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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 226 245
Rank change year-on-year -23 +19 +23
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 166 128 147
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.92% 1.02% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.17% 2.41% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 102 109
10th Percentile £394 £400 £354
25th Percentile £475 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £616 £520
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +18.51% -16.80%
75th Percentile £626 £775 £625
90th Percentile £701 £875 £793
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £67.50 - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
90th Percentile £88.50 - -
England median hourly rate £92.50 - -

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 7,637 5,315 6,729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.36% 42.49% 38.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,279 3,669 4,962
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 53 70
10th Percentile £20.84 £22.57 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -45.26%
75th Percentile £53.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.90 £72.50 £59.13
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +61.02% +19.33% -34.04%

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 May 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 17 May 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 17 May 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 +11 34 £509 -35.19% 1
Central London -19 10 £560 -17.11% 17
West London - 5 £300 - 2
East London - 1 £500 - 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 19 (11.45%) Confluence
2 10 (6.02%) nginx
3 6 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.01%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.60%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.60%) FileNet
5 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.60%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (5.42%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 165 (99.40%) AWS
2 128 (77.11%) Amazon S3
3 114 (68.67%) Serverless
4 111 (66.87%) AWS Lambda
5 75 (45.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 71 (42.77%) Amazon EKS
7 65 (39.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 46 (27.71%) GitHub
9 33 (19.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 32 (19.28%) GitHub Actions
11 31 (18.67%) Amazon ECS
12 29 (17.47%) Azure
13 26 (15.66%) Route 53
14 15 (9.04%) Amazon SQS
15 11 (6.63%) AWS CodePipeline
15 11 (6.63%) AWS KMS
15 11 (6.63%) GCP
16 9 (5.42%) Datadog
16 9 (5.42%) Power Platform
17 8 (4.82%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 24 (14.46%) DNS
2 21 (12.65%) Firewall
3 16 (9.64%) TCP/IP
4 11 (6.63%) VPN
5 10 (6.02%) OpenVPN
6 5 (3.01%) Network Security
7 3 (1.81%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (1.20%) Internet
9 1 (0.60%) DHCP
9 1 (0.60%) HTTP
9 1 (0.60%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.60%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (37.35%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (9.64%) Amazon Aurora
2 16 (9.64%) SQL Server
3 12 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.42%) DynamoDB
4 9 (5.42%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (5.42%) Power BI
5 8 (4.82%) Tableau
6 7 (4.22%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (4.22%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (3.61%) MySQL
8 5 (3.01%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (3.01%) Hadoop
9 4 (2.41%) Amazon QuickSight
9 4 (2.41%) DB2
9 4 (2.41%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.81%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.20%) Big Data
11 2 (1.20%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 55 (33.13%) Jenkins
2 53 (31.93%) GitLab
3 48 (28.92%) Git
4 23 (13.86%) JIRA
5 13 (7.83%) Bitbucket
6 12 (7.23%) Cucumber
7 11 (6.63%) JUnit
7 11 (6.63%) SonarQube
8 10 (6.02%) Artifactory
9 6 (3.61%) Mockito
10 5 (3.01%) Mocha
10 5 (3.01%) MSTest
10 5 (3.01%) Postman
10 5 (3.01%) tSQLt
11 4 (2.41%) Maven
11 4 (2.41%) Terragrunt
12 3 (1.81%) Bitbucket Server
12 3 (1.81%) DbUnit
12 3 (1.81%) jMock
12 3 (1.81%) TeamCity
General
1 50 (30.12%) Social Skills
2 40 (24.10%) Public Sector
3 37 (22.29%) Finance
4 17 (10.24%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.82%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.01%) Banking
8 3 (1.81%) Front Office
8 3 (1.81%) Military
8 3 (1.81%) Police
9 2 (1.20%) Games
9 2 (1.20%) Law
9 2 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Back Office
10 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (25.90%) Developer
2 33 (19.88%) AWS Engineer
3 25 (15.06%) Architect
4 24 (14.46%) Senior
5 20 (12.05%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (10.84%) AWS Developer
