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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 196 254
Rank change year-on-year -72 +58 -51
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 134 162 144
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.86% 1.20% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.95% 2.88% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 128 110
10th Percentile £368 £413 £360
25th Percentile £456 £525 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +22.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £630 £788 £675
90th Percentile £709 £888 £825
England median daily rate £530 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -15.20% +19.05% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £66.30 - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile £89.00 - -
England median hourly rate £85.00 - -

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 6,858 5,626 6,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.00% 41.54% 37.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,692 3,778 5,007
10th Percentile £348 £355 £325
25th Percentile £424 £450 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £673
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 51 79
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.27 £17.62
25th Percentile £21.84 £23.99 £21.63
Median hourly rate £34.00 £34.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year - +11.48% -10.29%
75th Percentile £52.96 £57.25 £53.63
90th Percentile £70.50 £73.75 £62.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year +36.36% +27.08% -13.44%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 19 February 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 +9 28 £525 -24.19% 6
Central London -23 8 £548 -4.78% 9
West London - 4 £300 - 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 19 (14.18%) Confluence
2 12 (8.96%) nginx
3 5 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.49%) SAS
5 1 (0.75%) FileNet
Applications
1 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.99%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 134 (100.00%) AWS
2 104 (77.61%) Amazon S3
3 80 (59.70%) Serverless
4 77 (57.46%) AWS Lambda
5 62 (46.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 56 (41.79%) Amazon EKS
7 48 (35.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 39 (29.10%) Amazon ECS
9 36 (26.87%) AWS CloudFormation
10 26 (19.40%) GitHub
10 26 (19.40%) Route 53
11 21 (15.67%) Azure
12 20 (14.93%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (12.69%) Amazon ELB
14 14 (10.45%) GCP
15 13 (9.70%) Amazon Kinesis
16 11 (8.21%) Amazon SQS
17 9 (6.72%) AWS CodePipeline
17 9 (6.72%) AWS KMS
17 9 (6.72%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 23 (17.16%) DNS
2 18 (13.43%) Firewall
3 15 (11.19%) VPN
4 13 (9.70%) TCP/IP
5 7 (5.22%) OpenVPN
6 5 (3.73%) SSL
7 4 (2.99%) FTP
7 4 (2.99%) HTTP
7 4 (2.99%) IMAP
7 4 (2.99%) Network Security
7 4 (2.99%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (2.99%) SMTP
7 4 (2.99%) SSH
8 2 (1.49%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (47.76%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (12.69%) MySQL
2 17 (12.69%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (8.21%) Hadoop
3 11 (8.21%) SQL Server
4 10 (7.46%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (7.46%) Apache Cassandra
5 9 (6.72%) DynamoDB
6 8 (5.97%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (5.22%) MongoDB
7 7 (5.22%) Relational Database
8 6 (4.48%) DB2
9 5 (3.73%) Power BI
10 4 (2.99%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.99%) Tableau
11 3 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (2.24%) Big Data
11 3 (2.24%) NoSQL
12 2 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (1.49%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 46 (34.33%) GitLab
1 46 (34.33%) Jenkins
2 26 (19.40%) Git
3 24 (17.91%) JIRA
4 13 (9.70%) Bitbucket
5 8 (5.97%) JUnit
6 7 (5.22%) Cucumber
6 7 (5.22%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.99%) CircleCI
7 4 (2.99%) Terragrunt
7 4 (2.99%) Vagrant
8 3 (2.24%) Postman
9 2 (1.49%) Mocha
9 2 (1.49%) Mockito
9 2 (1.49%) MSTest
9 2 (1.49%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (1.49%) Snyk
9 2 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.49%) Storybook
9 2 (1.49%) tSQLt
General
1 43 (32.09%) Social Skills
2 26 (19.40%) Finance
3 24 (17.91%) Public Sector
4 13 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.70%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (8.21%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (6.72%) Banking
7 2 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.75%) Front Office
8 1 (0.75%) Games
8 1 (0.75%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 29 (21.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (20.90%) AWS Engineer
3 27 (20.15%) Developer
4 23 (17.16%) Senior
5 18 (13.43%) AWS DevOps
6 16 (11.94%) Architect
6 16 (11.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 14 (10.45%) Software Engineer
