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 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 193 251
Rank change year-on-year -56 +58 -46
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 129 178 143
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.88% 1.28% 0.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.98% 3.10% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 133 109
10th Percentile £367 £415 £392
25th Percentile £466 £519 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +18.18% -13.73%
75th Percentile £641 £788 £706
90th Percentile £679 £888 £828
England median daily rate £550 £611 £550
% change year-on-year -9.95% +11.05% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £66.63 - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - -
Median hourly rate £79.25 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile £88.75 - -
England median hourly rate £79.25 - -

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 6,508 5,749 6,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.43% 41.26% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,474 3,836 5,099
10th Percentile £346 £352 £325
25th Percentile £424 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £780 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 46 71
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.78
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £28.30 £29.80 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.03% -8.32% +25.75%
75th Percentile £56.13 £47.72 £55.63
90th Percentile £77.71 £64.38 £63.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £24.43
% change year-on-year +9.09% +12.57% +5.39%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 24 January 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 +2 19 £530 -1.85% 4
Central London -14 10 £575 - 23
West London -12 4 £300 -45.45% 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 20 (15.50%) Confluence
2 13 (10.08%) nginx
3 6 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.10%) SAS
5 1 (0.78%) FileNet
Applications
1 8 (6.20%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 129 (100.00%) AWS
2 98 (75.97%) Amazon S3
3 68 (52.71%) Serverless
4 65 (50.39%) AWS Lambda
5 58 (44.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 47 (36.43%) Amazon EKS
7 46 (35.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 42 (32.56%) Amazon ECS
9 35 (27.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 26 (20.16%) GitHub
10 26 (20.16%) Route 53
11 25 (19.38%) Azure
12 22 (17.05%) Amazon ELB
13 19 (14.73%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (10.85%) Amazon Kinesis
14 14 (10.85%) GCP
15 12 (9.30%) Datadog
16 10 (7.75%) AWS Step Functions
17 8 (6.20%) AWS Fargate
17 8 (6.20%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (22.48%) DNS
2 25 (19.38%) Firewall
3 18 (13.95%) VPN
4 15 (11.63%) TCP/IP
5 10 (7.75%) SSL
6 8 (6.20%) FTP
6 8 (6.20%) HTTP
6 8 (6.20%) IMAP
6 8 (6.20%) OpenLDAP
6 8 (6.20%) SMTP
6 8 (6.20%) SSH
7 6 (4.65%) Network Security
8 5 (3.88%) OpenVPN
9 2 (1.55%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (47.29%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (14.73%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (13.95%) MySQL
4 13 (10.08%) Amazon Aurora
5 12 (9.30%) Hadoop
6 11 (8.53%) Apache Cassandra
7 10 (7.75%) DynamoDB
8 8 (6.20%) SQL Server
9 7 (5.43%) MongoDB
9 7 (5.43%) Relational Database
10 6 (4.65%) DB2
10 6 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (3.10%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (3.10%) RDBMS
12 3 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (2.33%) Big Data
12 3 (2.33%) Data Lake
12 3 (2.33%) NoSQL
13 2 (1.55%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 50 (38.76%) Jenkins
2 46 (35.66%) GitLab
3 29 (22.48%) Git
4 25 (19.38%) JIRA
5 9 (6.98%) Bitbucket
6 8 (6.20%) Vagrant
7 7 (5.43%) JUnit
7 7 (5.43%) SonarQube
8 5 (3.88%) Cucumber
9 4 (3.10%) CircleCI
9 4 (3.10%) Terragrunt
10 3 (2.33%) Postman
11 2 (1.55%) Selenium
11 2 (1.55%) Serenity BDD
11 2 (1.55%) Snyk
11 2 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (1.55%) Storybook
12 1 (0.78%) Maven
12 1 (0.78%) Mockito
General
1 36 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.05%) Finance
2 22 (17.05%) Public Sector
3 10 (7.75%) Banking
3 10 (7.75%) Documentation Skills
3 10 (7.75%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.55%) Military
6 1 (0.78%) Advertising
6 1 (0.78%) Games
6 1 (0.78%) Health Technology
6 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 35 (27.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 33 (25.58%) AWS Engineer
3 27 (20.93%) Senior
4 24 (18.60%) Developer
5 23 (17.83%) AWS DevOps
