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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 230 205
Rank change year-on-year -55 -25 +101
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 167 138 183
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.83% 1.01% 1.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.00% 2.36% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 95 128
10th Percentile £396 £400 £406
25th Percentile £456 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% +1.63%
75th Percentile £626 £678 £875
90th Percentile £713 £775 £888
England median daily rate £500 £500 £593
% change year-on-year - -15.61% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £45.00 -
25th Percentile £29.00 £58.13 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -62.50% - -
75th Percentile £31.00 £83.75 -
90th Percentile - £86.00 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -62.50% - -

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 8,333 5,855 6,575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.36% 42.82% 40.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,679 4,028 4,781
10th Percentile £363 £338 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.28% -2.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £659 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 87 52
10th Percentile £19.13 £22.80 £20.65
25th Percentile £23.94 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% -0.62% -48.00%
75th Percentile £54.88 £45.25 £41.19
90th Percentile £75.88 £69.30 £65.65
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
% change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%

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 10 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 10 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 +3 32 £488 -24.30% 1
Central London -20 14 £638 - 7
West London - 1 - - 1
East London - 1 £500 -
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 26 (15.57%) Confluence
2 9 (5.39%) nginx
2 9 (5.39%) SharePoint
3 8 (4.79%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.80%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.60%) Apache
5 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (5.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 165 (98.80%) AWS
2 127 (76.05%) Amazon S3
3 110 (65.87%) Serverless
4 109 (65.27%) AWS Lambda
5 84 (50.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 75 (44.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 66 (39.52%) Amazon EKS
8 49 (29.34%) GitHub
9 36 (21.56%) Azure
10 33 (19.76%) GitHub Actions
11 30 (17.96%) Amazon ECS
12 28 (16.77%) AWS CloudFormation
13 21 (12.57%) AWS KMS
14 19 (11.38%) Datadog
15 16 (9.58%) Route 53
16 14 (8.38%) Amazon SQS
16 14 (8.38%) Power Platform
17 9 (5.39%) AWS CloudTrail
17 9 (5.39%) dbt
17 9 (5.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (11.98%) Firewall
2 16 (9.58%) DNS
3 13 (7.78%) TCP/IP
4 8 (4.79%) Network Security
4 8 (4.79%) OpenVPN
5 5 (2.99%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (2.99%) VPN
6 4 (2.40%) SSH
6 4 (2.40%) WAN
7 2 (1.20%) Internet
7 2 (1.20%) SSL
8 1 (0.60%) Calico
8 1 (0.60%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.60%) DHCP
8 1 (0.60%) HTTP
8 1 (0.60%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.60%) LAN
8 1 (0.60%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.60%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (36.53%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (11.38%) Amazon Athena
3 16 (9.58%) Amazon Aurora
3 16 (9.58%) SQL Server
4 14 (8.38%) DynamoDB
4 14 (8.38%) Power BI
5 13 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (7.19%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (4.79%) Tableau
8 6 (3.59%) Amazon QuickSight
8 6 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.20%) Db2
10 2 (1.20%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.20%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.60%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.60%) MySQL
11 1 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 67 (40.12%) Git
2 56 (33.53%) GitLab
2 56 (33.53%) Jenkins
3 29 (17.37%) JIRA
4 12 (7.19%) Artifactory
5 11 (6.59%) Bitbucket
6 10 (5.99%) Cucumber
6 10 (5.99%) JUnit
7 8 (4.79%) Mockito
8 7 (4.19%) SonarQube
9 6 (3.59%) Maven
10 5 (2.99%) Mocha
10 5 (2.99%) MSTest
10 5 (2.99%) Postman
10 5 (2.99%) tSQLt
11 4 (2.40%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (2.40%) DbUnit
11 4 (2.40%) jMock
12 3 (1.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (1.80%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 43 (25.75%) Social Skills
2 41 (24.55%) Public Sector
3 40 (23.95%) Finance
4 15 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.79%) Banking
6 7 (4.19%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (4.19%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.59%) Back Office
8 5 (2.99%) Military
9 4 (2.40%) Law
10 3 (1.80%) Front Office
10 3 (1.80%) Games
10 3 (1.80%) Police
11 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.20%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (22.16%) AWS Engineer
2 31 (18.56%) Senior
3 29 (17.37%) Developer
4 27 (16.17%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (10.78%) Cloud Engineer
