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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 224 253
Rank change year-on-year -28 +29 +14
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 168 121 144
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.91% 0.99% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.15% 2.30% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 91 106
10th Percentile £400 £400 £360
25th Percentile £475 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +9.52% -16.00%
75th Percentile £630 £700 £647
90th Percentile £713 £775 £800
England median daily rate £519 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.23% - -14.81%
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 7,819 5,270 6,802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.34% 43.00% 38.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,406 3,586 5,014
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £427 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £547 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% -0.64% -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 61 67
10th Percentile £20.88 £22.27 £17.16
25th Percentile £27.06 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -49.27%
75th Percentile £55.94 £43.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £56.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.94%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +8 33 £505 -35.67%
Central London -18 11 £560 -17.11% 17
West London - 5 £300 - 2
East London - 1 £500 - 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 19 (11.31%) Confluence
2 10 (5.95%) nginx
3 9 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.98%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.79%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 167 (99.40%) AWS
2 131 (77.98%) Amazon S3
3 117 (69.64%) Serverless
4 116 (69.05%) AWS Lambda
5 76 (45.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 69 (41.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 68 (40.48%) Amazon EKS
8 48 (28.57%) GitHub
9 33 (19.64%) AWS CloudFormation
10 32 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
11 31 (18.45%) Amazon ECS
12 30 (17.86%) Azure
13 26 (15.48%) Route 53
14 15 (8.93%) Amazon SQS
15 14 (8.33%) AWS KMS
16 12 (7.14%) Datadog
16 12 (7.14%) GCP
17 10 (5.95%) AWS CodePipeline
18 9 (5.36%) Power Platform
18 9 (5.36%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (14.88%) DNS
2 22 (13.10%) Firewall
3 16 (9.52%) TCP/IP
4 11 (6.55%) VPN
5 10 (5.95%) OpenVPN
6 5 (2.98%) Network Security
7 3 (1.79%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (1.19%) Internet
9 1 (0.60%) DHCP
9 1 (0.60%) HTTP
9 1 (0.60%) SSL
9 1 (0.60%) VLAN
9 1 (0.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
2 16 (9.52%) SQL Server
3 12 (7.14%) DynamoDB
4 10 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (5.36%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (5.36%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (5.36%) Power BI
6 8 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (4.76%) Tableau
7 6 (3.57%) MySQL
8 5 (2.98%) Amazon QuickSight
8 5 (2.98%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (2.38%) DB2
9 4 (2.38%) Hadoop
9 4 (2.38%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.19%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.60%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 57 (33.93%) Jenkins
2 55 (32.74%) Git
3 52 (30.95%) GitLab
4 24 (14.29%) JIRA
5 13 (7.74%) Bitbucket
6 12 (7.14%) Cucumber
6 12 (7.14%) JUnit
6 12 (7.14%) SonarQube
7 11 (6.55%) Artifactory
8 8 (4.76%) Mockito
9 5 (2.98%) Maven
9 5 (2.98%) Mocha
9 5 (2.98%) MSTest
9 5 (2.98%) Postman
9 5 (2.98%) tSQLt
10 4 (2.38%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (2.38%) DbUnit
10 4 (2.38%) jMock
10 4 (2.38%) Terragrunt
11 3 (1.79%) TeamCity
General
1 51 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 41 (24.40%) Public Sector
3 37 (22.02%) Finance
4 17 (10.12%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.12%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (4.17%) Banking
7 3 (1.79%) Back Office
7 3 (1.79%) Front Office
7 3 (1.79%) Law
7 3 (1.79%) Military
7 3 (1.79%) Police
8 2 (1.19%) Games
8 2 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (24.40%) Developer
2 35 (20.83%) AWS Engineer
3 26 (15.48%) Architect
4 24 (14.29%) Senior
5 23 (13.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (10.71%) AWS Developer
6 18 (10.71%) Software Engineer
7 15 (8.93%) AWS Architect
7 15 (8.93%) Python Developer
8 14 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
