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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 186 285
Rank change year-on-year -52 +99 -73
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 132 209 141
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.94% 1.35% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.13% 3.30% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 150 107
10th Percentile £370 £424 £400
25th Percentile £500 £525 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £875 £694
90th Percentile £738 £888 £800
England median daily rate £525 £646 £550
% change year-on-year -18.76% +17.50% -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 - - -21.57%

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 6,188 6,341 7,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.29% 40.90% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,188 4,306 5,697
10th Percentile £350 £350 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 34 68
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.78 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.74 £35.00 £38.38
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% -8.79% +51.98%
75th Percentile £42.44 £55.25 £60.94
90th Percentile £76.88 £65.33 £85.47
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.61
% change year-on-year -28.14% +22.33% +30.05%

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 18 November 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 18 November 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 18 November 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 0 18 £530 -1.67% 2
Central London -9 10 £588 +6.82% 40
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 (18.94%) Confluence
2 10 (7.58%) nginx
3 6 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.03%) SAS
5 1 (0.76%) CICS
Applications
1 10 (7.58%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 132 (100.00%) AWS
2 103 (78.03%) Amazon S3
3 59 (44.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 56 (42.42%) AWS Lambda
4 56 (42.42%) Serverless
5 49 (37.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 44 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
7 37 (28.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (21.21%) Amazon EKS
9 25 (18.94%) GitHub
10 22 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
11 21 (15.91%) Amazon SQS
12 19 (14.39%) Azure
13 18 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (13.64%) Route 53
14 16 (12.12%) Amazon Kinesis
14 16 (12.12%) Datadog
15 13 (9.85%) SaaS
16 12 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
17 11 (8.33%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (19.70%) DNS
2 24 (18.18%) Firewall
3 15 (11.36%) OpenLDAP
3 15 (11.36%) VPN
4 12 (9.09%) SSL
4 12 (9.09%) TCP/IP
5 11 (8.33%) HTTP
5 11 (8.33%) SSH
6 10 (7.58%) FTP
6 10 (7.58%) IMAP
6 10 (7.58%) SMTP
7 6 (4.55%) Network Security
8 2 (1.52%) DHCP
8 2 (1.52%) Internet
8 2 (1.52%) NAS
9 1 (0.76%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.76%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.76%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (45.45%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (18.94%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (13.64%) DynamoDB
4 16 (12.12%) Amazon Aurora
4 16 (12.12%) MySQL
5 9 (6.82%) Hadoop
6 8 (6.06%) Apache Cassandra
6 8 (6.06%) Relational Database
7 7 (5.30%) SQL Server
8 5 (3.79%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.79%) DB2
8 5 (3.79%) MongoDB
8 5 (3.79%) RDBMS
9 3 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (2.27%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.52%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (1.52%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.52%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 50 (37.88%) Jenkins
2 41 (31.06%) Git
3 32 (24.24%) GitLab
4 29 (21.97%) JIRA
5 10 (7.58%) JUnit
5 10 (7.58%) Vagrant
6 7 (5.30%) Maven
7 6 (4.55%) Cucumber
8 5 (3.79%) Bitbucket
9 4 (3.03%) SonarQube
9 4 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (1.52%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.52%) Postman
10 2 (1.52%) Selenium
10 2 (1.52%) Serenity BDD
11 1 (0.76%) Ant
11 1 (0.76%) DbUnit
11 1 (0.76%) jMock
11 1 (0.76%) Mockito
General
1 32 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 25 (18.94%) Public Sector
3 21 (15.91%) Finance
4 11 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (7.58%) Banking
5 10 (7.58%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.03%) Military
8 1 (0.76%) Advertising
8 1 (0.76%) Games
8 1 (0.76%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.76%) Marketing
8 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (30.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 35 (26.52%) AWS Engineer
3 26 (19.70%) Senior
4 24 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
5 22 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 22 (16.67%) Developer
6 17 (12.88%) Architect
