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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 184 275
Rank change year-on-year -72 +91 -62
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 129 220 143
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.91% 1.38% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.05% 3.39% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 160 110
10th Percentile £368 £424 £390
25th Percentile £474 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -21.48% +17.39% -8.00%
75th Percentile £657 £875 £697
90th Percentile £715 £888 £800
England median daily rate £525 £650 £538
% change year-on-year -19.23% +20.93% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £55.45 - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Cloud 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 6,300 6,491 7,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.32% 40.78% 38.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,259 4,418 5,538
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 39 68
10th Percentile £18.25 £23.07 £18.65
25th Percentile £22.88 £24.15 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.74 £35.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% -7.28% +23.77%
75th Percentile £46.19 £59.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.88 £68.05 £74.13
England median hourly rate £25.47 £33.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year -22.82% +24.53% +17.78%

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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 2025. 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 +4 18 £530 -1.67% 1
Central London -15 9 £600 +9.09% 10
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 (18.60%) Confluence
2 10 (7.75%) nginx
3 6 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.10%) SAS
5 1 (0.78%) CICS
5 1 (0.78%) FileNet
Applications
1 10 (7.75%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 129 (100.00%) AWS
2 99 (76.74%) Amazon S3
3 58 (44.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 58 (44.96%) Serverless
4 56 (43.41%) AWS Lambda
5 48 (37.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 44 (34.11%) Amazon ECS
7 38 (29.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 32 (24.81%) Amazon EKS
9 24 (18.60%) GitHub
10 21 (16.28%) Amazon ELB
11 20 (15.50%) Azure
12 19 (14.73%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (13.95%) Route 53
14 17 (13.18%) Amazon SQS
15 16 (12.40%) Amazon Kinesis
16 14 (10.85%) Datadog
17 12 (9.30%) AWS Fargate
18 10 (7.75%) AWS KMS
18 10 (7.75%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (19.38%) DNS
2 24 (18.60%) Firewall
3 16 (12.40%) VPN
4 15 (11.63%) OpenLDAP
5 12 (9.30%) SSL
6 11 (8.53%) HTTP
6 11 (8.53%) TCP/IP
7 10 (7.75%) FTP
7 10 (7.75%) IMAP
7 10 (7.75%) SMTP
7 10 (7.75%) SSH
8 6 (4.65%) Network Security
9 2 (1.55%) DHCP
9 2 (1.55%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.78%) Internet
10 1 (0.78%) NAS
10 1 (0.78%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (48.06%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (20.93%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (13.18%) DynamoDB
4 16 (12.40%) MySQL
5 15 (11.63%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (7.75%) Hadoop
7 9 (6.98%) Relational Database
7 9 (6.98%) SQL Server
8 8 (6.20%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (3.88%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (3.88%) DB2
9 5 (3.88%) MongoDB
9 5 (3.88%) RDBMS
10 4 (3.10%) Data Lake
11 3 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (1.55%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (1.55%) Data Mining
12 2 (1.55%) NoSQL
12 2 (1.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (36.43%) Jenkins
2 37 (28.68%) Git
3 35 (27.13%) GitLab
4 28 (21.71%) JIRA
5 10 (7.75%) Vagrant
6 9 (6.98%) JUnit
7 6 (4.65%) Cucumber
7 6 (4.65%) Maven
8 5 (3.88%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.33%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.55%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.55%) Postman
10 2 (1.55%) Selenium
10 2 (1.55%) Serenity BDD
10 2 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.78%) Ant
11 1 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 32 (24.81%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.05%) Finance
3 20 (15.50%) Public Sector
4 11 (8.53%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (7.75%) Banking
6 7 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.33%) Military
9 1 (0.78%) Advertising
9 1 (0.78%) Games
9 1 (0.78%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.78%) Marketing
9 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (30.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (26.36%) AWS Engineer
3 27 (20.93%) Senior
4 24 (18.60%) Developer
5 23 (17.83%) AWS DevOps
6 21 (16.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 17 (13.18%) Platform Engineer
