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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 245 220
Rank change year-on-year -49 -25 +84
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 160 129 178
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.79% 0.97% 1.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.95% 2.22% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 78 127
10th Percentile £400 £400 £395
25th Percentile £450 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £610 £638
Median % change year-on-year -13.98% -4.31% +6.25%
75th Percentile £647 £695 £875
90th Percentile £758 £775 £888
England median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
10th Percentile - £52.25 -
25th Percentile £29.00 £68.25 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £76.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -60.91% - -
75th Percentile £31.00 £85.63 -
90th Percentile - £87.50 -
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 8,211 5,807 6,642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.79% 43.45% 40.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,655 3,956 4,585
10th Percentile £358 £343 £350
25th Percentile £448 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -3.41% -3.51%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £532
% change year-on-year +4.90% -5.92% -3.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 92 42
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.55 £22.18
25th Percentile £22.94 £25.15 £23.89
Median hourly rate £28.55 £29.25 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% -5.02% -23.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £47.72
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.78
England median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £34.47
% change year-on-year +25.25% -27.03% +4.44%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -10 19 £550 -11.58% 2
Central London -19 13 £713 +5.56% 24
East London - 1 £500 -
West London - 1 - - 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 24 (15.00%) Confluence
2 8 (5.00%) nginx
3 6 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.13%) Apache
5 4 (2.50%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.50%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.88%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.63%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.63%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.63%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.63%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.63%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 159 (99.38%) AWS
2 120 (75.00%) Amazon S3
3 92 (57.50%) Serverless
4 91 (56.88%) AWS Lambda
5 78 (48.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 71 (44.38%) Amazon EKS
7 62 (38.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 51 (31.88%) GitHub
9 40 (25.00%) Azure
10 39 (24.38%) GitHub Actions
11 31 (19.38%) Amazon ECS
12 26 (16.25%) AWS CloudFormation
13 19 (11.88%) AWS KMS
13 19 (11.88%) Datadog
14 14 (8.75%) Amazon EMR
15 12 (7.50%) AWS Step Functions
15 12 (7.50%) Route 53
16 10 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
16 10 (6.25%) GCP
17 9 (5.63%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 19 (11.88%) Firewall
2 9 (5.63%) Network Security
3 8 (5.00%) DNS
3 8 (5.00%) TCP/IP
4 6 (3.75%) SSH
5 5 (3.13%) OpenVPN
6 4 (2.50%) HTTP
6 4 (2.50%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (2.50%) WAN
7 3 (1.88%) SSL
8 2 (1.25%) FTP
8 2 (1.25%) HTTPS
8 2 (1.25%) IMAP
8 2 (1.25%) Internet
8 2 (1.25%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (1.25%) SMTP
8 2 (1.25%) VPN
9 1 (0.63%) Calico
9 1 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.63%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (36.25%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (11.88%) Amazon Athena
4 16 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 15 (9.38%) DynamoDB
6 11 (6.88%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (5.00%) SQL Server
8 7 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (3.75%) Amazon QuickSight
10 5 (3.13%) MongoDB
10 5 (3.13%) Power BI
11 4 (2.50%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.88%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.88%) Electronic Patient Records
12 3 (1.88%) NoSQL
12 3 (1.88%) Pinecone
12 3 (1.88%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.88%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 61 (38.13%) Git
2 59 (36.88%) GitLab
3 52 (32.50%) Jenkins
4 25 (15.63%) JIRA
5 10 (6.25%) Cucumber
6 9 (5.63%) Artifactory
6 9 (5.63%) Bitbucket
7 7 (4.38%) JUnit
7 7 (4.38%) Mockito
8 6 (3.75%) Maven
9 5 (3.13%) Postman
10 3 (1.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.88%) Gradle
10 3 (1.88%) Mocha
10 3 (1.88%) MSTest
10 3 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.88%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (1.88%) tSQLt
11 2 (1.25%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.25%) Vagrant
General
1 44 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 31 (19.38%) Public Sector
3 30 (18.75%) Finance
4 10 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.63%) Back Office
6 7 (4.38%) Military
7 6 (3.75%) Banking
8 5 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.13%) Police
9 4 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.50%) Law
10 3 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.88%) Front Office
10 3 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.25%) Games
11 2 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.25%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.63%) Publishing
