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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 190 244
Rank change year-on-year -71 +54 -24
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 152 163 150
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 1.29% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.06% 3.04% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 134 111
10th Percentile £359 £408 £360
25th Percentile £456 £506 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +23.81% -16.00%
75th Percentile £618 £788 £675
90th Percentile £675 £875 £800
England median daily rate £530 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -11.67% +14.29% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £68.50 - -
25th Percentile £73.75 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile £89.50 - -
England median hourly rate £90.00 - -

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 7,374 5,369 6,771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.65% 42.53% 37.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,067 3,764 4,962
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £440 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 51 80
10th Percentile £18.03 £22.27 £17.70
25th Percentile £24.29 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.12
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.29% -25.37%
75th Percentile £50.75 £54.50 £51.06
90th Percentile £72.25 £67.50 £62.63
England median hourly rate £41.64 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +57.13% +26.19% -18.69%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 30 £519 -36.76%
Central London -19 10 £575 -8.00% 11
West London - 4 £300 -
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 12 (7.89%) Confluence
2 10 (6.58%) nginx
3 8 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.29%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.66%) FileNet
5 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.66%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (5.92%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 151 (99.34%) AWS
2 118 (77.63%) Amazon S3
3 101 (66.45%) Serverless
4 98 (64.47%) AWS Lambda
5 68 (44.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 64 (42.11%) Amazon EKS
7 54 (35.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 40 (26.32%) AWS CloudFormation
9 35 (23.03%) Amazon ECS
9 35 (23.03%) GitHub
10 30 (19.74%) Route 53
11 27 (17.76%) GitHub Actions
12 24 (15.79%) Azure
13 16 (10.53%) Amazon SQS
13 16 (10.53%) GCP
14 11 (7.24%) Amazon Kinesis
14 11 (7.24%) AWS CodePipeline
15 9 (5.92%) AWS Fargate
15 9 (5.92%) Datadog
15 9 (5.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (14.47%) DNS
2 13 (8.55%) Firewall
2 13 (8.55%) VPN
3 12 (7.89%) TCP/IP
4 10 (6.58%) OpenVPN
5 2 (1.32%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.66%) DHCP
6 1 (0.66%) Network Security
6 1 (0.66%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.66%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (43.42%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (11.18%) SQL Server
3 12 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (7.24%) DynamoDB
4 11 (7.24%) MySQL
5 9 (5.92%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (5.92%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (5.92%) Hadoop
5 9 (5.92%) Power BI
6 8 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
6 8 (5.26%) DB2
6 8 (5.26%) Tableau
7 7 (4.61%) Relational Database
8 6 (3.95%) MongoDB
9 5 (3.29%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (3.29%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (2.63%) NoSQL
10 4 (2.63%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.97%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 53 (34.87%) GitLab
2 52 (34.21%) Jenkins
3 29 (19.08%) Git
4 18 (11.84%) JIRA
5 13 (8.55%) Bitbucket
5 13 (8.55%) JUnit
6 11 (7.24%) Cucumber
7 10 (6.58%) SonarQube
8 5 (3.29%) Mockito
8 5 (3.29%) Postman
9 4 (2.63%) CircleCI
9 4 (2.63%) Maven
9 4 (2.63%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.97%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.97%) Mocha
10 3 (1.97%) MSTest
10 3 (1.97%) Selenium
10 3 (1.97%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.97%) tSQLt
11 2 (1.32%) Snyk
General
1 45 (29.61%) Social Skills
2 36 (23.68%) Finance
3 34 (22.37%) Public Sector
4 17 (11.18%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (11.18%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (7.24%) Banking
6 7 (4.61%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.97%) Front Office
8 2 (1.32%) Games
8 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (23.68%) Developer
2 27 (17.76%) AWS Engineer
3 25 (16.45%) Senior
4 23 (15.13%) Architect
4 23 (15.13%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (11.18%) AWS DevOps
6 15 (9.87%) AWS Developer
