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 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 217 306
Rank change year-on-year -14 +89 -69
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 131 180 132
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.98% 1.13% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.24% 2.74% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 130 101
10th Percentile £399 £409 £406
25th Percentile £500 £519 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £675 £875 £675
90th Percentile £775 £888 £800
England median daily rate £520 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -13.33% +9.09% -8.33%
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 5,861 6,561 8,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.76% 41.03% 39.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,985 4,504 5,991
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% -2.22% -3.43%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
England median daily rate £501 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 40 60
10th Percentile £22.45 £23.62 £17.90
25th Percentile £24.77 £24.06 £22.38
Median hourly rate £26.75 £31.25 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% -28.98% +25.71%
75th Percentile £47.50 £50.00 £65.50
90th Percentile £80.40 £67.03 £90.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.36% +43.56%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +11 20 £622 +15.40% 1
Central London -3 10 £638 +15.91% 21
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 (19.08%) Confluence
2 10 (7.63%) nginx
3 4 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.05%) SAS
4 2 (1.53%) Apache
5 1 (0.76%) CICS
5 1 (0.76%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (7.63%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 131 (100.00%) AWS
2 103 (78.63%) Amazon S3
3 55 (41.98%) Serverless
4 53 (40.46%) AWS Lambda
5 52 (39.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 43 (32.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 37 (28.24%) Amazon ECS
8 32 (24.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 30 (22.90%) Amazon SQS
10 23 (17.56%) Amazon ELB
10 23 (17.56%) GitHub
11 21 (16.03%) SaaS
12 20 (15.27%) Amazon EKS
13 16 (12.21%) Azure
13 16 (12.21%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (9.92%) Route 53
15 12 (9.16%) Amazon Kinesis
15 12 (9.16%) AWS Step Functions
15 12 (9.16%) Datadog
16 11 (8.40%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (21.37%) DNS
2 24 (18.32%) Firewall
3 15 (11.45%) OpenLDAP
3 15 (11.45%) VPN
4 14 (10.69%) SSL
4 14 (10.69%) TCP/IP
5 13 (9.92%) HTTP
6 11 (8.40%) SSH
7 10 (7.63%) FTP
7 10 (7.63%) IMAP
7 10 (7.63%) SMTP
8 6 (4.58%) Network Security
9 4 (3.05%) Internet
10 2 (1.53%) DHCP
10 2 (1.53%) NAS
11 1 (0.76%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.76%) SAN
11 1 (0.76%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (39.69%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (17.56%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (13.74%) Amazon Aurora
4 17 (12.98%) DynamoDB
5 12 (9.16%) MySQL
6 6 (4.58%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (4.58%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.58%) Hadoop
6 6 (4.58%) Relational Database
7 5 (3.82%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.29%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.29%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.29%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.53%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (1.53%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.53%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.53%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 48 (36.64%) Jenkins
2 42 (32.06%) Git
3 27 (20.61%) JIRA
4 19 (14.50%) GitLab
5 11 (8.40%) JUnit
6 10 (7.63%) Vagrant
7 8 (6.11%) Maven
8 6 (4.58%) SonarQube
9 5 (3.82%) Mockito
10 4 (3.05%) Cucumber
10 4 (3.05%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (2.29%) Cypress.io
12 2 (1.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (1.53%) Bitbucket
12 2 (1.53%) JMeter
13 1 (0.76%) Ant
13 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket Server
13 1 (0.76%) DbUnit
13 1 (0.76%) jMock
General
1 33 (25.19%) Public Sector
2 27 (20.61%) Social Skills
3 17 (12.98%) Documentation Skills
4 15 (11.45%) Finance
5 11 (8.40%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (4.58%) Military
7 5 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.82%) Banking
8 2 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.76%) Advertising
9 1 (0.76%) Games
9 1 (0.76%) Marketing
9 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (25.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (23.66%) AWS Engineer
3 27 (20.61%) Architect
3 27 (20.61%) Senior
4 25 (19.08%) Developer
