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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 181 252
Rank change year-on-year -82 +71 -43
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 121 185 141
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.84% 1.33% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.91% 3.22% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 136 108
10th Percentile £368 £438 £388
25th Percentile £488 £524 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +22.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £653 £838 £700
90th Percentile £678 £888 £829
England median daily rate £550 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 6,339 5,747 6,772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.27% 41.18% 37.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,345 3,853 4,989
10th Percentile £346 £350 £331
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £640 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 45 65
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.66 £17.40
25th Percentile £24.00 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £26.50 £30.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.37% -12.60% +35.42%
75th Percentile £56.00 £44.61 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.50 £68.80
England median hourly rate £27.71 £28.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -2.77% +26.67% -0.32%

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 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 14 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 14 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 17 £530 -1.85%
Central London -17 10 £588 +2.17% 19
West London -13 4 £300 -45.45% 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 22 (18.18%) Confluence
2 9 (7.44%) nginx
3 6 (4.96%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.31%) SAS
5 1 (0.83%) FileNet
Applications
1 9 (7.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 121 (100.00%) AWS
2 94 (77.69%) Amazon S3
3 60 (49.59%) Serverless
4 57 (47.11%) AWS Lambda
5 51 (42.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 50 (41.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 41 (33.88%) Amazon ECS
8 40 (33.06%) Amazon EKS
9 33 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
10 31 (25.62%) GitHub
11 25 (20.66%) Azure
11 25 (20.66%) GitHub Actions
12 23 (19.01%) Amazon ELB
13 19 (15.70%) Route 53
14 14 (11.57%) GCP
15 13 (10.74%) Datadog
16 11 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
17 9 (7.44%) AWS Fargate
17 9 (7.44%) AWS KMS
17 9 (7.44%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (21.49%) DNS
2 21 (17.36%) Firewall
3 14 (11.57%) OpenLDAP
4 13 (10.74%) VPN
5 11 (9.09%) TCP/IP
6 10 (8.26%) HTTP
6 10 (8.26%) SSL
7 9 (7.44%) FTP
7 9 (7.44%) IMAP
7 9 (7.44%) SMTP
7 9 (7.44%) SSH
8 6 (4.96%) Network Security
9 2 (1.65%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.83%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (46.28%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (17.36%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (12.40%) Amazon Aurora
3 15 (12.40%) MySQL
4 10 (8.26%) DynamoDB
5 9 (7.44%) Hadoop
6 8 (6.61%) Apache Cassandra
6 8 (6.61%) SQL Server
7 7 (5.79%) MongoDB
7 7 (5.79%) Relational Database
8 6 (4.96%) DB2
9 4 (3.31%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (3.31%) RDBMS
10 3 (2.48%) Big Data
10 3 (2.48%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.48%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (1.65%) Apache Hive
12 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 48 (39.67%) Jenkins
2 46 (38.02%) GitLab
3 34 (28.10%) Git
4 26 (21.49%) JIRA
5 9 (7.44%) Vagrant
6 6 (4.96%) JUnit
7 4 (3.31%) Bitbucket
7 4 (3.31%) CircleCI
7 4 (3.31%) Cucumber
7 4 (3.31%) Terragrunt
8 2 (1.65%) Postman
8 2 (1.65%) Selenium
8 2 (1.65%) Serenity BDD
8 2 (1.65%) Snyk
8 2 (1.65%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.65%) Storybook
9 1 (0.83%) Maven
General
1 30 (24.79%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.53%) Finance
2 20 (16.53%) Public Sector
3 11 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
4 9 (7.44%) Banking
5 7 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.65%) Military
8 1 (0.83%) Advertising
8 1 (0.83%) Games
8 1 (0.83%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.83%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 38 (31.40%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (24.79%) AWS Engineer
3 28 (23.14%) Senior
4 24 (19.83%) Developer
5 21 (17.36%) AWS DevOps
6 20 (16.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 16 (13.22%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (11.57%) Python Engineer