6 17 (10.18%) Architect
7 14 (8.38%) AWS Developer
8 13 (7.78%) Software Engineer
9 12 (7.19%) AWS DevOps
9 12 (7.19%) Platform Engineer
9 12 (7.19%) Python Developer
10 10 (5.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 10 (5.99%) Java Developer
10 10 (5.99%) Lead
11 9 (5.39%) Analyst
11 9 (5.39%) Data Engineer
11 9 (5.39%) Delivery Manager
12 8 (4.79%) AWS Architect
12 8 (4.79%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 8 (4.79%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (16.17%) RESTful
2 19 (11.38%) REST
3 17 (10.18%) Spring Boot
4 16 (9.58%) AngularJS
5 15 (8.98%) Spring
6 14 (8.38%) Kafka
7 12 (7.19%) FastAPI
8 10 (5.99%) AWS CDK
8 10 (5.99%) Flask
9 9 (5.39%) .NET
10 8 (4.79%) Pandas
10 8 (4.79%) React
10 8 (4.79%) SOAP
11 7 (4.19%) ActiveMQ
11 7 (4.19%) Polars
11 7 (4.19%) PySpark
11 7 (4.19%) YAML
12 6 (3.59%) boto
12 6 (3.59%) Node.js
13 5 (2.99%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 36 (21.56%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.59%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.39%) Replication
4 8 (4.79%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.19%) Hedge funds
6 5 (2.99%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.99%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.80%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.80%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.80%) NHS
8 3 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.20%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.20%) Equities
9 2 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.60%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (25.15%) Linux
2 12 (7.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (5.99%) Windows
4 8 (4.79%) Unix
5 7 (4.19%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.20%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.20%) VMS
7 2 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (69.46%) CI/CD
2 86 (51.50%) DevOps
3 72 (43.11%) Agile
4 69 (41.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (26.95%) Containerisation
6 38 (22.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 36 (21.56%) Microservices
8 31 (18.56%) Observability
9 26 (15.57%) Software Engineering
9 26 (15.57%) Test Automation
10 25 (14.97%) Platform Engineering
11 23 (13.77%) Performance Tuning
12 22 (13.17%) Migration
13 21 (12.57%) Cloud Security
13 21 (12.57%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (11.38%) AI
14 19 (11.38%) Decision-Making
14 19 (11.38%) Event-Driven
14 19 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (10.18%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 89 (53.29%) Python
2 45 (26.95%) SQL
3 43 (25.75%) Java
4 32 (19.16%) Bash
5 24 (14.37%) C#
5 24 (14.37%) PowerShell
6 12 (7.19%) Shell Script
7 10 (5.99%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.59%) Groovy
8 6 (3.59%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.99%) Perl
9 5 (2.99%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.80%) Bicep
11 1 (0.60%) C
11 1 (0.60%) C++
11 1 (0.60%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.60%) Haskell
11 1 (0.60%) Korn
11 1 (0.60%) R
11 1 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 86 (51.50%) Security Cleared
2 78 (46.71%) SC Cleared
3 30 (17.96%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 9 (5.39%) Degree
5 7 (4.19%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (2.40%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.20%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.20%) PMP
10 1 (0.60%) CCNA
10 1 (0.60%) CCNP
10 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.60%) CISM
10 1 (0.60%) CISSP
10 1 (0.60%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.39%) Data Quality
1 9 (5.39%) QA
2 7 (4.19%) PMO
3 5 (2.99%) SLA
4 1 (0.60%) NIST
4 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.60%) Solvency II
System Software
1 73 (43.71%) Docker
2 10 (5.99%) Active Directory
3 9 (5.39%) Squid
4 3 (1.80%) Postfix
4 3 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.60%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 94 (56.29%) Terraform
2 55 (32.93%) Kubernetes
3 39 (23.35%) Grafana
4 31 (18.56%) Prometheus
5 29 (17.37%) Ansible
6 9 (5.39%) Puppet
7 8 (4.79%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (2.99%) Packer
8 5 (2.99%) Salt
9 4 (2.40%) Suricata
10 3 (1.80%) Argo
10 3 (1.80%) FortiGate
10 3 (1.80%) SELinux
11 2 (1.20%) Consul
11 2 (1.20%) Istio
12 1 (0.60%) Cilium
12 1 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.60%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.60%) systemd
Vendors
1 17 (10.18%) ServiceNow
2 16 (9.58%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.59%) Red Hat
4 6 (3.59%) Atlassian
4 6 (3.59%) Informatica
4 6 (3.59%) Splunk
5 4 (2.40%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (2.40%) Sybase
6 3 (1.80%) Brio
6 3 (1.80%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.80%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.80%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.20%) Okta
7 2 (1.20%) Oracle
7 2 (1.20%) Sonatype
8 1 (0.60%) Cisco
8 1 (0.60%) Databricks
8 1 (0.60%) IBM
8 1 (0.60%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.60%) VMware