Amazon EC2 Contracts

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 329 316
Rank change year-on-year +47 -13 +46
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 262 289 485
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.90% 0.66% 0.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.38% 2.05% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 219 358
10th Percentile £400 £384 £453
25th Percentile £463 £438 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £625 £688
90th Percentile £838 £713 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10,997 14,094 22,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 10,005 15,924
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 348 350
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.56 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.53 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.47% -28.03% +31.31%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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
England +23 204 £575 +8.49% 319
London +20 132 £635 +20.95% 224
Work from Home +50 111 £582 +10.86% 159
UK excluding London +16 69 £500 -4.76% 102
North of England +5 27 £475 -8.21% 38
North West -8 23 £475 -13.64% 26
Scotland +5 15 £533 +10.94% 4
Midlands +32 11 £500 +17.65% 12
West Midlands +24 11 £500 +17.65% 10
South East +35 9 £540 +1.89% 21
East of England +31 4 £513 -21.15% 7
South West +39 3 £521 -5.23% 14
Yorkshire +10 3 £500 +8.11% 10
North East - 1 £380 - 3

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 33 (12.60%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (11.83%) Apache
3 14 (5.34%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.29%) nginx
4 6 (2.29%) Tomcat
5 5 (1.91%) Documentum
5 5 (1.91%) FileNet
6 3 (1.15%) IIS
7 2 (0.76%) Confluence
7 2 (0.76%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.38%) CMS
8 1 (0.38%) JBoss
8 1 (0.38%) SAS
8 1 (0.38%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.38%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 262 (100.00%) AWS
2 176 (67.18%) Amazon S3
3 121 (46.18%) Serverless
4 115 (43.89%) AWS Lambda
5 83 (31.68%) Amazon EKS
6 74 (28.24%) AWS CloudFormation
7 72 (27.48%) Amazon ECS
8 49 (18.70%) Route 53
8 49 (18.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 46 (17.56%) Amazon SQS
10 44 (16.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 23 (8.78%) GCP
12 20 (7.63%) AWS CodePipeline
13 19 (7.25%) Azure
13 19 (7.25%) Dagster
13 19 (7.25%) Snowflake
14 18 (6.87%) dbt
15 17 (6.49%) GitHub
16 16 (6.11%) OpenShift
16 16 (6.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (12.98%) DNS
2 23 (8.78%) VPN
3 17 (6.49%) Firewall
4 12 (4.58%) DHCP
4 12 (4.58%) HTTP
5 11 (4.20%) TCP/IP
6 10 (3.82%) Internet
6 10 (3.82%) LAN
6 10 (3.82%) WAN
7 7 (2.67%) SSL
8 2 (0.76%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.76%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.76%) VLAN
8 2 (0.76%) X.509
9 1 (0.38%) Multicast
9 1 (0.38%) NAS
9 1 (0.38%) Network Security
9 1 (0.38%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.38%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (39.69%) Amazon RDS
2 42 (16.03%) Amazon Redshift
3 29 (11.07%) Amazon Aurora
4 27 (10.31%) Amazon Athena
5 25 (9.54%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (8.40%) NoSQL
7 21 (8.02%) Data Lake
8 17 (6.49%) Apache Arrow
8 17 (6.49%) Apache Iceberg
8 17 (6.49%) Apache Ignite
8 17 (6.49%) Dremio
8 17 (6.49%) Relational Database
9 15 (5.73%) Redis
10 13 (4.96%) DocumentDB
10 13 (4.96%) DynamoDB
11 12 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (4.58%) SQL Server
12 10 (3.82%) Big Data
12 10 (3.82%) MongoDB
13 9 (3.44%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 63 (24.05%) Jenkins
2 39 (14.89%) GitLab
3 33 (12.60%) Git
4 12 (4.58%) Artifactory
5 11 (4.20%) JUnit
6 10 (3.82%) Mockito
7 8 (3.05%) JIRA
8 7 (2.67%) Maven
8 7 (2.67%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.53%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (1.53%) DbUnit
9 4 (1.53%) jMock
10 3 (1.15%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.15%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.15%) JMeter
11 2 (0.76%) Gradle
11 2 (0.76%) Subversion
12 1 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.38%) Selenium
12 1 (0.38%) WebDriver
General
1 59 (22.52%) Finance
2 40 (15.27%) Banking
3 31 (11.83%) Front Office
4 29 (11.07%) Public Sector
5 23 (8.78%) Social Skills
6 19 (7.25%) Investment Banking
7 12 (4.58%) Retail Banking
8 10 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.15%) Marketing
10 2 (0.76%) Retail
10 2 (0.76%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (32.82%) AWS Engineer
2 76 (29.01%) DevOps Engineer
3 52 (19.85%) AWS DevOps
3 52 (19.85%) Senior
4 51 (19.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 39 (14.89%) Developer
6 30 (11.45%) Architect
7 29 (11.07%) Software Engineer
8 24 (9.16%) Data Engineer
9 21 (8.02%) Senior DevOps
10 20 (7.63%) Python Engineer
11 19 (7.25%) Java Developer
12 18 (6.87%) AWS Software Engineer
12 18 (6.87%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 16 (6.11%) Senior Software Engineer
