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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 216 314
Rank change year-on-year -22 +98 -51
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 136 182 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.02% 1.12% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.35% 2.72% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 133 109
10th Percentile £400 £402 £405
25th Percentile £500 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £875 £675
90th Percentile £775 £888 £756
England median daily rate £504 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -16.04% +6.67% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £52.25 - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £76.75 - £50.00
75th Percentile £85.63 - £52.50
90th Percentile £87.50 - -
England median hourly rate £76.75 - £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 5,775 6,682 8,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.26% 41.25% 39.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,924 4,695 6,580
10th Percentile £340 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% -1.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £785
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 47 63
10th Percentile £23.00 £22.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.98 £23.88
Median hourly rate £31.00 £30.59 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.34% -38.82% +42.86%
75th Percentile £47.50 £51.25 £72.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.10 £90.00
England median hourly rate £26.30 £31.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -15.16% -6.06% +53.49%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 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 September 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 September 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 September 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 +1 20 £622 +15.61% 1
Central London -7 11 £675 +14.89% 10
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (16.91%) Confluence
2 11 (8.09%) nginx
3 4 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.94%) SAS
4 2 (1.47%) Apache
5 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.74%) CICS
5 1 (0.74%) CMS
5 1 (0.74%) JBoss
5 1 (0.74%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (7.35%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 136 (100.00%) AWS
2 104 (76.47%) Amazon S3
3 59 (43.38%) Serverless
4 56 (41.18%) AWS Lambda
5 52 (38.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 43 (31.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 36 (26.47%) Amazon ECS
8 33 (24.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 30 (22.06%) Amazon SQS
10 22 (16.18%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (16.18%) Amazon ELB
11 21 (15.44%) SaaS
12 20 (14.71%) GitHub
13 17 (12.50%) Azure
14 14 (10.29%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (9.56%) Route 53
16 11 (8.09%) Amazon Kinesis
16 11 (8.09%) AWS KMS
16 11 (8.09%) AWS Step Functions
17 10 (7.35%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 32 (23.53%) DNS
2 25 (18.38%) Firewall
3 18 (13.24%) HTTP
3 18 (13.24%) TCP/IP
4 16 (11.76%) VPN
5 15 (11.03%) OpenLDAP
6 14 (10.29%) SSL
7 11 (8.09%) SSH
8 10 (7.35%) FTP
8 10 (7.35%) IMAP
8 10 (7.35%) SMTP
9 7 (5.15%) Internet
10 5 (3.68%) Network Security
11 2 (1.47%) DHCP
11 2 (1.47%) HTTPS
11 2 (1.47%) NAS
11 2 (1.47%) VLAN
12 1 (0.74%) IPv4
12 1 (0.74%) SAN
12 1 (0.74%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (40.44%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (16.18%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (14.71%) Amazon Aurora
4 15 (11.03%) DynamoDB
5 8 (5.88%) MySQL
6 7 (5.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (4.41%) Hadoop
8 5 (3.68%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (3.68%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.94%) NoSQL
10 3 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (2.21%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.21%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.47%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (1.47%) Data Mining
11 2 (1.47%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.47%) Tableau
12 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 49 (36.03%) Jenkins
2 43 (31.62%) Git
3 25 (18.38%) JIRA
4 18 (13.24%) GitLab
5 12 (8.82%) JUnit
6 10 (7.35%) Vagrant
7 8 (5.88%) Maven
8 6 (4.41%) SonarQube
9 5 (3.68%) Cucumber
9 5 (3.68%) Mockito
10 4 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (2.21%) Cypress.io
12 2 (1.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (1.47%) JMeter
13 1 (0.74%) Ant
13 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket Server
13 1 (0.74%) DbUnit
13 1 (0.74%) jMock
13 1 (0.74%) WebDriver
General
1 31 (22.79%) Public Sector
2 25 (18.38%) Social Skills
3 17 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 16 (11.76%) Finance
5 11 (8.09%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (4.41%) Military
7 4 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.94%) Banking
