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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 247 194 286
Rank change year-on-year -53 +92 -71
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 139 205 134
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.00% 1.31% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.26% 3.19% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 145 103
10th Percentile £378 £400 £400
25th Percentile £494 £506 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £875 £675
90th Percentile £775 £888 £796
England median daily rate £525 £620 £538
% change year-on-year -15.25% +15.26% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £55.45 - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £50.00
75th Percentile £87.50 - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £80.00 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -33.33%

All Cloud 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 6,161 6,430 7,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.30% 40.94% 38.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,173 4,362 5,768
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £770 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £535 £528
% change year-on-year -6.45% +1.33% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 36 69
10th Percentile £18.56 £21.50 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.94 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £33.75 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.96% -11.18% +33.92%
75th Percentile £41.25 £56.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £71.13 £85.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025. 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 18 £622 +15.40% 4
Central London +1 12 £600 +10.34% 71
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 25 (17.99%) Confluence
2 10 (7.19%) nginx
3 6 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.88%) SAS
5 2 (1.44%) Apache
6 1 (0.72%) CICS
6 1 (0.72%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (7.19%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 139 (100.00%) AWS
2 110 (79.14%) Amazon S3
3 56 (40.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 55 (39.57%) AWS Lambda
4 55 (39.57%) Serverless
5 48 (34.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 39 (28.06%) Amazon ECS
7 36 (25.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 32 (23.02%) Amazon SQS
9 26 (18.71%) GitHub
10 23 (16.55%) Amazon ELB
11 22 (15.83%) SaaS
12 21 (15.11%) Amazon EKS
13 19 (13.67%) Azure
14 18 (12.95%) GitHub Actions
14 18 (12.95%) Route 53
15 16 (11.51%) Amazon Kinesis
16 14 (10.07%) Datadog
17 12 (8.63%) AWS Fargate
18 11 (7.91%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (18.71%) DNS
2 24 (17.27%) Firewall
3 15 (10.79%) OpenLDAP
3 15 (10.79%) VPN
4 12 (8.63%) SSL
4 12 (8.63%) TCP/IP
5 11 (7.91%) HTTP
5 11 (7.91%) SSH
6 10 (7.19%) FTP
6 10 (7.19%) IMAP
6 10 (7.19%) SMTP
7 6 (4.32%) Network Security
8 2 (1.44%) DHCP
8 2 (1.44%) Internet
8 2 (1.44%) NAS
9 1 (0.72%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.72%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.72%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (40.29%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (16.55%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (12.95%) Amazon Aurora
3 18 (12.95%) DynamoDB
4 16 (11.51%) MySQL
5 9 (6.47%) Hadoop
6 8 (5.76%) Apache Cassandra
6 8 (5.76%) Relational Database
7 5 (3.60%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (3.60%) DB2
7 5 (3.60%) MongoDB
7 5 (3.60%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.16%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.16%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.44%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (1.44%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.44%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 52 (37.41%) Jenkins
2 44 (31.65%) Git
3 30 (21.58%) JIRA
4 28 (20.14%) GitLab
5 12 (8.63%) JUnit
6 10 (7.19%) Vagrant
7 9 (6.47%) Maven
8 6 (4.32%) SonarQube
8 6 (4.32%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (3.60%) Bitbucket
9 5 (3.60%) Cucumber
10 3 (2.16%) Mockito
11 2 (1.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (1.44%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket Server
12 1 (0.72%) DbUnit
12 1 (0.72%) jMock
12 1 (0.72%) Postman
12 1 (0.72%) Selenium
12 1 (0.72%) Serenity BDD
General
1 32 (23.02%) Public Sector
2 31 (22.30%) Social Skills
3 18 (12.95%) Documentation Skills
3 18 (12.95%) Finance
4 11 (7.91%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.47%) Banking
6 6 (4.32%) Military
7 2 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.72%) Advertising
8 1 (0.72%) Games
8 1 (0.72%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.72%) Marketing
8 1 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (27.34%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (24.46%) AWS Engineer
3 26 (18.71%) Architect
3 26 (18.71%) Developer
