Amazon EC2 Contracts in the Thames Valley

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 98 138 132
Rank change year-on-year +40 -6 +19
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 4 7 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.26% 0.26% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.78% 0.93% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 13
10th Percentile - £513 -
25th Percentile - £516 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +4.71%
75th Percentile - £600 £638
90th Percentile - - £675
South East median daily rate £540 £530 £580
% change year-on-year +1.89% -8.62% +19.59%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 511 755 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 33.82% 28.11% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 515 615
10th Percentile £304 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £608 £625
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 30 20
10th Percentile £20.96 £15.99 £18.42
25th Percentile £28.05 £19.37 £21.49
Median hourly rate £32.05 £42.50 £30.23
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% +40.59% +43.95%
75th Percentile £47.15 £59.95 £59.25
90th Percentile £76.51 £61.60 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the Thames Valley

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the Thames Valley

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +28 4 £500 -11.11% 10
Amazon EC2
South East

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 1 (25.00%) AWS KMS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (25.00%) Route 53
4 1 (25.00%) SonarCloud
4 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) JUnit
2 3 (75.00%) Mockito
3 2 (50.00%) JMeter
4 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (25.00%) DbUnit
4 1 (25.00%) Git
4 1 (25.00%) jMock
4 1 (25.00%) Maven
4 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Developer
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (75.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (75.00%) REST
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
1 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (75.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) Apache Camel
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) JSON
2 2 (50.00%) WireMock
2 2 (50.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (25.00%) Bootstrap
3 1 (25.00%) JPA
3 1 (25.00%) PowerMock
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Batch
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) BDD
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Process Management
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) Workflow
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (25.00%) Kanban
4 1 (25.00%) Open Source
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Kibana
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (25.00%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (25.00%) New Relic