9 11 (9.09%) Java Developer
9 11 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
9 11 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 10 (8.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 10 (8.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 10 (8.26%) Software Engineer
11 9 (7.44%) Site Engineer
12 8 (6.61%) Architect
12 8 (6.61%) AWS Developer
12 8 (6.61%) Senior Developer
12 8 (6.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 7 (5.79%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (19.01%) Kafka
2 16 (13.22%) LDAP
3 12 (9.92%) REST
4 11 (9.09%) boto
4 11 (9.09%) Spring
4 11 (9.09%) Spring Boot
5 10 (8.26%) pytest
6 9 (7.44%) React
7 7 (5.79%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (4.96%) FastAPI
8 6 (4.96%) Flake8
8 6 (4.96%) JSON
8 6 (4.96%) mypy
9 5 (4.13%) Next.js
9 5 (4.13%) RESTful
10 4 (3.31%) AngularJS
10 4 (3.31%) Django
10 4 (3.31%) Flask
10 4 (3.31%) Node.js
11 3 (2.48%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.53%) Cloud Native
2 13 (10.74%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (9.92%) Replication
4 7 (5.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (4.96%) Virtual Team
6 5 (4.13%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (4.13%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.31%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (3.31%) Hedge funds
7 4 (3.31%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.83%) Media Streaming
8 1 (0.83%) NHS
8 1 (0.83%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.83%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 39 (32.23%) Linux
2 14 (11.57%) Windows
3 10 (8.26%) VMS
4 9 (7.44%) Amazon Linux
4 9 (7.44%) Ubuntu
5 4 (3.31%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (68.60%) CI/CD
2 64 (52.89%) DevOps
3 53 (43.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (37.19%) Containerisation
5 40 (33.06%) Microservices
6 29 (23.97%) Agile
7 27 (22.31%) Configuration Management
8 22 (18.18%) Observability
9 20 (16.53%) Platform Engineering
9 20 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (15.70%) Infrastructure Automation
11 17 (14.05%) Cloud Security
12 16 (13.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 15 (12.40%) High Availability
13 15 (12.40%) Software Engineering
14 14 (11.57%) Performance Tuning
15 13 (10.74%) Incident Response
16 12 (9.92%) Analytics
16 12 (9.92%) Code Quality
16 12 (9.92%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 82 (67.77%) Python
2 35 (28.93%) Bash
3 28 (23.14%) Java
4 23 (19.01%) SQL
5 19 (15.70%) PowerShell
6 13 (10.74%) Go
7 9 (7.44%) Groovy
8 8 (6.61%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.48%) C#
10 2 (1.65%) Perl
10 2 (1.65%) Ruby
10 2 (1.65%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.83%) Bicep
11 1 (0.83%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.83%) PHP
11 1 (0.83%) PromQL
11 1 (0.83%) R
11 1 (0.83%) Rust
Qualifications
1 40 (33.06%) Security Cleared
2 39 (32.23%) SC Cleared
3 17 (14.05%) AWS Certification
4 12 (9.92%) Degree
5 9 (7.44%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.48%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.65%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.83%) CEH
10 1 (0.83%) CISSP
10 1 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.79%) QA
2 3 (2.48%) GDPR
3 1 (0.83%) GxP
3 1 (0.83%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.83%) NCSC
3 1 (0.83%) NIST
System Software
1 76 (62.81%) Docker
2 9 (7.44%) DFS Replication
2 9 (7.44%) Dovecot
2 9 (7.44%) Postfix
2 9 (7.44%) Squid
3 5 (4.13%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.65%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.83%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 78 (64.46%) Terraform
2 45 (37.19%) Kubernetes
3 35 (28.93%) Ansible
4 25 (20.66%) Grafana
5 21 (17.36%) Prometheus
6 13 (10.74%) Puppet
7 9 (7.44%) Nessus
7 9 (7.44%) Proxmox
8 6 (4.96%) Progress Chef
9 5 (4.13%) Karpenter
10 4 (3.31%) Kibana
10 4 (3.31%) NetBackup
11 3 (2.48%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (1.65%) Argo
Vendors
1 10 (8.26%) CheckPoint
1 10 (8.26%) F5
1 10 (8.26%) Palo Alto
1 10 (8.26%) ServiceNow
2 9 (7.44%) Jaspersoft
3 7 (5.79%) Splunk
4 6 (4.96%) Atlassian
4 6 (4.96%) PagerDuty
5 5 (4.13%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.13%) Sybase
6 4 (3.31%) Commvault
6 4 (3.31%) Oracle
6 4 (3.31%) SnapLogic
7 3 (2.48%) Cloudera
7 3 (2.48%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.65%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.65%) Google
8 2 (1.65%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.83%) Databricks
9 1 (0.83%) StreamSets