9 13 (7.74%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 12 (7.14%) Java Developer
11 10 (5.95%) Analyst
12 9 (5.36%) AWS Software Engineer
13 8 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 8 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
13 8 (4.76%) Python Engineer
13 8 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 8 (4.76%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (14.88%) RESTful
2 19 (11.31%) Kafka
2 19 (11.31%) REST
3 18 (10.71%) AngularJS
3 18 (10.71%) Spring Boot
4 16 (9.52%) Spring
5 15 (8.93%) FastAPI
6 13 (7.74%) Flask
7 10 (5.95%) .NET
7 10 (5.95%) React
8 9 (5.36%) AWS CDK
8 9 (5.36%) LDAP
8 9 (5.36%) Next.js
8 9 (5.36%) OpenID
9 8 (4.76%) SOAP
10 7 (4.17%) CSS
10 7 (4.17%) Gherkin
10 7 (4.17%) Pandas
10 7 (4.17%) Polars
11 6 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.95%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.76%) Hedge funds
4 8 (4.76%) Replication
5 6 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.38%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.79%) NHS
7 3 (1.79%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.79%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.19%) Equities
8 2 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.19%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.60%) Media Streaming
9 1 (0.60%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 32 (19.05%) Linux
2 8 (4.76%) Unix
3 6 (3.57%) Windows
4 5 (2.98%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (67.26%) CI/CD
2 74 (44.05%) DevOps
3 60 (35.71%) Agile
4 54 (32.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (28.57%) Containerisation
6 40 (23.81%) Microservices
7 34 (20.24%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (17.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (16.07%) Software Engineering
10 23 (13.69%) Observability
11 22 (13.10%) Decision-Making
12 20 (11.90%) Cloud Security
13 18 (10.71%) Platform Engineering
14 17 (10.12%) Migration
14 17 (10.12%) Performance Tuning
14 17 (10.12%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (9.52%) Scrum
16 15 (8.93%) Test Automation
17 14 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
17 14 (8.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 80 (47.62%) Python
2 41 (24.40%) Java
3 40 (23.81%) SQL
4 28 (16.67%) Bash
5 25 (14.88%) C#
6 23 (13.69%) PowerShell
7 11 (6.55%) JavaScript
7 11 (6.55%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.98%) Groovy
8 5 (2.98%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.38%) Perl
9 4 (2.38%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.79%) Bicep
10 3 (1.79%) Go
11 1 (0.60%) C
11 1 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 81 (48.21%) Security Cleared
2 75 (44.64%) SC Cleared
3 18 (10.71%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.76%) Degree
5 7 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (4.17%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.57%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.19%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.19%) PMP
9 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.60%) CEH
9 1 (0.60%) CISSP
9 1 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.60%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.17%) PMO
2 5 (2.98%) QA
3 4 (2.38%) SLA
4 3 (1.79%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) NIST
5 1 (0.60%) Solvency II
System Software
1 84 (50.00%) Docker
2 15 (8.93%) Squid
3 7 (4.17%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.79%) Postfix
5 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 89 (52.98%) Terraform
2 67 (39.88%) Kubernetes
3 40 (23.81%) Grafana
4 36 (21.43%) Prometheus
5 22 (13.10%) Ansible
6 10 (5.95%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (5.36%) FortiGate
8 7 (4.17%) Consul
9 6 (3.57%) Puppet
10 4 (2.38%) Karpenter
10 4 (2.38%) Kibana
10 4 (2.38%) Salt
10 4 (2.38%) Suricata
11 2 (1.19%) Packer
12 1 (0.60%) Argo
12 1 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.60%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 11 (6.55%) Atlassian
1 11 (6.55%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.95%) Red Hat
2 10 (5.95%) ServiceNow
3 9 (5.36%) Dynatrace
4 7 (4.17%) Splunk
5 6 (3.57%) Sybase
6 4 (2.38%) Jaspersoft
6 4 (2.38%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.79%) AVEVA
7 3 (1.79%) Brio
7 3 (1.79%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.19%) Oracle
8 2 (1.19%) Qualys
9 1 (0.60%) Google
9 1 (0.60%) IBM
9 1 (0.60%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.60%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.60%) Tenable
9 1 (0.60%) Trend Micro