Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 1.25% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.51% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
South East median daily rate £546 £581 £525
% change year-on-year -6.02% +10.71% -4.02%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 57 27 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 35.63% 28.72% 35.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 17 43
10th Percentile £217 £284 £141
25th Percentile £263 £375 £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% +7.95%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £553
90th Percentile £675 £700 £645
South East median daily rate £485 £509 £518
% change year-on-year -4.62% -1.83% -1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £24.91
Median % change year-on-year - - +46.53%
75th Percentile - - £32.32
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £37.00 £42.50 £32.32
% change year-on-year -12.94% +31.50% +53.90%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 18 January 2026. 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
Oxford - 2 £300 - 1
Amazon EC2
South East

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Backend Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Python Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Django
1 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (50.00%) Flask
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Resilience Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Argo
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus