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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 187 249
Rank change year-on-year -71 +62 -43
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 122 182 145
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.84% 1.31% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.89% 3.18% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 136 110
10th Percentile £363 £419 £396
25th Percentile £450 £519 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £663 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.49% +20.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £645 £828 £700
90th Percentile £675 £888 £826
England median daily rate £534 £608 £550
% change year-on-year -12.14% +10.45% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £66.63 - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - -
Median hourly rate £79.25 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile £88.75 - -
England median hourly rate £79.25 - -

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 6,463 5,724 6,809
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.33% 41.23% 37.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,447 3,832 5,017
10th Percentile £349 £351 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £780 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 45 70
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.70
25th Percentile £21.65 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.61 £31.35 £33.25
Median % change year-on-year -11.93% -5.73% +28.65%
75th Percentile £56.38 £48.75 £57.88
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.50 £67.30
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.41 £23.23
% change year-on-year +5.60% +22.31% +0.33%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -5 16 £530 -1.85% 3
Central London -14 10 £575 - 19
West London -15 4 £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 16 (13.11%) Confluence
2 9 (7.38%) nginx
3 6 (4.92%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.28%) SAS
5 1 (0.82%) FileNet
Applications
1 9 (7.38%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 122 (100.00%) AWS
2 92 (75.41%) Amazon S3
3 60 (49.18%) Serverless
4 57 (46.72%) AWS Lambda
5 53 (43.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 47 (38.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 43 (35.25%) Amazon ECS
8 41 (33.61%) Amazon EKS
9 34 (27.87%) AWS CloudFormation
10 26 (21.31%) GitHub
11 25 (20.49%) Azure
12 23 (18.85%) Amazon ELB
13 22 (18.03%) Route 53
14 19 (15.57%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (11.48%) Amazon Kinesis
15 14 (11.48%) GCP
16 12 (9.84%) Datadog
17 10 (8.20%) AWS Step Functions
18 9 (7.38%) AWS KMS
18 9 (7.38%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (20.49%) DNS
2 21 (17.21%) Firewall
3 13 (10.66%) VPN
4 10 (8.20%) SSL
4 10 (8.20%) TCP/IP
5 9 (7.38%) FTP
5 9 (7.38%) HTTP
5 9 (7.38%) IMAP
5 9 (7.38%) OpenLDAP
5 9 (7.38%) SMTP
5 9 (7.38%) SSH
6 6 (4.92%) Network Security
7 2 (1.64%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (17.21%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (14.75%) MySQL
4 14 (11.48%) Amazon Aurora
5 12 (9.84%) Hadoop
6 11 (9.02%) Apache Cassandra
6 11 (9.02%) DynamoDB
7 8 (6.56%) SQL Server
8 7 (5.74%) MongoDB
8 7 (5.74%) Relational Database
9 6 (4.92%) DB2
10 4 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (3.28%) RDBMS
11 3 (2.46%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (2.46%) Big Data
11 3 (2.46%) Data Lake
11 3 (2.46%) NoSQL
12 2 (1.64%) Apache Hive
13 1 (0.82%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 50 (40.98%) Jenkins
2 44 (36.07%) GitLab
3 30 (24.59%) Git
4 21 (17.21%) JIRA
5 9 (7.38%) Vagrant
6 7 (5.74%) JUnit
7 5 (4.10%) Cucumber
8 4 (3.28%) Bitbucket
8 4 (3.28%) CircleCI
8 4 (3.28%) Terragrunt
9 3 (2.46%) Postman
10 2 (1.64%) Selenium
10 2 (1.64%) Serenity BDD
10 2 (1.64%) Snyk
10 2 (1.64%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.64%) Storybook
11 1 (0.82%) Maven
11 1 (0.82%) Mockito
General
1 33 (27.05%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.03%) Public Sector
3 21 (17.21%) Finance
4 11 (9.02%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (8.20%) Banking
6 7 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.64%) Military
9 1 (0.82%) Advertising
9 1 (0.82%) Games
9 1 (0.82%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.82%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 35 (28.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 33 (27.05%) AWS Engineer
3 27 (22.13%) Senior
4 24 (19.67%) Developer
5 23 (18.85%) AWS DevOps
