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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 198 241
Rank change year-on-year -47 +43 -33
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 154 159 155
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.92% 1.26% 0.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.11% 2.96% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 132 115
10th Percentile £359 £408 £361
25th Percentile £456 £506 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £663 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.75% +26.19% -16.00%
75th Percentile £615 £788 £675
90th Percentile £675 £875 £800
England median daily rate £530 £600 £528
% change year-on-year -11.67% +13.74% -12.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £68.50 - -
25th Percentile £73.75 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile £89.50 - -
England median hourly rate £90.00 - -

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 7,307 5,363 6,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.82% 42.40% 37.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,011 3,749 4,962
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £440 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 50 78
10th Percentile £18.08 £22.27 £17.55
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.66 £21.44
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +3.90% -20.06%
75th Percentile £51.10 £54.88 £54.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £68.13 £64.73
England median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -16.00%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 26 March 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 +8 30 £519 -36.76%
Central London -19 11 £575 -4.56% 11
West London - 4 £300 -
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 13 (8.44%) Confluence
2 10 (6.49%) nginx
3 8 (5.19%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.25%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.65%) FileNet
5 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.65%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (5.84%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 153 (99.35%) AWS
2 120 (77.92%) Amazon S3
3 101 (65.58%) Serverless
4 98 (63.64%) AWS Lambda
5 70 (45.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 66 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
7 56 (36.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 41 (26.62%) AWS CloudFormation
9 37 (24.03%) Amazon ECS
10 35 (22.73%) GitHub
11 30 (19.48%) Route 53
12 27 (17.53%) GitHub Actions
13 24 (15.58%) Azure
14 16 (10.39%) Amazon SQS
14 16 (10.39%) GCP
15 11 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
15 11 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
16 10 (6.49%) Datadog
17 9 (5.84%) Amazon ELB
17 9 (5.84%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 24 (15.58%) DNS
2 14 (9.09%) Firewall
2 14 (9.09%) VPN
3 13 (8.44%) TCP/IP
4 10 (6.49%) OpenVPN
5 2 (1.30%) Kerberos
5 2 (1.30%) Network Security
6 1 (0.65%) DHCP
6 1 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.65%) SSL
6 1 (0.65%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (44.16%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (11.04%) SQL Server
3 13 (8.44%) MySQL
3 13 (8.44%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (7.79%) DynamoDB
5 9 (5.84%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (5.84%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (5.84%) Hadoop
5 9 (5.84%) Power BI
6 8 (5.19%) Apache Cassandra
6 8 (5.19%) DB2
6 8 (5.19%) Tableau
7 7 (4.55%) Relational Database
8 6 (3.90%) MongoDB
9 5 (3.25%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (3.25%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (3.25%) NoSQL
10 4 (2.60%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.95%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 54 (35.06%) GitLab
2 53 (34.42%) Jenkins
3 29 (18.83%) Git
4 19 (12.34%) JIRA
5 14 (9.09%) Bitbucket
6 13 (8.44%) JUnit
7 11 (7.14%) Cucumber
8 10 (6.49%) SonarQube
9 5 (3.25%) Mockito
9 5 (3.25%) Postman
10 4 (2.60%) CircleCI
10 4 (2.60%) Maven
10 4 (2.60%) Terragrunt
11 3 (1.95%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.95%) Mocha
11 3 (1.95%) MSTest
11 3 (1.95%) Selenium
11 3 (1.95%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.95%) tSQLt
12 2 (1.30%) jMock
General
1 46 (29.87%) Social Skills
2 36 (23.38%) Finance
3 34 (22.08%) Public Sector
4 18 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (11.04%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (7.14%) Banking
7 7 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.95%) Front Office
9 2 (1.30%) Games
9 2 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (23.38%) Developer
2 28 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 26 (16.88%) Senior
4 24 (15.58%) DevOps Engineer
5 23 (14.94%) Architect
6 17 (11.04%) AWS DevOps
7 15 (9.74%) AWS Developer
7 15 (9.74%) Java Developer
8 14 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 12 (7.79%) AWS Architect
