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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 246 222
Rank change year-on-year -58 -24 +87
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 163 131 182
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.81% 0.99% 1.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.97% 2.25% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 80 132
10th Percentile £400 £399 £410
25th Percentile £448 £500 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.25% -7.69% +10.64%
75th Percentile £647 £675 £875
90th Percentile £754 £775 £888
England median daily rate £500 £520 £600
% change year-on-year -3.85% -13.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 0
10th Percentile - £55.45 -
25th Percentile £29.00 £68.25 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -62.50% - -
75th Percentile £31.00 £87.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
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 8,282 5,827 6,604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.97% 43.83% 40.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,721 3,964 4,535
10th Percentile £363 £347 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.87% -3.73% -3.08%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 100 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.45 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.65 £24.77 £24.15
Median hourly rate £31.25 £26.75 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.82% -15.08% -28.41%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £80.40 £66.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.33%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -15 19 £550 -11.58% 2
Central London -25 12 £713 +11.76% 23
East London - 1 £500 -
West London - 1 - - 1
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 (15.34%) Confluence
2 10 (6.13%) nginx
3 6 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.07%) Apache
5 4 (2.45%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.45%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.84%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.61%) SAS
7 1 (0.61%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.61%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.61%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 162 (99.39%) AWS
2 121 (74.23%) Amazon S3
3 90 (55.21%) Serverless
4 89 (54.60%) AWS Lambda
5 83 (50.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 75 (46.01%) Amazon EKS
7 65 (39.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 51 (31.29%) GitHub
9 42 (25.77%) Azure
10 40 (24.54%) GitHub Actions
11 33 (20.25%) Amazon ECS
12 27 (16.56%) AWS CloudFormation
13 20 (12.27%) AWS KMS
14 18 (11.04%) Datadog
15 14 (8.59%) Amazon EMR
16 13 (7.98%) Route 53
17 12 (7.36%) AWS Step Functions
18 11 (6.75%) GCP
19 9 (5.52%) AWS CloudTrail
19 9 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.43%) Firewall
2 10 (6.13%) Network Security
3 8 (4.91%) DNS
3 8 (4.91%) TCP/IP
4 7 (4.29%) OpenVPN
5 6 (3.68%) SSH
6 4 (2.45%) HTTP
6 4 (2.45%) VPN
6 4 (2.45%) WAN
7 3 (1.84%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (1.84%) SSL
8 2 (1.23%) FTP
8 2 (1.23%) HTTPS
8 2 (1.23%) IMAP
8 2 (1.23%) Internet
8 2 (1.23%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (1.23%) SMTP
9 1 (0.61%) Calico
9 1 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.61%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (39.88%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (14.72%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (10.43%) Amazon Athena
4 15 (9.20%) DynamoDB
5 14 (8.59%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (5.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (4.91%) SQL Server
8 7 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (4.29%) MongoDB
9 5 (3.07%) Power BI
10 4 (2.45%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (2.45%) MySQL
10 4 (2.45%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.84%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.84%) Electronic Patient Records
11 3 (1.84%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.84%) Pinecone
11 3 (1.84%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (1.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.84%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 62 (38.04%) Git
1 62 (38.04%) GitLab
2 54 (33.13%) Jenkins
3 26 (15.95%) JIRA
4 10 (6.13%) Cucumber
5 8 (4.91%) Bitbucket
6 7 (4.29%) Artifactory
6 7 (4.29%) JUnit
6 7 (4.29%) Mockito
7 6 (3.68%) Maven
8 5 (3.07%) Postman
9 3 (1.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.84%) Gradle
9 3 (1.84%) Mocha
9 3 (1.84%) MSTest
9 3 (1.84%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.84%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (1.84%) tSQLt
10 2 (1.23%) SpecFlow
10 2 (1.23%) Vagrant
General
1 45 (27.61%) Social Skills
2 30 (18.40%) Finance
2 30 (18.40%) Public Sector
3 13 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.52%) Back Office
5 6 (3.68%) Banking
6 5 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.07%) Military
6 5 (3.07%) Police
7 4 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.45%) Law
8 3 (1.84%) Front Office
8 3 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.23%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.61%) Games
10 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.61%) Publishing
10 1 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (28.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (23.93%) AWS Engineer
3 33 (20.25%) Senior