12 1 (0.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (26.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (24.38%) AWS Engineer
3 32 (20.00%) Senior
4 20 (12.50%) Developer
5 17 (10.63%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (9.38%) AWS DevOps
6 15 (9.38%) Data Engineer
6 15 (9.38%) Lead
7 14 (8.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 12 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (7.50%) Senior Data Engineer
8 12 (7.50%) Software Engineer
9 10 (6.25%) Architect
10 9 (5.63%) Python Developer
11 8 (5.00%) AWS Developer
11 8 (5.00%) Java Developer
11 8 (5.00%) Lead DevOps
11 8 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
11 8 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 7 (4.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (66.88%) Terraform
2 22 (13.75%) RESTful
3 21 (13.13%) REST
4 17 (10.63%) Spring Boot
5 16 (10.00%) Kafka
6 15 (9.38%) Spring
7 13 (8.13%) PySpark
8 11 (6.88%) AngularJS
8 11 (6.88%) FastAPI
9 10 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (5.63%) Flask
11 8 (5.00%) ActiveMQ
11 8 (5.00%) React
12 7 (4.38%) .NET
12 7 (4.38%) GraphQL
12 7 (4.38%) YAML
13 6 (3.75%) boto
13 6 (3.75%) Pandas
14 5 (3.13%) JPA
14 5 (3.13%) Polars
Miscellaneous
1 46 (28.75%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.13%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.63%) Replication
4 7 (4.38%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (3.75%) Fixed Income
6 5 (3.13%) AI Agents
6 5 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.13%) Hedge funds
6 5 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.13%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.88%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.88%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.88%) NHS
8 3 (1.88%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.88%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.25%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 46 (28.75%) Linux
2 14 (8.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (6.25%) Amazon Linux
3 10 (6.25%) Windows
4 8 (5.00%) Unix
5 5 (3.13%) Ubuntu
5 5 (3.13%) VMS
6 4 (2.50%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (79.38%) CI/CD
2 103 (64.38%) DevOps
3 99 (61.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (42.50%) Agile
5 51 (31.88%) Observability
6 50 (31.25%) Containerisation
7 38 (23.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (21.88%) Microservices
9 29 (18.13%) Software Engineering
10 28 (17.50%) Root Cause Analysis
10 28 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
10 28 (17.50%) Technical Leadership
11 27 (16.88%) Test Automation
12 26 (16.25%) Performance Tuning
13 25 (15.63%) Deployment Automation
13 25 (15.63%) Platform Engineering
14 23 (14.38%) Cloud Security
14 23 (14.38%) Event-Driven
15 22 (13.75%) AI
15 22 (13.75%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 96 (60.00%) Python
2 46 (28.75%) Java
3 35 (21.88%) SQL
4 33 (20.63%) Bash
5 20 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 16 (10.00%) C#
7 11 (6.88%) Groovy
7 11 (6.88%) Shell Script
8 9 (5.63%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.38%) Perl
10 5 (3.13%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.50%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.50%) Scala
12 3 (1.88%) Bicep
12 3 (1.88%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.63%) C
13 1 (0.63%) C++
13 1 (0.63%) Haskell
13 1 (0.63%) Korn
13 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (46.88%) Security Cleared
2 68 (42.50%) SC Cleared
3 49 (30.63%) AWS Certification
4 18 (11.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (9.38%) Degree
6 11 (6.88%) Azure Certification
7 8 (5.00%) CISM
7 8 (5.00%) CISSP
8 6 (3.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (3.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (3.13%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (1.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.25%) ISEB
11 2 (1.25%) ISTQB
11 2 (1.25%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.00%) QA
2 13 (8.13%) Data Quality
3 8 (5.00%) NIST
4 3 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.63%) GDPR
5 1 (0.63%) NCSC
5 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.63%) SLA
5 1 (0.63%) Solvency II
System Software
1 69 (43.13%) Docker
2 10 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.00%) Squid
4 7 (4.38%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.50%) Postfix
5 4 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.25%) DFS Replication
6 2 (1.25%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 52 (32.50%) Kubernetes
2 39 (24.38%) Grafana
3 31 (19.38%) Ansible
3 31 (19.38%) Prometheus
4 8 (5.00%) Puppet
5 5 (3.13%) Packer
6 4 (2.50%) Salt
6 4 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (2.50%) Suricata
7 3 (1.88%) Argo
7 3 (1.88%) SELinux
8 2 (1.25%) Istio
8 2 (1.25%) Nessus
8 2 (1.25%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.63%) Cilium
9 1 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.63%) Kibana
9 1 (0.63%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.63%) systemd
9 1 (0.63%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (10.63%) ServiceNow
2 16 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.25%) Red Hat
4 7 (4.38%) Splunk
5 6 (3.75%) Informatica
6 5 (3.13%) Okta
6 5 (3.13%) Oracle
7 4 (2.50%) Google
7 4 (2.50%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (1.88%) Brio
8 3 (1.88%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.88%) PagerDuty
9 2 (1.25%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.25%) BigPanda
9 2 (1.25%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.25%) Sonatype
9 2 (1.25%) Sybase
10 1 (0.63%) Cisco
10 1 (0.63%) IBM
10 1 (0.63%) VMware