14 12 (4.58%) Java Engineer
14 12 (4.58%) Kubernetes Engineer
15 11 (4.20%) Cloud Architect
15 11 (4.20%) Java Software Engineer
16 10 (3.82%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (9.92%) PySpark
2 24 (9.16%) Pandas
3 19 (7.25%) NumPy
3 19 (7.25%) RESTful
3 19 (7.25%) SciPy
4 17 (6.49%) gRPC
4 17 (6.49%) Protocol Buffers
4 17 (6.49%) Spring
5 16 (6.11%) Elastic Stack
6 15 (5.73%) AWS CDK
6 15 (5.73%) REST
6 15 (5.73%) Spring Boot
7 12 (4.58%) GraphQL
7 12 (4.58%) Hibernate
7 12 (4.58%) React
8 11 (4.20%) Web Services
9 9 (3.44%) HTML
9 9 (3.44%) Node.js
10 8 (3.05%) .NET
11 7 (2.67%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.07%) Derivative
2 18 (6.87%) Cloud Native
3 17 (6.49%) Equities
3 17 (6.49%) Fixed Income
3 17 (6.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 17 (6.49%) Hedge funds
4 12 (4.58%) PKI
5 11 (4.20%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (3.82%) Public Cloud
7 8 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.91%) Tandem
10 4 (1.53%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.15%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.15%) Oracle Licensing
11 3 (1.15%) Replication
12 2 (0.76%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 59 (22.52%) Linux
2 26 (9.92%) Windows
3 17 (6.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (5.34%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.29%) Unix
6 4 (1.53%) CentOS
7 3 (1.15%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.76%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.76%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (46.95%) CI/CD
2 119 (45.42%) DevOps
3 82 (31.30%) Agile
4 70 (26.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 62 (23.66%) Containerisation
6 55 (20.99%) Software Engineering
7 50 (19.08%) Migration
8 44 (16.79%) Asset Management
9 35 (13.36%) Microservices
10 30 (11.45%) Continuous Integration
11 28 (10.69%) Deployment Automation
12 25 (9.54%) Data Pipeline
13 24 (9.16%) Analytics
14 23 (8.78%) High Availability
14 23 (8.78%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (8.40%) TDD
16 20 (7.63%) Scrum
17 19 (7.25%) Configuration Management
17 19 (7.25%) Task Automation
18 18 (6.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 125 (47.71%) Python
2 70 (26.72%) Java
3 47 (17.94%) JavaScript
4 46 (17.56%) SQL
5 43 (16.41%) Bash
6 27 (10.31%) TypeScript
7 25 (9.54%) PowerShell
8 13 (4.96%) C#
9 8 (3.05%) Go
10 6 (2.29%) Groovy
10 6 (2.29%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.91%) Rust
11 5 (1.91%) Scala
12 3 (1.15%) R
13 2 (0.76%) C++
13 2 (0.76%) Perl
13 2 (0.76%) Ruby
14 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.38%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 75 (28.63%) Security Cleared
2 69 (26.34%) SC Cleared
3 37 (14.12%) AWS Certification
4 20 (7.63%) Degree
5 13 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (3.05%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (1.91%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.76%) CCIE
10 2 (0.76%) CCNP
10 2 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.76%) OCP
10 2 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.38%) VCAP
11 1 (0.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.44%) GDPR
2 8 (3.05%) SOC 2
3 6 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.91%) HIPAA
4 5 (1.91%) NIST
5 2 (0.76%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.76%) FIPS 140-2
5 2 (0.76%) NIST 800
5 2 (0.76%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.38%) NCSC
6 1 (0.38%) QA
6 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 89 (33.97%) Docker
2 18 (6.87%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.91%) Postfix
5 4 (1.53%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.76%) HDFS
6 2 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.76%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 98 (37.40%) Kubernetes
1 98 (37.40%) Terraform
2 53 (20.23%) Ansible
3 35 (13.36%) Grafana
3 35 (13.36%) Prometheus
4 20 (7.63%) Puppet
5 18 (6.87%) Progress Chef
6 11 (4.20%) Kibana
7 5 (1.91%) Argo
8 4 (1.53%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (1.15%) Packer
10 2 (0.76%) Nagios
10 2 (0.76%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.38%) AirWatch
11 1 (0.38%) Consul
11 1 (0.38%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.38%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.38%) logstash
11 1 (0.38%) SCCM
11 1 (0.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (7.63%) Microsoft
1 20 (7.63%) Oracle
2 13 (4.96%) Red Hat
3 10 (3.82%) VMware
4 8 (3.05%) Databricks
4 8 (3.05%) Tenable
5 7 (2.67%) Qualys
6 5 (1.91%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (1.53%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.53%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.53%) Cloudera
7 4 (1.53%) IBM
7 4 (1.53%) Informatica
7 4 (1.53%) Rapid7
7 4 (1.53%) Splunk
7 4 (1.53%) StreamSets
8 3 (1.15%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.15%) Imperva
8 3 (1.15%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.76%) Talend