Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 271 304
Rank change year-on-year -79 +33 +54
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 320 285 297
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.97% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.80% 2.55% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 215 222
10th Percentile £400 £400 £381
25th Percentile £440 £463 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -13.33%
75th Percentile £575 £643 £613
90th Percentile £664 £765 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £511
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.20% -7.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £72.50 £40.63 -
25th Percentile £83.75 £47.19 -
Median hourly rate £92.50 £58.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +57.45% - -
75th Percentile £95.00 £69.69 -
90th Percentile - £75.88 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.00 - -

All Cloud Computing 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 17,740 11,169 14,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 37.85% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,861 7,555 9,988
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £634
90th Percentile £712 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 580 270 359
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.80 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.86 £28.55 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% +31.93% -39.26%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.63 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.27 £20.00
% change year-on-year +94.60% -3.65% -26.87%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in the UK

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Top 16 Contract Job 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 13 June 2026. 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 -80 272 £510 -2.86% 71
London -25 172 £525 -8.70% 31
UK excluding London -84 118 £475 -5.00% 50
Work from Home -71 113 £500 -8.42% 45
Midlands -39 44 £482 +1.53% 5
West Midlands -36 43 £482 +1.53% 4
North of England -63 32 £425 -12.82% 15
Scotland -8 17 £313 -40.33% 2
North West -46 16 £510 +7.37% 7
South West -19 8 £538 +5.39% 17
East of England -25 8 £510 -0.49%
North East -30 8 £413 -19.51% 1
Yorkshire -50 8 £481 -3.75% 7
South East -64 6 £542 +0.37% 9
Wales - 3 £500 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 45 (14.06%) Confluence
2 16 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.13%) nginx
4 8 (2.50%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.88%) Apache
6 5 (1.56%) Jupyter
6 5 (1.56%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.94%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.63%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 318 (99.38%) AWS
2 255 (79.69%) Amazon S3
3 199 (62.19%) Serverless
4 198 (61.88%) AWS Lambda
5 141 (44.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 134 (41.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 110 (34.38%) Amazon EKS
8 71 (22.19%) AWS CloudFormation
9 69 (21.56%) Amazon ECS
9 69 (21.56%) GitHub
10 50 (15.63%) GitHub Actions
11 49 (15.31%) Route 53
12 46 (14.38%) Azure
13 42 (13.13%) Amazon SQS
14 40 (12.50%) AWS KMS
15 27 (8.44%) AWS CodePipeline
16 19 (5.94%) Datadog
17 17 (5.31%) Amazon EMR
18 16 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
18 16 (5.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 29 (9.06%) DNS
2 28 (8.75%) Firewall
3 16 (5.00%) TCP/IP
4 13 (4.06%) VPN
5 11 (3.44%) OpenVPN
6 9 (2.81%) Network Security
7 4 (1.25%) DHCP
7 4 (1.25%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.94%) SSL
8 3 (0.94%) WAN
9 2 (0.63%) BGP
9 2 (0.63%) Internet
9 2 (0.63%) VLAN
10 1 (0.31%) AMQP
10 1 (0.31%) BIG-IP
10 1 (0.31%) Calico
10 1 (0.31%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.31%) EIGRP
10 1 (0.31%) OSPF
10 1 (0.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (39.38%) Amazon RDS
2 48 (15.00%) DynamoDB
3 31 (9.69%) Amazon Aurora
4 30 (9.38%) Amazon Athena
5 28 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (6.56%) Amazon Redshift
7 20 (6.25%) SQL Server
8 14 (4.38%) Power BI
9 11 (3.44%) MySQL
10 9 (2.81%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (2.50%) Tableau
12 7 (2.19%) DocumentDB
12 7 (2.19%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.88%) Amazon QuickSight
13 6 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (1.56%) Relational Database
15 4 (1.25%) Db2
15 4 (1.25%) NoSQL
15 4 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 108 (33.75%) Jenkins
2 102 (31.88%) GitLab
3 97 (30.31%) Git
4 52 (16.25%) JIRA
5 31 (9.69%) SonarQube
6 28 (8.75%) JUnit
7 24 (7.50%) Bitbucket
8 23 (7.19%) Maven
8 23 (7.19%) Mockito
9 14 (4.38%) Artifactory
9 14 (4.38%) DbUnit
10 13 (4.06%) Cucumber
10 13 (4.06%) jMock
11 11 (3.44%) Bitbucket Server
12 7 (2.19%) Mocha
13 6 (1.88%) MSTest
13 6 (1.88%) Postman
13 6 (1.88%) tSQLt
14 4 (1.25%) Gradle
15 3 (0.94%) TeamCity
General
1 92 (28.75%) Public Sector
2 89 (27.81%) Social Skills
3 46 (14.38%) Finance
4 31 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.63%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (2.81%) Banking
8 7 (2.19%) Military
9 5 (1.56%) Legal
10 4 (1.25%) Law
11 3 (0.94%) Back Office
11 3 (0.94%) Front Office
11 3 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.94%) Police
12 2 (0.63%) Games
12 2 (0.63%) Publishing
13 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.31%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 75 (23.44%) Developer
2 74 (23.13%) AWS Engineer
3 52 (16.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 48 (15.00%) Senior
5 36 (11.25%) Architect
