Amazon EC2 Contracts in the South West

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 108 148 161
Rank change year-on-year +40 +13 +2
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 3 9 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.18% 0.28% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.61% 1.10% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 4
10th Percentile £503 £523 £569
25th Percentile £508 £525 £653
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £550 £756
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% -27.27% +29.27%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £836
90th Percentile £546 £600 £844
England median daily rate £575 £530 £625
% change year-on-year +8.49% -15.20% +8.70%

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 491 816 1,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 29.26% 25.51% 34.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 616 1,019
10th Percentile £235 £205 £287
25th Percentile £406 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £594 £650
90th Percentile £688 £688 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 29 57
10th Percentile £18.13 £12.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £18.51 £14.50 £53.35
Median % change year-on-year +27.66% -72.82% +113.40%
75th Percentile £34.50 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £53.13 £70.00 £78.00
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 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 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
Wiltshire - 2 £500 - 3
Bristol +19 1 £543 - 9
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Keycloak
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) ETL
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Numerate Degree
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Jaspersoft