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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 238 216
Rank change year-on-year -62 -22 +98
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 158 136 182
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.78% 1.02% 1.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.91% 2.35% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 85 133
10th Percentile £400 £400 £402
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.67% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £875
90th Percentile £762 £775 £888
England median daily rate £500 £504 £600
% change year-on-year -0.74% -16.04% +6.67%
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 8,265 5,780 6,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.02% 43.30% 41.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,654 3,929 4,695
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 94 48
10th Percentile £18.02 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £24.06
Median hourly rate £31.25 £31.00 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +0.67% -36.83%
75th Percentile £56.88 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £69.08
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £31.75
% change year-on-year +29.24% -17.17% -3.79%

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 14 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 14 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 21 £481 -22.63% 4
Central London -20 11 £713 +5.56% 17
East London - 1 £500 -
West London - 1 - - 3
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 (15.19%) Confluence
2 8 (5.06%) nginx
3 6 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.16%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.90%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (1.27%) Apache
7 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.63%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.63%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
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
1 157 (99.37%) AWS
2 121 (76.58%) Amazon S3
3 96 (60.76%) Serverless
4 95 (60.13%) AWS Lambda
5 76 (48.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 68 (43.04%) Amazon EKS
7 63 (39.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 49 (31.01%) GitHub
9 37 (23.42%) Azure
9 37 (23.42%) GitHub Actions
10 31 (19.62%) Amazon ECS
11 24 (15.19%) AWS CloudFormation
12 19 (12.03%) AWS KMS
12 19 (12.03%) Datadog
13 14 (8.86%) Route 53
14 11 (6.96%) Amazon EMR
15 10 (6.33%) AWS Step Functions
16 9 (5.70%) AWS CloudTrail
16 9 (5.70%) dbt
16 9 (5.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 21 (13.29%) Firewall
2 11 (6.96%) DNS
2 11 (6.96%) TCP/IP
3 9 (5.70%) Network Security
4 6 (3.80%) SSH
5 5 (3.16%) OpenVPN
6 4 (2.53%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (2.53%) WAN
7 3 (1.90%) HTTP
7 3 (1.90%) SSL
7 3 (1.90%) VPN
8 2 (1.27%) FTP
8 2 (1.27%) HTTPS
8 2 (1.27%) IMAP
8 2 (1.27%) Internet
8 2 (1.27%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (1.27%) SMTP
9 1 (0.63%) DHCP
9 1 (0.63%) LAN
9 1 (0.63%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (36.08%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (11.39%) Amazon Aurora
2 18 (11.39%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (10.76%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (8.86%) DynamoDB
5 11 (6.96%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (5.06%) SQL Server
7 7 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (4.43%) Power BI
8 5 (3.16%) Amazon QuickSight
9 4 (2.53%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.53%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.90%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.27%) MySQL
11 2 (1.27%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.27%) Pinecone
11 2 (1.27%) Tableau
11 2 (1.27%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 64 (40.51%) Git
2 50 (31.65%) Jenkins
3 49 (31.01%) GitLab
4 25 (15.82%) JIRA
5 9 (5.70%) Artifactory
6 8 (5.06%) Cucumber
7 7 (4.43%) Bitbucket
8 6 (3.80%) JUnit
8 6 (3.80%) Mockito
9 5 (3.16%) Maven
10 4 (2.53%) Postman
11 3 (1.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (1.90%) Mocha
11 3 (1.90%) MSTest
11 3 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (1.90%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (1.90%) tSQLt
12 2 (1.27%) DbUnit
12 2 (1.27%) SonarQube
12 2 (1.27%) Vagrant
General
1 41 (25.95%) Social Skills
2 33 (20.89%) Public Sector
3 32 (20.25%) Finance
4 10 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.43%) Back Office
5 7 (4.43%) Military
6 5 (3.16%) Banking
7 4 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.53%) Law
7 4 (2.53%) Police
8 3 (1.90%) Games
8 3 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.27%) Front Office
9 2 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.63%) Local Government
10 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.63%) Publishing
10 1 (0.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (24.05%) AWS Engineer
2 36 (22.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (19.62%) Senior
4 22 (13.92%) Developer
5 16 (10.13%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (8.86%) AWS DevOps
6 14 (8.86%) Lead
7 13 (8.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 13 (8.23%) Data Engineer
7 13 (8.23%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (7.59%) Architect
