Amazon Linux Contract Job Trends

Amazon Linux AMI
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Amazon Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 605 514 -
Rank change year-on-year -91 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon Linux 6 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.013% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.12% 0.093% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile £467 £383 -
25th Percentile £474 £394 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £413 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.91% - -
75th Percentile £529 £439 -
90th Percentile £534 £442 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £499 £413 -
% change year-on-year +20.91% - -

All Operating Systems
UK

Amazon Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,858 4,307 6,055
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.41% 14.23% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,203 2,761 4,054
10th Percentile £178 £200 £180
25th Percentile £275 £317 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £458
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +3.71% -10.63%
75th Percentile £568 £589 £588
90th Percentile £668 £699 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £436 £425
% change year-on-year -5.44% +2.65% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 352 149 393
10th Percentile £15.02 £16.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.91 £20.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.25 £29.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.83% +23.40% -14.55%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £68.68 £69.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.69 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.48% +22.22% -15.03%

Amazon Linux
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Amazon Linux job vacancy trend in the UK

Amazon Linux
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Amazon Linux
Top 8 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 Linux within the UK over the 6 months to 5 March 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 -83 6 £499 +24.69% 1
UK excluding London -86 5 £499 +20.91%
North of England -57 3 £518 +29.38%
Yorkshire -64 3 £518 +29.38%
London -50 2 - - 1
Midlands - 2 £475 -
West Midlands - 2 £475 -
Work from Home -23 1 £525 +21.74% 1

Amazon Linux
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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (16.67%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (66.67%) GitHub
3 4 (66.67%) Route 53
3 4 (66.67%) Serverless
4 3 (50.00%) Amazon EventBridge
4 3 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (33.33%) AWS KMS
6 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (16.67%) Azure
6 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) DNS
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) FTP
2 2 (33.33%) HTTP
2 2 (33.33%) SMTP
2 2 (33.33%) SSH
3 1 (16.67%) IMAP
3 1 (16.67%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (50.00%) DynamoDB
3 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) Vagrant
3 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) AWS Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
2 1 (16.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) VMS
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Load Balancing
4 2 (33.33%) Change Management
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 2 (33.33%) Patch Management
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Groovy
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Perl
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
2 2 (33.33%) DFS Replication
3 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (16.67%) Dovecot
3 1 (16.67%) Postfix
3 1 (16.67%) Squid
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Packer
3 2 (33.33%) Grafana
3 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (16.67%) Nessus
4 1 (16.67%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Splunk
2 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (16.67%) Jaspersoft