4 19 (11.66%) Developer
5 16 (9.82%) AWS DevOps
6 15 (9.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 15 (9.20%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (9.20%) Lead
7 14 (8.59%) Data Engineer
8 12 (7.36%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (7.36%) Senior Data Engineer
8 12 (7.36%) Software Engineer
9 11 (6.75%) Architect
10 9 (5.52%) Senior DevOps
10 9 (5.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.91%) AWS Architect
11 8 (4.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.91%) Java Developer
11 8 (4.91%) Lead DevOps
11 8 (4.91%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (68.10%) Terraform
2 24 (14.72%) REST
3 18 (11.04%) Kafka
3 18 (11.04%) RESTful
4 17 (10.43%) Spring Boot
5 15 (9.20%) Spring
6 13 (7.98%) PySpark
7 11 (6.75%) AngularJS
8 10 (6.13%) RabbitMQ
8 10 (6.13%) React
9 9 (5.52%) .NET
9 9 (5.52%) FastAPI
10 8 (4.91%) ActiveMQ
10 8 (4.91%) boto
11 7 (4.29%) Flask
11 7 (4.29%) GraphQL
12 6 (3.68%) YAML
13 5 (3.07%) JPA
13 5 (3.07%) JSON
13 5 (3.07%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 48 (29.45%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.59%) Product Ownership
3 10 (6.13%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.52%) Replication
5 7 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (4.29%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (4.29%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.29%) Security Posture
6 6 (3.68%) Fixed Income
7 5 (3.07%) AI Agents
7 5 (3.07%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.84%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.84%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.84%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.84%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.84%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.84%) PKI
8 3 (1.84%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (30.06%) Linux
2 16 (9.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (7.98%) Windows
4 10 (6.13%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (4.29%) Ubuntu
6 6 (3.68%) Unix
7 5 (3.07%) VMS
8 4 (2.45%) Windows Server
9 3 (1.84%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (80.37%) CI/CD
2 108 (66.26%) DevOps
3 103 (63.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (43.56%) Agile
5 56 (34.36%) Observability
6 50 (30.67%) Containerisation
7 42 (25.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 41 (25.15%) Microservices
9 31 (19.02%) Root Cause Analysis
9 31 (19.02%) Technical Leadership
10 30 (18.40%) Test Automation
11 29 (17.79%) Deployment Automation
11 29 (17.79%) Software Engineering
12 28 (17.18%) Stakeholder Management
13 26 (15.95%) AI
13 26 (15.95%) Cloud Security
13 26 (15.95%) Performance Tuning
13 26 (15.95%) Platform Engineering
14 23 (14.11%) Event-Driven
14 23 (14.11%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 99 (60.74%) Python
2 46 (28.22%) Java
3 33 (20.25%) Bash
4 32 (19.63%) SQL
5 21 (12.88%) PowerShell
6 15 (9.20%) C#
7 13 (7.98%) Groovy
8 11 (6.75%) JavaScript
9 9 (5.52%) Shell Script
10 7 (4.29%) Perl
11 5 (3.07%) TypeScript
12 4 (2.45%) Kotlin
12 4 (2.45%) Scala
13 3 (1.84%) T-SQL
14 2 (1.23%) Bicep
14 2 (1.23%) Go
15 1 (0.61%) C++
15 1 (0.61%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.61%) Korn
15 1 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 78 (47.85%) Security Cleared
2 71 (43.56%) SC Cleared
3 50 (30.67%) AWS Certification
4 19 (11.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (9.20%) Degree
6 11 (6.75%) Azure Certification
7 8 (4.91%) CISM
7 8 (4.91%) CISSP
8 7 (4.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (3.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (3.07%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (1.23%) ISEB
12 2 (1.23%) ISTQB
12 2 (1.23%) PMI Certification
12 2 (1.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.20%) QA
2 12 (7.36%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.91%) NIST
4 3 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.61%) GDPR
5 1 (0.61%) NCSC
5 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.61%) SLA
5 1 (0.61%) Solvency II
System Software
1 71 (43.56%) Docker
2 10 (6.13%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.91%) Squid
4 7 (4.29%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (3.68%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (2.45%) Postfix
7 2 (1.23%) DFS Replication
7 2 (1.23%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 57 (34.97%) Kubernetes
2 40 (24.54%) Grafana
3 32 (19.63%) Ansible
3 32 (19.63%) Prometheus
4 9 (5.52%) Puppet
5 5 (3.07%) Packer
6 4 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (2.45%) Suricata
7 3 (1.84%) Argo
7 3 (1.84%) Kibana
7 3 (1.84%) SELinux
8 2 (1.23%) Istio
8 2 (1.23%) Nessus
8 2 (1.23%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.23%) Salt
9 1 (0.61%) Cilium
9 1 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.61%) systemd
9 1 (0.61%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (11.66%) ServiceNow
2 15 (9.20%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.13%) Red Hat
4 7 (4.29%) Splunk
5 6 (3.68%) Informatica
6 5 (3.07%) Google
6 5 (3.07%) Okta
6 5 (3.07%) Oracle
7 4 (2.45%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (1.84%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.84%) Brio
8 3 (1.84%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.84%) PagerDuty
9 2 (1.23%) BigPanda
9 2 (1.23%) Snow
9 2 (1.23%) Sonatype
9 2 (1.23%) Sybase
10 1 (0.61%) Cisco
10 1 (0.61%) IBM
10 1 (0.61%) NVIDIA