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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 242 220
Rank change year-on-year -58 -22 +92
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 162 132 176
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.80% 0.98% 1.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.97% 2.26% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 79 126
10th Percentile £400 £397 £405
25th Percentile £447 £500 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £645
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £875
90th Percentile £755 £775 £888
England median daily rate £500 £509 £600
% change year-on-year -1.72% -15.21% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 0
10th Percentile - £55.45 -
25th Percentile £29.00 £68.25 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -62.50% - -
75th Percentile £31.00 £87.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -62.50% - -

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 8,226 5,850 6,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.81% 43.63% 40.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,669 3,967 4,558
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -3.08%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 96 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.65 £25.12 £24.15
Median hourly rate £28.55 £27.95 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -9.84% -23.46%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £44.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.38 £66.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.87%

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 5 October 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
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 5 October 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 -9 19 £550 -11.58% 2
Central London -20 13 £713 +18.75% 21
East London - 1 £500 -
West London - 1 - - 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 25 (15.43%) Confluence
2 8 (4.94%) nginx
3 6 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.09%) Apache
5 4 (2.47%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.47%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.85%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.62%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.62%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.62%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.62%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.62%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 161 (99.38%) AWS
2 122 (75.31%) Amazon S3
3 91 (56.17%) Serverless
4 90 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
5 80 (49.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 74 (45.68%) Amazon EKS
7 66 (40.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 51 (31.48%) GitHub
9 42 (25.93%) Azure
10 39 (24.07%) GitHub Actions
11 31 (19.14%) Amazon ECS
12 26 (16.05%) AWS CloudFormation
13 19 (11.73%) AWS KMS
13 19 (11.73%) Datadog
14 14 (8.64%) Amazon EMR
15 13 (8.02%) Route 53
16 12 (7.41%) AWS Step Functions
17 10 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
17 10 (6.17%) GCP
18 9 (5.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 19 (11.73%) Firewall
2 10 (6.17%) Network Security
3 8 (4.94%) DNS
3 8 (4.94%) TCP/IP
4 6 (3.70%) SSH
5 5 (3.09%) OpenVPN
6 4 (2.47%) HTTP
6 4 (2.47%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (2.47%) WAN
7 3 (1.85%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (1.85%) SSL
8 2 (1.23%) FTP
8 2 (1.23%) HTTPS
8 2 (1.23%) IMAP
8 2 (1.23%) Internet
8 2 (1.23%) SMTP
8 2 (1.23%) VPN
9 1 (0.62%) Calico
9 1 (0.62%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.62%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (37.65%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (13.58%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
4 15 (9.26%) Amazon Aurora
4 15 (9.26%) DynamoDB
5 11 (6.79%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (4.94%) SQL Server
7 7 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (4.32%) MongoDB
8 6 (3.70%) Amazon QuickSight
9 5 (3.09%) Power BI
10 4 (2.47%) MySQL
10 4 (2.47%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.85%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.85%) Electronic Patient Records
11 3 (1.85%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.85%) Pinecone
11 3 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.85%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 64 (39.51%) Git
2 62 (38.27%) GitLab
3 52 (32.10%) Jenkins
4 26 (16.05%) JIRA
5 10 (6.17%) Cucumber
6 9 (5.56%) Artifactory
6 9 (5.56%) Bitbucket
7 7 (4.32%) JUnit
7 7 (4.32%) Mockito
8 6 (3.70%) Maven
9 5 (3.09%) Postman
10 3 (1.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.85%) Gradle
10 3 (1.85%) Mocha
10 3 (1.85%) MSTest
10 3 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.85%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (1.85%) tSQLt
11 2 (1.23%) jMock
11 2 (1.23%) Selenium
General
1 44 (27.16%) Social Skills
2 32 (19.75%) Public Sector
3 30 (18.52%) Finance
4 10 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.56%) Back Office
6 7 (4.32%) Military
7 6 (3.70%) Banking
8 5 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.09%) Police
9 4 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.47%) Law
10 3 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.85%) Front Office
10 3 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.23%) Games
11 2 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.23%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.62%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.62%) Publishing
12 1 (0.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (28.40%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (23.46%) AWS Engineer
3 33 (20.37%) Senior
4 20 (12.35%) Developer
5 17 (10.49%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (9.26%) AWS DevOps
6 15 (9.26%) Lead
7 14 (8.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 14 (8.64%) Data Engineer
8 12 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (7.41%) Senior Data Engineer
8 12 (7.41%) Software Engineer
9 10 (6.17%) Architect
10 9 (5.56%) Python Developer
10 9 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
10 9 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.94%) Java Developer
11 8 (4.94%) Lead DevOps
12 7 (4.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.32%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (67.90%) Terraform
2 22 (13.58%) REST
3 20 (12.35%) RESTful
4 18 (11.11%) Kafka
5 17 (10.49%) Spring Boot
6 15 (9.26%) Spring
7 13 (8.02%) PySpark
8 11 (6.79%) AngularJS
9 10 (6.17%) FastAPI
9 10 (6.17%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (4.94%) ActiveMQ
10 8 (4.94%) Flask
10 8 (4.94%) React
11 7 (4.32%) .NET
11 7 (4.32%) boto
11 7 (4.32%) GraphQL
11 7 (4.32%) YAML
12 5 (3.09%) Hibernate
12 5 (3.09%) JPA
12 5 (3.09%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 48 (29.63%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.64%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.56%) Replication
4 7 (4.32%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (3.70%) Fixed Income
5 6 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.09%) AI Agents
6 5 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.09%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.47%) Hedge funds
7 4 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.85%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.85%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.85%) NHS
8 3 (1.85%) PKI
8 3 (1.85%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (29.01%) Linux
2 16 (9.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (6.17%) Amazon Linux
3 10 (6.17%) Windows
4 7 (4.32%) Ubuntu
4 7 (4.32%) Unix
5 5 (3.09%) VMS
6 4 (2.47%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (80.25%) CI/CD
2 107 (66.05%) DevOps
3 102 (62.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (43.21%) Agile
5 54 (33.33%) Observability
6 51 (31.48%) Containerisation
7 40 (24.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (22.84%) Microservices
9 30 (18.52%) Root Cause Analysis
10 29 (17.90%) Software Engineering
10 29 (17.90%) Test Automation
11 28 (17.28%) Technical Leadership
12 27 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
13 26 (16.05%) Performance Tuning
13 26 (16.05%) Stakeholder Management
14 25 (15.43%) Platform Engineering
15 24 (14.81%) Cloud Security
16 23 (14.20%) AI
16 23 (14.20%) Event-Driven
17 21 (12.96%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 99 (61.11%) Python
2 46 (28.40%) Java
3 35 (21.60%) Bash
4 33 (20.37%) SQL
5 20 (12.35%) PowerShell
6 15 (9.26%) C#
7 11 (6.79%) Groovy
8 10 (6.17%) Shell Script
9 9 (5.56%) JavaScript
10 7 (4.32%) Perl
11 5 (3.09%) TypeScript
12 4 (2.47%) Kotlin
12 4 (2.47%) Scala
13 3 (1.85%) Bicep
13 3 (1.85%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.62%) Go
14 1 (0.62%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.62%) Korn
14 1 (0.62%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.62%) R
Qualifications
1 76 (46.91%) Security Cleared
2 69 (42.59%) SC Cleared
3 49 (30.25%) AWS Certification
4 18 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (9.26%) Degree
6 11 (6.79%) Azure Certification
7 8 (4.94%) CISM
7 8 (4.94%) CISSP
8 6 (3.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (3.09%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.23%) ISEB
11 2 (1.23%) ISTQB
11 2 (1.23%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.88%) QA
2 12 (7.41%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.94%) NIST
4 3 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.62%) GDPR
5 1 (0.62%) NCSC
5 1 (0.62%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.62%) SLA
5 1 (0.62%) Solvency II
System Software
1 70 (43.21%) Docker
2 11 (6.79%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.94%) Squid
4 7 (4.32%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.47%) Postfix
5 4 (2.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.23%) DFS Replication
6 2 (1.23%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.62%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 55 (33.95%) Kubernetes
2 42 (25.93%) Grafana
3 34 (20.99%) Prometheus
4 33 (20.37%) Ansible
5 10 (6.17%) Puppet
6 5 (3.09%) Packer
7 4 (2.47%) Salt
7 4 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (2.47%) Suricata
8 3 (1.85%) Argo
8 3 (1.85%) SELinux
9 2 (1.23%) Istio
9 2 (1.23%) Nessus
9 2 (1.23%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.62%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.62%) Kibana
10 1 (0.62%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.62%) systemd
10 1 (0.62%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (10.49%) ServiceNow
2 16 (9.88%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.17%) Red Hat
4 7 (4.32%) Splunk
5 6 (3.70%) Informatica
6 5 (3.09%) Okta
6 5 (3.09%) Oracle
7 4 (2.47%) Google
7 4 (2.47%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (1.85%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.85%) Brio
8 3 (1.85%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.85%) PagerDuty
9 2 (1.23%) BigPanda
9 2 (1.23%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.23%) Sonatype
9 2 (1.23%) Sybase
10 1 (0.62%) Cisco
10 1 (0.62%) IBM
10 1 (0.62%) VMware