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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 229 216
Rank change year-on-year -60 -13 +85
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 152 142 185
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.76% 1.05% 1.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.83% 2.44% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 96 137
10th Percentile £400 £400 £405
25th Percentile £450 £494 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £578 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% -7.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £875
90th Percentile £759 £775 £888
England median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +4.35%
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 8,289 5,811 6,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.21% 43.15% 41.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,662 3,979 4,745
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £675
90th Percentile £743 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 91 52
10th Percentile £19.18 £23.00 £20.20
25th Percentile £23.25 £25.08 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.62 £30.00 £30.30
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -0.97% -31.15%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.13 £44.53
90th Percentile £76.06 £72.00 £65.65
England median hourly rate £34.13 £26.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.75% -12.33% -9.09%

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 31 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 31 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 -12 20 £463 -25.64% 1
Central London -18 11 £700 +9.80% 13
East London - 1 £500 -
West London - 1 - - 5
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 24 (15.79%) Confluence
2 8 (5.26%) nginx
3 5 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.29%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.97%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.66%) Apache
5 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.66%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.66%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 150 (98.68%) AWS
2 115 (75.66%) Amazon S3
3 92 (60.53%) Serverless
4 91 (59.87%) AWS Lambda
5 72 (47.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 65 (42.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 63 (41.45%) Amazon EKS
8 45 (29.61%) GitHub
9 38 (25.00%) Azure
10 31 (20.39%) GitHub Actions
11 29 (19.08%) Amazon ECS
12 22 (14.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 19 (12.50%) AWS KMS
14 18 (11.84%) Datadog
15 13 (8.55%) Route 53
16 9 (5.92%) Amazon SQS
16 9 (5.92%) AWS CloudTrail
16 9 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
16 9 (5.92%) Entra ID
17 8 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (13.82%) Firewall
2 11 (7.24%) DNS
2 11 (7.24%) TCP/IP
3 9 (5.92%) Network Security
4 6 (3.95%) OpenVPN
4 6 (3.95%) SSH
5 4 (2.63%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (2.63%) WAN
6 3 (1.97%) HTTP
6 3 (1.97%) VPN
7 2 (1.32%) FTP
7 2 (1.32%) HTTPS
7 2 (1.32%) IMAP
7 2 (1.32%) Internet
7 2 (1.32%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (1.32%) SMTP
7 2 (1.32%) SSL
8 1 (0.66%) Calico
8 1 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.66%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (11.84%) Amazon Aurora
3 17 (11.18%) Amazon Athena
4 16 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (9.21%) DynamoDB
6 11 (7.24%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (5.92%) SQL Server
8 8 (5.26%) Power BI
9 7 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.29%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (2.63%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.97%) Tableau
13 2 (1.32%) MongoDB
13 2 (1.32%) MySQL
14 1 (0.66%) Delta Lake
14 1 (0.66%) DocumentDB
14 1 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
14 1 (0.66%) Redis
Development Applications
1 62 (40.79%) Git
2 51 (33.55%) Jenkins
3 50 (32.89%) GitLab
4 26 (17.11%) JIRA
5 10 (6.58%) Artifactory
6 8 (5.26%) Cucumber
7 6 (3.95%) Bitbucket
8 5 (3.29%) JUnit
8 5 (3.29%) Mockito
8 5 (3.29%) Postman
9 4 (2.63%) Maven
10 3 (1.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.97%) Mocha
10 3 (1.97%) MSTest
10 3 (1.97%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.97%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (1.97%) tSQLt
11 2 (1.32%) Bitbucket Server
11 2 (1.32%) DbUnit
General
1 38 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 34 (22.37%) Finance
3 33 (21.71%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.61%) Banking
6 6 (3.95%) Back Office
6 6 (3.95%) Military
7 5 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.63%) Law
8 4 (2.63%) Police
9 3 (1.97%) Games
9 3 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.32%) Front Office
10 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (24.34%) AWS Engineer
2 36 (23.68%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (17.76%) Senior
4 21 (13.82%) Developer
5 17 (11.18%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (10.53%) AWS DevOps
7 14 (9.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 13 (8.55%) Platform Engineer
9 12 (7.89%) Architect
9 12 (7.89%) Lead
9 12 (7.89%) Python Developer
9 12 (7.89%) Software Engineer
