Amazon EC2 Contracts in the North of England

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 136 149
Rank change year-on-year -3 +13 +18
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 27 49 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.82% 1.03% 1.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.43% 3.48% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 41 52
10th Percentile £358 £409 -
25th Percentile £400 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £500 £694 £650
90th Percentile £545 - £673
England median daily rate £575 £530 £625
% change year-on-year +8.49% -15.20% +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,111 1,408 2,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.72% 29.53% 36.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 999 1,595
10th Percentile £248 £263 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £643 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 79 37
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.22
25th Percentile £26.72 £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.91 £16.06 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +92.43% -59.44% +111.93%
75th Percentile £73.44 £20.77 £65.00
90th Percentile £97.98 £43.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the North of England

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the North of England

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the North of England

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North West -2 23 £475 -13.64% 33
Yorkshire +4 3 £500 +8.11% 13
North East - 1 £380 - 4
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (18.52%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (11.11%) Apache
2 3 (11.11%) nginx
2 3 (11.11%) Tomcat
3 2 (7.41%) IIS
4 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
4 1 (3.70%) Documentum
4 1 (3.70%) FileNet
Cloud Services
1 27 (100.00%) AWS
2 18 (66.67%) Amazon S3
3 12 (44.44%) Serverless
4 11 (40.74%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (40.74%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (25.93%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (25.93%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (22.22%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (14.81%) GitHub
7 4 (14.81%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (11.11%) AWS KMS
9 2 (7.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (7.41%) AWS CodeBuild
9 2 (7.41%) Nutanix
9 2 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (3.70%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (3.70%) Apigee
10 1 (3.70%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) DNS
2 2 (7.41%) DHCP
3 1 (3.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) MongoDB
1 5 (18.52%) Relational Database
1 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.70%) InfluxDB
4 1 (3.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.41%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) GitLab
3 1 (3.70%) Babel
3 1 (3.70%) Subversion
3 1 (3.70%) webpack
General
1 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.41%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) AWS Engineer
2 8 (29.63%) Data Engineer
2 8 (29.63%) Senior
3 7 (25.93%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (22.22%) AWS DevOps
4 6 (22.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (18.52%) Developer
5 5 (18.52%) Software Engineer
6 4 (14.81%) AWS Data Engineer
6 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 4 (14.81%) Python Data Engineer
6 4 (14.81%) Python Engineer
6 4 (14.81%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (11.11%) Java Developer
7 3 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (7.41%) Digital Transformation
9 1 (3.70%) AWS Software Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
9 1 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) Node.js
1 4 (14.81%) React
2 3 (11.11%) .NET
2 3 (11.11%) OAuth
3 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
3 2 (7.41%) AWS CDK
3 2 (7.41%) HTML
3 2 (7.41%) RESTful
3 2 (7.41%) Spring
3 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Amplify
4 1 (3.70%) CSS
4 1 (3.70%) Java EE
4 1 (3.70%) JSON
4 1 (3.70%) JWT
4 1 (3.70%) Kafka
4 1 (3.70%) Next.js
4 1 (3.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Clustering
1 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Linux
2 4 (14.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (7.41%) CentOS
3 2 (7.41%) Windows
3 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) CI/CD
2 9 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 9 (33.33%) DevOps
2 9 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
4 4 (14.81%) Agile
4 4 (14.81%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (14.81%) Feature Engineering
4 4 (14.81%) Microservices
4 4 (14.81%) TDD
5 3 (11.11%) Blue-Green Deployment
5 3 (11.11%) Data Modelling
5 3 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (11.11%) Scrum
5 3 (11.11%) Secrets Management
5 3 (11.11%) Service Catalogue
6 2 (7.41%) ITIL
6 2 (7.41%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (7.41%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (55.56%) Python
2 6 (22.22%) SQL
3 5 (18.52%) Java
4 4 (14.81%) TypeScript
5 3 (11.11%) Bash
5 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) AWS Certification
1 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
1 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (51.85%) Docker
2 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.41%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (40.74%) Kubernetes
2 10 (37.04%) Terraform
3 5 (18.52%) Ansible
4 3 (11.11%) Kibana
5 2 (7.41%) Nagios
5 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
5 2 (7.41%) ZABBIX
6 1 (3.70%) Grafana
6 1 (3.70%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) AppDynamics
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle
2 2 (7.41%) Dell
2 2 (7.41%) HP
2 2 (7.41%) IBM
2 2 (7.41%) SolarWinds
2 2 (7.41%) VMware
3 1 (3.70%) Red Hat