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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 224 252
Rank change year-on-year -38 +28 +22
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 167 124 150
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 1.01% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.12% 2.35% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 91 110
10th Percentile £403 £400 £360
25th Percentile £475 £463 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% +9.52% -16.00%
75th Percentile £630 £700 £670
90th Percentile £713 £775 £826
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -14.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £67.50 - -
25th Percentile £71.25 £36.25 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £37.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +113.33% - -
75th Percentile £86.25 £38.75 -
90th Percentile £88.50 - -
England median hourly rate £92.50 £37.50 -
% change year-on-year +146.67% - -

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 7,861 5,276 6,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.27% 43.18% 39.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,425 3,572 5,064
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 63 69
10th Percentile £21.02 £22.32 £17.47
25th Percentile £26.88 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%
75th Percentile £55.81 £45.63 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £58.50
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.46
% change year-on-year +67.39% +18.83% -38.69%

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 June 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 7 June 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 7 June 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 32 £503 -35.99%
Central London -20 11 £560 -13.92% 19
West London - 4 - - 1
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 20 (11.98%) Confluence
2 10 (5.99%) nginx
3 8 (4.79%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.99%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.80%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (5.39%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 166 (99.40%) AWS
2 131 (78.44%) Amazon S3
3 119 (71.26%) Serverless
4 118 (70.66%) AWS Lambda
5 76 (45.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 71 (42.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 70 (41.92%) Amazon EKS
8 47 (28.14%) GitHub
9 32 (19.16%) AWS CloudFormation
10 31 (18.56%) Amazon ECS
10 31 (18.56%) Azure
10 31 (18.56%) GitHub Actions
11 26 (15.57%) Route 53
12 16 (9.58%) Amazon SQS
13 14 (8.38%) AWS KMS
14 13 (7.78%) Datadog
15 11 (6.59%) GCP
16 10 (5.99%) AWS CodePipeline
16 10 (5.99%) Power Platform
17 9 (5.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (14.97%) DNS
2 22 (13.17%) Firewall
3 16 (9.58%) TCP/IP
4 11 (6.59%) VPN
5 10 (5.99%) OpenVPN
6 6 (3.59%) Network Security
7 3 (1.80%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (1.20%) 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 65 (38.92%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (10.18%) SQL Server
3 16 (9.58%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (7.19%) DynamoDB
5 11 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (5.99%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (5.99%) Power BI
7 9 (5.39%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (4.79%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (4.79%) Tableau
9 5 (2.99%) Amazon QuickSight
9 5 (2.99%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (2.99%) MySQL
10 4 (2.40%) Db2
10 4 (2.40%) Hadoop
10 4 (2.40%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.60%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 56 (33.53%) Git
1 56 (33.53%) Jenkins
2 51 (30.54%) GitLab
3 25 (14.97%) JIRA
4 13 (7.78%) Bitbucket
4 13 (7.78%) Cucumber
5 12 (7.19%) JUnit
5 12 (7.19%) SonarQube
6 11 (6.59%) Artifactory
7 8 (4.79%) Mockito
8 6 (3.59%) Mocha
8 6 (3.59%) MSTest
8 6 (3.59%) tSQLt
9 5 (2.99%) Maven
9 5 (2.99%) Postman
10 4 (2.40%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (2.40%) DbUnit
10 4 (2.40%) jMock
10 4 (2.40%) Terragrunt
11 3 (1.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 50 (29.94%) Social Skills
2 42 (25.15%) Public Sector
3 39 (23.35%) Finance
4 17 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (9.58%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (5.39%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (4.79%) Banking
8 4 (2.40%) Law
9 3 (1.80%) Back Office
9 3 (1.80%) Front Office
9 3 (1.80%) Military
9 3 (1.80%) Police
10 2 (1.20%) Games
10 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (24.55%) Developer
2 34 (20.36%) AWS Engineer
3 26 (15.57%) Architect
4 25 (14.97%) Senior
