Amazon EC2 Contracts

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 3 months to 28 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Amazon AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) UK
Location	3 months to 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	393	440	505
Rank change year-on-year	+47	+65
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2	223	214	140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.47%	0.40%	0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category	3.46%	4.04%	4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted	158	171	109
Median daily rate	£500	£453	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+10.49%	+13.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£396	£363	£263
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£613	£588	£603
UK excluding London median daily rate	£450	£425	£300
% change year-on-year	+5.88%	+41.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	0
Median hourly rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	-	-	-

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

Contract Cloud Computing Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	6437	5303	3378
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	13.67%	9.85%	6.13%
Number of daily rates quoted	7516	6602	3371
Median daily rate	£475	£463	£410
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.70%	+12.68%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£306	£258
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£625	£631	£581
UK excluding London median daily rate	£450	£450	£395
% change year-on-year	-	+13.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted	139	92	89
Median hourly rate	£27.16	£19.00	£35.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+42.94%	-45.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.25	£11.80	£11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£65.00	£40.00	£40.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£29.00	£17.00	£25.50
% change year-on-year	+70.58%	-33.33%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Top 10 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 3 months to 28 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+49	207	£500	+5.26%	58
London	+17	146	£525	+10.52%	36
UK excluding London	+40	76	£450	+5.88%	23
South East	+30	22	£475	+11.76%	4
North of England	+58	15	£500	-4.76%	5
South West	+5	15	£444	+10.93%	4
Scotland	+40	11	£425	-15.00%	1
Midlands	+14	7	£463	+11.44%	5
Wales	-14	3	£513	+13.88%
East of England	-	3	£438	-	4

Amazon EC2
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Amazon EC2 also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Amazon EC2.

1	439 (97.34%)	Amazon AWS
2	258 (57.21%)	DevOps
3	226 (50.11%)	Amazon S3
4	216 (47.89%)	Agile Software Development
5	199 (44.12%)	Jenkins
6	196 (43.46%)	Linux
7	176 (39.02%)	Java
8	164 (36.36%)	Docker
9	159 (35.25%)	Puppet
10	128 (28.38%)	Continuous Integration
10	128 (28.38%)	Microservices
11	126 (27.94%)	Ansible
12	125 (27.72%)	Amazon RDS
13	120 (26.61%)	Python
14	118 (26.16%)	Git (software)

15	115 (25.50%)	Scrum
16	114 (25.28%)	AWS CloudFormation
17	113 (25.06%)	Virtual Private Cloud
18	109 (24.17%)	Opscode Chef
19	99 (21.95%)	Ruby
20	95 (21.06%)	Terraform
21	93 (20.62%)	Node.js
22	92 (20.40%)	Configuration Management
23	91 (20.18%)	Web Services
23	91 (20.18%)	AWS Lambda
23	91 (20.18%)	Elasticsearch
24	89 (19.73%)	TDD
25	85 (18.85%)	JavaScript
26	83 (18.40%)	Amazon DynamoDB
27	78 (17.29%)	Amazon SQS

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	91 (20.18%)	Elasticsearch
2	56 (12.42%)	nginx
3	53 (11.75%)	Apache
4	39 (8.65%)	Tomcat
5	32 (7.10%)	IIS
6	31 (6.87%)	Confluence
7	24 (5.32%)	Apache Spark
8	23 (5.10%)	WebSphere
9	21 (4.66%)	Jetty
9	21 (4.66%)	Mongrel
10	12 (2.66%)	JBoss
11	11 (2.44%)	Apache Pig
12	9 (2.00%)	Mule
12	9 (2.00%)	Mule ESB
13	7 (1.55%)	OpenStack
14	6 (1.33%)	Apache Solr
14	6 (1.33%)	SAS
15	5 (1.11%)	Cloud Foundry
16	4 (0.89%)	Adobe Experience Manager
16	4 (0.89%)	SharePoint

Applications
1	4 (0.89%)	Microsoft Excel
2	2 (0.44%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
3	1 (0.22%)	HipChat
3	1 (0.22%)	MS Visio
3	1 (0.22%)	SPSS

Business Applications
1	14 (3.10%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	2 (0.44%)	BusinessWorks
3	1 (0.22%)	SAP ERP