6 17 (12.88%) Platform Engineer
7 15 (11.36%) Java Developer
8 12 (9.09%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 12 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 12 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
8 12 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 10 (7.58%) AWS Developer
9 10 (7.58%) Python Engineer
9 10 (7.58%) Security Architect
10 8 (6.06%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.06%) Site Engineer
10 8 (6.06%) Software Engineer
11 7 (5.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.88%) Kafka
1 17 (12.88%) LDAP
2 16 (12.12%) Spring
3 14 (10.61%) REST
4 12 (9.09%) Spring Boot
5 8 (6.06%) boto
5 8 (6.06%) pytest
6 6 (4.55%) Flake8
6 6 (4.55%) mypy
7 4 (3.03%) AWS CDK
7 4 (3.03%) Jest
7 4 (3.03%) React
7 4 (3.03%) RESTful
7 4 (3.03%) Web Services
8 3 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.27%) JSON
8 3 (2.27%) Node.js
8 3 (2.27%) SOAP
9 2 (1.52%) Spring Batch
9 2 (1.52%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.12%) Cloud Native
2 15 (11.36%) Onboarding
3 14 (10.61%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (9.85%) Replication
5 11 (8.33%) CSOC
5 11 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (5.30%) Virtual Team
7 6 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (3.79%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.27%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (2.27%) Hedge funds
10 2 (1.52%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.52%) PKI
11 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.76%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.76%) NHS
11 1 (0.76%) Video\Live Streaming
11 1 (0.76%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 40 (30.30%) Linux
2 17 (12.88%) Windows
3 11 (8.33%) VMS
4 10 (7.58%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (7.58%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.27%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.52%) Unix
7 1 (0.76%) AIX
7 1 (0.76%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (56.82%) CI/CD
2 73 (55.30%) DevOps
3 42 (31.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (30.30%) Microservices
5 36 (27.27%) Containerisation
6 32 (24.24%) Agile
7 27 (20.45%) Configuration Management
8 24 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
9 18 (13.64%) Observability
9 18 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
9 18 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (12.88%) High Availability
11 16 (12.12%) Cloud Security
11 16 (12.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 15 (11.36%) Mentoring
13 14 (10.61%) Clean Code
13 14 (10.61%) Code Quality
13 14 (10.61%) Fintech
13 14 (10.61%) Performance Tuning
14 13 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 76 (57.58%) Python
2 34 (25.76%) Java
3 30 (22.73%) Bash
4 26 (19.70%) SQL
5 19 (14.39%) PowerShell
6 12 (9.09%) Go
7 10 (7.58%) Groovy
8 6 (4.55%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.03%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.27%) Perl
11 2 (1.52%) CodeQL
11 2 (1.52%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.52%) PromQL
11 2 (1.52%) R
11 2 (1.52%) Ruby
11 2 (1.52%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.76%) Bicep
12 1 (0.76%) COBOL
12 1 (0.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 47 (35.61%) Security Cleared
2 44 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 22 (16.67%) AWS Certification
4 13 (9.85%) Degree
5 10 (7.58%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.52%) CISSP
8 2 (1.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.09%) QA
2 3 (2.27%) GDPR
3 2 (1.52%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.76%) GxP
4 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.76%) NCSC
4 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 66 (50.00%) Docker
2 11 (8.33%) Postfix
3 10 (7.58%) DFS Replication
3 10 (7.58%) Dovecot
3 10 (7.58%) Squid
4 5 (3.79%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.52%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 71 (53.79%) Terraform
2 34 (25.76%) Kubernetes
3 26 (19.70%) Ansible
4 22 (16.67%) Grafana
5 19 (14.39%) Prometheus
6 10 (7.58%) Nessus
6 10 (7.58%) Proxmox
6 10 (7.58%) Puppet
7 6 (4.55%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.27%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (2.27%) NetBackup
9 2 (1.52%) SELinux
10 1 (0.76%) Argo
10 1 (0.76%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.76%) Packer
10 1 (0.76%) yum
Vendors
1 16 (12.12%) Splunk
2 14 (10.61%) ServiceNow
3 11 (8.33%) Jaspersoft
4 10 (7.58%) CheckPoint
4 10 (7.58%) F5
4 10 (7.58%) Palo Alto
5 7 (5.30%) Atlassian
6 6 (4.55%) CA Agile Central
7 5 (3.79%) Oracle
8 4 (3.03%) Microsoft
8 4 (3.03%) PagerDuty
8 4 (3.03%) Sybase
9 3 (2.27%) Commvault
9 3 (2.27%) SnapLogic
10 2 (1.52%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.52%) Pega
10 2 (1.52%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.76%) Confluent
11 1 (0.76%) Databricks
11 1 (0.76%) StreamSets