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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 224 239
Rank change year-on-year -44 +15 +53
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 175 138 170
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 1.04% 0.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.16% 2.42% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 101 125
10th Percentile £391 £400 £376
25th Percentile £455 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.72% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £613 £700 £775
90th Percentile £713 £775 £883
England median daily rate £500 £508 £550
% change year-on-year -1.48% -7.73% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £36.20 £40.63 -
25th Percentile £47.00 £47.19 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £58.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% - -
75th Percentile £82.50 £69.69 -
90th Percentile £87.00 £75.88 -
England median hourly rate £90.00 £58.75 -
% change year-on-year +53.19% - -

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 8,110 5,714 7,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.81% 43.03% 39.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,568 3,868 5,152
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 78 67
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.85 £19.11
25th Percentile £26.19 £25.15 £22.08
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.75 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% +14.02% -50.96%
75th Percentile £55.19 £48.44 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.93 £67.50 £59.50
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.33 £22.00
% change year-on-year +62.13% +15.11% -33.33%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +14 32 £503 -26.64%
Central London -17 12 £575 -8.00% 15
East London - 1 £500 - 1
West London - 1 - - 3
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 25 (14.29%) Confluence
2 10 (5.71%) nginx
3 8 (4.57%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.86%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.71%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (5.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 173 (98.86%) AWS
2 136 (77.71%) Amazon S3
3 122 (69.71%) Serverless
4 121 (69.14%) AWS Lambda
5 81 (46.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 79 (45.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 68 (38.86%) Amazon EKS
8 45 (25.71%) GitHub
9 32 (18.29%) Azure
10 31 (17.71%) Amazon ECS
10 31 (17.71%) AWS CloudFormation
11 28 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
12 26 (14.86%) Route 53
13 18 (10.29%) Datadog
14 16 (9.14%) Amazon SQS
14 16 (9.14%) AWS KMS
15 14 (8.00%) Power Platform
16 10 (5.71%) AWS CodePipeline
16 10 (5.71%) AWS Step Functions
17 9 (5.14%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 25 (14.29%) Firewall
2 22 (12.57%) DNS
3 16 (9.14%) TCP/IP
4 11 (6.29%) VPN
5 10 (5.71%) OpenVPN
6 8 (4.57%) Network Security
7 4 (2.29%) WAN
8 3 (1.71%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (1.14%) Internet
10 1 (0.57%) Calico
10 1 (0.57%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.57%) DHCP
10 1 (0.57%) HTTP
10 1 (0.57%) LAN
10 1 (0.57%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.57%) SSL
10 1 (0.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (35.43%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (10.29%) Amazon Athena
2 18 (10.29%) SQL Server
3 15 (8.57%) Amazon Aurora
4 14 (8.00%) DynamoDB
4 14 (8.00%) Power BI
5 13 (7.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (6.86%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (5.14%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (4.57%) Tableau
9 6 (3.43%) Amazon QuickSight
9 6 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (2.86%) MySQL
11 4 (2.29%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (2.29%) Db2
11 4 (2.29%) Hadoop
11 4 (2.29%) NoSQL
12 3 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 63 (36.00%) Git
2 58 (33.14%) GitLab
2 58 (33.14%) Jenkins
3 33 (18.86%) JIRA
4 14 (8.00%) Bitbucket
5 13 (7.43%) JUnit
6 12 (6.86%) Artifactory
6 12 (6.86%) Cucumber
6 12 (6.86%) SonarQube
7 9 (5.14%) Mockito
8 6 (3.43%) Mocha
8 6 (3.43%) MSTest
8 6 (3.43%) Postman
8 6 (3.43%) tSQLt
9 5 (2.86%) Maven
10 4 (2.29%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (2.29%) DbUnit
10 4 (2.29%) jMock
11 3 (1.71%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (1.71%) TeamCity
General
1 49 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 43 (24.57%) Public Sector
3 41 (23.43%) Finance
4 16 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.14%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (4.57%) Banking
6 7 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.86%) Military
8 4 (2.29%) Back Office
8 4 (2.29%) Front Office
8 4 (2.29%) Law
9 3 (1.71%) Games
9 3 (1.71%) Police
10 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.14%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (18.86%) AWS Engineer
1 33 (18.86%) Developer
2 32 (18.29%) Senior
3 27 (15.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (13.14%) Architect
5 17 (9.71%) Cloud Engineer
5 17 (9.71%) Software Engineer
6 15 (8.57%) AWS Developer
7 14 (8.00%) AWS DevOps
8 12 (6.86%) AWS Architect
8 12 (6.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 12 (6.86%) Java Developer
8 12 (6.86%) Python Developer
9 9 (5.14%) Analyst
9 9 (5.14%) Delivery Manager
9 9 (5.14%) Lead
10 8 (4.57%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 8 (4.57%) SQL Developer
10 8 (4.57%) Technical Architect
11 7 (4.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (14.29%) RESTful
2 19 (10.86%) Kafka
3 18 (10.29%) REST
3 18 (10.29%) Spring Boot
4 16 (9.14%) AngularJS
5 15 (8.57%) Spring
6 11 (6.29%) FastAPI
7 10 (5.71%) .NET
7 10 (5.71%) Flask
8 9 (5.14%) AWS CDK
8 9 (5.14%) LDAP
8 9 (5.14%) OpenID
8 9 (5.14%) SOAP
9 8 (4.57%) Pandas
10 7 (4.00%) Polars
10 7 (4.00%) React
10 7 (4.00%) YAML
11 6 (3.43%) CSS
11 6 (3.43%) Gherkin
11 6 (3.43%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (18.86%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.14%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.57%) Replication
5 7 (4.00%) Hedge funds
6 6 (3.43%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.86%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.29%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.71%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (1.71%) Equities
9 3 (1.71%) NHS
9 3 (1.71%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.14%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (20.57%) Linux
2 10 (5.71%) Windows
3 8 (4.57%) Unix
4 7 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.86%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (67.43%) CI/CD
2 88 (50.29%) DevOps
3 68 (38.86%) Agile
4 61 (34.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (26.29%) Containerisation
6 40 (22.86%) Microservices
7 34 (19.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (14.86%) Decision-Making
9 26 (14.86%) Software Engineering
10 25 (14.29%) Observability
11 24 (13.71%) Test Automation
12 22 (12.57%) Performance Tuning
13 21 (12.00%) Cloud Security
14 20 (11.43%) Platform Engineering
15 19 (10.86%) AI
15 19 (10.86%) Mentoring
15 19 (10.86%) Migration
15 19 (10.86%) Stakeholder Management
16 18 (10.29%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 88 (50.29%) Python
2 46 (26.29%) SQL
3 42 (24.00%) Java
4 32 (18.29%) Bash
5 27 (15.43%) C#
6 24 (13.71%) PowerShell
7 11 (6.29%) JavaScript
7 11 (6.29%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.43%) T-SQL
8 6 (3.43%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.86%) Groovy
10 4 (2.29%) Perl
11 3 (1.71%) Bicep
12 2 (1.14%) Go
13 1 (0.57%) C
13 1 (0.57%) C++
13 1 (0.57%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.57%) Haskell
13 1 (0.57%) Korn
13 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 87 (49.71%) Security Cleared
2 81 (46.29%) SC Cleared
3 25 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 9 (5.14%) Degree
5 6 (3.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 6 (3.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 6 (3.43%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.29%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.71%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.14%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.14%) PMP
9 1 (0.57%) CCNA
9 1 (0.57%) CCNP
9 1 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.57%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.14%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.00%) PMO
2 7 (4.00%) QA
3 5 (2.86%) SLA
4 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.57%) Solvency II
System Software
1 79 (45.14%) Docker
2 15 (8.57%) Squid
3 8 (4.57%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.71%) Postfix
5 2 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 96 (54.86%) Terraform
2 65 (37.14%) Kubernetes
3 42 (24.00%) Grafana
4 38 (21.71%) Prometheus
5 25 (14.29%) Ansible
6 10 (5.71%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (5.14%) FortiGate
7 9 (5.14%) Puppet
8 7 (4.00%) Consul
9 5 (2.86%) Packer
9 5 (2.86%) Salt
10 4 (2.29%) Suricata
11 1 (0.57%) Argo
11 1 (0.57%) Cilium
11 1 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.57%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 12 (6.86%) Red Hat
2 11 (6.29%) Atlassian
2 11 (6.29%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.29%) ServiceNow
3 9 (5.14%) Dynatrace
4 7 (4.00%) Sybase
5 6 (3.43%) Informatica
6 5 (2.86%) Splunk
7 4 (2.29%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (1.71%) AVEVA
8 3 (1.71%) Brio
8 3 (1.71%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.71%) PagerDuty
9 2 (1.14%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.14%) Oracle
10 1 (0.57%) Cisco
10 1 (0.57%) Google
10 1 (0.57%) IBM
10 1 (0.57%) Qualys
10 1 (0.57%) VMware