6 22 (18.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 16 (13.11%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (9.84%) Software Engineer
9 11 (9.02%) Java Developer
9 11 (9.02%) Python Engineer
10 10 (8.20%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 10 (8.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 9 (7.38%) Java Engineer
11 9 (7.38%) Senior DevOps
11 9 (7.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 8 (6.56%) Architect
12 8 (6.56%) AWS Developer
12 8 (6.56%) Senior Developer
12 8 (6.56%) Site Engineer
13 7 (5.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (19.67%) Kafka
2 12 (9.84%) Spring
2 12 (9.84%) Spring Boot
3 10 (8.20%) LDAP
4 9 (7.38%) React
5 7 (5.74%) REST
6 6 (4.92%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (4.92%) FastAPI
6 6 (4.92%) JSON
7 5 (4.10%) boto
7 5 (4.10%) Next.js
7 5 (4.10%) pytest
7 5 (4.10%) RESTful
8 4 (3.28%) AngularJS
8 4 (3.28%) Django
8 4 (3.28%) Flask
8 4 (3.28%) Node.js
9 3 (2.46%) .NET
9 3 (2.46%) CSS
9 3 (2.46%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.85%) Cloud Native
2 15 (12.30%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (9.84%) Replication
4 7 (5.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (5.74%) Virtual Team
5 6 (4.92%) Onboarding
6 5 (4.10%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.28%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (3.28%) Hedge funds
7 4 (3.28%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.82%) Media Streaming
8 1 (0.82%) NHS
8 1 (0.82%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.82%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 37 (30.33%) Linux
2 14 (11.48%) Windows
3 10 (8.20%) VMS
4 9 (7.38%) Amazon Linux
4 9 (7.38%) Ubuntu
5 4 (3.28%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (68.03%) CI/CD
2 61 (50.00%) DevOps
3 56 (45.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (37.70%) Containerisation
5 37 (30.33%) Microservices
6 28 (22.95%) Agile
7 25 (20.49%) Configuration Management
8 23 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (17.21%) Observability
10 20 (16.39%) Platform Engineering
11 17 (13.93%) Cloud Security
11 17 (13.93%) Software Engineering
12 15 (12.30%) Fintech
12 15 (12.30%) High Availability
12 15 (12.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 14 (11.48%) Analytics
14 13 (10.66%) Incident Response
14 13 (10.66%) Infrastructure Automation
14 13 (10.66%) Mentoring
14 13 (10.66%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 79 (64.75%) Python
2 34 (27.87%) Bash
3 32 (26.23%) Java
4 22 (18.03%) SQL
5 19 (15.57%) PowerShell
6 9 (7.38%) Groovy
7 8 (6.56%) JavaScript
8 7 (5.74%) Go
9 4 (3.28%) C#
10 2 (1.64%) Perl
10 2 (1.64%) Ruby
10 2 (1.64%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.82%) Bicep
11 1 (0.82%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.82%) PHP
11 1 (0.82%) R
11 1 (0.82%) Rust
11 1 (0.82%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (30.33%) Security Cleared
2 36 (29.51%) SC Cleared
3 19 (15.57%) AWS Certification
4 12 (9.84%) Degree
5 9 (7.38%) Azure Certification
6 7 (5.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (4.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.46%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.82%) CEH
10 1 (0.82%) CISSP
10 1 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.46%) GDPR
2 1 (0.82%) GxP
2 1 (0.82%) HIPAA
2 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.82%) NCSC
2 1 (0.82%) NIST
2 1 (0.82%) QA
System Software
1 80 (65.57%) Docker
2 9 (7.38%) DFS Replication
2 9 (7.38%) Dovecot
2 9 (7.38%) Postfix
2 9 (7.38%) Squid
3 2 (1.64%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.82%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 82 (67.21%) Terraform
2 40 (32.79%) Kubernetes
3 33 (27.05%) Ansible
4 23 (18.85%) Grafana
5 22 (18.03%) Prometheus
6 12 (9.84%) Puppet
7 9 (7.38%) Nessus
7 9 (7.38%) Proxmox
8 5 (4.10%) Karpenter
9 4 (3.28%) Kibana
9 4 (3.28%) NetBackup
9 4 (3.28%) Progress Chef
10 3 (2.46%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (1.64%) Argo
Vendors
1 10 (8.20%) CheckPoint
1 10 (8.20%) F5
1 10 (8.20%) Palo Alto
1 10 (8.20%) ServiceNow
2 9 (7.38%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (4.92%) PagerDuty
3 6 (4.92%) Splunk
4 5 (4.10%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.10%) Sybase
5 4 (3.28%) Commvault
5 4 (3.28%) Oracle
5 4 (3.28%) SnapLogic
6 3 (2.46%) AVEVA
6 3 (2.46%) Cloudera
6 3 (2.46%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.64%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.64%) Google
7 2 (1.64%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.82%) Databricks
8 1 (0.82%) StreamSets