11 2 (1.46%) Groovy
11 2 (1.46%) Ruby
12 1 (0.73%) Go
12 1 (0.73%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.73%) R
Qualifications
1 51 (37.23%) Security Cleared
2 47 (34.31%) SC Cleared
3 16 (11.68%) AWS Certification
4 8 (5.84%) Degree
5 7 (5.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.92%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.46%) CCIE
8 2 (1.46%) CCNP
8 2 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.46%) CISSP
9 1 (0.73%) OCP
9 1 (0.73%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.73%) VCAP
9 1 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.38%) QA
2 4 (2.92%) GDPR
2 4 (2.92%) SOC 2
3 3 (2.19%) HIPAA
3 3 (2.19%) NIST
4 1 (0.73%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.73%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (27.01%) Docker
2 4 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.19%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.73%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.73%) Postfix
4 1 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.73%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 45 (32.85%) Terraform
2 39 (28.47%) Kubernetes
3 23 (16.79%) Ansible
4 19 (13.87%) Grafana
4 19 (13.87%) Prometheus
5 15 (10.95%) Puppet
6 13 (9.49%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.46%) Argo
7 2 (1.46%) Kibana
7 2 (1.46%) Packer
7 2 (1.46%) SELinux
8 1 (0.73%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.73%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.73%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.73%) Podman
8 1 (0.73%) yum
Vendors
1 24 (17.52%) Splunk
2 9 (6.57%) Red Hat
3 6 (4.38%) Oracle
3 6 (4.38%) VMware
4 4 (2.92%) CA Agile Central
4 4 (2.92%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.92%) Tenable
5 3 (2.19%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.19%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.19%) Qualys
6 2 (1.46%) Cisco
6 2 (1.46%) Cloudera
6 2 (1.46%) Pega
7 1 (0.73%) Actifio
7 1 (0.73%) Black Duck
7 1 (0.73%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.73%) Google
7 1 (0.73%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (0.73%) Rollbar
7 1 (0.73%) Sybase