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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 231 215
Rank change year-on-year -59 -16 +100
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 162 134 184
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.80% 1.00% 1.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.97% 2.31% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 82 131
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £610 £625
Median % change year-on-year -15.98% -2.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £695 £875
90th Percentile £758 £775 £888
England median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
10th Percentile - £52.25 -
25th Percentile £29.00 £68.25 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £76.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -60.91% - -
75th Percentile £31.00 £85.63 -
90th Percentile - £87.50 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £76.75 -
% change year-on-year -60.91% - -

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 8,236 5,809 6,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.89% 43.46% 41.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,660 3,958 4,674
10th Percentile £360 £344 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% -3.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £530
% change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 92 45
10th Percentile £17.60 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.12 £24.15
Median hourly rate £29.28 £30.25 £30.59
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% -1.11% -23.53%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.10
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +30.73% -21.21% -

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -8 20 £500 -19.61% 4
Central London -18 13 £713 +5.56% 19
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 24 (14.81%) Confluence
2 8 (4.94%) nginx
3 6 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.09%) Apache
4 5 (3.09%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.47%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.85%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
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%) Microsoft Excel
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
2 123 (75.93%) Amazon S3
3 93 (57.41%) Serverless
4 92 (56.79%) AWS Lambda
5 79 (48.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 70 (43.21%) Amazon EKS
7 65 (40.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 51 (31.48%) GitHub
9 40 (24.69%) Azure
10 39 (24.07%) GitHub Actions
11 30 (18.52%) 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 12 (7.41%) AWS Step Functions
15 12 (7.41%) Route 53
16 10 (6.17%) Entra ID
16 10 (6.17%) GCP
17 9 (5.56%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 20 (12.35%) Firewall
2 9 (5.56%) DNS
2 9 (5.56%) Network Security
2 9 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.70%) SSH
4 5 (3.09%) OpenVPN
5 4 (2.47%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (2.47%) WAN
6 3 (1.85%) HTTP
6 3 (1.85%) SSL
6 3 (1.85%) VPN
7 2 (1.23%) FTP
7 2 (1.23%) HTTPS
7 2 (1.23%) IMAP
7 2 (1.23%) Internet
7 2 (1.23%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (1.23%) SMTP
8 1 (0.62%) DHCP
8 1 (0.62%) LAN
8 1 (0.62%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (36.42%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (12.35%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (11.73%) Amazon Athena
4 17 (10.49%) Amazon Aurora
5 14 (8.64%) DynamoDB
6 11 (6.79%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (4.94%) SQL Server
8 7 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (3.70%) Amazon QuickSight
9 6 (3.70%) Power BI
10 5 (3.09%) MongoDB
11 4 (2.47%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.85%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.85%) Electronic Patient Records
12 3 (1.85%) NoSQL
12 3 (1.85%) Pinecone
12 3 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.85%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 63 (38.89%) Git
2 57 (35.19%) GitLab
3 51 (31.48%) Jenkins
4 25 (15.43%) JIRA
5 9 (5.56%) Artifactory
5 9 (5.56%) Bitbucket
5 9 (5.56%) Cucumber
6 7 (4.32%) JUnit
6 7 (4.32%) Mockito
7 6 (3.70%) Maven
8 4 (2.47%) Postman
9 3 (1.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.85%) Gradle
9 3 (1.85%) Mocha
9 3 (1.85%) MSTest
9 3 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.85%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (1.85%) tSQLt
10 2 (1.23%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.23%) Vagrant
General
1 46 (28.40%) Social Skills
2 33 (20.37%) Finance
3 31 (19.14%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.79%) 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
9 4 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.47%) Law
9 4 (2.47%) Police
10 3 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.85%) Front Office
10 3 (1.85%) Games
10 3 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
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 41 (25.31%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (24.07%) AWS Engineer
