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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 235 217
Rank change year-on-year -62 -18 +100
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 152 140 181
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.75% 1.05% 1.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.83% 2.42% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 89 134
10th Percentile £396 £400 £403
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £680 £875
90th Percentile £763 £775 £888
England median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +4.35%
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 8,323 5,794 6,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.18% 43.26% 41.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,696 3,953 4,733
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £648 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 94 52
10th Percentile £19.15 £23.00 £20.20
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £30.30
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% +2.33% -31.15%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £45.65
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.78
England median hourly rate £34.13 £26.38 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.38% -12.08% -9.09%

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 7 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 7 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 £463 -25.64% 4
Central London -18 11 £700 +3.70% 15
East London - 1 £500 -
West London - 1 - - 4
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 (15.79%) Confluence
2 8 (5.26%) nginx
3 6 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.29%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.97%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (1.32%) Apache
7 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.66%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.66%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.66%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.66%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.66%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 151 (99.34%) AWS
2 117 (76.97%) Amazon S3
3 94 (61.84%) Serverless
4 93 (61.18%) AWS Lambda
5 74 (48.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 64 (42.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 62 (40.79%) Amazon EKS
8 45 (29.61%) GitHub
9 37 (24.34%) Azure
10 32 (21.05%) GitHub Actions
11 29 (19.08%) Amazon ECS
12 23 (15.13%) AWS CloudFormation
13 19 (12.50%) AWS KMS
14 18 (11.84%) Datadog
15 14 (9.21%) Route 53
16 9 (5.92%) AWS CloudTrail
16 9 (5.92%) AWS Control Tower
16 9 (5.92%) AWS Step Functions
16 9 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
16 9 (5.92%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 21 (13.82%) Firewall
2 11 (7.24%) DNS
2 11 (7.24%) TCP/IP
3 10 (6.58%) Network Security
4 6 (3.95%) SSH
5 5 (3.29%) OpenVPN
6 4 (2.63%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (2.63%) WAN
7 3 (1.97%) HTTP
7 3 (1.97%) SSL
7 3 (1.97%) VPN
8 2 (1.32%) FTP
8 2 (1.32%) HTTPS
8 2 (1.32%) IMAP
8 2 (1.32%) Internet
8 2 (1.32%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (1.32%) SMTP
9 1 (0.66%) DHCP
9 1 (0.66%) LAN
9 1 (0.66%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (38.82%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (11.84%) Amazon Aurora
3 17 (11.18%) Amazon Athena
3 17 (11.18%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (9.87%) DynamoDB
5 11 (7.24%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (5.26%) Power BI
6 8 (5.26%) SQL Server
7 7 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.29%) Amazon QuickSight
9 4 (2.63%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.97%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.97%) Tableau
11 2 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.32%) MySQL
12 1 (0.66%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database 12c
12 1 (0.66%) Redis
Development Applications
1 63 (41.45%) Git
2 49 (32.24%) GitLab
2 49 (32.24%) Jenkins
3 26 (17.11%) JIRA
4 9 (5.92%) Artifactory
5 8 (5.26%) Cucumber
6 6 (3.95%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.95%) JUnit
6 6 (3.95%) Mockito
7 5 (3.29%) Postman
8 4 (2.63%) Maven
9 3 (1.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.97%) Mocha
9 3 (1.97%) MSTest
9 3 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.97%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (1.97%) tSQLt
10 2 (1.32%) DbUnit
10 2 (1.32%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.32%) Vagrant
General
1 39 (25.66%) Social Skills
2 33 (21.71%) Public Sector
3 32 (21.05%) Finance
4 10 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.95%) Back Office
5 6 (3.95%) Banking
5 6 (3.95%) Military
6 4 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.63%) Law
6 4 (2.63%) Police
7 3 (1.97%) Games
7 3 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.66%) Front Office
9 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Local Government
9 1 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (24.34%) AWS Engineer
2 36 (23.68%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (17.76%) Senior
4 21 (13.82%) Developer
5 16 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (9.87%) AWS DevOps
7 14 (9.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 13 (8.55%) Platform Engineer