9 12 (7.79%) Site Engineer
10 11 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 11 (7.14%) Software Engineer
11 10 (6.49%) Analyst
11 10 (6.49%) Python Engineer
11 10 (6.49%) Senior Developer
12 8 (5.19%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 8 (5.19%) Senior Java Developer
13 7 (4.55%) Python Developer
13 7 (4.55%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (18.18%) Kafka
2 19 (12.34%) Spring Boot
3 18 (11.69%) Spring
4 14 (9.09%) RESTful
5 10 (6.49%) AngularJS
5 10 (6.49%) REST
6 9 (5.84%) FastAPI
6 9 (5.84%) LDAP
6 9 (5.84%) OpenID
7 8 (5.19%) .NET
7 8 (5.19%) AWS CDK
7 8 (5.19%) React
8 7 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (4.55%) Flask
9 6 (3.90%) boto
9 6 (3.90%) CSS
9 6 (3.90%) Gherkin
9 6 (3.90%) JSON
9 6 (3.90%) Next.js
9 6 (3.90%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.79%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.55%) Replication
4 6 (3.90%) Hedge funds
5 5 (3.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.25%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.25%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.60%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.65%) Equities
9 1 (0.65%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.65%) Media Streaming
9 1 (0.65%) Over-the-Top Content
9 1 (0.65%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 33 (21.43%) Linux
2 6 (3.90%) Windows
3 3 (1.95%) Unix
4 2 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.65%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.65%) VMS
5 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (58.44%) CI/CD
2 63 (40.91%) DevOps
3 55 (35.71%) Containerisation
4 54 (35.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 49 (31.82%) Agile
6 42 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (25.32%) Microservices
8 23 (14.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (14.94%) Observability
9 19 (12.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 18 (11.69%) Decision-Making
11 17 (11.04%) Migration
11 17 (11.04%) Software Engineering
12 14 (9.09%) Cost Management
12 14 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
13 13 (8.44%) Roadmaps
14 12 (7.79%) Fintech
15 11 (7.14%) Clean Code
15 11 (7.14%) Configuration Management
15 11 (7.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 72 (46.75%) Python
2 37 (24.03%) Java
3 34 (22.08%) SQL
4 29 (18.83%) Bash
5 17 (11.04%) PowerShell
6 16 (10.39%) C#
7 10 (6.49%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.90%) Go
8 6 (3.90%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.95%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.95%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.30%) Perl
10 2 (1.30%) Ruby
11 1 (0.65%) Bicep
11 1 (0.65%) PHP
11 1 (0.65%) Rust
11 1 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 63 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 59 (38.31%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.79%) AWS Certification
4 8 (5.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (3.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 5 (3.25%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.95%) Degree
6 3 (1.95%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.30%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.65%) CEH
8 1 (0.65%) CISSP
8 1 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.65%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.65%) PMP
8 1 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.55%) PMO
2 4 (2.60%) SLA
3 3 (1.95%) QA
4 2 (1.30%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.65%) GDPR
5 1 (0.65%) GxP
5 1 (0.65%) NIST
System Software
1 83 (53.90%) Docker
2 9 (5.84%) Squid
3 2 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.65%) HDFS
4 1 (0.65%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 87 (56.49%) Terraform
2 61 (39.61%) Kubernetes
3 31 (20.13%) Grafana
4 30 (19.48%) Prometheus
5 27 (17.53%) Ansible
6 10 (6.49%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (5.84%) FortiGate
8 8 (5.19%) Puppet
9 7 (4.55%) Consul
10 5 (3.25%) Karpenter
11 4 (2.60%) Kibana
12 3 (1.95%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (1.30%) Argo
14 1 (0.65%) Failover Clustering
14 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.65%) NetBackup
14 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.65%) Salt
14 1 (0.65%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 12 (7.79%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.49%) Atlassian
3 9 (5.84%) Dynatrace
3 9 (5.84%) Red Hat
3 9 (5.84%) Splunk
4 8 (5.19%) Sybase
5 6 (3.90%) PagerDuty
5 6 (3.90%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.25%) OpenAI
6 5 (3.25%) Oracle
7 3 (1.95%) AVEVA
7 3 (1.95%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.30%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.30%) Google
8 2 (1.30%) IBM
8 2 (1.30%) Jaspersoft
9 1 (0.65%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.65%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.65%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.65%) StreamSets