3 32 (19.75%) Senior
4 21 (12.96%) Developer
5 17 (10.49%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (9.26%) AWS DevOps
6 15 (9.26%) Data Engineer
6 15 (9.26%) Lead
7 14 (8.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 12 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (7.41%) Senior Data Engineer
9 11 (6.79%) Software Engineer
10 10 (6.17%) Architect
10 10 (6.17%) Python Developer
11 9 (5.56%) AWS Developer
12 8 (4.94%) Java Developer
12 8 (4.94%) Lead DevOps
13 7 (4.32%) AWS Architect
13 7 (4.32%) Scrum Master
13 7 (4.32%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (66.05%) Terraform
2 23 (14.20%) RESTful
3 20 (12.35%) REST
4 17 (10.49%) Spring Boot
5 15 (9.26%) Spring
6 14 (8.64%) Kafka
7 13 (8.02%) PySpark
8 12 (7.41%) FastAPI
9 11 (6.79%) AngularJS
10 10 (6.17%) Flask
10 10 (6.17%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (4.94%) ActiveMQ
11 8 (4.94%) React
12 7 (4.32%) .NET
12 7 (4.32%) GraphQL
12 7 (4.32%) Pandas
12 7 (4.32%) YAML
13 6 (3.70%) boto
13 6 (3.70%) Polars
14 5 (3.09%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 44 (27.16%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.02%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.56%) Replication
4 7 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.32%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (3.70%) Fixed Income
5 6 (3.70%) Hedge funds
6 5 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.09%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.09%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.47%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
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%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.85%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 45 (27.78%) Linux
2 14 (8.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (6.17%) Amazon Linux
3 10 (6.17%) Windows
4 8 (4.94%) Unix
5 5 (3.09%) Ubuntu
5 5 (3.09%) VMS
6 4 (2.47%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (78.40%) CI/CD
2 102 (62.96%) DevOps
3 97 (59.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (42.59%) Agile
5 50 (30.86%) Containerisation
5 50 (30.86%) Observability
6 39 (24.07%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (21.60%) Microservices
8 29 (17.90%) Software Engineering
9 28 (17.28%) Root Cause Analysis
10 27 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
10 27 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
11 26 (16.05%) Test Automation
12 25 (15.43%) Performance Tuning
13 24 (14.81%) Deployment Automation
13 24 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
14 23 (14.20%) Event-Driven
14 23 (14.20%) Mentoring
15 22 (13.58%) AI
15 22 (13.58%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 96 (59.26%) Python
2 45 (27.78%) Java
3 37 (22.84%) SQL
4 32 (19.75%) Bash
5 20 (12.35%) PowerShell
6 17 (10.49%) C#
7 11 (6.79%) Groovy
7 11 (6.79%) Shell Script
8 9 (5.56%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.32%) Perl
10 5 (3.09%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.47%) Scala
12 3 (1.85%) Bicep
12 3 (1.85%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.85%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.62%) C
13 1 (0.62%) C++
13 1 (0.62%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.62%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.62%) R
Qualifications
1 75 (46.30%) Security Cleared
2 68 (41.98%) SC Cleared
3 48 (29.63%) 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
10 4 (2.47%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (1.23%) PMI Certification
12 2 (1.23%) PMP
13 1 (0.62%) CCNP
13 1 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.88%) QA
2 13 (8.02%) 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%) PMO
5 1 (0.62%) SLA
5 1 (0.62%) Solvency II
System Software
1 69 (42.59%) 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 51 (31.48%) Kubernetes
2 39 (24.07%) Grafana
3 31 (19.14%) Ansible
3 31 (19.14%) Prometheus
4 8 (4.94%) Puppet
5 5 (3.09%) Packer
5 5 (3.09%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (2.47%) Salt
6 4 (2.47%) Suricata
7 3 (1.85%) Argo
7 3 (1.85%) SELinux
8 2 (1.23%) Istio
8 2 (1.23%) Nessus
8 2 (1.23%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.62%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.62%) Kibana
9 1 (0.62%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.62%) systemd
9 1 (0.62%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (10.49%) Microsoft
1 17 (10.49%) ServiceNow
2 10 (6.17%) Red Hat
3 7 (4.32%) Splunk
4 6 (3.70%) Informatica
5 5 (3.09%) Okta
5 5 (3.09%) Oracle
6 4 (2.47%) Google
6 4 (2.47%) Jaspersoft
7 3 (1.85%) Brio
7 3 (1.85%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.85%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.23%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.23%) BigPanda
8 2 (1.23%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.23%) Sonatype
8 2 (1.23%) Sybase
9 1 (0.62%) Databricks
9 1 (0.62%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.62%) Qualys