6 22 (17.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 15 (11.63%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (10.08%) Architect
9 12 (9.30%) Software Engineer
10 11 (8.53%) Python Engineer
11 10 (7.75%) Java Developer
12 9 (6.98%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 9 (6.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 9 (6.98%) Java Engineer
12 9 (6.98%) Senior DevOps
12 9 (6.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 8 (6.20%) AWS Architect
13 8 (6.20%) AWS Developer
13 8 (6.20%) Senior Developer
13 8 (6.20%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (18.60%) Kafka
2 14 (10.85%) LDAP
3 11 (8.53%) Spring
3 11 (8.53%) Spring Boot
4 8 (6.20%) React
5 6 (4.65%) boto
5 6 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (4.65%) FastAPI
5 6 (4.65%) JSON
5 6 (4.65%) REST
6 5 (3.88%) Next.js
6 5 (3.88%) OpenID
6 5 (3.88%) pytest
6 5 (3.88%) RESTful
7 4 (3.10%) .NET
7 4 (3.10%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.10%) Django
7 4 (3.10%) Flask
7 4 (3.10%) Node.js
8 3 (2.33%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.83%) Cloud Native
2 15 (11.63%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (8.53%) Replication
4 7 (5.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (5.43%) Virtual Team
5 6 (4.65%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.88%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.10%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (3.10%) Hedge funds
7 4 (3.10%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.78%) Media Streaming
8 1 (0.78%) NHS
8 1 (0.78%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.78%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 37 (28.68%) Linux
2 13 (10.08%) Windows
3 9 (6.98%) VMS
4 8 (6.20%) Amazon Linux
4 8 (6.20%) Ubuntu
5 4 (3.10%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (64.34%) CI/CD
2 66 (51.16%) DevOps
3 55 (42.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (35.66%) Containerisation
5 37 (28.68%) Microservices
6 28 (21.71%) Agile
7 27 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (18.60%) Configuration Management
9 21 (16.28%) Observability
10 20 (15.50%) Platform Engineering
11 17 (13.18%) Software Engineering
12 16 (12.40%) Cloud Security
13 15 (11.63%) Fintech
13 15 (11.63%) High Availability
13 15 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 14 (10.85%) Analytics
15 13 (10.08%) Incident Response
15 13 (10.08%) Infrastructure Automation
15 13 (10.08%) Mentoring
16 12 (9.30%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 80 (62.02%) Python
2 35 (27.13%) Bash
3 31 (24.03%) Java
4 21 (16.28%) SQL
5 19 (14.73%) PowerShell
6 8 (6.20%) Groovy
7 7 (5.43%) Go
7 7 (5.43%) JavaScript
8 5 (3.88%) C#
9 2 (1.55%) Perl
9 2 (1.55%) Ruby
10 1 (0.78%) Bicep
10 1 (0.78%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.78%) PHP
10 1 (0.78%) R
10 1 (0.78%) Rust
10 1 (0.78%) Scala
10 1 (0.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 42 (32.56%) SC Cleared
3 19 (14.73%) AWS Certification
4 11 (8.53%) Degree
5 8 (6.20%) Azure Certification
6 7 (5.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (3.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.33%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.78%) CEH
9 1 (0.78%) CISSP
9 1 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.33%) GDPR
2 1 (0.78%) GxP
2 1 (0.78%) HIPAA
2 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.78%) NCSC
2 1 (0.78%) NIST
2 1 (0.78%) QA
System Software
1 80 (62.02%) Docker
2 13 (10.08%) Squid
3 8 (6.20%) DFS Replication
3 8 (6.20%) Dovecot
3 8 (6.20%) Postfix
4 2 (1.55%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.78%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 87 (67.44%) Terraform
2 46 (35.66%) Kubernetes
3 33 (25.58%) Ansible
4 27 (20.93%) Grafana
5 26 (20.16%) Prometheus
6 12 (9.30%) Puppet
7 8 (6.20%) Nessus
7 8 (6.20%) Proxmox
8 5 (3.88%) Consul
8 5 (3.88%) FortiGate
8 5 (3.88%) Karpenter
8 5 (3.88%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (3.10%) Kibana
9 4 (3.10%) NetBackup
9 4 (3.10%) Progress Chef
10 3 (2.33%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (1.55%) Argo
Vendors
1 10 (7.75%) CheckPoint
1 10 (7.75%) F5
1 10 (7.75%) Palo Alto
2 9 (6.98%) ServiceNow
3 8 (6.20%) Jaspersoft
4 6 (4.65%) Atlassian
4 6 (4.65%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.65%) PagerDuty
4 6 (4.65%) Splunk
5 5 (3.88%) Dynatrace
5 5 (3.88%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.88%) Sybase
6 4 (3.10%) Commvault
6 4 (3.10%) OpenAI
6 4 (3.10%) Oracle
6 4 (3.10%) SnapLogic
7 3 (2.33%) AVEVA
7 3 (2.33%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.55%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.55%) Google