Amazon EC2 Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 192 237 261
Rank change year-on-year +45 +24 +49
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 112 108 227
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.13% 0.70% 0.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.84% 1.94% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 87 167
10th Percentile £420 £400 £460
25th Percentile £523 £425 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.86% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £788 £625 £650
90th Percentile £888 £738 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +4.35%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Amazon EC2
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon EC2 trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon EC2.

Amazon EC2 daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Amazon EC2 daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon EC2
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon EC2.

Amazon EC2 hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 19 (16.96%) Apache
2 18 (16.07%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.79%) Documentum
3 2 (1.79%) FileNet
4 1 (0.89%) IIS
4 1 (0.89%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 112 (100.00%) AWS
2 55 (49.11%) Amazon S3
3 45 (40.18%) Serverless
4 44 (39.29%) AWS Lambda
5 43 (38.39%) Amazon ECS
6 39 (34.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 36 (32.14%) Amazon EKS
8 22 (19.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 20 (17.86%) Amazon SQS
9 20 (17.86%) GCP
10 18 (16.07%) Snowflake
11 17 (15.18%) Dagster
11 17 (15.18%) dbt
12 16 (14.29%) Route 53
13 9 (8.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (8.04%) Azure
14 8 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
14 8 (7.14%) GitHub
15 7 (6.25%) AWS CodeBuild
16 6 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 22 (19.64%) DNS
2 12 (10.71%) Firewall
2 12 (10.71%) VPN
3 10 (8.93%) HTTP
4 9 (8.04%) Internet
4 9 (8.04%) TCP/IP
5 6 (5.36%) DHCP
6 5 (4.46%) LAN
6 5 (4.46%) SSL
6 5 (4.46%) WAN
7 2 (1.79%) X.509
8 1 (0.89%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (38.39%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (19.64%) Amazon Athena
3 19 (16.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 17 (15.18%) Apache Arrow
4 17 (15.18%) Apache Iceberg
4 17 (15.18%) Apache Ignite
4 17 (15.18%) Data Lake
4 17 (15.18%) Dremio
5 10 (8.93%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (4.46%) MySQL
8 4 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (2.68%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.79%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.79%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.89%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.89%) Big Data
11 1 (0.89%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.89%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 27 (24.11%) Jenkins
2 19 (16.96%) Git
3 15 (13.39%) GitLab
4 4 (3.57%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.68%) JIRA
6 2 (1.79%) Gradle
6 2 (1.79%) Maven
6 2 (1.79%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.79%) Subversion
7 1 (0.89%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.89%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.89%) JMeter
7 1 (0.89%) JProfiler
7 1 (0.89%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.89%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.89%) Toad
7 1 (0.89%) Vagrant
General
1 26 (23.21%) Banking
1 26 (23.21%) Finance
1 26 (23.21%) Front Office
2 17 (15.18%) Investment Banking
3 6 (5.36%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.57%) Social Skills
5 2 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (38.39%) AWS Engineer
2 36 (32.14%) Senior
3 35 (31.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (21.43%) Software Engineer
5 21 (18.75%) AWS DevOps
6 20 (17.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 18 (16.07%) Senior DevOps
8 17 (15.18%) AWS Software Engineer
9 16 (14.29%) Python Engineer
9 16 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 15 (13.39%) Senior Software Engineer
11 14 (12.50%) Architect
12 12 (10.71%) Java Engineer
13 11 (9.82%) Java Software Engineer
14 9 (8.04%) DevOps Manager
14 9 (8.04%) Finance Manager
15 8 (7.14%) Developer
15 8 (7.14%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
16 6 (5.36%) Senior Java Engineer
16 6 (5.36%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (19.64%) PySpark
2 21 (18.75%) Pandas
3 17 (15.18%) gRPC
3 17 (15.18%) NumPy
3 17 (15.18%) Protocol Buffers
3 17 (15.18%) SciPy
4 13 (11.61%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (8.04%) React
6 8 (7.14%) Node.js
7 7 (6.25%) AWS CDK
8 3 (2.68%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.68%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (2.68%) Spring
9 2 (1.79%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.79%) NestJS
10 1 (0.89%) .NET Core
10 1 (0.89%) Keycloak
10 1 (0.89%) Lambda Expressions
10 1 (0.89%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.89%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.18%) Derivative
1 17 (15.18%) Equities
1 17 (15.18%) Fixed Income
1 17 (15.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 17 (15.18%) Hedge funds
2 7 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (6.25%) PKI
3 6 (5.36%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.68%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.79%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.79%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.89%) Clustering
6 1 (0.89%) FMCG
6 1 (0.89%) NHS
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle Licensing
6 1 (0.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (26.79%) Linux
2 16 (14.29%) Windows
3 7 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (6.25%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.68%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.79%) CentOS
6 1 (0.89%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.89%) VMS
6 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (45.54%) CI/CD
2 50 (44.64%) DevOps
3 41 (36.61%) Agile
4 38 (33.93%) Software Engineering
5 30 (26.79%) Migration
6 28 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (24.11%) Containerisation
8 26 (23.21%) Asset Management
9 16 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
10 14 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
11 11 (9.82%) Configuration Management
11 11 (9.82%) Microservices
11 11 (9.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 10 (8.93%) Fintech
13 9 (8.04%) High Availability
14 8 (7.14%) Analytics
14 8 (7.14%) Cloud Security
14 8 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (7.14%) RBAC
14 8 (7.14%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 64 (57.14%) Python
2 33 (29.46%) JavaScript
3 27 (24.11%) Java
4 25 (22.32%) TypeScript
5 24 (21.43%) Bash
6 15 (13.39%) PowerShell
7 8 (7.14%) SQL
8 4 (3.57%) Groovy
9 3 (2.68%) Go
10 2 (1.79%) Perl
10 2 (1.79%) Rust
11 1 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 40 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 40 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.71%) AWS Certification
3 10 (8.93%) Degree
4 6 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.46%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.89%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.89%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.46%) SOC 2
2 4 (3.57%) GDPR
3 3 (2.68%) NIST
4 2 (1.79%) FIPS 140-2
4 2 (1.79%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.79%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.89%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.89%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.89%) QA
System Software
1 40 (35.71%) Docker
2 8 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.89%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 52 (46.43%) Terraform
2 42 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 35 (31.25%) Ansible
4 20 (17.86%) Grafana
5 18 (16.07%) Prometheus
6 17 (15.18%) Puppet
7 16 (14.29%) Progress Chef
8 4 (3.57%) Kibana
9 2 (1.79%) Argo
9 2 (1.79%) Packer
10 1 (0.89%) Consul
10 1 (0.89%) logstash
10 1 (0.89%) Nagios
10 1 (0.89%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.89%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (9.82%) Red Hat
2 10 (8.93%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.36%) Oracle
4 5 (4.46%) Databricks
5 4 (3.57%) Tenable
6 3 (2.68%) Imperva
6 3 (2.68%) Qualys
6 3 (2.68%) VMware
7 2 (1.79%) Forcepoint
7 2 (1.79%) New Relic
7 2 (1.79%) Rapid7
7 2 (1.79%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.79%) Splunk
8 1 (0.89%) Black Duck
8 1 (0.89%) Dell
8 1 (0.89%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.89%) HP
8 1 (0.89%) IBM
8 1 (0.89%) NEC
8 1 (0.89%) SolarWinds