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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 182 282
Rank change year-on-year -64 +100 -67
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 128 211 141
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.92% 1.35% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.09% 3.30% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 151 107
10th Percentile £374 £425 £400
25th Percentile £500 £525 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £673 £875 £694
90th Percentile £738 £888 £800
England median daily rate £525 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -19.23% +18.18% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £55.45 - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £50.00
75th Percentile £87.50 - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £80.00 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -21.57%

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 6,137 6,393 7,809
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.32% 40.96% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,157 4,344 5,729
10th Percentile £350 £350 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £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 £758 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 34 69
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.78 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.74 £35.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% -9.68% +51.96%
75th Percentile £41.25 £55.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £65.33 £85.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £29.72
% change year-on-year -28.14% +17.77% +35.09%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -2 18 £530 -1.67% 2
Central London -9 10 £588 +4.44% 41
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 25 (19.53%) Confluence
2 10 (7.81%) nginx
3 6 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.13%) SAS
5 1 (0.78%) CICS
Applications
1 10 (7.81%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 128 (100.00%) AWS
2 100 (78.13%) Amazon S3
3 56 (43.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 52 (40.63%) AWS Lambda
4 52 (40.63%) Serverless
5 46 (35.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 41 (32.03%) Amazon ECS
7 37 (28.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 25 (19.53%) Amazon EKS
8 25 (19.53%) GitHub
9 22 (17.19%) Amazon ELB
10 21 (16.41%) Amazon SQS
11 19 (14.84%) Azure
12 18 (14.06%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (14.06%) Route 53
13 16 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
14 13 (10.16%) Datadog
14 13 (10.16%) SaaS
15 12 (9.38%) AWS Fargate
16 11 (8.59%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (20.31%) DNS
2 24 (18.75%) Firewall
3 15 (11.72%) OpenLDAP
3 15 (11.72%) VPN
4 12 (9.38%) SSL
4 12 (9.38%) TCP/IP
5 11 (8.59%) HTTP
5 11 (8.59%) SSH
6 10 (7.81%) FTP
6 10 (7.81%) IMAP
6 10 (7.81%) SMTP
7 6 (4.69%) Network Security
8 2 (1.56%) DHCP
8 2 (1.56%) Internet
8 2 (1.56%) NAS
9 1 (0.78%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.78%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.78%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (44.53%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (19.53%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (14.06%) DynamoDB
4 16 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
4 16 (12.50%) MySQL
5 9 (7.03%) Hadoop
6 8 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
6 8 (6.25%) Relational Database
7 7 (5.47%) SQL Server
8 5 (3.91%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.91%) DB2
8 5 (3.91%) MongoDB
8 5 (3.91%) RDBMS
9 3 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (2.34%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.56%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (1.56%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.56%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (36.72%) Jenkins
2 41 (32.03%) Git
3 29 (22.66%) GitLab
3 29 (22.66%) JIRA
4 10 (7.81%) JUnit
4 10 (7.81%) Vagrant
5 7 (5.47%) Maven
6 5 (3.91%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.91%) Cucumber
7 4 (3.13%) SonarQube
7 4 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.56%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.78%) Ant
9 1 (0.78%) DbUnit
9 1 (0.78%) jMock
9 1 (0.78%) Mockito
9 1 (0.78%) Postman
9 1 (0.78%) Selenium
9 1 (0.78%) Serenity BDD
General
1 32 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 25 (19.53%) Public Sector
3 18 (14.06%) Finance
4 11 (8.59%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (7.81%) Banking
5 10 (7.81%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.13%) Military
8 1 (0.78%) Advertising
8 1 (0.78%) Games
8 1 (0.78%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.78%) Marketing
8 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (31.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 35 (27.34%) AWS Engineer
3 26 (20.31%) Senior
4 23 (17.97%) AWS DevOps
5 22 (17.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 22 (17.19%) Developer
6 17 (13.28%) Platform Engineer
7 16 (12.50%) Architect
8 15 (11.72%) Java Developer
9 12 (9.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 12 (9.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 12 (9.38%) Senior DevOps
9 12 (9.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 10 (7.81%) AWS Developer
10 10 (7.81%) Python Engineer
10 10 (7.81%) Security Architect
11 8 (6.25%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 8 (6.25%) Site Engineer
11 8 (6.25%) Software Engineer
12 7 (5.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.28%) Kafka
1 17 (13.28%) LDAP
2 16 (12.50%) Spring
3 14 (10.94%) REST
4 12 (9.38%) Spring Boot
5 8 (6.25%) boto
5 8 (6.25%) pytest
6 6 (4.69%) Flake8
6 6 (4.69%) mypy
7 4 (3.13%) AWS CDK
7 4 (3.13%) Jest
7 4 (3.13%) React
7 4 (3.13%) RESTful
7 4 (3.13%) Web Services
8 3 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.34%) JSON
8 3 (2.34%) Node.js
8 3 (2.34%) SOAP
9 2 (1.56%) Spring Batch
9 2 (1.56%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 15 (11.72%) Onboarding
3 13 (10.16%) Replication
4 11 (8.59%) CSOC
4 11 (8.59%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (8.59%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (5.47%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.91%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.34%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (2.34%) Hedge funds
7 3 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.56%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.56%) PKI
9 1 (0.78%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.78%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.78%) NHS
9 1 (0.78%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.78%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 37 (28.91%) Linux
2 17 (13.28%) Windows
3 11 (8.59%) VMS
4 10 (7.81%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (7.81%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.34%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.56%) Unix
7 1 (0.78%) AIX
7 1 (0.78%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 70 (54.69%) DevOps
3 39 (30.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (28.13%) Microservices
5 33 (25.78%) Containerisation
6 32 (25.00%) Agile
7 25 (19.53%) Configuration Management
8 24 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
9 18 (14.06%) Platform Engineering
10 16 (12.50%) Cloud Security
11 15 (11.72%) Mentoring
11 15 (11.72%) Observability
12 14 (10.94%) Code Quality
12 14 (10.94%) High Availability
12 14 (10.94%) Performance Tuning
12 14 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (10.16%) Clean Code
13 13 (10.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 12 (9.38%) Software Engineering
15 11 (8.59%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 73 (57.03%) Python
2 30 (23.44%) Java
3 27 (21.09%) Bash
4 26 (20.31%) SQL
5 19 (14.84%) PowerShell
6 12 (9.38%) Go
7 10 (7.81%) Groovy
8 6 (4.69%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.13%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.34%) Perl
11 2 (1.56%) CodeQL
11 2 (1.56%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.56%) PromQL
11 2 (1.56%) R
11 2 (1.56%) Ruby
11 2 (1.56%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.78%) Bicep
12 1 (0.78%) COBOL
12 1 (0.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 47 (36.72%) Security Cleared
2 44 (34.38%) SC Cleared
3 19 (14.84%) AWS Certification
4 13 (10.16%) Degree
5 10 (7.81%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.56%) CISSP
8 2 (1.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.38%) QA
2 3 (2.34%) GDPR
3 2 (1.56%) 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 63 (49.22%) Docker
2 11 (8.59%) Postfix
3 10 (7.81%) DFS Replication
3 10 (7.81%) Dovecot
3 10 (7.81%) Squid
4 5 (3.91%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 68 (53.13%) Terraform
2 31 (24.22%) Kubernetes
3 26 (20.31%) Ansible
4 22 (17.19%) Grafana
5 19 (14.84%) Prometheus
6 10 (7.81%) Nessus
6 10 (7.81%) Proxmox
6 10 (7.81%) Puppet
7 6 (4.69%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.34%) NetBackup
9 2 (1.56%) SELinux
10 1 (0.78%) Argo
10 1 (0.78%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.78%) Packer
10 1 (0.78%) yum
Vendors
1 16 (12.50%) Splunk
2 14 (10.94%) ServiceNow
3 11 (8.59%) Jaspersoft
4 10 (7.81%) CheckPoint
4 10 (7.81%) F5
4 10 (7.81%) Palo Alto
5 7 (5.47%) Atlassian
6 6 (4.69%) CA Agile Central
7 5 (3.91%) Oracle
8 4 (3.13%) Microsoft
8 4 (3.13%) PagerDuty
8 4 (3.13%) Sybase
9 3 (2.34%) Commvault
9 3 (2.34%) SnapLogic
10 2 (1.56%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.56%) Pega
10 2 (1.56%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.78%) Confluent
11 1 (0.78%) Databricks
11 1 (0.78%) StreamSets