8 12 (8.96%) Java Developer
9 10 (7.46%) AWS Architect
9 10 (7.46%) Python Engineer
10 9 (6.72%) AWS Developer
10 9 (6.72%) Java Engineer
10 9 (6.72%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.97%) Senior Developer
11 8 (5.97%) Site Engineer
12 7 (5.22%) Cloud Architect
12 7 (5.22%) Delivery Manager
12 7 (5.22%) Technical Delivery Manager
12 7 (5.22%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (17.16%) Kafka
2 14 (10.45%) Spring Boot
3 13 (9.70%) Spring
4 12 (8.96%) LDAP
5 9 (6.72%) REST
6 8 (5.97%) React
6 8 (5.97%) RESTful
7 7 (5.22%) .NET
7 7 (5.22%) AngularJS
7 7 (5.22%) boto
7 7 (5.22%) OpenID
8 6 (4.48%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (4.48%) FastAPI
8 6 (4.48%) JSON
9 5 (3.73%) AWS CDK
9 5 (3.73%) CSS
9 5 (3.73%) Next.js
9 5 (3.73%) Node.js
9 5 (3.73%) pytest
10 4 (2.99%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.93%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.45%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.22%) Replication
4 6 (4.48%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.48%) Virtual Team
5 5 (3.73%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.73%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.99%) Hedge funds
6 4 (2.99%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.49%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.75%) Equities
8 1 (0.75%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.75%) Media Streaming
8 1 (0.75%) NHS
8 1 (0.75%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.75%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 33 (24.63%) Linux
2 7 (5.22%) Windows
3 5 (3.73%) Amazon Linux
3 5 (3.73%) VMS
4 4 (2.99%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.49%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (57.46%) CI/CD
2 60 (44.78%) DevOps
3 51 (38.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (34.33%) Containerisation
5 40 (29.85%) Agile
6 39 (29.10%) Microservices
7 34 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (14.18%) Software Engineering
9 18 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (13.43%) Observability
10 17 (12.69%) Configuration Management
11 15 (11.19%) Platform Engineering
11 15 (11.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 14 (10.45%) Fintech
13 13 (9.70%) Cloud Security
13 13 (9.70%) Decision-Making
14 12 (8.96%) Analytics
15 11 (8.21%) Clean Code
15 11 (8.21%) High Availability
15 11 (8.21%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 74 (55.22%) Python
2 34 (25.37%) Java
3 31 (23.13%) Bash
4 24 (17.91%) SQL
5 14 (10.45%) PowerShell
6 9 (6.72%) C#
6 9 (6.72%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.22%) Go
8 4 (2.99%) Groovy
9 3 (2.24%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.49%) Perl
10 2 (1.49%) Ruby
10 2 (1.49%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.75%) Bicep
11 1 (0.75%) PHP
11 1 (0.75%) Rust
11 1 (0.75%) Scala
11 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 51 (38.06%) Security Cleared
2 49 (36.57%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.45%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.22%) Degree
5 6 (4.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (3.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.99%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.99%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.24%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.75%) CEH
9 1 (0.75%) CISSP
9 1 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.99%) PMO
2 2 (1.49%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.49%) GDPR
2 2 (1.49%) QA
3 1 (0.75%) GxP
3 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.75%) NCSC
3 1 (0.75%) NIST
3 1 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 73 (54.48%) Docker
2 11 (8.21%) Squid
3 4 (2.99%) DFS Replication
3 4 (2.99%) Dovecot
3 4 (2.99%) Postfix
4 2 (1.49%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.75%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 77 (57.46%) Terraform
2 51 (38.06%) Kubernetes
3 28 (20.90%) Ansible
4 26 (19.40%) Grafana
5 24 (17.91%) Prometheus
6 9 (6.72%) Puppet
7 7 (5.22%) FortiGate
7 7 (5.22%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (4.48%) Consul
9 5 (3.73%) Karpenter
10 4 (2.99%) Kibana
10 4 (2.99%) Nessus
10 4 (2.99%) Proxmox
11 3 (2.24%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (1.49%) Argo
12 2 (1.49%) NetBackup
12 2 (1.49%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (6.72%) ServiceNow
2 8 (5.97%) Atlassian
3 7 (5.22%) Dynatrace
3 7 (5.22%) Red Hat
4 6 (4.48%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.48%) PagerDuty
4 6 (4.48%) Splunk
4 6 (4.48%) Sybase
5 5 (3.73%) CheckPoint
5 5 (3.73%) F5
5 5 (3.73%) Jaspersoft
5 5 (3.73%) OpenAI
5 5 (3.73%) Oracle
5 5 (3.73%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.24%) AVEVA
6 3 (2.24%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.49%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.49%) Commvault
7 2 (1.49%) Google
7 2 (1.49%) IBM