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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 225 247
Rank change year-on-year -39 +22 +10
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 152 127 147
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.86% 1.01% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.00% 2.38% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 108 107
10th Percentile £359 £400 £363
25th Percentile £456 £472 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £635 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.32% +20.95% -16.00%
75th Percentile £613 £788 £666
90th Percentile £694 £888 £798
England median daily rate £525 £575 £528
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.00% -15.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £67.50 - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
90th Percentile £88.50 - -
England median hourly rate £92.50 - -

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 7,601 5,326 6,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.79% 42.37% 38.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,244 3,707 5,000
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 52 70
10th Percentile £19.56 £22.42 £17.63
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.21 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.52% +20.83% -37.50%
75th Percentile £52.96 £50.00 £37.34
90th Percentile £72.00 £73.13 £59.13
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.98 £20.77
% change year-on-year +80.56% +25.06% -31.90%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 3 May 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 +10 33 £516 -37.13% 2
Central London -15 10 £575 -14.81% 14
West London - 4 £300 - 1
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 16 (10.53%) Confluence
2 10 (6.58%) nginx
3 6 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.29%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.66%) FileNet
5 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.66%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (5.92%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 151 (99.34%) AWS
2 122 (80.26%) Amazon S3
3 104 (68.42%) Serverless
4 101 (66.45%) AWS Lambda
5 70 (46.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 65 (42.76%) Amazon EKS
7 56 (36.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 40 (26.32%) GitHub
9 37 (24.34%) AWS CloudFormation
10 32 (21.05%) Amazon ECS
11 29 (19.08%) GitHub Actions
12 28 (18.42%) Route 53
13 27 (17.76%) Azure
14 13 (8.55%) Amazon SQS
15 12 (7.89%) GCP
16 11 (7.24%) AWS CodePipeline
17 10 (6.58%) AWS KMS
18 9 (5.92%) Power Platform
19 8 (5.26%) Amazon ELB
19 8 (5.26%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 23 (15.13%) DNS
2 17 (11.18%) Firewall
3 13 (8.55%) VPN
4 12 (7.89%) TCP/IP
5 10 (6.58%) OpenVPN
6 3 (1.97%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (1.32%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.66%) DHCP
8 1 (0.66%) HTTP
8 1 (0.66%) Internet
8 1 (0.66%) Network Security
8 1 (0.66%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (40.13%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 15 (9.87%) Amazon Aurora
3 15 (9.87%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (6.58%) DynamoDB
5 9 (5.92%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (5.92%) Power BI
6 8 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (5.26%) Tableau
7 7 (4.61%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (4.61%) MySQL
8 6 (3.95%) Hadoop
9 5 (3.29%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (2.63%) DB2
10 4 (2.63%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.97%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.97%) Big Data
12 2 (1.32%) Data Lake
12 2 (1.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 54 (35.53%) Jenkins
2 48 (31.58%) GitLab
3 38 (25.00%) Git
4 20 (13.16%) JIRA
5 13 (8.55%) Bitbucket
6 11 (7.24%) Cucumber
6 11 (7.24%) JUnit
6 11 (7.24%) SonarQube
7 6 (3.95%) Mockito
8 5 (3.29%) Artifactory
8 5 (3.29%) Postman
9 4 (2.63%) Maven
9 4 (2.63%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.97%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (1.97%) DbUnit
10 3 (1.97%) jMock
10 3 (1.97%) Mocha
10 3 (1.97%) MSTest
10 3 (1.97%) Selenium
10 3 (1.97%) TeamCity
General
1 45 (29.61%) Social Skills
2 35 (23.03%) Public Sector
3 34 (22.37%) Finance
4 17 (11.18%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (4.61%) Banking
8 3 (1.97%) Front Office
8 3 (1.97%) Police
9 2 (1.32%) Games
9 2 (1.32%) Law
9 2 (1.32%) Military
9 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (23.03%) Developer
2 28 (18.42%) AWS Engineer
3 25 (16.45%) Architect
4 24 (15.79%) Senior
5 21 (13.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (9.87%) AWS Developer
6 15 (9.87%) AWS DevOps
7 13 (8.55%) AWS Architect
8 12 (7.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 12 (7.89%) Site Engineer
