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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 388 423
Rank change year-on-year +50 +35 +81
Contract jobs citing Amazon Linux 17 1 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.005% 0.061%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.69% 0.030% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 11
10th Percentile £416 - £550
25th Percentile £450 - £554
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £565
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -20.35% -9.60%
75th Percentile £488 - £644
90th Percentile - - £660
UK median daily rate £475 £413 £600
% change year-on-year +15.15% -31.25% -

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 2,454 3,339 4,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.38% 16.43% 17.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,549 2,140 2,758
10th Percentile £180 £178 £165
25th Percentile £250 £300 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% +3.09%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 349 310
10th Percentile £15.33 £12.35 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.33 £15.88 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.59 £31.25 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% - +56.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £25.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -8.00% -41.18% +88.89%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon Linux in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 19 July 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
Midlands - 11 £475 - 4
West Midlands - 11 £475 - 4
Scotland - 5 £425 -
North of England +5 1 £400 -11.11%
Yorkshire - 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 10 (58.82%) Confluence
2 3 (17.65%) nginx
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (58.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 10 (58.82%) Amazon EC2
2 10 (58.82%) Amazon ELB
2 10 (58.82%) Amazon S3
2 10 (58.82%) AWS KMS
2 10 (58.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 7 (41.18%) Amazon Glacier
4 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (17.65%) Route 53
6 2 (11.76%) Azure
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (58.82%) SMTP
2 8 (47.06%) DNS
2 8 (47.06%) Firewall
2 8 (47.06%) FTP
2 8 (47.06%) HTTP
2 8 (47.06%) SSH
3 3 (17.65%) IMAP
3 3 (17.65%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (58.82%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (17.65%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (58.82%) Git
1 10 (58.82%) Jenkins
1 10 (58.82%) JIRA
1 10 (58.82%) Vagrant
General
1 9 (52.94%) Public Sector
2 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 5 (29.41%) Finance
4 4 (23.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (23.53%) Law
5 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) AWS DevOps
2 5 (29.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Server Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Linux Server Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Specialist
6 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Replication
2 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Linux
2 15 (88.24%) Windows
3 10 (58.82%) VMS
4 6 (35.29%) Windows Server
5 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (11.76%) Ubuntu
6 1 (5.88%) Unix
6 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Change Management
2 10 (58.82%) Cloud Security
2 10 (58.82%) Configuration Management
2 10 (58.82%) DevOps
2 10 (58.82%) Platform Engineering
3 8 (47.06%) Patch Management
4 6 (35.29%) Project Delivery
5 5 (29.41%) ITIL
5 5 (29.41%) Problem Management
5 5 (29.41%) Service-Level Objective
5 5 (29.41%) Technical Debt
6 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
7 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
7 3 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (11.76%) Data Protection
9 1 (5.88%) Agile
9 1 (5.88%) Data Security
9 1 (5.88%) Rapid Prototyping
9 1 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
9 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) PowerShell
2 10 (58.82%) Groovy
2 10 (58.82%) Python
3 7 (41.18%) Java
3 7 (41.18%) Perl
4 3 (17.65%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) SC Cleared
1 10 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) Docker
2 9 (52.94%) Active Directory
3 8 (47.06%) DFS Replication
4 3 (17.65%) Dovecot
4 3 (17.65%) Postfix
4 3 (17.65%) Squid
5 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (5.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (64.71%) Terraform
2 10 (58.82%) Grafana
2 10 (58.82%) Prometheus
3 3 (17.65%) Nessus
4 1 (5.88%) Ansible
4 1 (5.88%) Proxmox
4 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (5.88%) vCenter Server
4 1 (5.88%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) ServiceNow
2 6 (35.29%) Red Hat
2 6 (35.29%) VMware
3 3 (17.65%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) Tanium
4 1 (5.88%) Veeam