9 12 (7.89%) Architect
9 12 (7.89%) Lead
9 12 (7.89%) Python Developer
9 12 (7.89%) Software Engineer
10 11 (7.24%) AWS Developer
11 9 (5.92%) AWS Architect
11 9 (5.92%) Data Engineer
12 7 (4.61%) Lead DevOps
12 7 (4.61%) Senior Data Engineer
12 7 (4.61%) Senior DevOps
12 7 (4.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 7 (4.61%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (63.16%) Terraform
2 22 (14.47%) RESTful
3 17 (11.18%) REST
4 14 (9.21%) FastAPI
4 14 (9.21%) Spring Boot
5 13 (8.55%) Kafka
6 12 (7.89%) AngularJS
6 12 (7.89%) Flask
6 12 (7.89%) Spring
7 8 (5.26%) Pandas
7 8 (5.26%) React
7 8 (5.26%) YAML
8 7 (4.61%) boto
8 7 (4.61%) Polars
8 7 (4.61%) PySpark
9 6 (3.95%) .NET
9 6 (3.95%) AWS CDK
10 5 (3.29%) ActiveMQ
10 5 (3.29%) JSON
10 5 (3.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 39 (25.66%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.89%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.92%) Replication
4 7 (4.61%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.61%) Hedge funds
4 7 (4.61%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (3.95%) Fixed Income
6 5 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.29%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.63%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.97%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.97%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.97%) NHS
9 2 (1.32%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (28.95%) Linux
2 13 (8.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (6.58%) Amazon Linux
4 9 (5.92%) Unix
4 9 (5.92%) Windows
5 5 (3.29%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.63%) VMS
6 4 (2.63%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.97%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (75.66%) CI/CD
2 92 (60.53%) DevOps
3 82 (53.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (42.76%) Agile
5 43 (28.29%) Containerisation
6 41 (26.97%) Observability
7 32 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (21.05%) Microservices
8 25 (16.45%) Software Engineering
9 24 (15.79%) Test Automation
10 23 (15.13%) Platform Engineering
11 22 (14.47%) Cloud Security
11 22 (14.47%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (13.82%) Performance Tuning
12 21 (13.82%) Root Cause Analysis
13 20 (13.16%) AI
14 19 (12.50%) Event-Driven
14 19 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
15 18 (11.84%) Mentoring
16 17 (11.18%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 91 (59.87%) Python
2 42 (27.63%) Java
3 33 (21.71%) SQL
4 32 (21.05%) Bash
5 20 (13.16%) PowerShell
6 18 (11.84%) C#
7 11 (7.24%) Shell Script
8 10 (6.58%) Groovy
9 8 (5.26%) JavaScript
10 7 (4.61%) Perl
11 6 (3.95%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.97%) Bicep
12 3 (1.97%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.32%) Scala
14 1 (0.66%) C
14 1 (0.66%) C++
14 1 (0.66%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.66%) Haskell
14 1 (0.66%) Korn
14 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 65 (42.76%) SC Cleared
3 43 (28.29%) AWS Certification
4 15 (9.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (7.24%) Azure Certification
5 11 (7.24%) Degree
6 6 (3.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.95%) CISM
6 6 (3.95%) CISSP
7 5 (3.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (3.29%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.32%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.32%) PMP
10 1 (0.66%) CCNA
10 1 (0.66%) CCNP
10 1 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.66%) ISEB
10 1 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.89%) QA
2 8 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.95%) NIST
4 3 (1.97%) PMO
5 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.66%) SLA
5 1 (0.66%) Solvency II
System Software
1 68 (44.74%) Docker
2 11 (7.24%) Active Directory
3 9 (5.92%) Squid
4 6 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.63%) Postfix
6 2 (1.32%) DFS Replication
6 2 (1.32%) Dovecot
6 2 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.66%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 51 (33.55%) Kubernetes
2 37 (24.34%) Grafana
3 30 (19.74%) Ansible
3 30 (19.74%) Prometheus
4 8 (5.26%) Puppet
5 6 (3.95%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (3.29%) Packer
7 4 (2.63%) Salt
7 4 (2.63%) Suricata
8 3 (1.97%) Argo
8 3 (1.97%) SELinux
9 2 (1.32%) Istio
9 2 (1.32%) Nessus
9 2 (1.32%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.66%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.66%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.66%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.66%) systemd
10 1 (0.66%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (11.18%) ServiceNow
2 14 (9.21%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.58%) Red Hat
4 6 (3.95%) Informatica
4 6 (3.95%) Splunk
5 4 (2.63%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (2.63%) Okta
6 3 (1.97%) Brio
6 3 (1.97%) Oracle
6 3 (1.97%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.32%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.32%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.32%) Google
7 2 (1.32%) Sonatype
7 2 (1.32%) Sybase
8 1 (0.66%) Databricks
8 1 (0.66%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.66%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.66%) Qualys
8 1 (0.66%) Trend Micro