7 16 (9.64%) Software Engineer
8 15 (9.04%) AWS DevOps
9 14 (8.43%) Python Developer
10 13 (7.83%) AWS Architect
10 13 (7.83%) Java Developer
11 12 (7.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 12 (7.23%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (6.02%) Analyst
13 9 (5.42%) AWS Software Engineer
13 9 (5.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 8 (4.82%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 8 (4.82%) Delivery Manager
14 8 (4.82%) Python Engineer
14 8 (4.82%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (15.06%) RESTful
2 19 (11.45%) Kafka
3 17 (10.24%) Spring Boot
4 15 (9.04%) AngularJS
4 15 (9.04%) FastAPI
4 15 (9.04%) REST
4 15 (9.04%) Spring
5 13 (7.83%) Flask
6 11 (6.63%) .NET
7 10 (6.02%) React
8 9 (5.42%) AWS CDK
8 9 (5.42%) LDAP
8 9 (5.42%) Next.js
8 9 (5.42%) OpenID
9 7 (4.22%) CSS
9 7 (4.22%) Pandas
9 7 (4.22%) Polars
10 6 (3.61%) boto
10 6 (3.61%) Gherkin
10 6 (3.61%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 30 (18.07%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.83%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.82%) Hedge funds
3 8 (4.82%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.82%) Replication
4 6 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.81%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.81%) NHS
6 3 (1.81%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.81%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.20%) Equities
7 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.60%) Media Streaming
8 1 (0.60%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 35 (21.08%) Linux
2 8 (4.82%) Unix
3 6 (3.61%) Windows
4 5 (3.01%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (65.66%) CI/CD
2 73 (43.98%) DevOps
3 57 (34.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (33.73%) Agile
5 53 (31.93%) Containerisation
6 42 (25.30%) Microservices
7 37 (22.29%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (18.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (14.46%) Observability
9 24 (14.46%) Software Engineering
10 21 (12.65%) Decision-Making
11 18 (10.84%) Platform Engineering
12 17 (10.24%) Cloud Security
13 16 (9.64%) Data Pipeline
13 16 (9.64%) Migration
13 16 (9.64%) Performance Tuning
14 15 (9.04%) Roadmaps
15 14 (8.43%) SDLC
15 14 (8.43%) Stakeholder Management
15 14 (8.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 81 (48.80%) Python
2 40 (24.10%) Java
3 38 (22.89%) SQL
4 29 (17.47%) Bash
5 25 (15.06%) C#
6 21 (12.65%) PowerShell
7 11 (6.63%) JavaScript
7 11 (6.63%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.01%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.41%) Groovy
9 4 (2.41%) Perl
9 4 (2.41%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.81%) Bicep
10 3 (1.81%) Go
11 1 (0.60%) Rust
11 1 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 78 (46.99%) Security Cleared
2 72 (43.37%) SC Cleared
3 18 (10.84%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (4.22%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (3.01%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.01%) Degree
8 4 (2.41%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.20%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.20%) PMP
10 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.60%) CEH
10 1 (0.60%) CISSP
10 1 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.60%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.22%) PMO
2 5 (3.01%) QA
3 4 (2.41%) SLA
4 3 (1.81%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) NIST
System Software
1 84 (50.60%) Docker
2 14 (8.43%) Squid
3 5 (3.01%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.20%) Postfix
5 1 (0.60%) HDFS
5 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 91 (54.82%) Terraform
2 64 (38.55%) Kubernetes
3 40 (24.10%) Grafana
4 34 (20.48%) Prometheus
5 22 (13.25%) Ansible
6 10 (6.02%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (5.42%) FortiGate
8 7 (4.22%) Consul
8 7 (4.22%) Puppet
9 4 (2.41%) Karpenter
9 4 (2.41%) Kibana
9 4 (2.41%) Suricata
10 3 (1.81%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.81%) Salt
11 1 (0.60%) Argo
11 1 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.60%) Packer
11 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.60%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 13 (7.83%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.02%) Atlassian
2 10 (6.02%) ServiceNow
3 9 (5.42%) Dynatrace
3 9 (5.42%) Red Hat
4 6 (3.61%) Splunk
4 6 (3.61%) Sybase
5 5 (3.01%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.81%) AVEVA
6 3 (1.81%) Brio
6 3 (1.81%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.81%) Jaspersoft
6 3 (1.81%) Oracle
7 2 (1.20%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.20%) Qualys
8 1 (0.60%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.60%) Commvault
8 1 (0.60%) Google
8 1 (0.60%) IBM
8 1 (0.60%) SnapLogic