Cloud Services
1	439 (97.34%)	Amazon AWS
2	226 (50.11%)	Amazon S3
3	114 (25.28%)	AWS CloudFormation
4	113 (25.06%)	Virtual Private Cloud
5	91 (20.18%)	AWS Lambda
6	78 (17.29%)	Amazon SQS
7	67 (14.86%)	Route 53
8	66 (14.63%)	Amazon ELB
9	64 (14.19%)	Amazon CloudWatch
9	64 (14.19%)	Microsoft Azure
10	53 (11.75%)	GitHub
11	44 (9.76%)	AWS Elastic Beanstalk
12	36 (7.98%)	Amazon ElastiCache
13	30 (6.65%)	CloudFront
14	29 (6.43%)	Google Cloud Platform
15	24 (5.32%)	PaaS
16	21 (4.66%)	Amazon EMR
16	21 (4.66%)	Google App Engine
17	20 (4.43%)	Twilio
18	15 (3.33%)	Amazon Kinesis

Communications & Networking
1	62 (13.75%)	HTTP
2	45 (9.98%)	DNS
3	41 (9.09%)	TCP/IP
4	33 (7.32%)	SSL
5	23 (5.10%)	IPsec
6	22 (4.88%)	DHCP
6	22 (4.88%)	VPN
7	21 (4.66%)	FTP
8	18 (3.99%)	Firewall
9	16 (3.55%)	OpenLDAP
10	13 (2.88%)	DSL
11	12 (2.66%)	SSH
12	10 (2.22%)	OpenVPN
13	7 (1.55%)	SMTP
14	5 (1.11%)	MQTT
14	5 (1.11%)	Network Security
14	5 (1.11%)	WAN
15	4 (0.89%)	LAN
15	4 (0.89%)	tcpdump
15	4 (0.89%)	Wireshark

Database & Business Intelligence
1	125 (27.72%)	Amazon RDS
2	83 (18.40%)	Amazon DynamoDB
3	61 (13.53%)	Hadoop
4	60 (13.30%)	NoSQL
5	52 (11.53%)	PostgreSQL
6	47 (10.42%)	SQL Server
7	45 (9.98%)	Apache Cassandra
8	44 (9.76%)	Big Data
9	37 (8.20%)	MySQL
10	25 (5.54%)	Redis
11	24 (5.32%)	Apache Hive
12	23 (5.10%)	MongoDB
12	23 (5.10%)	Relational Database
13	21 (4.66%)	Data Warehouse
14	20 (4.43%)	HBase
15	19 (4.21%)	Amazon Redshift
16	15 (3.33%)	RDBMS
17	9 (2.00%)	Neo4j
18	7 (1.55%)	RethinkDB
19	6 (1.33%)	Impala

Development Applications
1	199 (44.12%)	Jenkins
2	118 (26.16%)	Git (software)
3	69 (15.30%)	Maven
4	44 (9.76%)	TeamCity
5	40 (8.87%)	Octopus Deploy
6	39 (8.65%)	JIRA
7	24 (5.32%)	Sonatype Nexus
8	23 (5.10%)	JUnit
9	22 (4.88%)	Travis CI
10	19 (4.21%)	Ant
11	18 (3.99%)	Bitbucket
12	17 (3.77%)	SonarQube
13	14 (3.10%)	Gradle
14	13 (2.88%)	Eclipse
15	11 (2.44%)	Atlassian Bamboo
15	11 (2.44%)	Cucumber
15	11 (2.44%)	Liquibase
16	10 (2.22%)	Subversion
17	9 (2.00%)	Vagrant
18	8 (1.77%)	Artifactory

General
1	49 (10.86%)	Finance
2	22 (4.88%)	Marketing
3	15 (3.33%)	Telecoms
4	14 (3.10%)	Electronics
4	14 (3.10%)	Manufacturing
4	14 (3.10%)	Retail
5	9 (2.00%)	Banking
6	5 (1.11%)	Front Office
6	5 (1.11%)	Games
7	3 (0.67%)	Publishing
8	1 (0.22%)	Advertising
8	1 (0.22%)	Back Office
8	1 (0.22%)	Investment Banking
8	1 (0.22%)	Law
8	1 (0.22%)	Multimedia
8	1 (0.22%)	Retail Banking

