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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 198 246
Rank change year-on-year -55 +48 -45
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 141 165 156
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.88% 1.26% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.01% 3.01% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 129 116
10th Percentile £364 £412 £360
25th Percentile £456 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +22.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £624 £788 £675
90th Percentile £673 £878 £825
England median daily rate £530 £608 £530
% change year-on-year -12.76% +14.62% -11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £68.50 - -
25th Percentile £73.75 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile £89.50 - -
England median hourly rate £90.00 - -

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 7,024 5,486 6,786
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.79% 42.02% 37.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,820 3,786 4,985
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 44 78
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.09 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £29.07 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year +20.40% -3.45% -12.72%
75th Percentile £50.75 £55.38 £52.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £71.88 £62.88
England median hourly rate £37.58 £26.81 £21.00
% change year-on-year +40.16% +27.68% -16.00%

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 9 March 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Amazon EC2 in London over the 6 months to 9 March 2026.

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 9 March 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 +8 27 £519 -36.76% 3
Central London -19 10 £575 -4.56% 11
West London - 4 £300 - 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 14 (9.93%) Confluence
2 9 (6.38%) nginx
3 8 (5.67%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.84%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.71%) FileNet
5 1 (0.71%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 140 (99.29%) AWS
2 107 (75.89%) Amazon S3
3 89 (63.12%) Serverless
4 86 (60.99%) AWS Lambda
5 63 (44.68%) Amazon EKS
6 62 (43.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 48 (34.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 40 (28.37%) AWS CloudFormation
9 36 (25.53%) Amazon ECS
10 31 (21.99%) GitHub
11 27 (19.15%) Route 53
12 23 (16.31%) GitHub Actions
13 22 (15.60%) Azure
14 16 (11.35%) Amazon SQS
14 16 (11.35%) GCP
15 11 (7.80%) Amazon Kinesis
15 11 (7.80%) AWS CodePipeline
15 11 (7.80%) Datadog
16 9 (6.38%) Amazon ELB
16 9 (6.38%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 20 (14.18%) DNS
2 12 (8.51%) Firewall
2 12 (8.51%) VPN
3 10 (7.09%) TCP/IP
4 9 (6.38%) OpenVPN
5 2 (1.42%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.71%) Network Security
6 1 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.71%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (43.97%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (12.77%) SQL Server
3 14 (9.93%) MySQL
3 14 (9.93%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (8.51%) DynamoDB
5 9 (6.38%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (6.38%) Hadoop
6 8 (5.67%) Apache Cassandra
6 8 (5.67%) DB2
7 7 (4.96%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (4.96%) MongoDB
7 7 (4.96%) Relational Database
8 6 (4.26%) Power BI
9 5 (3.55%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (3.55%) NoSQL
9 5 (3.55%) Tableau
10 4 (2.84%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (2.84%) RDBMS
11 3 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (2.13%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 51 (36.17%) GitLab
2 48 (34.04%) Jenkins
3 24 (17.02%) Git
4 19 (13.48%) JIRA
5 14 (9.93%) Bitbucket
6 12 (8.51%) JUnit
7 10 (7.09%) Cucumber
7 10 (7.09%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.84%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.84%) Maven
8 4 (2.84%) Mockito
8 4 (2.84%) Postman
8 4 (2.84%) Terragrunt
9 3 (2.13%) Artifactory
9 3 (2.13%) Mocha
9 3 (2.13%) MSTest
9 3 (2.13%) Selenium
9 3 (2.13%) TeamCity
9 3 (2.13%) tSQLt
10 2 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 41 (29.08%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.57%) Finance
2 29 (20.57%) Public Sector
3 16 (11.35%) Documentation Skills
4 15 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.09%) Banking
6 7 (4.96%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.13%) Front Office
8 2 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Games
9 1 (0.71%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (23.40%) Developer
2 27 (19.15%) AWS Engineer
3 25 (17.73%) Senior
4 23 (16.31%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (14.18%) Architect
6 16 (11.35%) AWS DevOps
7 15 (10.64%) Java Developer
