Amazon ELB Contracts

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (Amazon ELB)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Amazon ELB skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon ELB over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 576 648
Rank change year-on-year +69 +72 +139
Contract jobs citing Amazon ELB 29 15 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.094% 0.035% 0.061%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.25% 0.11% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 10 21
10th Percentile - £424 £481
25th Percentile - £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -11.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £556
90th Percentile £538 £553 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £508
% change year-on-year +2.70% -8.87% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Amazon ELB 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 11,603 14,161 20,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.66% 32.81% 36.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,772 9,952 14,671
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £622 £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 293 355 334
10th Percentile £15.26 £14.05 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.06 £19.00
Median hourly rate £27.76 £22.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.18% -37.14% +59.09%
75th Percentile £47.50 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £20.87 £25.73
% change year-on-year -9.58% -18.87% +33.65%

Amazon ELB
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon ELB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ELB in the UK

Amazon ELB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon ELB.

Daily rate trend for Amazon ELB in the UK

Amazon ELB
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon ELB over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon ELB in the UK

Amazon ELB
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon ELB within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +63 18 £475 +2.70% 59
UK excluding London +41 11 £475 +2.70% 17
London +48 8 £525 +25.00% 43
Midlands - 7 £475 - 6
West Midlands - 7 £475 - 6
Work from Home +43 3 £505 - 26
North West +7 2 £450 -18.18% 3
North of England +4 2 £450 -2.70% 8
South West - 2 £450 -
Scotland - 1 £525 -
South East - 1 - - 2

Amazon ELB
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 7 (24.14%) Confluence
2 2 (6.90%) nginx
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 29 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (51.72%) Amazon EC2
3 13 (44.83%) Amazon S3
3 13 (44.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 10 (34.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (27.59%) AWS KMS
6 7 (24.14%) Route 53
7 6 (20.69%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (20.69%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (20.69%) Serverless
8 5 (17.24%) Amazon Glacier
8 5 (17.24%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (17.24%) GitHub
9 4 (13.79%) Datadog
10 3 (10.34%) AWS CloudTrail
11 2 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (3.45%) AWS CodeDeploy
12 1 (3.45%) AWS Direct Connect
12 1 (3.45%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) SMTP
2 6 (20.69%) DNS
2 6 (20.69%) HTTP
3 5 (17.24%) Firewall
3 5 (17.24%) FTP
3 5 (17.24%) SSH
4 2 (6.90%) IMAP
4 2 (6.90%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (3.45%) Kerberos
5 1 (3.45%) NAS
5 1 (3.45%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (3.45%) SAN
5 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (37.93%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.90%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.45%) Cloudera CDH
4 1 (3.45%) DocumentDB
4 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.45%) InfluxDB
4 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (51.72%) Jenkins
2 10 (34.48%) Git
3 7 (24.14%) JIRA
3 7 (24.14%) Vagrant
4 3 (10.34%) GitLab
4 3 (10.34%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.45%) Artifactory
5 1 (3.45%) Gatling
5 1 (3.45%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (3.45%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (44.83%) Architect
1 13 (44.83%) AWS Architect
2 9 (31.03%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) AWS DevOps
3 4 (13.79%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (10.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Site Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Cloud Administrator
6 1 (3.45%) Lead
6 1 (3.45%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 1 (3.45%) Senior
6 1 (3.45%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (3.45%) Tester
6 1 (3.45%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (6.90%) LDAP
2 1 (3.45%) Akka
2 1 (3.45%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.45%) JSON
2 1 (3.45%) Loki
2 1 (3.45%) Node.js
2 1 (3.45%) Play Framework
2 1 (3.45%) REST
2 1 (3.45%) SOAP
2 1 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (41.38%) Onboarding
2 5 (17.24%) Replication
3 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (27.59%) Linux
2 7 (24.14%) Amazon Linux
2 7 (24.14%) VMS
3 6 (20.69%) Windows
4 1 (3.45%) CentOS
4 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) DevOps
1 15 (51.72%) Migration
2 14 (48.28%) Disaster Recovery
2 14 (48.28%) High Availability
2 14 (48.28%) Load Balancing
3 13 (44.83%) Auto-Scaling
4 11 (37.93%) Architectural Design
4 11 (37.93%) Architectural Patterns
4 11 (37.93%) Data Migration
4 11 (37.93%) Use Case
5 8 (27.59%) Change Management
5 8 (27.59%) Cloud Security
5 8 (27.59%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (24.14%) Configuration Management
7 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
7 5 (17.24%) Observability
7 5 (17.24%) Patch Management
8 4 (13.79%) Capacity Planning
8 4 (13.79%) Containerisation
8 4 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) Python
2 8 (27.59%) Groovy
2 8 (27.59%) PowerShell
3 5 (17.24%) Java
3 5 (17.24%) Perl
4 3 (10.34%) CodeQL
4 3 (10.34%) Shell Script
5 2 (6.90%) Scala
5 2 (6.90%) SQL
6 1 (3.45%) Bash
6 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (68.97%) SC Cleared
1 20 (68.97%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.45%) OCP
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (3.45%) VCAP
3 1 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) HIPAA
System Software
1 9 (31.03%) Docker
2 6 (20.69%) Active Directory
3 5 (17.24%) DFS Replication
4 2 (6.90%) Dovecot
4 2 (6.90%) Postfix
4 2 (6.90%) Squid
5 1 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (3.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (44.83%) Terraform
2 10 (34.48%) Grafana
2 10 (34.48%) Prometheus
3 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.90%) Nessus
5 1 (3.45%) Ansible
5 1 (3.45%) Apache Ranger
5 1 (3.45%) Kibana
5 1 (3.45%) Packer
5 1 (3.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) ServiceNow
2 2 (6.90%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (3.45%) Black Duck
3 1 (3.45%) Checkmarx
3 1 (3.45%) Cloudera
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) Tenable
3 1 (3.45%) VMware