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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 192 247
Rank change year-on-year -68 +55 -35
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 119 189 141
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.83% 1.33% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.88% 3.23% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 140 108
10th Percentile £368 £424 £349
25th Percentile £475 £520 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +22.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £653 £838 £700
90th Percentile £679 £888 £804
England median daily rate £550 £643 £550
% change year-on-year -14.40% +16.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 6,336 5,844 6,779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.21% 40.99% 37.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,332 3,946 4,996
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £642 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 43 65
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.45 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.00 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -15.16% -12.99% +31.96%
75th Percentile £53.75 £49.18 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £27.71 £28.46 £22.75
% change year-on-year -2.62% +25.08% +0.79%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 8 January 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 -1.85% 2
Central London -6 11 £600 +4.35% 16
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 23 (19.33%) Confluence
2 10 (8.40%) nginx
3 6 (5.04%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.36%) SAS
5 1 (0.84%) CICS
5 1 (0.84%) FileNet
Applications
1 10 (8.40%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 119 (100.00%) AWS
2 92 (77.31%) Amazon S3
3 58 (48.74%) Serverless
4 55 (46.22%) AWS Lambda
5 50 (42.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 50 (42.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 40 (33.61%) Amazon ECS
6 40 (33.61%) Amazon EKS
7 31 (26.05%) AWS CloudFormation
8 29 (24.37%) GitHub
9 27 (22.69%) Azure
10 24 (20.17%) Amazon ELB
11 23 (19.33%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (15.97%) Route 53
13 13 (10.92%) Datadog
13 13 (10.92%) GCP
14 10 (8.40%) Amazon Kinesis
14 10 (8.40%) AWS KMS
14 10 (8.40%) Microsoft 365
15 7 (5.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (22.69%) DNS
2 22 (18.49%) Firewall
3 15 (12.61%) OpenLDAP
4 13 (10.92%) VPN
5 11 (9.24%) HTTP
5 11 (9.24%) TCP/IP
6 10 (8.40%) FTP
6 10 (8.40%) IMAP
6 10 (8.40%) SMTP
6 10 (8.40%) SSH
6 10 (8.40%) SSL
7 6 (5.04%) Network Security
8 2 (1.68%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.84%) Internet
9 1 (0.84%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (47.06%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (18.49%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (13.45%) Amazon Aurora
4 14 (11.76%) MySQL
5 9 (7.56%) DynamoDB
5 9 (7.56%) Hadoop
5 9 (7.56%) SQL Server
6 8 (6.72%) Apache Cassandra
6 8 (6.72%) Relational Database
7 6 (5.04%) MongoDB
8 4 (3.36%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (3.36%) DB2
8 4 (3.36%) RDBMS
9 3 (2.52%) Big Data
9 3 (2.52%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.68%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.84%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 46 (38.66%) Jenkins
2 44 (36.97%) GitLab
3 35 (29.41%) Git
4 27 (22.69%) JIRA
5 10 (8.40%) Vagrant
6 4 (3.36%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.36%) Cucumber
6 4 (3.36%) JUnit
6 4 (3.36%) Terragrunt
7 3 (2.52%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.68%) Postman
8 2 (1.68%) Selenium
8 2 (1.68%) Serenity BDD
8 2 (1.68%) Snyk
8 2 (1.68%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.68%) Storybook
9 1 (0.84%) Maven
General
1 31 (26.05%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.65%) Finance
2 21 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 12 (10.08%) Presentation Skills
4 9 (7.56%) Banking
5 8 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.68%) Military
8 1 (0.84%) Advertising
8 1 (0.84%) Games
8 1 (0.84%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.84%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 39 (32.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (26.05%) AWS Engineer
3 26 (21.85%) Senior
4 22 (18.49%) AWS DevOps
4 22 (18.49%) Developer
5 21 (17.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 17 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (11.76%) Python Engineer
8 11 (9.24%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 11 (9.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 11 (9.24%) Senior DevOps
8 11 (9.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 10 (8.40%) Software Engineer