8 15 (11.63%) Java Developer
9 12 (9.30%) Architect
9 12 (9.30%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 12 (9.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 12 (9.30%) Senior DevOps
9 12 (9.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 10 (7.75%) AWS Developer
10 10 (7.75%) Python Engineer
11 8 (6.20%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 8 (6.20%) Site Engineer
11 8 (6.20%) Software Engineer
12 7 (5.43%) Java Engineer
12 7 (5.43%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.95%) Kafka
2 17 (13.18%) LDAP
3 15 (11.63%) Spring
4 13 (10.08%) REST
5 11 (8.53%) Spring Boot
6 9 (6.98%) boto
7 8 (6.20%) pytest
8 6 (4.65%) Flake8
8 6 (4.65%) mypy
9 4 (3.10%) AWS CDK
9 4 (3.10%) Jest
9 4 (3.10%) JSON
9 4 (3.10%) Node.js
9 4 (3.10%) React
10 3 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (2.33%) RESTful
11 2 (1.55%) SOAP
11 2 (1.55%) Web Services
11 2 (1.55%) YAML
12 1 (0.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.18%) Cloud Native
2 13 (10.08%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (10.08%) Replication
3 10 (7.75%) Onboarding
4 7 (5.43%) Virtual Team
5 6 (4.65%) CSOC
5 6 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (4.65%) Security Operations Centre
6 5 (3.88%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.10%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.33%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (2.33%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.78%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.78%) NHS
9 1 (0.78%) PKI
9 1 (0.78%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.78%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 41 (31.78%) Linux
2 16 (12.40%) Windows
3 11 (8.53%) VMS
4 10 (7.75%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (7.75%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.33%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.78%) AIX
6 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.78%) Solaris
6 1 (0.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (61.24%) CI/CD
2 70 (54.26%) DevOps
3 46 (35.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (31.01%) Microservices
5 39 (30.23%) Containerisation
6 33 (25.58%) Agile
7 28 (21.71%) Configuration Management
8 23 (17.83%) Infrastructure Automation
9 19 (14.73%) Platform Engineering
10 17 (13.18%) High Availability
10 17 (13.18%) Observability
10 17 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (11.63%) Cloud Security
11 15 (11.63%) Mentoring
11 15 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 14 (10.85%) Clean Code
12 14 (10.85%) Code Quality
12 14 (10.85%) Fintech
12 14 (10.85%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 80 (62.02%) Python
2 34 (26.36%) Java
3 32 (24.81%) Bash
4 25 (19.38%) SQL
5 19 (14.73%) PowerShell
6 12 (9.30%) Go
7 10 (7.75%) Groovy
8 6 (4.65%) TypeScript
9 5 (3.88%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.33%) Perl
11 2 (1.55%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.55%) PromQL
11 2 (1.55%) R
11 2 (1.55%) Ruby
12 1 (0.78%) Bicep
12 1 (0.78%) C#
12 1 (0.78%) COBOL
12 1 (0.78%) PHP
12 1 (0.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 43 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 40 (31.01%) SC Cleared
3 20 (15.50%) AWS Certification
4 14 (10.85%) Degree
5 10 (7.75%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.55%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.78%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.75%) QA
2 3 (2.33%) GDPR
3 2 (1.55%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.78%) GxP
4 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.78%) NCSC
4 1 (0.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 68 (52.71%) Docker
2 10 (7.75%) DFS Replication
2 10 (7.75%) Dovecot
2 10 (7.75%) Postfix
2 10 (7.75%) Squid
3 5 (3.88%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.55%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.78%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 73 (56.59%) Terraform
2 34 (26.36%) Kubernetes
3 29 (22.48%) Ansible
4 24 (18.60%) Grafana
5 19 (14.73%) Prometheus
6 12 (9.30%) Puppet
7 10 (7.75%) Nessus
7 10 (7.75%) Proxmox
8 7 (5.43%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.33%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (2.33%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.55%) SELinux
11 1 (0.78%) Argo
11 1 (0.78%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 14 (10.85%) ServiceNow
2 11 (8.53%) Splunk
3 10 (7.75%) CheckPoint
3 10 (7.75%) F5
3 10 (7.75%) Jaspersoft
3 10 (7.75%) Palo Alto
4 6 (4.65%) Atlassian
4 6 (4.65%) CA Agile Central
4 6 (4.65%) Oracle
4 6 (4.65%) PagerDuty
5 5 (3.88%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.10%) Sybase
7 3 (2.33%) Cloudera
7 3 (2.33%) Commvault
7 3 (2.33%) SnapLogic
8 2 (1.55%) Pega
8 2 (1.55%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.78%) Informatica
9 1 (0.78%) NetApp
9 1 (0.78%) Red Hat