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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 328 361
Rank change year-on-year +9 +33 +20
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 293 461 666
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.78% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.10% 2.12% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 343 451
10th Percentile £397 £453 £438
25th Percentile £441 £506 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £623 £688 £650
90th Percentile £713 £752 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £67.00
25th Percentile - - £73.75
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 13,936 21,745 34,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.29% 36.81% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,908 15,710 24,937
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £744 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 351 421
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.25 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.72%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £62.00 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
% change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 +9 241 £528 -13.88% 110
London +27 150 £525 -16.00% 63
UK excluding London +24 108 £525 -4.55% 46
Work from Home +27 106 £525 -8.70% 58
North of England +15 51 £510 -7.27% 14
North West +38 41 £550 -15.38% 10
Scotland +30 20 £480 -6.80% 1
South East +2 16 £530 -8.62% 7
Yorkshire -8 10 £463 -15.91% 4
South West +26 9 £550 -27.27% 7
East of England +20 6 £650 +13.04% 4
Midlands - 3 £425 - 10
Wales - 3 £645 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £425 - 9

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 20 (6.83%) Apache
2 17 (5.80%) Apache Spark
3 15 (5.12%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.73%) nginx
5 6 (2.05%) Confluence
6 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.68%) Traefik
7 1 (0.34%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.34%) Drupal
7 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.39%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.34%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.34%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.34%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 289 (98.63%) AWS
2 214 (73.04%) Amazon S3
3 154 (52.56%) Serverless
4 149 (50.85%) AWS Lambda
5 99 (33.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 86 (29.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 61 (20.82%) Route 53
8 56 (19.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 54 (18.43%) Amazon EKS
10 43 (14.68%) Amazon ECS
10 43 (14.68%) Amazon SQS
11 24 (8.19%) Azure
12 23 (7.85%) Amazon EMR
13 22 (7.51%) Snowflake
14 21 (7.17%) GitHub
15 19 (6.48%) Amazon ECR
15 19 (6.48%) AWS Fargate
15 19 (6.48%) OpenShift
16 18 (6.14%) Amazon ELB
17 17 (5.80%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.51%) Network Security
2 17 (5.80%) DNS
3 16 (5.46%) Firewall
4 11 (3.75%) TCP/IP
5 9 (3.07%) VPN
6 7 (2.39%) DHCP
7 5 (1.71%) AMQP
7 5 (1.71%) FTP
7 5 (1.71%) LAN
7 5 (1.71%) WLAN
8 4 (1.37%) HTTP
8 4 (1.37%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (1.37%) Wireless
9 3 (1.02%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (1.02%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.68%) WAN
11 1 (0.34%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.34%) SMTP
11 1 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (36.86%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (8.19%) Amazon Redshift
2 24 (8.19%) Relational Database
3 23 (7.85%) DynamoDB
3 23 (7.85%) MySQL
4 21 (7.17%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (6.48%) Elasticsearch
6 18 (6.14%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (5.46%) MongoDB
8 14 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (4.44%) Big Data
10 12 (4.10%) Data Lake
10 12 (4.10%) InfluxDB
10 12 (4.10%) NoSQL
11 8 (2.73%) RDBMS
12 7 (2.39%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (2.39%) SQL Server
13 5 (1.71%) Apache Hive
13 5 (1.71%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.71%) Informix
Development Applications
1 75 (25.60%) Git
2 64 (21.84%) Jenkins
3 53 (18.09%) GitLab
4 20 (6.83%) JIRA
5 11 (3.75%) Bitbucket
5 11 (3.75%) Maven
6 10 (3.41%) JUnit
7 9 (3.07%) webpack
8 8 (2.73%) Selenium
8 8 (2.73%) SonarQube
9 7 (2.39%) Cucumber
9 7 (2.39%) JMeter
10 5 (1.71%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.71%) Mockito
10 5 (1.71%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.37%) Gradle
11 4 (1.37%) Sourcetree
12 3 (1.02%) Mocha
12 3 (1.02%) SoapUI
12 3 (1.02%) TestNG
General
1 55 (18.77%) Social Skills
2 35 (11.95%) Finance
3 26 (8.87%) Public Sector
4 11 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (3.75%) Manufacturing
5 7 (2.39%) Banking
5 7 (2.39%) Marketing
5 7 (2.39%) Retail
6 6 (2.05%) Electronics
6 6 (2.05%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.02%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.34%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.34%) Law
9 1 (0.34%) Legal
