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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 173 281
Rank change year-on-year -83 +108 -63
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 128 223 137
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.89% 1.42% 0.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.03% 3.47% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 165 104
10th Percentile £367 £443 £396
25th Percentile £474 £525 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -24.29% +21.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £651 £875 £700
90th Percentile £701 £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 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 6,310 6,434 7,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.93% 40.92% 38.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,286 4,388 5,431
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £424 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.06%
75th Percentile £648 £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 119 38 64
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.81 £18.28
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.98 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -7.28% +23.77%
75th Percentile £46.38 £58.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.30 £74.63
England median hourly rate £26.30 £32.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.81% +28.00% +11.11%

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 4 December 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 4 December 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 4 December 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 +1 18 £530 -1.67% 3
Central London -7 9 £600 +10.34% 8
West London -15 1 £300 -45.45% 1
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 (18.75%) Confluence
2 10 (7.81%) nginx
3 6 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.91%) SAS
5 1 (0.78%) CICS
5 1 (0.78%) FileNet
Applications
1 10 (7.81%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 128 (100.00%) AWS
2 97 (75.78%) Amazon S3
3 56 (43.75%) Serverless
4 55 (42.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 54 (42.19%) AWS Lambda
6 50 (39.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 41 (32.03%) Amazon ECS
8 36 (28.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 33 (25.78%) Amazon EKS
10 25 (19.53%) GitHub
11 22 (17.19%) Azure
12 21 (16.41%) Amazon ELB
13 19 (14.84%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (14.84%) Route 53
14 14 (10.94%) Amazon Kinesis
14 14 (10.94%) Amazon SQS
14 14 (10.94%) Datadog
15 10 (7.81%) AWS KMS
15 10 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
16 9 (7.03%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 25 (19.53%) DNS
2 24 (18.75%) Firewall
3 16 (12.50%) VPN
4 15 (11.72%) OpenLDAP
5 12 (9.38%) SSL
6 11 (8.59%) HTTP
6 11 (8.59%) TCP/IP
7 10 (7.81%) FTP
7 10 (7.81%) IMAP
7 10 (7.81%) SMTP
7 10 (7.81%) SSH
8 6 (4.69%) Network Security
9 2 (1.56%) DHCP
9 2 (1.56%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.78%) Internet
10 1 (0.78%) NAS
10 1 (0.78%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (46.09%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (13.28%) MySQL
4 16 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
5 14 (10.94%) DynamoDB
6 10 (7.81%) Hadoop
6 10 (7.81%) Relational Database
7 9 (7.03%) SQL Server
8 8 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (4.69%) MongoDB
10 5 (3.91%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.91%) DB2
10 5 (3.91%) RDBMS
11 4 (3.13%) Data Lake
12 3 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (2.34%) Big Data
13 2 (1.56%) Apache Hive
13 2 (1.56%) NoSQL
13 2 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 48 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 37 (28.91%) Git
3 36 (28.13%) GitLab
4 28 (21.88%) JIRA
5 10 (7.81%) Vagrant
6 7 (5.47%) JUnit
7 5 (3.91%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.34%) CircleCI
8 3 (2.34%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.34%) Maven
8 3 (2.34%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.56%) Postman
9 2 (1.56%) Selenium
9 2 (1.56%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.78%) Ant
10 1 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 34 (26.56%) Social Skills
2 23 (17.97%) Finance
3 20 (15.63%) Public Sector
4 11 (8.59%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (7.81%) Banking
6 7 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.91%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.34%) 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 (30.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (26.56%) AWS Engineer
3 28 (21.88%) Senior
4 23 (17.97%) AWS DevOps
5 21 (16.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 21 (16.41%) Developer
