Amazon Linux Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Linux AMI
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Amazon Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon Linux 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 330 - 454
Rank change year-on-year - - +56
Contract jobs citing Amazon Linux 6 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% - 0.033%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.27% - 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £379 - -
25th Percentile £384 - £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £625
75th Percentile £434 - £650
90th Percentile £436 - £656
UK median daily rate £413 £375 £633
% change year-on-year +10.00% -40.71% +5.42%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Amazon Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,195 3,275 4,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.19% 15.77% 19.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,415 2,176 3,246
10th Percentile £178 £173 £163
25th Percentile £241 £256 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 320 334
10th Percentile £15.72 £12.25 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.16 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.94 £22.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% -29.60% +56.25%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.74
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

Amazon Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon Linux in the UK excluding London

Amazon Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon Linux in the UK excluding London

Amazon Linux
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 Linux within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland - 5 £425 -
Yorkshire - 1 £400 -
North of England - 1 £400 -
Amazon Linux
UK

Amazon Linux
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 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (66.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Server Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Linux Server Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Unix
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Project Delivery
2 5 (83.33%) ITIL
2 5 (83.33%) Problem Management
2 5 (83.33%) Service-Level Objective
2 5 (83.33%) Technical Debt
3 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) Data Security
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (16.67%) Proactive Management
4 1 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
1 1 (16.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Tanium
2 1 (16.67%) Veeam