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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 227 208
Rank change year-on-year -55 -19 +100
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 159 140 187
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.79% 1.03% 1.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.91% 2.40% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 96 134
10th Percentile £400 £400 £403
25th Percentile £452 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £575 £610
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% -5.74% +1.67%
75th Percentile £636 £675 £875
90th Percentile £750 £775 £888
England median daily rate £503 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +0.50% -13.04% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £45.85 -
25th Percentile £29.00 £60.25 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £76.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -60.91% - -
75th Percentile £31.00 £81.88 -
90th Percentile - £85.25 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £76.75 -
% change year-on-year -60.91% - -

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 8,335 5,844 6,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.50% 43.09% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,680 4,001 4,772
10th Percentile £363 £337 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.49% -2.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 90 49
10th Percentile £18.90 £22.95 £20.40
25th Percentile £23.14 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.67% -50.91%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.00 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.93 £72.68 £59.20
England median hourly rate £35.36 £26.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +35.22% +4.60% -22.62%

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 August 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
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 August 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 -2 21 £481 -23.85%
Central London -7 14 £638 - 5
East London - 1 £500 -
West London - 1 - - 2
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 21 (13.21%) Confluence
2 9 (5.66%) SharePoint
3 8 (5.03%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (4.40%) nginx
5 3 (1.89%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.63%) Apache
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.63%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 157 (98.74%) AWS
2 117 (73.58%) Amazon S3
3 101 (63.52%) Serverless
4 100 (62.89%) AWS Lambda
5 76 (47.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 65 (40.88%) Amazon EKS
6 65 (40.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 47 (29.56%) GitHub
8 38 (23.90%) Azure
9 31 (19.50%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (17.61%) Amazon ECS
11 26 (16.35%) AWS CloudFormation
12 21 (13.21%) Datadog
13 18 (11.32%) AWS KMS
14 16 (10.06%) Route 53
15 13 (8.18%) Amazon SQS
16 10 (6.29%) Entra ID
17 9 (5.66%) dbt
17 9 (5.66%) Power Platform
17 9 (5.66%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (12.58%) Firewall
2 14 (8.81%) DNS
3 12 (7.55%) TCP/IP
4 9 (5.66%) Network Security
5 7 (4.40%) OpenVPN
6 5 (3.14%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (2.52%) SSH
7 4 (2.52%) VPN
7 4 (2.52%) WAN
8 2 (1.26%) Internet
8 2 (1.26%) SSL
9 1 (0.63%) Calico
9 1 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.63%) DHCP
9 1 (0.63%) HTTP
9 1 (0.63%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.63%) LAN
9 1 (0.63%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.63%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (35.85%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (11.95%) Amazon Athena
3 17 (10.69%) Amazon Aurora
4 16 (10.06%) DynamoDB
5 15 (9.43%) SQL Server
6 14 (8.81%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (7.55%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (5.66%) Power BI
9 6 (3.77%) Amazon QuickSight
9 6 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.52%) Tableau
11 3 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (1.26%) Db2
12 2 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (1.26%) NoSQL
12 2 (1.26%) Relational Database
13 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
13 1 (0.63%) MySQL
13 1 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 64 (40.25%) Git
2 54 (33.96%) GitLab
2 54 (33.96%) Jenkins
3 24 (15.09%) JIRA
4 11 (6.92%) Artifactory
5 10 (6.29%) JUnit
6 9 (5.66%) Cucumber
7 8 (5.03%) Mockito
8 7 (4.40%) Bitbucket
9 6 (3.77%) Maven
9 6 (3.77%) SonarQube
10 5 (3.14%) Postman
11 4 (2.52%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (2.52%) DbUnit
11 4 (2.52%) jMock
11 4 (2.52%) Mocha
11 4 (2.52%) MSTest
11 4 (2.52%) tSQLt
12 3 (1.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (1.89%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 37 (23.27%) Finance
2 36 (22.64%) Social Skills
3 35 (22.01%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.03%) Banking
6 7 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.77%) Back Office
8 5 (3.14%) Military
9 4 (2.52%) Law
10 3 (1.89%) Front Office
10 3 (1.89%) Games
10 3 (1.89%) Police
11 2 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.26%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (23.27%) AWS Engineer
2 31 (19.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (19.50%) Senior