10 11 (7.24%) AWS Developer
11 9 (5.92%) AWS Architect
11 9 (5.92%) Data Engineer
12 8 (5.26%) Lead DevOps
13 7 (4.61%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 7 (4.61%) Senior Data Engineer
13 7 (4.61%) SQL Developer
14 6 (3.95%) Informatica Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (63.82%) Terraform
2 22 (14.47%) RESTful
3 16 (10.53%) REST
4 13 (8.55%) FastAPI
4 13 (8.55%) Kafka
4 13 (8.55%) Spring Boot
5 12 (7.89%) AngularJS
6 11 (7.24%) Flask
6 11 (7.24%) Spring
7 8 (5.26%) Pandas
7 8 (5.26%) React
8 7 (4.61%) Polars
8 7 (4.61%) PySpark
8 7 (4.61%) YAML
9 6 (3.95%) .NET
9 6 (3.95%) AWS CDK
9 6 (3.95%) boto
10 5 (3.29%) ActiveMQ
10 5 (3.29%) JSON
10 5 (3.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 39 (25.66%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.89%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.92%) Replication
4 8 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (4.61%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.61%) Hedge funds
6 6 (3.95%) Fixed Income
7 5 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (3.29%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.97%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.97%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.97%) NHS
10 2 (1.32%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.32%) Equities
10 2 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.32%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (29.61%) Linux
2 13 (8.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (6.58%) Amazon Linux
4 9 (5.92%) Windows
5 8 (5.26%) Unix
6 5 (3.29%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.63%) VMS
8 3 (1.97%) Windows Server
8 3 (1.97%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (76.32%) CI/CD
2 90 (59.21%) DevOps
3 83 (54.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (40.13%) Agile
5 43 (28.29%) Containerisation
6 39 (25.66%) Observability
7 33 (21.71%) Microservices
8 31 (20.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (17.11%) Test Automation
10 25 (16.45%) Software Engineering
11 23 (15.13%) Platform Engineering
12 22 (14.47%) Cloud Security
12 22 (14.47%) Stakeholder Management
13 21 (13.82%) Performance Tuning
14 19 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
15 18 (11.84%) AI
15 18 (11.84%) Event-Driven
15 18 (11.84%) Mentoring
16 17 (11.18%) Technical Leadership
17 16 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 91 (59.87%) Python
2 41 (26.97%) Java
3 34 (22.37%) SQL
4 32 (21.05%) Bash
5 22 (14.47%) PowerShell
6 19 (12.50%) C#
7 11 (7.24%) Shell Script
8 10 (6.58%) Groovy
9 8 (5.26%) JavaScript
10 7 (4.61%) Perl
11 6 (3.95%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.97%) Bicep
12 3 (1.97%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.66%) C
13 1 (0.66%) C++
13 1 (0.66%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.66%) Haskell
13 1 (0.66%) Korn
13 1 (0.66%) R
13 1 (0.66%) Scala
Qualifications
1 72 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 65 (42.76%) SC Cleared
3 42 (27.63%) AWS Certification
4 14 (9.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (7.24%) Azure Certification
6 10 (6.58%) Degree
7 6 (3.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (3.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (3.29%) CISM
8 5 (3.29%) CISSP
8 5 (3.29%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.32%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.32%) PMP
10 1 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.66%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.66%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.24%) QA
2 8 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.29%) NIST
4 3 (1.97%) PMO
5 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.66%) SLA
5 1 (0.66%) Solvency II
System Software
1 68 (44.74%) Docker
2 11 (7.24%) Active Directory
3 9 (5.92%) Squid
4 6 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.63%) Postfix
6 2 (1.32%) DFS Replication
6 2 (1.32%) Dovecot
6 2 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.66%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 52 (34.21%) Kubernetes
2 36 (23.68%) Grafana
3 30 (19.74%) Ansible
4 29 (19.08%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.26%) Puppet
6 6 (3.95%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (3.29%) Packer
8 4 (2.63%) Salt
8 4 (2.63%) Suricata
9 3 (1.97%) Argo
9 3 (1.97%) SELinux
10 2 (1.32%) Istio
10 2 (1.32%) Nessus
10 2 (1.32%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.66%) Cilium
11 1 (0.66%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.66%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.66%) systemd
11 1 (0.66%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (10.53%) ServiceNow
2 14 (9.21%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.58%) Red Hat
4 6 (3.95%) Informatica
5 5 (3.29%) Splunk
6 4 (2.63%) Jaspersoft
6 4 (2.63%) Okta
7 3 (1.97%) Brio
7 3 (1.97%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.32%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.32%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.32%) Sonatype
8 2 (1.32%) Sybase
9 1 (0.66%) BigPanda
9 1 (0.66%) Cisco
9 1 (0.66%) Databricks
9 1 (0.66%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.66%) IBM
9 1 (0.66%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.66%) Oracle