Amazon EC2 Contracts in the South West

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Amazon EC2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 169 161
Rank change year-on-year +26 -8 -27
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 9 5 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.28% 0.14% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.11% 0.40% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 10
10th Percentile £523 £569 £494
25th Percentile £525 £653 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £756 £585
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +29.27% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £836 £637
90th Percentile £600 £844 £653
England median daily rate £530 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -15.20% +8.70% +9.52%

All Cloud Skills
South West

Amazon EC2 is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 810 1,264 1,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.58% 34.72% 30.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 1,020 856
10th Percentile £205 £285 £250
25th Percentile £363 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £650 £590
90th Percentile £688 £713 £658
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 58 25
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.45 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £19.23 £17.50
Median hourly rate £14.50 £55.43 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.84% +121.70% -44.44%
75th Percentile £34.88 £70.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £52.36
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the South West

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the South West

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Gloucestershire +12 8 £550 -29.03% 2
Bristol - 1 - - 6
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 9 (100.00%) Serverless
2 7 (77.78%) OpenShift
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Macie
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CodeCommit
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Network Security
2 5 (55.56%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (66.67%) InfluxDB
2 6 (66.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
3 1 (11.11%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Site Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (11.11%) JSON
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 7 (77.78%) DevOps
3 6 (66.67%) Event-Driven
3 6 (66.67%) Observability
3 6 (66.67%) Service Management
4 5 (55.56%) Configuration Management
5 1 (11.11%) Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
5 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (11.11%) Data Transformation
5 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 6 (66.67%) Go
2 6 (66.67%) Java
2 6 (66.67%) Python
3 5 (55.56%) Shell Script
4 4 (44.44%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) DV Cleared
1 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Grafana
1 8 (88.89%) Kubernetes
1 8 (88.89%) Prometheus
1 8 (88.89%) Terraform
2 7 (77.78%) Docker Swarm
3 6 (66.67%) Ansible
3 6 (66.67%) Progress Chef