Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 125 140
Rank change year-on-year +4 +15 +11
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 5 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.25% 0.24% 0.079%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.63% 0.70% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £333 £555 -
25th Percentile £381 £619 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £638 £525
Median % change year-on-year -25.49% +21.43% +9.38%
75th Percentile £581 £825 £538
90th Percentile £638 - -
South East median daily rate £530 £638 £525
% change year-on-year -16.86% +21.43% -8.70%

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 790 718 750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 39.07% 34.13% 29.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 466 512
10th Percentile £255 £325 £200
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £666 £700
South East median daily rate £481 £516 £525
% change year-on-year -6.73% -1.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 18 18
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.50 £16.66
25th Percentile £16.37 £20.88 £19.25
Median hourly rate £40.44 £28.75 £33.66
Median % change year-on-year +40.64% -14.59% +60.29%
75th Percentile £84.75 £55.61 £70.13
90th Percentile £97.75 £64.73 £82.92
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £29.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -34.48% +7.41% +30.31%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 4 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 4 December 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 +5 2 - - 1
Oxfordshire - 2 £300 - 3
Buckinghamshire +1 1 £650 -9.57% 1
Amazon EC2
South East

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 5 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (80.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (60.00%) GitHub
3 3 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (40.00%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Backend Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Backend Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Python Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Django
1 1 (20.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (20.00%) Flask
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (20.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (20.00%) OpenID
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
1 1 (20.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (80.00%) Incident Response
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (60.00%) Project Management
3 3 (60.00%) Resilience Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Technical Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
4 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (40.00%) High Availability
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (20.00%) Chaos Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
5 1 (20.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (80.00%) NIST
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Argo
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) JDA