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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 254 264
Rank change year-on-year +24 +10 +24
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 121 145 227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.99% 0.83% 0.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.32% 2.13% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 106 173
10th Percentile £400 £360 £453
25th Percentile £463 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -16.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £647 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £616
% change year-on-year - -14.81% +5.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -35.06%

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 5,218 6,809 9,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.88% 38.95% 38.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,553 5,027 7,267
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £671 £675 £695
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 64 78
10th Percentile £22.27 £16.70 £19.68
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.00 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £26.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -50.48% +31.25%
75th Percentile £45.63 £38.13 £78.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £56.75 £90.00
England median hourly rate £25.26 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -38.94% +62.79%

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 30 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 30 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 +5 15 £675 +19.47% 11
South London 0 11 £785 +90.42% 1
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 13 (10.74%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (9.92%) Apache
3 8 (6.61%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.65%) JBoss
4 2 (1.65%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.65%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.83%) CMS
5 1 (0.83%) Confluence
5 1 (0.83%) nginx
5 1 (0.83%) SAS
5 1 (0.83%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.83%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 121 (100.00%) AWS
2 86 (71.07%) Amazon S3
3 47 (38.84%) Serverless
4 44 (36.36%) Amazon EKS
4 44 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
5 29 (23.97%) Amazon SQS
6 28 (23.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (21.49%) Amazon ECS
7 26 (21.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 20 (16.53%) Route 53
9 15 (12.40%) SaaS
10 14 (11.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (9.92%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 12 (9.92%) CloudFront
12 6 (4.96%) Amazon ELB
12 6 (4.96%) AWS CodePipeline
12 6 (4.96%) dbt
12 6 (4.96%) GCP
12 6 (4.96%) GitHub
12 6 (4.96%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (12.40%) DNS
2 11 (9.09%) HTTP
2 11 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 9 (7.44%) Internet
4 8 (6.61%) VPN
5 7 (5.79%) Firewall
6 3 (2.48%) SSL
7 2 (1.65%) HTTPS
7 2 (1.65%) NAS
7 2 (1.65%) SAN
7 2 (1.65%) VLAN
8 1 (0.83%) IPv4
8 1 (0.83%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.83%) Multicast
8 1 (0.83%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.83%) SMS
8 1 (0.83%) SSH
8 1 (0.83%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (36.36%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (18.18%) Amazon Aurora
3 17 (14.05%) NoSQL
4 13 (10.74%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (9.92%) DocumentDB
5 12 (9.92%) Redis
6 11 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (7.44%) DynamoDB
8 8 (6.61%) Data Lake
9 7 (5.79%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (4.96%) Big Data
11 5 (4.13%) Apache Arrow
11 5 (4.13%) Apache Iceberg
11 5 (4.13%) Apache Ignite
11 5 (4.13%) Dremio
11 5 (4.13%) SQL Server
12 4 (3.31%) MySQL
12 4 (3.31%) Relational Database
13 3 (2.48%) MongoDB
13 3 (2.48%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 27 (22.31%) Jenkins
2 20 (16.53%) Git
3 15 (12.40%) GitLab
4 9 (7.44%) JUnit
5 6 (4.96%) Maven
6 5 (4.13%) Mockito
7 4 (3.31%) Cucumber
7 4 (3.31%) SonarQube
7 4 (3.31%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (2.48%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.48%) JIRA
8 3 (2.48%) JMeter
9 1 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.83%) DbUnit
9 1 (0.83%) jMock
9 1 (0.83%) JProfiler
9 1 (0.83%) ScalaTest
9 1 (0.83%) Subversion
9 1 (0.83%) WebDriver
General
1 25 (20.66%) Finance
2 22 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 16 (13.22%) Banking
4 14 (11.57%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (9.09%) Retail Banking
6 9 (7.44%) Social Skills
7 6 (4.96%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.13%) Front Office
9 4 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.48%) Military
11 2 (1.65%) Marketing
12 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (23.97%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (23.14%) AWS Engineer
3 26 (21.49%) Senior
4 25 (20.66%) Architect
