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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 250 189 287
Rank change year-on-year -61 +98 -75
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 134 209 140
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.95% 1.34% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.15% 3.27% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 150 106
10th Percentile £371 £424 £400
25th Percentile £481 £525 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £674 £875 £697
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 6,245 6,382 7,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.32% 40.92% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,230 4,335 5,641
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
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 125 34 67
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.78 £18.56
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.63
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -9.68% +49.93%
75th Percentile £41.94 £55.25 £61.88
90th Percentile £76.25 £65.33 £85.62
England median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £29.72
% change year-on-year -27.23% +17.77% +35.09%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +1 19 £530 -1.67% 2
Central London -12 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 (18.66%) Confluence
2 10 (7.46%) nginx
3 6 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.99%) SAS
5 1 (0.75%) CICS
Applications
1 10 (7.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 134 (100.00%) AWS
2 105 (78.36%) Amazon S3
3 59 (44.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 57 (42.54%) AWS Lambda
4 57 (42.54%) Serverless
5 50 (37.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 45 (33.58%) Amazon ECS
7 39 (29.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (22.39%) Amazon EKS
9 26 (19.40%) GitHub
10 23 (17.16%) Amazon ELB
11 21 (15.67%) Amazon SQS
12 20 (14.93%) Azure
13 19 (14.18%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (14.18%) Route 53
14 16 (11.94%) Amazon Kinesis
14 16 (11.94%) Datadog
15 13 (9.70%) SaaS
16 12 (8.96%) AWS Fargate
17 11 (8.21%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (19.40%) DNS
2 24 (17.91%) Firewall
3 16 (11.94%) VPN
4 15 (11.19%) OpenLDAP
5 12 (8.96%) SSL
5 12 (8.96%) TCP/IP
6 11 (8.21%) HTTP
6 11 (8.21%) SSH
7 10 (7.46%) FTP
7 10 (7.46%) IMAP
7 10 (7.46%) SMTP
8 6 (4.48%) Network Security
9 2 (1.49%) DHCP
9 2 (1.49%) Internet
9 2 (1.49%) Kerberos
9 2 (1.49%) NAS
10 1 (0.75%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.75%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (46.27%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (20.15%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (13.43%) DynamoDB
4 16 (11.94%) Amazon Aurora
4 16 (11.94%) MySQL
5 10 (7.46%) Hadoop
6 9 (6.72%) Relational Database
7 8 (5.97%) Apache Cassandra
7 8 (5.97%) SQL Server
8 5 (3.73%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.73%) DB2
8 5 (3.73%) MongoDB
8 5 (3.73%) RDBMS
9 4 (2.99%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.24%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (1.49%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (1.49%) Big Data
11 2 (1.49%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 51 (38.06%) Jenkins
2 42 (31.34%) Git
3 33 (24.63%) GitLab
4 29 (21.64%) JIRA
5 10 (7.46%) JUnit
5 10 (7.46%) Vagrant
6 7 (5.22%) Maven
7 6 (4.48%) Cucumber
8 5 (3.73%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.99%) SonarQube
9 4 (2.99%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (1.49%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.49%) Postman
10 2 (1.49%) Selenium
10 2 (1.49%) Serenity BDD
11 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket Server
11 1 (0.75%) DbUnit
11 1 (0.75%) jMock
11 1 (0.75%) Mockito
General
1 32 (23.88%) Social Skills
2 25 (18.66%) Public Sector
3 22 (16.42%) Finance
4 11 (8.21%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (7.46%) Banking
5 10 (7.46%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.99%) Military
8 1 (0.75%) Advertising
8 1 (0.75%) Games
8 1 (0.75%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.75%) Marketing
8 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (29.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 35 (26.12%) AWS Engineer
3 26 (19.40%) Senior
4 24 (17.91%) AWS DevOps
5 22 (16.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 22 (16.42%) Developer
6 17 (12.69%) Architect
6 17 (12.69%) Platform Engineer
7 15 (11.19%) Java Developer
8 12 (8.96%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 12 (8.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 12 (8.96%) Senior DevOps