5 19 (14.50%) AWS DevOps
5 19 (14.50%) Security Architect
6 17 (12.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 17 (12.98%) Java Developer
7 16 (12.21%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (9.92%) Senior DevOps
8 13 (9.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 12 (9.16%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 12 (9.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.11%) AWS Developer
10 8 (6.11%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.34%) Lead
11 7 (5.34%) Software Engineer
12 6 (4.58%) Python Engineer
13 5 (3.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.50%) REST
2 17 (12.98%) LDAP
2 17 (12.98%) Spring
3 12 (9.16%) Spring Boot
4 10 (7.63%) Kafka
5 8 (6.11%) boto
5 8 (6.11%) pytest
6 6 (4.58%) ActiveMQ
6 6 (4.58%) Flake8
6 6 (4.58%) mypy
6 6 (4.58%) Web Services
7 5 (3.82%) AWS CDK
7 5 (3.82%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (3.05%) AngularJS
8 4 (3.05%) Hibernate
8 4 (3.05%) Jest
8 4 (3.05%) JPA
8 4 (3.05%) React
8 4 (3.05%) RESTful
8 4 (3.05%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.56%) Onboarding
2 20 (15.27%) CSOC
2 20 (15.27%) Security Operations Centre
3 18 (13.74%) Cloud Native
4 13 (9.92%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (9.16%) Replication
6 6 (4.58%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.29%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.29%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.29%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.53%) PKI
9 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.76%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.76%) NHS
9 1 (0.76%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.76%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 30 (22.90%) Linux
2 16 (12.21%) Windows
3 10 (7.63%) Amazon Linux
3 10 (7.63%) Ubuntu
3 10 (7.63%) VMS
4 3 (2.29%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.53%) Unix
6 1 (0.76%) AIX
6 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.76%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (52.67%) DevOps
2 64 (48.85%) CI/CD
3 36 (27.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (24.43%) Microservices
5 30 (22.90%) Agile
6 28 (21.37%) Containerisation
7 25 (19.08%) Infrastructure Automation
8 22 (16.79%) Configuration Management
9 21 (16.03%) Cybersecurity
10 20 (15.27%) Security Operations
10 20 (15.27%) SIEM
10 20 (15.27%) Use Case
11 19 (14.50%) SOAR
12 18 (13.74%) Cloud Security
12 18 (13.74%) Platform Engineering
13 16 (12.21%) Mentoring
14 15 (11.45%) High Availability
15 13 (9.92%) Observability
15 13 (9.92%) Performance Tuning
16 12 (9.16%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 64 (48.85%) Python
2 31 (23.66%) Java
3 22 (16.79%) Bash
3 22 (16.79%) SQL
4 16 (12.21%) PowerShell
5 11 (8.40%) Groovy
6 10 (7.63%) Go
7 8 (6.11%) JavaScript
8 5 (3.82%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.82%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.29%) CodeQL
10 2 (1.53%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.53%) Perl
10 2 (1.53%) PromQL
10 2 (1.53%) R
11 1 (0.76%) COBOL
11 1 (0.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 59 (45.04%) Security Cleared
2 57 (43.51%) SC Cleared
3 20 (15.27%) AWS Certification
4 12 (9.16%) Degree
5 10 (7.63%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (3.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.53%) CISSP
8 2 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.53%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.16%) QA
2 4 (3.05%) GDPR
3 3 (2.29%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.53%) NIST
4 2 (1.53%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.76%) NCSC
5 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 55 (41.98%) Docker
2 11 (8.40%) Postfix
3 10 (7.63%) DFS Replication
3 10 (7.63%) Dovecot
3 10 (7.63%) Squid
4 5 (3.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 59 (45.04%) Terraform
2 31 (23.66%) Kubernetes
3 23 (17.56%) Ansible
4 22 (16.79%) Grafana
5 21 (16.03%) Prometheus
6 10 (7.63%) Nessus
6 10 (7.63%) Proxmox
7 8 (6.11%) Progress Chef
7 8 (6.11%) Puppet
8 3 (2.29%) NetBackup
9 2 (1.53%) Kibana
9 2 (1.53%) SELinux
10 1 (0.76%) Packer
10 1 (0.76%) Podman
10 1 (0.76%) yum
Vendors
1 24 (18.32%) Splunk
2 13 (9.92%) ServiceNow
3 11 (8.40%) Jaspersoft
4 10 (7.63%) CheckPoint
4 10 (7.63%) F5
4 10 (7.63%) Palo Alto
5 7 (5.34%) Atlassian
6 4 (3.05%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (2.29%) Commvault
7 3 (2.29%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.29%) SnapLogic
8 2 (1.53%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.53%) Microsoft
8 2 (1.53%) Oracle
8 2 (1.53%) Pega
8 2 (1.53%) Qualys
8 2 (1.53%) Tenable
8 2 (1.53%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.76%) NetApp
9 1 (0.76%) Sybase