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

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 309 367
Rank change year-on-year +41 +58 -40
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 307 312 362
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.96% 0.72% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.56% 2.18% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 232 265
10th Percentile £400 £387 £444
25th Percentile £463 £442 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £667 £675
90th Percentile £726 £838 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £40.63 - -
25th Percentile £47.19 - £47.50
Median hourly rate £58.75 - £50.00
75th Percentile £69.69 - £52.50
90th Percentile £75.88 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 11,998 14,280 20,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.63% 33.01% 36.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,027 10,030 15,013
10th Percentile £313 £300 £320
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 355 350
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.16 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.41 £16.06 £19.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -37.14% +59.09%
75th Percentile £47.22 £47.47 £66.00
90th Percentile £71.38 £70.00 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £20.99 £26.49
% change year-on-year -10.08% -20.78% +38.20%

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 7 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 7 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
England +38 237 £508 -7.73% 316
London +3 138 £550 -4.35% 191
Work from Home +42 128 £540 -4.00% 140
UK excluding London +46 101 £500 -1.96% 139
North of England +2 35 £475 +2.70% 42
Midlands +34 31 £475 +11.76% 18
West Midlands +31 31 £475 +11.76% 15
North West +3 25 £475 -6.86% 30
Scotland -10 15 £525 +13.51% 6
South East +39 8 £580 -3.13% 40
South West +36 7 £510 -15.00% 19
East of England +22 5 £525 -16.00% 10
Yorkshire 0 5 £500 +8.11% 8
North East - 5 £450 - 4