3 28 (17.61%) Developer
4 18 (11.32%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (10.06%) Architect
6 14 (8.81%) AWS Developer
7 13 (8.18%) AWS DevOps
8 12 (7.55%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (7.55%) Python Developer
8 12 (7.55%) Software Engineer
9 11 (6.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 11 (6.92%) Lead
10 10 (6.29%) Java Developer
11 9 (5.66%) AWS Architect
11 9 (5.66%) Data Engineer
12 8 (5.03%) Lead DevOps
12 8 (5.03%) SQL Developer
13 7 (4.40%) Senior Data Engineer
13 7 (4.40%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (16.35%) RESTful
2 18 (11.32%) REST
3 17 (10.69%) Spring Boot
4 15 (9.43%) AngularJS
4 15 (9.43%) Spring
5 14 (8.81%) Kafka
6 12 (7.55%) FastAPI
7 10 (6.29%) Flask
8 8 (5.03%) Pandas
8 8 (5.03%) React
8 8 (5.03%) SOAP
9 7 (4.40%) .NET
9 7 (4.40%) ActiveMQ
9 7 (4.40%) AWS CDK
9 7 (4.40%) Polars
9 7 (4.40%) PySpark
9 7 (4.40%) YAML
10 6 (3.77%) Node.js
11 5 (3.14%) Gherkin
11 5 (3.14%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 37 (23.27%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.92%) Product Ownership
3 10 (6.29%) Replication
4 8 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.03%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (4.40%) Hedge funds
6 6 (3.77%) Fixed Income
7 5 (3.14%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.89%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.89%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (1.89%) NHS
10 2 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.26%) Equities
10 2 (1.26%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.26%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (27.04%) Linux
2 12 (7.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (6.29%) Windows
4 8 (5.03%) Unix
5 7 (4.40%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (1.89%) VMS
6 3 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.26%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (73.58%) CI/CD
2 87 (54.72%) DevOps
3 74 (46.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (38.36%) Agile
5 45 (28.30%) Containerisation
6 35 (22.01%) Microservices
6 35 (22.01%) Observability
7 30 (18.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (16.35%) Test Automation
9 25 (15.72%) Software Engineering
10 23 (14.47%) Performance Tuning
10 23 (14.47%) Platform Engineering
11 21 (13.21%) Cloud Security
11 21 (13.21%) Migration
11 21 (13.21%) Stakeholder Management
12 19 (11.95%) Event-Driven
13 18 (11.32%) AI
14 17 (10.69%) Mentoring
15 16 (10.06%) Root Cause Analysis
16 15 (9.43%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 91 (57.23%) Python
2 45 (28.30%) Java
3 41 (25.79%) SQL
4 33 (20.75%) Bash
5 25 (15.72%) PowerShell
6 22 (13.84%) C#
7 10 (6.29%) Shell Script
8 9 (5.66%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.40%) Groovy
10 6 (3.77%) Perl
10 6 (3.77%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.52%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.89%) Bicep
13 1 (0.63%) C
13 1 (0.63%) C++
13 1 (0.63%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.63%) Haskell
13 1 (0.63%) Korn
13 1 (0.63%) R
13 1 (0.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 76 (47.80%) Security Cleared
2 67 (42.14%) SC Cleared
3 35 (22.01%) AWS Certification
4 12 (7.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (5.66%) Degree
6 8 (5.03%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (3.14%) DV Cleared
9 4 (2.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.89%) CISM
10 3 (1.89%) CISSP
11 2 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.26%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.26%) PMP
12 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.63%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.66%) QA
2 7 (4.40%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.52%) SLA
4 3 (1.89%) NIST
4 3 (1.89%) PMO
5 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.63%) Solvency II
System Software
1 72 (45.28%) Docker
2 11 (6.92%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.03%) Squid
4 5 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.89%) Postfix
6 2 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 97 (61.01%) Terraform
2 56 (35.22%) Kubernetes
3 39 (24.53%) Grafana
4 31 (19.50%) Prometheus
5 29 (18.24%) Ansible
6 9 (5.66%) Puppet
7 7 (4.40%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (3.14%) Packer
8 5 (3.14%) Salt
9 4 (2.52%) Suricata
10 3 (1.89%) Argo
10 3 (1.89%) SELinux
11 2 (1.26%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.26%) Istio
12 1 (0.63%) Cilium
12 1 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.63%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.63%) systemd
Vendors
1 18 (11.32%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.81%) ServiceNow
3 11 (6.92%) Red Hat
4 7 (4.40%) Splunk
5 6 (3.77%) Informatica
6 5 (3.14%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.52%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (2.52%) Okta
7 4 (2.52%) Sybase
8 3 (1.89%) Brio
8 3 (1.89%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.89%) PagerDuty
9 2 (1.26%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.26%) Sonatype
10 1 (0.63%) Cisco
10 1 (0.63%) Databricks
10 1 (0.63%) Google
10 1 (0.63%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.63%) Qualys
10 1 (0.63%) Trend Micro