9 11 (7.24%) Java Developer
10 10 (6.58%) Analyst
10 10 (6.58%) Python Developer
10 10 (6.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 10 (6.58%) Software Engineer
11 8 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 8 (5.26%) Python Engineer
12 7 (4.61%) Delivery Manager
12 7 (4.61%) SQL Developer
12 7 (4.61%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.16%) Kafka
1 20 (13.16%) RESTful
2 15 (9.87%) Spring Boot
3 14 (9.21%) Spring
4 12 (7.89%) FastAPI
5 10 (6.58%) AngularJS
5 10 (6.58%) Flask
6 9 (5.92%) .NET
6 9 (5.92%) AWS CDK
6 9 (5.92%) LDAP
6 9 (5.92%) OpenID
6 9 (5.92%) REST
7 7 (4.61%) React
7 7 (4.61%) SOAP
7 7 (4.61%) YAML
8 6 (3.95%) boto
8 6 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (3.95%) Gherkin
8 6 (3.95%) Next.js
8 6 (3.95%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.11%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.55%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.92%) Hedge funds
4 8 (5.26%) Replication
5 5 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.63%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.97%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.97%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.66%) Equities
8 1 (0.66%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.66%) Media Streaming
8 1 (0.66%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.66%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 38 (25.00%) Linux
2 7 (4.61%) Unix
3 6 (3.95%) Windows
4 4 (2.63%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (61.18%) CI/CD
2 66 (43.42%) DevOps
3 54 (35.53%) Containerisation
3 54 (35.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (32.89%) Agile
5 39 (25.66%) Microservices
6 35 (23.03%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (17.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (14.47%) Observability
9 21 (13.82%) Decision-Making
10 18 (11.84%) Software Engineering
11 17 (11.18%) Migration
11 17 (11.18%) Platform Engineering
11 17 (11.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 15 (9.87%) Data Pipeline
13 14 (9.21%) Cost Management
14 13 (8.55%) Analytics
14 13 (8.55%) Performance Tuning
14 13 (8.55%) Roadmaps
15 12 (7.89%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 73 (48.03%) Python
2 34 (22.37%) Java
2 34 (22.37%) SQL
3 26 (17.11%) Bash
4 22 (14.47%) C#
5 19 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 10 (6.58%) Shell Script
7 7 (4.61%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.63%) Perl
9 3 (1.97%) Go
9 3 (1.97%) Groovy
9 3 (1.97%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.97%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.32%) Bicep
11 1 (0.66%) Ruby
11 1 (0.66%) Rust
11 1 (0.66%) Scala
Qualifications
1 67 (44.08%) Security Cleared
2 64 (42.11%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.87%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (3.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 5 (3.29%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.97%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.97%) Degree
8 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.66%) CEH
9 1 (0.66%) CISSP
9 1 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.66%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.66%) PMP
9 1 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.61%) PMO
2 4 (2.63%) QA
2 4 (2.63%) SLA
3 3 (1.97%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.66%) GDPR
4 1 (0.66%) NIST
System Software
1 85 (55.92%) Docker
2 9 (5.92%) Squid
3 4 (2.63%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.32%) Postfix
5 1 (0.66%) HDFS
5 1 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 87 (57.24%) Terraform
2 60 (39.47%) Kubernetes
3 36 (23.68%) Grafana
4 32 (21.05%) Prometheus
5 26 (17.11%) Ansible
6 10 (6.58%) Puppet
6 10 (6.58%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (5.92%) FortiGate
8 7 (4.61%) Consul
9 4 (2.63%) Karpenter
9 4 (2.63%) Kibana
10 3 (1.97%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.97%) Salt
11 1 (0.66%) Argo
11 1 (0.66%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.66%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.66%) Packer
11 1 (0.66%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.66%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 14 (9.21%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.58%) Atlassian
3 9 (5.92%) Dynatrace
3 9 (5.92%) Red Hat
4 8 (5.26%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.95%) PagerDuty
5 6 (3.95%) Splunk
6 5 (3.29%) OpenAI
6 5 (3.29%) Sybase
7 3 (1.97%) AVEVA
7 3 (1.97%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.97%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.97%) Jaspersoft
7 3 (1.97%) Oracle
8 1 (0.66%) Commvault
8 1 (0.66%) Google
8 1 (0.66%) IBM
8 1 (0.66%) Qualys
8 1 (0.66%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.66%) SnapLogic