6 32 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
7 31 (9.69%) Java Developer
8 29 (9.06%) Cloud Engineer
9 24 (7.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 23 (7.19%) Software Engineer
11 22 (6.88%) AWS Architect
12 20 (6.25%) AWS Developer
13 18 (5.63%) Python Developer
14 17 (5.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 16 (5.00%) Data Engineer
15 16 (5.00%) Lead
15 16 (5.00%) Site Engineer
16 15 (4.69%) Senior Developer
17 13 (4.06%) Delivery Manager
17 13 (4.06%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (13.13%) Spring Boot
2 41 (12.81%) REST
3 39 (12.19%) Spring
4 38 (11.88%) RESTful
5 33 (10.31%) AngularJS
6 27 (8.44%) AWS CDK
7 23 (7.19%) SOAP
8 22 (6.88%) Node.js
9 20 (6.25%) Web Services
10 19 (5.94%) ActiveMQ
10 19 (5.94%) Hibernate
10 19 (5.94%) JPA
10 19 (5.94%) Kafka
11 18 (5.63%) Spring Batch
11 18 (5.63%) Spring Integration
12 17 (5.31%) Spring Cloud
13 16 (5.00%) React
14 15 (4.69%) FastAPI
15 13 (4.06%) Flask
15 13 (4.06%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 72 (22.50%) Cloud Native
2 29 (9.06%) Product Ownership
3 26 (8.13%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.44%) NHS
5 8 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.50%) Replication
6 7 (2.19%) Hedge funds
6 7 (2.19%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.88%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.56%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.25%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.25%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.94%) Equities
10 3 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.94%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 79 (24.69%) Linux
2 17 (5.31%) Windows
3 12 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (3.13%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.81%) Unix
6 5 (1.56%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.63%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.31%) Android
8 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.31%) CentOS
8 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (68.13%) CI/CD
2 169 (52.81%) DevOps
3 121 (37.81%) Agile
3 121 (37.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 103 (32.19%) Containerisation
5 74 (23.13%) Microservices
6 61 (19.06%) Continuous Improvement
7 54 (16.88%) Observability
8 46 (14.38%) Platform Engineering
9 45 (14.06%) Test Automation
10 44 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
10 44 (13.75%) Scrum
11 42 (13.13%) Performance Tuning
12 39 (12.19%) Software Engineering
13 34 (10.63%) Migration
14 33 (10.31%) Mentoring
15 31 (9.69%) Analytics
15 31 (9.69%) Cloud Security
15 31 (9.69%) Data Pipeline
15 31 (9.69%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 127 (39.69%) Python
2 74 (23.13%) SQL
3 71 (22.19%) Java
4 46 (14.38%) Bash
5 31 (9.69%) PowerShell
6 27 (8.44%) C#
7 19 (5.94%) Shell Script
8 16 (5.00%) TypeScript
9 14 (4.38%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.19%) Groovy
11 6 (1.88%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.56%) Perl
13 4 (1.25%) Scala
14 3 (0.94%) Bicep
14 3 (0.94%) Go
15 2 (0.63%) Search Processing Language
16 1 (0.31%) C
16 1 (0.31%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.31%) Ruby
16 1 (0.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 161 (50.31%) Security Cleared
2 145 (45.31%) SC Cleared
3 38 (11.88%) AWS Certification
4 16 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (4.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 14 (4.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (3.44%) SAFe Agilist
8 9 (2.81%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.81%) Degree
9 8 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (2.50%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.94%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.63%) PMP
12 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.31%) CEH
12 1 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.75%) Data Quality
1 12 (3.75%) QA
2 10 (3.13%) SLA
3 7 (2.19%) PMO
4 2 (0.63%) GDPR
4 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.63%) NCSC
4 2 (0.63%) NIST
4 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.31%) HL7
5 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.31%) Solvency II
System Software
1 151 (47.19%) Docker
2 17 (5.31%) Squid
3 14 (4.38%) Active Directory
4 11 (3.44%) Postfix
5 6 (1.88%) vSphere
6 4 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.25%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.63%) HDFS
8 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 175 (54.69%) Terraform
2 101 (31.56%) Kubernetes
3 74 (23.13%) Grafana
4 58 (18.13%) Prometheus
5 43 (13.44%) Ansible
6 11 (3.44%) Puppet
7 10 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (2.81%) FortiGate
8 9 (2.81%) Packer
9 7 (2.19%) Consul
10 6 (1.88%) Argo
10 6 (1.88%) Progress Chef
11 5 (1.56%) Salt
12 4 (1.25%) Suricata
13 2 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.63%) Karpenter
13 2 (0.63%) Sysdig
14 1 (0.31%) Failover Clustering
14 1 (0.31%) Kibana
14 1 (0.31%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (6.56%) Atlassian
2 18 (5.63%) ServiceNow
3 17 (5.31%) Jaspersoft
4 14 (4.38%) Microsoft
5 12 (3.75%) Red Hat
5 12 (3.75%) Splunk
6 11 (3.44%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.19%) Sybase
8 6 (1.88%) Databricks
8 6 (1.88%) Informatica
8 6 (1.88%) Oracle
8 6 (1.88%) VMware
9 5 (1.56%) Tenable
10 4 (1.25%) AVEVA
10 4 (1.25%) Brio
10 4 (1.25%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.25%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.25%) PagerDuty
10 4 (1.25%) Trend Micro
11 3 (0.94%) Talend