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 24 (7.82%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (6.51%) Apache
3 13 (4.23%) Confluence
3 13 (4.23%) Documentum
3 13 (4.23%) FileNet
4 10 (3.26%) Apache Spark
5 8 (2.61%) nginx
6 6 (1.95%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.65%) Apache Superset
7 2 (0.65%) IIS
7 2 (0.65%) JBoss
7 2 (0.65%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.65%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.33%) CMS
8 1 (0.33%) SAS
8 1 (0.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.33%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 307 (100.00%) AWS
2 219 (71.34%) Amazon S3
3 142 (46.25%) Serverless
4 126 (41.04%) AWS Lambda
5 83 (27.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 82 (26.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 78 (25.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 71 (23.13%) Amazon EKS
9 68 (22.15%) Amazon SQS
10 53 (17.26%) Amazon ECS
11 35 (11.40%) Route 53
12 33 (10.75%) AWS KMS
13 32 (10.42%) GitHub
14 29 (9.45%) SaaS
15 26 (8.47%) GitHub Actions
16 22 (7.17%) AWS CodePipeline
17 17 (5.54%) Azure
18 16 (5.21%) Amazon ELB
18 16 (5.21%) AWS CloudTrail
19 13 (4.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (12.38%) DNS
2 21 (6.84%) VPN
3 19 (6.19%) HTTP
4 18 (5.86%) Firewall
5 13 (4.23%) TCP/IP
6 11 (3.58%) Internet
7 10 (3.26%) DHCP
8 9 (2.93%) SSL
9 8 (2.61%) SMTP
10 7 (2.28%) SSH
11 6 (1.95%) FTP
11 6 (1.95%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (0.98%) LAN
12 3 (0.98%) OpenLDAP
12 3 (0.98%) VLAN
12 3 (0.98%) WAN
13 2 (0.65%) HTTPS
13 2 (0.65%) IMAP
13 2 (0.65%) SAN
13 2 (0.65%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (43.65%) Amazon RDS
2 42 (13.68%) PostgreSQL
3 39 (12.70%) Amazon Aurora
4 29 (9.45%) DynamoDB
5 21 (6.84%) Amazon Redshift
6 20 (6.51%) MySQL
7 17 (5.54%) SQL Server
8 16 (5.21%) NoSQL
9 15 (4.89%) Amazon Athena
9 15 (4.89%) Relational Database
10 14 (4.56%) Oracle Database
11 13 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (3.58%) MongoDB
13 9 (2.93%) Big Data
13 9 (2.93%) Data Lake
14 8 (2.61%) Redis
15 7 (2.28%) DocumentDB
16 6 (1.95%) Hadoop
17 5 (1.63%) Apache Arrow
17 5 (1.63%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 85 (27.69%) Jenkins
2 57 (18.57%) Git
3 47 (15.31%) GitLab
4 22 (7.17%) JUnit
5 20 (6.51%) Maven
6 19 (6.19%) JIRA
7 16 (5.21%) SonarQube
8 13 (4.23%) Mockito
9 9 (2.93%) Vagrant
10 8 (2.61%) Bitbucket Server
10 8 (2.61%) DbUnit
10 8 (2.61%) jMock
11 5 (1.63%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.63%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.98%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.98%) JMeter
13 2 (0.65%) Artifactory
14 1 (0.33%) Gradle
General
1 57 (18.57%) Public Sector
2 38 (12.38%) Social Skills
3 32 (10.42%) Finance
4 20 (6.51%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (4.89%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (4.56%) Banking
7 6 (1.95%) Investment Banking
7 6 (1.95%) Retail Banking
8 5 (1.63%) Front Office
8 5 (1.63%) Military
9 3 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (0.98%) Retail
10 2 (0.65%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 69 (22.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 65 (21.17%) AWS Engineer
2 65 (21.17%) Developer
3 55 (17.92%) Senior
4 45 (14.66%) Architect
5 40 (13.03%) AWS DevOps
6 37 (12.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 34 (11.07%) Java Developer
8 23 (7.49%) Data Engineer
9 20 (6.51%) Security Architect
9 20 (6.51%) Software Engineer
10 18 (5.86%) AWS Developer
11 16 (5.21%) Lead
12 15 (4.89%) AWS Architect
13 14 (4.56%) Senior DevOps
14 12 (3.91%) DBA
14 12 (3.91%) Senior Developer
14 12 (3.91%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 10 (3.26%) Cloud Architect
15 10 (3.26%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (11.73%) Spring
2 26 (8.47%) Spring Boot
3 25 (8.14%) REST
4 23 (7.49%) RESTful
5 19 (6.19%) Node.js
6 18 (5.86%) ActiveMQ
6 18 (5.86%) Elastic Stack
6 18 (5.86%) React
6 18 (5.86%) Web Services
7 17 (5.54%) SOAP
8 16 (5.21%) AngularJS
8 16 (5.21%) Hibernate
9 14 (4.56%) JPA
10 13 (4.23%) PySpark
11 11 (3.58%) AWS CDK
11 11 (3.58%) Pandas
11 11 (3.58%) Spring Batch
11 11 (3.58%) Spring Cloud
11 11 (3.58%) Spring Integration
12 10 (3.26%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.82%) Onboarding
2 22 (7.17%) CSOC
2 22 (7.17%) Security Operations Centre
3 21 (6.84%) Cloud Native
4 19 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (5.54%) Replication
6 11 (3.58%) Derivative
7 8 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.28%) PKI
9 6 (1.95%) Clustering
9 6 (1.95%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.63%) Equities
10 5 (1.63%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.63%) Hedge funds
10 5 (1.63%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.30%) NHS
11 4 (1.30%) Security Posture
12 3 (0.98%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 94 (30.62%) Linux
2 30 (9.77%) Windows
3 25 (8.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.93%) Amazon Linux
5 8 (2.61%) Unix
5 8 (2.61%) VMS
6 5 (1.63%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.30%) CentOS
8 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.33%) SUSE
9 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (46.25%) DevOps
2 128 (41.69%) CI/CD
3 84 (27.36%) Agile
3 84 (27.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (21.50%) Containerisation
5 44 (14.33%) Microservices
6 39 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (11.73%) Continuous Integration
8 35 (11.40%) Migration
9 32 (10.42%) High Availability
10 30 (9.77%) Cloud Security
10 30 (9.77%) Scrum
11 29 (9.45%) Configuration Management
11 29 (9.45%) Software Engineering
12 25 (8.14%) Cybersecurity
12 25 (8.14%) TDD
13 24 (7.82%) Infrastructure Automation
13 24 (7.82%) SIEM
14 22 (7.17%) Deployment Automation
14 22 (7.17%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 113 (36.81%) Python
2 86 (28.01%) Java
3 57 (18.57%) SQL
4 40 (13.03%) Bash
5 29 (9.45%) PowerShell
6 27 (8.79%) JavaScript
7 25 (8.14%) TypeScript
8 13 (4.23%) Rust
9 12 (3.91%) Groovy
10 10 (3.26%) Perl
11 9 (2.93%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.95%) C#
13 5 (1.63%) Scala
14 4 (1.30%) Go
14 4 (1.30%) Ruby
15 3 (0.98%) CodeQL
15 3 (0.98%) R
16 2 (0.65%) C++
16 2 (0.65%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.33%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 105 (34.20%) Security Cleared
2 96 (31.27%) SC Cleared
3 34 (11.07%) AWS Certification
4 23 (7.49%) Degree
5 14 (4.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.28%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.65%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.65%) CCIE
9 2 (0.65%) CCNP
9 2 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.65%) CISSP
9 2 (0.65%) MCSE
9 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.65%) OCP
9 2 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.33%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.58%) GDPR
2 8 (2.61%) SOC 2
3 7 (2.28%) QA
4 6 (1.95%) HIPAA
4 6 (1.95%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.63%) NIST
6 4 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.65%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.65%) FIPS 140-2
7 2 (0.65%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.33%) SLA
8 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 101 (32.90%) Docker
2 21 (6.84%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.58%) Postfix
4 6 (1.95%) DFS Replication
4 6 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.30%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (0.98%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.65%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.65%) Squid
7 2 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.33%) HDFS
8 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 124 (40.39%) Terraform
2 77 (25.08%) Kubernetes
3 61 (19.87%) Ansible
4 48 (15.64%) Grafana
4 48 (15.64%) Prometheus
5 22 (7.17%) Progress Chef
5 22 (7.17%) Puppet
6 7 (2.28%) Kibana
7 5 (1.63%) Argo
7 5 (1.63%) Packer
8 4 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.30%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.65%) Nagios
9 2 (0.65%) Nessus
9 2 (0.65%) SELinux
9 2 (0.65%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.33%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.33%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.33%) yum
Vendors
1 36 (11.73%) Oracle
2 27 (8.79%) Splunk
3 17 (5.54%) Microsoft
4 14 (4.56%) ServiceNow
5 13 (4.23%) Red Hat
6 11 (3.58%) Jaspersoft
7 10 (3.26%) Atlassian
8 9 (2.93%) VMware
9 8 (2.61%) Tenable
10 7 (2.28%) AppDynamics
10 7 (2.28%) Qualys
11 6 (1.95%) Databricks
11 6 (1.95%) Dynatrace
12 4 (1.30%) CA Agile Central
12 4 (1.30%) IBM
12 4 (1.30%) Informatica
12 4 (1.30%) Rapid7
13 3 (0.98%) New Relic
14 2 (0.65%) Cloudera
14 2 (0.65%) SolarWinds