6 15 (9.87%) Java Developer
7 14 (9.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 12 (7.89%) AWS Architect
8 12 (7.89%) Site Engineer
9 11 (7.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 11 (7.24%) Software Engineer
10 10 (6.58%) Analyst
10 10 (6.58%) Python Engineer
10 10 (6.58%) Senior Developer
11 8 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 8 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (4.61%) Java Engineer
12 7 (4.61%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (18.42%) Kafka
2 19 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 18 (11.84%) Spring
4 14 (9.21%) RESTful
5 10 (6.58%) REST
6 9 (5.92%) AngularJS
6 9 (5.92%) FastAPI
6 9 (5.92%) LDAP
6 9 (5.92%) OpenID
7 8 (5.26%) .NET
8 7 (4.61%) AWS CDK
8 7 (4.61%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (4.61%) Flask
8 7 (4.61%) React
9 6 (3.95%) boto
9 6 (3.95%) Gherkin
9 6 (3.95%) JSON
9 6 (3.95%) Next.js
9 6 (3.95%) SOAP
10 5 (3.29%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.82%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.61%) Hedge funds
4 6 (3.95%) Replication
5 5 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.29%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.29%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.63%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.66%) Equities
9 1 (0.66%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.66%) Media Streaming
9 1 (0.66%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 34 (22.37%) Linux
2 6 (3.95%) Windows
3 4 (2.63%) Unix
4 2 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.66%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.66%) VMS
5 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (57.89%) CI/CD
2 60 (39.47%) DevOps
3 53 (34.87%) Containerisation
4 51 (33.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 49 (32.24%) Agile
6 40 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (25.66%) Microservices
8 23 (15.13%) Observability
9 22 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 18 (11.84%) Decision-Making
12 17 (11.18%) Migration
12 17 (11.18%) Software Engineering
13 14 (9.21%) Cost Management
14 13 (8.55%) Platform Engineering
14 13 (8.55%) Roadmaps
15 12 (7.89%) Analytics
16 11 (7.24%) Clean Code
16 11 (7.24%) Cloud Security
16 11 (7.24%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 70 (46.05%) Python
2 37 (24.34%) Java
3 35 (23.03%) SQL
4 27 (17.76%) Bash
5 17 (11.18%) C#
5 17 (11.18%) PowerShell
6 9 (5.92%) JavaScript
7 7 (4.61%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.95%) Go
9 3 (1.97%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.97%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.32%) Perl
10 2 (1.32%) Ruby
11 1 (0.66%) Bicep
11 1 (0.66%) Rust
11 1 (0.66%) Scala
Qualifications
1 61 (40.13%) Security Cleared
2 57 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.89%) AWS Certification
4 8 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (3.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 5 (3.29%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.97%) Degree
6 3 (1.97%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.66%) CEH
8 1 (0.66%) CISSP
8 1 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.66%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.66%) PMP
8 1 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.61%) PMO
2 4 (2.63%) SLA
3 3 (1.97%) QA
4 2 (1.32%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.66%) GDPR
5 1 (0.66%) GxP
5 1 (0.66%) NIST
System Software
1 81 (53.29%) Docker
2 9 (5.92%) Squid
3 2 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.66%) HDFS
4 1 (0.66%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 84 (55.26%) Terraform
2 61 (40.13%) Kubernetes
3 31 (20.39%) Grafana
4 30 (19.74%) Prometheus
5 25 (16.45%) Ansible
6 10 (6.58%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (5.92%) FortiGate
8 8 (5.26%) Puppet
9 7 (4.61%) Consul
10 5 (3.29%) Karpenter
11 4 (2.63%) Kibana
12 3 (1.97%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (1.32%) Argo
14 1 (0.66%) Failover Clustering
14 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.66%) NetBackup
14 1 (0.66%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.66%) Salt
14 1 (0.66%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 12 (7.89%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.92%) Atlassian
2 9 (5.92%) Dynatrace
2 9 (5.92%) Red Hat
2 9 (5.92%) Splunk
3 8 (5.26%) Sybase
4 6 (3.95%) PagerDuty
4 6 (3.95%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.29%) OpenAI
5 5 (3.29%) Oracle
6 3 (1.97%) AVEVA
6 3 (1.97%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.32%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.32%) Google
7 2 (1.32%) IBM
7 2 (1.32%) Jaspersoft
8 1 (0.66%) Confluent
8 1 (0.66%) Databricks
8 1 (0.66%) StreamSets
8 1 (0.66%) Tenable