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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 202 242
Rank change year-on-year -60 +40 -37
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 145 164 154
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.88% 1.26% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.02% 3.00% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 132 114
10th Percentile £364 £408 £361
25th Percentile £456 £506 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +18.18% -12.00%
75th Percentile £621 £788 £675
90th Percentile £671 £875 £809
England median daily rate £530 £603 £530
% change year-on-year -12.06% +13.71% -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 7,190 5,463 6,768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.87% 41.90% 37.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,931 3,776 4,976
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 £671 £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 107 43 77
10th Percentile £18.15 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £23.11 £23.99 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +10.79% -23.94%
75th Percentile £51.46 £55.50 £50.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £63.00
England median hourly rate £38.54 £26.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +48.23% +23.81% -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 15 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 15 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 15 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 28 £519 -36.76% 2
Central London -14 11 £575 -4.56% 10
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 (9.66%) Confluence
2 9 (6.21%) nginx
3 8 (5.52%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.76%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.69%) FileNet
5 1 (0.69%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (4.83%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 144 (99.31%) AWS
2 111 (76.55%) Amazon S3
3 92 (63.45%) Serverless
4 89 (61.38%) AWS Lambda
5 65 (44.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 64 (44.14%) Amazon EKS
7 51 (35.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 41 (28.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 37 (25.52%) Amazon ECS
10 34 (23.45%) GitHub
11 28 (19.31%) Route 53
12 25 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
13 23 (15.86%) Azure
14 16 (11.03%) Amazon SQS
14 16 (11.03%) GCP
15 11 (7.59%) Amazon Kinesis
15 11 (7.59%) AWS CodePipeline
15 11 (7.59%) Datadog
16 9 (6.21%) Amazon ELB
16 9 (6.21%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.79%) DNS
2 12 (8.28%) Firewall
2 12 (8.28%) VPN
3 10 (6.90%) TCP/IP
4 9 (6.21%) OpenVPN
5 2 (1.38%) Kerberos
5 2 (1.38%) Network Security
6 1 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (45.52%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (12.41%) SQL Server
3 14 (9.66%) MySQL
3 14 (9.66%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (8.97%) DynamoDB
5 9 (6.21%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (6.21%) Hadoop
6 8 (5.52%) Apache Cassandra
6 8 (5.52%) DB2
7 7 (4.83%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (4.83%) MongoDB
7 7 (4.83%) Power BI
7 7 (4.83%) Relational Database
8 6 (4.14%) Tableau
9 5 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (3.45%) NoSQL
10 4 (2.76%) RDBMS
11 3 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (2.07%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 54 (37.24%) GitLab
2 51 (35.17%) Jenkins
3 25 (17.24%) Git
4 20 (13.79%) JIRA
5 14 (9.66%) Bitbucket
6 13 (8.97%) JUnit
7 11 (7.59%) Cucumber
8 10 (6.90%) SonarQube
9 5 (3.45%) Mockito
9 5 (3.45%) Postman
10 4 (2.76%) CircleCI
10 4 (2.76%) Maven
10 4 (2.76%) Terragrunt
11 3 (2.07%) Artifactory
11 3 (2.07%) Mocha
11 3 (2.07%) MSTest
11 3 (2.07%) Selenium
11 3 (2.07%) TeamCity
11 3 (2.07%) tSQLt
12 2 (1.38%) jMock
General
1 42 (28.97%) Social Skills
2 31 (21.38%) Finance
2 31 (21.38%) Public Sector
3 16 (11.03%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (11.03%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (7.59%) Banking
5 7 (4.83%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.07%) Front Office
7 2 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.69%) Games
8 1 (0.69%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (22.76%) Developer
2 28 (19.31%) AWS Engineer
3 25 (17.24%) Senior
4 24 (16.55%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (14.48%) Architect
6 17 (11.72%) AWS DevOps
7 15 (10.34%) Java Developer
8 14 (9.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 12 (8.28%) AWS Developer
10 11 (7.59%) Site Engineer
10 11 (7.59%) Software Engineer
11 10 (6.90%) AWS Architect
11 10 (6.90%) Senior Developer
