Amazon EC2 Contracts in London

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 224 242 247
Rank change year-on-year +18 +5 +39
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 129 151 276
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.03% 0.85% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.43% 2.24% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 111 208
10th Percentile £400 £363 £450
25th Percentile £481 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £643 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year +22.38% -16.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £788 £666 £700
90th Percentile £888 £788 £775
England median daily rate £575 £530 £625
% change year-on-year +8.49% -15.20% +8.70%

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 5,314 6,744 10,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.35% 37.82% 39.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,693 4,977 7,700
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £440 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £775 £782
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 71 90
10th Percentile £22.40 £17.78 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £53.75 £38.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £58.75 £88.30
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in London

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in London

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in London

Amazon EC2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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
Central London -4 14 £675 +19.47% 15
South London -2 7 £820 +98.91% 2
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (18.60%) Apache
1 24 (18.60%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (8.53%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.55%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.55%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.78%) CMS
4 1 (0.78%) JBoss
4 1 (0.78%) nginx
4 1 (0.78%) SAS
4 1 (0.78%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.78%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 129 (100.00%) AWS
2 85 (65.89%) Amazon S3
3 61 (47.29%) Serverless
4 58 (44.96%) AWS Lambda
5 57 (44.19%) Amazon EKS
6 47 (36.43%) Amazon ECS
7 38 (29.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 25 (19.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 23 (17.83%) Amazon SQS
10 22 (17.05%) Route 53
11 19 (14.73%) GCP
11 19 (14.73%) Snowflake
12 18 (13.95%) dbt
13 17 (13.18%) Dagster
14 13 (10.08%) CloudFront
15 12 (9.30%) Amazon ElastiCache
16 11 (8.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 8 (6.20%) OpenShift
18 7 (5.43%) AWS CodePipeline
19 6 (4.65%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.08%) DNS
2 10 (7.75%) HTTP
3 9 (6.98%) TCP/IP
4 8 (6.20%) VPN
5 7 (5.43%) Firewall
5 7 (5.43%) Internet
6 3 (2.33%) SSL
7 2 (1.55%) HTTPS
7 2 (1.55%) VLAN
8 1 (0.78%) IPv4
8 1 (0.78%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.78%) Multicast
8 1 (0.78%) NAS
8 1 (0.78%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.78%) SAN
8 1 (0.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (43.41%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (23.26%) Amazon Redshift
3 21 (16.28%) Amazon Aurora
4 20 (15.50%) Amazon Athena
4 20 (15.50%) Data Lake
5 19 (14.73%) NoSQL
6 17 (13.18%) Apache Arrow
6 17 (13.18%) Apache Iceberg
6 17 (13.18%) Apache Ignite
6 17 (13.18%) Dremio
7 14 (10.85%) Redis
8 13 (10.08%) DocumentDB
9 8 (6.20%) Big Data
9 8 (6.20%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (4.65%) Relational Database
10 6 (4.65%) SQL Server
11 5 (3.88%) Hadoop
11 5 (3.88%) MySQL
11 5 (3.88%) RDBMS
11 5 (3.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (18.60%) Jenkins
2 18 (13.95%) GitLab
3 13 (10.08%) Git
4 6 (4.65%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.33%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.33%) JMeter
5 3 (2.33%) JUnit
6 2 (1.55%) Mockito
7 1 (0.78%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.78%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.78%) JIRA
7 1 (0.78%) JProfiler
7 1 (0.78%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.78%) ScalaTest
7 1 (0.78%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.78%) Subversion
7 1 (0.78%) Toad
7 1 (0.78%) WebDriver
General
1 52 (40.31%) Finance
2 39 (30.23%) Banking
3 31 (24.03%) Front Office
4 19 (14.73%) Investment Banking
5 12 (9.30%) Retail Banking
6 10 (7.75%) Public Sector
6 10 (7.75%) Social Skills
7 4 (3.10%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.33%) Marketing
9 2 (1.55%) Retail
10 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (44.96%) AWS Engineer
2 46 (35.66%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (27.91%) AWS DevOps
