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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 224 261
Rank change year-on-year -19 +37 +8
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 166 120 143
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.91% 0.98% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.16% 2.30% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 95 105
10th Percentile £400 £400 £360
25th Percentile £475 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +14.29% -16.00%
75th Percentile £626 £738 £638
90th Percentile £699 £838 £803
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -14.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £67.50 - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
90th Percentile £88.50 - -
England median hourly rate £92.50 - -

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 7,687 5,211 6,760
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.12% 42.66% 38.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,317 3,580 4,988
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 53 68
10th Percentile £20.87 £22.57 £17.32
25th Percentile £26.88 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%
75th Percentile £53.94 £43.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £73.23 £67.50 £55.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -37.15%

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 May 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 24 May 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 24 May 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 +7 34 £509 -35.19% 1
Central London -17 11 £560 -17.11% 14
West London - 5 £300 - 2
East London - 1 £500 - 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 19 (11.45%) Confluence
2 10 (6.02%) nginx
3 7 (4.22%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.01%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.81%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.60%) FileNet
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.60%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (5.42%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 165 (99.40%) AWS
2 127 (76.51%) Amazon S3
3 113 (68.07%) Serverless
4 110 (66.27%) AWS Lambda
5 71 (42.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 67 (40.36%) Amazon EKS
7 64 (38.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 47 (28.31%) GitHub
9 31 (18.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 31 (18.67%) Azure
9 31 (18.67%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (16.87%) Amazon ECS
11 26 (15.66%) Route 53
12 17 (10.24%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (7.83%) AWS KMS
14 10 (6.02%) AWS CodePipeline
14 10 (6.02%) GCP
15 9 (5.42%) Power Platform
16 8 (4.82%) AWS Fargate
17 7 (4.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 24 (14.46%) DNS
2 21 (12.65%) Firewall
3 16 (9.64%) TCP/IP
4 11 (6.63%) VPN
5 10 (6.02%) OpenVPN
6 5 (3.01%) Network Security
7 3 (1.81%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (1.20%) Internet
9 1 (0.60%) DHCP
9 1 (0.60%) HTTP
9 1 (0.60%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (36.75%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (10.24%) Amazon Aurora
3 16 (9.64%) SQL Server
4 12 (7.23%) DynamoDB
5 11 (6.63%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (5.42%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (5.42%) Power BI
7 8 (4.82%) Amazon Athena
7 8 (4.82%) Tableau
8 7 (4.22%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (3.61%) MySQL
10 5 (3.01%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (2.41%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (2.41%) DB2
11 4 (2.41%) Hadoop
11 4 (2.41%) NoSQL
12 3 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (1.20%) MongoDB
13 2 (1.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 53 (31.93%) Jenkins
2 52 (31.33%) Git
3 50 (30.12%) GitLab
4 24 (14.46%) JIRA
5 13 (7.83%) Bitbucket
5 13 (7.83%) JUnit
6 12 (7.23%) Cucumber
6 12 (7.23%) SonarQube
7 10 (6.02%) Artifactory
8 8 (4.82%) Mockito
9 5 (3.01%) Maven
9 5 (3.01%) Mocha
9 5 (3.01%) MSTest
9 5 (3.01%) Postman
9 5 (3.01%) tSQLt
10 4 (2.41%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (2.41%) DbUnit
10 4 (2.41%) jMock
10 4 (2.41%) Terragrunt
11 3 (1.81%) TeamCity
General
1 52 (31.33%) Social Skills
2 41 (24.70%) Public Sector
3 36 (21.69%) Finance
4 17 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.24%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (5.42%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (3.61%) Banking
7 3 (1.81%) Front Office
7 3 (1.81%) Military
7 3 (1.81%) Police
8 2 (1.20%) Back Office
8 2 (1.20%) Games
8 2 (1.20%) Law
8 2 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (27.11%) Developer
2 33 (19.88%) AWS Engineer
3 25 (15.06%) Architect
3 25 (15.06%) Senior
4 20 (12.05%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (10.84%) AWS Developer