9 1 (0.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 83 (28.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 76 (25.94%) AWS Engineer
3 47 (16.04%) Developer
4 43 (14.68%) AWS DevOps
5 39 (13.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 34 (11.60%) Senior
7 32 (10.92%) Architect
8 29 (9.90%) Data Engineer
8 29 (9.90%) Lead
9 25 (8.53%) Cloud Engineer
10 22 (7.51%) AWS Architect
11 20 (6.83%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (6.48%) Java Developer
13 17 (5.80%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 15 (5.12%) Software Engineer
15 13 (4.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 12 (4.10%) AWS Developer
17 11 (3.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 11 (3.75%) Senior Developer
18 10 (3.41%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.85%) React
2 22 (7.51%) Node.js
3 19 (6.48%) AWS CDK
4 18 (6.14%) Spring
5 17 (5.80%) Kafka
6 15 (5.12%) RESTful
7 13 (4.44%) REST
8 12 (4.10%) Elastic Stack
8 12 (4.10%) RabbitMQ
9 11 (3.75%) Lambda Expressions
9 11 (3.75%) OAuth
10 10 (3.41%) Express.js
10 10 (3.41%) Spring Boot
11 9 (3.07%) .NET
11 9 (3.07%) Redux
12 8 (2.73%) JSON
13 7 (2.39%) .NET Core
13 7 (2.39%) OAuth2
14 6 (2.05%) LDAP
15 5 (1.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.12%) Data Protection Act
1 15 (5.12%) Public Cloud
2 10 (3.41%) Data Structures
3 9 (3.07%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (2.73%) Replication
5 7 (2.39%) Algorithms
5 7 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.39%) PKI
6 6 (2.05%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.71%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.71%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.37%) Credit Derivative
8 4 (1.37%) Credit Risk
8 4 (1.37%) Derivative
8 4 (1.37%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.37%) Market Risk
8 4 (1.37%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.02%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 72 (24.57%) Linux
2 28 (9.56%) Windows
3 24 (8.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (4.78%) Windows Server
5 13 (4.44%) Unix
6 12 (4.10%) CentOS
7 9 (3.07%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.02%) Debian
9 2 (0.68%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.68%) VMS
9 2 (0.68%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (47.44%) DevOps
2 135 (46.08%) CI/CD
3 85 (29.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (25.26%) Agile
5 64 (21.84%) Containerisation
6 40 (13.65%) Migration
7 37 (12.63%) Scrum
8 34 (11.60%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (10.58%) Microservices
9 31 (10.58%) Test Automation
10 29 (9.90%) Software Engineering
11 28 (9.56%) ETL
12 22 (7.51%) Data Pipeline
12 22 (7.51%) Kanban
13 21 (7.17%) Configuration Management
13 21 (7.17%) Technical Leadership
14 19 (6.48%) Computer Science
14 19 (6.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 18 (6.14%) Data Protection
15 18 (6.14%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 150 (51.19%) Python
2 79 (26.96%) Java
3 63 (21.50%) SQL
4 44 (15.02%) Bash
5 27 (9.22%) TypeScript
6 19 (6.48%) Go
6 19 (6.48%) JavaScript
7 12 (4.10%) Shell Script
8 10 (3.41%) C
9 7 (2.39%) C#
9 7 (2.39%) Groovy
10 6 (2.05%) Perl
10 6 (2.05%) Ruby
11 5 (1.71%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.02%) C++
12 3 (1.02%) Scala
13 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.68%) PHP
14 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 85 (29.01%) Security Cleared
2 73 (24.91%) SC Cleared
3 31 (10.58%) AWS Certification
4 21 (7.17%) Degree
5 16 (5.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (3.41%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.34%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.34%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.17%) QA
2 5 (1.71%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.02%) ISO 22301
3 3 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.02%) NCSC
4 2 (0.68%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.68%) SLA
5 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.34%) GDPR
5 1 (0.34%) IFRS
5 1 (0.34%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 85 (29.01%) Docker
2 18 (6.14%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.68%) Varnish
7 1 (0.34%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.34%) HDFS
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 132 (45.05%) Terraform
2 115 (39.25%) Kubernetes
3 64 (21.84%) Ansible
4 50 (17.06%) Grafana
5 39 (13.31%) Prometheus
6 16 (5.46%) Progress Chef
6 16 (5.46%) Puppet
7 10 (3.41%) Kibana
7 10 (3.41%) Packer
8 9 (3.07%) Docker Swarm
9 8 (2.73%) Consul
10 6 (2.05%) HP Fortify
11 5 (1.71%) Graylog
11 5 (1.71%) Nagios
12 4 (1.37%) HAProxy
12 4 (1.37%) Rancher
13 3 (1.02%) Podman
13 3 (1.02%) SCCM
14 2 (0.68%) Salt
14 2 (0.68%) WSUS
Vendors
1 28 (9.56%) Oracle
2 22 (7.51%) Splunk
3 16 (5.46%) Microsoft
4 14 (4.78%) SAP
5 13 (4.44%) Informatica
6 12 (4.10%) Red Hat
7 11 (3.75%) Databricks
8 10 (3.41%) VMware
9 8 (2.73%) Talend
10 7 (2.39%) NEC
11 6 (2.05%) Palo Alto
12 5 (1.71%) Cisco
12 5 (1.71%) Salesforce
13 4 (1.37%) Commvault
13 4 (1.37%) Confluent
13 4 (1.37%) UiPath
14 3 (1.02%) AppDynamics
14 3 (1.02%) Google
14 3 (1.02%) MKS
15 2 (0.68%) PagerDuty