5 23 (13.77%) DevOps Engineer
6 19 (11.38%) Software Engineer
7 18 (10.78%) AWS Developer
8 15 (8.98%) AWS Architect
8 15 (8.98%) Python Developer
9 13 (7.78%) AWS DevOps
9 13 (7.78%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (7.19%) Java Developer
11 11 (6.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 10 (5.99%) Analyst
13 9 (5.39%) AWS Software Engineer
14 8 (4.79%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 8 (4.79%) Cloud Architect
14 8 (4.79%) Delivery Manager
14 8 (4.79%) Lead
14 8 (4.79%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (14.97%) RESTful
2 19 (11.38%) AngularJS
2 19 (11.38%) REST
3 18 (10.78%) Spring Boot
4 17 (10.18%) Kafka
5 15 (8.98%) FastAPI
5 15 (8.98%) Spring
6 13 (7.78%) Flask
7 11 (6.59%) .NET
8 10 (5.99%) React
9 9 (5.39%) AWS CDK
9 9 (5.39%) LDAP
9 9 (5.39%) Next.js
9 9 (5.39%) OpenID
10 8 (4.79%) CSS
10 8 (4.79%) SOAP
11 7 (4.19%) Gherkin
11 7 (4.19%) Pandas
11 7 (4.19%) Polars
12 6 (3.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (19.76%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.59%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.39%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.79%) Replication
5 7 (4.19%) Hedge funds
6 6 (3.59%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.80%) Equities
9 3 (1.80%) NHS
9 3 (1.80%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.80%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.80%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.20%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.60%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.60%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (17.96%) Linux
2 8 (4.79%) Unix
3 6 (3.59%) Windows
4 5 (2.99%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (67.07%) CI/CD
2 74 (44.31%) DevOps
3 62 (37.13%) Agile
4 55 (32.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (28.74%) Containerisation
6 41 (24.55%) Microservices
7 33 (19.76%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (19.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (16.77%) Software Engineering
10 24 (14.37%) Observability
11 23 (13.77%) Decision-Making
12 22 (13.17%) Cloud Security
13 19 (11.38%) Performance Tuning
14 18 (10.78%) Migration
15 17 (10.18%) Mentoring
15 17 (10.18%) Platform Engineering
15 17 (10.18%) Stakeholder Management
15 17 (10.18%) Test Automation
16 16 (9.58%) Scrum
17 15 (8.98%) AI
Programming Languages
1 80 (47.90%) Python
2 42 (25.15%) Java
2 42 (25.15%) SQL
3 27 (16.17%) Bash
4 26 (15.57%) C#
5 22 (13.17%) PowerShell
6 12 (7.19%) JavaScript
7 11 (6.59%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.59%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.99%) Groovy
10 4 (2.40%) Perl
10 4 (2.40%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.80%) Bicep
12 2 (1.20%) Go
13 1 (0.60%) C
13 1 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 82 (49.10%) Security Cleared
2 76 (45.51%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.98%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.39%) Degree
5 8 (4.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (4.19%) DV Cleared
7 6 (3.59%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.80%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.20%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.20%) PMP
11 1 (0.60%) CEH
11 1 (0.60%) CISSP
11 1 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.60%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.19%) PMO
2 6 (3.59%) QA
3 4 (2.40%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.40%) SLA
4 1 (0.60%) GDPR
4 1 (0.60%) NIST
4 1 (0.60%) Solvency II
System Software
1 80 (47.90%) Docker
2 15 (8.98%) Squid
3 7 (4.19%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.80%) Postfix
5 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 88 (52.69%) Terraform
2 65 (38.92%) Kubernetes
3 40 (23.95%) Grafana
4 36 (21.56%) Prometheus
5 22 (13.17%) Ansible
6 10 (5.99%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (5.39%) FortiGate
8 7 (4.19%) Consul
9 6 (3.59%) Puppet
10 4 (2.40%) Karpenter
10 4 (2.40%) Kibana
10 4 (2.40%) Salt
10 4 (2.40%) Suricata
11 2 (1.20%) 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 (6.59%) Atlassian
1 11 (6.59%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.99%) Red Hat
2 10 (5.99%) ServiceNow
3 9 (5.39%) Dynatrace
4 7 (4.19%) Sybase
5 6 (3.59%) Splunk
6 4 (2.40%) Jaspersoft
6 4 (2.40%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.80%) AVEVA
7 3 (1.80%) Brio
7 3 (1.80%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.20%) Oracle
8 2 (1.20%) Qualys
9 1 (0.60%) Google
9 1 (0.60%) IBM
9 1 (0.60%) Informatica
9 1 (0.60%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.60%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.60%) Trend Micro