Amazon EC2 Contracts in London

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Amazon EC2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 250 244 281
Rank change year-on-year -6 +37 -12
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 152 285 372
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.85% 1.05% 0.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.26% 2.68% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 213 276
10th Percentile £364 £450 £438
25th Percentile £450 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £661 £700 £675
90th Percentile £784 £775 £700
England median daily rate £530 £616 £575
% change year-on-year -14.00% +7.17% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
England median hourly rate - - £85.00

All Cloud Skills
London

Amazon EC2 is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,714 10,628 16,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.61% 39.03% 41.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,947 7,745 12,168
10th Percentile £331 £375 £400
25th Percentile £441 £475 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £763
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 90 88
10th Percentile £17.78 £18.93 £16.08
25th Percentile £21.25 £23.31 £21.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £37.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.20% +6.43% +6.54%
75th Percentile £40.63 £70.00 £62.25
90th Percentile £61.00 £88.30 £78.98
England median hourly rate £20.99 £30.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -30.05% +42.86% -2.33%

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 2024. 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 +17 22 £565 -11.37% 4
South London +16 16 £412 -13.66%
West London +11 3 £600 -4.00% 2
East London - 1 £775 -
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 7 (4.61%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.29%) Apache
3 3 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.97%) Confluence
3 3 (1.97%) nginx
4 1 (0.66%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.66%) Drupal
4 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.66%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 6 (3.95%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.97%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.66%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.66%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.66%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 150 (98.68%) AWS
2 106 (69.74%) Amazon S3
3 83 (54.61%) Serverless
4 80 (52.63%) AWS Lambda
5 50 (32.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 38 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 27 (17.76%) Amazon ECS
7 27 (17.76%) Amazon EKS
7 27 (17.76%) Route 53
8 18 (11.84%) Amazon SQS
9 17 (11.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (7.89%) AWS Fargate
11 10 (6.58%) AWS Step Functions
11 10 (6.58%) Azure
11 10 (6.58%) GitHub
12 9 (5.92%) Amazon EMR
12 9 (5.92%) Amazon EventBridge
13 8 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (4.61%) Amazon SageMaker
14 7 (4.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.89%) DNS
2 8 (5.26%) Firewall
2 8 (5.26%) Network Security
3 6 (3.95%) DHCP
4 5 (3.29%) LAN
4 5 (3.29%) WLAN
5 4 (2.63%) HTTP
5 4 (2.63%) VPN
6 3 (1.97%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (1.97%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.97%) Wireless
7 2 (1.32%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (1.32%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (1.32%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (1.32%) WAN
8 1 (0.66%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.66%) MQTT
8 1 (0.66%) SMTP
8 1 (0.66%) SSH
8 1 (0.66%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (34.87%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (9.21%) Amazon Redshift
2 14 (9.21%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (7.24%) DynamoDB
4 10 (6.58%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 8 (5.26%) Relational Database
6 7 (4.61%) MongoDB
6 7 (4.61%) MySQL
6 7 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (3.29%) RDBMS
9 4 (2.63%) Big Data
9 4 (2.63%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.63%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (1.97%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.97%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.32%) Apache Hive
11 2 (1.32%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.66%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (21.71%) Git
2 28 (18.42%) Jenkins
3 16 (10.53%) GitLab
4 9 (5.92%) Bitbucket
5 7 (4.61%) JIRA
6 6 (3.95%) JUnit
7 5 (3.29%) Cucumber
7 5 (3.29%) JMeter
7 5 (3.29%) Maven
7 5 (3.29%) Mockito
7 5 (3.29%) Selenium
8 4 (2.63%) Sourcetree
9 3 (1.97%) LoadRunner
9 3 (1.97%) NeoLoad
9 3 (1.97%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.32%) Gradle
10 2 (1.32%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.66%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.66%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.66%) webpack
General
1 28 (18.42%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.11%) Finance
3 11 (7.24%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.29%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.63%) Banking
5 4 (2.63%) Marketing