6 17 (10.24%) Software Engineer
7 15 (9.04%) Python Developer
8 14 (8.43%) AWS Architect
8 14 (8.43%) AWS DevOps
8 14 (8.43%) Java Developer
9 12 (7.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 12 (7.23%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (6.02%) Analyst
11 9 (5.42%) AWS Software Engineer
12 8 (4.82%) Cloud Architect
12 8 (4.82%) Delivery Manager
12 8 (4.82%) Python Engineer
12 8 (4.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 8 (4.82%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (15.66%) RESTful
2 20 (12.05%) Kafka
3 19 (11.45%) REST
3 19 (11.45%) Spring Boot
4 18 (10.84%) AngularJS
5 17 (10.24%) Spring
6 15 (9.04%) FastAPI
7 13 (7.83%) Flask
8 11 (6.63%) .NET
8 11 (6.63%) React
9 9 (5.42%) AWS CDK
9 9 (5.42%) LDAP
9 9 (5.42%) Next.js
9 9 (5.42%) OpenID
10 8 (4.82%) SOAP
11 7 (4.22%) CSS
11 7 (4.22%) Gherkin
11 7 (4.22%) Pandas
11 7 (4.22%) Polars
12 6 (3.61%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 29 (17.47%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.63%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.02%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.82%) Hedge funds
4 8 (4.82%) Replication
5 6 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.81%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.81%) NHS
7 3 (1.81%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.81%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.20%) Equities
8 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.60%) Over-the-Top Content
9 1 (0.60%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.60%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 32 (19.28%) Linux
2 8 (4.82%) Unix
3 6 (3.61%) Windows
4 5 (3.01%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (65.66%) CI/CD
2 70 (42.17%) DevOps
3 59 (35.54%) Agile
4 52 (31.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 51 (30.72%) Containerisation
6 41 (24.70%) Microservices
7 33 (19.88%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (16.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (15.66%) Software Engineering
10 22 (13.25%) Decision-Making
11 20 (12.05%) Observability
12 17 (10.24%) Cloud Security
12 17 (10.24%) Performance Tuning
12 17 (10.24%) Platform Engineering
13 16 (9.64%) Migration
13 16 (9.64%) Scrum
14 15 (9.04%) Data Pipeline
14 15 (9.04%) Roadmaps
14 15 (9.04%) Stakeholder Management
15 14 (8.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 78 (46.99%) Python
2 41 (24.70%) Java
2 41 (24.70%) SQL
3 26 (15.66%) C#
4 25 (15.06%) Bash
5 21 (12.65%) PowerShell
6 13 (7.83%) JavaScript
7 11 (6.63%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.01%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.41%) Groovy
9 4 (2.41%) Perl
9 4 (2.41%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.81%) Bicep
10 3 (1.81%) Go
11 1 (0.60%) Rust
11 1 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 80 (48.19%) Security Cleared
2 74 (44.58%) SC Cleared
3 16 (9.64%) AWS Certification
4 7 (4.22%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (3.61%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.61%) Degree
6 4 (2.41%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.20%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.20%) PMP
9 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.60%) CEH
9 1 (0.60%) CISSP
9 1 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.60%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.22%) PMO
2 5 (3.01%) QA
3 4 (2.41%) SLA
4 3 (1.81%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) NIST
5 1 (0.60%) Solvency II
System Software
1 83 (50.00%) Docker
2 14 (8.43%) Squid
3 5 (3.01%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.81%) Postfix
5 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 86 (51.81%) Terraform
2 64 (38.55%) Kubernetes
3 40 (24.10%) Grafana
4 34 (20.48%) Prometheus
5 21 (12.65%) Ansible
6 10 (6.02%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (5.42%) FortiGate
8 7 (4.22%) Consul
9 6 (3.61%) Puppet
10 4 (2.41%) Karpenter
10 4 (2.41%) Kibana
10 4 (2.41%) Suricata
11 3 (1.81%) Salt
12 1 (0.60%) Argo
12 1 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.60%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.60%) Packer
12 1 (0.60%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 12 (7.23%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.63%) Atlassian
3 10 (6.02%) ServiceNow
4 9 (5.42%) Dynatrace
4 9 (5.42%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.61%) Splunk
5 6 (3.61%) Sybase
6 5 (3.01%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.41%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (1.81%) AVEVA
8 3 (1.81%) Brio
8 3 (1.81%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.81%) Oracle
9 2 (1.20%) Qualys
10 1 (0.60%) Commvault
10 1 (0.60%) Google
10 1 (0.60%) IBM
10 1 (0.60%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.60%) Rapid7
10 1 (0.60%) SnapLogic