Amazon EC2 Contracts

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Amazon EC2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 315 361
Rank change year-on-year -14 +46 +6
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 289 488 657
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.82% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.07% 2.21% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 360 461
10th Percentile £384 £452 £438
25th Percentile £438 £509 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £650
90th Percentile £713 £739 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Amazon EC2 is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,989 22,053 34,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.87% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,925 15,944 24,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 355 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.39
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +1 242 £530 -15.20% 83
London -5 151 £525 -16.00% 40
Work from Home +21 109 £525 -8.70% 55
UK excluding London +29 107 £525 -4.55% 43
North of England +12 50 £518 -5.91% 11
North West +26 42 £550 -15.38% 7
Scotland +25 19 £480 -7.60% 5
South East +5 17 £530 -8.62% 6
South West +26 9 £550 -27.27% 10
Yorkshire -11 8 £463 -15.91% 4
East of England +20 6 £650 +8.33% 3
Midlands - 3 £425 - 7
Wales - 3 £645 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £425 - 7

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (5.88%) Apache
1 17 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 12 (4.15%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.77%) nginx
4 6 (2.08%) Confluence
5 2 (0.69%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.69%) Traefik
6 1 (0.35%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.35%) Drupal
6 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.42%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.35%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.35%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.35%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 286 (98.96%) AWS
2 212 (73.36%) Amazon S3
3 157 (54.33%) Serverless
4 152 (52.60%) AWS Lambda
5 96 (33.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 87 (30.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 61 (21.11%) Route 53
8 58 (20.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 55 (19.03%) Amazon EKS
10 44 (15.22%) Amazon ECS
11 43 (14.88%) Amazon SQS
12 23 (7.96%) Amazon EMR
12 23 (7.96%) Azure
13 20 (6.92%) AWS Fargate
13 20 (6.92%) OpenShift
14 19 (6.57%) Amazon ECR
14 19 (6.57%) GitHub
15 18 (6.23%) Amazon ELB
15 18 (6.23%) Snowflake
16 17 (5.88%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.96%) Network Security
2 18 (6.23%) DNS
3 16 (5.54%) Firewall
4 12 (4.15%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.46%) VPN
6 8 (2.77%) DHCP
7 5 (1.73%) AMQP
7 5 (1.73%) FTP
7 5 (1.73%) LAN
7 5 (1.73%) WLAN
8 4 (1.38%) HTTP
8 4 (1.38%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (1.38%) Wireless
9 3 (1.04%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (1.04%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.69%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.69%) DMZ
10 2 (0.69%) WAN
11 1 (0.35%) SMTP
11 1 (0.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (37.37%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (8.65%) Amazon Redshift
3 24 (8.30%) DynamoDB
4 23 (7.96%) Relational Database
5 21 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (6.92%) MySQL
7 19 (6.57%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (5.54%) Amazon Athena
8 16 (5.54%) MongoDB
9 14 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (4.50%) Big Data
10 13 (4.50%) NoSQL
11 12 (4.15%) Data Lake
11 12 (4.15%) InfluxDB
12 8 (2.77%) RDBMS
13 7 (2.42%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (1.73%) Apache Hive
14 5 (1.73%) Informix
14 5 (1.73%) Oracle Database
14 5 (1.73%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 72 (24.91%) Git
2 64 (22.15%) Jenkins
3 53 (18.34%) GitLab
4 19 (6.57%) JIRA
5 11 (3.81%) Bitbucket
5 11 (3.81%) Maven
6 9 (3.11%) JUnit
6 9 (3.11%) webpack
7 8 (2.77%) Selenium
7 8 (2.77%) SonarQube
8 7 (2.42%) Cucumber
8 7 (2.42%) JMeter
9 6 (2.08%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.73%) Mockito
10 5 (1.73%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.38%) Gradle
11 4 (1.38%) Sourcetree
12 3 (1.04%) Mocha
12 3 (1.04%) NeoLoad
12 3 (1.04%) SoapUI
General
1 59 (20.42%) Social Skills
2 35 (12.11%) Finance
3 27 (9.34%) Public Sector
4 11 (3.81%) Manufacturing
5 9 (3.11%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.42%) Marketing
6 7 (2.42%) Retail
7 6 (2.08%) Banking
7 6 (2.08%) Electronics
7 6 (2.08%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.04%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.69%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.35%) Front Office
11 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Law
11 1 (0.35%) Legal
11 1 (0.35%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 80 (27.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 77 (26.64%) AWS Engineer
3 48 (16.61%) Developer
4 43 (14.88%) AWS DevOps
5 39 (13.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 33 (11.42%) Senior