11 10 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 9 (6.21%) Python Engineer
13 8 (5.52%) Analyst
13 8 (5.52%) Senior Java Developer
14 7 (4.83%) Delivery Manager
14 7 (4.83%) Java Engineer
14 7 (4.83%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (19.31%) Kafka
2 19 (13.10%) Spring Boot
3 18 (12.41%) Spring
4 12 (8.28%) RESTful
5 10 (6.90%) REST
6 9 (6.21%) AngularJS
7 8 (5.52%) .NET
7 8 (5.52%) LDAP
7 8 (5.52%) OpenID
7 8 (5.52%) React
8 7 (4.83%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (4.14%) boto
9 6 (4.14%) CSS
9 6 (4.14%) FastAPI
9 6 (4.14%) Gherkin
9 6 (4.14%) JSON
9 6 (4.14%) SOAP
10 5 (3.45%) AWS CDK
10 5 (3.45%) Node.js
10 5 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.48%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.28%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.83%) Replication
4 5 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.76%) Hedge funds
5 4 (2.76%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.69%) Equities
8 1 (0.69%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.69%) Media Streaming
8 1 (0.69%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.69%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 31 (21.38%) Linux
2 6 (4.14%) Windows
3 2 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.69%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.69%) Unix
4 1 (0.69%) VMS
4 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (58.62%) CI/CD
2 60 (41.38%) DevOps
3 54 (37.24%) Containerisation
4 53 (36.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (31.72%) Agile
6 38 (26.21%) Microservices
6 38 (26.21%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (15.17%) Observability
8 21 (14.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (12.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 16 (11.03%) Decision-Making
10 16 (11.03%) Software Engineering
11 15 (10.34%) Migration
12 12 (8.28%) Configuration Management
12 12 (8.28%) Cost Management
12 12 (8.28%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (7.59%) Clean Code
13 11 (7.59%) Fintech
13 11 (7.59%) Roadmaps
14 10 (6.90%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 69 (47.59%) Python
2 37 (25.52%) Java
3 31 (21.38%) SQL
4 30 (20.69%) Bash
5 16 (11.03%) PowerShell
6 14 (9.66%) C#
7 10 (6.90%) JavaScript
8 6 (4.14%) Go
9 4 (2.76%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.07%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.38%) Perl
11 2 (1.38%) Ruby
12 1 (0.69%) Bicep
12 1 (0.69%) PHP
12 1 (0.69%) Rust
12 1 (0.69%) Scala
12 1 (0.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 58 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 54 (37.24%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.28%) AWS Certification
4 8 (5.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (2.76%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.07%) Degree
7 3 (2.07%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.38%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.69%) CEH
9 1 (0.69%) CISSP
9 1 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.69%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.69%) PMP
9 1 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.45%) PMO
2 4 (2.76%) SLA
3 3 (2.07%) QA
4 2 (1.38%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.69%) GDPR
5 1 (0.69%) GxP
5 1 (0.69%) NIST
System Software
1 80 (55.17%) Docker
2 8 (5.52%) Squid
3 2 (1.38%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.69%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.69%) HDFS
4 1 (0.69%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 83 (57.24%) Terraform
2 59 (40.69%) Kubernetes
3 30 (20.69%) Grafana
4 29 (20.00%) Prometheus
5 27 (18.62%) Ansible
6 9 (6.21%) Puppet
7 8 (5.52%) FortiGate
7 8 (5.52%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (4.83%) Consul
9 5 (3.45%) Karpenter
10 4 (2.76%) Kibana
11 3 (2.07%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (1.38%) Argo
12 2 (1.38%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.69%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.69%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.69%) Salt
13 1 (0.69%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 11 (7.59%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.90%) Atlassian
3 9 (6.21%) Splunk
4 8 (5.52%) Dynatrace
4 8 (5.52%) Red Hat
4 8 (5.52%) Sybase
5 6 (4.14%) PagerDuty
5 6 (4.14%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.45%) OpenAI
6 5 (3.45%) Oracle
7 3 (2.07%) AVEVA
7 3 (2.07%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.38%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.38%) Google
8 2 (1.38%) IBM
8 2 (1.38%) Jaspersoft
9 1 (0.69%) Confluent
9 1 (0.69%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.69%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.69%) SnapLogic