10 9 (7.56%) Architect
10 9 (7.56%) Java Developer
11 8 (6.72%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 8 (6.72%) Site Engineer
12 7 (5.88%) AWS Developer
12 7 (5.88%) Java Engineer
12 7 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (15.97%) Kafka
2 17 (14.29%) LDAP
3 12 (10.08%) REST
4 11 (9.24%) boto
5 10 (8.40%) pytest
6 9 (7.56%) React
6 9 (7.56%) Spring
6 9 (7.56%) Spring Boot
7 7 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (5.04%) FastAPI
8 6 (5.04%) Flake8
8 6 (5.04%) JSON
8 6 (5.04%) mypy
9 5 (4.20%) Next.js
10 4 (3.36%) AngularJS
10 4 (3.36%) Django
10 4 (3.36%) Flask
10 4 (3.36%) Node.js
10 4 (3.36%) RESTful
11 3 (2.52%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.97%) Cloud Native
2 13 (10.92%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (10.92%) Replication
3 7 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (5.04%) Virtual Team
5 5 (4.20%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (4.20%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.36%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (3.36%) Hedge funds
7 3 (2.52%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.84%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.84%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.84%) Media Streaming
8 1 (0.84%) NHS
8 1 (0.84%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.84%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.84%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 40 (33.61%) Linux
2 16 (13.45%) Windows
3 11 (9.24%) VMS
4 10 (8.40%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (8.40%) Ubuntu
5 4 (3.36%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.84%) AIX
6 1 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.84%) Solaris
6 1 (0.84%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (67.23%) CI/CD
2 65 (54.62%) DevOps
3 52 (43.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (36.97%) Containerisation
5 38 (31.93%) Microservices
6 28 (23.53%) Configuration Management
7 27 (22.69%) Agile
8 21 (17.65%) Observability
9 20 (16.81%) Platform Engineering
10 19 (15.97%) Infrastructure Automation
10 19 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (15.13%) Cloud Security
12 15 (12.61%) High Availability
12 15 (12.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 15 (12.61%) Software Engineering
13 14 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
14 13 (10.92%) Incident Response
15 12 (10.08%) Analytics
15 12 (10.08%) Code Quality
15 12 (10.08%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 81 (68.07%) Python
2 33 (27.73%) Bash
3 26 (21.85%) Java
4 23 (19.33%) SQL
5 19 (15.97%) PowerShell
6 12 (10.08%) Go
7 10 (8.40%) Groovy
8 8 (6.72%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.52%) C#
10 2 (1.68%) Perl
10 2 (1.68%) Ruby
10 2 (1.68%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.84%) Bicep
11 1 (0.84%) COBOL
11 1 (0.84%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.84%) PHP
11 1 (0.84%) PromQL
11 1 (0.84%) R
11 1 (0.84%) Rust
Qualifications
1 41 (34.45%) Security Cleared
2 40 (33.61%) SC Cleared
3 17 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 13 (10.92%) Degree
5 10 (8.40%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.52%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.84%) CEH
8 1 (0.84%) CISSP
8 1 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.88%) QA
2 3 (2.52%) GDPR
3 1 (0.84%) GxP
3 1 (0.84%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.84%) NCSC
3 1 (0.84%) NIST
System Software
1 73 (61.34%) Docker
2 10 (8.40%) DFS Replication
2 10 (8.40%) Dovecot
2 10 (8.40%) Postfix
2 10 (8.40%) Squid
3 5 (4.20%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.68%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.84%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 77 (64.71%) Terraform
2 41 (34.45%) Kubernetes
3 34 (28.57%) Ansible
4 26 (21.85%) Grafana
5 21 (17.65%) Prometheus
6 13 (10.92%) Puppet
7 10 (8.40%) Nessus
7 10 (8.40%) Proxmox
8 6 (5.04%) Progress Chef
9 5 (4.20%) Karpenter
10 4 (3.36%) Kibana
10 4 (3.36%) NetBackup
11 3 (2.52%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (1.68%) Argo
Vendors
1 11 (9.24%) ServiceNow
2 10 (8.40%) CheckPoint
2 10 (8.40%) F5
2 10 (8.40%) Jaspersoft
2 10 (8.40%) Palo Alto
3 6 (5.04%) Atlassian
3 6 (5.04%) PagerDuty
3 6 (5.04%) Splunk
4 5 (4.20%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.36%) Commvault
5 4 (3.36%) Oracle
5 4 (3.36%) SnapLogic
6 3 (2.52%) Cloudera
6 3 (2.52%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.52%) Sybase
7 2 (1.68%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.68%) Google
7 2 (1.68%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.84%) Databricks
8 1 (0.84%) StreamSets