6 18 (14.06%) Platform Engineer
7 15 (11.72%) Java Developer
8 12 (9.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 12 (9.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 12 (9.38%) Senior DevOps
8 12 (9.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 11 (8.59%) Architect
10 10 (7.81%) Python Engineer
11 9 (7.03%) Site Engineer
12 8 (6.25%) DevOps Platform Engineer
12 8 (6.25%) Java Engineer
12 8 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 8 (6.25%) Software Engineer
13 7 (5.47%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.84%) Kafka
2 17 (13.28%) LDAP
3 14 (10.94%) REST
4 13 (10.16%) Spring
4 13 (10.16%) Spring Boot
5 9 (7.03%) boto
6 8 (6.25%) pytest
7 6 (4.69%) Flake8
7 6 (4.69%) mypy
8 5 (3.91%) JSON
8 5 (3.91%) React
8 5 (3.91%) RESTful
9 4 (3.13%) AWS CDK
10 3 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (2.34%) Node.js
11 2 (1.56%) SOAP
11 2 (1.56%) Web Services
11 2 (1.56%) YAML
12 1 (0.78%) HTML
12 1 (0.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.06%) Cloud Native
2 13 (10.16%) Replication
3 12 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (7.03%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.47%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (5.47%) Virtual Team
6 6 (4.69%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.91%) CSOC
7 5 (3.91%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.91%) Security Operations Centre
8 4 (3.13%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (2.34%) Hedge funds
10 2 (1.56%) Video\Live Streaming
11 1 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.78%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.78%) Media Streaming
11 1 (0.78%) NHS
11 1 (0.78%) PKI
11 1 (0.78%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 42 (32.81%) Linux
2 17 (13.28%) Windows
3 11 (8.59%) VMS
4 10 (7.81%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (7.81%) Ubuntu
5 4 (3.13%) 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 80 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 72 (56.25%) DevOps
3 48 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (32.81%) Microservices
5 39 (30.47%) Containerisation
6 30 (23.44%) Agile
7 29 (22.66%) Configuration Management
8 23 (17.97%) Infrastructure Automation
9 20 (15.63%) Platform Engineering
10 19 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (14.06%) High Availability
11 18 (14.06%) Observability
12 16 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 15 (11.72%) Cloud Security
13 15 (11.72%) Mentoring
14 14 (10.94%) Fintech
14 14 (10.94%) Performance Tuning
15 13 (10.16%) Analytics
15 13 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (10.16%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 78 (60.94%) Python
2 33 (25.78%) Bash
3 32 (25.00%) Java
4 25 (19.53%) SQL
5 17 (13.28%) PowerShell
6 13 (10.16%) Go
7 10 (7.81%) Groovy
8 6 (4.69%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.34%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.56%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.56%) Perl
10 2 (1.56%) PromQL
10 2 (1.56%) R
10 2 (1.56%) Ruby
11 1 (0.78%) Bicep
11 1 (0.78%) C#
11 1 (0.78%) COBOL
11 1 (0.78%) PHP
11 1 (0.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 42 (32.81%) Security Cleared
2 39 (30.47%) SC Cleared
3 20 (15.63%) AWS Certification
4 13 (10.16%) Degree
5 10 (7.81%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.56%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.78%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.25%) 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 68 (53.13%) Docker
2 10 (7.81%) DFS Replication
2 10 (7.81%) Dovecot
2 10 (7.81%) Postfix
2 10 (7.81%) Squid
3 5 (3.91%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.56%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.78%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 75 (58.59%) Terraform
2 37 (28.91%) Kubernetes
3 30 (23.44%) Ansible
4 24 (18.75%) Grafana
5 20 (15.63%) Prometheus
6 13 (10.16%) Puppet
7 10 (7.81%) Nessus
7 10 (7.81%) Proxmox
8 7 (5.47%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.13%) NetBackup
10 3 (2.34%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (1.56%) SELinux
12 1 (0.78%) Argo
12 1 (0.78%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 12 (9.38%) ServiceNow
2 11 (8.59%) Splunk
3 10 (7.81%) CheckPoint
3 10 (7.81%) F5
3 10 (7.81%) Jaspersoft
3 10 (7.81%) Palo Alto
4 6 (4.69%) Atlassian
4 6 (4.69%) Oracle
4 6 (4.69%) PagerDuty
5 5 (3.91%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.13%) Commvault
6 4 (3.13%) SnapLogic
6 4 (3.13%) Sybase
7 3 (2.34%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (2.34%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.56%) Pega
8 2 (1.56%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.78%) Confluent
9 1 (0.78%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.78%) StreamSets