Job Titles
1	156 (34.59%)	DevOps Engineer
2	149 (33.04%)	Developer
3	90 (19.96%)	AWS Engineer
4	73 (16.19%)	AWS DevOps
5	72 (15.96%)	AWS DevOps Engineer
6	71 (15.74%)	Java Developer
7	60 (13.30%)	AWS Developer
8	28 (6.21%)	Architect
8	28 (6.21%)	Senior Developer
9	24 (5.32%)	C# Developer
10	20 (4.43%)	.NET Developer
10	20 (4.43%)	Cloud Engineer
11	18 (3.99%)	AWS Architect
11	18 (3.99%)	Senior C# Developer
12	17 (3.77%)	Azure Developer
13	15 (3.33%)	Consultant
14	14 (3.10%)	C# .NET Developer
14	14 (3.10%)	Linux Engineer
14	14 (3.10%)	Linux/Unix DevOps
15	13 (2.88%)	Linux DevOps Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	93 (20.62%)	Node.js
2	91 (20.18%)	Web Services
3	71 (15.74%)	.NET
4	56 (12.42%)	Spring
5	50 (11.09%)	AngularJS
6	44 (9.76%)	REST
7	43 (9.53%)	Kafka
8	40 (8.87%)	J2EE
9	38 (8.43%)	RabbitMQ
10	35 (7.76%)	JSON
11	33 (7.32%)	Elastic Stack
12	32 (7.10%)	ASP.NET
13	28 (6.21%)	Ember.js
14	27 (5.99%)	ASP.NET MVC
14	27 (5.99%)	ASP.NET Web API
15	26 (5.76%)	CSS
16	24 (5.32%)	Spring Boot
16	24 (5.32%)	Swagger
17	23 (5.10%)	Servlets
17	23 (5.10%)	XML

Miscellaneous
1	38 (8.43%)	Public Cloud
2	32 (7.10%)	Greenfield Project
3	28 (6.21%)	Linux Command Line
3	28 (6.21%)	User Experience
4	22 (4.88%)	Blog
5	14 (3.10%)	Algorithms
6	11 (2.44%)	Computer Science
7	8 (1.77%)	Data Centre
7	8 (1.77%)	PKI
8	7 (1.55%)	Analytical Skills
9	6 (1.33%)	Enterprise Software
10	5 (1.11%)	Data Structures
10	5 (1.11%)	Management Information System
11	4 (0.89%)	Digital Media
12	2 (0.44%)	Fintech
12	2 (0.44%)	Mobile App
12	2 (0.44%)	Private Cloud
12	2 (0.44%)	Security Operations Centre
12	2 (0.44%)	Virtual Team
13	1 (0.22%)	Smart Home

Operating Systems
1	196 (43.46%)	Linux
2	50 (11.09%)	Windows
3	31 (6.87%)	Unix
4	29 (6.43%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	27 (5.99%)	CentOS
6	26 (5.76%)	Ubuntu
7	5 (1.11%)	Windows Server
8	3 (0.67%)	Amazon Linux
8	3 (0.67%)	Apple iOS
8	3 (0.67%)	CoreOS
9	2 (0.44%)	Android
9	2 (0.44%)	Debian
9	2 (0.44%)	Windows Server 2012
10	1 (0.22%)	Data ONTAP
10	1 (0.22%)	Embedded Linux
10	1 (0.22%)	VyOS
10	1 (0.22%)	Windows 10
10	1 (0.22%)	Windows 8

Processes & Methodologies
1	258 (57.21%)	DevOps
2	216 (47.89%)	Agile Software Development
3	128 (28.38%)	Continuous Integration
3	128 (28.38%)	Microservices
4	115 (25.50%)	Scrum
5	92 (20.40%)	Configuration Management
6	89 (19.73%)	TDD
7	68 (15.08%)	Continuous Delivery
7	68 (15.08%)	Kanban
8	56 (12.42%)	BDD
9	51 (11.31%)	E-Commerce
10	48 (10.64%)	Software Engineering
11	47 (10.42%)	High Availability
12	46 (10.20%)	MVC
13	43 (9.53%)	Test Automation
14	41 (9.09%)	Open Source
15	32 (7.10%)	Auto-Scaling
16	30 (6.65%)	Continuous Improvement
17	29 (6.43%)	Mentoring
17	29 (6.43%)	Migration

