Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.092% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £675 -
% change year-on-year -18.52% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 457 136 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 42.04% 29.76% 31.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 103 88
10th Percentile £380 £308 £363
25th Percentile £450 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £493 £514
Median % change year-on-year +5.17% -4.04% -12.55%
75th Percentile £584 £599 £592
90th Percentile £688 £650 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £515 £500 £505
% change year-on-year +3.00% -0.99% -8.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.50
Median hourly rate - - £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.26%
75th Percentile - - £22.00
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.00 - £21.00
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Packer