8 12 (8.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 10 (7.46%) AWS Developer
9 10 (7.46%) Python Engineer
9 10 (7.46%) Security Architect
10 9 (6.72%) Site Engineer
11 8 (5.97%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 8 (5.97%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.69%) Kafka
1 17 (12.69%) LDAP
2 16 (11.94%) Spring
3 14 (10.45%) REST
4 12 (8.96%) Spring Boot
5 8 (5.97%) boto
5 8 (5.97%) pytest
6 6 (4.48%) Flake8
6 6 (4.48%) mypy
7 4 (2.99%) AWS CDK
7 4 (2.99%) Jest
7 4 (2.99%) JSON
7 4 (2.99%) React
7 4 (2.99%) RESTful
7 4 (2.99%) Web Services
8 3 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.24%) Node.js
8 3 (2.24%) SOAP
9 2 (1.49%) ActiveMQ
9 2 (1.49%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.69%) Cloud Native
2 15 (11.19%) Onboarding
3 14 (10.45%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (9.70%) Replication
5 11 (8.21%) CSOC
5 11 (8.21%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (5.22%) Virtual Team
7 6 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (3.73%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (2.24%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (2.24%) Hedge funds
11 2 (1.49%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.49%) PKI
12 1 (0.75%) Data Centre
12 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
12 1 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.75%) Video\Live Streaming
12 1 (0.75%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 41 (30.60%) Linux
2 17 (12.69%) Windows
3 11 (8.21%) VMS
4 10 (7.46%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (7.46%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.24%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.49%) Unix
7 1 (0.75%) AIX
7 1 (0.75%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (57.46%) CI/CD
2 74 (55.22%) DevOps
3 44 (32.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (29.85%) Microservices
5 38 (28.36%) Containerisation
6 33 (24.63%) Agile
7 28 (20.90%) Configuration Management
8 24 (17.91%) Infrastructure Automation
9 19 (14.18%) Observability
9 19 (14.18%) Platform Engineering
10 18 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (12.69%) High Availability
11 17 (12.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 16 (11.94%) Cloud Security
13 15 (11.19%) Mentoring
14 14 (10.45%) Clean Code
14 14 (10.45%) Code Quality
14 14 (10.45%) Fintech
14 14 (10.45%) Performance Tuning
15 13 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 78 (58.21%) Python
2 34 (25.37%) Java
3 31 (23.13%) Bash
4 26 (19.40%) SQL
5 19 (14.18%) PowerShell
6 12 (8.96%) Go
7 10 (7.46%) Groovy
8 6 (4.48%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.99%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.24%) Perl
11 2 (1.49%) CodeQL
11 2 (1.49%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.49%) PromQL
11 2 (1.49%) R
11 2 (1.49%) Ruby
11 2 (1.49%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.75%) Bicep
12 1 (0.75%) COBOL
12 1 (0.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 47 (35.07%) Security Cleared
2 44 (32.84%) SC Cleared
3 22 (16.42%) AWS Certification
4 14 (10.45%) Degree
5 10 (7.46%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.49%) CISSP
9 2 (1.49%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.96%) QA
2 3 (2.24%) GDPR
3 2 (1.49%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.75%) GxP
4 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.75%) NCSC
4 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 68 (50.75%) Docker
2 11 (8.21%) Postfix
3 10 (7.46%) DFS Replication
3 10 (7.46%) Dovecot
3 10 (7.46%) Squid
4 5 (3.73%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.49%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.75%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 73 (54.48%) Terraform
2 34 (25.37%) Kubernetes
3 27 (20.15%) Ansible
4 23 (17.16%) Grafana
5 19 (14.18%) Prometheus
6 11 (8.21%) Puppet
7 10 (7.46%) Nessus
7 10 (7.46%) Proxmox
8 7 (5.22%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.24%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (2.24%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.49%) SELinux
11 1 (0.75%) Argo
11 1 (0.75%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.75%) Packer
11 1 (0.75%) yum
Vendors
1 16 (11.94%) Splunk
2 14 (10.45%) ServiceNow
3 11 (8.21%) Jaspersoft
4 10 (7.46%) CheckPoint
4 10 (7.46%) F5
4 10 (7.46%) Palo Alto
5 7 (5.22%) Atlassian
6 6 (4.48%) CA Agile Central
7 5 (3.73%) Microsoft
7 5 (3.73%) Oracle
7 5 (3.73%) PagerDuty
8 4 (2.99%) Sybase
9 3 (2.24%) Cloudera
9 3 (2.24%) Commvault
9 3 (2.24%) SnapLogic
10 2 (1.49%) Pega
10 2 (1.49%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.75%) Google
11 1 (0.75%) Informatica
11 1 (0.75%) NetApp