Amazon EC2 Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 249 293 312
Rank change year-on-year +44 +19 +21
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 94 104 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.72% 0.50% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.25% 1.95% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 82 82
10th Percentile £400 £413 £476
25th Percentile £436 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £629 £687 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £600
% change year-on-year +0.96% -13.33% +4.35%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,170 5,328 7,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.99% 25.71% 32.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,912 3,769 5,494
10th Percentile £250 £213 £248
25th Percentile £380 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £573 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 262 224
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.06
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.22 £16.79
Median hourly rate £20.50 £17.80 £27.35
Median % change year-on-year +15.17% -34.92% +36.75%
75th Percentile £34.46 £35.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £69.88 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £21.37 £37.00
% change year-on-year +31.02% -42.24% +65.18%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the UK excluding London

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the UK excluding London

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the UK excluding London

Amazon EC2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the UK excluding London

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
North of England +5 34 £494 -3.19% 41
North West 0 26 £475 -6.86% 20
Midlands +32 22 £475 +11.76% 28
West Midlands +32 22 £475 +11.76% 26
Scotland -1 17 £530 +10.99% 4
South East +40 9 £540 -8.86% 32
South West +40 6 £500 -13.04% 25
East of England +27 6 £513 -18.00% 13
Yorkshire +8 5 £500 +8.11% 14
North East - 3 £575 - 7
Amazon EC2
UK