8 12 (7.59%) Python Developer
8 12 (7.59%) Software Engineer
9 11 (6.96%) AWS Developer
9 11 (6.96%) Senior Data Engineer
10 9 (5.70%) AWS Architect
11 7 (4.43%) Lead DevOps
11 7 (4.43%) Senior DevOps
11 7 (4.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.43%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (63.92%) Terraform
2 24 (15.19%) RESTful
3 18 (11.39%) REST
4 16 (10.13%) Spring Boot
5 14 (8.86%) FastAPI
5 14 (8.86%) Spring
6 13 (8.23%) Kafka
7 12 (7.59%) AngularJS
7 12 (7.59%) Flask
8 10 (6.33%) PySpark
9 8 (5.06%) Pandas
9 8 (5.06%) React
10 7 (4.43%) Polars
10 7 (4.43%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (4.43%) YAML
11 6 (3.80%) .NET
11 6 (3.80%) ActiveMQ
11 6 (3.80%) AWS CDK
11 6 (3.80%) boto
11 6 (3.80%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 43 (27.22%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.23%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.70%) Replication
4 7 (4.43%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.43%) Hedge funds
4 7 (4.43%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (3.80%) Fixed Income
6 5 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.16%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.16%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.90%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.90%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.90%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.90%) NHS
8 3 (1.90%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.27%) Equities
9 2 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 45 (28.48%) Linux
2 14 (8.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (6.33%) Amazon Linux
4 9 (5.70%) Unix
4 9 (5.70%) Windows
5 5 (3.16%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.53%) VMS
6 4 (2.53%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (77.22%) CI/CD
2 98 (62.03%) DevOps
3 89 (56.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (41.77%) Agile
5 47 (29.75%) Containerisation
6 46 (29.11%) Observability
7 35 (22.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (22.15%) Microservices
8 30 (18.99%) Software Engineering
9 24 (15.19%) Performance Tuning
9 24 (15.19%) Root Cause Analysis
9 24 (15.19%) Test Automation
10 23 (14.56%) Platform Engineering
10 23 (14.56%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (13.29%) AI
11 21 (13.29%) Cloud Security
11 21 (13.29%) Technical Leadership
12 20 (12.66%) Data Pipeline
12 20 (12.66%) Deployment Automation
12 20 (12.66%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 92 (58.23%) Python
2 44 (27.85%) Java
3 37 (23.42%) SQL
4 32 (20.25%) Bash
5 20 (12.66%) PowerShell
6 17 (10.76%) C#
7 12 (7.59%) Shell Script
8 10 (6.33%) Groovy
9 8 (5.06%) JavaScript
10 7 (4.43%) Perl
11 6 (3.80%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.90%) Bicep
12 3 (1.90%) Scala
12 3 (1.90%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.27%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.63%) C++
14 1 (0.63%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.63%) Haskell
14 1 (0.63%) Korn
14 1 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 75 (47.47%) Security Cleared
2 68 (43.04%) SC Cleared
3 45 (28.48%) AWS Certification
4 15 (9.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (7.59%) Degree
6 11 (6.96%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (3.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.80%) CISM
7 6 (3.80%) CISSP
8 5 (3.16%) DV Cleared
9 4 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (1.27%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.27%) PMP
11 1 (0.63%) CCNP
11 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.63%) ISEB
11 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.49%) QA
2 12 (7.59%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.80%) NIST
4 2 (1.27%) PMO
5 1 (0.63%) GDPR
5 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
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 (43.67%) Docker
2 11 (6.96%) Active Directory
3 9 (5.70%) Squid
4 6 (3.80%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.53%) Postfix
6 2 (1.27%) DFS Replication
6 2 (1.27%) Dovecot
6 2 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 51 (32.28%) Kubernetes
2 39 (24.68%) Grafana
3 31 (19.62%) Ansible
3 31 (19.62%) Prometheus
4 8 (5.06%) Puppet
5 6 (3.80%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (3.16%) Packer
7 4 (2.53%) Salt
7 4 (2.53%) Suricata
8 3 (1.90%) Argo
8 3 (1.90%) SELinux
9 2 (1.27%) Istio
9 2 (1.27%) Nessus
9 2 (1.27%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.63%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.63%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.63%) systemd
10 1 (0.63%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (10.76%) ServiceNow
2 14 (8.86%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.96%) Red Hat
4 6 (3.80%) Informatica
4 6 (3.80%) Splunk
5 4 (2.53%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (2.53%) Okta
5 4 (2.53%) Oracle
6 3 (1.90%) Brio
6 3 (1.90%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.27%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.27%) BigPanda
7 2 (1.27%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.27%) Google
7 2 (1.27%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.27%) Sonatype
7 2 (1.27%) Sybase
8 1 (0.63%) Cisco
8 1 (0.63%) Qualys
8 1 (0.63%) Trend Micro