8 13 (9.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 12 (8.51%) AWS Developer
10 11 (7.80%) Site Engineer
10 11 (7.80%) Software Engineer
11 10 (7.09%) AWS Architect
11 10 (7.09%) Senior Developer
11 10 (7.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 9 (6.38%) Python Engineer
13 8 (5.67%) Senior Java Developer
14 7 (4.96%) Analyst
14 7 (4.96%) Delivery Manager
14 7 (4.96%) Java Engineer
14 7 (4.96%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (19.15%) Kafka
2 18 (12.77%) Spring Boot
3 17 (12.06%) Spring
4 12 (8.51%) RESTful
5 10 (7.09%) REST
6 9 (6.38%) AngularJS
7 8 (5.67%) .NET
7 8 (5.67%) LDAP
7 8 (5.67%) OpenID
7 8 (5.67%) React
8 7 (4.96%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (4.26%) CSS
9 6 (4.26%) FastAPI
9 6 (4.26%) JSON
10 5 (3.55%) AWS CDK
10 5 (3.55%) boto
10 5 (3.55%) Gherkin
10 5 (3.55%) Next.js
10 5 (3.55%) Node.js
10 5 (3.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.89%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.96%) Replication
4 5 (3.55%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.84%) Hedge funds
5 4 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.84%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.84%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.71%) Equities
7 1 (0.71%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.71%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.71%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 31 (21.99%) Linux
2 6 (4.26%) Windows
3 2 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.71%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.71%) Unix
4 1 (0.71%) VMS
4 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (58.16%) CI/CD
2 58 (41.13%) DevOps
3 53 (37.59%) Containerisation
4 51 (36.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (30.50%) Agile
6 38 (26.95%) Microservices
7 37 (26.24%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (15.60%) Observability
9 20 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (12.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 16 (11.35%) Decision-Making
11 16 (11.35%) Software Engineering
12 14 (9.93%) Migration
13 12 (8.51%) Configuration Management
14 11 (7.80%) Clean Code
14 11 (7.80%) Cost Management
14 11 (7.80%) Fintech
14 11 (7.80%) Platform Engineering
15 10 (7.09%) Performance Tuning
15 10 (7.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 68 (48.23%) Python
2 36 (25.53%) Java
3 30 (21.28%) Bash
3 30 (21.28%) SQL
4 16 (11.35%) PowerShell
5 13 (9.22%) C#
6 10 (7.09%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.26%) Go
8 4 (2.84%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.13%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.42%) Perl
10 2 (1.42%) Ruby
11 1 (0.71%) Bicep
11 1 (0.71%) PHP
11 1 (0.71%) Rust
11 1 (0.71%) Scala
11 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 55 (39.01%) Security Cleared
2 52 (36.88%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.80%) AWS Certification
4 7 (4.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (3.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (2.84%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.13%) Degree
7 3 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.42%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.71%) CEH
9 1 (0.71%) CISSP
9 1 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.71%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.84%) PMO
1 4 (2.84%) SLA
2 3 (2.13%) QA
3 2 (1.42%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.71%) GDPR
4 1 (0.71%) GxP
4 1 (0.71%) NIST
System Software
1 77 (54.61%) Docker
2 8 (5.67%) Squid
3 2 (1.42%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.71%) HDFS
4 1 (0.71%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 81 (57.45%) Terraform
2 56 (39.72%) Kubernetes
3 30 (21.28%) Grafana
4 28 (19.86%) Prometheus
5 27 (19.15%) Ansible
6 9 (6.38%) Puppet
7 8 (5.67%) FortiGate
7 8 (5.67%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (4.96%) Consul
9 5 (3.55%) Karpenter
10 4 (2.84%) Kibana
11 3 (2.13%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (1.42%) Argo
12 2 (1.42%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.71%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.71%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.71%) Salt
13 1 (0.71%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 11 (7.80%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.09%) Atlassian
3 9 (6.38%) Splunk
4 8 (5.67%) Dynatrace
4 8 (5.67%) Red Hat
4 8 (5.67%) Sybase
5 6 (4.26%) PagerDuty
5 6 (4.26%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.55%) OpenAI
6 5 (3.55%) Oracle
7 3 (2.13%) AVEVA
7 3 (2.13%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.42%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.42%) Google
8 2 (1.42%) IBM
8 2 (1.42%) Jaspersoft
9 1 (0.71%) Databricks
9 1 (0.71%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.71%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.71%) SnapLogic