5 21 (17.36%) Developer
6 19 (15.70%) AWS DevOps
7 17 (14.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 14 (11.57%) Security Architect
9 12 (9.92%) Java Developer
10 9 (7.44%) Senior DevOps
10 9 (7.44%) Software Engineer
11 8 (6.61%) Lead
12 7 (5.79%) AWS Architect
12 7 (5.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 7 (5.79%) Senior Software Engineer
13 6 (4.96%) Data Engineer
14 5 (4.13%) AWS Software Engineer
14 5 (4.13%) Cloud Architect
14 5 (4.13%) Java Engineer
14 5 (4.13%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.74%) RESTful
1 13 (10.74%) Spring
2 12 (9.92%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (9.09%) GraphQL
4 10 (8.26%) REST
5 7 (5.79%) Node.js
5 7 (5.79%) Spring Boot
6 5 (4.13%) ActiveMQ
6 5 (4.13%) gRPC
6 5 (4.13%) Kafka
6 5 (4.13%) NumPy
6 5 (4.13%) Pandas
6 5 (4.13%) Protocol Buffers
6 5 (4.13%) PySpark
6 5 (4.13%) React
6 5 (4.13%) SciPy
6 5 (4.13%) Web Services
7 4 (3.31%) Hibernate
7 4 (3.31%) SOAP
8 3 (2.48%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.88%) Onboarding
2 16 (13.22%) Derivative
3 15 (12.40%) CSOC
3 15 (12.40%) Security Operations Centre
4 8 (6.61%) Cloud Native
5 7 (5.79%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (4.96%) Public Cloud
7 5 (4.13%) Equities
7 5 (4.13%) Fixed Income
7 5 (4.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (4.13%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (4.13%) Hedge funds
7 5 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (3.31%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.65%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.65%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.83%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 29 (23.97%) Linux
2 7 (5.79%) Windows
3 5 (4.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (4.13%) Unix
4 2 (1.65%) CentOS
5 1 (0.83%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.83%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (42.15%) DevOps
2 42 (34.71%) CI/CD
3 31 (25.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (22.31%) Agile
5 26 (21.49%) Containerisation
6 18 (14.88%) Cybersecurity
7 17 (14.05%) Asset Management
8 16 (13.22%) Continuous Integration
8 16 (13.22%) Migration
9 15 (12.40%) Security Operations
9 15 (12.40%) SIEM
9 15 (12.40%) Use Case
10 14 (11.57%) Deployment Automation
10 14 (11.57%) SOAR
11 13 (10.74%) Microservices
12 12 (9.92%) Configuration Management
12 12 (9.92%) Software Engineering
13 11 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (9.09%) SOLID
13 11 (9.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 47 (38.84%) Python
2 32 (26.45%) Java
3 19 (15.70%) Bash
4 17 (14.05%) SQL
5 15 (12.40%) JavaScript
6 13 (10.74%) TypeScript
7 11 (9.09%) C#
8 8 (6.61%) PowerShell
9 7 (5.79%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.48%) CodeQL
10 3 (2.48%) Perl
10 3 (2.48%) Scala
11 2 (1.65%) C++
11 2 (1.65%) Groovy
11 2 (1.65%) Ruby
12 1 (0.83%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.83%) R
Qualifications
1 46 (38.02%) Security Cleared
2 44 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.74%) AWS Certification
4 8 (6.61%) Degree
5 6 (4.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.65%) CCIE
8 2 (1.65%) CCNP
8 2 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.65%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.83%) CISSP
9 1 (0.83%) OCP
9 1 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.83%) VCAP
9 1 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.13%) GDPR
1 5 (4.13%) QA
2 4 (3.31%) SOC 2
3 3 (2.48%) HIPAA
3 3 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.48%) NIST
4 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.83%) NCSC
System Software
1 30 (24.79%) Docker
2 4 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.48%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.83%) Postfix
4 1 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (31.40%) Terraform
2 36 (29.75%) Kubernetes
3 22 (18.18%) Ansible
4 19 (15.70%) Grafana
4 19 (15.70%) Prometheus
5 15 (12.40%) Puppet
6 12 (9.92%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.65%) Argo
7 2 (1.65%) Kibana
7 2 (1.65%) Packer
8 1 (0.83%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.83%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.83%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.83%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.83%) Podman
8 1 (0.83%) yum
Vendors
1 18 (14.88%) Splunk
2 10 (8.26%) Red Hat
3 6 (4.96%) VMware
4 5 (4.13%) Oracle
5 4 (3.31%) Tenable
6 3 (2.48%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (2.48%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.48%) Qualys
6 3 (2.48%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.65%) Cisco
7 2 (1.65%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.65%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.83%) Actifio
8 1 (0.83%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.83%) Black Duck
8 1 (0.83%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.83%) Google
8 1 (0.83%) Intel
8 1 (0.83%) Jaspersoft
8 1 (0.83%) Rollbar