Programming Languages
1	176 (39.02%)	Java
2	120 (26.61%)	Python
3	99 (21.95%)	Ruby
4	85 (18.85%)	JavaScript
5	66 (14.63%)	Bash Shell
6	54 (11.97%)	Scala
7	44 (9.76%)	C#
8	41 (9.09%)	SQL
9	23 (5.10%)	Perl
10	21 (4.66%)	PowerShell
11	19 (4.21%)	Shell Script
12	18 (3.99%)	PHP
13	13 (2.88%)	Go
14	11 (2.44%)	Groovy
14	11 (2.44%)	R
15	4 (0.89%)	C++
15	4 (0.89%)	Korn
15	4 (0.89%)	T-SQL
16	3 (0.67%)	C
16	3 (0.67%)	ES6

Qualifications
1	40 (8.87%)	Security Cleared
2	34 (7.54%)	SC Cleared
3	15 (3.33%)	AWS Certification
4	10 (2.22%)	Degree
5	8 (1.77%)	DV Cleared
6	5 (1.11%)	BPSS Clearance
7	4 (0.89%)	Master's Degree
8	3 (0.67%)	Cisco Certification
8	3 (0.67%)	CISSP
9	2 (0.44%)	(ISC)2 CCSP
9	2 (0.44%)	CISA
9	2 (0.44%)	CISM
9	2 (0.44%)	SANS
9	2 (0.44%)	SSCP
10	1 (0.22%)	CEH
10	1 (0.22%)	CRISC
10	1 (0.22%)	CTC Cleared
10	1 (0.22%)	GIAC
10	1 (0.22%)	Microsoft Certification
10	1 (0.22%)	PMP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	32 (7.10%)	QA
2	3 (0.67%)	Disclosure Scotland
3	2 (0.44%)	GCP
3	2 (0.44%)	ISO 20022
3	2 (0.44%)	PCI DSS
4	1 (0.22%)	Data Quality
4	1 (0.22%)	ISO/IEC 27001
4	1 (0.22%)	SLA

System Software
1	164 (36.36%)	Docker
2	30 (6.65%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	22 (4.88%)	Xen
4	19 (4.21%)	HDFS
5	17 (3.77%)	Active Directory
6	16 (3.55%)	Squid
7	10 (2.22%)	Postfix
7	10 (2.22%)	vCloud
7	10 (2.22%)	Virtual Machines
8	6 (1.33%)	Corosync
9	4 (0.89%)	Apache Flume
10	3 (0.67%)	LXC
10	3 (0.67%)	NFS
10	3 (0.67%)	Samba
10	3 (0.67%)	VirtualBox
10	3 (0.67%)	vSphere
11	1 (0.22%)	Hyper-V
11	1 (0.22%)	pfSense
11	1 (0.22%)	VMware ESXi

Systems Management
1	159 (35.25%)	Puppet
2	126 (27.94%)	Ansible
3	109 (24.17%)	Opscode Chef
4	95 (21.06%)	Terraform
5	52 (11.53%)	Kubernetes
6	31 (6.87%)	Kibana
7	27 (5.99%)	logstash
7	27 (5.99%)	Mesos
8	25 (5.54%)	Graphite
9	17 (3.77%)	Hadoop YARN
9	17 (3.77%)	ZABBIX
10	16 (3.55%)	Docker Swarm
11	15 (3.33%)	Nagios
11	15 (3.33%)	Rsyslog
12	14 (3.10%)	Packer
13	13 (2.88%)	Sysdig
14	11 (2.44%)	Rundeck
15	10 (2.22%)	Rancher
16	9 (2.00%)	Marathon
16	9 (2.00%)	Prometheus

Vendors
1	53 (11.75%)	VMware
2	38 (8.43%)	Microsoft
2	38 (8.43%)	Oracle
3	34 (7.54%)	Google
4	32 (7.10%)	Red Hat
5	26 (5.76%)	New Relic
6	15 (3.33%)	SAP
7	14 (3.10%)	IBM
7	14 (3.10%)	Splunk
8	12 (2.66%)	Atlassian
9	10 (2.22%)	Sonatype
10	7 (1.55%)	Cloudera
11	4 (0.89%)	Adobe
11	4 (0.89%)	Apigee
11	4 (0.89%)	Cisco
11	4 (0.89%)	Dynatrace
11	4 (0.89%)	Facebook
11	4 (0.89%)	SaltStack
12	3 (0.67%)	ForgeRock
12	3 (0.67%)	Rackspace