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (7.45%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.32%) Apache
3 3 (3.19%) Confluence
3 3 (3.19%) Documentum
3 3 (3.19%) FileNet
3 3 (3.19%) IIS
3 3 (3.19%) nginx
3 3 (3.19%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.13%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (2.13%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.06%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 94 (100.00%) AWS
2 74 (78.72%) Amazon S3
3 39 (41.49%) Serverless
4 34 (36.17%) AWS Lambda
5 28 (29.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 26 (27.66%) Amazon SQS
7 24 (25.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (21.28%) AWS KMS
9 18 (19.15%) Route 53
10 17 (18.09%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (17.02%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (14.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (11.70%) AWS CodeBuild
14 10 (10.64%) GitHub
15 9 (9.57%) AWS CodePipeline
15 9 (9.57%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (8.51%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 8 (8.51%) SaaS
17 7 (7.45%) AWS CodeDeploy
17 7 (7.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.38%) DNS
2 5 (5.32%) Firewall
3 2 (2.13%) DHCP
3 2 (2.13%) SSL
3 2 (2.13%) X.509
4 1 (1.06%) FTP
4 1 (1.06%) HTTP
4 1 (1.06%) Internet
4 1 (1.06%) Network Security
4 1 (1.06%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.06%) SMTP
4 1 (1.06%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (45.74%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (29.79%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (18.09%) DynamoDB
4 14 (14.89%) Relational Database
5 13 (13.83%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (8.51%) MongoDB
7 7 (7.45%) SQL Server
8 5 (5.32%) MySQL
8 5 (5.32%) Oracle Database
8 5 (5.32%) RDBMS
9 4 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (3.19%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (3.19%) Big Data
10 3 (3.19%) InfluxDB
11 2 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (2.13%) Apache Hive
11 2 (2.13%) Hadoop
12 1 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (1.06%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 40 (42.55%) Jenkins
2 22 (23.40%) Git
3 17 (18.09%) JUnit
4 15 (15.96%) Mockito
5 13 (13.83%) Maven
6 12 (12.77%) SonarQube
7 10 (10.64%) GitLab
8 7 (7.45%) Bitbucket Server
8 7 (7.45%) DbUnit
8 7 (7.45%) jMock
9 5 (5.32%) JIRA
10 4 (4.26%) Artifactory
11 3 (3.19%) Bitbucket
12 2 (2.13%) JMeter
13 1 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (1.06%) Babel
13 1 (1.06%) Selenium
13 1 (1.06%) Subversion
13 1 (1.06%) Vagrant
13 1 (1.06%) webpack
General
1 30 (31.91%) Public Sector
2 13 (13.83%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.45%) Finance
5 2 (2.13%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.06%) Banking
6 1 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (41.49%) Developer
2 23 (24.47%) Java Developer
3 19 (20.21%) Senior
4 18 (19.15%) AWS Engineer
5 13 (13.83%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (12.77%) AWS Developer
7 10 (10.64%) Senior Developer
8 9 (9.57%) AWS DevOps
8 9 (9.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 9 (9.57%) Data Engineer
9 7 (7.45%) Architect
9 7 (7.45%) Lead
10 6 (6.38%) Lead Developer
10 6 (6.38%) Lead Java Developer
10 6 (6.38%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (6.38%) Software Engineer
11 5 (5.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 5 (5.32%) DBA
11 5 (5.32%) Senior Java Developer
12 4 (4.26%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (24.47%) Spring
2 20 (21.28%) Spring Boot
3 19 (20.21%) REST
4 16 (17.02%) Web Services
5 15 (15.96%) ActiveMQ
5 15 (15.96%) Hibernate
6 14 (14.89%) React
6 14 (14.89%) SOAP
7 13 (13.83%) AngularJS
7 13 (13.83%) RESTful
8 12 (12.77%) JPA
9 10 (10.64%) AWS CDK
9 10 (10.64%) Spring Cloud
10 9 (9.57%) Bootstrap
10 9 (9.57%) Spring Batch
10 9 (9.57%) Spring Integration
11 8 (8.51%) Node.js
12 7 (7.45%) HTML
12 7 (7.45%) PowerMock
13 5 (5.32%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.83%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (7.45%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.38%) Replication
4 5 (5.32%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.26%) NHS
6 3 (3.19%) Oracle Licensing
7 2 (2.13%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.13%) Clustering
7 2 (2.13%) CSOC
7 2 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.13%) PKI
7 2 (2.13%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.06%) FMCG
8 1 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (23.40%) Linux
2 10 (10.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (5.32%) Windows
4 2 (2.13%) CentOS
4 2 (2.13%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.13%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.06%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (1.06%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (45.74%) CI/CD
2 38 (40.43%) Agile
3 33 (35.11%) DevOps
4 29 (30.85%) Containerisation
5 25 (26.60%) Microservices
5 25 (26.60%) Scrum
6 22 (23.40%) TDD
7 19 (20.21%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (14.89%) BDD
9 14 (14.89%) Continuous Integration
9 14 (14.89%) Kanban
10 11 (11.70%) Software Engineering
11 9 (9.57%) Computer Science
11 9 (9.57%) Cost Optimisation
11 9 (9.57%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (9.57%) Platform Engineering
11 9 (9.57%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (8.51%) Collaborative Working
12 8 (8.51%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (39.36%) Python
2 32 (34.04%) Java
3 30 (31.91%) SQL
4 16 (17.02%) JavaScript
5 11 (11.70%) Bash
6 9 (9.57%) TypeScript
7 5 (5.32%) Groovy
8 4 (4.26%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.19%) Rust
10 2 (2.13%) Perl
10 2 (2.13%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.13%) R
10 2 (2.13%) Ruby
11 1 (1.06%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (1.06%) C#
11 1 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.06%) Scala
11 1 (1.06%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (20.21%) Security Cleared
2 17 (18.09%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.70%) AWS Certification
4 10 (10.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (10.64%) Degree
5 5 (5.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.13%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.06%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.06%) MCSE
8 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.06%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (1.06%) OCP
8 1 (1.06%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.19%) GDPR
2 2 (2.13%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (2.13%) FIPS 140-2
2 2 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.13%) NIST
2 2 (2.13%) NIST 800
2 2 (2.13%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.13%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (46.81%) Docker
2 8 (8.51%) Postfix
3 6 (6.38%) Active Directory
4 3 (3.19%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.13%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.06%) DFS Replication
6 1 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (35.11%) Kubernetes
2 22 (23.40%) Terraform
3 17 (18.09%) Grafana
4 16 (17.02%) Ansible
5 15 (15.96%) Prometheus
6 8 (8.51%) Kibana
7 3 (3.19%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (2.13%) Nagios
8 2 (2.13%) ZABBIX
9 1 (1.06%) Argo
9 1 (1.06%) Packer
9 1 (1.06%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (15.96%) Oracle
2 9 (9.57%) Atlassian
3 8 (8.51%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (4.26%) IBM
4 4 (4.26%) Splunk
5 3 (3.19%) AppDynamics
5 3 (3.19%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.19%) VMware
6 2 (2.13%) Brio
6 2 (2.13%) Dell
6 2 (2.13%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.13%) HP
6 2 (2.13%) Imperva
6 2 (2.13%) Informatica
6 2 (2.13%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.13%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.13%) StreamSets
7 1 (1.06%) Confluent
7 1 (1.06%) NEC
7 1 (1.06%) OpenText