8 2 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.74%) Advertising
9 1 (0.74%) Marketing
9 1 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
1 34 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (21.32%) Architect
3 27 (19.85%) Senior
4 24 (17.65%) Developer
5 22 (16.18%) AWS DevOps
6 20 (14.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 19 (13.97%) Security Architect
8 17 (12.50%) Java Developer
9 16 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
10 13 (9.56%) Senior DevOps
11 12 (8.82%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 12 (8.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 12 (8.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 8 (5.88%) DevOps Platform Engineer
12 8 (5.88%) Lead
13 7 (5.15%) AWS Developer
14 6 (4.41%) AWS Architect
14 6 (4.41%) Python Engineer
15 5 (3.68%) DevOps Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.97%) REST
2 18 (13.24%) LDAP
3 17 (12.50%) Spring
4 11 (8.09%) Spring Boot
5 8 (5.88%) boto
5 8 (5.88%) pytest
6 7 (5.15%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (5.15%) Kafka
7 6 (4.41%) ActiveMQ
7 6 (4.41%) Flake8
7 6 (4.41%) mypy
7 6 (4.41%) Web Services
8 5 (3.68%) Hibernate
9 4 (2.94%) AWS CDK
9 4 (2.94%) Jest
9 4 (2.94%) JPA
9 4 (2.94%) SOAP
10 3 (2.21%) jQuery
10 3 (2.21%) Puppeteer
10 3 (2.21%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.18%) Onboarding
2 20 (14.71%) CSOC
2 20 (14.71%) Security Operations Centre
3 17 (12.50%) Cloud Native
4 12 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (7.35%) Replication
6 5 (3.68%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.21%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.21%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.21%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.21%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (1.47%) PKI
10 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.74%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.74%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.74%) NHS
10 1 (0.74%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 35 (25.74%) Linux
2 17 (12.50%) Windows
3 10 (7.35%) Amazon Linux
3 10 (7.35%) Ubuntu
3 10 (7.35%) VMS
4 4 (2.94%) Unix
5 3 (2.21%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.74%) AIX
7 1 (0.74%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (50.74%) DevOps
2 62 (45.59%) CI/CD
3 36 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (22.06%) Agile
5 29 (21.32%) Microservices
6 26 (19.12%) Containerisation
7 25 (18.38%) Infrastructure Automation
8 24 (17.65%) Configuration Management
9 23 (16.91%) Cybersecurity
10 20 (14.71%) Security Operations
10 20 (14.71%) SIEM
10 20 (14.71%) Use Case
11 19 (13.97%) Cloud Security
11 19 (13.97%) SOAR
12 18 (13.24%) Platform Engineering
13 14 (10.29%) Mentoring
14 13 (9.56%) High Availability
14 13 (9.56%) Observability
14 13 (9.56%) Performance Tuning
14 13 (9.56%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 64 (47.06%) Python
2 29 (21.32%) Java
3 24 (17.65%) Bash
4 20 (14.71%) SQL
5 17 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 11 (8.09%) Groovy
7 9 (6.62%) Go
8 7 (5.15%) JavaScript
9 6 (4.41%) Shell Script
9 6 (4.41%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.21%) CodeQL
11 2 (1.47%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.47%) Perl
11 2 (1.47%) PromQL
11 2 (1.47%) R
12 1 (0.74%) COBOL
12 1 (0.74%) Ruby
12 1 (0.74%) Scala
Qualifications
1 59 (43.38%) Security Cleared
2 56 (41.18%) SC Cleared
3 22 (16.18%) AWS Certification
4 13 (9.56%) Degree
5 10 (7.35%) Azure Certification
6 7 (5.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (4.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.21%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.47%) CCIE
9 2 (1.47%) CCNP
9 2 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.47%) CISSP
9 2 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.82%) QA
2 5 (3.68%) GDPR
3 3 (2.21%) HIPAA
3 3 (2.21%) NIST
3 3 (2.21%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.74%) NCSC
5 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (38.24%) Docker
2 11 (8.09%) Postfix
3 10 (7.35%) DFS Replication
3 10 (7.35%) Dovecot
3 10 (7.35%) Squid
4 6 (4.41%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 60 (44.12%) Terraform
2 30 (22.06%) Kubernetes
3 26 (19.12%) Ansible
4 23 (16.91%) Grafana
5 22 (16.18%) Prometheus
6 12 (8.82%) Puppet
7 11 (8.09%) Progress Chef
8 10 (7.35%) Nessus
8 10 (7.35%) Proxmox
9 3 (2.21%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.47%) Kibana
10 2 (1.47%) SELinux
11 1 (0.74%) Packer
11 1 (0.74%) Podman
11 1 (0.74%) yum
Vendors
1 24 (17.65%) Splunk
2 13 (9.56%) ServiceNow
3 11 (8.09%) Jaspersoft
4 9 (6.62%) CheckPoint
4 9 (6.62%) F5
4 9 (6.62%) Palo Alto
5 6 (4.41%) Atlassian
5 6 (4.41%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.94%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (2.21%) Commvault
7 3 (2.21%) Oracle
7 3 (2.21%) Qualys
7 3 (2.21%) SnapLogic
7 3 (2.21%) Tenable
7 3 (2.21%) VMware
8 2 (1.47%) Cisco
8 2 (1.47%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.47%) Microsoft
8 2 (1.47%) Pega
8 2 (1.47%) Zscaler