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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 218 241
Rank change year-on-year -43 +23 +29
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 172 131 155
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.91% 1.06% 0.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.17% 2.47% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 97 115
10th Percentile £400 £400 £360
25th Percentile £456 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -16.00%
75th Percentile £624 £700 £688
90th Percentile £713 £780 £838
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £67.50 £40.63 -
25th Percentile £71.25 £47.19 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £58.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.17% - -
75th Percentile £86.25 £69.69 -
90th Percentile £88.50 £75.88 -
England median hourly rate £92.50 £58.75 -
% change year-on-year +57.45% - -

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 7,932 5,297 6,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.05% 43.04% 39.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,447 3,593 5,091
10th Percentile £356 £350 £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 £785 £780
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 66 68
10th Percentile £20.84 £22.50 £17.32
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.54 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% +17.44% -50.48%
75th Percentile £55.94 £48.44 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.23 £70.63 £55.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.33 £21.50
% change year-on-year +55.97% +17.79% -36.10%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +11 32 £503 -35.99%
Central London -20 11 £544 -16.31% 9
West London - 4 - - 2
East London - 1 £500 - 3
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 23 (13.37%) Confluence
2 10 (5.81%) nginx
3 8 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.91%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.74%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (5.23%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 171 (99.42%) AWS
2 135 (78.49%) Amazon S3
3 122 (70.93%) Serverless
4 121 (70.35%) AWS Lambda
5 77 (44.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 74 (43.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 71 (41.28%) Amazon EKS
8 44 (25.58%) GitHub
9 31 (18.02%) Amazon ECS
9 31 (18.02%) AWS CloudFormation
9 31 (18.02%) Azure
10 28 (16.28%) GitHub Actions
11 27 (15.70%) Route 53
12 16 (9.30%) Amazon SQS
13 15 (8.72%) AWS KMS
14 14 (8.14%) Datadog
15 13 (7.56%) Power Platform
16 10 (5.81%) AWS CodePipeline
17 9 (5.23%) Snowflake
18 8 (4.65%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 23 (13.37%) Firewall
2 22 (12.79%) DNS
3 16 (9.30%) TCP/IP
4 11 (6.40%) VPN
5 10 (5.81%) OpenVPN
6 8 (4.65%) Network Security
7 3 (1.74%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (1.16%) Internet
8 2 (1.16%) WAN
9 1 (0.58%) Calico
9 1 (0.58%) DHCP
9 1 (0.58%) HTTP
9 1 (0.58%) SSL
9 1 (0.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (37.79%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (9.88%) SQL Server
3 16 (9.30%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (7.56%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (7.56%) Power BI
5 12 (6.98%) DynamoDB
6 11 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (5.81%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (5.23%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (4.65%) Tableau
10 5 (2.91%) Amazon QuickSight
10 5 (2.91%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (2.91%) MySQL
11 4 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.33%) Db2
11 4 (2.33%) Hadoop
11 4 (2.33%) NoSQL
12 3 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 61 (35.47%) Git
2 55 (31.98%) Jenkins
3 54 (31.40%) GitLab
4 29 (16.86%) JIRA
5 13 (7.56%) Bitbucket
5 13 (7.56%) Cucumber
6 12 (6.98%) JUnit
6 12 (6.98%) SonarQube
7 11 (6.40%) Artifactory
8 8 (4.65%) Mockito
9 6 (3.49%) Mocha
9 6 (3.49%) MSTest
9 6 (3.49%) tSQLt
10 5 (2.91%) Maven
10 5 (2.91%) Postman
11 4 (2.33%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (2.33%) DbUnit
11 4 (2.33%) jMock
12 3 (1.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (1.74%) TeamCity
General
1 51 (29.65%) Social Skills
2 44 (25.58%) Public Sector
3 40 (23.26%) Finance
4 17 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.72%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (5.23%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (4.65%) Banking
8 5 (2.91%) Military
9 4 (2.33%) Law
10 3 (1.74%) Back Office
10 3 (1.74%) Front Office
10 3 (1.74%) Police
11 2 (1.16%) Games
11 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (23.84%) Developer
2 35 (20.35%) AWS Engineer
3 29 (16.86%) Senior