6 3 (1.97%) Electronics
6 3 (1.97%) Investment Banking
6 3 (1.97%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.97%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.32%) Retail
8 1 (0.66%) Front Office
8 1 (0.66%) Law
8 1 (0.66%) Legal
8 1 (0.66%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 48 (31.58%) AWS Engineer
2 39 (25.66%) Developer
2 39 (25.66%) DevOps Engineer
3 28 (18.42%) Senior
4 23 (15.13%) AWS DevOps
4 23 (15.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 20 (13.16%) Architect
6 17 (11.18%) AWS Architect
7 16 (10.53%) Java Developer
8 13 (8.55%) AWS Developer
8 13 (8.55%) Data Engineer
9 12 (7.89%) Lead
10 11 (7.24%) Senior Developer
10 11 (7.24%) Software Engineer
11 8 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (5.26%) Python Developer
11 8 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (4.61%) Software Developer
13 6 (3.95%) AWS Data Engineer
13 6 (3.95%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.87%) RESTful
2 13 (8.55%) Kafka
3 12 (7.89%) Lambda Expressions
3 12 (7.89%) React
4 9 (5.92%) Spring
5 8 (5.26%) .NET
5 8 (5.26%) Node.js
5 8 (5.26%) OAuth
6 6 (3.95%) .NET Core
6 6 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (3.95%) OAuth2
6 6 (3.95%) REST
6 6 (3.95%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.97%) AWS CDK
7 3 (1.97%) Middleware
7 3 (1.97%) SOAP
7 3 (1.97%) Web Services
8 2 (1.32%) CSS
8 2 (1.32%) Django
8 2 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.92%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (5.26%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.29%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.63%) Credit Derivative
4 4 (2.63%) Credit Risk
4 4 (2.63%) Derivative
4 4 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.63%) Fixed Income
4 4 (2.63%) Market Risk
4 4 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.63%) PKI
4 4 (2.63%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.97%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.97%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.97%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.97%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.32%) IoT
6 2 (1.32%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.32%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 26 (17.11%) Linux
2 10 (6.58%) Windows
3 7 (4.61%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.29%) Unix
5 3 (1.97%) CentOS
6 2 (1.32%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.32%) VMS
6 2 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.66%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (44.74%) DevOps
2 65 (42.76%) CI/CD
3 47 (30.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (23.03%) Agile
5 25 (16.45%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (15.13%) Containerisation
6 23 (15.13%) Microservices
7 18 (11.84%) Software Engineering
8 17 (11.18%) Migration
9 16 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
10 13 (8.55%) Data Pipeline
11 12 (7.89%) Data Protection
12 11 (7.24%) Analytics
12 11 (7.24%) Computer Science
12 11 (7.24%) Identity Access Management
12 11 (7.24%) Scrum
12 11 (7.24%) TDD
13 10 (6.58%) BDD
13 10 (6.58%) Data Engineering
14 9 (5.92%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 81 (53.29%) Python
2 46 (30.26%) Java
3 22 (14.47%) SQL
4 16 (10.53%) Bash
5 15 (9.87%) TypeScript
6 11 (7.24%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.29%) Go
8 4 (2.63%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.63%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.97%) C
9 3 (1.97%) C++
10 2 (1.32%) C#
10 2 (1.32%) Groovy
10 2 (1.32%) Perl
10 2 (1.32%) Scala
10 2 (1.32%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.66%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 48 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 45 (29.61%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.53%) AWS Certification
4 12 (7.89%) Degree
5 11 (7.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.66%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.63%) Data Quality
1 4 (2.63%) QA
2 2 (1.32%) GDPR
2 2 (1.32%) SLA
3 1 (0.66%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.66%) NCSC
3 1 (0.66%) NIST
System Software
1 42 (27.63%) Docker
2 12 (7.89%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 68 (44.74%) Terraform
2 53 (34.87%) Kubernetes
3 23 (15.13%) Ansible
4 13 (8.55%) Grafana
5 12 (7.89%) Prometheus
6 10 (6.58%) Progress Chef
7 9 (5.92%) Puppet
8 6 (3.95%) Consul
9 4 (2.63%) Kibana
10 3 (1.97%) Packer
11 2 (1.32%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.32%) Salt
11 2 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.66%) AirWatch
12 1 (0.66%) SCCM
12 1 (0.66%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (11.18%) Oracle
2 8 (5.26%) Databricks
3 7 (4.61%) SAP
4 6 (3.95%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.95%) NEC
4 6 (3.95%) Splunk
5 5 (3.29%) VMware
6 4 (2.63%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.63%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.97%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.97%) MKS
8 2 (1.32%) Cisco
8 2 (1.32%) Confluent
8 2 (1.32%) Informatica
8 2 (1.32%) Okta
8 2 (1.32%) Qualys
8 2 (1.32%) SaltStack
9 1 (0.66%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.66%) StreamSets
9 1 (0.66%) Talend