4 35 (27.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 33 (25.58%) Senior
6 21 (16.28%) Software Engineer
7 17 (13.18%) AWS Software Engineer
8 16 (12.40%) Python Engineer
9 14 (10.85%) Developer
10 13 (10.08%) Senior DevOps
10 13 (10.08%) Senior Software Engineer
11 12 (9.30%) Java Engineer
12 11 (8.53%) Architect
12 11 (8.53%) Java Software Engineer
12 11 (8.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 9 (6.98%) DevOps Manager
13 9 (6.98%) Finance Manager
14 8 (6.20%) Java Developer
15 7 (5.43%) Cloud Architect
15 7 (5.43%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.95%) PySpark
2 17 (13.18%) gRPC
2 17 (13.18%) NumPy
2 17 (13.18%) Pandas
2 17 (13.18%) Protocol Buffers
2 17 (13.18%) SciPy
3 13 (10.08%) RESTful
4 12 (9.30%) GraphQL
5 10 (7.75%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (5.43%) REST
7 5 (3.88%) J2EE
7 5 (3.88%) Node.js
7 5 (3.88%) React
7 5 (3.88%) Spring
7 5 (3.88%) Spring Boot
8 4 (3.10%) Kafka
9 3 (2.33%) HTML
9 3 (2.33%) jQuery
9 3 (2.33%) JSON
9 3 (2.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (22.48%) Derivative
2 17 (13.18%) Equities
2 17 (13.18%) Fixed Income
2 17 (13.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 17 (13.18%) Hedge funds
3 7 (5.43%) Public Cloud
4 6 (4.65%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.88%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (3.88%) Tandem
6 4 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.33%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.55%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.55%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.78%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 26 (20.16%) Linux
2 6 (4.65%) Windows
3 4 (3.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.10%) Unix
4 2 (1.55%) CentOS
5 1 (0.78%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.78%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (48.84%) DevOps
2 58 (44.96%) CI/CD
3 46 (35.66%) Agile
4 44 (34.11%) Asset Management
5 39 (30.23%) Software Engineering
6 33 (25.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 26 (20.16%) Migration
8 23 (17.83%) Containerisation
9 22 (17.05%) Deployment Automation
10 16 (12.40%) Analytics
10 16 (12.40%) Continuous Integration
11 15 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 14 (10.85%) Microservices
13 12 (9.30%) SOLID
14 11 (8.53%) Configuration Management
14 11 (8.53%) Task Automation
15 10 (7.75%) Data Pipeline
15 10 (7.75%) Data Science
15 10 (7.75%) High Availability
15 10 (7.75%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 69 (53.49%) Python
2 45 (34.88%) Java
3 36 (27.91%) JavaScript
4 22 (17.05%) TypeScript
5 20 (15.50%) SQL
6 19 (14.73%) Bash
7 12 (9.30%) C#
8 7 (5.43%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.88%) Go
9 5 (3.88%) Scala
10 4 (3.10%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.55%) C++
11 2 (1.55%) Ruby
12 1 (0.78%) Groovy
12 1 (0.78%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.78%) Perl
12 1 (0.78%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 28 (21.71%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.85%) AWS Certification
4 9 (6.98%) Degree
5 7 (5.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (3.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.55%) CCIE
8 2 (1.55%) CCNP
8 2 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.55%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.78%) OCP
9 1 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.78%) VCAP
9 1 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.88%) GDPR
2 4 (3.10%) SOC 2
3 3 (2.33%) HIPAA
3 3 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.33%) NIST
4 1 (0.78%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.78%) NCSC
System Software
1 39 (30.23%) Docker
2 4 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (41.86%) Kubernetes
2 50 (38.76%) Terraform
3 20 (15.50%) Ansible
4 18 (13.95%) Prometheus
5 15 (11.63%) Grafana
6 14 (10.85%) Puppet
7 11 (8.53%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.55%) Argo
8 2 (1.55%) Kibana
9 1 (0.78%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.78%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.78%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.78%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.78%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (6.98%) Red Hat
2 6 (4.65%) VMware
3 5 (3.88%) Oracle
4 4 (3.10%) Cloudera
4 4 (3.10%) Tenable
5 3 (2.33%) Databricks
5 3 (2.33%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.33%) Qualys
5 3 (2.33%) Splunk
6 2 (1.55%) Cisco
6 2 (1.55%) Dataiku
6 2 (1.55%) Informatica
6 2 (1.55%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.55%) StreamSets
6 2 (1.55%) Talend
7 1 (0.78%) Actifio
7 1 (0.78%) Black Duck
7 1 (0.78%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.78%) Intel
7 1 (0.78%) Rollbar