7 32 (11.07%) Architect
8 28 (9.69%) Data Engineer
9 26 (9.00%) Lead
10 22 (7.61%) AWS Architect
10 22 (7.61%) Cloud Engineer
11 20 (6.92%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (6.57%) Java Developer
13 17 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 15 (5.19%) Software Engineer
15 14 (4.84%) AWS Developer
15 14 (4.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 11 (3.81%) Senior Developer
17 10 (3.46%) Senior Data Engineer
18 9 (3.11%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.96%) Node.js
1 23 (7.96%) React
2 19 (6.57%) AWS CDK
3 17 (5.88%) Spring
4 16 (5.54%) Kafka
5 15 (5.19%) RESTful
6 13 (4.50%) REST
7 12 (4.15%) Elastic Stack
7 12 (4.15%) Lambda Expressions
7 12 (4.15%) RabbitMQ
8 11 (3.81%) OAuth
9 10 (3.46%) Express.js
10 9 (3.11%) .NET
10 9 (3.11%) Redux
10 9 (3.11%) Spring Boot
11 8 (2.77%) JSON
12 7 (2.42%) .NET Core
12 7 (2.42%) OAuth2
13 6 (2.08%) LDAP
14 5 (1.73%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.19%) Data Protection Act
1 15 (5.19%) Public Cloud
2 10 (3.46%) Data Structures
3 9 (3.11%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (2.77%) Replication
5 7 (2.42%) Algorithms
5 7 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.42%) PKI
6 6 (2.08%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.73%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.73%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.38%) Credit Derivative
8 4 (1.38%) Credit Risk
8 4 (1.38%) Derivative
8 4 (1.38%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.38%) Market Risk
8 4 (1.38%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.04%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 72 (24.91%) Linux
2 26 (9.00%) Windows
3 23 (7.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (4.15%) CentOS
4 12 (4.15%) Windows Server
5 11 (3.81%) Unix
6 9 (3.11%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.04%) Debian
8 2 (0.69%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.69%) VMS
8 2 (0.69%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (47.75%) DevOps
2 132 (45.67%) CI/CD
3 85 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 75 (25.95%) Agile
5 66 (22.84%) Containerisation
6 38 (13.15%) Scrum
7 37 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (12.11%) Migration
9 31 (10.73%) Microservices
9 31 (10.73%) Software Engineering
9 31 (10.73%) Test Automation
10 27 (9.34%) ETL
11 22 (7.61%) Kanban
12 21 (7.27%) Configuration Management
12 21 (7.27%) Data Pipeline
12 21 (7.27%) Technical Leadership
13 20 (6.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 19 (6.57%) Computer Science
15 18 (6.23%) Data Protection
15 18 (6.23%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 147 (50.87%) Python
2 79 (27.34%) Java
3 57 (19.72%) SQL
4 40 (13.84%) Bash
5 27 (9.34%) TypeScript
6 20 (6.92%) Go
6 20 (6.92%) JavaScript
7 11 (3.81%) Shell Script
8 10 (3.46%) C
9 7 (2.42%) C#
9 7 (2.42%) Groovy
10 6 (2.08%) Perl
10 6 (2.08%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.08%) Ruby
11 3 (1.04%) C++
11 3 (1.04%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.04%) Scala
12 2 (0.69%) PHP
13 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 85 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 73 (25.26%) SC Cleared
3 34 (11.76%) AWS Certification
4 21 (7.27%) Degree
5 19 (6.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (4.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (3.46%) DV Cleared
8 9 (3.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.69%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.35%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.35%) OCP
11 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.27%) QA
2 5 (1.73%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.04%) ISO 22301
3 3 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.04%) NCSC
4 2 (0.69%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.69%) GDPR
4 2 (0.69%) SLA
5 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.35%) IFRS
5 1 (0.35%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.35%) NIST
System Software
1 86 (29.76%) Docker
2 17 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.69%) Varnish
7 1 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.35%) HDFS
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 132 (45.67%) Terraform
2 118 (40.83%) Kubernetes
3 64 (22.15%) Ansible
4 49 (16.96%) Grafana
5 38 (13.15%) Prometheus
6 16 (5.54%) Progress Chef
6 16 (5.54%) Puppet
7 10 (3.46%) Kibana
8 9 (3.11%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (3.11%) Packer
9 8 (2.77%) Consul
10 6 (2.08%) HP Fortify
11 5 (1.73%) Graylog
11 5 (1.73%) Nagios
12 4 (1.38%) HAProxy
12 4 (1.38%) Rancher
13 3 (1.04%) Podman
13 3 (1.04%) SCCM
14 2 (0.69%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 27 (9.34%) Oracle
2 22 (7.61%) Splunk
3 16 (5.54%) Microsoft
4 14 (4.84%) SAP
5 11 (3.81%) Databricks
5 11 (3.81%) Red Hat
6 10 (3.46%) Informatica
6 10 (3.46%) VMware
7 8 (2.77%) Talend
8 7 (2.42%) NEC
9 6 (2.08%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.73%) Cisco
10 5 (1.73%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.38%) Commvault
12 3 (1.04%) AppDynamics
12 3 (1.04%) Confluent
12 3 (1.04%) MKS
13 2 (0.69%) Okta
13 2 (0.69%) PagerDuty
13 2 (0.69%) StreamSets