Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in the North East

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 1.41% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -16.67% +2.13% -2.08%

All Cloud Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 121 72 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 42.61% 29.03% 34.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 30 54
10th Percentile £330 £190 £316
25th Percentile £411 £293 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £449
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% +3.06% -18.41%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £584
90th Percentile £628 £653 £668
England median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 5
10th Percentile - £11.44 £22.25
25th Percentile £12.50 £20.13 £31.25
Median hourly rate £13.00 £46.18 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.85% +42.09% +44.44%
75th Percentile £24.75 - £46.18
90th Percentile £31.50 - -
England median hourly rate £26.30 £28.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -7.72% -13.64% +53.49%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the North East

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the North East over the 6 months to 30 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the North East

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 30 August 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
Tyne and Wear - 4 £513 - 4
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 2 (50.00%) Documentum
1 2 (50.00%) FileNet
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Documentum Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (25.00%) AIOps
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Epics
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) LLM
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Rust
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Groovy
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) OpenText