Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 59 55
Rank change year-on-year -18 -4 +8
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 6 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.88% 0.63% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.59% 2.07% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £500 £503 -
25th Percentile £503 £506 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 -
75th Percentile £538 £594 -
90th Percentile £613 £628 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -19.15%

All Cloud Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 232 145 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 33.97% 30.59% 32.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 95 109
10th Percentile £312 £400 £400
25th Percentile £386 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £593
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -11.47% +7.82%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £625
90th Percentile £650 £650 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £489 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.25% -4.76% +4.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £18.65
25th Percentile - £20.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate - £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +8.82%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £113.75 £21.00 £22.51
% change year-on-year +441.67% -6.71% +0.04%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in South Yorkshire

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Sheffield -26 3 £500 -4.76% 1
Doncaster - 1 £675 -
Amazon EC2
Yorkshire

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon Cognito
3 2 (33.33%) AWS KMS
3 2 (33.33%) Datadog
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) Pulumi
3 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (16.67%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Specialist
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) AWS CDK
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Packer
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat