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

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 138 154
Rank change year-on-year +2 +16 +16
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 32 48 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.97% 1.04% 1.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.92% 3.52% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 40 45
10th Percentile £358 £409 -
25th Percentile £403 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.64% -7.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £519 £588 £620
90th Percentile £575 £694 £650
England median daily rate £543 £525 £609
% change year-on-year +3.33% -13.76% +5.87%

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 1,096 1,364 2,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.32% 29.61% 36.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 810 967 1,502
10th Percentile £262 £263 £300
25th Percentile £381 £389 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £476 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -9.43% +5.00%
75th Percentile £549 £575 £594
90th Percentile £638 £650 £684
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 78 39
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.09
25th Percentile £12.82 £15.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -50.58% +51.94%
75th Percentile £72.50 £22.00 £60.70
90th Percentile £97.13 £44.48 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.98 £21.37 £32.50
% change year-on-year +21.55% -34.25% +51.16%

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 22 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 22 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 -1 24 £475 -10.38% 34
Yorkshire +3 5 £500 +8.11% 16
North East - 3 £575 - 9
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 (15.63%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (9.38%) Apache
2 3 (9.38%) Documentum
2 3 (9.38%) FileNet
2 3 (9.38%) nginx
2 3 (9.38%) Tomcat
3 2 (6.25%) IIS
4 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 32 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (65.63%) Amazon S3
3 16 (50.00%) Serverless
4 13 (40.63%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (34.38%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (21.88%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (21.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (12.50%) GitHub
9 4 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (9.38%) AWS KMS
11 2 (6.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudTrail
11 2 (6.25%) AWS CodeBuild
11 2 (6.25%) Nutanix
11 2 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (3.13%) Amazon Cognito
12 1 (3.13%) Cloudflare
12 1 (3.13%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) DNS
2 2 (6.25%) DHCP
3 1 (3.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) MongoDB
2 5 (15.63%) Relational Database
2 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
3 4 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (9.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (6.25%) Big Data
5 2 (6.25%) MySQL
6 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
6 1 (3.13%) InfluxDB
6 1 (3.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.50%) Git
2 4 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (3.13%) Babel
3 1 (3.13%) Subversion
3 1 (3.13%) webpack
General
1 7 (21.88%) Public Sector
2 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Finance
4 2 (6.25%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) AWS Engineer
2 9 (28.13%) Developer
3 8 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 8 (25.00%) Senior
4 7 (21.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (18.75%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (18.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (15.63%) Software Engineer
7 4 (12.50%) AWS Data Engineer
7 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 4 (12.50%) Python Data Engineer
7 4 (12.50%) Python Engineer
7 4 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (9.38%) Documentum Developer
8 3 (9.38%) Java Developer
8 3 (9.38%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (6.25%) Digital Transformation
9 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (6.25%) Python Developer
9 2 (6.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) Node.js
1 6 (18.75%) React
2 3 (9.38%) .NET
2 3 (9.38%) OAuth
3 2 (6.25%) AngularJS
3 2 (6.25%) AWS CDK
3 2 (6.25%) HTML
3 2 (6.25%) PySpark
3 2 (6.25%) RESTful
3 2 (6.25%) Spring
3 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Amplify
4 1 (3.13%) CSS
4 1 (3.13%) Java EE
4 1 (3.13%) JSON
4 1 (3.13%) JWT
4 1 (3.13%) Kafka
4 1 (3.13%) Next.js
4 1 (3.13%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) NHS
2 2 (6.25%) Clustering
2 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.13%) CSOC
3 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Linux
2 6 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.25%) CentOS
3 2 (6.25%) Windows
3 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) CI/CD
2 9 (28.13%) Containerisation
2 9 (28.13%) DevOps
2 9 (28.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (18.75%) Agile
4 6 (18.75%) Software Engineering
5 5 (15.63%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (12.50%) Feature Engineering
6 4 (12.50%) Microservices
6 4 (12.50%) TDD
7 3 (9.38%) Blue-Green Deployment
7 3 (9.38%) Content Management
7 3 (9.38%) Data Modelling
7 3 (9.38%) Scrum
7 3 (9.38%) Secrets Management
7 3 (9.38%) Service Catalogue
8 2 (6.25%) Code Quality
8 2 (6.25%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 17 (53.13%) Python
2 7 (21.88%) Java
3 6 (18.75%) SQL
3 6 (18.75%) TypeScript
4 3 (9.38%) Bash
4 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 2 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.25%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (43.75%) Docker
2 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (37.50%) Terraform
2 11 (34.38%) Kubernetes
3 7 (21.88%) Ansible
4 3 (9.38%) Kibana
5 2 (6.25%) Nagios
5 2 (6.25%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.25%) ZABBIX
6 1 (3.13%) Grafana
6 1 (3.13%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Oracle
2 3 (9.38%) AppDynamics
3 2 (6.25%) Brio
3 2 (6.25%) Dell
3 2 (6.25%) HP
3 2 (6.25%) IBM
3 2 (6.25%) SolarWinds
3 2 (6.25%) VMware
4 1 (3.13%) OpenText
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.13%) Splunk