4 24 (17.27%) Senior
5 22 (15.83%) AWS DevOps
6 20 (14.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 19 (13.67%) Security Architect
8 18 (12.95%) Java Developer
9 17 (12.23%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (8.63%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 12 (8.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 11 (7.91%) Senior DevOps
11 11 (7.91%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 10 (7.19%) AWS Developer
13 9 (6.47%) Python Engineer
14 8 (5.76%) DevOps Platform Engineer
14 8 (5.76%) Software Engineer
15 7 (5.04%) Senior Developer
15 7 (5.04%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.67%) Spring
2 17 (12.23%) LDAP
3 16 (11.51%) REST
4 15 (10.79%) Kafka
5 14 (10.07%) Spring Boot
6 8 (5.76%) boto
6 8 (5.76%) pytest
7 6 (4.32%) Flake8
7 6 (4.32%) mypy
8 5 (3.60%) SOAP
9 4 (2.88%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (2.88%) AngularJS
9 4 (2.88%) AWS CDK
9 4 (2.88%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (2.88%) Jest
9 4 (2.88%) JPA
9 4 (2.88%) Node.js
9 4 (2.88%) React
9 4 (2.88%) RESTful
9 4 (2.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.27%) Onboarding
2 20 (14.39%) CSOC
2 20 (14.39%) Security Operations Centre
3 15 (10.79%) Cloud Native
4 13 (9.35%) Replication
5 12 (8.63%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (5.04%) Virtual Team
7 5 (3.60%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.16%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (2.16%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.44%) Hedge funds
10 2 (1.44%) PKI
11 1 (0.72%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.72%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.72%) NHS
11 1 (0.72%) Video\Live Streaming
11 1 (0.72%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 33 (23.74%) Linux
2 17 (12.23%) Windows
3 11 (7.91%) VMS
4 10 (7.19%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (7.19%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.16%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.44%) Unix
7 1 (0.72%) AIX
7 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.72%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (52.52%) DevOps
2 72 (51.80%) CI/CD
3 37 (26.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 37 (26.62%) Microservices
4 32 (23.02%) Agile
5 31 (22.30%) Containerisation
6 25 (17.99%) Infrastructure Automation
7 21 (15.11%) Configuration Management
8 20 (14.39%) Cybersecurity
8 20 (14.39%) Security Operations
8 20 (14.39%) SIEM
8 20 (14.39%) Use Case
9 19 (13.67%) SOAR
10 18 (12.95%) Platform Engineering
11 17 (12.23%) Cloud Security
11 17 (12.23%) Observability
12 16 (11.51%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (10.79%) Mentoring
14 14 (10.07%) Code Quality
14 14 (10.07%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 73 (52.52%) Python
2 33 (23.74%) Java
3 27 (19.42%) SQL
4 25 (17.99%) Bash
5 19 (13.67%) PowerShell
6 12 (8.63%) Go
7 11 (7.91%) Groovy
8 6 (4.32%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.88%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.88%) Perl
10 3 (2.16%) CodeQL
10 3 (2.16%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.44%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.44%) PromQL
11 2 (1.44%) R
11 2 (1.44%) Ruby
12 1 (0.72%) Bicep
12 1 (0.72%) COBOL
12 1 (0.72%) PHP
Qualifications
1 58 (41.73%) Security Cleared
2 55 (39.57%) SC Cleared
3 20 (14.39%) AWS Certification
4 12 (8.63%) Degree
5 10 (7.19%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.44%) CISSP
8 2 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.44%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.35%) QA
2 3 (2.16%) GDPR
3 2 (1.44%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.72%) GxP
4 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.72%) NCSC
4 1 (0.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (43.88%) Docker
2 11 (7.91%) Postfix
3 10 (7.19%) DFS Replication
3 10 (7.19%) Dovecot
3 10 (7.19%) Squid
4 5 (3.60%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.44%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 65 (46.76%) Terraform
2 32 (23.02%) Kubernetes
3 24 (17.27%) Ansible
4 21 (15.11%) Grafana
4 21 (15.11%) Prometheus
5 10 (7.19%) Nessus
5 10 (7.19%) Proxmox
6 6 (4.32%) Progress Chef
6 6 (4.32%) Puppet
7 3 (2.16%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.44%) SELinux
9 1 (0.72%) Argo
9 1 (0.72%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.72%) Packer
9 1 (0.72%) Podman
9 1 (0.72%) yum
Vendors
1 25 (17.99%) Splunk
2 14 (10.07%) ServiceNow
3 11 (7.91%) Jaspersoft
4 10 (7.19%) CheckPoint
4 10 (7.19%) F5
4 10 (7.19%) Palo Alto
5 7 (5.04%) Atlassian
6 6 (4.32%) CA Agile Central
7 5 (3.60%) Oracle
8 4 (2.88%) Sybase
9 3 (2.16%) Commvault
9 3 (2.16%) SnapLogic
10 2 (1.44%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.44%) Microsoft
10 2 (1.44%) Pega
10 2 (1.44%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.72%) IBM
11 1 (0.72%) Informatica
11 1 (0.72%) NetApp
11 1 (0.72%) Red Hat