4 25 (14.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 23 (13.37%) Architect
6 19 (11.05%) Software Engineer
7 18 (10.47%) AWS Developer
8 15 (8.72%) Python Developer
9 14 (8.14%) AWS DevOps
9 14 (8.14%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (6.98%) AWS Architect
10 12 (6.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 12 (6.98%) Java Developer
11 9 (5.23%) Analyst
11 9 (5.23%) AWS Software Engineer
11 9 (5.23%) Delivery Manager
12 8 (4.65%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 8 (4.65%) Lead
12 8 (4.65%) SQL Developer
13 7 (4.07%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (14.53%) RESTful
2 19 (11.05%) AngularJS
2 19 (11.05%) REST
3 18 (10.47%) Spring Boot
4 17 (9.88%) Kafka
5 15 (8.72%) FastAPI
5 15 (8.72%) Spring
6 13 (7.56%) Flask
7 11 (6.40%) .NET
8 10 (5.81%) React
9 9 (5.23%) AWS CDK
9 9 (5.23%) LDAP
9 9 (5.23%) Next.js
9 9 (5.23%) OpenID
10 8 (4.65%) CSS
10 8 (4.65%) SOAP
11 7 (4.07%) Gherkin
11 7 (4.07%) Pandas
11 7 (4.07%) Polars
12 6 (3.49%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 33 (19.19%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.23%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (5.23%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.65%) Replication
4 7 (4.07%) Hedge funds
5 6 (3.49%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.91%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.74%) Equities
8 3 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.74%) NHS
8 3 (1.74%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.74%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.16%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.58%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (18.60%) Linux
2 8 (4.65%) Unix
3 7 (4.07%) Windows
4 5 (2.91%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (68.02%) CI/CD
2 83 (48.26%) DevOps
3 66 (38.37%) Agile
4 59 (34.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 52 (30.23%) Containerisation
6 41 (23.84%) Microservices
7 33 (19.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 33 (19.19%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (16.28%) Software Engineering
9 24 (13.95%) Decision-Making
9 24 (13.95%) Observability
10 22 (12.79%) Cloud Security
10 22 (12.79%) Performance Tuning
11 20 (11.63%) Test Automation
12 18 (10.47%) AI
12 18 (10.47%) Migration
12 18 (10.47%) Platform Engineering
13 17 (9.88%) Mentoring
14 16 (9.30%) Stakeholder Management
15 15 (8.72%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 86 (50.00%) Python
2 44 (25.58%) SQL
3 42 (24.42%) Java
4 29 (16.86%) Bash
5 26 (15.12%) C#
6 22 (12.79%) PowerShell
7 12 (6.98%) JavaScript
8 11 (6.40%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.49%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.91%) Groovy
11 4 (2.33%) Perl
11 4 (2.33%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.74%) Bicep
13 2 (1.16%) Go
14 1 (0.58%) C
14 1 (0.58%) Scala
Qualifications
1 87 (50.58%) Security Cleared
2 81 (47.09%) SC Cleared
3 25 (14.53%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 9 (5.23%) Degree
5 7 (4.07%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (3.49%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.16%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.16%) PMP
11 1 (0.58%) CEH
11 1 (0.58%) CISSP
11 1 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.58%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.07%) Data Quality
1 7 (4.07%) PMO
1 7 (4.07%) QA
2 4 (2.33%) SLA
3 1 (0.58%) NIST
3 1 (0.58%) Solvency II
System Software
1 81 (47.09%) Docker
2 15 (8.72%) Squid
3 7 (4.07%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.74%) Postfix
5 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 94 (54.65%) Terraform
2 66 (38.37%) Kubernetes
3 42 (24.42%) Grafana
4 38 (22.09%) Prometheus
5 23 (13.37%) Ansible
6 10 (5.81%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (5.23%) FortiGate
8 7 (4.07%) Consul
8 7 (4.07%) Puppet
9 4 (2.33%) Salt
9 4 (2.33%) Suricata
10 3 (1.74%) Packer
11 2 (1.16%) Argo
11 2 (1.16%) Karpenter
12 1 (0.58%) Cilium
12 1 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.58%) Kibana
12 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.58%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 11 (6.40%) Atlassian
1 11 (6.40%) Red Hat
2 10 (5.81%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.81%) ServiceNow
3 9 (5.23%) Dynatrace
4 7 (4.07%) Sybase
5 6 (3.49%) Splunk
6 4 (2.33%) Informatica
6 4 (2.33%) Jaspersoft
6 4 (2.33%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.74%) AVEVA
7 3 (1.74%) Brio
7 3 (1.74%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.16%) Oracle
8 2 (1.16%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.16%) Qualys
9 1 (0.58%) Google
9 1 (0.58%) IBM
9 1 (0.58%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.58%) Trend Micro