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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 204 248
Rank change year-on-year -55 +44 -44
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 134 162 147
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.86% 1.20% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.97% 2.89% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 128 113
10th Percentile £368 £412 £361
25th Percentile £456 £523 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +22.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £629 £788 £675
90th Percentile £709 £888 £825
England median daily rate £525 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -16.00% +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 6,807 5,612 6,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.73% 41.56% 37.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,669 3,779 5,073
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
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 97 52 79
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.42 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.75 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +7.38% -10.29%
75th Percentile £52.16 £56.50 £53.38
90th Percentile £71.00 £73.13 £62.75
England median hourly rate £38.54 £27.63 £21.50
% change year-on-year +39.49% +28.51% -14.00%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +8 28 £525 -24.19% 6
Central London -14 9 £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 17 (12.69%) Confluence
2 11 (8.21%) nginx
3 5 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.75%) FileNet
4 1 (0.75%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.24%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 134 (100.00%) AWS
2 104 (77.61%) Amazon S3
3 82 (61.19%) Serverless
4 79 (58.96%) AWS Lambda
5 61 (45.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 56 (41.79%) Amazon EKS
7 48 (35.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 40 (29.85%) Amazon ECS
9 37 (27.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 27 (20.15%) GitHub
11 25 (18.66%) Route 53
12 22 (16.42%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (14.18%) Azure
14 16 (11.94%) Amazon ELB
15 14 (10.45%) Amazon Kinesis
15 14 (10.45%) GCP
16 12 (8.96%) Amazon SQS
17 11 (8.21%) AWS CodePipeline
18 9 (6.72%) AWS Fargate
18 9 (6.72%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 22 (16.42%) DNS
2 17 (12.69%) 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%) Network Security
8 3 (2.24%) FTP
8 3 (2.24%) HTTP
8 3 (2.24%) IMAP
8 3 (2.24%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (2.24%) SMTP
8 3 (2.24%) SSH
9 2 (1.49%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (49.25%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (12.69%) MySQL
3 16 (11.94%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (8.21%) Hadoop
4 11 (8.21%) SQL Server
5 10 (7.46%) Apache Cassandra
5 10 (7.46%) DynamoDB
6 9 (6.72%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (5.97%) DB2
7 8 (5.97%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (5.22%) MongoDB
8 7 (5.22%) Relational Database
9 6 (4.48%) Power BI
10 5 (3.73%) NoSQL
10 5 (3.73%) Tableau
11 4 (2.99%) RDBMS
12 3 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (2.24%) Big Data
13 2 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (1.49%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 47 (35.07%) Jenkins
2 46 (34.33%) GitLab
3 24 (17.91%) Git
4 22 (16.42%) JIRA
5 13 (9.70%) Bitbucket
6 10 (7.46%) JUnit
7 7 (5.22%) Cucumber
7 7 (5.22%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.99%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.99%) Terragrunt
9 3 (2.24%) Postman
9 3 (2.24%) Vagrant
10 2 (1.49%) Mocha
10 2 (1.49%) Mockito
10 2 (1.49%) MSTest
10 2 (1.49%) Serenity BDD
10 2 (1.49%) Snyk
10 2 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.49%) Storybook
10 2 (1.49%) tSQLt
General
1 42 (31.34%) 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 10 (7.46%) 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%) Developer
2 28 (20.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (20.15%) AWS Engineer
4 25 (18.66%) Senior
5 17 (12.69%) AWS DevOps
6 16 (11.94%) Architect
7 15 (11.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 14 (10.45%) Java Developer
9 13 (9.70%) Software Engineer
10 11 (8.21%) AWS Developer
11 10 (7.46%) AWS Architect
11 10 (7.46%) Senior Developer
12 9 (6.72%) Java Engineer
12 9 (6.72%) Python Engineer
13 8 (5.97%) Senior Java Developer
13 8 (5.97%) Site Engineer
14 7 (5.22%) Analyst
14 7 (5.22%) Delivery Manager
14 7 (5.22%) Technical Delivery Manager
14 7 (5.22%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.66%) Kafka
2 16 (11.94%) Spring Boot
3 15 (11.19%) Spring
4 10 (7.46%) LDAP
4 10 (7.46%) RESTful
5 9 (6.72%) REST
6 8 (5.97%) React
7 7 (5.22%) .NET
7 7 (5.22%) AngularJS
7 7 (5.22%) OpenID
8 6 (4.48%) boto
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
10 4 (2.99%) Django
10 4 (2.99%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.67%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.45%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.48%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.48%) Replication
3 6 (4.48%) Virtual Team
4 5 (3.73%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.99%) Hedge funds
5 4 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.99%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.75%) Equities
7 1 (0.75%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.75%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.75%) NHS
7 1 (0.75%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (0.75%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 31 (23.13%) Linux
2 5 (3.73%) Windows
3 4 (2.99%) Amazon Linux
3 4 (2.99%) VMS
4 3 (2.24%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.75%) Unix
6 1 (0.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (57.46%) CI/CD
2 59 (44.03%) DevOps
3 50 (37.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (35.82%) Containerisation
5 42 (31.34%) Agile
6 40 (29.85%) Microservices
7 34 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (13.43%) Observability
8 18 (13.43%) Software Engineering
9 15 (11.19%) Configuration Management
9 15 (11.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 14 (10.45%) Decision-Making
10 14 (10.45%) Fintech
11 13 (9.70%) Platform Engineering
12 12 (8.96%) Analytics
12 12 (8.96%) Cloud Security
13 11 (8.21%) Clean Code
13 11 (8.21%) Generative AI
13 11 (8.21%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 71 (52.99%) Python
2 36 (26.87%) Java
3 31 (23.13%) Bash
4 26 (19.40%) SQL
5 12 (8.96%) PowerShell
6 9 (6.72%) C#
6 9 (6.72%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.48%) Go
8 3 (2.24%) Groovy
8 3 (2.24%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.49%) Perl
9 2 (1.49%) Ruby
9 2 (1.49%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.75%) Bicep
10 1 (0.75%) PHP
10 1 (0.75%) Rust
10 1 (0.75%) Scala
10 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (37.31%) Security Cleared
2 48 (35.82%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.45%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (4.48%) Degree
6 5 (3.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.99%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.24%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.24%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.49%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.75%) CEH
10 1 (0.75%) CISSP
10 1 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
10 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 74 (55.22%) Docker
2 10 (7.46%) Squid
3 3 (2.24%) DFS Replication
3 3 (2.24%) Dovecot
3 3 (2.24%) Postfix
4 2 (1.49%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.75%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 75 (55.97%) Terraform
2 52 (38.81%) Kubernetes
3 28 (20.90%) Ansible
4 25 (18.66%) Grafana
5 23 (17.16%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.97%) 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
11 3 (2.24%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (2.24%) Nessus
11 3 (2.24%) Proxmox
12 2 (1.49%) Argo
12 2 (1.49%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.75%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 9 (6.72%) ServiceNow
2 8 (5.97%) Atlassian
2 8 (5.97%) Sybase
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
5 5 (3.73%) CheckPoint
5 5 (3.73%) F5
5 5 (3.73%) OpenAI
5 5 (3.73%) Oracle
5 5 (3.73%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.99%) Jaspersoft
7 3 (2.24%) AVEVA
7 3 (2.24%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.49%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.49%) Google
8 2 (1.49%) IBM
9 1 (0.75%) SnapLogic